A pumped-up Donald Trump strutted in front of a crowd of die-hard supporters in Pennsylvania on Monday night, throwing aside a spiraling disaster of the groping tape, Republican defections and his plummeting poll ratings. He praised the open-information group that acted as conduit for one of the biggest leaks of US government secrets in history: “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks,” he said. “In other words, [Blumenthal’s] now admitting they could have done something about Benghazi,” Trump said, prompting loud reproaches from the crowd. It came as John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for US president, was forced to publicly account for the decision to abandon Trump. Earlier in his campaign, Trump also taunted McCain for having been a prisoner of war, telling an audience he preferred “people that weren’t captured”.

Source: The Guardian October 11, 2016 05:22 UTC