The Clintons released their 2015 filings today.
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Monday’s fund-raising letter linked to a “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”, something the campaign first circulated last week.
“I would take the entire article and throw it in the trash”, he said.
But Trump’s most vocal supporters are literally cheering for him to fight the media.
“I have one resume here for Donald Trump, I have one resume here for Hillary Clinton, and I’ve chosen this resume”, Gutierrez said, indicating Clinton.
He is explicitly running against the news media, even while running a campaign that relies mostly on news coverage instead of paid ads to communicate with Americans.
“To be frank, it felt a bit like a colonoscopy”, he said.
Huey called Trump a “demagogue” and said journalists are his new scapegoat: “First it was the Mexicans, then it was the Muslims, now it’s you. “(The idea) that we have to substitute our imports. I’m not thinking about (it as) a Republican, I’m thinking about (it as) a US citizen.
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board also chastised Trump, suggesting his focus on the media is misplaced.
The former commerce secretary under President George W. Bush said he looked at the “totality” of the choice between the two candidates and decided on Clinton. His enthusiastic support for the Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly dogged the Trump campaign, which has attracted followers from a host of ultra-right wing groups associated with anti-Jewish propaganda. “The difference is that Mr. Trump has made it so easy for the media and his opponents”. And Trump himself has been on a tear in recent weeks, criticizing CNN, The New York Times and other outlets almost every day.
The campaign strongly objected to the story, and Trump said “the newspaper is going to hell”.
Trump’s campaign started a petition calling on the Justice Department to reverse itself and investigate the foundation for criminal wrongdoing.
In an open letter, the eight former senior officials said that with global strategic competition growing, including from China, it was “absolutely the wrong time to elect an unstable, ill-prepared amateur with no vision or foresight to meet the manifold challenges of the 21st century”.
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“We will really only know if he’s a real deal or he’s a phony if he releases his tax returns”, Romney said in a speech about Trump last spring. Mr. Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, of IN, will spend most of his week campaigning IN the Southwest with events scheduled for Nevada and New Mexico.
