Tag Archives: 2016 elections

Al Gore To Campaign For Hillary [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Former Vice President Al Gore will soon hit the trail on behalf of Hillary Clinton, with the campaign likely announcing his emergence on Wednesday, two Democrats familiar with the move confirmed to POLITICO. Clinton and aides have recently been pointing to Gore’s 2000 experience as a warning to young voters who are considering voting for third-party candidates. Gore …

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Trump Tweets Insults As Pence Declares That Clinton Campaign Is Nothing But An “Avalanche Of Insults”

At the same time that Mike Pence was claiming that the Clinton campaign is nothing but “an avalanche of insults,” Donald Trump was retweeting the above messages, one of which tagged the account of a white supremacist. The Washington Post reports: Before the vice-presidential debate began, we wrote it was a sure bet that one of the headlines from this …

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LIVE VIDEO: Vice Presidential Debate

Tim Kaine and Mike Pence square off tonight in the only vice presidential debate. The candidates are due to take the stage at 9PM Eastern and embedded below is the pre-debate coverage from CNN. Join in and watch along with us after you enjoy your Taco Tuesday dinner. (PS: It’s also National Taco Day!)

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Hacker Posts Alleged Clinton Foundation Files

Politico reports: A hacker persona with alleged ties to the Russian government has posted what the hacker claims are files stolen from the Clinton Foundation. “Hillary Clinton and her staff don’t even bother about the information security,” the hacker calling himself “Guccifer 2.0” wrote in the post revealing the files. “It was just a matter of time to gain access …

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Bill Clinton Makes Case For Single-Payer, Calls Obamacare “The Craziest Thing The World” [VIDEO]

Setting the stage for single-payer already? CNN reports: Bill Clinton criticized President Barack Obama’s signature policy reform while on the stump for his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, calling Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.” Speaking Monday at a Democratic rally in Flint, Michigan, the former president ripped into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for flooding the health …

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Kellyanne Conway: You Can See The Fruit Of Donald Trump’s Genius All Over New York City [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that her boss has “paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes over decades,” pushing back against reports that the Manhattan billionaire could have used provisions in the tax code to avoid paying federal income tax for up to 18 years. “You look around New York, and other cities, but …

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Seth Meyers On Trump’s Terrible Week [VIDEO]

Raw Story recaps: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a terrible week, last week. Never mind becoming a laughing stock on Saturday Night Live, his bizarre accusations in Manheim, Pennsylvania that Hillary Clinton is cheating on her husband or his Twitter rant at 3 a.m., which lacks control and temperament. Now, it seems Trump is having his Mitt Romney 47 …

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Megyn Kelly Goes Off On Trump’s Taxes [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Megyn Kelly acknowledges that if Donald Trump hasn’t paid federal income taxes for 18 years, it’s perfectly legal. That doesn’t mean she’s happy about it. She spoke tonight on The Kelly File about how Trump “screwed” the little guys and gave some of his supporters a chance to respond. A frustrated Kelly said it’s hard to talk about …

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SOURCE: The New York Daily News Also Got Trump’s 1995 Tax Return But They Couldn’t Vet Its Authenticity

CNN Money reports: The New York Times wasn’t the only news outlet to receive documents from Donald Trump’s tax returns. But they were the only ones to successfully vet them. Around September 23, the day a manila envelope with a Trump Organization return address showed up in the mailbox of Times Metro reporter Susanne Craig, a similar envelope arrived in …

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New CNN Post-Debate Poll Shows Hillary +5

This is the second major poll showing a nice bounce for Hillary today. The Hill reports: A new CNN/ORC poll finds Hillary Clinton opening up a 5-point lead over Donald Trump since last week’s presidential debate. Clinton leads Trump 47 percent to 42 percent with likely voters in the CNN/ORC survey released Monday. A CNN/ORC poll conducted before the contest …

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BREAKING: New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation To Cease Its Unlicensed Operations

The New York Times reports: The office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has issued a “notice of violation” to Donald J. Trump’s foundation, ordering it to immediately stop soliciting donations in New York. The letter, which was sent on Friday and released on Monday morning by Mr. Schneiderman’s office, said that its charities bureau had determined that …

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New Hillary Ad Hits Trump On Tax Reveal [VIDEO]

BOOM: A new video released by Hillary Clinton’s campaign alleges that “Donald Trump is a business failure who has gotten rich at your expense.” “That’s what three pages of his tax returns show,” the video wraps by saying. “Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.” The video, posted Monday morning to Clinton’s Twitter account, follows the bombshell report from the …

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Obama On The Devolution Of The Republican Party: I See A Straight Line From Sarah Palin To Donald Trump

New York Magazine today published an interview with President Obama which largely focuses on his legacy. But this is the quote that’s getting notice: “I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in …

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Did Marla Maples Leak Trump’s Tax Return?

Several major sites are connecting the dots. Via Medium: Outside of Mr. Trump, Ms. Maples would be the only other person that could legally provide the tax returns to an outside party. Both the New York Department of Taxation and the Connecticut Department of Revenue allow taxpayers, who have filed a joint return, to authorize the release of the returns …

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Vandals Hit Trump’s Brand New DC Hotel

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s brand-new Washington hotel was vandalized Saturday with messages supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, according to D.C. police. The spray-painted slogans appeared on either side of the entrance to the Trump International Hotel, which opened its doors last month. Photos posted on social media indicated that the hotel attempted to cover up the defaced portions of …

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Chris Christie: Donald Trump Is A Tax Genius [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Donald Trump’s allies argued Sunday that a New York Times report revealing that Donald Trump might have avoided paying taxes for 18 years shows the Republican candidate is “genius” and the best person to implement tax reform. “What it shows is what an absolute mess the federal tax code is and that’s why Donald Trump is the …

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Jake Tapper Roasts Giuliani On Trump’s Taxes [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Sunday morning’s political chat circuit saw the beginning of fallout from the New York Times‘ bombshell report on a leaked tax document that shows Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may not have paid any federal income tax over a period of as much as 18 years. On CNN’s State of the Union, Trump campaign surrogate Rudy Giuliani took …

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Trump Responds To Federal Tax Bombshell

The Hill recaps: Donald Trump early Sunday said he knows tax laws “better than anyone who has ever run for president” following a report that he could have legally avoided paying taxes for years. The Republican presidential nominee tweeted that he is “the only one who can fix” U.S. tax laws. The New York Times reported late Saturday that a …

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NY Times Bombshell: Trump May Not Have Owed Any Federal Tax For 18 Years Due To Business Failures

Whopper of a scoop from the New York Times: Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 tax records, never before …

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Bill Maher Eviscerates Trump’s Surrogates [VIDEO]

You’ll enjoy this. Esquire recaps: “If you think you hate the establishment now,” Bill Maher cautioned viewers Friday night, “Wait until [Donald Trump] wins and the Trump surrogates—that basket of inexplicables he sends out every day to speak for him—become the establishment.” Maher then launched into an epic evisceration of people like Omarosa Manigault, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani. Why …

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