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Trump Launches “Exclusive Limited Edition Elite Black Card” For Dazzling Your Fellow Fancy Teabaggers

For the high rollers for whom the Trump Gold Card was too pedestrian. Quartz reports: Facing a tough uphill battle in the last weeks before the election, Donald Trump, newly “unshackled” from his party’s leadership, is offering his voters a fresh way to help him get elected: A “limited edition” Trump Black Card, which does absolutely nothing but remind you …

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Christianity Today Denounces Donald Trump: He’s The Very Embodiment Of What The Bible Calls A Fool

Christianity Today‘s scathing pussygate editorial is making lots of news today. An excerpt: This past week, the latest (though surely not last) revelations from Trump’s past have caused many evangelical leaders to reconsider. This is heartening, but it comes awfully late. What Trump is, everyone has known and has been able to see for decades, let alone the last few …

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BUZZFEED: Trump Walked In On Miss Teen USA 1997 Contestants While They Were Backstage Changing

Buzzfeed reports: Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont …

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GOP Sen. Deb Fischer Flip-Flops On Her Call For Trump To Drop Out: I Never Said I Wouldn’t Vote For Him

Politico reports: Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer on Tuesday reversed her call for Donald Trump to resign from the GOP ticket, telling a local radio station that it’s “not a tough choice” to back him just three days after she urged him to quit. “I plan to vote for Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence on November 8,” she said on Nebraska’s …

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Tony Perkins On #Pussygate: Christian Leaders Must Support Trump No Matter How Insane He May Be

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: In the race to recapture the White House, Donald Trump’s biggest obstacle has never been Hillary Clinton. It’s been himself. Saddled with baggage from years of crass comments, Trump has been his own worst enemy. Those self-inflicted wounds continued last week, when footage surfaced from 2005 of the GOP nominee making …

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Eric Trump: My Father Bragged About Committing Sexual Assault Because He’s A Typical Alpha Male

Yet another nod to the alt-right, for whom “beta male” is the second-favorite insult after “cuck.” The Colorado Gazette reports: Eric Trump, the presidential candidate’s 32-year-old son, came to Colorado Monday to talk business and energize volunteers, but he was armed and ready to defend his father’s personal reputation. He blamed Hillary Clinton’s campaign for releasing a 2005 “Access Hollywood” …

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Alt-Right Leader Vows To “Spoil” Down-Ballot GOP Races If They Don’t Stop “Sabotaging” Donald Trump

Mike Cernovich, best known in the alt-right world as a “men’s rights” champion and Gamergate henchman, has posted a message warning Reince Priebus that if the GOP doesn’t cease “sabotaging” the Trump campaign, his army of followers will “spoil the ballots of every Republican running for office this election.” See his warning below, which mentions that his Twitter account gets …

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Ben Carson On #Pussygate: All Men Talk Like That And If You Don’t Know It, That’s Your Problem [VIDEO]

CNN reports: Ben Carson said Tuesday “of course” he’s heard similar language from other people along the lines of the recently surfaced lewd and sexually aggressive comments from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I’ve heard people talking like that. Of course. Are you kidding me?” the former Republican presidential candidate told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “As I was growing up, people …

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REPORT: Billy Bush Parts Ways With NBC

Fired, pushed, or jumped? Business Insider reports: Billy Bush is leaving NBC after his involvement in a vulgar tape with Donald Trump that leaked Friday, CNN’s Brian Stelter is reporting. Bush has served as a cohost on NBC’s “Today” show in the 9 a.m. hour. Previously, he was the co-host of syndicated entertainment news show, “Access Hollywood.” Bush is featured …

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CNN Shuts Down Interview With Trump Spox After She Blames Trump’s Lewd Comments On Hip-Hop [VIDEO]

So this just happened: CNN host Carol Costello seemed to have had enough of Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, cutting an interview short on Tuesday when Costello saw the interview was “going nowhere.” Pierson was trying to pivot the conversation with Costello and Angela Rye, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, to Hillary Clinton’s record on Syria and …

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Trump Declares War On GOP: “The Shackles Are Off”

Via Politico: Donald Trump celebrated his freedom from the Republican establishment Tuesday, boasting that it’s “so nice” to be unchained. Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speaker Paul Ryan, whom the Republican nominee has continued to lash out at since the top elected Republican on Monday told his conference he would no longer defend Trump. “It is so …

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Glenn Beck Sorta-Kinda Endorses Hillary: Compared To Donald Trump She Is The “Moral, Ethical Choice”

From Glenn Beck’s Facebook page: Every person, each of us must decide what is a bridge too far. Mike Lee has obviously reached that point, where the moral compromise his party is asking him to make is simply beyond what is acceptable. It is not acceptable to ask a moral, dignified man to cast his vote to help elect an …

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Mike Huckabee Whines: Bed-Wetting Hand-Wringing Republicans Are Terrified That Trump Will Win [VIDEO]

Via Breitbart: Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) weighed in some in the Republican Party’s reluctance to get behind party nominee Donald Trump’s presidential bid. The former Arkansas governor summed it up as those in his party being fearful of Trump threatening to “mess up the neat little package of fun.” “Let me …

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Seth Meyers On “The Pervert On The Bus” [VIDEO]

TIME Magazine recaps: Seth Meyers slammed Donald Trump as a “pervert” and picked apart the 2005 tape in which the real estate mogul can be heard making lewd comments about women on a bus with Billy Bush. The Late Show host on Monday night criticized Trump, who has been embroiled in controversy since late last week when the vulgar conversation …

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Trump Eggs On Rally Chant Of “CNN Sucks” [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Republican nominee Donald Trump appears to be in full-on burn it all down mode these days, launching attacks at his political rivals, his own party leaders, and of course, his favorite target: the media. Trump’s love-hate relationship with the press is hardly new; he’s been throwing elbows at the media since the start of his campaign. And during …

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Trump: I Won All The Debate Polls (He Won None)

This morning Donald Trump tweeted the above message and as per usual it’s completely false: Hillary Clinton won the second debate and leads Donald Trump by five points in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that also shows voters perceive the Republican Party bitterly divided four weeks before Election Day. Clinton leads Trump in the four-way race for the presidency among …

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Ted Cruz: I’m Sticking With Donald Trump [VIDEO]

Politico reports: There will be no Texas two-step on Ted Cruz’s much-belated decision to endorse Donald Trump. The Texas senator told a local TV station in Muleshoe, Texas, on Monday that despite lewd video showing Trump joking of unwanted sexual advances on women he would still back Trump over Hillary Clinton. “I am supporting the Republican nominee because I think …

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SNORT: Trump Calls Himself “A Blue Collar Worker”

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump has repeatedly shown his true colors on the campaign trail – and blue has definitely not been one of them. The billionaire mogul claimed Monday – during his first public appearance since a bitter debate with Hillary Clinton the prior evening – that he saw himself as a “blue collar worker.” “I …

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Virginia Trump Campaign Manager Fired For Staging Unauthorized Protest Outside GOP Headquarters

Via Mediaite: The day after the second presidential debate and coming on the heels of the fallout from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks, a pro-Trump protest convened at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. The organizer of the protest, Virginia Trump campaign chair Corey Stewart, was apparently fired from his position shortly after …

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Pat Robertson Shrugs Off #Pussygate: Bragging About Sexual Assault Is Just “Macho Talk” [VIDEO]

Raw Story reports: Pat Robertson on Monday declared that Donald Trump was the “clear winner” of Sunday night’s presidential debate, and the televangelist asserted that the GOP candidate’s admission that he groped women was simply “macho” talk. “Trump was the winner,” Robertson opined on his 700 Club television program. “Basically, the pundits were writing him off.” The TV preacher argued …

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