2016 Election

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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Hillary Jabs Trump: What Kind Of Business “Genius” Loses One Billion Dollars In A Single Year? [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump over the report in The New York Times that he may have turned a nearly $1 billion loss into 18 years of not owing taxes, saying he was “taking from America with both hands, leaving the rest of us with the bill.” The tax story was the centerpiece of Clinton’s argument on …

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Wikileaks: We’ll Now Do Our Big Reveal From Berlin

The Daily Mail reports: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cancelled a planned appearance to mark the 10th anniversary of his organization from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London over security fears on Sunday. He had been planning to give a speech – amid claims he was about to release damaging information about Clinton which some claimed could be an …

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Senior Trump Advisor: That Tax Return Is Fake (And If It’s Not, NY Times Reporters Should Be Jailed) [VIDEO]

Via Raw Story: Boris Epshteyn, a senior adviser for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, suggested that New York Times reporters should face jail time for reporting on the billionaire’s tax returns. According to Epshteyn, the New York Times report that raised questions about tax evasion was based on “alleged documents,” even though the tax returns were verified by the candidate’s …

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Alex Jones: The Next Debate Will Also Be Totally Rigged Because Anderson Cooper Works For The CIA

Media Matters has the transcript: “Notice it just came out today, the debate commission said yes, his mic was cutting in and out. It was getting faded down. And it was not being broadcast to the audience so that they could cheer. Ladies and gentlemen, that was 100 percent setup. Just like Lester Holt and the hand signals and Lester …

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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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John Oliver Rips Hannity Over Online Polls [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: One of the subjects of Oliver’s takedown was Trump’s good pal Sean Hannity, who at this point is operating less like a TV show host and more like a BFF of Trump’s who happens to be on TV. Hannity this week propelled the myth of the user-generated polls — which allegedly indicate that Trump “won” last Monday’s debate …

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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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DRAMATIC BUMP: Hillary +6 In New National Poll

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton has opened up a six-point lead over Donald Trump, erasing the New York billionaire’s slim national edge with five weeks until Election Day, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of likely voters. Clinton leads Trump 42-36 in the four-way race for the White House. Gary Johnson garnered 9 percent, Jill Stein got 2 percent and …

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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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REPORT: Wikileaks Cancels Tuesday’s Announcement

Heat Street reports: Wikileaks has abruptly canceled a much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday, according to NBC News. The announcement had been expected to be founder Julian Assange’s long-promised document dump on Hillary Clinton. NBC’s Jesse Rodriguez reported that the Tuesday announcement — which was to come from the balcony of London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, where Assange has sought sanctuary for years – …

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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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SNL Kills With Debate Cold Open [VIDEO]

Rolling Stone recaps: Season 42 of Saturday Night Live opened with its much-anticipated parody of the first presidential debate, which pitted Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton against Alec Baldwin’s pitch-perfect Donald Trump. In the cold open, Lester Holt, played by Michael Che, asked many of the same questions the two candidates faced Monday night, including how they would create more jobs …

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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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NORTH CAROLINA: Gun Group Raffles Off Assault Rifle With Photo Of Hillary Clinton For Target Practice

Courthouse News Service reports: A North Carolina guns right group is raffling off an AR-15 rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and a portrait of Democrat Hillary Clinton to raise money for its federal political action committee. “Of course, we won’t tell you what to do with the photo, but when we ran a picture of Hillary on the front of …

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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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Trump Denies His Own History Of Adultery, Vows That He Can Be “Nastier Than Hillary Ever Can Be”

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump unleashed a slashing new attack on Hillary Clinton over Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions on Friday as he sought to put the Clintons’ relationship at the center of his political argument against her before their next debate. Mr. Trump, aiming to unnerve Mrs. Clinton, even indicated that he was rethinking his statement at …

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