Earlier on Monday, Trump insisted he was not “flip-flopping” on immigration, despite a comment by Conway on Sunday that his plan to deport 11 million illegal immigrants was still under review. “The existing laws, the first thing we are going to do if and when I win is we are going to get rid of all of the bad ones”, Trump told Fox News.
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The latest 30-second spot from Clinton is likely to make Trump cringe even more, as it uses something damning – his own words – to make the case for why he is too insane to be commander-in-chief.
Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot on hints that Donald Trump may modify his mass deportation promise.
The softer comments from Trump, who postponed plans to give a major immigration speech this week in Colorado, follow months of vows to build a wall along the southern US border with Mexico and deport immigrants who have entered the country illegally.
In an e-mail to supporters, former president Bill Clinton said that, if his wife is elected, “the foundation will accept contributions only from USA citizens, permanent residents, and USA -based independent foundations, whose names we will continue to make public on a quarterly basis”.
The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon intends to lay out specifics of his immigration plan over the next few weeks, according to Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. We have to be very, very strong when people come in illegally, Trump said on ‘Fox & Friends’. We have a lot of people that want to come in through the legal process and it’s fair for them. Trump also announced his first ad buys of the campaign, more evidence of an acceptance of the traditional campaign elements most experts believe he will need in order to have a shot at winning.
As Donald Trump attacks Hillary Clinton over Clinton Foundation contributors – and whether they sought State Department favors – former President Bill Clinton on Monday said if his wife is president, he will stop raising money for the organization. It has to be very firm.
A Trump campaign source said the campaign chose to push back Trump’s immigration speech as it is still fine-tuning its immigration policy and the speech’s language.
The more-on-message Trump read his script from teleprompters, only periodically deviating, as he continued the reboot of his message and campaign before a crowd of more than 5,000 at the University of Akron’s James A. Rhodes Arena. “He wants to double down on letting Donald Trump be Donald Trump”, Mook said.
Asked about his debt, Trump said he has little debt relative to the assets he has. “That wall will go up so fast your head will spin”.
Clinton, meanwhile, is spending the next three days fundraising across California. The Justice Department declined to bring charges against Clinton over her email server.
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But a copy of a newly obtained Clinton State Department schedule for March 14, 2012, provided to the Sun-Times by Citizens United, a conservative group, shows that Fernando had a five-minute appointment with Clinton, called a “private pull aside” in Clinton’s outer office.
