Donald Trump

At a rally in Vandalia, OH, Trump says that the protests in Chicago were a “planned attack”.

All of a sudden a planned attack, just came out of nowhere. It was printed by people who were professional protestors. A disgrace if you want to know the truth…The people that came there, that were invited there, thousands and thousands of people. They caused no problem. They were taunted, they were harassed. These other people…by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend. Now really, Bernie should tell his people…There weren’t too many Hillary people there. You know why? In all fairness to Bernie, the reason there weren’t any Hillary people is they have no fervour  Say what you want about Bernie, but at least they have a little bit of fervour. So he should really get up and say to his people to “stop, stop”. Not me, they said “Mr Trump should get up this morning and tell his people to be nice”. My people are nice. My people are great.

At a rally in Biloxi. MI, Trump talks about the Iran Nuclear Deal, and wonders aloud why the deal did not include the release of prisoners.

It’s almost like there has to be something else going on. I don’t think there is, I just don’t think they’re competent…Who would make that deal?..[Iran would have refused, then you] you double and triple up your sanctions…[The prisoners] will be out before I take office…I can’t believe they didn’t walk from that negotiation…People want, not that phony Obama change. People want strength, they want competence.

At a rally in Des Moines, IA, Trump responds to a New York Times report that said Ted Cruz questioned Trump’s judgment in a closed-door meeting, questioning Cruz’s oppositions of Ethanol subsidies.

I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba. Not a lot come out…With the ethanol, really, he’s got to come a long way, ’cause right now he’s for the oil…But I understand it, oil pays him a lot of money. He’s got to be for oil, right? But I’m with you. I’m self-funding. I have no oil company. I have no special interest.

Trump gives a speech to a rally in Sarasota, FL. He says The New York Times should give him an apology over the Kovaleski affair.

I took a lot of heat about a reporter. What really happened? I think it’s very important for me to say. I made a statement that – I was talking about groveling – a reporter was groveling. He took back a statement he wrote 14 years ago…I don’t knock people that have problems, believe me. I would never mock a person that has difficulties….Who else is going to take on The New York Times? I don’t care. … They’ll probably be out of business pretty soon….The problem is, [Kovaleski]’s using what he’s got to such a horrible degree, I think it’s disgraceful…I think the New York Times frankly should give me an apology. I’d love to have the apology before they go out of business.

At a rally in Columbus, OH, Trump reads an extract from The Washington Post about U.S. Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings.

But the media was going crazy, and one of my people came in, “Mr Trump, I have a story in The Washington Post”. Among the most dishonest people I have ever dealt with are the media. The level of dishonesty is unbelievable. This is a story from the Washington Post on September 18. [reads extract]. So they’ve come in and we’ve received hundreds of phone calls to my office, and they [the media] have tried to deny it…They’ll find some reason to deny it. They’ll call it a typo. A long and winding typo.

At a rally in New Hampshire, Trump says the U.S. should stop trying to export “freedom” to Middle Eastern countries.

I saw a woman interviewed. They said, ‘We want to wear them, we’ve worn them for a thousand years. Why would anybody tell us not?’ They want to!” What the hell are we getting involved for?…Fact is, it’s easier. You don’t have to put on makeup. Look how beautiful everyone looks. Wouldn’t it be easier? Right? Wouldn’t that be easy? I tell ya, if I was a woman, I don’t want to. I’d be like, ‘I’m ready, darling, let’s go.’ It’s true!

At the National Federation of Republican Assemblies’ 2015 conference Trump says he is winning bbecause people are tired of being taken advantage of:

People in this country are smart. We’re tired of being the patsies for everyone. There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence. I love the Tea Party. You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting. At least I have a microphone and can fight back…They [politicians] go to Washington and they get weak. They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, ‘Honey, I’ve made it.’ That won’t happen to me, I promise.

30,000 people attend Trump’s rally in Mobile, Alabama. In a one-hour speech he says that the worst part about free trade is that it requires good leaders and competent negotiators but the current government is lacking in both. Referring to Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy:

Some people say they’re bad people. I don’t think they’re bad people. I think they’re incompetent.

He describes the negotiators who work for countries like China, Japan and Mexico as “smart killers.”

The problem is their leaders are really smart. They’re really cunning, And we have dummies. We have people that don’t have a clue…So we have 300,000 babies that you have to take care of, we all have to take care of. In the case of other countries including Mexico, they don’t do that. You don’t’ walk over the border for the one day and all of a sudden we have an American citizen.