Donald Trump to tour U.S.-Mexico border, meet ‘some courageous people’
Filipino World War II veterans and their advocates are taking a stand against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and are standing up for Trump’s recent target: Arizona Senator John McCain. “I was their fair-haired boy”.
Indeed, the insults flying between Trump and his fiercest critics have been caustic. Sen.
Trump told The Hill he believed the RNC liked him better when he was writing them checks.
In advance of his visit, Trump’s staff provided Global Positioning System coordinates to what they called “the actual border”, half an hour’s drive south of this city of about 250,000. He criticized his fellow candidate’s rhetoric on immigration and McCain but said Trump’s supporters are “good people” with “legitimate concerns”.
Blunt says Trump’s personal attack on John McCain was “unacceptable”, but he can’t argue with Trump’s assertion that the VA has not done well under McCain’s supervision. “All I know is I have a very big group of support, and I think one of the reasons is the people don’t trust you, and the people don’t trust the media”. “I don’t know, you keep bringing up negative”.
After noting that Trump had previously called Murdoch “one of the great geniuses in television history”, the Times ticks through the two businessmen’s 25 year relationship (described as “cordial” by a Fox News spokesperson) before its’ suddenly rapid demise.
Trump also ordered the American flags on his U.S. properties to be lowered, an act he said was to honor the five service members killed in last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “My objective with this is to, wherever I can, share my record”, he said. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump poses with policemen, as he departs Laredo, Texas July 23, 2015. It’s ok to call me a jackass? Trump said he likes people who weren’t captured.
Trump’s tour was cut short after Local 2455 of the border patrol agents union announced early Thursday that it was canceling its involvement in the event.
Real-estate magnate Donald Trump had another combative interview on Wednesday.
“Make no mistake, our border with Mexico is not secure and there’s no doubt that we need to have an honest discussion about that”, said the National Border Patrol Council.
Trump has put border security and immigration at the center of his campaign, and the trip to the Texas border was designed to highlight it. “The reason they invited me was because of a tremendous problem and the tremendous crime”.
Meanwhile, federal regulators made public information about Trump’s wealth and financial holdings Wednesday, showing he holds leadership positions in more than 500 business entities, has assets of at least $1.4 billion and debt of at least $240 million.