Donald Trump has been accused of making more spurious claims on America's campaign trail, further worrying Republicans who now fear his Presidential bid is doomed.
He told a rally in Maine that he had seen a videotape showing 400 million dollars in cash being delivered to the Iranian government on the orders of the Obama administration….even though no such tape is believed to exist.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Donald Trump went into great detail about the videotape.
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Remarkable, given that no tape has ever surfaced nor been seen by the American public.
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And that wasn't the only invented assertion.
He claimed people saw bombs in the home of the San Bernardino attackers and didn't report them to police.
Again, no such witnesses are believed to exist.
Republican leaders, already deeply troubled by Mr. Trump's earlier performances on the campaign trail this week, have been left facing a raft of questions about whether there is any way to replace him as the party's Presidential candidate.
And imagine being Donald Trump's running mate, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana.
He was confronted by an 11 year old boy during a rally in North Carolina,
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The latest polls show Hillary Clinton opening up a commanding lead over Donald Trump nationally….and in key battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
And those numbers are underpinned by evidence that the Trump campaign is in trouble, even with constituencies that were once its bedrock.
A small group of military veterans held a rally on Capitol Hill on Thursday to announce their opposition to him….among them, Nate Torani.
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With a growing number of Americans taking that position, the Trump campaign needs to work some major magic if it's to turn things around and get its candidate to focus, be disciplined, and stop making things up on the campaign trail.
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