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Donald Trump: ‘Thank you, Huma. Good job, Huma’

By Jeremy Diamon, CNN
(CHICAGO) Donald Trump thanked Monday the top Hillary Clinton aide whose husband is at the heart of an FBI’s investigation that led to the discovery of new emails potentially related to Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
“Thank you, Huma. Good job, Huma,” Trump said, referring to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. “Thank you, Anthony Weiner.”
The FBI discovered the emails on a device seized from Abedin’s estranged husband Anthony Weiner, who is being investigated for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit messages with an underage girl.
Trump said emails — the contents of which are unknown — will be “absolutely devastating” to Clinton. The FBI is still working to determine if any of them are pertinent to the investigation into Clinton’s private email server.
Trump also thanked Weiner during a rally Sunday in Las Vegas, saying “we never thought we were going to say thank you to Anthony Weiner,” whom Trump has long derided as a “sleaze” and a “perv.”
“Hillary is the one who broke the law over and over and over again. We can be sure that what is in those emails is absolutely devastating,” Trump said without citing any evidence. “I think we hit the mother lode, as they say.”
Trump also praised FBI Director James Comey for publicly disclosing last Friday that the FBI was reviewing newly discovered emails for links to the Clinton server investigation, a decision some Democrats have slammed as a political decision that could influence the results of the election.
“I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad what happened and it took guts for Director Comey to make the move he made. It took a lot of guts,” Trump said. “I was not his fan, but I’ll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation.”
“He’s gotta hang tough,” Trump said of the FBI director, whom he had repeatedly and relentlessly assailed since Comey recommended during the summer that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton.
Trump was joined in Grand Rapids, Michigan, by Bobby Knight, the famous former Indiana University basketball coach who took the stage twice Monday — including in the middle of Trump’s speech — to talk up Trump’s candidacy.
After calling Trump a “tough son of a bitch” in his introductory remarks, Knight waltzed back on stage in the middle of Trump’s speech.
“In a Donald Trump administration, there will be no bullshit,” Knight added.

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Trump: An Indiana win will seal nomination

Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight talks about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Old National Events Plaza, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Evansville, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight talks about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Old National Events Plaza, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Evansville, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Eric Bradner, CNN
(INDIANAPOLIS, IN) Donald Trump says if he defeats Ted Cruz in Indiana, he’ll seal the Republican presidential nomination.
“Yes, it’s over,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday” when host Chris Wallace asked if a win in the Hoosier State Tuesday would end Cruz’s chances.
Trump is the front-runner in Indiana, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll that shows him leading with 49% compared to 34% for Cruz and 13% for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Tuesday’s primary has 57 delegates on the line.
Trump pointed to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s endorsement of Cruz, noting that it only came after Pence lavished praise on Trump in an Indianapolis radio show appearance.
He said that Pence “gave me more of an endorsement than he gave Cruz,” and said Pence’s decision to back Cruz was influenced by “his donors and special interests.”
“Most people think it was more of an endorsement of me than it was for Cruz. And it was the weakest endorsement anyone has seen in a long time,” Trump said of Pence’s endorsement of Cruz.
Trump also dismissed poll numbers that show him struggling with female voters, predicting that Clinton would crater once he’s able to focus all of his attention on her.
He said he’ll use Bernie Sanders’ primary attacks that Clinton is “not qualified” for the presidency due to her close ties to Wall Street and stances on issues like trade against Clinton in the general election.
“I’m going to use that. We’ll have that teed up,” Trump said.
He added: “What he said was incredible. It’s a soundbite.”
Also on “Fox News Sunday,” Cruz took a shot at Trump, highlighting the endorsement the mogul got from Mike Tyson — the boxer who spent three years in prison in Indiana after a rape conviction.
“Donald said Mike Tyson is a ‘tough guy.’ Well I don’t think rapists are tough guys,” Cruz said.

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