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· FW: SIGN THE PETITION: #TrumpTreason
· FW: Trump’s press conference
· FW: No classified national security briefings for Donald Trump (sign this)
· FW: Nothing's shocking -- and why that's dangerous
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· FW: Voter Fraud
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From: Laura Leavitt, Courage Campaign Super PAC
Subject: SIGN THE PETITION: #TrumpTreason
Saying I'm stunned doesn't even begin to cover it.
Donald Trump just asked Russia to spy on the United States. He literally encouraged Vladimir Putin, a dangerous dictator, to commit espionage on Secretary Hillary Clinton and publicize state secrets that could threaten the security of the United States.
Staring directly into the cameras, Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”(1)
Trump’s unprecedented request is not only dangerous, it may also violate federal law. What’s even more horrifying is that, as the Republican Nominee for President, Trump is scheduled to start receiving classified national security briefings, reportedly as early as tomorrow. Just the thought of that makes me shiver.
It simply cannot happen. We must raise a massive outcry NOW before it’s too late!
Join Courage Campaign to tell the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper: NO national security briefings for Donald Trump.
Trump’s shocking request for Putin to spy on the United States comes on the heels of widely reported stories linking Russia to cyber attacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that culminated with a Wikileaks drop of tens of thousands of internal DNC emails over the weekend.(2) In other words, this is no laughing matter.
Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is a reckless, power-hungry egomaniac. He will say or do anything to get ahead with no regard to the potentially catastrophic consequences. He is a very real, dangerous, and serious threat to our national security. And he should not be let within 10 feet of any classified security information.
While it is common practice, there is NO legal requirement for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to provide presidential candidates with classified information. As of yet, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has said that he does not intend to withhold briefings from any official presidential nominee.(3) But that was before Trump’s outrageous request of Russia.
Now we just may have the power to make Mr. Clapper change his mind. First, he must hear from courageous Americans like you and me right now.
Sign the petition to tell the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper: Donald Trump is a danger to our national security. Do NOT give him access to state secrets!
Trump is now trying to walk back his dangerous rhetoric. That’s how he’s gotten away with so much already -- from blatantly and continuously promoting racism and misogyny, to inciting xenophobia and violence. But that won’t cut it this time. Words have consequences. Donald Trump should be smart enough to know that.
It’s up to us to push back on Donald Trump’s breach as much as we have pushed back on his hate. It’s past time for someone in our government to have the courage to say no to Trump.
Join Courage Campaign and our partners at CREDO to demand that Donald Trump not be given ANY classified security briefings.
In solidarity,
Laura, along with Annie, Emma, Ernesto, Eddie, Katie, Kelsey, Lindsay, Moonyoung, Scottie, and Tim (the Courage team)
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From: HillaryClinton.com
Subject: re: Trump’s press conference
Yesterday, at a press conference on live television, Donald Trump seemed to invite Vladimir Putin to play an active role in this election.
That was at about the halfway mark. Trump’s campaign chairman also announced that Trump definitely won’t be releasing his tax returns ever, while Trump told a female reporter to "be quiet," and doubled down on endorsing torture tactics.
This is just your daily reminder that, unless we step up, he could be the next person in charge of our country.
Thank you for stepping up this week -- we are so grateful for your support. Chip in another $19 to stand with this team right now, then take a look at the full transcript out of Miami:
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DONALD TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. So it has been 235 days since "Crooked Hillary" Clinton has had a press conference, and you as reporters who give her all those glowing reports should ask yourselves why and I'll tell you why. Because despite the nice platitudes, she has been a mess. You look at what's happened with ISIS, which isn't even mentioned. You look at what is happening with law and order. They don't even mention our police. They mention everybody but our police. They don't have an American flag on the dais until we started complaining. And then they ran up with two very small little flags. One that we saw. So you know I put myself through your news conference often, not that it is fun. 235 days, no news conference for Hillary Clinton. You ought to check it out. Because there is a lot going on. Her great disloyalty to the person that rigged the system for her, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She totally rigged it. Bernie Sanders never had a chance. And total disloyalty. It is like, you're fired! Get out, fast. The email situation. Now I call it the double email situation. Both very serious. What was said in the last ones to the DNC was horrible, absolutely horrible. If I would have used language like they used about religion, about race, about everything else that they discuss in those emails, I would have had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race. With her, everything's just fine. So just ask yourself, why she doesn't have news conferences? And honestly, the reason is because there is no way she can answer questions because the job she has done is so bad. When they talk about change, I noticed they have change - she has been there for 30 years. 30 years. There is no change. Years. It will be the same. It will be extension of Obama, in my opinion worse. She lied about TPP. She was for TPP. She saw me on television, knocking the hell out of it because it's a horror show. It will kill all our jobs, almost as bad as NAFTA, maybe worse, which her husband designed by the way - which destroyed this country, destroyed manufacturing in the United States. I will do something about it. That will be so renegotiated. By the way yesterday, for the first time, she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements, first time yesterday. All because of me. She also saw me talking about TPP and currency manipulation and currency devaluation. And she heard it and she said, wow, she can't win that subject in a debate. All of sudden she goes against TPP. Her Vice President is one of the biggest proponents of TPP. Now he is going against it. And Bernie Sanders was right. He was against it. They will go for TPP and vote it in very shortly after the election. If she wins, which for the sake of our country, we all hope and I hope that she doesn't. They will vote it in, just mark my words. Hopefully we don't have to worry about it. But she will vote it. She will change a comma, she will change a paragraph of the 6,000 page document that nobody even has read on our side. Just so you understand, other countries know every word, every paragraph, every single sentence, comma and period. We don't even read it, our country. Because we're led by stupid people. So she saw me talking about TPP. She realized that she couldn't defend it. Her special interests are pushing her hard because she is bought and sold by special interests. They are pushing her very hard. So she said, she is against it. The day she gets in, which hopefully will never happen, she will approve or shortly thereafter TPP and that will be another disaster for jobs in our country. Okay? So why don't we start off, any questions? Yes, sir? [inaudible] It is just a total deflection, this whole thing with Russia. In fact I saw her campaign manager, I don't know his title, Mook?
TRUMP: I saw him on television and asked him about Russia and the hacking. By the way, they hacked. They probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 emails she lost and deleted because you would see some beauties there. So let's see. But I watched this guy Mook and he talked about, we think it was Russia that hacked. Now, first of all, what was said on those that is so bad, but he said, I watched it. I think he was live. He said we think it was Russia that hacked and then he said, just, a person sitting watching television, as I have been doing, and then he said, could be Trump, yeah, yeah Trump, Trump, oh yeah, Trump. He reminded me of Jon Lovitz from "Saturday Night Live" in the liar, yeah, yeah he, I went to Harvard, Harvard, yeah, yeah. This is the guy. You have to see it. Yeah could be Trump, yeah, yeah. So it is so farfetched, it is so ridiculous. Seriously I wish I had that power. I would love to have that power but Russia has no respect for our country. If it is Russia, nobody even knows it. Probably China or could be somebody sitting in his bed but it shows how weak we are. It shows how disrespected we are, assuming it is Russia or China or one of the major countries and competitors, it is a, a total sign of disrespect for our country. Putin and the leaders throughout the world have no respect for our country anymore, and they certainly have no respect for our leader. So I know nothing about it. One of the most far-fetched I ever heard. John?
REPORTER: [inaudible] is to tie you as best as they can to Vladimir Putin?
TRUMP: I never met Putin. I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said “I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper. I never met Putin.
REPORTER: My question is, when you become president would you treat Vladimir Putin as an adversary or an ally?
TRUMP: I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly but there is nothing I can think of that I would rather do than have Russia friendly as opposed to the way we are, so we can go knock out ISIS together with other people and with other countries. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people? Wouldn't it be nice if we got along as an example with Russia? I’m all for it. We have to get ISIS and get it fast. You saw what happened with the priest. It will only get worse and Hillary Clinton wants to allow 550 percent more people from that region into our country and we have no idea who they are, where they come from, where their documentation is. It is only going to get worse and it’s going to start getting bad in our country. We're letting people come in by the tens of thousands. You see what happened to the French priest. A friend of mine, he said he was going to France like three or four months ago. I saw him yesterday. I said, how did you like France? He said, I wouldn't go to France. I wouldn't go to France because France is no longer France. France is no longer France. They won't like me for saying that but you see what happened in Nice, you see what happened yesterday, with the priest who was supposed to be a spectacular man. France is no longer France and this world better be very careful and they better get very tough and very smart. They will never do it with Hillary Clinton and by the way, in terms of change, she has been there for 30 years, she has been doing this for 30 years. Well, all of a sudden things will change? She is bought and sold, 100 percent by special interests and lobbyists. Yes, Tom?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: None.
REPORTER: If answer is no, why not release your tax returns?
TRUMP: I would release them once the audit is released. I have audits every 15 or 16 years. When the audit is complete I will release them. I will tell you right now, zero, I have nothing to do with Russia, yes?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I don't know, depends on the audit. Depends on the audit. Not a big deal. Just so you understand, I released my papers, 104 pages of documents. I built an unbelievable company, tremendous cash, tremendous company with so many of the great assets of the world. You have seen it. You were very disappointed when you saw it. That is okay. Far greater than anybody ever thought. A tremendous company, with some of the great assets of the world. You have seen it. You were very disappointed when you saw it, but that is okay. Far greater than anybody ever thought. I have a great company. I built an unbelievable company, but if you look there, you will see there is nothing in Russia. And as far as the tax returns, as soon as the audit is complete, like any lawyer would tell you, Greta Van Susteren, she is going over it a while ago. She is a lawyer. She said, well no lawyer would let somebody release a tax return when they're under audit. It’s a routine audit. I have gone through audits, which I think is very unfair, for 15 years. I have friends that are very rich and have never been audited. I'm audited every year. Maybe that’s because of politics, who knows.
TRUMP: I'm not going to tell Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do? He did something today, where he said don't blame them essentially for your incompetence. Let me tell you, it’s not even about Russia, or China, or whoever is doing the hacking. It was about the things that were said in those emails. There were terrible things, talking about Jewish, talking about race, talking about atheist, trying to pin labels on people. What was said was a disgrace and it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and believe me, as sure as you're sitting there, Hillary Clinton knew about it. She knew everything. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not breathe without speaking and getting approval from Hillary Clinton, couldn't breathe and you saw that. It also showed that it was a fixed race, but I’ve been saying that long before I saw the emails. It was a rigged race. It was totally rigged and Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged it for Hillary Clinton and the sad part is, Bernie Sanders, has, to use an old word that I use on occasion, he has lost his energy. He wants to go home and go to sleep, but he has a lot of people that walked out last night. Now, hundreds of people walked out of the Democratic convention last night. I didn't even hear about it. Nobody showed it. I didn't see it on television. You people don't talk about it. The Republican convention was incredible. I hear I had one of the biggest bounces in decades, like, some people are saying nine points, in fact, a poll just came out 10 minutes ago, Los Angeles Times, Trump 47, Clinton 40. The reason is that people are sick and tired of Hillary Clinton.
REPORTER: You say get tough. Why not get tough on Putin and stay out?
TRUMP: Why do I have to get involved with Putin? I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him, other than that he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our president. And if it is Russia, and it’s probably not, nobody knows who it is. If it is Russia, it’s really bad for a different reason because it shows how little respect they have for our country, when they would hack into a major party, and get everything, but it would be interesting to see, I will tell you this, Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens. That’ll be next. Yes, sir?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: What -- [inaudible]
TRUMP: Okay.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Sure. Two big questions. The minimum wage has to go up. People are, at least $10, but it has to go up, but I think that’s federal. I think states should really call the shots. As an example. I live in New York. It’s very expensive in New York. You can't buy a hot dog for the money you're talking about. You go to other states and it’s not expensive at all. Now what it does is it puts New York at a disadvantage, if the minimum wage goes up and companies move out and bad things happen. At the same time, people have to be taken care of, but what I’m really going to do on minimum wage, but it has to go up. Bernie Sanders lied. Bernie Sanders said in his speech the other day, that Donald Trump wants the minimum wage to go below $7. I said, where did he come up with that one? That one is just like Joe Biden lied today. He said that Donald Trump wants to carpet bomb, he was on television. He said Donald Trump wants to carpet bomb the enemy in the Middle East. Now, that was Ted Cruz that said that. That was not Donald Trump. I mean, he is not a very bright guy, but that was Ted Cruz that said it. He said it with such surety, Donald Trump wants to carpet bomb. I never said I wanted to carpet bomb. That was Ted Cruz. You remember Ted Cruz said it? You will confirm that, I think.
TRUMP: So I would like to raise it until at least $10. I will bring jobs back to this country, so people can start working again so that the $10 and $15 and the numbers you're talking about are going to literally - they're going to be peanuts compared to what people can make in this country. Because I will bring jobs from Mexico which is booming, booming. I have a friend who builds plants and he is a great builder of plants. And I was with him the other day. Great guy. He builds massive plants for automobiles, for computers, for anything. That's what he does. I think he is the biggest, but certainly one of the biggest. And I said how is it going. He said unbelievable. Oh good, that is good news. He said no, the country is not doing well, but Mexico is unbelievable. The plants I've built in Mexico - I’ve never seen anything. It is the eighth wonder of the world. He is not happy. He is an American guy. He’d rather build them here. But he said it’s unbelievable. That‘s what happened to our country, because we have leadership that doesn't know what they're doing.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yes, we're going to be listing -- yeah, we're giving a list of those territories and if you come from those territories we have extreme vetting. We'll have extreme vetting anyway. We have people coming into this country who have very evil intentions. We have people whether San Bernardino, or the World Trade Center, or a lot of other things and you look all over the world and you see what's happening. You look at Orlando - how bad was that? That was horrible. That was going after the gay community it looks like. We can't let this happen. We cannot let this happen. We cannot let people come in. Now, Hillary Clinton wants to up it. Her running mate, Tim Kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in New Jersey, first act he did in New Jersey was act for a $4 billion tax increase. He was not very popular in New Jersey and still isn't.
REPORTER: You mean Virginia.
TRUMP: I mean Virginia. First thing Tim Kaine did, he asked for a $4 billion tax increase and he is not very popular there. So, let me just tell you, and I went all over Virginia, I was there the other day. And I thought he would be popular. He is not popular because he asked for tax increases. Big tax increases in Virginia, big. And, also unemployment went up, I think it doubled or close to doubled during his tenure. But what he wanted to do, is very strongly and he is on record, he wanted to have even more of the people from that region of the world come in that Hillary Clinton wants and it is unacceptable. Yes? David, go ahead, David.
REPORTER: Short lit -- [inaudible] They were dropping all the charges.
TRUMP: I saw that.
REPORTER: [inaudible] Ah. Do you have any reaction?
TRUMP: I do have a reaction to the prosecutor in Baltimore who indicted those police officers. I do. I think she ought to prosecute herself. Okay? That is my reaction. I think it was disgraceful what she did and the way she did it and the news conference that she had where they were guilty before anybody even knew the facts. And I give a lot of respect and a lot of credit to those police officers who probably could have made a deal. I give a lot of respect, a lot of credit, that they stuck it out. And you had victory after victory after victory and she had no chance. Don't forget, she prosecuted her best cases first - what she thought were her best cases first. And she should prosecute herself. She should be held accountable.
REPORTER: What do you say to African-Americans who feel like this is kind of a railroad case? Freddie Gray become a cause celebre.
TRUMP: That was a bad case to prove. That was a bad case. If you're going to do that, it is okay. There are times when police officers behave very badly, but you have to get the right time. This was not one of those times. And I think that she is a disgrace to the world of prosecutors for what she did. Yes, ma'am?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah. I have a great relationship with Governor Pence. We spent the last three days together. He was absolutely my first choice, and I never wavered, despite the press. The press was saying you know - it was interesting, I spoke to them at 11:05, to him and his wife and I told him I was going to be choosing them, if I would be lucky enough for him to accept. And he accepted. And that was it for me. That was it. But right around that time you had the attack in Nice, I was going to have a news conference, either the following morning or the next day. And of course I had to delay the news conference because there was an attack, a horrible attack, horrible in France and I delayed the news conference and everyone said, oh he is having second thoughts. I never had second thoughts. It was such a lie, so many lies in the press. It was such a lie. He has been so great. Honestly he has been even better than I thought, okay? Better.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I think everything is -- we have a whole new world. When I said that NATO to Wolf Blitzer is obsolete, I got attacked. Three days later people that study NATO, you know, Trump is right. You know what? We have a lot of things that are out of date because they're 20 and 30 and 40 years old. NATO, this isn't a country from 40 years ago. Today we have a different threat. We have a terror threat and we have an ISIS threat. By the way, ISIS isn't even mentioned, it is not even mentioned during the Democratic Convention and everyone is talking about the reason they can't mention it is because they grew it. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I would, Katy, I would renegotiate so much of everything. I'm going to renegotiate our trade deals. We're losing with everybody. Katy, I’m going to renegotiate our military deals, where we're protecting countries and not living up to the bargain. They're not living up to the bargain. Everyone agrees with me, except for the media. The media never says that I like NATO, just so you understand. I like the concept of NATO. It is somewhat outdated because it doesn't cover terror the way it should. I've been saying this for six months. Now a couple of months ago, front page of the Wall Street Journal announced somebody, I think NATO is great but it has to be modernized, and, and, countries that we're protecting have to pay what they're supposed to be paying.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I am a person that believes in enhanced interrogation, yes. And by the way, it works. Let me say it once again, okay? Many countries including the NATO countries, some of which I think you have five that are current, that have paid what they owe and they can afford to pay this, it’s not like they can't afford it. They just see us as a soft touch. In business we say somebody's a soft touch. I don't know if I have been called a soft touch but maybe I have sometimes but in business they call them a soft touch. They haven't paid us, okay? I want them to pay. Excuse me. I'm not saying anything. I don't talk. I'm not like Obama where he tells you everything he is going to do. We're going to do this and we're going to do that. I don't talk. They're going to pay, it sends a signal. You know what signal it sends? We're going to pay. Somebody said we have treaties. That's right. In the treaties they're supposed to pay. They're going to pay and they will pay. They will pay. How about, go ahead. Blue dress, yes. Yes.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: We're going to have a whole policy in the next three weeks. Well I've been doing very well with the Hispanic community. Really, well. The poll numbers are going up very high. I think we had one recently, 35 or 36. But I'm going to have a whole, we're going to have a news conference over the next three weeks. So, and I want to just tell you because these polls cover it. LA Times 47-40. CNN way up. All way up. They say the biggest bounce in memory because today I heard a dishonest guy on television, Trump didn't get a bounce. I have to at least say it. Jeremy, go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]...would they rather deal with President Trump or President Clinton?
TRUMP: I don't think he respects Clinton. I don't think he has any respect for Clinton. I think he respects me. I hope we get along great. It is possible we won't, Jeremy. It would be great to have Russia with a good relationship. Right now we don't have a good relationship. Putin said things that are really bad things, okay? He mentioned the "n-word" one time. I was shocked to hear him mention the "n-word," right? You know what the "n-word" is right? He mentioned it. I was shocked. He has a total lack of respect for President Obama. Number one, he doesn't like him and number two, and I hope he likes me but he. Yes, sir, yes, sir. What, let me finish with Jeremy. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible].
TRUMP: President Trump would be so much better for U.S.-Russian relations. You can't be worse.
TRUMP: Hey, look, when I was a young man studying history and studying all of these things I always found fast -- fascinating, one thing I always heard, you never want to do anything to unite Russia and China. Well, they're united now, in a true sense. They have never been closer. They're selling oil to China. We forced them into this position. No, wait a minute.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I’m not going to be an adversary, no, not at all. I have tenants. I have the biggest bank in the world from China paying me rent. I have great relationships with China. I’m not blaming China for getting away with murder, I’m blaming our leadership for being incompetent. I respect China. Hey, if China can get away with trade deficits every year of hundreds of billions of dollars, if they can get away with that, my hats off to them. I have no problem with China. I have a problem with our incompetent leadership allowing that to happen and I believe that Hillary Clinton is even more bought and paid for than Barack Obama. I think it will get worse. It’s going to be four more years of Obama, which is unacceptable to a lot of people. You see that, but I believe that Hillary Clinton will be worse than Obama. Yes?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: That’s right. That’s right. I’m going to be doing something over the next four weeks, very much so.
REPORTER: Are you prepared --
TRUMP: No, I’m prepared and we'll have a great plan. One of the things I’ve seen ‘cuz I’ve traveled all over the country, you know where I’m going, I don't have to say, but I’m going to Toledo and I’m going to different places today and I’ve met so many people. This is such a great country. These are such great people. One of the saddest things I see are college students that work so hard. They go to colleges, good colleges, they're good students. They do a great job. Number one, they get out and they have no jobs, because our jobs are going to Mexico, they're going to China, they're going to Japan. They’re going all over the place, but they’re not coming here. Just like my friend who builds the plants, but he doesn't build them here much. And the saddest thing I see is these students are leveraged in debt up to their neck. They can't breathe. They’re scared. They’re so scared. They have leveraged their entire life. They have leveraged their entire life. They have loans, and I have to tell you, the colleges are viewing the students as just a conduit, because the students get government money, pass it through, but the number gets higher and higher, because college costs are out of control, because the colleges say, what difference does it make? You take a look at salaries being paid. You take a look at what is going on with colleges, because all of it is a pass-through and students are a conduit, so the colleges are costing so much money. We’re going to help the students. Maybe that doesn't fit beautifully within the Republican framework, but I have told this during various times to lots of different people and nobody has a problem with it. We have to help our students. Our students are under tremendous pressure, to a point where it is making them sick. Our students are under tremendous pressure. We have to help our students and I’m going to have a plan over the next four weeks. Excuse me?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Everything is on the table. You’ll see. It is a very important subject. Yes, ma'am?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I think my message is resonating because they have confidence on me at the border. They don't want people pouring into our country. Likewise, they have confidence with me on ISIS, not only in terms of getting rid of them, but also in terms of keeping them out of our country, because I will not have people who come into our country that want to do damage to our people. I think they have a lot of confidence in terms of my bringing back jobs because I see Carrier and see Ford and all of these companies leaving and going to Mexico, like there is nothing to it and then they make their product and sell it back to the United States, no tax, no nothing. We get nothing except unemployment and I think people see that. I can tell you, I mean I’m like a pollster myself, when I’m in front of these massive audiences, one of the things that gets said constantly, you people know because you're there, the biggest applause is a repeal and replacement of Obamacare because Obamacare is a disaster. In Texas, going through Blue Cross/Blue Shield they just announced a 60% increase. On November 1st, you're going to have new numbers come out for Obamacare having to do with increases. President Obama is trying to get it moved to December because it is election-defying. It is going to be a massive number, the biggest number ever in our country's history for health care.
TRUMP: It is going to be announced on November 1st. I just asked the press, don't let him do that. Obamacare is a disaster. People are dying with it. It's a disaster and everybody knows. It will fold anyway. In '17, unfortunately, if I'm president, I have to take over this mess, it is going to fold anyway. But repeal and replace Obamacare, people like it. They like the fact that I'm going to rebuild our military, which is very depleted. Those are things that are resonating. They don't feel Hillary Clinton can do it. John, go ahead, John.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: No, I have nothing to do with Russia. I have, John, how many times, do I have to say that. You're a smart man. I have nothing to do with Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia for anything. What do I have to do with Russia? You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house, a number of years ago in Palm Beach, Florida. Palm Beach is a very expensive place. There was a man who went bankrupt and I bought the house for $40 million and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million, including brokerage commissions. So I sold it. Bought it for 40. I sold it for 100 to a Russian. That was number of years ago. I guess probably I sell condos to Russians, okay?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Of course I can. I told you, other than normal stuff, I buy a house, if I sell it to a Russian. I have nothing to do with Russia! I said that, I said that Putin has much better leadership qualities than Obama but who doesn't know that? Investment – of course not, I own the Trump organization. Zero. Go ahead.
REPORTER: You are a champion for women?
TRUMP: I am.
REPORTER: Two daughters, did you reflect at all on --
TRUMP: I did.
REPORTER: One of the political parties --
TRUMP: I did, because I would love to see a woman become president of the United States but she would be so wrong. And even women say that. Women don't like her. She would be so wrong. Look, Hillary Clinton is a disaster. She has been a disaster. Even the story told by her husband last night, it left out the most interesting chapter. I won't get into that. The chapter that I really waited for, because it was pretty boring. The chapter that I waited for, I never heard and he left it out. Look, Hillary Clinton is a disaster. I would love to see a woman become president, it will happen absolutely, but I think it would be bad for women if it were Hillary Clinton. Yes, ma'am?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yes, I do.
REPORTER: [inaudible].
TRUMP: But I have spoken about it many times and I speak about it all the time and police have to be very careful, they have to be very, very well trained. I speak about it all the time. I mentioned, excuse me. I mentioned the most recent deaths in Louisiana and in Minnesota. I speak about it all the time. It's a real problem because, if the police do 100,000 great jobs, and they have one, either a rogue policeman or a cop was poorly trained or did a bad job, you see that incident on television for weeks. It's a real problem. You don't see the good work that they do, but if they make one mistake out of 100,000, out of more than that, it is on television, night after night after night. The police in this country do an amazing job. But likewise I agree, and I do mention that all the time. Yes, ma'am, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yes?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: No, but they seem to be, if it is Russians. I have no idea, probably not Russia. Nobody knows if it is Russia. You know the sad thing is? That with the technology and genius we have in this country, not in government unfortunately, but with the genius we have in government, we don't even know who took the Democratic National Committee emails, right? We don't even know who it is. I heard it this morning, one report said they don't think it is Russia. They might think it is China. Another report said it might be just a hacker, guy with 200 IQ that can't get up in the morning, okay? Nobody knows. Honestly they have no idea if it is Russia. Might be Russia. If it is any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the United States. Yes, ma'am?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Well the biggest thing we have to do is number one, we have to start by keeping people out. Because these people, they have something bad going on up there. They have got something really bad going on. And then people in terms of Islam, and radical Islamic terrorism, a term that the President refuses to use. I can't believe he is still not using it. He is still not using it. She doesn't want to use it. I maybe forced her into maybe using it. She said she will use it so far. She probably will use it tonight. Like the American flag - as soon as we put out a flag, they ran a couple of American flags up on the stage. It was a disgrace. You had a room with a massive stage without flags. I think that the people in the community know what is going on, whether it is in a mosque or whether it is in the community. And they have to report these people. When you look at San Bernardino, many people knew what was going on. They had bombs lying all over the floor. They had bombs on the floor. You walk into somebody's house, bombs laying on the floor. I think there is a problem there, right? They have to report them. David Hinckley should not have been freed, okay? David Hinckley was just released. John Hinckley. I think John Hinckley, excuse me, John Hinckley should not have been freed. I just heard about it. In my opinion -
REPORTER: [inaudible] Do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government, Russia, China, anybody, to hack into a system of anybody's --
TRUMP: That is up to the President! Let the President talk to them. Here is the problem, Katy. Here is the problem, Katy. Very simple. He has no respect --
REPORTER: You said he is welcome -- [inaudible]
TRUMP: They probably have them. I like to have them released.
REPORTER: Does that give you pause?
TRUMP: Gives me more pause. If they have them, they have them. We might as well have them - you know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, "Crooked Hillary" Clinton. Look, be quiet, I know you want to save her. That a person in our government, Katy, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena! She gets subpoenaed. And she gets rid of 33,000 emails? That gives me a problem. Now, if Russia or China or any other country has those emails, to be honest with you I would love to see them.
REPORTER: I have a question about Mike Pence, The New York Times reported -- [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Most ridiculous conversation. He never had -- Don Jr., Let me tell you. Let me save you a lot of boredom.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Mike Pence will play a big role but I just want to tell you about John Kasich. I never spoke to him about being Vice President. We don't have good chemistry together. I never spoken to him about being Vice President. I would never pick him to be a Vice President. There was never a conversation and he has a habit of doing things like this where he says things that are a little bit shaky. Let me, he never spoke -- Don, Jr., I would never and that was so long ago I didn't know even know I would get the nomination at that point. Just so you understand, I wouldn't pick John Kasich. It wouldn't be the right guy. I mean, for that to have gotten out there was so ridiculous. Then I was going to put him in charge of national and worldwide policy, so what is left for the President? I think you know me better than that. That was put out by him. He is a nice man, John Kasich. He is fine. I would never have chosen him. Now I did speak to various people and I actually got acceptances from many people. There were some people that called me that very much wanted to be Vice President but I picked a man that I have a lot of respect for and Mike Pence is doing a great job. Let me just explain. I never asked John Kasich to be Vice President, nor would I. And by the way, I'm leading in Ohio by three points.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: It probably has. It probably has. Our government is so weak on this stuff. It probably has. Possible. I mean I have a lot of checks and balance. I have a good system. I'm not an email person. I'm not an email person myself. I don't believe in it because I think it can be hacked for one thing. When I send an email, if I send one, I send one almost never. Just not a believer in email. A lot of people have taught me that, including Hillary. But honestly, it could be, maybe it is hacked. Who knows. Yeah, go ahead, John?
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Yeah, but my message wasn't dark. My message was optimistic, because we're going to fix the problems. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible].
TRUMP: Okay.
REPORTER: [inaudible]...out here with a very aggressive campaign this week. What was the basis for wanting to do it this way as opposed to staying quiet?
TRUMP: No basis. No basis. Look, John, I didn't have to do this. I did this, I, believe me, you see this incredible resort, it’s one of the greatest in the world. When I did this, I could be here, enjoying myself. I don't have to be with you guys. I don't need this. I have places that are the best in the world, okay? I could be doing other things. I’m doing this because we'll make America great again. I’m doing this because when I looked at the Iran deal, which was incompetent, when I looked at what is going on with jobs being torn out of our country and going to Mexico and China, what is happening with China, and with all of this, with ISIS, with our military being so badly depleted, where we have old fighter jets, where we have to take parts from museums and graveyards, when I look at all this, I say, I sort of have to do it. This country has been great to me. I’m giving back. That's all. Now, as far as running a campaign, I guess it’s probably not typical, but they said that against, you know, when I ran there were 17 people. A total of 17. Governors, senators, Ben Carson, who’s a fantastic guy, capable people. When I, wait a minute, everybody said he could never win, because look what he’s doing, he’s giving a talk to 5,000 people in New Hampshire instead of going to everybody’s house and having dinner. And then I won New Hampshire. And then I won 38 or 39 states. I won, by the way, not by a little bit, I won with the highest vote in the history of the Republican party. So just – okay, but John, but the point is this. It’s a different kind of campaign. That’s what I think is good. I think it's good, but I think it's working here too.
REPORTER: -- [inaudible]
TRUMP: When Joe Biden says I want to firebomb the enemy, which was on television this morning, or carpet bombed, he uses the term carpet bomb. He makes the statement that Donald Trump wants to carpet bomb, I never said that. That was Ted Cruz that said that. That was Ted Cruz, it wasn't me. When Sanders, and I think a lot of his people will come to me because of trade, but when Bernie Sanders makes a statement that I wanted to go lower than the minimum wage, but lower, it's a lie. So I have a choice. All my people say don't respond to it. It doesn't matter. I say, to me, it does matter. It matters. When people tell lies, politicians, who tell lies very well, because that's what they do. That’s why they are politicians. When politicians tell lies, and I’m lucky in a sense because I have a big microphone. In other words, I can say that Biden lied when he said that, or I can say that I didn't say that to Bernie Sanders, and you guys know, that I didn’t. In fact, he was criticized by people that fact check, for saying that, because I never said it. So it’s nice to be able to, President Obama said a year ago, Donald Trump will never be president. Today on the Today Show he said, “This is a democracy.” A little bit different. A little bit different. David, go ahead, Dave.
REPORTER: [inaudible] Can you clarify your position …
TRUMP: You’ll have to see at the polls. You know my position, David. David, my positions are down. You ask the question every single time, and I give the answer, my positions are down. Take a look, go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: We wanted to, yeah. I don't know what he said, but excuse me, listen. We wanted to, we were doing Miss Universe five years ago in Russia. it was a tremendous success, very, very successful and there were developers in Russia that wanted to put a lot of money into developments in Russia and they wanted to do it, but it never worked out. Frankly, I didn't want to do it for a couple of different reasons, but we had a major developer in particular, but numerous developers that wanted to develop property in Moscow and other places, but we decided not to do it. Yes, ma'am, go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: He did say that. Well I just, sort of, said that. He said this morning, anything is possible. I think I’m going to win.
TRUMP: I think people are sick and tired of incompetence. They are sick and tired of having politicians leading them down the tubes, whether it's taxes, whether it's about, whether it's any want of 15 different things and that's why I think I will win the election. I think easier in the polls. A few more questions. Go ahead, John. Hope your arm is okay.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: It's a tradition. I don't do things that are traditional. I have great support from Israel. I will back Israel 100 percent. I would like to go to Israel but I have great relationships, as you know, to the people in Israel and by the way, Obama in my opinion is the single worst thing politically speaking that's ever happened to Israel. He has been a disaster for Israel. [inaudible] I don't know. I haven't set my schedule yet. Could happen.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: No. I think it's possible we have but I won't be interested in running. Once I would get along great with four leaders but they won't be taken advantage of. The problem with four leaders, whether China, Russia or anybody, they don't respect our leadership and certainly in the case of China they take tremendous economic advantage of us to a point that is hard to believe. I’ll get along great with leadership and will do well. Yes, ma'am, in the back. Excuse me. In the back.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: We will look into that. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Right. I’m not making it a part but at some point maybe people will change but as of right now I’m not making it a part. Yes, ma'am.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Who said that? Who? I think President Obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. His views of the world, as he says, don't jive and the world is a mess. You look at what's happening with the migration, with Syria, Libya, with Iraq, with everything he's touched. He has been a disaster as the president. He will go down as one of the worst presidents in history of our country. It is a mess and I believe that Hillary Clinton will be even worse. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Many polls just -- it's a disguise. Go ahead. [laughter]
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: You've been asking a lot of questions for a lot of times. I've turned out to be right. I turned out to be right on NATO. NATO changed their whole program because of me. Excuse me. Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she’s going to start negotiating trade deals. She never said that in her life. She said that yesterday only because of me. I'm the one who's prepared. President Obama, when he became president he did know anything. Honestly today he knows less. Today he knows less. He has done a terrible job. I think, with that being said I've been a businessman all my life but I've been watching and I've been seeing and I’ve been feeling. I imagine I've been very much involved in politics from the other side. I understand politics, or I guess I wouldn't be here. I have met a lot of very talented people. I do, I've had great advisors. I give you a list. The other day as an example, General Quinn or General Flynn. We have so many. We have so many. As an example I had a meeting four days ago with seven or eight very talented advisors.
TRUMP: With all of that being said a lot of people want the people that are doing it now, people that have certain names. Look at the mess they've gotten us into. They said have you spoken to so-and- so? I said that he was in favor of the war in Iraq many years ago, which I was not in favor of. Have you spoken to this one or that one? I said look at the job they've done. A lot of the people you think are good because you know the name or you just see them on television, I don't think they are because look at the end result. The end result is our country is a mess. The Middle East has never been worse. And we do nothing with the Middle East as our presidents went to the beach and relaxed. We would be in better shape than we are right now. A couple more. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Well, we'll have to see. That's my opinion. I have a real problem when Hillary Clinton, who has open access to a phony server, is allowed to get these briefings. How does Hillary Clinton get a national security briefing when she's been probably hacked with so much other information? The director of the FBI said it was essentially negligent. It was negligent. Why are they giving her briefings? Why are these people with great knowledge of the inner workings of our country and our security, why are they giving Hillary Clinton briefings? Because it's going to get revealed. I mean, our number one person is married to Anthony Weiner, who’s a sleazeball and a pervert and I'm not saying that. I mean, that's recorded history, right, I don't like Huma going home at night and telling Anthony Weiner all of these secrets, okay? So how can Hillary Clinton be briefed on this unbelievably delicate information when it’s just proven that she lied and that her server, she shouldn't have had it, and that they're missing 33,000 e-mails. That's just the beginning. So I don't think that I know if at some point they would call me in wanting to brief me, but I'm not a talker about this stuff. I don't think that it's safe to have Hillary Clinton in light of what just happened and in the light of what we just found out, I don't think it's safe to have Hillary Clinton be briefed on national security because the word will get out.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: No. He’s not going to run for mayor. Don has no intention of running for mayor.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: You did a great job the other day with a speech because he made a good speech, everyone says he should run for mayor. The democratic mayor was horrible. He's doing a horrible job. He has no interest in running. -- Bill de Blasio.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Unbelievable what he said. I think it's disgraceful. Hillary Clinton because of me said that TPP was not going to happen. We all know it is going to happen if she won. McAuliffe said with a wink to a group of people that if Hillary gets in, she's lying and it will happen and there is nobody closer, I know this for a fact, there is nobody including her own husband, closer to Hillary Clinton than Terry McAuliffe, okay? Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: I don't know what he said. Anthony Weiner, look, look, look. Anthony Weiner is a proven loser. He's locked up in a room. They don't let him out. My son doesn't want to run for he has no intention of running for mayor, and besides that as a Republican we have a very tiny sliver in Manhattan as you know and in that area. It's almost impossible for a Republican to win and my son likes to win, but my son has no intention of running for mayor, so let's just put that to bed. Go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Palm Beach County, 37. It's all over. Looking at what causes it. It's a problem in many areas, okay? Go ahead. [inaudible] Well, they shouted, you know what was interesting. Yesterday I made a speech in front of a great veteran, as you saw him and he was very well received. She was there the day before, and when I started talking about Hillary Clinton, the veterans who saw her 24 hours before started screaming lock her up, lock up. They also scream, as you know during the speech I made. The big speech and I said don't do that, I didn't do that for any reason. I didn't like it, and they stopped. Not one reporter said that I said that. They all said that they started screaming lock her up, lock her up. I said don't do that. Nobody reported that I said that because it's dishonest reporting. Why didn't somebody report that? No, I think it's a shame they said it but a lot of people will say that should happen. One more question. Yes, ma'am, go ahead.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: There are over 1000 Hispanics working there and they are doing a great job. Yes, ma'am, in the yellow. Go ahead, yellow. Excuse me. Yellow. Who? [inaudible] I don't think it will have any impact. All you have to do is go to Virginia and speak to the people of Virginia. He has been – I figured when she chose him, he is very popular in Virginia. They don't like him. They don't like you. His polling is very bad. So ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I think it's time for Hillary Clinton to do a news conference because it's almost a year now and it'll be interesting to see what she does. Thank you all very much. Thank you.
REPORTER: [inaudible]
TRUMP: Might as well just tell them to have a good time. He has done one bad job, okay? Thank you, everybody.
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From: tbacane
Subject: FW: No classified national security briefings for Donald Trump (sign this)
Trump is a liar, Traitor and a security risk and may well be involved in secret deals with Russia that he is now trying to downplay. After he has called for Russia to interfere in our election process he should not be provided security briefings until he produces his tax records. – tbacane
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No classified national security briefings for Donald Trump
Tell Director of National Intelligence James Clapper:
"Withhold all classified national security briefings from Donald Trump."
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It’s stunning. Thanks for taking action today.
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From: Michael Keegan, President, People for the American Way
Subject: Nothing's shocking -- and why that's dangerous
This is a long message, but I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it all. It’s about the danger of being desensitized to the Right’s extremism, and how we all must continue to be vigilant and vocal about the threat our country now faces in this election.
It's almost beyond belief that practically nothing can shock us any longer about the backwards and surreal extremism spouted by Donald Trump and other Republican leaders on what is now a daily basis. But you should be shocked -- we all need to be shocked.
The lies, the hate, the disdain for facts and common sense... It's unprecedented.
Yesterday, the presidential nominee of one of America's major parties, Donald Trump, publicly urged Russia to commit cyber espionage against his political opponent.
Yet, he still enjoys the backing of the Republican Party and a large swath of the electorate. And the rest of us -- progressives, moderates, independents -- shake our heads and say, “can you believe this?”
But -- and this is the problem -- of course we can believe it. These epic outrages have become so commonplace that before we can fully comprehend and appreciate the gravity of what’s just been said, the next epic outrage is coming our way (with the next one after that just around the corner).
We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized to extremism of historic proportions, and become so accustomed to it that we’re not only unfazed by it, we actually expect it.
We didn’t get here overnight. We know from our detailed tracking of the Right Wing that this level of extremism has been festering for many years on right-wing media outlets and conspiracy theory websites. But it exploded into the public arena with the rise of the Tea Party and, immediately preceding that, the candidacy of Sarah Palin, whom many then saw -- and many still see -- as a joke. But we’re not laughing anymore.
Trump's candidacy is the culmination of the Radical Right’s complete takeover of the Republican Party. The product of years spent by the GOP, and their big money backers like the Koch brothers, feeding and fanning the flames of hate, bigotry, and the willful shunning of the truth, facts about history and science, and our common values as Americans.
This is not the America I know ... We are on the verge of going down a dangerous path and we, as a country, must thoroughly reject right-wing extremism at the polls this year. That is the only way forward to a stronger, more inclusive, and more equal America.
Which leads me to why you need to keep being vocal about what is at stake this November … why you need to talk to other progressives about the importance of voting, and specifically, casting the votes that will stop Trump and Trump Republicans from enacting their dangerous agenda.
Speak up.
You might know progressives who have been jaded by the outcome of the primaries, the actions of the DNC, or our two-party system in general. And it might seem that they don't want to listen, but keep reminding them what's at stake.
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinions on the issues they care deeply about, but it is simply too far of a stretch to try to make the most important issue of THIS election "Americans deserve better choices" or "the two-party system is broken."
Speak up against the false narrative that a political party needs to be “punished” at the polls and lose elections in order for it to change or get better. That has never been true. Indeed the greatest changes happen when the more progressive party is in control but has a strong, energized, and engaged grassroots base.
Just look what has happened to the GOP in its eight years of exile from the White House. Has that party learned any lessons? Have its flaws been corrected? Or have they gotten worse?
Don’t let people who talk about “not wanting to reward” what they see as bad behavior get away with rewarding Trump’s behavior.
And don’t let them downplay, in any way, the cataclysmic consequences of a Trump presidency. YOU know what’s at stake.
Speak up.
Don’t let your less politically-minded friends shame you on social media or elsewhere for being passionate about this election … or draw false equivalencies between you and equally passionate Trump supporters. It is not the same thing. And you SHOULD be passionate about this election.
Many people might understandably find it uncomfortable and tiring to be inundated by political news and opinions. That’s their prerogative. But it doesn’t change the fact that our country is at the precipice.
Speak up. And make the case.
If you just want to talk about one thing, start with this. There's already one current vacancy on the Supreme Court and there will almost certainly be more under the next president. Trump has said he will rely on extremist right-wing groups to help him pick Supreme Court justices, he has held up Clarence Thomas as an example of a justice he likes, and he has pledged to nominate justices who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and marriage equality. Make no mistake that the justices (and other federal judges) Trump would nominate would also give us more decisions like Citizens United and more legal attacks on civil rights and voting rights.
Need more than the Court? Look to the GOP’s increasingly extreme legislative and rhetorical attacks at both the state and federal levels.
Look to the absolute tidal wave of legislative attacks by Republicans, at the state and federal levels, on women -- many of which have already been found unconstitutional: attacks on women’s fundamental right to make choices about their own bodies, their ability to access health care, their right to be treated equally in the workplace. (If anyone doubts the Right’s commitment to these attacks, keep in mind their willingness to shut down the federal government just to make the point.)
Look to the ugly and bigoted rhetoric against LGBT people, and look deeper than just Republican politicians -- look to the Radical Right leaders who have their ears and are the shepherds of their voting base. These are people who, among other things, have advocated the death penalty for LGBT people (as well as abortion doctors). They demonize transgendered Americans as a threat to children, and blame LGBT rights for provoking God’s wrath, which manifests itself in things like terrorist attacks and natural disasters. And these are people whose influence on national policy will increase tremendously if Trump and other right-wing Republicans win in November.
Look to the Right’s nationwide effort to hijack Religious Liberty and redefine it as “the right to discriminate,” laying waste to one of our most foundational constitutional values.
Look to the GOP’s slavish devotion to the gun industry and the NRA, the Koch brothers and other right-wing billionaires, and powerful corporate special interests.
And I know you know many more examples on the issues and values you care about most.
What it comes down to is this:
Trump is a threat to our country.
Republican officeholders -- even the so-called “reasonable ones” -- have proven over and over that they can’t, and/or won’t, stand up to Donald Trump on any level.
And far-right majorities in Congress and the states have shown us where they want to lead us, and it’s a scary place.
Please continue to reach as many people as you can and make sure they know that if they want to use their vote to punish someone, they should think very hard about which agenda should really be punished.
It’s not a time for complacency. Keep being shocked by the Right’s extremism. And keep speaking up.
You can help PFAW fight back against right-wing extremism by making a donation to support our work>>
From: Southern Poverty Law Center, FIGHTING HATE // TEACHING TOLERANCE // SEEKING JUSTICE
Subject: Discriminatory voter ID law struck down in North Carolina
Everyone who cares about fairness and equality in our country has reason to celebrate today.
A federal appeals court struck down a voter ID law designed to suppress the votes of minorities in North Carolina.
The court found that state lawmakers intentionally sought to keep African Americans from the ballot box – methodically using voting data to "target African Americans with almost surgical precision."
That sounds shocking. But we’re not surprised. Not at all.
The law was one of many discriminatory statutes enacted by states after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
The court in this case exposed the charade that such laws are intended to prevent voter fraud – writing that North Carolina’s version "impose[d] cures for problems that did not exist."
We know that racism is at the root of laws like this. And we know that opponents of equality won’t ever give up.
That’s why we all have to keep fighting for a country where everyone can and does vote. Most importantly, we have to make our voices heard by showing up at the ballot box.
We encourage you to promote registration and voting in your community. To help in your efforts, you can order a free copy of our latest documentary – Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot – and its community screening guide (PDF).
Thank you for being an advocate for justice and equality.
From: albert baca
Subject: FW: Voter Fraud
Interesting read. Trump and Pence are two peas in a pod. I don’t especially like HRC because of her neo-con tendencies but I will sure vote for her as a vote for anybody else is a vote for Trump. – Old Al
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38282-focus-mike-pence-walks-10-nuns-out-of-the-voting-booth
MIKE PENCE WALKS 10 NUNS OUT OF THE VOTING BOOTH
By Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast, Reader Supported News, 29 July 16
Mike Pence is the poster boy for Voter ID laws. No one has benefited more from this legalized form of vote theft than the Republican nominee for VP. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Wednesday, Pence said he “wants every American to succeed and prosper.” However, he certainly doesn’t want every American to vote. Indeed it was thanks to Indiana’s Voter ID laws – the first of their kind in the nation – that he squeaked into the governor’s office. These seemingly benign laws, requiring voters to show approved photo ID, have a sinister and very deliberate effect: they suppress black, brown, young, old, poor – and, above all, blue votes. In this week’s Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Election Crimes Bulletin, Flashpoint’s Dennis J Bernstein gets the lowdown on the sleazy practice of vote-rigging-by-ID-law from political hanky-panky expert Greg Palast. They also discuss how these racist-by-design laws tap dance around voting rights and discrimination protections, and could ultimately help Pence and Trump waltz into the White House.
TRANSCRIPT (Originally broadcast on July 20, 2016)
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38282-focus-mike-pence-walks-10-nuns-out-of-the-voting-boothhttp://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38282-focus-mike-pence-walks-10-nuns-out-of-the-voting-booth:
Today Mike Pence is front and center. He’s out there on his proverbial knees to greet the Trump helicopter. He’s getting ready to accept his party’s nomination. But also, as you point out, he’s a vote bandit. Tell us the joke about the nuns trying to vote.
Greg Palast: Ten nuns walk into a voting booth. I know that Mike Pence says he’s a Christian, but he also stopped 10 nuns from voting – and that’s very important. Mike Pence would not be governor of Indiana if he hadn’t figured out a way to knock out black voters, nun voters, student voters, and poor voters.
DB: You are serious about the nuns?
Palast: Yes. Here’s the story: In 2008, 10 nuns walked into a voting station, a place where they had been voting for decades, and they were told “Scram sisters!” because Indiana had just passed its Voter ID law. It was the first state in the nation that said you had to have a photo Voter ID. So the nuns proudly showed their driver’s licenses, except that the licenses had expired because they were all in their eighties and nineties. But they hadn’t expired. Nevertheless, they were told they couldn’t vote because they needed a current state ID, even though there’s no reason why. There’s no logic for any Voter ID because in the 100 years in which records have been kept, not one single person in a 100 year history of voting in Indiana – not one – was found to have used someone else’s identity. In other words, using identify theft to cast a vote. Because you are going to the hoosegow for a very long time, at least five years under federal law and more under state law. But, nevertheless, this was the first Voter ID law. This is the Voter ID law that Justice Scalia provided the fifth and deadly vote in favor of, saying that it was constitutional and okay under the Voting Rights Act. Now, the Voting Rights Act itself has been killed by the former Scalia court. (Get my FREE COMIC BOOK DOWNLOAD, which includes the NUNS’ TALE.)
But here’s where Mike Pence comes into the story: we wouldn’t have a Governor Pence except for this. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU hired Matt Barreto, who’s a great statistician. He calculated that about 72,000 black people in Indiana would be barred from voting by this ID law. Furthermore, students would be barred from voting. You can’t use a student ID. You can use a gun ID, but not a University of Indiana ID. Students would be barred, and obviously people who don’t drive tend to be poor people, whether they are white or black. Poor people tend to vote Democratic. Black people vote Democratic. Hispanic people vote Democratic – we’re not even counting those yet. Students vote Democratic. So if you add a few more of the blocked voters to the 72,000 African-Americans who are blocked from voting in Indiana, that more than accounts for Mike Pence’s very, very slim 80,000 vote margin when he ran for governor of Indiana. So Pence just sneaked by the Democrat, congressman John Gregg, and he sneaked by simply blocking voters through this racist ID law.
DB: And the lower courts found it to be a real problem. Justice Terence Evans was not all that impressed, was he?
Palast: No. His ruling was that this was just a clear, bold attempt at partisan manipulation of voter rolls by the Republican Party, knowing that they are knocking out their adversaries. But Scalia, being the 5th vote, said: “I don’t care. This is kind of a catch 22 – you need ID to get a non-voter ID. But even if you do, it’s an average three bus, all day trip back and forth from a county office – on average a 17 mile trip. And, as Scalia infamously said, “Seventeen miles is 17 miles, whether you are black or white.”
But, of course, he had a black Beemer, (Black BMW) for which he got a speeding ticket. But whether it’s a black Beemer or a white Beemer, 17 miles is nothing for him. But if you actually have to take a bus, and most people who don’t have licenses have to take a bus, it’s a major hardship. He knew that.
And while it’s racist, that’s only secondary to their plan. It’s partisan, and the interesting thing is that the Republicans in the court say a plan which knocks out your opponents, that’s perfectly fine. It just can’t be clearly and overtly intended to be racist. Now there was a glimmer of hope, because the devil needed his advocate early and took Scalia from us. And the Texas court of appeals is changing and the Texas ID law, which is also a nasty piece of work. That ruling just came out yesterday.
DB: That was not thrown out. It’s thrown back to the lower court, so that could show its ugly face again. Now, Karl Rove thinks it’s a good idea. He thinks, if you gotta go get groceries, they check your ID, so if you gotta go to vote, they check your ID too.
Palast: Yeah, can you imagine Karl Rove trying to cash a check at the grocery store? But the difference is that cashing a check at a grocery store is not the key to American democracy, but we like to think of voting as part of it. By the way, most Americans don’t realize voting is not a constitutional right. I want to repeat that: There is nothing in the Constitution which gives you the right to vote. That silence in the Constitution was what allowed the Supreme Court to pick George Bush as our president in Bush v. Gore. There is no right to vote in the Constitution. The one thing the Constitution has is the 14th Amendment, which says if you allow the people to vote, you can’t stop them from voting because they were once slaves or their great-grandparents were slaves. And, of course, the 19th Amendment said if you allow people to vote, you can’t stop them from voting based on their genitals. That was the suffrage amendment. But you don’t have a right to vote – that’s what makes it possible to have these nasty laws.
DB: Mike Pence, you said, was a recipient of this kind of draconian, and I guess we can call it racist, on its face, behavior?
Palast: There’s this big back and forth – and we see this in Texas – about whether something is racist by intent or racist in effect. Those have two different meanings under the law. If it’s racist by intent, then the law has to be thrown out. In fact, in places like Wisconsin, one of the Republicans confessed that when the Voter ID law was passed there was absolute jubilation among the Republicans. And Charlie Crist said that in Florida; he was the Republican governor and he said the Republican party specifically did that to knock out black voters. When he revealed that, he was basically tossed out of the Republican Party. But even if it’s not intended, if it has a racial effect; the law must be modified. That’s what’s happening in Texas. They have to modify the law to try to remove some of the overt racial effects. I don’t know how they’re going to do that though.
DB: The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University has weighed in on this as well, haven’t they?
Palast: Yes. Here’s a breakdown from the Brennan Center: 6 million senior citizens don’t have their legal ID, mostly poor senior citizens.
DB: 6 million?
Palast: 6 million. 5.5 million African-Americans, 4.5 million 18- to 24-year-olds, and 15% of voters with household incomes under $35,000 a year – that is the poor … If you’re on food stamps these days, what they now call SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, in most states you get an official government ID card with your photo on it. Well, Texas allows you to use your gun permit with your photo on it, but does not allow you to use your food stamp card with your photo ID on it. That’s one thing that the court did latch onto.
By the way, they are saying that’s not racist. And you know what? They may be right. It’s really class war. I want to emphasize this. In all my research, while we see that most of the victims of election thefts are voters of color, it’s really class war by other means. Upper-middle class, wealthy Hispanics and wealthy African-Americans tend not to have trouble voting. They have passports. Vernon Jordan and Andy Young had no problem at all with the Voter ID law. They said, “That’s a good idea. People should have ID.” Well, of course, they’ve got passports – and their chauffeurs to vouch for them!
But a lot of white people are caught up in these things too. Elderly, poor white people who are barely getting by on Social Security. Because 15% of the voters are under the poverty line, and that’s white and black. Most poor people in America, remember, are white. People tend to forget that because of the way things are portrayed on TV. Most people who are poor are white, and they don’t stand much of a chance if all they have to show is their food stamp cards. It’s really class war.
DB: Broaden this out at the national level. We’ve been talking about Mike Pence because he’s going to accept the Republican nomination tonight and he was an offender in Indiana. But this is a national program.
Palast: Understand the republic lasted two centuries without photo ID. We founded the republic before there were photographs without any problem. We haven’t had hoards of identity thieves voting. But it’s been marvelously excellent at knocking out literally hundreds of thousands of poor people, especially voters of color.
We’ve gone from one state having a photo Voter ID program in 2000 – Pence was the beneficiary. He would not be governor if it weren’t for that law. Since Indiana, it’s gone like a virus. Once the Supreme Court said Indiana was okay, it was both constitutional and not violating the Voting Rights Act, 20 states adopted some type of ID requirement. And there’s no case in which it doesn’t have a very smelly racial aroma.
Dennis J Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar Award for his work as a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the author of Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
Greg Palast has been called the “most important investigative reporter of our time – up there with Woodward and Bernstein” (The Guardian). Palast has broken front-page stories for BBC Television’s Newsnight, The Guardian, The Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper's Magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC’s Newsnight Review. His books have been translated into two dozen languages. Palast’s investigation and production team are currently preparing to release his new film on the theft of the 2016 election: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits.
Palast’s film will screen in Oakland on September 7th.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
From: Andrew J. Tierman
Subject: Paul Berman on the Clintons: From avoiding McGovern, to upending Reagan, to culture wars; also, hip photo of Bill & Hill
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/209304/hillary-clinton-social-progress?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=b21478f771-July_29_20167_29_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-b21478f771-207578217
| The Grandeur of Hillary Clinton: Untrustworthiness and Social Progress Hillary Clinton owes her reputation for untrustworthiness to a single large and admirable decision that she made long ago; and to a series of baffled responses that her decision aroused and continues to arouse; and to the hatreds and paranoias that, like weeds or fungi, eventually sprang from the ba... |
From: albert baca
Subject: FW: Impact of SCOTUS Decisions
On Election Day, I will hold my nose and vote for Hillary. Why? I could never vote for Trump. Nor will I vote for anybody else as that is really a vote for Trump. Remember, Ralph Nader gave us the Shrub by taking votes away from Al Gore.
The article I am forwarding is worth a read for the simple reason that not many Americans totally understand the impact of SCOTUS decisions on American life.
I will bet anybody a dollar to a dime that if HRC is elected President, Mad Mitch McConnell will immediately open confirmation hearings for and confirm Merrick Garland. Why? It is known that Garland is more center than left. What if HRC wins and nominates someone to the left of Garland? The R powers that be would have a conniption fit if the SCOTUS wound up with a more left leaning Associate Justice.
I hate to think what would happen if the orange one won. We would wind up with someone to the right of Scalia. That is exactly what the country doesn’t need. With the S of the RATS gone, the remaining RAT pack (Roberts, Alito, Thomas) still render decisions to screw the people that can least afford to be screwed. – Old Al
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/next-president-likely-appoint-4-supreme-court-justices?akid=14479.201347.mAr3KZ&rd=1&src=newsletter1060906&t=3
Election 2016
The Next President Will Likely Appoint Four Supreme Court Justices: Which President Do You Want Picking Them?
This election is all about the Supreme Court that will shape our lives for the next 30 years.
By David Morris / AlterNet, July 27, 2016
Many progressives disagree with Hillary Clinton on a number of issues, in some cases intensely. But there is one overarching reason we should be vigorously supporting her election: The future of the Supreme Court is at stake.
We know the numbers. The death of Scalia split the Supreme Court between four conservative justices appointed by Republican presidents (Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy) and four liberal justices appointed by Democratic presidents (Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor). The Republican Senate, in an unprecedented stance, has refused to call a vote on President Obama’s nominee to replace Scalia.
During the next four years, the new president will likely nominate not only Scalia’s replacement but also an additional 3 new justices. Since 1971, the average age of retirement for a Supreme Court justice has been just under 79 years. Ginsburg is 83, Kenney is 80, and Breyer will be 78 in mid-August.
The new justices will set the direction of the Supreme Court and the values that guide it for the next generation. Scalia, after all, was on the court for 30 years before he died. Thomas has been on the court for 25 years and is still only 68.
We know the numbers, but many don’t seem to truly grasp their central importance to our work. Indeed, only at 11:15 PM on the first day of the Democratic Convention was the status of the Supreme Court briefly mentioned. Many of Bernie’s supporters appear willing to jettison the Court because of their distress over Hillary Clinton’s behavior or some of her policies.
The Supreme Court can enable or disable our work. In the last decade the justices have made it much harder to challenge wealth and power, to nurture the weak and assist the poor, to extend social justice to minorities, to reduce violence, stop discrimination, and defend the right to vote. One could write a book about the recent work of the Supreme Court but to make concrete the crucial impact of the court on a progressive future, here is a small sample of what the Court has wrought.
Democracy The Supreme Court’s most infamous and widely discussed intervention occurred in 2010 when it overturned a corporate campaign spending ban first advanced by Teddy Roosevelt. The infamous Citizens United decision allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money, much of it “dark money,” hidden from public scrutiny.
Citizens United changed the nature of American democracy. In the first five years after the decision $1 billion poured into super PACs, $600 million of which came from just 195 donors and their spouses. Between 2006, before the Court decision, and 2014, after the decision, independent expenditures increased 25-fold.
In 2014 the Court allowed unlimited individual contributions. Both decisions were by a 5-4 vote. Dissenting Justice Breyer predicted, “If the court in Citizens United opened a door today’s decision may well open a floodgate.”
And so it has. In 2012 the Republican National Committee and its two Congressional campaign committees spent a total of $657 million. In early 2015 the Koch brothers announced that they and their friends would spend $889 million on the 2016 election. That is buying an awful lot of dirty tricks, non-profit front organizations, lawsuits, and dare I say; candidates.
There is much talk about the need to reverse Citizens United, but that can’t be done through Congress. Only a constitutional amendment or a Supreme Court reversal can. The chances of the former are infinitesimal. If Hillary Clinton wins the chances of the latter are quite good.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ended 150 years of laws and policies that steadily expanded the electorate when it upheld an Indiana law requiring a photo ID. The vote was 6-3 when Justice Breyer voted with the conservative majority. The justices conceded that those least likely to have state-issued identification are disproportionally poor and nonwhite. The state had offered no examples of voter fraud that would have been prevented with voter ID.
Since the Supreme Court decision, at least 23 states have either introduced more restrictive voter procedures or tightened those in operation.
In 2013 the Supreme Court upped the ante by allowing states to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Earlier this year Kansas and Georgia and Arizona became the first to adopt that requirement.
In 2013, by a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) freeing the nine covered states and dozens of counties in New York, California and South Dakota to change their election laws without advance federal approval.
Even when we are able to defend our democracy, our victories have been fragile. In 2015 the Court upheld the right of citizens to take authority over redistricting out of the legislature and invest it in an impartial commission. That same year the Court overturned an Alabama law that racially gerrymandered election districts. Both decisions were by a 5-4 vote, easily reversible by a new Court.
Corporate power: Several decisions by the Supreme Court have increased the power of corporations over workers and consumers.
In 2001 the Court interpreted a 1925 federal law allowing arbitration among businesses as a preemption of state laws protecting the right of workers to access the traditional judicial system. They did this despite the clear language of the original law: “nothing herein contained shall apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
In 2011 the Court overturned a California law prohibiting arbitration clauses that ban class action suits. Class action suits offer one of the few ways to truly penalize corporations for misbehavior yet today it is all but impossible to successfully litigate a class action suit. On the third anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Public Citizen identified 140 cases decided between 2011 and 2014 in which the judges cited the Supreme Court rulings as justification for dismissing a class action.
In 2013 the Court overturned a California law making arbitration contracts that contained “unconscionable” provisions unenforceable. Astonishingly, the Court concluded that even if the arbitration procedure is designed in such a way as to make it impossible for a worker or consumer to win, the results of arbitration are still legally enforceable.
The 2001, 2011 and 2013 decisions were all decided by a 5-4 vote.
Today employment and consumer contracts routinely contain forced arbitration clauses that prohibit access to the traditional justice system. Unlike that system, arbitration is governed by corporate-friendly rules. As Catholic University of America law professor Peter B. Rutledge notes, “Arbitrators do not have to follow precedent. Arbitrators also are not bound by the same rules of evidence and procedure as courts. Often there is no transcript, and arbitrators are not obligated to provide detailed findings of fact and conclusion of law in their awards.” Complainants can be forced to travel thousands of miles and put up thousands of dollars up front to attend an arbitration proceeding.
Another way the Supreme Court can expand corporate power is by weakening the ability of workers to wield collective power.
Scalia’s death earlier this year resulted in a series of 4-4 votes. One tie vote resulted in a victory for workers when it left intact the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholding a California law requiring non-union workers to pay their “fair share” of the collective bargaining costs. The decision affects eight northwestern and western states. If Scalia, or another likeminded justice were on the bench the resulting 5-4 decision overturning California’s law could have meant the demise of a nearly 40-year-old Supreme Court precedent that applies to more than 5 million public employees in 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Gun control. In 2007 and more broadly in 2010, the Court overturned 70 years of precedent when it declared that the Second Amendment applied to individuals, not militias. It was a watershed moment and made gun control infinitely more difficult. Since then, rather than gun control initiatives we have largely witnessed a race between states to see which can make guns most ubiquitous and conspicuous. The only remaining sacrosanct areas at this writing appear to be churches, courts and legislatures. The two Court decisions were by a vote of 5-4.
Immigration. In 2016 a 4-4 tie left in place a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturning a 2014 executive order that allowed as many as 5 million unauthorized immigrants who were the parents of citizens or of lawful permanent residents to apply for a program that would spare them from deportation and provide them with work permits.
A Woman’s Right to Choose. In 2014 the Court made it more difficult for poor women to prevent pregnancy when it held that privately held businesses could be exempt from the Obamacare requirement that insurance cover contraception based of the company’s religious beliefs. The vote was 5-4. Justice Ginsburg warned in her dissent of the potentially broad impact of the Court’s decision, given the attitude of religions toward women and gay people, “The Court’s expansive notion of corporate personhood invites for-profit entities to seek religious-base exemptions from regulations they deem offensive to their faiths.”
One of the Court’s final rulings this year overturned a Texas law that would have effectively ended access to legal abortion for millions of women. The vote in this case was 5-3 because Kennedy voted with the Court’s four liberal justices. Two new justices could reverse that decision.
Discrimination. In 2011 the Supreme Court dismissed a gender discrimination suit by thousands of women across the nation against Walmart. The Court threw out more than 40 years of class action jurisprudence by ruling that class members must prove they have suffered the same injury, not just a violation under the same law. The vote was 5-4.
In 2015, in a case involving discrimination against minorities in housing, the Supreme Court did uphold the traditional standard for deciding whether discrimination has occurred: Complainants must identify a business practice that has a disproportionate effect on certain groups of individuals while not being defensible by sound business considerations. The Court had been asked to substitute a much higher standard proof of “intentional discrimination.” The vote was 5-4.
Justice. In 2009 the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing even though at the time such testing had already played a role in 240 exonerations, according to the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School. In 103 of those cases, the testing also identified the actual perpetrator.
Health Care. A new liberal justice could make even our victories much sweeter. The American Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012 by a 5-4 vote when Justice Roberts, surprisingly, voted in favor. But the Court rejected the Act’s Medicaid expansion mandate. Almost 8 million people lack health insurance as a result.
The Supreme Court meets only six months a year. The media dutifully reports the decisions, debates the meaning for a day or two and then moves on. We’re not exposed to the cumulative impact, nor the long-term consequences.
Supreme Court decisions reach into every aspect of our lives, both political and personal. The very structure of how we govern, our ability to elect progressive candidates and enact progressive policies is determined by their interpretation of the constitution and legal precedents. There have been activist Courts of all stripes but none, at least since the early 1930s has been as determinative of our ability to make a progressive future as this one.
In this election, removing the Supreme Court as a key obstacle in the way of achieving a fair and just future should be the goal that spurs our activism and our ballot choice.
From: CLG_News
Subject: Hillary Clinton promises steady hand in dangerous world
News Updates from CLG (on 29 July 2016, http://www.legitgov.org/)
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Breaking: Hillary Clinton promises steady hand in dangerous world | 28 July 2016 | Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifier for divided times, an experienced leader steeled for a volatile world. She aggressively challenged Republican Donald Trump's ability to do the same. Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from flag-waving delegates on the final night of the Democratic convention, relishing her nomination as the first woman to lead a major U.S. political party. Clinton's four-day convention began with efforts to shore up liberals who backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and it ended with an outstretched hand to Republicans and independents unnerved by Trump.
Hillary Clinton Makes History Accepting Democratic Nomination | 28 July 2016 | Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination, making history as the first woman to be chosen to run for the highest office in the land by a major party in the United States. The former secretary of state, introduced by her daughter Chelsea, drew on the historic roots of Philadelphia as a way to reiterate one of her campaign slogans. "Our Founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together," she said. "America is once again at a moment of reckoning." Early in her speech, she thanked Sen. Bernie Sanders.
'US deliberately destroyed CIA black site used for torture' --Defense teams: Black site they believed was under protective order as a crime scene has been destroyed without their knowledge. | 28 July 2016 | Ammar al Baluchi was brutally tortured in CIA custody, along with other detainees, but now it is reported that the black site where Baluchi was held has been destroyed, Alka Pradhan, defense attorney for Gitmo detainee Ammar al Baluchi, told RT. The September 11 mass murder trial has yet to begin at Guantanamo Bay detention facility for several detainees prisoners who, in the government's opinion, are guilty enough to be charged. However, the legal proceedings are being held up by the prosecution's evidence...And then there's the question of one specific piece of evidence not sent back that pertains to a secret CIA black site where most of the defendants were reportedly tortured.
Five US Troops Wounded Fighting ISIS in Afghanistan | 28 July 2016 | At least five U.S. troops were wounded this week by small-arms fire and shrapnel while fighting alongside Afghan forces to expel ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] from strongholds in eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Thursday. Two of the wounded troops quickly returned to duty after treatment, and three others were medically evacuated from the country. The wounded troops were believed to be the first U.S. casualties in Afghanistan in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria offshoot, called Islamic State-Khorasan Province, or IS-K.
Vladimir Putin's approval rating at record levels --Almost nine out of 10 Russians approve of their president, according to survey that also highlights support for Ukraine strategy | 23 July 2016 | Vladimir Putin's approval rating is at record levels, with nine out of 10 Russians saying they have a positive view of their president. Putin had an approval of 87% in July, and an all-time high of 89% in June, according to Levada Centre polling. According to separate Levada figures from June, 66% believe that western sanctions are meant to humiliate and weaken Russia, and only 5% think they are about ending the conflict in Ukraine...87% support the annexation reunification of Crimea, and only 4% think that the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk should return to their pre-conflict status.
'Suitcase bomb' explodes near migration office outside Nuremberg as Germany remains on high alert over ISIS terrorism fears | 27 July 2016 | A suitcase bomb has exploded near a migration office on the outskirts of Nuremberg, in Germany, today. A loud blast rocked Zirndorf this afternoon and local reports suggested the device was a suitcase packed with aerosol cans. Witnesses said they heard a loud bang about 200 metres away from the migration centre before finding a burning suitcase in an allotment nearby. Police officers were seen standing in an alleyway next to a partially destroyed bag.
Washington's Union Station evacuated due to bomb threat - police | 27 July 2016 | Washington's main railway terminal, Union Station, was evacuated on Wednesday because of a bomb threat, a police officer told Reuters. "We got a bomb threat," the officer, who did not give his name, said as he urged people to leave Union Station in downtown Washington near the U.S. Capitol Building. Panicked people began running out of the station, which is a hub for railway, commuter train and subway service to the U.S. capital city, shortly after 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), a Reuters witness said.
Barack Obama slams Trump, makes appeal for Hillary Clinton | 28 July 2016 | President Barack Obama made a fervent plea for Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, casting the Democratic nominee as a custodian of his legacy while rejecting Republicans' message as fostering anger and hate. In remarks that demonstrated Obama's lasting appeal to wide swaths of the Democratic Party, the President sought to describe country headed firmly in the right direction, despite the loud protestations otherwise by Donald Trump. Obama said his former secretary of state is a better qualified candidate than even he or her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had been when they sought office.
Longtime best friend of Clintons, Terry McAuliffe, says Hillary would flip-flop on TPP | 27 July 2016 | Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe caused Hillary Clinton a political headache Tuesday night when he said he expects her to reverse her position on a major free trade deal. Clinton has said on the campaign trail that she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal corporate takeover negotiated by President Barack Obama's administration...But McAuliffe said in an interview with Politico that he believes she'd flip-flop and support the deal.
Sanders supporters to mount silent protest against Obama over his trade deal during his DNC speech instead of shouting him down over concerns it would come off as racially charged | 27 July 2016 | Bernie Sanders supporters will silently protest the president's trade deal corporate takeover tonight during his speech at the Democratic National Convention. Sanders supporters told DailyMail dot com that they would hold up signs indicating their displeasure with the Trans-Pacific Partnership during President Barack Obama's remarks. They also plan to repurpose the inflatables - the letter 'O' of Obama - that are being distributed for use during the president's speech to display anti-TPP messages. A plan to shout down the president over the trade agreement that Sanders pegged as 'disastrous' was scrapped by three delegations amid concerns the protest would be viewed through a racial prism.
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections | 26 July 2016 | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday his whistleblowing website might release "a lot more material" relevant to the US electoral campaign. Assange was speaking in a CNN interview following the release of nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by [what the corporate-owned media claims are] suspected Russian hackers. However, Assange refused to confirm or deny a Russian origin for the mass email leak, saying Wikileaks tries to create ambiguity to protect all its sources. "Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are," Assange told CNN.
Progressives betrayed! Democratic party official platform is pro-fracking, pro-Monsanto, pro-TPP, and anti-GMO labeling | 26 July 2016 | ...The democratic party openly supports fracking, Monsanto, vaccine mandates, chemical agriculture and the TPP. On top of that, they're mostly opposed to GMO labeling, too. Only Sen. Sanders really stood up to the biotech industry on that point, and now after the DNC email leaks, you know how the Democratic establishment hosed Sanders with a vindictive smear campaign to destroy his chances of winning the nomination.
'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you can find Hillary's 30,000 missing emails': Taunting Trump challenges the Kremlin's [alleged] hackers to scour Clinton's deleted messages for 'some beauties' --Kremlin denies intervening in the election | 27 July 2016 | Donald Trump has a message for Russia: find Hillary Clinton's missing emails. The Republican presidential nominee, holding a Wednesday press conference, said that the 30,000 missing emails from Clinton's private email server would reveal 'some beauties' and made an extraordinary plea for a foreign power to locate them. 'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,' Trump said. 'I think you'll be rewarded mightily by our press!'
Trump edges ahead of Clinton in U.S. presidential race: Reuters/Ipsos poll | 26 July 2016 | Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posted a two-point lead over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, the first time he has been ahead since early May. Trump's gains came as he accepted his party's nomination to the Nov. 8 ballot at the four-day Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, and as Clinton's nomination in Philadelphia this week was marred by party divisions and the resignation of a top party official.
Bulldozer operator killed near Soberanes Fire in Monterey County | 28 July 2016 | CAL FIRE reports a bulldozer operator was killed overnight, while on the fire line in Monterey County. Mandatory evacuation orders remain in place in the areas closest to the Soberanes Fire burning north of Big Sur. Firefighters continue their efforts to contain the fire, all while mourning the loss of their colleague. The Soberanes Fire has now burned over 23,688 acres and is 10-percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon.
Connecticut Resident Finds Bear Swimming in Her Pool | 23 July 2016 | Lynette Grande planned to take a swim in her pool Saturday afternoon, until she saw that a large black bear had beaten her to it. The bear crashed through the rail fence at Grande's home about 2 p.m. and swam in the pool for about 20 minutes, she said. Bloomfield animal control officers suggested banging pots and pans together to get rid of the bear, she said.
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