George Will quits Republican Party over Donald Trump

The subject of Texas seceding from the US was certain to come up after Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union this week.

Donald Trump has revised his proposed ban on foreign Muslims, with spokeswoman Hope Hicks saying Saturday that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee only wants to ban Muslims from countries with heavy terrorism.

In Donald Trump’s case Saturday at his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it was an opportunity to revise his previous vow to temporarily ban Muslims from overseas from entering the United States. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on December 8, Trump said that customs agents or border guards would be charged with asking people: “Are you Muslim?”

But he also cast the vote as a positive for his own personal bottom line.

The billionaire businessman held court on the remodelled ninth at Turnberry golf course in a sunny Ayrshire, leaving the USA presidential race for 48 hours to reopen the resort after a £200 million refurbishment. I think it could well turn out to be a positive.

Hicks said in an email that her boss took this new position – which is a dramatic scaling back of the position he first took in early December – during a policy speech almost two weeks ago. “Some don’t like (it) and some do like it”. During one of four stops along the 18-hole course, a reporter asked Trump if his would be OK with a Muslim from Scotland coming into the United States and he said it “wouldn’t bother me”.

Trump had enjoyed a brief boost in support following the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, as he doubled down on his pledge to ban Muslims from entering the country, cutting Clinton’s lead to nine points.

He later added: “Crooked Hillary just took a major ad of me playing golf at Turnberry”.

“Texas would never do that if I’m president”, he said Saturday.

But the spot is a departure from the softer-tone ads Clinton has been airing in eight battleground states that focus on work throughout her career helping children and expanding health care.

Donald Trump called the pro-Brexit vote a “beautiful, attractive thing” and praised Boris Johnson for reading the public mood better than David Cameron did.

What the ad does feature: Trump talking about his world class sprinkler system at Turnberry.