Eliyohu Mintz

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Trump presses Clinton on growth of ISIS

September 27, 2016

Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton has spent her “entire adult life” fighting the Islamic State and will never be able to defeat the terrorist group. Clinton retorted that Trump “has no plan” to fight the radical group, and put him on the defensive over his past support for the Iraq War. The foreign policy section […]


Giuliani: I’d skip next debates if I were Trump

September 27, 2016

Donald Trump should skip the next two debates unless he gets special guarantees from the moderators, former New York mayor and top Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani told reporters after the debate. Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor who moderated the debate, should be “ashamed of himself,” Giuliani said after the debate. He said Holt was […]


Trump: My mic was ‘defective’

September 27, 2016

Republican nominee Donald J. Trump complained in the spin room that his debate mic wasn’t working right, according to a video posted by a CBS journalist. “They gave me a defective mic!” he told reporters. “[I] wonder, was that on purpose?” It wasn’t the first time Trump suggested he was given a faulty microphone. At […]


Trump needed to be an 11. He was barely a 4

September 27, 2016

Donald Trump knows how to work a Republican room. Give him that. Give him a gym packed full of yahoos wearing backwards baseball caps and he’ll bring down the rafters. But give him a debate crowd where they let Democrats and independents in, well, he doesn’t play so well. Some candidates give energy to the […]


Trump’s economic pitch misses the strike zone

September 27, 2016

Donald Trump enjoyed his strongest moments of the first presidential debate railing about trade deals crushing manufacturing jobs and then ripping the slowest economic recovery since World War II. But when it came to his specific plans to make things better, Trump came up short and ran into a details-obsessed opponent who shredded the GOP […]


Lester Holt stays out of the way

September 27, 2016

Lester Holt was on an island on Monday night. And for most of the first presidential debate, he stayed there, letting the battleships of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shoot their missiles at one another. It made for some memorable exchanges between Trump and Clinton, matched in close-up on most networks. For some debate watchers, […]


Trump: ‘I was going to say something extremely rough’ to Clinton

September 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton didn’t hold back in her attacks on Donald Trump Monday night, but Donald Trump intimated that he pulled a key punch — passing on making a reference to Bill Clinton’s past infidelities. “I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary, to her family, and I said to myself, I can’t do it,” […]