At Christian event, Trump says Clinton weak on radical Islamists
Although Mr. Trump wasn’t there to hear it, Rabbi Eric Yoffie had a message for him: “You have contributed to a public discourse that has become not only uncivil, but vulgar, vicious, and ugly – and deeply offensive to religious people of all faiths”, said Rabbi Yoffie, president emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Describing Trump as a “good friend”, Reed confronted head on the faith community’s doubts about Trump’s personal morality, telling the audience that they shouldn’t be searching for perfection in their political leaders. Still, Nance said Friday afternoon, “My worst nightmare” is that after all the passionate volunteer efforts of conservative women to deliver the vote this fall, “we wake up one morning and discover it was all a ruse”.
Trump referred to a recent ABC News report that said Clinton helped a donor land a seat on a nuclear intelligence advisory board. “We already have a messiah”.
Trump also mentioned how each of the people on his short list of potential Supreme Court nominees is pro-life- a nod to the most important issue in the presidential election from the pro-life perspective.
Clinton, Reed added, supports “abortion on demand for any reason at all or for no reason at all”. But he did make a point of saying he would represent all Americans if elected president on November 8.
“It’s fantastic”, Trump said at one point.
“We have to temporarily stop this whole thing with what’s going on with refugees where we don’t know where they’re coming from”.
But in a speech to a major evangelical confab, many Republicans still seemed skeptical of their presumptive nominee, while Democrats at a Planned Parenthood gathering were fired up about theirs.
The billionaire’s remarks came days after he drew rebukes from many Republicans for speaking out against the federal judge overseeing his Trump University case because of his Mexican heritage.
“A little freedom of speech please”.
Indeed, rumors of the Democratic Party’s connection to Trump protesters have been circulating ever since one man came forward to admit that he was paid $3,500 to disrupt an event in Arizona. “We have to restore the rule of law on our border, in our government”. He also slammed her for refusing to use the term “radical Islam” and handled multiple Code Pink hecklers before they were removed.
And when protesters interrupted his remarks, as they often do, he did not rebuke them as on previous occasions, but shrugged them off. “Freedom of speech, everybody”, he said as they were escorted from the room.
Veronica Mahaffy is one of many conservative Christian women who struggle with the prospect of voting for Donald Trump. “I have no question at all about the fact that he judges people based on the content of their character and their abilities, not the color of their skin, or their national origin, or their ethnic or racial background”.