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pnwmom's JournalEx Staffer Alleges Trump Misused Funds, Set Up Fake Company
Source: Huffington Post
A former Donald Trump campaign staffer says in response to a Trump lawsuit against him that the campaign may have broken laws against mingling corporate and campaign funds.
Sam Nunberg, in a legal answer to a $10 million lawsuit claiming Nunberg violated a confidentiality agreement, said Trump may have illegally funneled corporate money into the campaign, and created a fictitious company that was listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Nunberg was fired from Trumps presidential campaign last summer, after it was revealed that he had posted racist messages on Facebook. Trumps lawsuit against him, made public on Wednesday, claims Nunberg in May told the New York Post about a public screaming match between two top Trump staffers: campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, and Trumps then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Nunberg vehemently denies leaking the story. . . .
Nunberg says in his answer to the lawsuit that the Trump campaign illegally created a fictitious company, called Trump 2012 PCA. The company is listed as a plaintiff in the suit against Nunberg, along with Trumps formal campaign.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sam-nunberg-donald-trump-lawsuit_us_5786a9d1e4b08608d332d58d
The Don filed a lawsuit against Sam Nunberg, claiming he leaked info about an affair between two other staffers. Nunberg has responded with legal claims that are far more damning.
One "advisor" quoted in the article says this is going to be "all-out war" and that Nunberg will "go for the throat."
Spokesman: Bernie will NOT be fighting platform at convention. No minority report either.
Good news for a positive event!
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article89282362.html
Bernie Sanders has opted against picking a fight over the party platform at the Democratic National Convention.
A spokesman for the Vermont senator said Wednesday that Sanders will not seek more platform changes in Philadelphia, after winning significant concessions during a meeting in Orlando over the weekend.
Sanders succeeded in pushing the Democratic platform in a more liberal direction. The draft, which will be voted on at the convention, includes a $15 federal minimum wage, steps to break up large Wall Street banks and support for an end to the death penalty. Sanders failed to add language explicitly opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, but that issue is thorny because even though Clinton has also come out against it, President Barack Obama favors the deal.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/13/bernie-sanders-wont-pursue-minority-report-in-philadelphia/
In another sign that Bernie Sanders has made peace with Hillary Clinton, his campaign is choosing to accept the Democratic Party platform and to drop the fight for language that more closely tracks his liberal political agenda.
The Vermont senator had the option to prepare whats called a minority report and present it to delegates for approval at the Democratic convention later this month in Philadelphia. He opted not to do that, campaign aides say. They cited two reasons: Mrs. Clinton has enough delegates to defeat any new language, and Mr. Sanders is satisfied with the success he has had in shaping the platform.
In standing down, Mr. Sanders demonstrated how far hes moved since the final throes of the Democratic primary race. Battling Mrs. Clinton through the spring he said the convention in Philadelphia would be contested. As the race wound down, Sanders aides said that if they didnt get a platform to their liking they might carry the fight to the convention.
But the rapprochement between Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton is complete, cemented Tuesday by a joint campaign appearance in New Hampshire
Today's new message from Bernie: Why I endorsed Hillary Clinton
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/13/bernie-sanders-why-i-endorsed-hillary-clinton-commentary.htmlAll of these progressive policies were at the heart of our campaign. The truth is our movement is responsible for the most progressive Democratic platform in the history of our country. All of that is the direct result of the work that our members of the platform committee did in the meetings and that you have been doing over the last 15 months.
But none of these initiatives will happen if we do not elect a Democratic president in November. None! In fact, we will go backward. We must elect the Democratic nominee in November and progressive Democrats up and down the ballot so that we ensure that these policy commitments can advance.
It is extremely important that we keep our movement together, that we hold public officials accountable and that we elect progressive candidates to office at the federal, state, and local level who will stand with us.
Forever committed, forever fighting, forever forward,
Bernie Sanders
Anonymous donor pledges $5 million to charity if Trump releases tax returns.
The charity to be chosen by Trump.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-tax-returns-225446
An anonymous donor has promised to give $5 million to a veterans charity of Donald Trumps choosing if the presumptive Republican presidential nominee releases his tax returns, political operative and Clinton backer David Brock plans to announce Wednesday.'
The Manhattan billionaire has long refused to release his tax returns, arguing that he cannot do so because he is currently being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Trump has said he will release the tax documents after his audit is complete, although the IRS said in February that there is no rule prohibiting the real estate mogul from doing so earlier than that.
A release previewing a conference call with Brock scheduled for Wednesday says the $5 million challenge represents an opportunity to fill in some of the unknowns about Trump including how much he has made off of potentially fraudulent ventures and how much hes actually paid in taxes.
"What we do know about Trumps taxes shows that hes gone to great lengths to pay as little as possible, the release continues. Meaning that he is avoiding paying his fair share and shifting that burden to other taxpayers.
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Jill Stein claims Obama is "Bush on steroids." IOW, much worse than George W.
One more reason no real progressive should consider supporting her.
http://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2016/02/rejecting-lesser-evil.html
"We had Bush and all the terrible things under Bush. Then we had Obama, even with the Democratic Congress in both houses for two years. And what did we get under Obama? It was Bush on steroids."
538 is the best source for compiling results of multiple polls
conducted in individual states. If you follow 538, you're less likely to overreact to the latest poll results in a particular state.
Here are its current combined poll results by state:
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
538 also rates pollsters
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/
realclearpolitics reports national polls, Clinton vs. Trump
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
And realclearpolitics also reports national results of polls that also include Johnson and Stein
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html
Trump declines invitation to speak at the NAACP convention in Ohio.
He isn't even pretending to care about support from African Americans.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/politics/donald-trump-naacp-convention/
Washington (CNN)Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention in Ohio next week, the civil rights organization's president and CEO said Tuesday.
After days of speculation, NAACP's Cornell William Brooks told CNN that Trump had declined the group's invitation to address its members in Cincinnati at their conference, which is being held this weekend.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is scheduled to speak, Brooks told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."
TIME: Texts of both Bernie and Hillary's speeches today.
http://time.com/4403264/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-endorsement-full-transcript/TIME on Black Lives Matter: "Save the Whales" doesn't mean "Screw the Eagles"
The choice isn't binary.
http://time.com/4400811/all-lives-matter/?xid=homepage
Lets stipulate first that it would be hard to imagine a movement with a more heart-breakingly modest purpose than one making the case that the lives of the people its trying to look after arent better or more worthy than anyone elses, but merely that they count.
That, however, hasnt stopped the critics from pouncing. The go-to criticismand were looking at you Rudy Giuliani, though youve had plenty of companyis the disingenuous question: Hey! What about other lives? On CBSs Face the Nation, Giuliani went through the usual riff: Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter, the idea being that all lives matter just the same, and that there must be something terribly elitist and wrong with you if you care only about black ones.
But nobody said those other lives dont matter; no one even said that black lives matter a tiny bit more. Pretending that the choice is binaryand then acting as if its the other side that framed it that wayis a handy dodge but a dishonest one. If I say Save the whales, it does not mean, Screw the eagles.
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The breakthroughd that SoS Clinton helped the US make in transgender and gay rights
When marriage equality for LGBT was still a dream, Hillary quietly took a step at the State Department that made a huge difference for the transgender community, allowing them to get passports in their preferred gender, without needing surgery.
And four months after she arrived at State, she made another key change, putting into place changes that would treat the partners of LGBT people the same way married spouses were treated.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/hillary-clinton-2016-transgender-rights-passport-policy-state-department-lgbt-equality-214007
Jackie Richter is the foul-mouthed, frank-talking owner of Heels and Hardhats, a small construction company near Rockford, Illinois. For almost half a century, she lived as a manan existence the 58-year-old transgender woman told me felt fundamentally wrong, like always having to wear her right shoe on her left foot. But in the summer of 2010, a few years after she finished transitioning, she applied for a United States passport saying she was female. That September, she got it. This, she said recently, was the first time she felt the full support of the federal government. The document saved her business, saved her family, andshe believessaved her life.
And for this, she credits Hillary Clinton.
None of it would have been possible without what she did, Richter said. She was a forerunner on this.
Its not a label typically associated with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Over her quarter-century of national public life, Clinton mostly has enjoyed broad support from LGBT voters, donors and activists, but many of them considered her a laggard on the litmus-test issue of marriage equality, which she didnt endorse until 2013. And during her surprisingly drawn-out primary fight with Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton consistently was cast as the more centrist candidate. Sanders, not Clinton, was the full-throated social revolutionary.
But five years before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage and President Obama lit up the White House in the colors of the rainbow, Hillary Clinton and her staff at the State Department made a change that for thousands of people was exactly thatrevolutionary. Clinton enacted a new rule making it easier for transgender people to register their identities on their passports. Sexual reassignment surgery was no longer necessary; all that was required was a doctors note. At the time, this was the most pro-transgender action by the federal government ever, andcoming a full six years before the Pentagon announced transgender troops could serve openlyit stands as one of the most progressive things Clinton has ever done. In a single stroke, she made the passport the best wayfor some, the only wayfor American citizens to prove they were who they were. For transgender people, it wasaccording to recent conversations I have had with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experts and advocateshuge, enormous, monumental.
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In May of 2009, four months after Clinton took over at the State Department, Kerry Eleveld, a reporter for The Advocate, the LGBT newspaper, got a copy of a draft of a letter Clinton had written that was to be sent to GLIFAA employees. Historically, domestic partners of Foreign Service members have not been provided the same training, benefits, allowances, and protections that other family members receive, the document said. These inequities are unfair and must end.
[T]he Department will provide these benefits for both opposite-sex and same-sex domestic partners because it is the right thing to do.
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