Welcome back to our daily summary of the Chernobyl of presidential candidacies. So much happened over the weekend that we simply can't cover it all—there's not enough oxygen left in our tanks—and so we've put a separate roundup here that covers all of that. Here, we'll just give the summary of the summary.
The summary of the summary is that Donald Trump's charitable foundation has had to cease fundraising operations after it was discovered that they weren't even properly licensed to do that, and Donald Trump is still not backing down from his three-in-the-morning demand for America to look at a political detractor's "sex tape", nor is he backing down from claiming that maybe Hillary Clinton has been cheating on her husband, based on nothing but Trump's own fury, and Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie and the rest of members of Trump's Island of the Damned are very close to stripping their gears in their attempts to justify all of this.
Aside from that? Just another day in the worst major party candidacy in modern American history. Any candidate capable of feeling shame would have bowed out at this point, but the Republican Party didn't nominate any candidate capable of feeling shame. They nominated Donald Trump.
• Speaking to veterans today, Trump said of veterans suffering from PTSD: "They see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can't handle it."
• Continuing a week of (baffling) campaign attacks on the former pageant contestent, Trump campaign appendage Roger Stone called Alicia Machado "this ho bag from Venezuela" in a Monday interview.
• Despite Trump bluster, there's almost no chance the New York Times will be prosecuted for publishing Trump tax returns leaked to them.
• So what has Trump paid in federal income taxes? Trump is still flatly refusing to say, and the Trump campaign's response "said nothing about whether the candidate has ever paid income taxes. It only claimed that he 'paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes.'"
• Trump's 1995 losses amount to, for that year, "nearly 2% of all the net negative business income on individual tax returns in the entire country."
• An explanation of just how Trump's 1995 loss could nullify his tax obligations for years into the future. The short version? Tax laws cater to wealthy Americans.
• Trump is more consistently prickly about his business acumen than about any other subject, save hand size: The Clinton campaign has therefore wasted no time with new attempts to needle Trump on his business losses.
• A new AP report describes a pattern of vile behavior towards women from Trumpwhile filming 'The Apprentice'.
• From 1998 to 2003, Trump's real estate organization rented office space to an Iranian bank later identified by U.S. officials as linked to terrorism.
• A man who has seen Trump's tax returns says they would be "useful and tangible insights" for voters. He also says that "Trump isn’t that financially sophisticated. In my interviews with him, he had trouble explaining such basic real estate concepts as 'cash flow.'"
• The GOP today tweeted a story titled "Republicans Launch Willie Horton-Style Attack on Kaine". The tweet was deleted, but not before various reporters took time out of their already bizarre days to note the curiousness of a party bragging about a comparison to one of the most infamous episodes of race-baiting in modern campaigning.
• Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence suffered a blow today as the 7th Circuit ruled unanimously that his attempt to bar Syrian refugees from his state was indeed discriminatory.
• The National Education Association says their members are reporting an increase in school bullying tied to Trump's racist rhetoric.
• Trump fans inundated Cubs pitcher Jon Lester with insulting tweets after the first presidential debate, believing him to be NBC debate moderator Lester Holt.
The summary of the summary is that Donald Trump's charitable foundation has had to cease fundraising operations after it was discovered that they weren't even properly licensed to do that, and Donald Trump is still not backing down from his three-in-the-morning demand for America to look at a political detractor's "sex tape", nor is he backing down from claiming that maybe Hillary Clinton has been cheating on her husband, based on nothing but Trump's own fury, and Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie and the rest of members of Trump's Island of the Damned are very close to stripping their gears in their attempts to justify all of this.
Aside from that? Just another day in the worst major party candidacy in modern American history. Any candidate capable of feeling shame would have bowed out at this point, but the Republican Party didn't nominate any candidate capable of feeling shame. They nominated Donald Trump.
• Speaking to veterans today, Trump said of veterans suffering from PTSD: "They see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can't handle it."
• Continuing a week of (baffling) campaign attacks on the former pageant contestent, Trump campaign appendage Roger Stone called Alicia Machado "this ho bag from Venezuela" in a Monday interview.
• Despite Trump bluster, there's almost no chance the New York Times will be prosecuted for publishing Trump tax returns leaked to them.
• So what has Trump paid in federal income taxes? Trump is still flatly refusing to say, and the Trump campaign's response "said nothing about whether the candidate has ever paid income taxes. It only claimed that he 'paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes.'"
• Trump's 1995 losses amount to, for that year, "nearly 2% of all the net negative business income on individual tax returns in the entire country."
• An explanation of just how Trump's 1995 loss could nullify his tax obligations for years into the future. The short version? Tax laws cater to wealthy Americans.
• Trump is more consistently prickly about his business acumen than about any other subject, save hand size: The Clinton campaign has therefore wasted no time with new attempts to needle Trump on his business losses.
• A new AP report describes a pattern of vile behavior towards women from Trumpwhile filming 'The Apprentice'.
• From 1998 to 2003, Trump's real estate organization rented office space to an Iranian bank later identified by U.S. officials as linked to terrorism.
• A man who has seen Trump's tax returns says they would be "useful and tangible insights" for voters. He also says that "Trump isn’t that financially sophisticated. In my interviews with him, he had trouble explaining such basic real estate concepts as 'cash flow.'"
• The GOP today tweeted a story titled "Republicans Launch Willie Horton-Style Attack on Kaine". The tweet was deleted, but not before various reporters took time out of their already bizarre days to note the curiousness of a party bragging about a comparison to one of the most infamous episodes of race-baiting in modern campaigning.
• Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence suffered a blow today as the 7th Circuit ruled unanimously that his attempt to bar Syrian refugees from his state was indeed discriminatory.
• The National Education Association says their members are reporting an increase in school bullying tied to Trump's racist rhetoric.
• Trump fans inundated Cubs pitcher Jon Lester with insulting tweets after the first presidential debate, believing him to be NBC debate moderator Lester Holt.
My father would not support this kind of campaign,if this is what the Republican Party wants leave us Reagans out.Nancy would vote for HRC twitter.com/mjclaxden/stat…
No comments:
Post a Comment