Posted on 07/06/2016 7:04:28 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald J. Trump on Wednesday offered a defiant defense of his campaign’s decision to publish an image widely viewed as anti-Semitic — saying he regretted deleting it — and vigorously reaffirmed his praise of Saddam Hussein, the murderous Iraqi dictator.
In the span of 30 minutes, an often-shouting Mr. Trump breathed new life into a controversy that was sparked on Saturday by his posting of an image on his Twitter account of a six-pointed star next to a picture of Hillary Clinton, with money seeming to rain down in the background. The image was quickly, and broadly, criticized for invoking stereotypes of Jews. Mr. Trump deleted it two hours later, and replaced the star image with a circle.
“ ‘You shouldn’t have taken it down,’ ” Mr. Trump recalled telling one of his campaign workers. “I said, ‘Too bad, you should have left it up.’ I would have rather defended it.”
“That’s just a star,” Mr. Trump said repeatedly.
It was a striking display of self-sabotage from a presumptive presidential nominee and underscored the limitations of Mr. Trump’s scattershot approach during the Republican primaries — not to mention how difficult he often makes it for his campaign team to control him.
The rally in Cincinnati had been promoted by Mr. Trump’s team for two days as a chance for him to give a tryout to a potential running mate, former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Periodically, beginning midway through Mr. Trump’s speech, the crowd chanted Mr. Gingrich’s name, but Mr. Trump did not heed its wishes.
Mr. Trump had not discussed the Twitter message at length until Wednesday night, at his rally in Cincinnati, and his remarks seemed to clash with those of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew
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The piece of dog crap known as: Paul Ryan
This f’ing sh!t is killing Trump. It’s old news, get over it. The Clintons are far too clever for him and he deserves the challenge he will face at the convention. He is clueless how to campaign against the Clintons.
What I do love about Trump is that he speaks his mind and he defends himself from the press. I have to say this Nytimes article is about the most biased piece of journalism I have ever seen. I listened to the speech and he didn’t ramble or panic. He just talked about the situation in a sincere way.
Another two minutes of hate right on schedule.
You experts are wrong! How did Trump get here? Defeating 16 opponents. By doing just what he is doing here, Defending himself. Not taking their PC crap.
KEEP IT UP DONALD
GO TRUMP!
MAGGIE HABERMAN, MICHAEL BARBARO and JONATHAN MAHLER =
paid liars.
As you can plainly see, this is very Anti-Semitic, and something should be done about it. With that in mind, I have decided (as a public service) to let all of you send all your dollar bills to me, and I will dispose of the nasty little Anti-Semitic things properly.
New York Times..a “Bull$hit machine”
It takes an infinite number of monkeys pounding on keyboards to write Shakespeare, but only three to write articles for the New York Times.
I watched the speech. It was great.
Did you listen to his speech?
Obviously not or you would have known he spoke about a lot of things, including a how the system is rigged.
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