September 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” moment blew up on the campaign trail last weekend like the major gaffe everyone had been waiting for. Donald Trump had new ammunition for the home stretch — a moment echoing Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment that made clear just how much he disdained a wide swath of America. The […]
September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump is in “excellent physical health,” his physician wrote in a medical note released Thursday by the Republican nominee’s campaign. The campaign said Trump’s latest physical took place last Friday, administered by his doctor of nearly 36 years, Harold Bornstein of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Bornstein grabbed headlines last year with his […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump surrogate Mike Huckabee pounced on Bill Clinton’s mistaken pronouncement of his wife’s condition as the “flu” rather than the diagnosed case of pneumonia, suggesting Thursday that there is a “cover-up” about the Democratic nominee’s health similar to the concealment operation that doomed the presidency of Richard Nixon. “Well you know one of the […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump’s newfound commitment to message discipline and restraint showed some cracks on Thursday, with the Republican nominee attacking an African-American pastor who cut off his political speech in a Flint, Michigan, church. “Well, I was in Flint yesterday and it was a very interesting experience and got unbelievably good treatment from people, I must […]
September 15, 2016
For Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, Donald Trump’s sit-down with television host and doctor Mehmet Oz is a “marriage made in heaven” of “two snake oil salesmen.” The ardent Clinton supporter famously grilled Oz during a 2014 hearing for hawking “miracle” products. “Yeah. Dr. Oz,” the Democratic senator remarked at the end of an interview on […]
September 15, 2016
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is trying to leverage the FBI’s unusual embrace of transparency around Hillary Clinton’s email investigation as a means to get answers about why more banking executives were not punished after the 2008 financial crisis. The Massachusetts Democrat is calling on FBI Director James Comey to explain how the bureau responded to referrals […]
September 15, 2016
Mike Pence on Thursday declined to engage with questioning about former Secretary of State Colin Powell calling running mate Donald Trump a “national disgrace” in a leaked email, remarking that Powell is “entitled to his opinion.” “I’m certainly willing to sit down and have a conversation with him,” the Indiana governor said during a 10-minute […]
September 15, 2016
When it comes to why Donald Trump has not released his tax returns, the Republican nominee’s eldest son suggested that it would be a distraction. “Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from (his father’s) main message,” […]
September 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton is keeping quiet about the contents of newly leaked messages from the personal email account of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had harsh criticisms of the Democratic nominee, the former Bush administration, and Donald Trump. “I’m not going to comment on anything that is said in a private email,” Clinton told […]