Donald Trump to visit the U.S-Mexico border
Republican presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump will be travelling to the U.S-Mexico border tomorrow, Trump's campaign confirms to CBS News.
Trump will be visiting Laredo, Texas, a town along the most active part of the southern border, accompanied by border patrol agents. He told Fox News on Wednesday that after his inflammatory comments on Mexican immigrants, the tour will be an effort to "honor" him.
"I've been invited by border patrols and they want to honor me, actually, and thousands and thousands of 'em because I'm speaking up" Trump said in an interview with Fox News. "It could even be tomorrow."
Trump added that border patrol officers were "tremendous" and "tough" people but that "they are not allowed to do their job and they called me."
"I may never see you again," Trump said, "but we're going to do it."
A local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council invited Trump earlier this month on a trip to Texas. The local chapter president, Hector Garza, told CNN that he wanted "to give Donald Trump a state of the border" and a "boots on the ground perspective."
Trump also addressed the recent firestorm that erupted after he read out the phone number of Republican presidential candidate South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's phone number during a campaign rally Tuesday.
"I don't regret it," Trump said Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. "It seems to have gotten a lot of press."
At a campaign stop in Bluffton, South Carolina, Trump read out Graham's phone number to a crowd of under one thousand people, in part to fire back at the South Carolina senator's criticisms of the Trump campaign.
After Trump lambasted Arizona Sen. John McCain over the weekend and said that the Vietnam veteran was only "a war hero 'cause he was captured," Graham came to the defense of his fellow senator.
"I don't care if he drops out. Stay in the race, just stop being a jackass," Graham said in an interview Tuesday on CBS This Morning.
Trump remained unapologetic for reading out Graham's phone number to a campaign crowd and added that he "just did it for fun, and everyone had a good time."
The billionaire real estate developer said that Graham just "started calling me a jackass on every program," and speculated that even in his own state, Graham wasn't a popular figure, saying that "he's got nothing going anyway."
"He's got nothing. He's got nothing going anyway," Trump said. "You heard the applause I was getting."
Trump added that he was "trying to be nice" while campaigning, but "everyone's calling me names."