South Carolina – Presidential hopeful Donald Trump persisted in his attacks on fellow Republicans on Tuesday, calling U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham an “idiot” and giving out the South Carolina lawmaker’s cell phone number during a campaign rally.
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Trump, a real estate mogul and television personality, said in Graham’s home state of South Carolina that he had heard the Republican senator call him a “jack***” in a recent interview.
Trump claimed Graham, who is also seeking the presidency in the November 2016 election, had called him several years ago looking for connections at Fox News and for campaign contributions.
“You know, I’m saying to myself, what is this guy, a beggar?” Trump said of Graham during the rally in Bluffton, South Carolina.
“He gave me his number, and I found the card. I wrote the number down. I don’t know if it’s the right number. Let’s try it,” Trump told the crowd before reading out a phone number with a Washington area code.
“He won’t fix anything, but at least he’ll talk to you,” Trump said.
After the event Asked why he gave out Graham’s personal cellphone number, Trump said from the passenger seat of his black SUV: “So people can call him; so he can get something done.”
A phone call to the number by a Reuters reporter went to a voicemail message that said the number belonged to Graham. Graham’s presidential campaign confirmed the number was the senator’s.
“Donald Trump continues to show hourly that he is ill-prepared to be commander in chief,” Christian Ferry, Graham’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
Trump has infuriated Republicans by criticizing fellow members of the party and made many of them uncomfortable with harsh remarks about illegal immigration and other issues.
His latest dust-up involved criticizing the war record of U.S. Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican who is close friends with Graham.
“I don’t care if he drops out. Stay in the race, just stop being a jack***,” Graham said of Trump on Tuesday in an interview with CBS News.
Ben Carson, another of the 16 Republicans seeking the presidency, said there was too much focus on Trump, The Washington Post said on Tuesday.
“For us to get caught up in a controversy of well, ‘What did Donald Trump mean when he said that?’ It just seems so petty to me,” Carson said at an event in Virginia, the Post reported.
I really believe Trump will win only because he is a idiot.
The guy does not think for a second he just says whatever comes to his mind.
The media loves him he works for them.
This country is going from bad to worse.
VOTE FOR TRUMP
Why does this make headlines, and not when Graham calls HIM jack***?
Donald has so much money he’s earned the right to call his rivals whatever he wants. I’m looking forward to his fresh ideas on foreign policy.
he talks almost as much as our dear vice prez.
From the pro-Trump comments here we can see how totally moronic Trump supporters really are. If Obama would say any of the things this bovan is saying, you’d be all over him, saying he’s unfit to be president, he’s just a name-calling lowlife, etc. But with Trump you rationalize everything away. This is like a cult and whatever Trump says is fine with you. When did the heimishe oilam become so lobotomized? When they became addicted to talk radio? When they suddenly decided they would sound like “hunderd poicent” Amerikaners if they echoed the Tea Party loonies? Anyone who can look at this man and his behavior over the years and see in him a world leader has a mind of mush.
The only reason why Trump is popular right now is because the country is sick and tired of Obama and his failed polices and scandals. They would vote for anyone or anything that ran against him.
If this nut job wins even the GOP Primaries I’m moving to Canada!!!
The right wing Des Moines Register today said Trump is ‘unfit to run’ because of his mouth. He is exciting, irreverent, acerbic, charismatic. It’s 1933 again, hooray…
Trump has been so entertaining. I don’t think he should stop. Not now. When it gets serious, then let him leave; in the meantime, there has never been so much humor and comedy on the news.
For whatever he’s worth Trump, may not make America great again, but he is certainly making America Laugh Again.
And after nearly 2 terms of such a sarcastic and vengeful president, laughing may do the country some good.
Loving the Trump.
Hey, Donald, I got the perfect running mate for you….
Joe Biden!
Oh, he’s a Dem….who cares it will be comedy 24/7…
Trump is just a rehash of Father Coughlin, the radio personality and political activist from the 30s and 40s. He used to say pretty much the same thing about Jews that Trump says about Mexicans.