Russian chess master Gary Kasperov provided some startling insights into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert effort to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Kasperov says he’s “absolutely” certain Putin is interfering in the election. The former chess world champion fled Russia three years ago because of his opposition to the Putin regime....
Donald Trump scored some points in his best debate performance of the presidential campaign, but then threw it all away and likely sealed his fate in the upcoming election by repudiating American democracy. He refused to say he would accept the will of the voters. His remarks were unprecedented in the annals of American democracy, a defining moment in the third and final debate and likely a watershed in the nation’s history. ...
Eminem spits a slew of pop culture references in a staccato rap about Donald Trump that slams the GOP candidate as a “kiss ass” puppet and calls him a “fuckin’ loose cannon who’s blunt with his hand on the button.” No less than former KKK grand wizard David Duke weighed in on the rhyme with an anti-Semitic tweet....
Bruce Springsteen, often called through his music the voice of blue-collar America, called Donald Trump “a flagrant, toxic narcissist” who wants to take down the entire democratic system now that he is staring at defeat in the presidential election. Springsteen grew up in a working-class New Jersey family....
Marco Rubio today denounced Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic emails and releasing them though Wikileaks. He vowed not to use them in his campaign, shaming Donald Trump for attempting to capitalize on them. Rubio, who ran against Trump in the Republican primary, said he realized the dangerous precedent Trump is setting. ...
Howard Stern, the shock jock who has revealed more about Donald Trump than any other media personality, still calls Donald his friend. But he’s a long-time Hillary Clinton supporter and will be voting for her in the presidential election. Stern’s admiration of Clinton is long-standing, since her days as a U.S. Senator. ...
Donld Trump now says even “Saturday Night Live” is out to get him. The GOP candidate railed against the sketch comedy show, even though it has a 40-year history of skewering politicians going back to Gerald Ford. Trump’s outburst followed the show’s cold open, which featured Alex Baldwin as Trump and Kate McKinnon as Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The skit was a play off of last week’s debate. Alex Moffat played debate moderator Anderson Cooper with Cecily Strong playing co-moderator Martha Raddatz. ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, already accused of covert intervention in the presidential election, may be trying a more direct route by threatening war with the United States, while a close ally claims only Donald Trump can calm relations between the two countries. Over the past two weeks, Putin has ordered a mass evacuation drill of Moscow involving an estimated 12 million residents. It would take place in the event of a nuclear war. ...
Donald Trump, confronted by a growing number of women who claim he forcefully kissed or groped them in unwanted sexual advances, fell back on a defense used, at first, by Bill Cosby. The disgraced comedian also tried to say he was the victim of lies. It didn’t work for him. Arianne Zucker, a soap opera star who figured prominently in the sexually degrading 2005 “hot mic” conversation between Trump and Billy Bush, appeared today (Oct 13) on the “Today” show. ...
Donald Trump has no one to blame but himself–and Howard Stern–for his campaign meltdown. The radio shock jock’s obsession with sexual depravity is playing a major role in the unraveling of Trump’s presidential bid over allegations of sexual impropriety and general boorishness. Trump, the GOP president nominee, was a frequent guest on Stern’s radio show during the 1990s and early 2000s....
Donald Trump’s vile and abusive boasting about women in a 2005 audio recording, is driving away evangelicals. Christian recording artist William Matthews and Christian artists Michael and Lisa Gungor to spread the word–Trump’s values, campaign tactics and rhetoric are antithetical to Christian values. Williams, a member of The All Americans, and the Gungors have produced a video that includes their new song “Free.” The ballad preaches the values of unity in overcoming oppression...
Donald Trump’s threat to order the U.S. attorney general to investigate Hillary Clinton over deleted emails if elected president would be illegal and shows a profound lack of how the government–and Constitution–work, says a former Attorney General. Eric Holder, the first African-American to hold that post (2009 to 2015) raised the red flags in a series of Tweets after the debate. ...
Donald Trump went down and dirty to attack on rival Hillary Clinton at last night’s debate, hoping her negative might cancel his negative created by his degrading conversation about women with Billy Bush a decade ago. Early polls indicated it flopped. Clinton emerged with a substantial 11-point lead, according to a national poll of likely voters by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal....
Enough is enough, Hillary Clinton should pull out of Sunday’s debate with Donald Trump. With Republican leaders abandoning his campaign by the dozen, why should she give him a national platform to perpetrate more of his bluster on the nation? The guy on the recording, talking about grabbing a girl “by the pussy,” sounds like a convicted rapist, bragging to his prison cellmate. Instead, it’s possibly the next president of the United States. ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a staunch Republican, has had his fill of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump. He joined the ranks of party faithful who are cutting and running in the wake of Trump’s demeaning comments about women and celebrity entitlement. The fallout is the latest following publication of a 2005 “hot mic” conversation between Trump and Billy Bush, who was then a host of celebrity show “Access Hollywood.”...
Donald Trump was unable to clearly articulate his vision for America in the first presidential debate, but his more eloquent running mate, Mike Pence, brought a clarity to his plans that were more Orwellian than Jeffersonian–a police state at home and endless war overseas. Pence squared off against Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, in the first and only vice presidential debate of the campaign last night. ...
Hillary Clinton continues to widen her lead over GOP rival Donald Trump, despite efforts by his campaign to drive wedge among her supporters by harping on husband Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions during his presidential term. The latest Morning Consult/Politico poll shows her up by 6 points–46 percent to 36 percent– with Independents Gary Johnson and Jill Stein polling 6 percent and 2 percent respectively....
Donald Trump and his minions did their best to smear former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, but some of the worst allegations the candidate made against her–that she’s a porn star with drug cartel connections–are false, according to fact-checking news outlets. Trump’s obsession with Machado reinforced perceptions that he is vindictive, has an uncontrollable temper and is delusional about constant conspiracies against him. ...
Donald Trump can’t stop talking about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado to the point of obsession, leaving his campaign floundering. Conservative supporters are desperately trying to get him refocused on issues like jobs and the economy. Trump, however, has shown no interest in talking about issues on the campaign trail. Instead he’s focused on smearing Machado any way he can. ...
Hillary Clinton has taken the lead in five key battleground states that Donald Trump must carry to have a chance at winning the election, according to the latest scientific poll. The results show the focus is shifting to Trump’s ineptness following Monday’s debate. Clinton appeared cool and competent during the 90-minute meeting. In the process, she dispelled any misgivings about her health....
Donald Trump’s “hateful and violent” rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail sparked a protest by a Jewish group today (Sept. 29) outside Trump Tower in New York City. The GOP candidate is trailing badly among Jewish voters nationwide because of his perceived anti-Semitic views. Trump didn’t help dispel concerns at a rally in Iowa yesterday (Sept. 28) after he asked “non-Christians” to identify themselves....
Donald Trump, a climate change denier who promises to allow unlimited fossil fuel production, has been denounced by more than 700 of the nation’s top scientists for a “dangerous rejection of scientific thinking” and an “embrace of conspiracy theories, anti-science attitudes.” The issue came up during Monday’s presidential debate when Democratic rival Hillary Clinton chided Trump for calling climate change a conspiracy perpetrated by the Chinese. ...
Howard Dean, a medical doctor and former Democratic party head, is refusing to back down on his remark that Donald Trump was acting like a coke head during Monday’s presidential debate. He touched off an uproar among right wingers and Fox News that was rich with hypocrisy. Dean made an almost passing remark in a Tweet that has since become a lightning rod for right wing outrage. ...
Hillary Clinton was the clear winner against rival Donald Trump in Monday night’s presidential debate, according to one of the first scientific polls. Clinton also scored another coup, becoming the first Democrat endorsed by Arizona’s leading newspaper in 126 years. The editorial board wrote that the choice came down to temperament....
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, whom Donald Trump immortalized her as “Miss Piggy,” appeared on the “Today” show this morning and told how Trump’s repeated insults when she was only a teenager destroyed her self-esteem and led to eating disorders. The GOP presidential candidate ridiculed her with names like “Miss Piggy, Miss Housekeeping, Miss Eating Machine."...
