Republicans were again forced into awkward criticisms and defenses of Donald Trump on Wednesday, after the party’s presumptive nominee praised Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists “so good”. Really bad guy,” Trump told a crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. “Look, antisemitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign,” Ryan told a radio show. “His comment was just a factual comment that Saddam Hussein did not have a terrorist problem,” Chris Collins, a New York representative, told the Washington Post. They’ve obviously got to fix that.”The campaign for Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, denounced Trump for his praise of Saddam.

Source: The Guardian July 06, 2016 16:05 UTC