August 24, 2016

Trump Dings Clinton For Parade Of 'Not Very Hot' Celeb Supporters

Donald Trump said the most energized supporters of Hillary Clinton's campaign are celebrities "who aren't very hot anymore" in an off-script dig at a Wednesday rally in Tampa, Florida.

"The only people enthusiastic about her campaign are Hollywood celebrities, in many cases celebrities who aren’t very hot anymore," Trump told the crowd.

The GOP nominee himself promised an A-list, showbiz-ready Republican National Convention this summer. He managed to deliver Scott Baio, the actor best known for his 1980s sitcom work, multiple former daytime soap opera stars, and the patriarch of the family from "Duck Dynasty." The Academy Award winner Jon Voight also backs Trump.

Among the not "very hot" celebrities supporting Clinton are Beyonce, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington and George Clooney.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-clinton-celebrity-supporters-not-very-hot

August 24, 2016

Clinton TV Ad Featuring New England Factory Hits Trump For Outsourcing

In a new television ad, the Hillary Clinton campaign features an American shirt factory as it criticizes Donald Trump for outsourcing his clothing lines.

Robert Kidder, the owner of the New England Shirt Company in Massachusetts, which was founded in 1883, explains in the ad titled "Shirts" that Trump makes his clothes overseas.

"Donald Trump’s brand of shirts come from China, his suits from Mexico, his coats from India,” Kidder says in the ad. “Trump’s products have been made in 12 other countries because he says there’s no place in America that he can make them."

“Well, there is," he adds. “You know, Donald Trump says he’ll make America great again while he’s taking the shirts right off our backs.”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-ad-shirts-trump-outsourcing

August 24, 2016

Trump wanted to keep Americans critically ill with Ebola out of the U.S.

Two years ago this month, the Ebola crisis in West Africa burst into American consciousness when a pair of U.S. health workers became critically ill battling the epidemic and health officials raced to bring them home for treatment.

The pair, physician Kent Brantly and nurse Nancy Writebol, almost surely would have died if they hadn’t been airlifted from Monrovia, Liberia, to a special facility in Atlanta, where they eventually regained their health. Or if U.S. officials had listened to one of the loudest voices of opposition to that move: Donald Trump.

Here are Trump’s sentiments as news of Brantly’s return was spreading:

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!

10:04 PM - 31 Jul 2014
926 Retweets 735 likes

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!
8:22 AM - 1 Aug 2014

1,192 Retweets 987 likes

Brantly, a Fort Worth physician working for the missionary group Samaritan’s Purse in Monrovia, became infected with the lethal virus while caring for Liberians as Ebola spread through their capital. He arrived at the Emory University treatment center on Aug. 2, touching off considerable panic here and igniting a ferocious debate about the U.S. role in quelling the outbreak.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/08/24/trump-wanted-to-deny-u-s-care-to-americans-critically-ill-with-ebola/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

August 24, 2016

The Trump campaign has a secret plan to get out the secret pro-Trump vote. In secret states.

By Greg Sargent August 24 at 3:09 PM

For some time now, Donald Trump’s advisers have sought to explain why he’s trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls by arguing that there’s a sizable group of people out there who will vote for him on election day but are too embarrassed to admit this to pollsters. Putting aside what that would say about Trump even if it were true, professional pollsters have treated the idea with skepticism.

But now new senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has taken this theory to a new level in an interview with a British TV station. The interview has quite a few nuggets that are worth dwelling on, not simply for their entertainment value, but for the real insights they offer into how the Trump campaign views the race right now.

CNN has a transcript of the interview. The first claim features Conway explaining why there is this hidden Trump vote in a way I have not seen before:

“It’s become socially desirable — especially if you’re a college-educated person in the United States of America — to say that you’re against Donald Trump.

“The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition,” she said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/24/the-trump-campaign-has-a-secret-plan-to-get-out-the-secret-pro-trump-vote-in-secret-states/?utm_term=.c3a407d4d0ac&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

August 24, 2016

Clinton camp seeks correction of AP tweet promoting story on Clinton meetings

By Erik Wemple August 24 at 3:01 PM

The Clinton campaign has asked the Associated Press to amend or remove a tweet promoting an investigative story on the meetings of Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state. It reads, “BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.”

The Associated Press Verified account
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BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

Holy Moly! So more than half of all the people that huddled with Clinton were donors to her family’s foundation? Grab the can of damage-control spray!

Or maybe not. Click through to the actual article and a key qualifier rears its head. The count doesn’t include anyone in the U.S. federal government or representatives of foreign governments. In other words, most of the people with whom Clinton met as secretary of state. The analysis drilled in on “154 people from private interests” who chatted by phone or met with Clinton in person. Eighty-five of them “donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs,” for a total of “as much as $156 million.”

Those numbers represent the fruit of worthwhile investigation; we ought to know everything about the overlaps between Clinton’s work as secretary of state and the operations of the Clinton Foundation. Yet the tweet promoting the story, which has more than 10,000 retweets and likes combined, is tendentious and misleading. A lamentable hyping on social media. The AP is apparently cognizant of its shortcomings. Brian Fallon, press secretary for the Clinton campaign, tells the Erik Wemple Blog:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/08/24/clinton-camp-seeks-correction-of-ap-tweet-promoting-story-on-clinton-meetings/

August 24, 2016

42 awesome neighbors hang Pride flags after vandals hit lesbians’ home

Source: LGBTQ Nation

By Dawn Ennis · Wednesday, August 24, 2016

A lot of Pride flags are flying in Natick, Mass., even outside the houses of couples and families that don’t have anyone LGBTQ living there. It’s a heartwarming community response to show support for Lauri and Cari Ryding.

The Rydings returned last week to find their Pride flag gone, their home pelted with eggs. They said the sight of the eggshells on their doorstep and the empty flagpost broke their hearts.

“It was our first experience in Natick of having any type of prejudice,” Cari Ryding told the Boston Globe. “We hadn’t experienced it all, and it kind of broke open our little cocoon.” But as NewNowNext reported, their neighbors in Strawberry Hill decided to send a message of their own to those vandals. One by one, Pride flags bearing with the word “PEACE” popped up on doors, fences and porches.

“It just happened so quickly—the whole neighborhood said, ‘Get me a flag. Get me a flag. Get me a flag,’ ” explained neighbor Penni Rochwerger. “If we can stop whatever hate is out there, I think that’s really important.”

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Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/neighbors-show-lgbtq-support-vandals-egg-home-steal-pride-flag/

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August 23, 2016

‘Trump is a child rapist’: Texas GOP official to protest the Republican ‘psychopath’ at Austin rally

A Texas GOP official is planning to protest Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Austin Tuesday evening by wearing a signboard that accuses Trump of “child rape.”

The Austin Chronicle reported that Robert Morrow — chairman of the Travis County Republican Party — will join the ranks of protesters expected outside the appearance at Austin’ Luedecke Arena.

“Donald Trump’s psychopathy has been on full display on the national political stage for over a year,” said Morrow in a press release. “I want folks to know that Trump is a child rapist and that he is currently being sued in a civil action in NY federal courts for raping, slapping an 13-year-old girl at a Jeffrey Epstein party in 1994. Trump also threatened to murder the girl, now age 35 and a Jane Doe plaintiff, and also murder her family if she ever told how he (Trump) sexually abused her.”

The lurid allegations were filed in federal court in June. The anonymous plaintiff said that Trump lured her and other underage girls to parties with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The former reality TV star reportedly enticed the girls with promises of modeling contracts, then took advantage of them sexually.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-is-a-child-rapist-texas-gop-official-to-protest-the-republican-psychopath-at-austin-rally/

August 21, 2016

In North Carolina, audience shrinking for Trump’s message

THOMAS BEAUMONT, ASSOCIATED PRESS

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton “owes the state of North Carolina a very big apology,” Donald Trump thundered, condemning the loss of manufacturing jobs due to free-trade deals supported by the Democratic presidential nominee.

The attack line drew no more than polite applause at his event last week in Charlotte.

In the state that may be the most pivotal to Trump’s White House bid, the audience for the Republican’s chief economic pitch is shrinking by the day. Textile and furniture manufacturing no longer dominates the state’s economy as it did a generation ago. Banking, technology and others industries have driven North Carolina’s economic output to grow faster than any state in the past three years.

Voters are flowing into the state at a firehose rate — young, educated and many to take high-paying jobs when they arrive. They’re coming from everywhere and quickly diluting North Carolina’s conservative political underpinnings.

“Clinton is winning,” said North Carolina Republican pollster Michael Luethy. “Particularly because folks who have moved to the state in the last five years are very different voters. They’re persuaded by a different issue set than those have been here a while.”

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http://www.salon.com/2016/08/21/in_north_carolina_audience_shrinking_for_trumps_message/

August 21, 2016

“We are the demographic Trump is appealing to”: Whether the establishment likes it or not, white...

“We are the demographic Trump is appealing to”: Whether the establishment likes it or not, white nationalists still power the Trump train

Republicans must now reckon with what it means that their party's nominee "is the darling of white supremacists"

ALEX KOTCH

The party that nominated segregationist George Wallace for president in 1968 has now put Donald Trump on the California ballot. Formed one year before that election to nominate Wallace, then governor of Alabama, the far-right American Independent Party created a segregationist, “states’ rights” platform. Trump has often been compared to Wallace. In the 1976 presidential election, the party nominated “archsegregationist” Lester Maddox, the Georgia governor known for refusing to serve black customers in his restaurant after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade segregation.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Trump’s plan to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border was especially appealing to the California-based American Independent Party (AIP), which has over 450,000 registered voters in the state, although the majority of that total apparently consists of people who intended to register as independents. Surely Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States is also exciting for AIP members. Its current party platform contains numerous references to God and “the Creator” and relies on “strict adherence” to the Constitution, opposes same-sex marriage, abortion and “illegal immigration,” and strongly supports gun rights.

The secretary of AIP is Markham Robinson, who along with Alan Keyes sued for then-President-elect Obama’s birth records in November 2008. He says the party is no longer segregationist. Perhaps not, but they’re still racist: Here’s one of his choice Tweets:

Markham Robinson
@BraveLad

The "Black Community" has big moral & political—not racial—problems: Rampant sexual immorality, unwed births, absent fathers。#tcot #teaparty

12:40 PM - 4 Aug 2016

AIP’s nomination of Trump in California is no surprise, as the businessman has relied on racist rhetoric and controversial statements to rally his angry, white base. The state is home to a more overtly white supremacist party, The American Freedom Party, which sponsored robocalls for Trump in several state primaries. “We are the demographic that Trump is appealing to,” said Robinson.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/08/21/we-are-the-demographic-trump-is-appealing-to-whether-the-establishment-likes-it-or-not-white-nationalists-still-power-the-trump-train/

August 21, 2016

Inside the killing of DNC staffer Seth Rich

It was closing time at Lou’s City Bar in a trendy neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C. when Seth Rich drained the last of his Bell’s Two Hearted ales and headed out into the muggy night. At 2:30 am on July 10 , the torrid heat that had gripped the city for weeks had eased slightly, with temperatures slipping into the low 70s. Maybe it was the relative cool that prompted him to walk through several dark, dicey blocks to his apartment in Bloomingdale, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood a mile away. Or maybe he thought the walk would do him some good after venting to his longtime bartender about his unsuccessful efforts to reconcile his love life and 12-hour days at the Democratic National Committee.

Whatever the reason, Rich, 27, a normally upbeat computer-voting specialist at the DNC, would soon leave family and friends grieving. And his decision to walk that night would become part of a wild election year conspiracy theory that once again portrayed Hillary Clinton and the Democrats as murderous criminals.

At 4:19 am, police responded to the sound of gunfire in Bloomingdale and found him lying mortally wounded at a dark intersection a block and a half from a red brick rowhouse he shared with friends. He had multiple gunshot wounds in his back. About an hour and 40 minutes later, he died at a local hospital, possibly after identifying his assailants to the police.

The cops suspected Rich was a victim of an attempted robbery, one of many that had plagued the neighborhood. Except for an apparent anomaly: police found his wallet, credit cards and cellphone on his body. The band of his wristwatch was torn, but not broken. And that was enough to fire up the right-wing Twitterverse with yet another round of Clinton conspiracy theories, this one claiming that Rich was murdered—at dawn—as he was on his way to sing to the FBI about damning internal DNC emails. Such sinister notions might have evaporated from their own weightlessness, had not Julian Assange tossed a conspiracy grenade into the affair a few weeks later. The Wikileaks impresario, still penned up in the Ecuador’s London embassy dodging a Swedish rape allegation, announced he was offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the Rich case. He hinted darkly that the slain man had been a source in the embarrassing 30,000 internal DNC emails his organization had recently published. The fallout had led to the firing of top Democratic officials.

“What are you suggesting?” a started interviewer from Dutch television asked him. “I am suggesting,” Assange said, “that our sources, ah, take risks and they, they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” His organization later “clarified” on Twitter that “this should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source for Wikileaks or to imply that his murder is connected to our publications.” But he had already lit the fire.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/inside-the-killing-of-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/