Trump Bashes CNN's Dana Bash for 'Very Insulting' Question
Hillary does one stop and then goes home and sleeps. And yet you ask me that question."
10.27.2016
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With less than two weeks until Election Day, candidate Donald Trump took a "pit stop" to speak at the grand opening of a Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C., prompting media critics to question his decision to attend a business event instead of chasing votes in one of the crucial swing states where he is trailing in the polls.
"Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country," Trump said at the opening. "There is nothing we cannot accomplish. The United States is great. It's great. It's great. Its people are great. There is no task or project too great. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done.
"We have to choose the most optimistic path. We have to choose to believe not our politicians that in many cases truly don't know what they're doing but to believe in ourselves and in our country," he said.
As CNN noted, his opponent Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to jab Trump about his campaign detour, saying at a stop in Florida that he was "taking time off the campaign trail."
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway addressed that criticism Wednesday morning, arguing that the "pit stop" would highlight the business successes Trump says qualify him to be president.
"It shows Americans the tangible accomplishments of Donald Trump. He's somebody who builds things. He's somebody who fixes things," she said on NBC's Today show. "I think you'll see today the tangible accomplishments of Donald Trump."
CNN's Dana Bash caught Trump outside the hotel and raised the criticism. "For people who say you’re taking time out of swing states to go do this, you say?" she prodded.
Trump didn't bother playing nice:
"I say the following. You have been covering me for the last... long time. I did, yesterday, 8 stops and 3 major speeches. And I’ve been doing this for weeks straight. I left for here for an hour-and-a-half. I’m leaving here and going to North Carolina, then I’m going to Florida, then I’m going up to New Hampshire. For you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because Hillary Clinton does one stop and then goes home and sleeps. And yet you ask me that question. I think it’s a very rude question."
And that's how you deal with the biased media.
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