Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has commented on India for the first time after he entered the presidential race, saying that the country is doing great but no one is talking about it
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has commented on India for the first time after he entered the presidential race, saying that the country is doing great but no one is talking about it.
“India is doing great,” Mr Trump told the CNN in an interview on Monday.
After hitting the presidential campaign trial, this is for the first time that Mr Trum has given a glimpse into his thought about India, even as he has been openly critical about many countries like China, Mexico and Japan in many of his speeches.
“That was the beginning of China. That was the beginning of India, when India — by the way, India is doing great. Nobody talks about it. And I have big jobs going up in India. But India is doing great,” Mr Trump said.
“Look at everything I told you. Everything I told you is all right, whether it’s Iraq, wheth-er it’s Iran, whether it’s China, whether it’s India, whether it’s Japan,” Mr Trump said referring to his CNN interview in September 2007.
Earlier in November, he said that India and China take advantage of the United States. Meanwhile, Mr Trump said he will not participate in Thursday’s Republican debate, bowing out of a nationally televised showdown just four days before Iowa kicks off the presidential nomination process.
Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, publicly toyed with the idea of pulling out of the debate during a campaign event late Tuesday in Iowa, where he said “probably I won’t be doing the debate.”
That was confirmed soon after when his campaign said in a typically bombastic statement that “Mr. Trump knows a bad deal when he sees one,” and lashed out at Fox News, the host of the Iowa debate. Mr Trump claims that Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly, who will moderate the debate, is biased against him.
Mr Trump on Wednesday taunted Ms Kelly. “I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct,” Mr Trump said on Twitter. “Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!”
Mr Trump’s decision to drop out heightens his feud with Fox News, its chairman Roger Ailes and Kelly. “Roger Ailes and Fox News think they can toy with him, but Mr Trump doesn’t play games,” said the strongly-worded statement, claiming that the billionaire and former reality TV star had won all the six previous debates against his Republican rivals.
Instead, the 69-year-old — who has never held elected office — said he will host an event to raise money for military veterans. Mr Trump, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US and accused Mexico of sending rapists into America, made it clear that he had little time for Ms Kelly. “I don’t think she can treat me fairly. And I’m not a big fan of hers,” Mr Trump told CNN. Ms Kelly moderated the first debate of the campaign cycle, in Aug-ust, when she asked Mr Trump tough questions. Afterwards Mr Trump insinuated that she treated him unfairly be-cause she was menstruating. “She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions,” Mr Trump had told CNN after the August debate.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Mr Ailes, however, fully supported his moderator. “Megyn Kelly is an excellent journalist and the entire network stands behind her,” he told ‘’The Washington Post. “She will absolutely be on the debate stage on Thursday night.”
