North Charleston, SC – In South Carolina, Trump Lashes Out At Rivals, Boycotts Fox News

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    U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd after an address at an event organised by the Greater Charleston Business Alliance and the South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce in North Charleston, South Carolina, September 23, 2015.  REUTERS/Randall Hill -North Charleston, SC – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed out at rivals and complained about mistreatment by the media on Wednesday, apparently stung by a rash of criticism about his comments on immigration and women.

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    It’s not like the other GOP candidates particularly like each other, Trump groused. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush “hate each other, but they can’t say it,” he added. “I’m so tired of this politically correct crap.”

    Eclipsed this week by Pope Francis’ tour of the U.S., the billionaire developer and former TV reality show star spent his day slinging insults.

    He tweeted Wednesday that he’s boycotting Fox News, even though the network said officials there had canceled a Trump appearance first. Trump also complained that rival Rubio has gotten too much attention for gaining on Bush in some polls of Republican primary voters. And he said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul should drop out of the race because of his low showing in the polls. Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, who is surging, might be broke, Trump suggested at one stop. And Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is “shrill,” he said at another, adding that her campaign “is coming down like a really, really sick rocket.”

    Trump still leads most polls for the GOP nomination less than five months before voting begins with the Iowa caucuses.

    “The polls are through the roof,” he told a session of South Carolina’s African-American Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Charleston Business Alliance, another group of black business leaders.

    But there were signs that the campaign trail had lost some shine for the billionaire developer.

    Trump spoke in South Carolina a few hours after tweeting that he is boycotting Fox News. A Fox spokeswoman says Trump’s announcement came after the channel canceled a scheduled Trump appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday. Trump has been feuding with Fox since the first Republican primary debate, when he objected to moderater Megyn Kelly pressing him to explain incendiary comments he’s made about women.

    In North Charleston, the candidate didn’t specifically mention his ongoing spat with Fox News, instead weaving meandering attacks on the media and his opponents together with his usual promises to make the nation “great” and “rich” once again.

    He saved particular venom for Rubio.

    “He’s overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does, right?” Trump told his audience in North Charleston.

    Later in the capital city of Columbia, Trump suggested Rubio is a “lightweight” who “sits in the Senate, and I’m out creating jobs.”

    Earlier, Trump cast Fiorina — another “outsider” candidate trying to appeal to anti-establishment Republicans — as another politician looking for donors who will ultimately control her.

    “Carly is out there fighting to raise money,” he said. “She doesn’t want to spend her own money. Maybe she doesn’t have it.”

    Fiorina suggested Tuesday in a stop at Myrtle Beach on the state’s coast, that she is making Trump “nervous.”

    He mocked his rivals for sweating during the CNN debate.

    “That room was 100 degrees. That room was hot. I mean poor Chris Christie,” Trump said of the New Jersey governor. “He’s a nice guy; it wasn’t fair.”

    Trump repeated his assertion that Clinton, during the 2008 presidential campaign, started the discredited “birther” movement whose members falsely claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. There’s been no evidence tracing the charge to Clinton or her campaign.

    In an interview on The Tom Joyner Radio Show earlier Wednesday, Clinton called Trump’s assertion that she started the birther claims “ludicrous.” She told guest host Don Lemon: “You know, I have been blamed for nearly everything. That was a new one to me.”


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    DanielBarbaz
    DanielBarbaz
    8 years ago

    although I was initially thinking of supporting Trump, the more I get to know him, the more I feel that he is like a petulant child. He throws a tantrum when things do not go his way. Time to look at other candidates.

    8 years ago

    Trump is right.
    One America News gives the only true conservative news.
    FOX News used to do that, but O’Reilly is so very busy trying to look open minded, that he over does it.
    In short, FOX NEWS used to be straight, but Mr. TRUMP is correct to boycott them, because they have become “wannabe conservative,” and they are just a branch of the Republican Party, camouflaged as a News station.

    yankee96
    yankee96
    8 years ago

    The Donald is correct for boycotting FOX

    They are only interested in ratings of course and he does not need their fake support.