Saturday, September 3, 2016
Donald Trump is the 'preferred candidate' of ISIS, experts warn
Donald Trump has said that "no one will be tougher" on terrorism than him, but new analysis from Foreign Affairs magazine shows that ISIS — the terror group Trump has pledged to eradicate — is actually hoping for the Republican nominee to win the US presidency.
Foreign Affairs analyzed ISIS' online channels and interviewed a dozen supporters and defectors to reach its conclusion. The magazine found that "jihadists are rooting for a Trump presidency because they believe that he will lead the United States on a path to self-destruction."
Malcolm Nance, a terrorism expert and veteran military intelligence officer, offered a similar assessment after a terrorism debate at the Comedy Cellar in New York City last month.
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/09/03/donald-trump-is-the-preferred-candidate-of-isis-experts-warn/21465004/
Foreign Affairs analyzed ISIS' online channels and interviewed a dozen supporters and defectors to reach its conclusion. The magazine found that "jihadists are rooting for a Trump presidency because they believe that he will lead the United States on a path to self-destruction."
Malcolm Nance, a terrorism expert and veteran military intelligence officer, offered a similar assessment after a terrorism debate at the Comedy Cellar in New York City last month.
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/09/03/donald-trump-is-the-preferred-candidate-of-isis-experts-warn/21465004/
Friday, September 2, 2016
Donald Trump Has Not Yet Paid Several Top Staffers
Those who have so far not been paid, the filings show, include recently departed campaign manager Paul Manafort, California state director Tim Clark, communications director Michael Caputo and a pair of senior aides who left the campaign in June to immediately go to work for a Trump Super PAC.
Moar here.
Michelle Bachmann: If Hillary Wins, This Will Be ‘The Last Election’
In an interview with The Christian Broadcasting Network, former Republican congressmanMichelle Bachmann warned that the consequences of electingHillary Clinton would be dire for both the country and the Republican Party.
“I don’t want to be melodramatic but I do want to be truthful. I believe without a shadow of a doubt this is the last election,” she said on The Brody File. “This is it. This is the last election.”
“It’s a math problem of demographics and a changing United States,” continued Bachmann. “If you look at the numbers of people who vote and who lives in the country and who Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to bring in to the country, this is the last election when we even have a chance to vote for somebody who will stand up for godly moral principles. This is it.”
“I don’t want to be melodramatic but I do want to be truthful. I believe without a shadow of a doubt this is the last election,” she said on The Brody File. “This is it. This is the last election.”
“It’s a math problem of demographics and a changing United States,” continued Bachmann. “If you look at the numbers of people who vote and who lives in the country and who Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to bring in to the country, this is the last election when we even have a chance to vote for somebody who will stand up for godly moral principles. This is it.”
Moar here.
Overreach? Clinton campaign says conservative group’s latest email release actually deals with a successful diplomatic mission
A new trove of Hillary Clinton-related emails was released Thursday by a conservative research organization, and the group said they revealed requests for State Department action from Clinton Foundation employees and a key donor in 2009, seeming to add fuel to the notion that the Clintons provided favors to friends and supporters.
"Bill Clinton/Doug Band Sought State Department Favors for Foundation Supporters," said a headline in Thursday's news release from Judicial Watch.
In fact, many of the emails touted by Judicial Watch concern a once-secret mission to North Korea by former president Bill Clinton that led to the release of two American journalists who had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for spying. The highlighted emails centered around a moment widely considered a Clinton success, providing the campaign an opening to chide a longtime antagonist whose ongoing litigation against the State Department has produced a series of embarrassing revelations.
"Judicial Watch is now attacking State Department officials and the 42nd President of the United States for rescuing two American journalists from North Korea," said campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin, calling the release "a new low even for this right-wing organization that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s."
The featured item in Thursday’s Judicial Watch release includes a request from longtime Clinton aide Doug Band for coveted diplomatic passports, which provide easy transit for State Department and other top-level government employees. The request, which was never fulfilled, was part of planning a mission that is generally considered a triumph for American diplomacy and the post-White House career of Bill Clinton.
"Bill Clinton/Doug Band Sought State Department Favors for Foundation Supporters," said a headline in Thursday's news release from Judicial Watch.
In fact, many of the emails touted by Judicial Watch concern a once-secret mission to North Korea by former president Bill Clinton that led to the release of two American journalists who had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for spying. The highlighted emails centered around a moment widely considered a Clinton success, providing the campaign an opening to chide a longtime antagonist whose ongoing litigation against the State Department has produced a series of embarrassing revelations.
"Judicial Watch is now attacking State Department officials and the 42nd President of the United States for rescuing two American journalists from North Korea," said campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin, calling the release "a new low even for this right-wing organization that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s."
The featured item in Thursday’s Judicial Watch release includes a request from longtime Clinton aide Doug Band for coveted diplomatic passports, which provide easy transit for State Department and other top-level government employees. The request, which was never fulfilled, was part of planning a mission that is generally considered a triumph for American diplomacy and the post-White House career of Bill Clinton.
Moar here.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Reagan solicitor general: Donald Trump is a risk we can't take
Charles Fried is the former solicitor general of the United States for President Ronald Reagan. He is currently a professor at Harvard Law School. Here is a brief example of what he says regarding Trump...
(CNN) It was urgent that Hillary Clinton in her Reno speech indict Donald Trump for his regular, unremitting embrace of the slogans, causes and emblems of the far right (not conservative, please!) hate-mongering fringe of our public discourse.
This is not just an accidental association. It is his chosen signature. Remember, he was an enthusiastic birther and has gone on to embrace every sinister paranoid fantasy since.
Trump tells us that we need to rebuild our schools, roads, bridges, airports; so does Hillary Clinton. But he is going to cut everyone's taxes in order to pay for it. I believe her; I don't believe him because what he promises is simply unbelievable. And now he tells us Mexicans are great people; that maybe he won't deport all those people after all; that the insults he hurls about like confetti were not really meant to hurt anyone's feelings.
This is a man about whom the best you can say is that he doesn't believe anything he says. After that, it's downhill all the way. Hillary Clinton will give us a decent, competent, understandable government. That's plenty good enough for me, and considering the truly dreadful alternative, it's good enough for increasing numbers of my fellow Republicans.
More here.
Donald Trump is wrong that 'inner-city crime is reaching record levels'
Yet one more thing that Lyin' Donahld is fibbing about...
Aiming to blunt an overwhelming edge among African-American voters, Donald Trump has been decrying longstanding black support for Democratic politicians, who he blames for allowing economic inequality and crime to fester in African-American communities.
In an Aug. 29, 2016, tweet, Trump wrote, "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!"
Is Trump correct that "inner-city crime is reaching record levels"?
No, not even close.
More at Politifact.
Immigration Hypocrisy...
Republican nominee Donald Trump has placed immigration at the core of his presidential campaign. He has claimed that undocumented immigrants are "taking our jobs" and "taking our money," pledged to deport them en masse, and vowed to build a wall on the Mexican border. At one point he demanded a ban on Muslims entering the country. Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Saturday, Trump said he would crack down on visitors to the United States who overstay their visas and declared that when any American citizen "loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been violated." And he is scheduled to give a major address on immigration in Arizona on Wednesday night.
But the mogul's New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financialand immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump's agency in the United States without a proper visa.
Foreigners who visit the United States as tourists are generally not permitted to engage in any sort of employment unless they obtain a special visa, a process that typically entails an employer applying for approval on behalf of a prospective employee. Employers risk fines and possible criminal charges for using undocumented labor.
Founded in 1999, Trump Model Management "has risen to the top of the fashion market," boasts the Trump Organization's website, and has a name "that symbolizes success." According to a financial disclosure filed by his campaign in May, Donald Trump earned nearly $2 million from the company, in which he holds an 85 percent stake. Meanwhile, some former Trump models say they barely made any money working for the agency because of the high fees for rent and other expenses that were charged by the company.
More here.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Thursday, August 25, 2016
APOLOGIZE! OH, AND HEIL HITLER!
In a press release from his National Policy Institute, Spencer demands that Clinton “issue an apology to European-Americans everywhere” for supporting “an anti-White agenda.”
Spender also denies that Trump or his new campaign chairman, Steven Bannon, are tied to the alt-right, writing that while he has “has written favorably about both Trump and [Bannon’s news agency] Breitbart, he has consistently emphasized they are not exactly the Alt Right.”
Bannon, for his part, feels differently: He said as recently as July that Breitbart under his leadership was “the platform for the alt-right.”
Here.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
As noted by Justin Rosario
Still on vacation but if I've got it correct, in the last couple of days:
1. Julian Assange has outed homosexuals and rape victims that live in a country where this could get them killed. His reasoning was "But Hillary is evil and you're only upset because she's the candidate."
2. Donald Trump canceled a bunch of events, raising questions about HIS health even as he and his lapdogs try to fabricate a story about Hillary's.
3. The Clinton Foundation is suddenly the source of all evil in the world despite over a decade's worth of sterling humanitarian work that has benefited hundreds of millions of people. The proof that it's evil? It as "Clinton" in the title and literally nothing else.
4. Yet ANOTHER white kid got away with raping women because the judge doesn't want to ruin his life or a silly little mistake. Now he can go to college and do it all over again!
5. The sex scandal at Fox News is getting worse.
6. The cops almost killed a ten year old black kid with short hair because they somehow mistook him for a 20 year old bank robber with dreadlocks. No one will be held responsible for this.
7. Trump is spending most of his campaign donations on himself and his businesses.
8. Hillary Clinton has made South Carolina into a competitive swing state.
9. The far left is still attacking her for daring not to be Jill Stein or something. It's not really clear what they're whining abut this week.
10. A 12 year old is running part of Trump's campaign in Colorado.
11. The 12 year old is still more mature and capable than Trump.
12 (EDIT) Oh yeah! Native Americans are in a Bundy-style standoff with the government but without the threat of violence. Curiously, this is not the largest story in the country. Almost like it only matters when angry white conservatives do it and fuck everyone else.
1. Julian Assange has outed homosexuals and rape victims that live in a country where this could get them killed. His reasoning was "But Hillary is evil and you're only upset because she's the candidate."
2. Donald Trump canceled a bunch of events, raising questions about HIS health even as he and his lapdogs try to fabricate a story about Hillary's.
3. The Clinton Foundation is suddenly the source of all evil in the world despite over a decade's worth of sterling humanitarian work that has benefited hundreds of millions of people. The proof that it's evil? It as "Clinton" in the title and literally nothing else.
4. Yet ANOTHER white kid got away with raping women because the judge doesn't want to ruin his life or a silly little mistake. Now he can go to college and do it all over again!
5. The sex scandal at Fox News is getting worse.
6. The cops almost killed a ten year old black kid with short hair because they somehow mistook him for a 20 year old bank robber with dreadlocks. No one will be held responsible for this.
7. Trump is spending most of his campaign donations on himself and his businesses.
8. Hillary Clinton has made South Carolina into a competitive swing state.
9. The far left is still attacking her for daring not to be Jill Stein or something. It's not really clear what they're whining abut this week.
10. A 12 year old is running part of Trump's campaign in Colorado.
11. The 12 year old is still more mature and capable than Trump.
12 (EDIT) Oh yeah! Native Americans are in a Bundy-style standoff with the government but without the threat of violence. Curiously, this is not the largest story in the country. Almost like it only matters when angry white conservatives do it and fuck everyone else.
His page is here.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
The FBI recently gave Republicans on a House committee classified documents from Hillary's testimony to the FBI. The FBI warned Congressional Republicans that the documents were to be kept in confidence.
Guess what... there have already been leaks to the public BY REPUBLICANS of the classified documents. That is against the law. Will there be hearings on these leaks by Republicans? Aww Hell To Teh Naww™! The very thing Republicans have been harping could have happened (but didn't) with Hillary's email server has happened in the Republican committee. Heads should roll, but of course they won't. Disgusting.
Guess what... there have already been leaks to the public BY REPUBLICANS of the classified documents. That is against the law. Will there be hearings on these leaks by Republicans? Aww Hell To Teh Naww™! The very thing Republicans have been harping could have happened (but didn't) with Hillary's email server has happened in the Republican committee. Heads should roll, but of course they won't. Disgusting.
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