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McCain condemns Trump He says Trump’s attacks on Khan family don’t represent view of GOP
Backing of billionaires It’s starting to look like Hillary Clinton is pulling names from the top of the Forbes 400 list to schedule speakers for her campaign. Some of the richest people in America have recently given their endorsement to the Democratic candidate. (EXPRESS)
Ex-Bush adviser says she might vote for Clinton
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POLITICS Donald Trump drew direct criticism from Sen. John McCain and the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday for upbraiding the Muslim American parents of an Army officer killed in Iraq in 2004. But the GOP presidential nominee refused to back down from his attacks, and a former aide argued that the soldier would still be alive had Trump been president at the time. The condemnations by McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a Vietnam veteran who was held captive, and the VFW, a well-known national group with a membership of 1.7 million, served as the most forceful rebuke yet by the military community to Trump’s comments. The Arizona senator, a respected figure on national security issues in the Republican Party, issued a written statement sternly reprimanding Trump for his comments about the Khan family. “I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement,” McCain said. “I hope Americans
John McCain criticized Donald Trump for attacking the Muslim American parents of a U.S. Army officer who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates.” McCain, who has tangled with Trump before, most notably after Trump said last year that McCain was not a war hero because he had been “captured,” added: “While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.” Brian Duffy, recently elected commander-in-chief of the VFW, released a statement saying the
Warren Buffett Forbes ranking: No. 2 Net worth: $62B
Bill Gates is the only American who’s richer than the billionaire investor who introduced Clinton at a Nebraska campaign event Monday. Buffett, who endorsed Clinton in December, has said the richest Americans, like himself, should pay higher taxes. Clinton supports the “Buffett Rule,” a minimum tax rate for anyone making more than $1 million a year.
organization “will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression.” Duffy added that “there are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed.” Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, defended his ex-boss Monday and argued that the Khans’ son would still be alive if Trump had been president. “Their son is a hero. And every person who has ever died fighting for our country and
Michael Bloomberg Forbes: No. 8 Net worth: $38.6B
The former New York City mayor spoke last week at the Democratic National Convention, calling Trump a “dangerous demagogue” and slamming the candidate’s business record. “I’m a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know a con when we see one,” said Bloomberg, a former Democrat and Republican and now independent.
First major CBS poll after both conventions finds Hillary Clinton takes seven-point lead over Donald Trump
their families are heroes,” Lewandowski said on CNN, which employs him as a paid contributor. “The difference is, we’ve got 7,000 soldiers who died, $6 trillion wasted in wars overseas and, if Donald Trump was the president, we would never have had, and Captain Khan would be alive today.” Family members of 17 service members killed in the line of duty wrote a letter to Trump calling his comments about the Khan family “repugnant” and demanding an apology. SEAN SULLIVAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Mark Cuban Forbes: No. 211 Net worth: $3B
The Dallas Mavericks owner — known for controversial comments — had a term for Donald Trump that resonated with his audience Saturday in his hometown of Pittsburgh. “Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating,” he told the crowd of Clinton supporters. “You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jagoff.”
POLITICS A longtime political adviser to former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush who helped write the Republican Party’s “autopsy” report after the 2012 elections is leaving the party and might vote for Hillary Clinton. Sally Bradshaw made the announcement in an interview with CNN, saying that despite decades of work on behalf of GOP candidates — most prominently Bush, the former Florida governor, and on his father’s 1988 presidential campaign — she might vote for Clinton if the race in her home state of Florida is close. Bradshaw told CNN in an email that the GOP is “at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist — a misogynist — a bigot.” “This election cycle is a test,” she wrote in her email. “As much as I don’t want another four years of Obama’s policies, I can’t look my children in the eye and tell them I voted for Donald Trump. I can’t tell them to love their neighbor and treat others the way they wanted to be treated, and then vote for Donald Trump. I won’t do it.” Bradshaw was a top adviser to Jeb Bush’s failed presidential bid, working on hiring staff and crafting his overall message. After the 2012 election, she was drafted by top RNC leaders to help co-write an after-action report to assess how the party suffered another White House loss. ED O’KEEFE (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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