2016 Election

Hillary Clinton’s media team hits it out of the park for the second time today with a new web ad that documents the many, many lies Donald Trump has told during his years-long birther crusade, including the whopper he told this morning in Washington DC. Watch below. You’ll like this. Donald Trump has spent years peddling lies about President Obama. …

The Hill reports: The television reporters following Donald Trump on Friday erased video of a hotel tour to protest being denied editorial access to the Republican nominee.  The protest came moments after Trump gave a very short speech announcing that he believes President Obama was born in the U.S., a reversal from years of questioning Obama’s citizenship. After his remarks, …

Unsurprising. The Wall Street Journal reports: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party have failed to qualify for the first general election debate, in a significant blow to their already long-shot presidential campaigns. The Commission on Presidential Debates said Friday that only Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton qualified to be on the stage …

The Week reports: Donald Trump was in large part responsible for spreading the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was born abroad (spoiler alert: Obama was born in Hawaii). After years of promoting the theory, Trump blurted Friday that he believes Obama was in fact born in the United States — and if Trump is true to his word, that …

Wow. This was great to watch. The Associated Press reports: Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday called Donald Trump a “disgusting fraud” and demanded that he apologize to President Barack Obama for repeatedly challenging the first African-American president’s U.S. citizenship before retreating from the claim on Friday. One by one, outraged members of the CBC denounced the Republican …

The timing of Hillary’s last few ads has been flawless. Politico recaps: The 45-second spot plays a series of clips from Trump in recent years questioning Obama’s citizenship, including an interview with “The View” in which he said there is “something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.” The video also includes Trump speculating on whether Obama is a …

Politico reports: Donald Trump Jr. has no idea what Pepe the Frog is, the eldest son of the Republican presidential nominee remarked Friday, as he also defended himself after some accused him of referring to the Holocaust using the term “gas chamber” in a radio interview earlier this week. Rejecting that he was making a Holocaust reference, Trump Jr. faced …

Donald Trump is due to take the podium shortly at his garish Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, where the presidential suite will go for $100,000 per night (five night minimum stay) during the January inauguration celebrations for Hillary Clinton. Heh. Watch below. Trump is expected to finally address his racist birther claims, which his campaign last night said he no …

Fox News political analyst Chris Stirewalt better be prepared for a troll avalanche. “This is a tricky dismount for Donald Trump. He would not be the Republican nominee had he not been the leader of the birther movement in 2011. And if he had not had this set to President Obama about it, he wouldn’t be where he is today. …

Via Mediaite: A segment on The Kelly File went a little off the rails tonight when Megyn Kelly confronted Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson over whether he’s still a birther. In a new interview tonight, Trump refused to say whether he still holds that insane view about President Obama‘s birth, hinting he would do so “at the right time.” Kelly …

Politico reports: Donald Trump passed up yet another opportunity to say he accepts the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, promising to make a “major statement” on Friday morning in front of his latest hotel project and telling CNBC’s Mario Bartiromo, “We have to keep the suspense going, OK? But he also blamed his opponent …

Via the New York Daily News: “Apparently, the supporters of a campaign whose defining moments have all involved sweeping generalizations really don’t appreciate being painted with too broad of a brush. Is what she said 100% accurate? OK, now, normally I’m all about facts, but this time I’m going to take a page out of their playbook and say ‘who …

The Washington Post reports: In the interview, conducted late Wednesday aboard his private plane as it idled on the tarmac here, Trump suggested he is not eager to change his pitch or his positions even as he works to reach out to minority voters, many of whom are deeply offended by his long-refuted suggestion that Obama is not a U.S. …

The New York Daily News reports: A Cleveland street where iconic boxing promoter Don King once killed a man 50 years ago is about to be renamed… Don King Way. Only in America. The Cleveland City Council plans to rename an area of Cedar Avenue between East 36th Street and Stokes Boulevard after the bombastic boxing hall of famer, according …

And of course Gab’s logo is a highly-stylized version of Pepe, the neo-Nazi frog mascot. Wired reports: Gab is less than a month old, so it may well flame out like Peach or Ello. But for now, the platform looks like an artifact from a dystopian universe where the alt-right completely took over Twitter. Gab has over 42,000 people on …

Via Mediaite: The Dr. Oz Show evidently edited out a portion of its interview with Donald Trump in which he joked about how much he loves kissing his daughter Ivanka Trump. Based on audience reports, MSNBC reported Wednesday on an exchange between Dr. Oz and Trump: “Dr. Oz said when Ivanka Trump came on stage, ‘It’s nice to see a …

Here’s some rare evangelical infighting about gay parenting. First, a report from Circa: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s child care plan will cover same-sex married couples and foster parents, and neither evangelicals nor gay rights activists are particularly happy. The revelation was included in a Trump campaign fact sheet accompanying the plan, and it includes only one caveat: “The benefits …

The Wall Street Journal reports: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said Donald Trump should release his tax returns, but deferred to the GOP presidential candidate on when to do so. “I released mine. I think he should release his,” Mr. Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice-presidential nominee, told reporters Thursday, but didn’t press Mr. Trump on the timing. “I know …

Yes, he really said that. The Jerusalem Post reports: Media bias is fueling Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and is burning Republicans, Donald Trump Jr. said on Wednesday, using a Holocaust reference to drive home his point. Speaking to Philadelphia Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, the Republican presidential nominee’s eldest son said that his father was held to a different standard …

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander is up today with a new commercial in which he assembles an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle blindfolded — then taunts, “I’d like to see Sen. Blunt do this.” The mano-a-mano ad is a response to attacks on Kander, a Democrat, by the National Rifle Association, which has endorsed incumbent Sen. …