He should have known that going on Bill Maher’s show would be a disaster. But having a fellow conservative panelist attack him for his support for Trump must have taken Santorum by surprise.
Watch as Bill Maher, Conservative commentator Tara Setmayer and Rob Reiner, bury Rick Santorum and his nonsensical explanations for Trump’s behaviors.
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Donald Trump went in front of his audience Wednesday night an proclaimed that all was well in the Trump camp. Truth is, all is not well. But the sad folks believing every word from his mouth are better off ignorant to the fact that Trump and his campaign are going down… fast… like an anvil hung around his neck.
Late Wednesday afternoon, a poll sponsored by the Trump-friendly Fox News Network. To be clear, that’s Fox News — the network that employs Sean Hannity, the television host who has been Trump’s most ardent supporter, and Bill O’Reilly, who runs a close second.
The poll released late Wednesday afternoon was the first from Fox since the end of June, meaning that it should have fully captured the changes in the race since both Trump and Clinton were officially made their parties’ nominees at their respective national conventions.
The results suggest that if Trump is going to continue pushing the idea that the system is “rigged,” he’s going to need to find a narrative that includes Fox News being co-opted as part of the conspiracy.
The Fox poll was last conducted at the end of June and it showed Clinton ahead by six percentage points nationally, 44 to 38. On Wednesday, the margin spiked to 10 percentage points, 49 percent for Clinton and 39 percent for Trump.
Clinton has enjoyed 10-plus point margins in the Fox poll, but not since the spring, and certainly not since Trump has had the ability to turn his full focus on her. As recently as May, Trump was leading Clinton by a 45-42 margin.
She is a perfect fit. Donald Trump is known for lying at the drop of a dime, so why shouldn’t his spokesperson do the same? Lying is probably the only qualification needed to be Trump’s spokesperson.
During a discussion with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Donald Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson was asked if her boss had any plans to apologize to the Khan family for suggesting that Ghazala Khan, Humayun’s grieving mother, was not “allowed” to speak at last week’s Democratic National Convention because she is Muslim.
What exactly is Mr. Trump supposed to be apologizing for?” Pierson asked. “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life.”
NOTE: Social Media lambasted Pierson for her comment. She later took back her claim that Obama was responsible for Captain Khan’s death.
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Obama called Trump “unfit” to serve in the White House, and gave a blistering denunciation of the GOP presidential nominee.
“He said it was long past time for Republicans to revoke their endorsements of Trump, noting that his criticisms of the businessman were shared by many in the GOP.
“Yes, I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,” Obama said. “I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it.”
“This is not just my opinion,” Obama continued, pointing to the “repeated denunciations” of Trump’s statements by top Republicans including SpeakerPaul Ryan(R-Wis.), Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell(R-Ky.) and Sen.John McCain(R-Ariz.).
“The question, I think, they have to ask themselves is, if they are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” Obama asked.”What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?”
What made Obama’s comments all the more striking is that they did not come at a political convention or a rally with Democratic nomineeHillary Clinton, but at a joint White House press conference with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore.Obama said Trump’s latest controversy — the feud with the Khans — was not “an episodic gaffe,” noting GOP leaders are forced to address the businessman’s comments almost daily.
“There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough,” Obama said.
While trying to explain the many different positions Donald Trump has on soooooo many different issues, CNN host Fareed Zakaria could not find a different word to use, so he opened his mouth on national television and blurted out that Donald Trump is a “bullshit artist!”
“There’s a term for this kind of thing — this is the mode of a bullshit artist,” Zakaria said on CNN’s “Wolf” on Monday about Trump’s reversal.
“It’s sometimes amusing, it’s entertaining, if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car. But for the president of the United States, it’s uniquely worrying,” he continued.
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Fareed Zakaria, discussing Trump on CNN: “This is the mode of a bullshit artist.” pic.twitter.com/WXsgeegGFS
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 1, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign said the Republican presidential candidate will not be showing his taxes – a first in decades of presidential candidates. The reason Trump gives for not releasing his tax returns is that he is supposedly “being audited by the IRS.” There are some who believe this reason and they will most likely be voting for Trump in November, but others say a look at Trump’s taxes will show some devious transactions, transactions a snake-oil salesman like Trump will not be able to explain.
Warren Buffett, a legitimate billionaire, does not believe Trump’s excuse. Buffett has challenged Trump to release his taxes. Buffett said he is willing to meet and publicly exchange taxes with Trump “any place, any time.”
At a rally in Omaha, Neb., for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Buffett knocked Trump’s argument that he can’t release his tax returns because he’s being audited by the IRS, saying he’s also under an audit.
“I’d be delighted to meet him any place, any time between now and election,” Buffett said. “And let people ask us questions about the items on there.”
Trump has received scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans for refusing to release his tax returns, something that candidates have historically done while running for president.
Clinton has released more than 30 years of her returns.
“How many of you afraid to make tax returns public?” Buffett asked. “You’re only afraid if you have something to be afraid about.”
“He’s not afraid because of … the IRS,” he added. “He’s afraid of you.”
Donald Trump has said and done some awful and unthinkable things since starting his Republican presidential campaign. But when he attacked the family of a deceased soldier, a soldier who gave his life to protect this nation, Trump might have crossed the line that even some Republicans can’t forgive.
Realizing the latest hole Trump willfully and yes, ignorantly jumped into, Hillary Clinton helped in piling on the dirt on Trump’s political grave.
Speaking at Imani Temple, an African American Catholic church, Clinton said she “tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans.”
“Mr. Khan paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn’t he?” Clinton said, according to Politico.
“And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults and degrading comments about Muslims — a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It’s enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he’s actually read it.”
Clinton addressed Trump’s comments again later on Sunday during another campaign stop in Ohio.
“To launch an attack as he did on Captain Khan’s mother, a Gold Star mother, who stood there on that stage with her husband honoring the sacrifice of their son,” she told reporters, according to CBS News. “I don’t know where the bounds are. I don’t know where the bottom is.”
Meghan McCain, daughter of Republican Senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is one of those Republicans who have had enough of Donald Trump.
After Donald Trump decided that it was perfectly fine to use his presidential platform to attack the parents of an American soldier who gave his life in service to this country, Meghan took to twitter to express her shock at the Republican presidential candidate, calling him a “barbarian” for going after the “parents of a fallen soldier.”
“I would ask what kind of barbarian would attack the parents of a fallen solider, but oh yeah it’s the same person who attacks POW’s,” McCain wrote on Twitter late Saturday.
Trump has faced backlash from Republicans and Democrats after he lashed out at Khizr Khan, the father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq who gave an emotional speech last week at the Democratic National Convention.
Trump said Khan had “no right” to criticize him and questioned whether Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, was “allowed” to say anything.
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I would ask what kind of barbarian would attack the parents of a fallen soldier, but oh yeah it’s the same person who attacks POW’s.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 31, 2016
Caroline McCain, the granddaughter of the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, is a proud member of the “Never Trump” movement. In a post published by Medium, Caroline expressed her frustrations with the new leader of the Republican party, saying that Trump lost her support when he questioned her grandfather’s “war hero” status.
In a Medium post titled, “For this Republican, Never Trump means ‘I’m With Her,'” Caroline McCain writes that she became opposed to Trump last summer when he questioned her grandfather’s status as a war hero.
“I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said at the time.
John McCain was held prisoner during the Vietnam War.
While the Arizona senator “responded with grace and forgiveness — as only a man who was held in captivity for years can,” Caroline McCain wrote, “I’ve been nursing a grudge ever since.”
“He insulted my grandfather and attacked the very qualities — loyalty, bravery and selflessness — that he and countless other POWs embody,” she added.
McCain wrote that Trump never won her over during his candidacy, calling him a “misogynist,” “racist” and “demagogue,” citing his remarks on women and minorities throughout his campaign.
She said she decided to support Clinton during the Democratic National Convention this week, where Democratic heavy-hitters touched on themes of American exceptionalism in an effort to win over reticent Republicans.
“The party I grew up in, the party I want to work in and change and push to be more inclusive, betrayed me and countless others,” McCain wrote.
“Loyalty to party can never trump loyalty to country. And loyalty to party means nothing when the party has been poisoned.”
In their everlasting quest to be “Fair and Balance,” Fox News conveniently refused to broadcast certain DNC speeches to its audience. One of those speeches was done by Khzir Khan, a Muslim father whose son was killed by a bomb while he fought as an An American soldiers in Iraq.
It was a great speech overall, but the best part was clearly when he inquired about whether Trump ever read the constitution, then offered him his copy.
“Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you – have you even read the United States Constitution?”
Khan then pulled his own copy out of his jacket pocket.
“I will gladly lend you my copy,” Khan said to deafening cheers from delegates.
First those who missed this speech, here it is.
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If a Republican donates to Democrats, then he or she is not a real Republican. That statement was made clear by the RNC when they call out Republican Doug Elmets. Elmets has donated a total of $2200 to Democrats and was a recent speaker at the Democratic Convention. He is not a fan of Donald Trump.
To separate Elmets from the Republican party, the RNC put up a statement calling him a fake Republican because he donated to Democrats.
What a farce this whole thing has become.
Donald Trump is giving Mitt Romney a run for his money in the flip flopping department. Even his closest advisers are confused by the speed at which Trump changes his mind.
This week, Trump said the government should raise the federal minimum wage by roughly one-third, calling for a legal standard of $10 per hour. The federal minimum is currently $7.25 per hour.
The Republican presidential nominee has made a series of contradictory comments during his campaign, at times indicating wages are already too high and at other times suggesting a boost is in order.
At the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia, Trump was hammered repeatedly by Democratic speakers for suggesting the minimum wage should be dropped.
But now that Trump is recommending a specific wage hike, it’s the right’s turn to gripe.
Trump’s latest position puts him at odds with conservative thinkers and most of the business community, which argues that a government-mandated wage hike would just mean fewer workers as businesses cut costs to meet the new requirement.
Even Trump’s own economic brain trust could not explain how the GOP nominee decided $10 per hour should be the new standard.
“I saw the statement that he made on TV, but I haven’t had the chance to talk to him in the last couple weeks about this,” Stephen Moore, an economist at the Heritage Foundation who is advising the Trump campaign on economic issues, told The Hill on Wednesday.
“I don’t know exactly what he was endorsing. The $10 minimum wage, that was the first I’d heard of that.”
