Trump Will Be Trump

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

By David Kurtz

July 6, 2015 5:40 p.m.

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Donald Trump’s new three-page diatribe slashing his critics, his former corporate partners, Mexican immigrants, and the government of Mexico is pure Trump, all the way down to this classic self-pitying line about his three-week old candidacy: “I have lost a lot during this Presidential run defending the people of the United States.”

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David Kurtz (@TPM_dk) is TPM's executive editor and Washington Bureau chief. He oversees the news operations of TPM.

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