Politics

Via Politico: WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Wednesday night promised to leak “thousands” of document pages pertaining to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and the presidential election. Speaking to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, the mysterious Assange claimed an upcoming leak would have a “significant” impact on the coming general election. “We have a lot of material, thousands of pages …

From the New York Daily News: There may be a crack in Donald Trump’s wall. The anti-immigrant GOP presidential candidate said in a TV interview that aired Wednesday night that his time on the campaign trail has made him sympathetic to the plight of many undocumented people who have been in the U.S. for a long time. That position veers …

The Hill reports: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear on Megyn Kelly’s “The Kelly File” on Fox News on Wednesday night as part of a two-part interview. The two are expected to discuss the possibility of a WikiLeaks “October surprise” that could impact the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  Fox News says Kelly will also tackle WikiLeaks’s …

Via Buzzfeed: Ed Rollins, chairman of a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, says the Republican nominee would lose badly if the election was held today. “If we’re sitting here three weeks from now after Labor Day and it’s in the same position, we’re gonna have a hard uphill battle,” Rollins said on the Laura Ingraham Show on Wednesday. “He’d lose badly …

Today the Liberal Redneck (real-life comedian Trae Crowder) rips into the right wing’s empty pro-military rhetoric and takes part in a 22-pushup challenge meant to publicize a recent statistic showing that 22 US military veterans are taking their lives every day. Watch below.

And this guy supports Trump. Via Politico: Not only should Hillary Clinton release a new health report confirming her fitness to be commander in chief, so should Donald Trump, Ben Carson said Wednesday. Carson, a retired world-renowned neurosurgeon who supports Trump, called it “common sense” for those running for the White House to “disclose their medical history,” “particularly if they’re …

This is how the Trump campaign is spinning the polls for the British press: Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told the UK’s Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover. Conway denied on the Channel 4 special “President Trump: Can He Really Win?” that Trump was losing and …

Via Reuters: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. The Aug. 18-22 poll showed that 45 percent of voters supported Clinton, while 33 percent backed Trump ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Clinton, the former U.S. …

From the Daily Mail: The head of the Republican Party predicted on Tuesday that if Donald Trump continues to use a “measured” tone on the campaign trail, he will be tied nationally with Hillary Clinton – or beating her – in less than two weeks. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, told reporters on a conference call that …

CNN reports: Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter. The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies. Investigators so far believe that …

From the Huffington Post: After bragging for a year about how cheaply he was running his campaign, Donald Trump is spending more freely now that other people are contributing ― particularly when the beneficiary is himself. Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169,758 in July, when he was raising …

Talking Points Memo reports: Donald Trump’s newly-minted campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, made clear Monday night that while she doesn’t support personal attacks, she thinks her boss was only hitting back when he accused the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” of having an off-camera romance. After Trump took to Twitter to slam Mika Brzezinski as “neurotic” and call her the “very …

The Hill reports: Donald Trump on Monday slammed the Washington Post reporters and researchers behind a new book about him, calling it a “hit job” made up of “inaccurate” stories. Trump over the past few months spent more than 20 hours speaking with the Post reporters working on the biography, “Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and …

Via Mediaite: Roger Stone is a ride-or-die fan of Donald Trump, but even he thinks the mogul should just release his tax returns already. The Hillary Clinton hater was on The Fernand Amandi Show on Miami’s 610 WIOD radio today and he just came out with it. “I think he should release his tax returns immediately,” he said, echoing Clinton’s …

Via ABC News: Hillary Clinton took on two controversial topics in a late-night interview on ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Monday. First, Kimmel quizzed the Democratic presidential candidate about news that broke earlier in the day of the release of additional emails from the time she served as secretary of state. “The state department said that they have to release …

The Guardian reports: Nearly 15,000 emails recovered by the FBI from the private server used by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state are set to be made public just before the presidential election in November, it emerged in court on Monday. The state department said it was reviewing 14,900 documents that came to light in the now-closed investigation …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who has made opposition to a U.S.-led nuclear agreement with Iran a major theme of his re-election campaign, likened home-state President Barack Obama to “drug dealer in chief” over a $400 million payment linked to the release of American prisoners. Kirk’s controversial rhetoric has been an issue as the first-term senator …

Former Secret Service agent and GOP US House candidate Dan Bongino really doesn’t like it when reporters wonder why 94% his campaign donations have come from outside the district he’s running in. Politico reports: The dispute began on Twitter early in the day when Bongino bashed the Naples Daily News for writing “propaganda.” Asked by POLITICO reporter Marc Caputo about …

Talking Points Memo reports: One Colorado 12-year-old is spending his summer vacation helping Donald Trump get elected by running the campaign’s field office in one of the state’s most populous counties. The Trump campaign’s field office in Jefferson County, which includes the greater Denver area, is largely run by Weston Imer, 12. While his mother, Laurel Imer, is listed as …

Via press release from Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton is the defender of the corrupt and rigged status quo. The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people. It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. What they were doing during …