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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump walks back suggestion of paying legal fees for man accused of punching protester...lol
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/donald-trump-walks-back-suggestion-125528241.htmlColin Campbell,Business Insider 8 hours ago
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump denied on Tuesday that he said he was looking into paying the legal fees for a man who is accused of punching a protester at one of Trump's rallies.
"I didn't say that. I haven't looked at it yet. And nobody's asked me to pay for fees," Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
A man was filmed sucker punching a demonstrator at a Trump rally last week in North Carolina. John McGraw, 78, is reportedly facing assault charges in the attack.
On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Trump said he "actually instructed my people to look into" paying McGraw's legal bills. Trump also said he wanted to see the "full tape" and noted that the protester was "very loud, very disruptive."
But during his Tuesday "Good Morning America" interview Trump appeared to be far less inclined to get involved.
"Somebody asked me the question. And I hadn't even seen it. So I never said I was going to pay for fees," he recalled.
"You said you were 'looking into it,'" host George Stephanopoulos pressed. "And I'm just saying, if you're open to that, wouldn't by paying those fees, wouldn't that be rewarding violence?"
Trump replied:
Well, maybe so. And maybe that's why I wouldn't do it. I don't condone violence at all. I looked and I watched and I'm going to make a decision, but I certainly don't condone violence. And maybe you're right. And maybe that's why I wouldn't do it.
Trump has been harshly criticized in recent days for his violent campaign-trail rhetoric. Trump has voiced his desire to punch protesters in the face, pined for the old days in which hecklers would be roughed up, and at one event said he would pay for the legal fees of people if they "knock the crap out" of protesters throwing tomatoes.
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Donald Trump walks back suggestion of paying legal fees for man accused of punching protester...lol (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Mar 2016
OP
Svafa
(594 posts)1. Surprising exactly no one.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)7. Can I top that by saying surprising even less than no one?
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)2. i promise to...not really....proven lies even before the election
damn these repubs actually pre-empt old elections
now they break election promises before elected!!!!
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. So much for campaign promises.
randr
(12,412 posts)4. It only speaks volumes about the people who still support this moron
He is selling them horseshit from their own back yards.
tanyev
(42,572 posts)5. Hey Ben Carson, about that position that Trump promised you.....
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)6. Carson will be hired as Trumps personal doctor..
since he is a neurologist he will be called upon to rub his temples when he has a hedache.