He attacked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as “weak, ineffective and pandering”.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, sent a letter to Channing Phillips, the USA attorney for the District of Columbia, on Monday, asking for a new probe to determine with Clinton “committed perjury and made false statements during her testimony under oath before congressional committees”.
He added: “Personally, it’s probably both”. But it also focused on the criminal justice system.
Jim Gilmore criticized the so-called “Never Trump” movement in an exclusive one-on-one conversation with BuzzFeed News over the phone on Monday and said his goal is to unify the Republican Party. In his opening remarks, Trump thanked police around the country for working “thanklessly and under relentless criticism”.
Payne agreed with Virginia delegate Beau Correll that the law violates previous Supreme Court rulings that states can’t interfere with the functioning of national political parties. He hopes the ruling sparks the GOP to pick a different candidate. But he used them to try to draw a fresh contrast with Clinton.
But campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said last week that Republican actions on the email investigation were “another taxpayer-funded sham of an inquiry to try to hurt Hillary Clinton politically”.
“You can’t have true compassion without providing safety”, said the billionaire businessman.
Chaffetz and Goodlatte said they were asking for an inquiry as a result of testimony by FBI Director James Comey that he had investigated the email matter but had not looked into whether Clinton had lied to Congress. Nearby Naval Station Norfolk is the world’s largest naval base.
“Veterans should come first”, he said.
Donald Trump often cites his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton business school as evidence that he is a pretty smart guy and singularly qualified to be president. Miller spoke to the crowd ahead of Trump.
Virginia is seen as a key battleground in the presidential election.
The VA still has “profound deficiencies” in delivering health care to veterans, according to the Commission on Care report.
Trump has been working to fix his relationship with veterans since he suggested early in his campaign that Arizona Sen. “The policy reforms he proposed would put us irreversibly on a path toward the wholesale privatization of the VA”.
The event began with remarks from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is one of a handful of potential vice presidential contenders Trump is now vetting. Christie has emerged as a staunch ally to Trump and is a potential vice presidential running mate.
Trump will head to California on Wednesday for a string of fundraisers, and Friday is considered a possible date for a vice-presidential announcement, although advisers said Trump could reveal his choice at any point this week.
“He certainly is someone a lot of people respect”, Trump said of Miller, who is retiring from Congress and has pushed measures to increase accountability at the VA. One man wore a shirt riffing on Trump’s signature line from “The Apprentice” TV show: “Washington You’re fired”.
These people cautioned that Trump often is unpredictable and that he could continue to change his mind until he makes a final decision. A few dozen protesters held up a signs rebutting the mogul. Trump does not know Pence as well as he does Christie, although Pence’s visit with the candidate at one of Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, this month was described as friendly and warm.
By Monday, Trump suggested that he was moving away from the idea of a general.
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Clinton long maintained that she never sent or received e-mails “marked classified”, a position she asserted during her nearly 11 hours of testimony in October before a special House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
