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Sunday, August 14, 2016 8:38:01 AM
How Much Does Donald Trump Pay in Taxes? It Could Be Zero
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/business/how-much-does-donald-trump-pay-in-taxes-it-could-be-zero.html [with embedded video report ( http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004588071/james-b-stewart-on-trumps-taxes.html )], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6yBDZ9zRVg [the same as the embedded video report; with comments]
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Donald Trump’s Other Campaign Foe: The ‘Lowest Form of Life’ News Media
Donald J. Trump aired his complaints over the media’s coverage of his presidential campaign at a rally in Altoona, Pa., on Friday.
AUG. 12, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-isis.html
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The Latest: Trump threatens to pull credentials of NY Times
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Fairfield, Conn.
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-trump-seeks-support-in-democratic-friendly-conn/2016/08/13/25d772cc-61b6-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html (with comments)]
Aug. 13, 2016
Donald Trump is threatening to take away the campaign press credentials of The New York Times.
Trump is frequently critical of the Times and upped his attacks on the newspaper during a Saturday night rally in Fairfield, Connecticut [full video last item this post].
Trump denounced the paper's recent coverage of him and said, "Maybe we'll start taking the press credentials away."
Sharp criticism of the media is a staple of Trump rallies. He incited the crowd in Connecticut to jeer the reporters more than a half-dozen times in the first minutes of his rally.
Trump says he's not running against the Democratic nominee he calls "crooked Hillary" but "the crooked media."
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http://elections.ap.org/content/latest-trump-threatens-pull-credentials-ny-times
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A Reminder That Donald Trump Did Not Oppose The Iraq War From The Very Beginning
The GOP nominee keeps saying he opposed the Iraq war from the start. He didn’t.
08/11/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-iraq-war_us_57acdbb1e4b007c36e4dc5c6 [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn’t.
08/13/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-afghanistan-trump_us_57af33d8e4b007c36e4ef660 [with embedded video, and comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYPJK4ZuQJ4 [includes the portion included in the embedded video; with comments]
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First of Its Kind Study of 'Sexual Minority' Youth Finds Them at Risk of Violence
Aug 11, 2016
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kind-study-sexual-minority-youth-finds-risk-violence/story?id=41297955 [with comments]
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Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/disparities/smy.htm
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Gay and Lesbian High School Students Report ‘Heartbreaking’ Levels of Violence
Members of the Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth marched at the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade in April.
AUG. 11, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/health/gay-lesbian-teenagers-violence.html [with comments]
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Trump touts child care programs, but they're for guests only
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs during a campaign rally at the BB&T Center, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Sunrise, Fla.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
By JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY
Aug. 11, 2016 5:07 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump vowed this week to make child care more accessible and affordable, it was just the second time during his White House campaign that he's talked about an issue that affects millions of working Americans with young children.
The first came months ago in Iowa, when the eventual Republican nominee touted his own record as a business owner during a candidate Q&A, telling voters he provided on-site child-care service for his employees.
There is no evidence, however, that any such programs exist.
The billionaire real estate mogul, who previously voiced his opposition to government-funded universal pre-K programs, said in Newton, Iowa, in November 2015 that he had visited many companies that offered workers on-site child-care centers — and added that he offered such programs himself.
"You know, it's not expensive for a company to do it. You need one person or two people, and you need some blocks, and you need some swings and some toys," Trump said. "It's not an expensive thing, and I do it all over. And I get great people because of it. Because it's a problem with a lot of other companies."
Trump pointed specifically to two programs: "They call 'em Trump Kids. Another one calls it Trumpeteers, if you can believe it. I have 'em. I actually have 'em, because I have a lot of different businesses."
Trump went on to describe "a room that's a quarter of the size of this. And they have all sorts of — you know, it's beautiful — they have a lot of children there, and we take care of them. And the parent when they leave the job — usually in my case it's clubs or hotels — when they leave the job, they pick up their child and their child is totally safe."
"They even come in during the day during lunch to see their child. It really works out well," he said.
But the two programs Trump cited — "Trump Kids" and "Trumpeteers" — are programs catering to patrons of Trump's hotels and golf club. They are not for Trump's employees, according to staff at Trump's hotels and clubs across the country.
"Trump Kids" is described on the Trump Hotel Collection website as "a special travel program designed to help make your next family vacation a big hit." Its offerings include "kid-friendly amenities like kiddie cocktails, coloring books and no-tear bath amenities."
"The Trumpeteer Program" is described on the website of Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, as "a program created specifically for our youngest members, ages three to twelve, which offers daily and evening child care, monthly newsletters and weekly events!"
When asked about on-site child care, employees at Trump's hotels and clubs across the country expressed confusion and explained the two programs are for guests and members only.
"No, there's no child care," said Maria Jaramillo, 36, a housekeeper at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, where workers have been pushing Trump to sign a union contract.
Jaramillo is a mother of four children who has worked at the hotel for nearly eight years.
"It would make it much more easy to take our kids to day care at work," she said and laughed when told of Trump's comments from Iowa about child care. "If they have child care, at least they should tell us."
A collection of Trump employee handbooks makes no mention of child care. The online Trump Hotels "employee benefits" section lists health care, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, complimentary golf and an internet café, but no on-site child care services.
In New York, where the Trump Organization is based, the city's health department database of child care centers has no record of any licensed facilities at any of Trump's properties, aside from a private school that leases space at 40 Wall Street.
Asked directly whether Trump's businesses offered child care to employees, his presidential campaign responded with a statement from Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel at the Trump Organization.
"The Trump Organization is very proud of the family-friendly environment it fosters throughout its portfolio," she said. "The policies and practices allowing employees to enjoy a healthy work-life balance vary from property to property. We take an individualized approach to helping employees manage family and work responsibilities."
The campaign did not respond to follow up questions, or agree to make Martin available for an interview.
Trump on Monday proposed new tax exemptions for child care as part of what his aides say will be a larger push to make child care more accessible and affordable to working-class families. Child care is a top expense for many families, surpassing the cost of college and even housing in many states.
"They're suffering, they're suffering," Trump said. "We're going to get them this much-needed relief."
Trump has credited his embrace of the issue to his daughter Ivanka, who vouched for her father's treatment of his employees at the Republican National Convention last month. "When a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out," she said.
The new policy is a departure from Trump's comments on the issue during the GOP primaries. In an interview with Fox News Business in October 2015, Trump expressed skepticism about paid family leave and said he opposed the idea of free pre-K.
"Well, I don't like it, because eventually you're going to have to raise everybody's taxes," he said. "There is no such thing as free."
© 2016 Associated Press
http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/427e5f6dd29c4c30a99486cdf34cd054/trump-touts-child-care-programs-theyre-guests-only
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Trump demanded Obama’s records. But he’s not releasing his own.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pa.
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Donald Trump's evolution on candidate tax returns
Donald Trump's stance on presidential candidate tax returns has changed significantly over the years. Here's how.
By Jenna Johnson
August 12, 2016
Donald Trump’s unflinching antagonism toward illegal immigration has galvanized activists who have grown to mistrust politicians on the issue, even those who have claimed to be as committed to the cause as they are.
And yet, for some, there is one nagging question that the candidate seems content to let linger — whether Trump’s Slovenian-born wife followed the law [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/many-questions-and-few-answers-about-how-melania-trump-immigrated-to-the-us/2016/08/04/0c13cc1a-5a3f-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ] when she moved to the United States.
“Let them go wild, let it simmer, and then let’s have a little news conference,” Trump said at a rally this week, describing his strategy for handling those asking about his wife.
Mark Krikorian, a leading activist against illegal immigration, does not want to let it simmer. He wants an answer.
“Immigration is a big issue, and she is going to be first lady,” Krikorian said. “It matters.”
Years before he ran for the White House, Trump built his political brand by accusing President Obama of concealing his past. Trump called on Obama to release his college applications, transcripts and other records, asking how such a “terrible student” got into Ivy League schools. The business executive also demanded that Obama release his passport records and, most famously, his birth certificate, declaring in a video ["From the Desk of Donald Trump: Major Announcement", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOq9pBkY0I (next below; comments disabled)]
But Trump has ensured that Americans know relatively little about him.
He has refused to release many of the same documents that he demanded from Obama, including college transcripts and passport records. He has shirked the decades-old tradition of major nominees releasing their tax returns [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/26/inside-the-5-theories-for-why-donald-trump-isnt-releasing-his-tax-returns/ ] and other documentation to prove their readiness and fitness for office. And he has yet to release records showing why he received a medical deferment during the Vietnam War and whether he has actually donated the millions of dollars he claims to have given to charity.
While Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has hit Trump on his tax returns, saying this week that he “refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done,” Trump allies feel that Clinton has her own vulnerabilities when it comes to secrecy. Republicans have alleged that Clinton deleted thousands of emails from her private server to conceal favors done by her State Department for donors to her family’s charitable foundation — a charge Clinton has denied. And conservatives have called on Clinton, 68, to release her full medical records, citing a 2012 fainting episode in which she suffered a concussion. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and former GOP candidate, told Fox News this week that the information is “critical” for voters.
But Trump, in building a wall around his records, is setting a new standard for secrecy for modern-day candidates.
All other major presidential nominees from both parties since 1976 have released their tax returns. Last summer, Clinton released returns from 2007 to 2014, and her campaign on Friday shared her 2015 return [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-releases-2015-tax-return-calls-on-trump-to-release-his/2016/08/12/759bf95a-60a7-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html ], as well as 10 years of returns from her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Trump’s lack of disclosure has left Americans to take his word for it when he brags about his wealth and charitable donations. In May, Trump filed a lengthy financial disclosure with federal regulators that claimed business had been booming at many of his properties. He issued a news release [ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-files-personal-financial-disclosure-form-with-the-federal-e ] claiming to be worth $10 billion. But Trump provided no documentation to back up the claims.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for all of the documents mentioned in this story, nor did it respond to questions about why it was not releasing the records.
Trump’s approach reflects a calculation that weathering the criticism for withholding documents is more politically palatable than the scrutiny that would come from giving the information to Trump’s opponents and what his campaign sees as an unfair media.
“You give the New York Times 20,000 pages of tax returns, they will give you 20,000 pages of defamation of character,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has advised Trump and was on his running mate shortlist.
Trump and his campaign have said there is nothing for voters to learn from these sorts of documents and that calls for their release were manufactured by the media.
“The only people who want the tax returns are the people who want to defeat him,” Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, said in May.
Trump’s tax filings would provide details such as how much money Trump makes, how much he gives to charity and the extent to which he has benefited from special exemptions and credits to minimize his tax rate. The tax returns would also show what Trump declares as business expenses and whether he keeps foreign accounts.
Some details have trickled out, revealing that Trump has a history of shrinking his tax burden. According to filings, legal documents and other public records, he paid no federal income taxes for at least five years — 1978, 1979, 1984, 1991 and 1993. Tax analysts say it is possible that Trump has continued to pay little to no income taxes thanks to generous tax deductions, including real estate depreciation. In May, Trump said he fights “very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”
Before he was a candidate, Trump presented himself as a champion of disclosure, particularly when it came to tax returns.
In 2011, he said he would release his filings if Obama released his long-form birth certificate.
Ahead of the 2012 election, Trump criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for delaying the release of his tax returns, saying, “It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money.” Romney ended up releasing two years of tax returns, leading to criticism of his relatively low tax rate — a result that Trump recently cited in explaining his own reasons for not releasing.
Romney has called Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns “disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee” and has speculated that Trump must be hiding a “bombshell of unusual size.”
In 2014, Trump said he would “absolutely” release the returns “if I decide to run for office.” In 2015, he said his disclosure was contingent on finding “out the true story on Hillary’s emails.”
In January, Trump said he was almost ready to disclose his “very big ... very beautiful” returns. But a month later, Trump reversed course, citing ongoing Internal Revenue Service audits of several years of his taxes.
An IRS spokesman said that nothing, including an audit, “prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.” And President Richard Nixon released his tax records while under audit.
Trump’s tax attorneys said in a letter [ https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Tax_Doc.pdf ] that his tax returns since 2009 are being audited. His attorneys also said that returns from 2002 to 2008 were no longer being audited, yet Trump said he will not release them because “they’re all linked.”
“I would give absolutely nothing until the audit is over,” Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, said on CNN on Thursday. “That’s my advice to Mr. Trump.”
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has yet to release his tax returns. Trump’s campaign and aides to Pence did not respond to requests for the returns.
Trump has also declined to release his educational records from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree and took undergraduate classes at the famed Wharton School, which was then called the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Trump has claimed that he was a top student at the Ivy League institution, although his name does not appear on lists of academic honors from the time.
While in college, Trump received four student deferments from the Vietnam War draft, and Trump has said that he received a fifth one for medical reasons [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html (at/see {linked in} http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124272067 and preceding and following)] because he had bone spurs that he says cleared up on their own. Trump has not produced the letter that he says he received from his doctor at the time documenting the problem.
Trump, 70, has also not released his medical records. Instead, in December, Trump released a four-paragraph letter from his doctor [ https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Health_Record.pdf ] stating that a recent medical examination “showed only positive results” but not providing documentation such as lab results.
The letter ends with the guarantee: “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
In July 2015, Clinton released a two-page letter from her doctor listing the results of several lab tests, including an electrocardiogram, cholesterol levels and cancer screening results.
In the past, a number of nominees have released their medical health records to prove that they are healthy and fit for the job. Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who was 72 when he was the GOP’s 2008 nominee and had suffered years of health problems since his time as a Vietnam War prisoner of war, released more than a thousand pages of medical records.
The questions about Melania Trump’s immigration status have emerged in the wake of newly published nude photographs of the former model.
Melania Trump has said she came to the country in 1996 on a visa that allowed her to work, but the photos were taken in New York in 1995. She met Donald Trump in 1998, and they were married in 2005. She has said she got a green card in 2001 and became a citizen in 2006.
“I follow a law the way it’s supposed to be,” she told MSNBC earlier this year. “I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa.”
Paolo Zampolli, an Italian-born business executive based in New York who once owned modeling agencies, told The Washington Post last week that his agency, Metropolitan Models, sponsored Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, for an H-1B work visa in 1996 after he spotted her while scouting models in Milan and Paris. Working models are eligible for an H-1B if they can show “distinguished merit or ability” in their field. Zampolli said Knauss qualified based on her past work as a model in Europe.
The campaign has not responded to requests for documentation to back up the account, or to explain the process through which Trump received her green card. And it is not clear when, or if, the campaign will schedule the news conference that Donald Trump mentioned this week.
“Let me set the record straight,” Melania Trump tweeted last week. “I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. Period.”
Drew Harwell, Mary Jordan, Abby Phillip and Karen Tumulty contributed to this report.
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Eight documents Trump has turned down requests to release
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/12/eight-documents-donald-trump-has-yet-to-fully-release/
Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-income-tax-returns-once-became-public-they-showed-he-didnt-pay-a-cent/2016/05/20/ffa2f63c-1b7c-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html
Many questions and few answers about how Melania Trump immigrated to the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/many-questions-and-few-answers-about-how-melania-trump-immigrated-to-the-us/2016/08/04/0c13cc1a-5a3f-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html
© 2016 The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-demanded-obamas-records-now-more-are-asking-where-are-trumps/2016/08/12/b536925a-5ff3-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html [with another embedded video, and (over 6,000) comments]
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Trump refuses to disclose his bundlers. What is he hiding?
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Aug. 10 in Sunrise, Fla.
(Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
By Editorial Board
August 12, 2016
“BIG BUSINESS, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place,” Donald Trump declared [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/full-text-donald-trumps-prepared-remarks-accepting-the-republican-nomination/ ] at the Republican National Convention last month. “She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.”
Never persuasive, this line of attack was at least less hypocritical when Mr. Trump largely self-funded his campaign. These days he is raking in donations — $80 million last month [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/paloma/the-daily-trail/2016/08/11/the-daily-trail-are-republicans-considering-dropping-donald-trump/57acca59cd249a2fe363ba14/ ], according to the campaign — and from bigwigs as well as small donors. Among others, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson [ http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-23/jets-owner-woody-johnson-said-to-back-trump ] and coal executive Joe Craft [ http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/28/trump-raise-money-kentucky/86484376/ ] are fundraising for the GOP nominee. So who, to use his formulation, is now pulling Mr. Trump’s strings?
Voters could get some answers if Mr. Trump would release, as have Hillary Clinton [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers_us_55a6f70ce4b0c5f0322c5852 ] and most recent candidates [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/15/jeb-bush-to-release-names-of-campaign-bundlers-joining-hillary-clinton/ ] before her, the names of his bundlers. These are the people who solicit large numbers of often medium-size checks and hand them over to campaigns. Though they do not necessarily give huge amounts of their own cash, bundlers rake in big sums for their candidates — and therefore pose a similar threat to the integrity of the political process. Even so, the law requires campaigns to disclose bundlers only when they are registered lobbyists. It is left to the campaigns to voluntarily provide more information.
Ms. Clinton has done so, releasing the names of some 500 bundlers. Mr. Trump, Politico’s Shane Goldmacher recently noted [ http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-fundraising-bundlers-226803 ], has not. Nor would the campaign discuss with Politico, or with us, its intentions with regard to this rudiment of transparency.
Such contempt for voters is not surprising. Mr. Trump also is thumbing his nose [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-still-waiting-on-your-tax-returns-mr-trump/2016/07/19/c87c4054-4de1-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html ] at the long tradition of major-party presidential nominees releasing their tax returns. He promised to do so. Ms. Clinton has released decades of hers, including her 2015 return, which she disclosed Friday [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-releases-2015-tax-return-calls-on-trump-to-release-his/2016/08/12/759bf95a-60a7-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html ]. Yet Mr. Trump continues to keep his “beautiful” tax documents under wraps.
Why the secrecy? With respect to bundlers, Mr. Trump might not want to draw attention to the special interests now backing him, and some of his bundlers might (understandably) be embarrassed to be outed. With respect to his tax returns, the candidate may not want to reveal that his business is not as successful as he claims, that he is stingy with charity or that he has compromising business relationships in Russia or elsewhere overseas.
No matter the reasons, Mr. Trump’s refusal to meet essential standards of transparency expresses contempt for the democratic process and erodes crucial norms. If voters reject him in November — and his secrecy provides yet another reason they should — we hope future presidential candidates will conclude that these traditions are not so easily discarded.
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The Post’s View: Voters are still waiting on your tax returns, Mr. Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-still-waiting-on-your-tax-returns-mr-trump/2016/07/19/c87c4054-4de1-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html
Ruth Marcus: Every presidential candidate should release full tax returns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/every-presidential-candidate-should-release-full-tax-returns/2016/04/12/e79af5b4-00c2-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html
The Post’s View: What’s Trump hiding by refusing to release his tax returns? Here are some ideas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/instead-of-releasing-his-taxes-donald-trump-offers-nothing-but-flimsy-excuses/2016/06/09/7e687110-2db9-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html
© 2016 The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-refuses-to-disclose-his-bundlers-what-is-he-hiding/2016/08/12/dcad6d4e-6012-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html [with comments]
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Hacker posts contact information for almost 200 congressional Democrats
August 12, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/12/hacker-posts-contact-information-for-more-than-200-congressional-democrats.html [with embedded video "Could hackers create an 'October surprise' for Clinton?", and comments] [original at http://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-reveals-personal-information-for-almost-200-democrats-1471048195 (with comments)]
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Pelosi bombarded with 'obscene and sick' calls, texts after cyber attack
August 13, 2016
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/13/pelosi-bombarded-obscene-and-sick-calls-texts-after-cyber-attack/88684466/ [with comments]
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Trump fires up recruitment of poll watchers, as he warns of election ‘cheating’
August 13, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-warns-of-election-cheating-as-he-fires-up-recruitment-of-poll-watchers/2016/08/13/cac7223c-617f-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html [with embedded videos, and comments]
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Donald Trump Is Asking You To Help Him Fight A Rigged Election
Published on Aug 13, 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 ]
Donald Trump is calling for your help to ensure this election isn't rigged for Hillary. Volunteer to be a Trump Election Observer at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/lp/volunteer-to-be-a-trump-election-observer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUx1D_Kjivs [with comments]
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How Donald Trump’s bizarre voter-watch effort could get the GOP in trouble
Trump supporters listen as the Republican presidential nominee speaks at a campaign rally at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, Pa.
August 13, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/13/how-donald-trumps-bizarre-voter-watch-effort-could-get-the-gop-in-trouble/ [with embedded video, and comments]
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Queens imam, assistant fatally shot after leaving mosque
Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee, a respected Queens imam, and Thara Uddin died after being shot from behind.
Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin (pictured) were dressed in Muslim garb when the shooter approached from behind and shot from point-blank range.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/drive-by-shooter-queens-gravely-injures-men-article-1.2749901 [with embedded video report], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_puFVbZ8Bw [same as the embedded video report; with comments]
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Shocker: UN Admits Migrant Crisis Plan To Overthrow West
Published on Aug 13, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones breaks down how Goldman Sachs and the UN are using a wave of Islamic migrants to destroy the sovereignty of Western Nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWizLUmJug4 [with comments]
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LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Fairfield Connecticut at Sacred Heart University (8/13/16)
Streamed live on Aug 13, 2016 by News Universe Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphqhXYTEptwkPO8JTPLXIg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphqhXYTEptwkPO8JTPLXIg/videos ]
Donald J. Trump at the William H. Pitt Center at the Campus of Sacred Heart University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFuEmTrffWA [Trump's performance, very slightly clipped at the very end (apparently common to all of the available YouTubes of the performance) begins at c. the 1:01:35 mark; with comments] [also at e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4FW6cKm08 (with comments)]
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AUG. 11, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/business/how-much-does-donald-trump-pay-in-taxes-it-could-be-zero.html [with embedded video report ( http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004588071/james-b-stewart-on-trumps-taxes.html )], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6yBDZ9zRVg [the same as the embedded video report; with comments]
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Donald Trump’s Other Campaign Foe: The ‘Lowest Form of Life’ News Media
Donald J. Trump aired his complaints over the media’s coverage of his presidential campaign at a rally in Altoona, Pa., on Friday.
AUG. 12, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-isis.html
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The Latest: Trump threatens to pull credentials of NY Times
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Fairfield, Conn.
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-trump-seeks-support-in-democratic-friendly-conn/2016/08/13/25d772cc-61b6-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html (with comments)]
Aug. 13, 2016
Donald Trump is threatening to take away the campaign press credentials of The New York Times.
Trump is frequently critical of the Times and upped his attacks on the newspaper during a Saturday night rally in Fairfield, Connecticut [full video last item this post].
Trump denounced the paper's recent coverage of him and said, "Maybe we'll start taking the press credentials away."
Sharp criticism of the media is a staple of Trump rallies. He incited the crowd in Connecticut to jeer the reporters more than a half-dozen times in the first minutes of his rally.
Trump says he's not running against the Democratic nominee he calls "crooked Hillary" but "the crooked media."
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http://elections.ap.org/content/latest-trump-threatens-pull-credentials-ny-times
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A Reminder That Donald Trump Did Not Oppose The Iraq War From The Very Beginning
The GOP nominee keeps saying he opposed the Iraq war from the start. He didn’t.
08/11/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-iraq-war_us_57acdbb1e4b007c36e4dc5c6 [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn’t.
He was a state senator at the time.
08/13/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-afghanistan-trump_us_57af33d8e4b007c36e4ef660 [with embedded video, and comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYPJK4ZuQJ4 [includes the portion included in the embedded video; with comments]
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First of Its Kind Study of 'Sexual Minority' Youth Finds Them at Risk of Violence
Aug 11, 2016
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kind-study-sexual-minority-youth-finds-risk-violence/story?id=41297955 [with comments]
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Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/disparities/smy.htm
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Gay and Lesbian High School Students Report ‘Heartbreaking’ Levels of Violence
Members of the Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth marched at the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade in April.
AUG. 11, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/health/gay-lesbian-teenagers-violence.html [with comments]
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Trump touts child care programs, but they're for guests only
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs during a campaign rally at the BB&T Center, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Sunrise, Fla.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
By JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY
Aug. 11, 2016 5:07 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump vowed this week to make child care more accessible and affordable, it was just the second time during his White House campaign that he's talked about an issue that affects millions of working Americans with young children.
The first came months ago in Iowa, when the eventual Republican nominee touted his own record as a business owner during a candidate Q&A, telling voters he provided on-site child-care service for his employees.
There is no evidence, however, that any such programs exist.
The billionaire real estate mogul, who previously voiced his opposition to government-funded universal pre-K programs, said in Newton, Iowa, in November 2015 that he had visited many companies that offered workers on-site child-care centers — and added that he offered such programs himself.
"You know, it's not expensive for a company to do it. You need one person or two people, and you need some blocks, and you need some swings and some toys," Trump said. "It's not an expensive thing, and I do it all over. And I get great people because of it. Because it's a problem with a lot of other companies."
Trump pointed specifically to two programs: "They call 'em Trump Kids. Another one calls it Trumpeteers, if you can believe it. I have 'em. I actually have 'em, because I have a lot of different businesses."
Trump went on to describe "a room that's a quarter of the size of this. And they have all sorts of — you know, it's beautiful — they have a lot of children there, and we take care of them. And the parent when they leave the job — usually in my case it's clubs or hotels — when they leave the job, they pick up their child and their child is totally safe."
"They even come in during the day during lunch to see their child. It really works out well," he said.
But the two programs Trump cited — "Trump Kids" and "Trumpeteers" — are programs catering to patrons of Trump's hotels and golf club. They are not for Trump's employees, according to staff at Trump's hotels and clubs across the country.
"Trump Kids" is described on the Trump Hotel Collection website as "a special travel program designed to help make your next family vacation a big hit." Its offerings include "kid-friendly amenities like kiddie cocktails, coloring books and no-tear bath amenities."
"The Trumpeteer Program" is described on the website of Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, as "a program created specifically for our youngest members, ages three to twelve, which offers daily and evening child care, monthly newsletters and weekly events!"
When asked about on-site child care, employees at Trump's hotels and clubs across the country expressed confusion and explained the two programs are for guests and members only.
"No, there's no child care," said Maria Jaramillo, 36, a housekeeper at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, where workers have been pushing Trump to sign a union contract.
Jaramillo is a mother of four children who has worked at the hotel for nearly eight years.
"It would make it much more easy to take our kids to day care at work," she said and laughed when told of Trump's comments from Iowa about child care. "If they have child care, at least they should tell us."
A collection of Trump employee handbooks makes no mention of child care. The online Trump Hotels "employee benefits" section lists health care, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, complimentary golf and an internet café, but no on-site child care services.
In New York, where the Trump Organization is based, the city's health department database of child care centers has no record of any licensed facilities at any of Trump's properties, aside from a private school that leases space at 40 Wall Street.
Asked directly whether Trump's businesses offered child care to employees, his presidential campaign responded with a statement from Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel at the Trump Organization.
"The Trump Organization is very proud of the family-friendly environment it fosters throughout its portfolio," she said. "The policies and practices allowing employees to enjoy a healthy work-life balance vary from property to property. We take an individualized approach to helping employees manage family and work responsibilities."
The campaign did not respond to follow up questions, or agree to make Martin available for an interview.
Trump on Monday proposed new tax exemptions for child care as part of what his aides say will be a larger push to make child care more accessible and affordable to working-class families. Child care is a top expense for many families, surpassing the cost of college and even housing in many states.
"They're suffering, they're suffering," Trump said. "We're going to get them this much-needed relief."
Trump has credited his embrace of the issue to his daughter Ivanka, who vouched for her father's treatment of his employees at the Republican National Convention last month. "When a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out," she said.
The new policy is a departure from Trump's comments on the issue during the GOP primaries. In an interview with Fox News Business in October 2015, Trump expressed skepticism about paid family leave and said he opposed the idea of free pre-K.
"Well, I don't like it, because eventually you're going to have to raise everybody's taxes," he said. "There is no such thing as free."
© 2016 Associated Press
http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/427e5f6dd29c4c30a99486cdf34cd054/trump-touts-child-care-programs-theyre-guests-only
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Trump demanded Obama’s records. But he’s not releasing his own.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pa.
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Donald Trump's evolution on candidate tax returns
Donald Trump's stance on presidential candidate tax returns has changed significantly over the years. Here's how.
By Jenna Johnson
August 12, 2016
Donald Trump’s unflinching antagonism toward illegal immigration has galvanized activists who have grown to mistrust politicians on the issue, even those who have claimed to be as committed to the cause as they are.
And yet, for some, there is one nagging question that the candidate seems content to let linger — whether Trump’s Slovenian-born wife followed the law [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/many-questions-and-few-answers-about-how-melania-trump-immigrated-to-the-us/2016/08/04/0c13cc1a-5a3f-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ] when she moved to the United States.
“Let them go wild, let it simmer, and then let’s have a little news conference,” Trump said at a rally this week, describing his strategy for handling those asking about his wife.
Mark Krikorian, a leading activist against illegal immigration, does not want to let it simmer. He wants an answer.
“Immigration is a big issue, and she is going to be first lady,” Krikorian said. “It matters.”
Years before he ran for the White House, Trump built his political brand by accusing President Obama of concealing his past. Trump called on Obama to release his college applications, transcripts and other records, asking how such a “terrible student” got into Ivy League schools. The business executive also demanded that Obama release his passport records and, most famously, his birth certificate, declaring in a video ["From the Desk of Donald Trump: Major Announcement", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOq9pBkY0I (next below; comments disabled)]
released before the 2012 election: “We know very little about our president.”
But Trump has ensured that Americans know relatively little about him.
He has refused to release many of the same documents that he demanded from Obama, including college transcripts and passport records. He has shirked the decades-old tradition of major nominees releasing their tax returns [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/26/inside-the-5-theories-for-why-donald-trump-isnt-releasing-his-tax-returns/ ] and other documentation to prove their readiness and fitness for office. And he has yet to release records showing why he received a medical deferment during the Vietnam War and whether he has actually donated the millions of dollars he claims to have given to charity.
While Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has hit Trump on his tax returns, saying this week that he “refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done,” Trump allies feel that Clinton has her own vulnerabilities when it comes to secrecy. Republicans have alleged that Clinton deleted thousands of emails from her private server to conceal favors done by her State Department for donors to her family’s charitable foundation — a charge Clinton has denied. And conservatives have called on Clinton, 68, to release her full medical records, citing a 2012 fainting episode in which she suffered a concussion. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and former GOP candidate, told Fox News this week that the information is “critical” for voters.
But Trump, in building a wall around his records, is setting a new standard for secrecy for modern-day candidates.
All other major presidential nominees from both parties since 1976 have released their tax returns. Last summer, Clinton released returns from 2007 to 2014, and her campaign on Friday shared her 2015 return [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-releases-2015-tax-return-calls-on-trump-to-release-his/2016/08/12/759bf95a-60a7-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html ], as well as 10 years of returns from her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Trump’s lack of disclosure has left Americans to take his word for it when he brags about his wealth and charitable donations. In May, Trump filed a lengthy financial disclosure with federal regulators that claimed business had been booming at many of his properties. He issued a news release [ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-files-personal-financial-disclosure-form-with-the-federal-e ] claiming to be worth $10 billion. But Trump provided no documentation to back up the claims.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for all of the documents mentioned in this story, nor did it respond to questions about why it was not releasing the records.
Trump’s approach reflects a calculation that weathering the criticism for withholding documents is more politically palatable than the scrutiny that would come from giving the information to Trump’s opponents and what his campaign sees as an unfair media.
“You give the New York Times 20,000 pages of tax returns, they will give you 20,000 pages of defamation of character,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has advised Trump and was on his running mate shortlist.
Trump and his campaign have said there is nothing for voters to learn from these sorts of documents and that calls for their release were manufactured by the media.
“The only people who want the tax returns are the people who want to defeat him,” Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, said in May.
Trump’s tax filings would provide details such as how much money Trump makes, how much he gives to charity and the extent to which he has benefited from special exemptions and credits to minimize his tax rate. The tax returns would also show what Trump declares as business expenses and whether he keeps foreign accounts.
Some details have trickled out, revealing that Trump has a history of shrinking his tax burden. According to filings, legal documents and other public records, he paid no federal income taxes for at least five years — 1978, 1979, 1984, 1991 and 1993. Tax analysts say it is possible that Trump has continued to pay little to no income taxes thanks to generous tax deductions, including real estate depreciation. In May, Trump said he fights “very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”
Before he was a candidate, Trump presented himself as a champion of disclosure, particularly when it came to tax returns.
In 2011, he said he would release his filings if Obama released his long-form birth certificate.
Ahead of the 2012 election, Trump criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for delaying the release of his tax returns, saying, “It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money.” Romney ended up releasing two years of tax returns, leading to criticism of his relatively low tax rate — a result that Trump recently cited in explaining his own reasons for not releasing.
Romney has called Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns “disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee” and has speculated that Trump must be hiding a “bombshell of unusual size.”
In 2014, Trump said he would “absolutely” release the returns “if I decide to run for office.” In 2015, he said his disclosure was contingent on finding “out the true story on Hillary’s emails.”
In January, Trump said he was almost ready to disclose his “very big ... very beautiful” returns. But a month later, Trump reversed course, citing ongoing Internal Revenue Service audits of several years of his taxes.
An IRS spokesman said that nothing, including an audit, “prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.” And President Richard Nixon released his tax records while under audit.
Trump’s tax attorneys said in a letter [ https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Tax_Doc.pdf ] that his tax returns since 2009 are being audited. His attorneys also said that returns from 2002 to 2008 were no longer being audited, yet Trump said he will not release them because “they’re all linked.”
“I would give absolutely nothing until the audit is over,” Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, said on CNN on Thursday. “That’s my advice to Mr. Trump.”
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has yet to release his tax returns. Trump’s campaign and aides to Pence did not respond to requests for the returns.
Trump has also declined to release his educational records from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree and took undergraduate classes at the famed Wharton School, which was then called the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Trump has claimed that he was a top student at the Ivy League institution, although his name does not appear on lists of academic honors from the time.
While in college, Trump received four student deferments from the Vietnam War draft, and Trump has said that he received a fifth one for medical reasons [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html (at/see {linked in} http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124272067 and preceding and following)] because he had bone spurs that he says cleared up on their own. Trump has not produced the letter that he says he received from his doctor at the time documenting the problem.
Trump, 70, has also not released his medical records. Instead, in December, Trump released a four-paragraph letter from his doctor [ https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Health_Record.pdf ] stating that a recent medical examination “showed only positive results” but not providing documentation such as lab results.
The letter ends with the guarantee: “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
In July 2015, Clinton released a two-page letter from her doctor listing the results of several lab tests, including an electrocardiogram, cholesterol levels and cancer screening results.
In the past, a number of nominees have released their medical health records to prove that they are healthy and fit for the job. Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who was 72 when he was the GOP’s 2008 nominee and had suffered years of health problems since his time as a Vietnam War prisoner of war, released more than a thousand pages of medical records.
The questions about Melania Trump’s immigration status have emerged in the wake of newly published nude photographs of the former model.
Melania Trump has said she came to the country in 1996 on a visa that allowed her to work, but the photos were taken in New York in 1995. She met Donald Trump in 1998, and they were married in 2005. She has said she got a green card in 2001 and became a citizen in 2006.
“I follow a law the way it’s supposed to be,” she told MSNBC earlier this year. “I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa.”
Paolo Zampolli, an Italian-born business executive based in New York who once owned modeling agencies, told The Washington Post last week that his agency, Metropolitan Models, sponsored Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, for an H-1B work visa in 1996 after he spotted her while scouting models in Milan and Paris. Working models are eligible for an H-1B if they can show “distinguished merit or ability” in their field. Zampolli said Knauss qualified based on her past work as a model in Europe.
The campaign has not responded to requests for documentation to back up the account, or to explain the process through which Trump received her green card. And it is not clear when, or if, the campaign will schedule the news conference that Donald Trump mentioned this week.
“Let me set the record straight,” Melania Trump tweeted last week. “I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. Period.”
Drew Harwell, Mary Jordan, Abby Phillip and Karen Tumulty contributed to this report.
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Eight documents Trump has turned down requests to release
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/12/eight-documents-donald-trump-has-yet-to-fully-release/
Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-income-tax-returns-once-became-public-they-showed-he-didnt-pay-a-cent/2016/05/20/ffa2f63c-1b7c-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html
Many questions and few answers about how Melania Trump immigrated to the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/many-questions-and-few-answers-about-how-melania-trump-immigrated-to-the-us/2016/08/04/0c13cc1a-5a3f-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html
© 2016 The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-demanded-obamas-records-now-more-are-asking-where-are-trumps/2016/08/12/b536925a-5ff3-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html [with another embedded video, and (over 6,000) comments]
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Trump refuses to disclose his bundlers. What is he hiding?
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Aug. 10 in Sunrise, Fla.
(Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
By Editorial Board
August 12, 2016
“BIG BUSINESS, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place,” Donald Trump declared [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/full-text-donald-trumps-prepared-remarks-accepting-the-republican-nomination/ ] at the Republican National Convention last month. “She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.”
Never persuasive, this line of attack was at least less hypocritical when Mr. Trump largely self-funded his campaign. These days he is raking in donations — $80 million last month [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/paloma/the-daily-trail/2016/08/11/the-daily-trail-are-republicans-considering-dropping-donald-trump/57acca59cd249a2fe363ba14/ ], according to the campaign — and from bigwigs as well as small donors. Among others, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson [ http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-23/jets-owner-woody-johnson-said-to-back-trump ] and coal executive Joe Craft [ http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/28/trump-raise-money-kentucky/86484376/ ] are fundraising for the GOP nominee. So who, to use his formulation, is now pulling Mr. Trump’s strings?
Voters could get some answers if Mr. Trump would release, as have Hillary Clinton [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers_us_55a6f70ce4b0c5f0322c5852 ] and most recent candidates [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/15/jeb-bush-to-release-names-of-campaign-bundlers-joining-hillary-clinton/ ] before her, the names of his bundlers. These are the people who solicit large numbers of often medium-size checks and hand them over to campaigns. Though they do not necessarily give huge amounts of their own cash, bundlers rake in big sums for their candidates — and therefore pose a similar threat to the integrity of the political process. Even so, the law requires campaigns to disclose bundlers only when they are registered lobbyists. It is left to the campaigns to voluntarily provide more information.
Ms. Clinton has done so, releasing the names of some 500 bundlers. Mr. Trump, Politico’s Shane Goldmacher recently noted [ http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-fundraising-bundlers-226803 ], has not. Nor would the campaign discuss with Politico, or with us, its intentions with regard to this rudiment of transparency.
Such contempt for voters is not surprising. Mr. Trump also is thumbing his nose [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-still-waiting-on-your-tax-returns-mr-trump/2016/07/19/c87c4054-4de1-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html ] at the long tradition of major-party presidential nominees releasing their tax returns. He promised to do so. Ms. Clinton has released decades of hers, including her 2015 return, which she disclosed Friday [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-releases-2015-tax-return-calls-on-trump-to-release-his/2016/08/12/759bf95a-60a7-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html ]. Yet Mr. Trump continues to keep his “beautiful” tax documents under wraps.
Why the secrecy? With respect to bundlers, Mr. Trump might not want to draw attention to the special interests now backing him, and some of his bundlers might (understandably) be embarrassed to be outed. With respect to his tax returns, the candidate may not want to reveal that his business is not as successful as he claims, that he is stingy with charity or that he has compromising business relationships in Russia or elsewhere overseas.
No matter the reasons, Mr. Trump’s refusal to meet essential standards of transparency expresses contempt for the democratic process and erodes crucial norms. If voters reject him in November — and his secrecy provides yet another reason they should — we hope future presidential candidates will conclude that these traditions are not so easily discarded.
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The Post’s View: Voters are still waiting on your tax returns, Mr. Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-still-waiting-on-your-tax-returns-mr-trump/2016/07/19/c87c4054-4de1-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html
Ruth Marcus: Every presidential candidate should release full tax returns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/every-presidential-candidate-should-release-full-tax-returns/2016/04/12/e79af5b4-00c2-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html
The Post’s View: What’s Trump hiding by refusing to release his tax returns? Here are some ideas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/instead-of-releasing-his-taxes-donald-trump-offers-nothing-but-flimsy-excuses/2016/06/09/7e687110-2db9-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html
© 2016 The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-refuses-to-disclose-his-bundlers-what-is-he-hiding/2016/08/12/dcad6d4e-6012-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html [with comments]
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Hacker posts contact information for almost 200 congressional Democrats
August 12, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/12/hacker-posts-contact-information-for-more-than-200-congressional-democrats.html [with embedded video "Could hackers create an 'October surprise' for Clinton?", and comments] [original at http://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-reveals-personal-information-for-almost-200-democrats-1471048195 (with comments)]
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Pelosi bombarded with 'obscene and sick' calls, texts after cyber attack
August 13, 2016
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/13/pelosi-bombarded-obscene-and-sick-calls-texts-after-cyber-attack/88684466/ [with comments]
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Trump fires up recruitment of poll watchers, as he warns of election ‘cheating’
August 13, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-warns-of-election-cheating-as-he-fires-up-recruitment-of-poll-watchers/2016/08/13/cac7223c-617f-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html [with embedded videos, and comments]
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Donald Trump Is Asking You To Help Him Fight A Rigged Election
Published on Aug 13, 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 ]
Donald Trump is calling for your help to ensure this election isn't rigged for Hillary. Volunteer to be a Trump Election Observer at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/lp/volunteer-to-be-a-trump-election-observer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUx1D_Kjivs [with comments]
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How Donald Trump’s bizarre voter-watch effort could get the GOP in trouble
Trump supporters listen as the Republican presidential nominee speaks at a campaign rally at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, Pa.
August 13, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/13/how-donald-trumps-bizarre-voter-watch-effort-could-get-the-gop-in-trouble/ [with embedded video, and comments]
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Queens imam, assistant fatally shot after leaving mosque
Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee, a respected Queens imam, and Thara Uddin died after being shot from behind.
Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin (pictured) were dressed in Muslim garb when the shooter approached from behind and shot from point-blank range.
August 13, 2016, Updated: August 14, 2016
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/drive-by-shooter-queens-gravely-injures-men-article-1.2749901 [with embedded video report], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_puFVbZ8Bw [same as the embedded video report; with comments]
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Shocker: UN Admits Migrant Crisis Plan To Overthrow West
Published on Aug 13, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones breaks down how Goldman Sachs and the UN are using a wave of Islamic migrants to destroy the sovereignty of Western Nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWizLUmJug4 [with comments]
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LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Fairfield Connecticut at Sacred Heart University (8/13/16)
Streamed live on Aug 13, 2016 by News Universe Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphqhXYTEptwkPO8JTPLXIg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphqhXYTEptwkPO8JTPLXIg/videos ]
Donald J. Trump at the William H. Pitt Center at the Campus of Sacred Heart University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFuEmTrffWA [Trump's performance, very slightly clipped at the very end (apparently common to all of the available YouTubes of the performance) begins at c. the 1:01:35 mark; with comments] [also at e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4FW6cKm08 (with comments)]
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upon the Right of Election, 1790
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