WILMINGTON, Ohio _ Donald Trump stuck tightly to his script Friday and sought to avoid the sort of unfiltered remarks that have landed him in trouble time and again in his campaign for president.
At an airplane hangar rally in this small town between Cincinnati and Columbus, the Republican nominee vowed to restore manufacturing jobs, build up the military, stop Syrian refugees from entering the United States and wall off Mexico.
"Build that wall!" his supporters chanted.
But most of all, Trump tried to capitalize on FBI Director James Comey's announcement last week that agents are examining a thousands of newly found emails to see if any are relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of State.
"Honestly, shouldn't Huma be fired?" Trump said, referring to Huma Abedin, the top Clinton adviser whose emails the FBI is examining.
Trump's argument that Clinton was "corrupt" was complicated by the conviction Friday of two aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the so-called Bridgegate scandal. Christie leads Trump's transition team.
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Christie knew his aides shut down lanes of the George Washington Bridge as retaliation against a local mayor who declined to back his re-election in 2012.
Trump also reveled in the hacking of the private email account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman.
U.S. intelligence agencies last month blamed senior Russian officials of hacking Democrats' emails and leaking them to WikiLeaks and other websites to interfere with the U.S. election.
Trump mentioned that Podesta wrote in one private email that Clinton had bad instincts, saying he would have fired him after disclosure of his emails.
But Trump conceded he was enjoying the spectacle of the leaked emails stirring trouble for his Democratic rival. "I love reading those WikiLeaks," he said.
"Oh, some beauties coming out," he told the crowd.
