September 19, 2016 | No Comments
Donald Trump on Monday took credit for prematurely calling the explosion that went off in New York on Saturday a bombing, boasting that he should be a newscaster.
Trump blasted the media for attacking him over his early use of the bomb term and accused them of editing out clips of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton using the same word.
“If you saw her in the back of the plane — and she used the word ‘bombs’ also, by the way. I heard — I didn’t see it — but I heard I was criticized for calling it correctly,” Trump told “Fox and Friends” in a telephone interview. “But what I said was exactly correct. I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news.”
Trump claimed “everybody” says that he was right but “called it too soon.” “OK, give me a break,” he continued. “But Hillary Clinton used the word ‘bombs’ shortly thereafter and nobody said anything about it. And somebody said some of them edit that word out. They took it out. Hey, folks, it’s a rigged system.”
The Republican presidential nominee told supporters at a rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday that “a bomb went off,” a remark that preceded public confirmation from local officials.
“Just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in New York, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on, but boy, we are living in a time,” he said Saturday.
Clinton, however, did the same thing, all the while attacking her opponent for his untimely assessment. Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign plane Saturday, Clinton said that she had been briefed “about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.”
Despite using the same term as Trump, though, the former secretary of state dinged her rival just moments later.
“I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this,” she said. “I think it’s always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions because we are just in the beginning stages of trying to determine what happened.”