September 16, 2016
The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump for president on Friday, praising the Republican nominee’s “real commitment to law enforcement.” Trump met with the 330,000-member police union in early August and its endorsement bolsters his claim that he is the “law and order candidate.” The order’s national president, Chuck Canterbury, said Hillary Clinton did […]
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump only had 67 words to say about his long flirtation with the fiction that President Barack Obama was not born in America. But on Friday, allies of Hillary Clinton had far more to say in response. Before, during and after Trump’s event at his hotel in D.C., Clinton backers took to Twitter and […]
September 16, 2016
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama “doesn’t much care” whether or not he gets an apology from Donald Trump over the GOP nominee’s long-held contention that the president was not born in the United States. Trump was in Washington Friday for a campaign event at his newly-opened hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, […]
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump did not apologize Friday for driving one of the uglier, most blatantly racist narratives in American political culture during the Obama presidency. The most prominent proponent of the birther movement, and now the GOP presidential nominee, instead lied about his role in conspiracy theory’s popularity and, without any evidence, attempted to pin the […]
September 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign ripped into Donald Trump on Friday for tersely conceding that President Barack Obama was born in the United States while accusing the Democratic nominee of starting the theory during the 2008 primary. “Trump’s actions today were disgraceful. After five years of pushing a racist conspiracy theory into the mainstream, it was appalling […]
September 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump’s call for a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico is still hitting a wall with a majority of Americans likely to vote in November, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, which also found broad general support for immigrants across partisan lines. More than half of respondents—53 percent—said they are […]
September 16, 2016
In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour. According to members of the traveling press pool, after it was made clear that only […]
September 16, 2016
Former President Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau on Friday accused Ari Fleischer of knowingly lying about Hillary Clinton’s role in starting the birther conspiracy movement. “You’re lying, Ari — and you’re smart enough to know you’re lying, which makes it even worse,” Favreau tweeted at Fleischer, a former press secretary to former President George W. […]