Trump won’t back GOP leaders

Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries, Republican presidential appointee Donald Trump is abnegation to aback House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his accessible primary election, adage in an account Tuesday that he is “not absolutely there yet” in acknowledging his party’s astral adopted official.

Trump aswell said he was not acknowledging Sen. John McCain in his primary in Arizona, and he singled out Sen. Kelly Ayotte as a anemic and alienated baton in New Hampshire, a accompaniment whose presidential primary Trump won handily.

With Ryan’s Wisconsin primary appointed for next Tuesday, Trump accepted the House speaker’s underdog opponent, Paul Nehlen, for active “a actual acceptable campaign.” Trump said that Ryan has approved his endorsement — an affirmation that a Ryan agent denied afterwards Tuesday — but that as of now he is alone “giving it actual austere consideration.”

“I like Paul, but these are abhorrent times for our country,” Trump said. “We charge actual able leadership. We charge very, actual able leadership. And I’m just not absolutely there yet. I’m not absolutely there yet.”

Trump’s abnegation to aback Ryan represents an amazing aperture of political breeding and signals that the Republican Affair charcoal disconnected two weeks afterwards a civic assemblage in Cleveland staged to advertise affair unity.

Trump fabricated his comments during a absolute account Tuesday afternoon over cafeteria at the Trump Civic Golf Club in Northern Virginia.

Trump and Ryan accept had a difficult and close accord over the accomplished few months. Ryan accustomed Trump this bounce afterwards he became the presumptive appointee and batten on his account at the convention, but alone afterwards a aeon of accessible soul-searching.

Ryan has disagreed with Trump on several key issues — including his proposed acting ban on Muslims entering the United States — and issued a account over the weekend that alongside took affair with Trump’s analytical of the parents of asleep U.S. Army captain Humayun Khan.

“Many Muslim Americans accept served valiantly in our military, and fabricated the ultimate sacrifice,” Ryan said in the statement. “Captain Khan was one such adventurous example. His cede — and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan — should consistently be honored. Period.”

McCain could not be accomplished anon for comment. The Ryan spokesman, Zack Roday, issued this statement: "Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his aggregation has anytime asked for Donald Trump's endorsement. And we are assured in a achievement next anniversary regardless."

With wife Ghazala at his side, Khizr Khan batten at endure week’s Democratic Civic Convention. He said Trump “smears the appearance of Muslims” and challenged the Republican nominee’s ability of the U.S. Constitution.

Asked about the Khans, Trump said in Tuesday’s interview, “I was atrociously attacked on the stage, and I accept a appropriate to acknowledgment back. That’s all I accept to say about it.”

In authoritative his comments Tuesday, Trump may accept been gluttonous avengement for Ryan’s boring his anxiety about acknowledging Trump in May. Trump’s delivery of his ambiguity about Ryan — “I’m just not absolutely there yet” — echoes what Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a May account about acknowledging Trump: “I’m just not accessible to do that at this point. I’m not there appropriate now.”

Nehlen came to Trump’s aegis for his comments about the Khans, for which Trump thanked him in a cheep Monday night. Trump’s shout-out sparked belief that he ability endorse Nehlen.

Asked about this in the Tuesday interview, Trump said that Nehlen “sent me a nice letter and I alone thanked him.”

“[Ryan’s] adversary is a big fan of what I’m adage — big fan,” Trump said. “His opponent, who’s active a actual acceptable campaign, obviously, I’ve heard — his adversary beatific me a actual bookish and able-bodied anticipation out letter bygone and all I did was say acknowledge you actual abundant for your actual nice letter. You saw my statement.”

Trump added, “I’m giving actual austere application to that accomplished situation, to Ryan, to Paul.”

On Monday, McCain, a Vietnam war hero, issued a diffuse account accusatory Trump for his comments about the Khan family. Asked about McCain’s rebuke, Trump said, “I haven’t accustomed John McCain.

“I’ve never been there with John McCain because I’ve consistently acquainted that he should accept done a abundant bigger job for the vets,” Trump continued. “He has not done a acceptable job for the vets and I’ve consistently acquainted that he should accept done a abundant bigger job for the vets. So I’ve consistently had a difficult time with John for that reason, because our vets are not getting advised properly. They’re not getting advised fairly.”

McCain is bound in a three-way Republican primary — the acclamation is Aug. 30 and aboriginal voting begins this anniversary — adjoin above accompaniment agent Kelli Ward and tea affair activist Clair Van Steenwyk. A third challenger, Alex Meluskey,suspended his attack this week.

Trump said he anticipation it was a aberration for senators to ambit themselves from him because of his acceptance with the Republican base. He singled out Ayotte, who like McCain accursed Trump’s comments about the Khans.

“New Hampshire is one of my admired places,” Trump said. “You accept a Kelly Ayotte who doesn’t wish to allocution about Trump, but I’m assault her in the acclamation by a lot. You acquaint me. Are these humans that should be apery us, okay? You acquaint me.”

Trump continued, “I don’t apperceive Kelly Ayotte. I apperceive she’s accustomed me no abutment — aught abutment — and yet I’m arch her in the polls. I’m accomplishing actual able-bodied in New Hampshire. We charge loyal humans in this country. We charge fighters in this country. We don’t charge anemic people. We accept abundant of them. We charge fighters in this country. But Kelly Ayotte has accustomed me aught support, and I’m accomplishing abundant in New Hampshire.”

Ayotte tweeted a acknowledgment afterwards Tuesday: “I alarm it like I see it and I'm consistently traveling to angle up for our aggressive families and what's best for the humans of New Hampshire.”

She aswell still affairs to vote for Trump, according to her campaign.
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