Donald Trump: I wanted to hit DNC speakers
Donald Trump understands why Democrats are railing on him during the convention, but he does take it “a little bit personally.”
During a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa on Thursday, Trump addressed his supporters and admitted wanting to "hit" Democratic National Convention speakers so hard "their heads would spin” after being the center of attacks at the Democratic convention this week.
Though he didn't identify anyone by name, Trump mentioned one person – “a little guy” to be specific – that got under his skin.
“Well, they don't all hit me but some of them do and they try to hit me as hard as possible and it's mostly false stuff, but I get it,” Trump said in a pre-recorded interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. “I mean, it's the way it goes. It's called politics. But look, they're doing their thing. They're trying to win. They're trying to justify eight years of horror.”
Hillary Clinton, who made history after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, also got her share of blistering attacks during the Republican convention, multiple times throughout attendees chanted "lock her up!"
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“I guess I take it a little bit personally, right, but you can't let it get you down,” Trump said when pressed if he took it personally.
On Wednesday night all the headline speakers took the Republican nominee on.
"What we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican – and it sure wasn’t conservative," President Obama said of the Republican National Convention. "What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world. There were no serious solutions to pressing problems – just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate. That is not the America I know."
"He has no clue about what makes America great," Vice President Biden said. Then he added, "Actually, he has no clue, period."
"He never tells you how he's going to do any of the things he says he's going to do," Sen. Tim Kaine said. "He just says, 'believe me.' So here's the question: Do you really believe him? Donald Trump's whole career says you better not."
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Contributing: Charles Ventura