Tuesday, October 11, 2016 9:28:59 PM
Crazy Trump declares war on GOP, says ‘the shackles have been taken off’
Donald Trump started attacking members of his own party in a series of tweets Tuesday after many Republicans rescinded their support.
VIDEO:
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(Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz October 11 at 8:26 PM
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-gop-tumbles-toward-anarchy-its-every-person-for-himself-or-herself/2016/10/10/31bc6d24-8f13-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html ] he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
Donald Trump started attacking members of his own party in a series of tweets Tuesday after many Republicans rescinded their support for the presidential nominee. The Fix's Chris Cillizza weighs in on the unprecedented unraveling of the GOP. (Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz October 11 at 8:26 PM
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
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Top of the Ticket cartoon (David Horsey/ Los Angeles Times)
David Horsey
The second presidential debate was a grim and dispiriting slog through the gutter of American politics; an international embarrassment for the country that claims to be the world’s greatest democracy.
Over the last year, through a long string of debates, there have been occasional uplifting moments — most coming during the tough but cordial face-offs between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton — but the truly awful moments have been far more abundant, and the one thing they have had in common is Donald Trump.
Trump surrogates were gleeful about their man’s performance. Indeed, Trump successfully steered the discussion in his direction most of the time. But he did not do it with brilliant wit, mastery of facts or inspiring vision. He did it by interrupting frequently, whining petulantly about the moderators’ perceived unfairness and by dodging questions as he pivoted back to an angry torrent of bogus assertions.
As we have learned throughout this marathon campaign, Trump masks his ignorance and inadequacy with fallacious statements and brash boasts. Sunday night was no different. He discounted solid evidence of Russian hackers meddling in the election process, interpreting such stories as a fabrications meant to attack him. He insisted that Clinton has a scheme to raise taxes steeply on everyone when, in fact, her tax plan would affect no one making less than $250,000 a year. He touted his own tax plan as a great deal for the country without noting that it would provide an even bigger windfall to billionaires than the budget-busting tax giveaway that President George W. Bush enacted early in his first term.
Trump also was physically overbearing. He restlessly roamed around his chair, mugged like a mobster in split screen shots and loomed menacingly in the background as Clinton was speaking.
His intimidation game hit an alarming level when he said he will order a special prosecutor to look into Clinton’s handling of State Department email if he wins the presidency. When, in response, Clinton said, “It’s good someone with your temperament is not in charge of the law in this country,” he retorted, “Because you’d be in jail.” It was the sort of threat one hears in Putin’s Russia or from Third World authoritarians, but was a first for an American presidential campaign.
And then there was the stunt with Clinton accusers Kathleen Willey, Juanita Brodderick, Paula Jones and Kathy Shelton. (Willey, Brodderick and Jones have made well-publicized, 2-decades-old claims of being sexually assaulted by former president Bill Clinton; Shelton, in 1975, was a 12-year-old sexual assault victim when Hillary Clinton was assigned by a judge to act as counsel for Shelton’s attacker.) Having had his own campaign spun into crisis last Friday by revelation of a video in which Trump says some especially degrading things about women, Trump chose to deflect criticism from himself by holding a surprise news conference with the four women only a couple of hours prior to the start of the debate. He then brought them to the debate site.
According to Robert Costas of the Washington Post, the Trump campaign intended to have the Clinton accusers sit in the family box during the debate and were hopeful they would confront Bill Clinton at some point in the proceedings. The scheme did not work. Backstage, Trump campaign officials, including ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, were told by Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, that their provocation would not be allowed, Costas reports. Now, of course, the Trumpistas want Fahrenkopf, a Reagan-era chair of the Republican National Committee, removed from his role in the debates.
When debate moderator Anderson Cooper asked Trump to answer for his own misogynistic words and deeds, Trump passed it off as “locker room talk” and spun into a disjointed ramble about Islamic State and protecting the borders. When the topic persisted, he turned attention to the four women and Bill and Hillary Clinton’s sins against them — sins, he assured everyone, that were far worse than his own.
Trump certainly was successful in reminding us of the seaminess that soiled American politics in the 1990s, but he also gave ample demonstration of how he himself has encouraged some of the worst impulses in the American soul from the day he started his campaign for the highest office in the land.
David.Horsey@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-debate-debased-20161010-snap-story.html
Donald Trump started attacking members of his own party in a series of tweets Tuesday after many Republicans rescinded their support.
VIDEO:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-declares-war-on-the-republican-party-four-weeks-before-election-day/2016/10/11/93b21dc4-8fc9-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpbacklash-210pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
(Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz October 11 at 8:26 PM
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-gop-tumbles-toward-anarchy-its-every-person-for-himself-or-herself/2016/10/10/31bc6d24-8f13-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html ] he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
Donald Trump started attacking members of his own party in a series of tweets Tuesday after many Republicans rescinded their support for the presidential nominee. The Fix's Chris Cillizza weighs in on the unprecedented unraveling of the GOP. (Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz October 11 at 8:26 PM
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-declares-war-on-the-republican-party-four-weeks-before-election-day/2016/10/11/93b21dc4-8fc9-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpbacklash-210pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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Top of the Ticket cartoon (David Horsey/ Los Angeles Times)
David Horsey
The second presidential debate was a grim and dispiriting slog through the gutter of American politics; an international embarrassment for the country that claims to be the world’s greatest democracy.
Over the last year, through a long string of debates, there have been occasional uplifting moments — most coming during the tough but cordial face-offs between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton — but the truly awful moments have been far more abundant, and the one thing they have had in common is Donald Trump.
Trump surrogates were gleeful about their man’s performance. Indeed, Trump successfully steered the discussion in his direction most of the time. But he did not do it with brilliant wit, mastery of facts or inspiring vision. He did it by interrupting frequently, whining petulantly about the moderators’ perceived unfairness and by dodging questions as he pivoted back to an angry torrent of bogus assertions.
As we have learned throughout this marathon campaign, Trump masks his ignorance and inadequacy with fallacious statements and brash boasts. Sunday night was no different. He discounted solid evidence of Russian hackers meddling in the election process, interpreting such stories as a fabrications meant to attack him. He insisted that Clinton has a scheme to raise taxes steeply on everyone when, in fact, her tax plan would affect no one making less than $250,000 a year. He touted his own tax plan as a great deal for the country without noting that it would provide an even bigger windfall to billionaires than the budget-busting tax giveaway that President George W. Bush enacted early in his first term.
Trump also was physically overbearing. He restlessly roamed around his chair, mugged like a mobster in split screen shots and loomed menacingly in the background as Clinton was speaking.
His intimidation game hit an alarming level when he said he will order a special prosecutor to look into Clinton’s handling of State Department email if he wins the presidency. When, in response, Clinton said, “It’s good someone with your temperament is not in charge of the law in this country,” he retorted, “Because you’d be in jail.” It was the sort of threat one hears in Putin’s Russia or from Third World authoritarians, but was a first for an American presidential campaign.
And then there was the stunt with Clinton accusers Kathleen Willey, Juanita Brodderick, Paula Jones and Kathy Shelton. (Willey, Brodderick and Jones have made well-publicized, 2-decades-old claims of being sexually assaulted by former president Bill Clinton; Shelton, in 1975, was a 12-year-old sexual assault victim when Hillary Clinton was assigned by a judge to act as counsel for Shelton’s attacker.) Having had his own campaign spun into crisis last Friday by revelation of a video in which Trump says some especially degrading things about women, Trump chose to deflect criticism from himself by holding a surprise news conference with the four women only a couple of hours prior to the start of the debate. He then brought them to the debate site.
According to Robert Costas of the Washington Post, the Trump campaign intended to have the Clinton accusers sit in the family box during the debate and were hopeful they would confront Bill Clinton at some point in the proceedings. The scheme did not work. Backstage, Trump campaign officials, including ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, were told by Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, that their provocation would not be allowed, Costas reports. Now, of course, the Trumpistas want Fahrenkopf, a Reagan-era chair of the Republican National Committee, removed from his role in the debates.
When debate moderator Anderson Cooper asked Trump to answer for his own misogynistic words and deeds, Trump passed it off as “locker room talk” and spun into a disjointed ramble about Islamic State and protecting the borders. When the topic persisted, he turned attention to the four women and Bill and Hillary Clinton’s sins against them — sins, he assured everyone, that were far worse than his own.
Trump certainly was successful in reminding us of the seaminess that soiled American politics in the 1990s, but he also gave ample demonstration of how he himself has encouraged some of the worst impulses in the American soul from the day he started his campaign for the highest office in the land.
David.Horsey@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-debate-debased-20161010-snap-story.html
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