
By The Associated Press, July 7, 2016
RALEIGH, N.C. — It was an opportunity for Donald Trump to hone his message and focus his ire on Hillary Clinton’s emails and the criminal indictment he and his fellow Republicans say she deserved and unjustly dodged.
Instead, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee chose to interrupt his Wednesday night rally with an aggressive defence of a weekend tweet condemned as anti-Semitic, reminding anyone who may have been watching of the criticism that his campaign turns a blind eye to bigotry and attracts the support of white supremacists.