Trump's Ex-Butler Calls For Obama To Be Killed, Trump Meets Top Republicans In Washington
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Trump and GOP leaders bury hatchet on bizarre day.
Here's a concept new to the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump and detente.
Donald Trump's campaign is disavowing the real estate mogul's former butler, after he posted to Facebook Thursday that he wants President Barack Obama to be killed.
Anthony Senecal, who served as Trump's butler for 17 years and now takes groups on tours of the presumptive Republican nominee's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday that Obama "should have been taken out by our military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term," according to Mother Jones, which first reported on Senecal's post.
Reached for comment by CNN on Thursday, Senecal, 84, confirmed he wrote the post, but disputed one point, "I think I said hung."
"Either way, I don't care. Hanging, shooting -- I'd prefer he'd be hung from the portico of the White House, or as I call it, the white mosque," Senecal said in a phone interview Thursday.
"Does it sound like I'm nuts? Because I'm not," he said. "I've just gotten fed up with him (Obama)."
Trump's campaign disavowed the "horrible statements" in a statement Thursday afternoon.
Donald Trump, who built a campaign on lambasting Republican elites, Thursday came to the citadel of the political establishment -- Capitol Hill -- for a summit with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders designed to halt the GOP's self-immolation.
From the moment the billionaire's Boeing 757 rolled to a stop to the moment when it lifted into the steel gray skies over Ronald Reagan National Airport nearly six hours later, he whipped up an extraordinary spectacle -- perhaps a taste of what is to come if he is elected president.
It was a day, as CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta put it, that was about Republicans beginning to build a "tent big enough for the circus that you have seen roll into town."
The U.S. Navy officer who oversaw the 10 sailors captured and briefly detained by Iran earlier this year has been relieved of his duties due to "loss of confidence" in his ability, the Navy announced Thursday.
Cmdr. Eric Rasch was fired from his job as the commanding officer of Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 and temporarily reassigned. These type of personnel actions typically result in the officer then retiring from active duty.
Rasch had recently taken command of the unit after serving as the No. 2 during January when the incident occurred.
Capt. Gary Leigh, the commander of the overall group, made the determination after a preliminary Navy investigation into the incident near Iran's Farsi Island in the Arabian Gulf over January 12 and 13.
George Zimmerman was forced to find a new auction website on which to sell the gun purportedly used to kill Trayvon Martin after his first choice turned him down, according to a statement posted Thursday by GunBroker.
"Our site rules state that we reserve the right to reject listings at our sole discretion, and have done so with the Zimmerman listing," the GunBroker statement said. "We want no part in the listing on our web site or in any of the publicity it is receiving."
Three years ago, Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 fatal shooting of Martin, an unarmed African-American teen, after he claimed self-defense.
Here's a concept new to the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump and detente.
Donald Trump's campaign is disavowing the real estate mogul's former butler, after he posted to Facebook Thursday that he wants President Barack Obama to be killed.
Anthony Senecal, who served as Trump's butler for 17 years and now takes groups on tours of the presumptive Republican nominee's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday that Obama "should have been taken out by our military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term," according to Mother Jones, which first reported on Senecal's post.
Reached for comment by CNN on Thursday, Senecal, 84, confirmed he wrote the post, but disputed one point, "I think I said hung."
"Either way, I don't care. Hanging, shooting -- I'd prefer he'd be hung from the portico of the White House, or as I call it, the white mosque," Senecal said in a phone interview Thursday.
"Does it sound like I'm nuts? Because I'm not," he said. "I've just gotten fed up with him (Obama)."
Trump's campaign disavowed the "horrible statements" in a statement Thursday afternoon.
Donald Trump, who built a campaign on lambasting Republican elites, Thursday came to the citadel of the political establishment -- Capitol Hill -- for a summit with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders designed to halt the GOP's self-immolation.
From the moment the billionaire's Boeing 757 rolled to a stop to the moment when it lifted into the steel gray skies over Ronald Reagan National Airport nearly six hours later, he whipped up an extraordinary spectacle -- perhaps a taste of what is to come if he is elected president.
It was a day, as CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta put it, that was about Republicans beginning to build a "tent big enough for the circus that you have seen roll into town."
The U.S. Navy officer who oversaw the 10 sailors captured and briefly detained by Iran earlier this year has been relieved of his duties due to "loss of confidence" in his ability, the Navy announced Thursday.
Cmdr. Eric Rasch was fired from his job as the commanding officer of Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 and temporarily reassigned. These type of personnel actions typically result in the officer then retiring from active duty.
Rasch had recently taken command of the unit after serving as the No. 2 during January when the incident occurred.
Capt. Gary Leigh, the commander of the overall group, made the determination after a preliminary Navy investigation into the incident near Iran's Farsi Island in the Arabian Gulf over January 12 and 13.
George Zimmerman was forced to find a new auction website on which to sell the gun purportedly used to kill Trayvon Martin after his first choice turned him down, according to a statement posted Thursday by GunBroker.
"Our site rules state that we reserve the right to reject listings at our sole discretion, and have done so with the Zimmerman listing," the GunBroker statement said. "We want no part in the listing on our web site or in any of the publicity it is receiving."
Three years ago, Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 fatal shooting of Martin, an unarmed African-American teen, after he claimed self-defense.
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