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Trump After Dwayne Wade's Cousin Is Shot: 'African Americans Will Vote Trump'
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By Lauren Fox
Published August 27, 2016, 10:03 AM EDT
NBA star Dwayne Wade's cousin Nykea Aldridge was fatally shot Friday pushing a child in a stroller in a Chicago.
Less than 24 hours later, Donald Trump said her death was evidence that African-Americans will vote for him in November.
The tweet Saturday morning is just the latest tone deaf comment by Trump as he attempts to reach out the African American community.
Trump has struggled to galvanize even a small share of the African-American voters, but this week has tried to make an appeal by falling many times on offensive stereotypes of African-American neighborhoods. Many times addressing mostly white audiences, Trump has called African-American neighborhoods "war zones" and asked them “what do you have to lose?"..............................
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-after-dwayne-wades-cousin-is-shot-african-americans-will-vote-trump
Trump has no soul. Simple as that.
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Trump asks African Americans “what do you have to lose”? Answer: everything. Watch new ad airing o
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Trump asks African Americans “what do you have to lose”? Answer: everything. Watch new ad airing on cable:
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Whoa: Maine Governor LePage Calls Minorities the “Enemy,” Suggests They Should Be Shot.
No doubt in my mind that the Trump campaign has unleashed a national dangerous movement.
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Whoa: Maine Governor LePage Calls Minorities the “Enemy,” Suggests They Should Be Shot.
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.@Governor_LePage calls people of color the "enemy" in an attempt to apologize for homophobic & racist remarks.
https://twitter.com/MaineDems/status/769254775863074816
Tell us what you LOVE about @HillaryClinton ! It's a positive things about Hillary day today! I 💖
I just found this tweet. What a great way to start the weekend.
Go to the Twitter link--for those of you who want to do this and have a twitter account.
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Tell us what you LOVE about @HillaryClinton ! It's a positive things about Hillary day today! I 💖 she's Progressive.
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Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response
The press ran with this botched story. Now we keep seeing these 'corrections', but I fear they are too late. Will the AP ever be held accountable?
Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response
Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/26/media/associated-press-hillary-clinton-investigation/
by Dylan Byers @CNNMoney August 26, 2016: 9:19 PM ET
Hillary Clinton is surrounded by suggestions of controversy. Terms like "Clinton Foundation," "email server," and "Benghazi" hover around her like a faint smoke that hints at the existence of fire.
But finding the fire -- the lie, the misdeed, the unethical act -- is proving to be rather difficult, as evidenced this week by an inaccurate tweet and arguably misleading story from the Associated Press that were quickly rebutted by the Clinton campaign and dismissed by many media outlets.
Three days later, the Associated Press is still standing by its story and has yet to correct its tweet, despite near unanimous agreement among other journalists that the tweet, at least, was false.
"The AP's social-media take on the story was seriously flawed," David Boardman, the Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University and former editor of the Seattle Times, told CNNMoney. "It's sloppy, click-grabbing shorthand that is a disservice to the reporting to which it refers."
On Tuesday, the AP sent out a breaking news alert: "BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation."
Not true: As the article stated, what the AP found was that "more than half the people outside the government" who met with Clinton while she was secretary of state "gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation."
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Nevertheless, the AP's tweet allowed Donald Trump to stand on stage at a campaign rally and declare that "fifty percent of people who saw [Clinton] had to make a contribution to the Clinton Foundation." 
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The ‘Baghdad Bob’ Republican of the week=Kellyanne Conway-Trumps spokesperson
The ‘Baghdad Bob’ Republican of the week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/08/26/the-baghdad-bob-republican-of-the-week/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na&utm_term=.afec8dbd5324
By Jennifer Rubin August 26 at 9:00 AM
Kellyanne Conway on Trump detractors: 'It's not that nice'
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At a Washington Post Live event in August 2015, GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway commented on those who didn't take Trump seriously. In August 2016, Conway was selected by Trump as his new campaign manager. (The Washington Post)
Friday brings us to the “Baghdad Bob” Republican of the week pick, named in honor of the Saddam Hussein information minister known for hysterically funny lies about Iraqi forces in 2003. Remember that Sean Hannity has retired the trophy, so we cannot ding him for continually giving Trump refuge from real reporters.
We have our first female “winner,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. We realize that her job is to spin, but her ludicrous declarations have served only to undermine her credibility and her candidate’s viability. She has managed to let loose many farcical statements in many different interviews.
Who could believe, as she told CBS’s Chris Cuomo, that she never heard of the “alt-right”? (“I am not that familiar with it, to be frank with you. I’ve read about it, but I think that we all start cherry-picking headlines from a website, and is Hillary Clinton running against a website?”) Or that Trump can call Hillary Clinton a “bigot” since she points out his racist rhetoric? (“She’s going to call him that today, she’s going to call him worse, and everybody’s going to cover it like it’s news.”)
Throughout the week she continued — in the face of Trump statements wildly at odds with his “deportation force” — to insist that “nothing has changed.” Not even Ann Coulter was buying that. Coulter went on a Twitter rampage after Trump sounded like Jeb Bush on allowing some illegal immigrants to remain in the United States....................
Justice Department Will Probe Metro Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio
Source: abc
Justice Department Will Probe Metro Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio
By walter berry, associated press
PHOENIX — Aug 26, 2016, 9:48 PM ET
The investigation and possible prosecution of metropolitan Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be handled by the U.S. Justice Department after federal prosecutors in Arizona asked to be removed because of unspecified conflicts of interest, according to a court filing made public Friday.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for Arizona said in its brief filing in U.S. District Court in Phoenix that the case has been assigned to the Justice Department's criminal division, public integrity section.
The filing cited "existing conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest pertaining to the matter" for Arizona's federal prosecutors, but it did not provide details.
Mel McDonald, an attorney for Arpaio, said he was disappointed by the decision.............
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/justice-department-probe-metro-phoenix-sheriff-arpaio-41682283
If found guilty-true justice would be to sentence him to one his big tents in the dessert and be made to wear pink underwear.
When Poll-Watching Crosses the Line
I am feeling there will be lots of problems come November. It is a good article.
When Poll-Watching Crosses the Line
In years of organizing vote-monitoring efforts around the country, I have seen firsthand how volunteer “challengers” can intimidate and harass even the most seasoned poll workers and voters.
By Jocelyn Benson
August 25, 2016
As we near another historic presidential election, the fog of anxiety about the election is returning on a scale we haven’t seen in decades.
Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that the general election may be “rigged” nationwide.
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But in nearly a decade of organizing vote-monitoring efforts around the country, I have seen firsthand how volunteer monitors—often positioned as “challengers” at the polls—can intimidate and harass even the most seasoned poll workers and voters, interfere with the process, delay voting, and potentially alter the election’s outcome.
Since 2000, when voting irregularities in Florida cast a pall over the entire presidential election, election monitoring has steadily increased in scope and sophistication. And this November, there will likely be more observers in polling places than ever before.
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Though it’s not a federal law, every state in the nation (except West Virginia) allows citizen monitors to be present in polling locations on election day—typically, at least one monitor from each party. In most states, they can’t talk to voters or watch how people vote, but they can see who votes, and report irregularities to outside authorities.
When done properly, election observers operate under a simple principle: Do no harm. They arrive at a polling place with knowledge of the law. Their primary intention is to observ..................
This type of election monitoring is healthy. And in 2016, it’s especially important—for a few big reasons.
First, it is unprecedented that a major-party nominee would question the credibility of the election outcome months in advance. ......................
Second, November 2016 will be the first presidential vote in 50 years without the guarantee of federal election observers to protect voters from discrimination and intimidation........................
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/poll-election-monitor-challengers-vote-laws-watchers-214189#ixzz4IWYUnxc0
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All Donated Blood in U.S. Should Be Tested for Zika, F.D.A. Says
All Donated Blood in U.S. Should Be Tested for Zika, F.D.A. Says
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUISAUG. 26, 2016
Donated blood at a bank in Indianapolis. The F.D.A. has recommended that all donated blood in the United States be screened for the Zika virus. Credit Michael Conroy/Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday took steps to safeguard the nation’s blood supply from the Zika virus, calling for all blood banks to screen donations for the infection even in states where the virus is not circulating.
The recommendations are an acknowledgment that sexual transmission may facilitate the spread of Zika even in areas where mosquitoes carrying the virus are not present. Officials also want to prepare for the possibility that clusters of local infection will continue to pop up in parts of the United States for years to come.
“There could be multiple outbreaks of Zika happening outside the known current ones in South Florida, but because we are not actively looking they could be happening silently,” said Dr. Peter J. Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, who applauded the F.D.A.’s move.
Without federal funds, it is generally not possible for local health departments to conduct active surveillance for Zika virus in the blood or urine of patients with fever or rash, he added.
“In some ways the inaction from Congress has forced the F.D.A. to adopt this position,” Dr. Hotez added. “They have no other choice.”...................
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/science/all-donated-blood-in-us-will-be-tested-for-zika.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
The author--Clabresi was just on Chris Hayes and discussed this article. This article shows what a non-caring callous man Trump really is. He did not care for these workers! Very much worth the time to read and pass it on.
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/?xid=tcoshare
Massimo Calabresi @calabresim
Aug. 25, 2016
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Trump at the future site of Trump Tower in 1980
Ted Horowitz—Corbis/Getty Images Trump at the future site of Trump Tower in 1980
He has long denied knowingly using undocumented workers to demolish the building that would be replaced with
In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where he now lives, maintains his private offices and hosts his presidential campaign.
The men were putting in 12-hour shifts with inadequate safety equipment at subpar wages that their contractor paid sporadically, if at all. A lawyer for many of the Poles demanded that the workers be paid or else he would serve Trump with a lien on the property. One Polish worker even went to Trump’s office to ask him for money in person, according to sworn testimony and a deposition filed under oath in a court case.
For help, Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a 6-ft. 5-in., 285-lb. labor consultant, FBI informant and future officer of the Teamsters Union. “Donald told me he had difficulties …,” Sullivan later testified in the case. “That he had some illegal Polish employees on the job.”
Sullivan had been helping Trump negotiate a casino deal in New Jersey at the time, and he testified that he was shocked by Trump’s admission. “I think you are nuts,” Sullivan testified that he told Trump. “You are here negotiating a lease in Atlantic City for a casino license and you are telling me you have got illegal employees on the job.”
For 36 years, Trump has denied knowingly using undocumented workers to demolish the building that would be replaced with Trump Tower in 1980. After Senator Marco Rubio raised the issue of undocumented Polish workers during a Republican primary debate this year, Trump described himself as removed from the problem. “I hire a contractor. The contractor then hires the subcontractor,” he said. “They have people. I don’t know. I don’t remember, that was so many years ago, 35 years ago.”
But thousands of pages of documents from the case, including reams of testimony and sworn depositions reviewed by TIME, tell a different story. Kept for more than a decade in 13 boxes in a federal judiciary storage unit in Missouri, ......................
The documents show that after things got ugly over unpaid wages, Trump sought Sullivan’s advice on the workers and their immigration status. At one point, a lawyer for the Poles testified, Trump threatened, through his own lawyer, to call the Immigration and Naturalization Service and have the workers deported. And when the Labor Department launched a probe of the Polish laborers, Trump again called Sullivan for help, asking him to meet the federal investigator at Trump’s office, according to the documents.....................
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