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Donald Trump just downgraded Hillary Clinton from ‘the devil’ to the ‘founder of ISIS’

August 3, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/03/donald-trump-just-downgraded-hillary-clinton-from-the-devil-to-the-founder-of-isis/ [with embedded video, and comments]


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Trump’s absurd charge that Clinton raised $60 million in July from just 20 people

“You know, numbers just came out for her [Hillary Clinton] where she raised like $50 or $60 million and 20 people gave it. I think it was — let’s see, 20 people gave her $60 million in her fund. $60 million from 20 people. I want to get a list of those 20 people. Oh, those 20 people, I want to find out who they are, I want to find out how many I know. But I’ll tell you what, 20 people gave her $60 million. And that’s what I’ve been saying, folks. Look, I know the game better than anybody and the game is played that way. They own her. They own her.”
— Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Ashburn, Va., Aug. 2, 2016

August 4, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/04/trumps-absurd-charge-that-clinton-raised-60-million-in-july-from-just-20-people/ [with comments]


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Billionaire Seth Klarman Slams Trump, Vows To Fight For Clinton

“His words and actions over the last several days are so shockingly unacceptable in our diverse and democratic society that it is simply unthinkable that Donald Trump could become our president.”
08/03/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seth-klarman-trump-clinton_us_57a285e4e4b0e1aac914bdae [with comments]


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Donald Trump's Many Business Failures, Explained

Jim Williams, of Calvi Electric, lowers the 'M' letter from the signage of Trump Plaza Casino to his co-workers Tony Demidio and Steven Nordaby in Atlantic City, New Jersey October 6, 2014.
Newsweek Cover Story
8/2/16
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html [with embedded video, and comments]


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Clint Eastwood Rips ‘Pussy Generation,’ Says He’ll Vote For Donald Trump

“Everybody’s getting tired of political correctness.”
08/04/2016
Clint Eastwood is calling out the “pussy generation” for being too politically correct, and says anyone offended by Donald Trump’s history of racist remarks should “just fucking get over it [ http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a46893/double-trouble-clint-and-scott-eastwood/?src=socialflowTW ].” 
[...]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clint-eastwood-donald-trump_us_57a299c5e4b0104052a1443d [with (separate) embedded video, and comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGl-4gByV4 [comments disabled]


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Donald Trump makes his most dangerous comments yet


[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-shallowness-runs-deep/2016/08/03/f7311b20-58d3-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ]

By Ruth Marcus
August 3, 2016

Of all the dangerous things Donald Trump has said, perhaps the most concerning is his assertion that the election might be rigged. This irresponsible, unsupported suggestion augurs poorly for Trump’s behavior in the increasingly likely event of his loss.

“The election’s going to be rigged,” Trump warned at a rally in Ohio [ http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/donald-trump-election-2016-rigged/ ]. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged,” he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity [ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/01/donald-trump-im-afraid-the-election-is-going-to-be-rigged/ ].

Those comments set the stage for an explosive outcome the likes of which this country has never seen. It is not far-fetched to imagine Trump inciting his partisans against accepting the verdict of voters, further inflaming an already toxic political climate in Washington.

As much as Republicans sought to ensure President Obama’s failure from the moment of his election, their animus toward a President Hillary Clinton would be that much greater — even without Trump piling on. Clinton would enter office as a more divisive figure; after all, the GOP argument that she is disqualified to hold the office, whether by virtue of Benghazi or emails, preceded Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” attack.

If Clinton is elected, Republicans will have been shut out of the White House for three elections in a row, for the first time since 1948. And if Democrats retake control of the Senate, Republicans eyeing the 2018 map [ http://www.rollcall.com/news/home/for-democrats-2018-senate-math-is-daunting ] — when 25 Democrats (and independents caucusing with Democrats) and only eight Republicans face reelection — would have every incentive to impede Clinton’s initiatives. They would try to make her not just a one-term president but a two-year one.

Add to this predictable ugliness a losing nominee who rouses supporters with assertions that the election was somehow stolen from him and you have a recipe for turmoil of a most un-American variety.

Just how un-American can be judged by looking to Al Gore’s gracious concession to George W. Bush. The Democratic nominee had won the popular vote; he had every reason to believe that, but for a botched election and a butterfly ballot in Florida, he would have won the electoral college majority as well.

Nonetheless, Gore, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling, spoke of meeting with Bush [ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/us/43rd-president-his-remarks-gore-says-he-will-help-bush-bring-american-together.html ] “so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we’ve just passed.” He invoked Sen. Stephen Douglas [ https://books.google.com/books?id=1q0hcy1F2dMC&pg=RA1-PA122&lpg=RA1-PA122&dq=This+is+America,+and+we+put+country+before+party.+We+will+stand+together+behind+our+new+president&source=bl&ots=10ygPsv15c&sig=4MdSgkRAT4-o7_T352Yu-G6id_c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP3rCWhqbOAhWC6SYKHfBgBBcQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=This%20is%20America%2C%20and%20we%20put%20country%20before%20party.%20We%20will%20stand%20together%20behind%20our%20new%20president ] on being defeated by Abraham Lincoln — “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism” — and added, “This is America, and we put country before party. We will stand together behind our new president.”

There is every reason, from his current comments and his past history, to think that Trump would respond in a different, far less elevated manner. Consider Trump 2012, who unleashed a stream of unhinged tweeting about Mitt Romney’s loss — unearthed by my Post colleague Stephen Stromberg [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/02/someone-is-trying-to-rig-the-election-its-just-not-who-donald-trump-claims/ ].

The president “lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country,” Trump proclaimed, although Obama in fact won both the popular vote and the electoral college. A few minutes later: “The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” A few minutes later: “We should march on Washington and stop this travesty.”

Trump notwithstanding, the election was not “a total sham.” The electoral college, for better or worse, is specified in the Constitution. Calling for revolution? Imagine what Trump might do when the loser is himself.

In his interview with The Post’s Philip Rucker [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-refuses-to-endorse-paul-ryan-in-gop-primary-im-just-not-quite-there-yet/2016/08/02/1449f028-58e9-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ], Trump offered an unsettling preview. The United States, Rucker noted, has a tradition in which losers “concede graciously and try to get their supporters on board like Al Gore did in 2000. Would you?”

Trump [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/03/donald-trump-has-a-secret-state-strategy-that-you-cant-know-about/ ]: “I don’t want to jump the gun. I don’t want to talk about that. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be surprised if the election .?.?. there’s a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged.”

Trump’s evidence, such as it is, of prospective rigging involves the string of recent court rulings invalidating voter-ID laws [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-tide-turns-against-the-gops-voting-restrictions/2016/08/02/ce2077a4-58c8-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html ] and the phantom menace of voter fraud. “The voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development,” Trump claimed to Rucker. “We may have people vote 10 times.”

There is no such evidence. The provisions of North Carolina’s restrictive voting law [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-strikes-down-north-carolinas-voter-id-law/2016/07/29/810b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html ], a federal appeals court just ruled, “impose cures for problems that did not exist.”

Trump is dangerous, and the threat he poses might not be extinguished by a loss at the polls.

Read more:

Stephen Stromberg: Someone is trying to rig the election. It’s just not who Donald Trump claims.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/02/someone-is-trying-to-rig-the-election-its-just-not-who-donald-trump-claims/

E.J. Dionne: The Republican Party has lost its soul
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-republican-party-has-lost-its-soul/2016/08/03/3e96dc00-59ad-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html

James Downie: It’s too late for Republicans to retract their Trump endorsements
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/03/its-too-late-for-republicans-to-retract-their-trump-endorsements/

© 2016 The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-makes-his-most-dangerous-comments-yet/2016/08/03/ed5722ba-59b0-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]


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Big Election Fraud News/ Hillary Health Problems.

Published on Aug 3, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

Big historic news alert on Hillary's plan to steal the election. Tomorrow on the Alex Jones Show 11:00am central to 3:00pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3gti-f57Y [with comments]


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Georgia Republican quits as a member of the electoral college because he can't bring himself to vote for Trump

Donald Trump, speaking at a rally in Florida last night, was described by Baoky Vu as being responsible for 'despicable demaoguery'.
Baoky Vu, a businessman from Decatur, says he cannot vote for Trump
Georgia one of 21 states which allow electors to vote for other candidates
But he has now resigned and the GOP is looking for a replacement
3 August 2016 Updated: 4 August 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3722651/Georgia-GOP-elector-resigns-anti-Trump-comments.html [with comments]


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