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by Jennie MATTHEW NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A man spent three hours Wednesday scaling Trump Tower, the New York home and headquarters of the Republican nominee for US president, before police captured him through an open window. Live television footage showed uniformed New York police officers reaching out and grabbing the young man with curly auburn hair — dressed in grey shorts, an olive T-shirt and white cap — some three hours after […]
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES (AFP) – by Michael Mathes More Republicans broke ranks Tuesday with their party’s White House nominee Donald Trump, issuing dire warnings that his recklessness and lack of policy chops would put the United States in danger. Facing sinking poll numbers and anger in the party over his repeated stumbles and divisive rhetoric, Trump’s campaign has struggled to turn the page from a strong grassroots primary effort to a more mature head-to-head battle […]
MANILA, Aug. 8(PIA) — Communications Secretary Martin Andanar issued the following statement on US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lumping the Philippines among terrorist nations. “Considering his major real estate ‘brand’ investment in the Philippines’ financial capital called Trump Tower, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unfortunately mentioned the Philippines in an anti-immigration speech in a political rally in Portland, Maine. In fact, Mr. Trump has even professed his love for the Philippines during the launch of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Donald Trump, the embattled Republican presidential nominee, has made a successful campaign out of incendiary rhetoric and defying political correctness. But the plain-talking political outsider has stepped in it repeatedly over the past week, so much so that members of his own party are begging him to stay on message in his battle against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Here are six of Trump’s biggest gaffes since last week. Russian hacks Trump […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Melania Trump, the ex-model and third wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, denied reports Thursday that questioned whether she had worked illegally as an immigrant. It is the third controversy about her in less than three weeks that the potential first lady or the Trump campaign has been forced to address as her husband inflames the political establishment with his divisive campaign for the White House. “There has […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump launched new attacks on immigrants Thursday, telling supporters that Somalis and other refugees from “terrorist nations” should be barred entry to the United States. “We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. “You have no idea who they […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump launched new attacks on immigrants Thursday, telling supporters that Somalis and other refugees from “terrorist nations” should be barred entry to the United States. “We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. “You have no idea who they […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Michael Mathes President Barack Obama on Thursday dismissed as “ridiculous” Republican White House candidate Donald Trump’s assertion that the US election in November will be rigged in Democrat Hillary Clinton’s favor. “If Mr. Trump is suggesting there is a conspiracy theory that is being propagated across the country, including in places like Texas, where it is typically not Democrats in charge of voting booths, that is ridiculous,” Obama told […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Michael Mathes Donald Trump’s assertion that the US presidential election will be rigged has triggered alarm among observers, who warn he could be laying the groundwork for rejecting a Hillary Clinton win and even sparking civil unrest. The Republican Trump has routinely claimed that Bernie Sanders lost his Democratic primary race against Clinton because of a “rigged system” packed with superdelegates who could vote for the candidate of their […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he watched a video on Wednesday (August 3) that showed Iranian officials were receiving money allegedly provided by the U.S. “Iran, I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here, Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane,” Trump told supporters in Daytona Beach, Florida. “How does a president do that? How do you do that? We’re […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The Trump Taj Mahal casino in New Jersey’s Atlantic City, once owned by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and which still bears his name, is to close, its current owners announced Wednesday. They blamed the closure, effective after the September 5 Labor Day holiday, on a strike that has dragged on more than a month in a dispute over workers’ health care and retirement benefits. The Taj is losing […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — In a searing and virtually unprecedented presidential rebuke, Barack Obama declared embattled Republican White House nominee Donald Trump “unfit” to be president Tuesday and called on party leaders to disown him. Obama piled on as Trump’s campaign reeled from multiple self-inflicted scandals, calling the 70-year-old mogul “woefully unprepared” and “unfit to serve as president.” “He keeps proving it,” said Obama, standing alongside the prime minister of Singapore […]
