Trump also made it clear that he won’t support Senator John McCain’s reelection campaign in Arizona.
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“I like Paul, but these are awful times for our country”, Trump told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Trump said Ryan has sought his endorsement, but he is only “giving it very serious consideration”. “We need fighters in this country”.
“I have said that I will support the nominee of the party, and let me just say to you that is the last time”, McCain said while speaking to reporters in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler.
“Well, to be perfectly candid with you, Jake, I’m just not ready to do that at this point”.
1 p.m.: Although he has spoken of unifying the GOP, Trump refuses to endorse Ryan and insults war hero Sen.
“Captain Khan was one such courageous example”.
“I’ve never been there with John McCain because I’ve always felt that he should have done a much better job for the vets”, Trump told the newspaper Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for Donald Trump has blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 killing of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan in Iraq – even though the death occurred more than four years before Obama became president.
“Democracy is also at stake, as we see more and more people tempted by authoritarianism”, he said, “especially” in the United States.
So far, McCain, Ryan and other Republicans who’ve reluctantly declared that they plan to back Trump for president appear to be sticking with him. Kelly Ayotte in the same interview with the Washington Post. Eventually Ryan not only endorsed Trump but presided over his nomination at the Republican national convention in Cleveland. “These are two men building a good relationship, and I’m very confident, after Donald Trump’s elected president and Paul Ryan is re-elected to Congress and as speaker of the House, these two men are going to do great things”.
Nehlen on Wednesday told CNN he hasn’t had any contact with Trump’s campaign outside of the tweet, which was shared in response to a letter he sent to Trump.
But on Monday, Nehlen got a Twitter shout out from Donald Trump, which could certainly boost his numbers.
Trump has had a running dispute with Khizr and Ghazala Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic convention to cite their son’s sacrifice and criticise Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US.
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McCain faces a challenge from his right at the end of the month from former state Sen.
