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With America exactly three weeks from Election Day, GOP nominee Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton in a final showdown in Las Vegas, Nevada, Wednesday.
The third – and last – presidential debate of the election season took place at the University of Nevada. Fox News’ Chris Wallace moderated. Debate topics included debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and Hillary and Trump’s fitness for the presidency.
As his guests, Trump brought Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe; for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; President Barack Obama’s Kenyan-born half-brother, Malik; and Patricia Smith, mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith. He also invited Leslie Millwee, a woman who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault on at least three separate occasions in 1980. Hillary invited well-known billionaires Meg Whitman and Mark Cuban to the event.
The debate began with a question about Supreme Court appointments and interpretation of the Constitution. Wallace said the next president could have two or three appointments and “determine the balance of the court for the next quarter century” . . .
“I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and wealthy,” Hillary said. She said she wants a court that will reject Citizens United. (Read more from “Final Debate: Trump, Hillary Go for Jugular” HERE)
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First lady Michelle Obama’s past words will come back to haunt her this week with the release of a new campaign ad bought by a super PAC that is backing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The ad, to be aired in Orlando and Tampa, Fla., uses Obama’s quote from 2007 about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who was facing Obama’s husband in the Democratic primary.
“If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House,” Obama says.
The statement appeared to be a reference to former President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs, although Barack Obama denied it at the time.
Make America Number 1, the superPAC that paid for the ad, is hoping it will cause women in the key battleground state of Florida to rethink voting for Clinton.
Clinton leads Trump by 15 points among female voters in the Sunshine State — 54 percent to 39 percent — according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
Throughout the course of the election, Trump has struggled to win over many female voters. His efforts were hurt by a recent leaked tape of his lewd comments followed by sexual harassment accusations from several women.
Although Trump apologized for the remarks and denied the women’s claims, his poll numbers with female voters have dropped.
Make America Number 1 is looking to help give him a boost in this area with its ad featuring the first lady.
Michelle Obama has emerged as one of Clinton’s strongest advocates on the campaign trail, giving powerful speeches attacking Trump and how he treats women.
The White House last week gave a subtle warning to Trump not to respond in kind to Obama.
“I can’t think of a bolder way for Donald Trump to lose even more standing than he already has than by engaging the first lady of the United States,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.
With this new ad, though, Obama isn’t attacked at all. Instead, her words are used to attack Clinton.
Super PACs are restricted by law from directly communicating and coordinating with a campaign, but they have no limits on how much money they can raise.
The commercial initially debuted as an ad on Facebook, where Make America Number 1 spent $72,000 trying to reach and win over women voters in nine major battleground states.
Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for Make America Number 1, said the group now will spend about $400,000 to get the commercial on network television. (For more from the author of “Super PAC Set to Release Pro-Trump Ad Pitting Michelle Obama Against Hillary Clinton” please click HERE)
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Ivanka Trump has been a loyal and diligent worker in her father’s effort to win the White House.
But the 34-year-old wife and mother had to pause briefly when a 2005 video showed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump making vulgar comments about women. For more than a week, she had no reaction to the video.
Then, Monday, she released a statement in an interview with Fast Company.
“My father’s comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive, and I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people,” she said in a statement.
The statement mirrored words of Trump’s wife, Melania, who issued a statement the day after the video surfaced.
“The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me,” Melania Trump’s statement said. “This does not represent the man that I know. He has the heart and mind of a leader.”
“I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world,” the statement concluded.
In the Fast Company interview, Ivanka Trump said that despite an onslaught of allegations claiming her father groped or was otherwise inappropriate with women, she stands by his denials that the accusers are wrong.
“The greatest comfort I have is the fact that I know my father,” she said.
”Most of the people who write about him don’t. I do. So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong,” she added.
Ivanka Trump is not only in the spotlight as the leading female in the Trump entourage, but she is also an entrepreneur who must market herself to America.
“She wants to be the brand of glamorous millennials,” Donald Trump critic Jennifer Rubin commented to Fast Company. “But what young woman wants to be reminded every time she puts on a pair of Ivanka shoes of her father boasting about sexual assault?”
However, for all of Ivanka Trump’s business savvy, nothing has broken the bonds of family.
“Ivanka’s brand has always been built on a really carefully balancing act,” says Rajiv Menon, a cultural analyst with the branding consultancy TruthCo. “She’s really demonstrated a sense of drive, a sense of ingenuity, and really established something strong with her apparel brand and larger public presence. But with all of that, she’s never really lost her sense of family loyalty.”
“And as the campaign has continued, she’s maintained that balancing act — but as the campaign has also mutated and turned into what we see now with the tape that was released … that balancing act becomes a lot more precarious. It becomes much more of a liability for her.”
However, the public understands that family comes first.
“Any child or parent is going to defend their parent or their child,” said leadership consultant Gregg Ward. “That’s her right.”
In fact, were she to turn on her father, it might backfire.
“She would lose points if she didn’t stand by her father,” said Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University. (For more from the author of “Ivanka Trump Breaks Lengthy Silence on Leaked 2005 Video of Her Father” please click HERE)
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Project Veritas has released “part one” in what will be a “multi-part” series exposing potentially criminal activity by Democratic operatives receiving “dark money” from the Hillary Clinton campaign for president.
Among the revelations in the video are non-profit organizations receiving money from the Clinton campaign and the DNC sending agitators to Donald Trump rallies to incite violence.
"It doesn't matter what the friggin legal & ethics people say, we need to win this mother f**ker" —@scottfoval @DemPartners @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/EnRyvtyZPo
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 17, 2016
Scott Foval, the National Field Director for the non-profit group Americans United for Change explained on video that these left-wing operatives use what’s called “bird dogging” to plant individuals at Trump events to start incidents and grab media attention.
Project Veritas’ report indicates this is a new Democratic strategy:
Foval also references Shirley Teeter, a sixty-nine-year-old lady who claims that she was assaulted at a Trump rally in North Carolina.
“She was one of our activists,” he says while introducing the term bird dogging to the political lexicon.
The phrase bird dogging also appears in an email released by WikiLeaks where Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggests it might be a tactic to employ to shore up support with Hispanic voters.
“So the term bird dogging, you put people in the line, at the front which means that they have to get there at six in the morning because they have to get in front at the rally, so that when Trump comes down the rope line, they’re the ones asking him the question in front of the reporter, because they’re pre-placed there,” explains Foval. “To funnel that kind of operation, you have to start back with people two weeks ahead of time and train them how to ask questions. You have to train them to bird dog.”
Foval explains in the video that they target “mentally ill” people for recruitment to disrupt Trump events.
“I’m saying we have mentally ill people, that we pay to do shit, make no mistake. Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel, and a shower. And I put them in a program. Like I’ve done that. But the reality is, a lot of people especially our union guys. A lot of our union guys…they’ll do whatever you want. They’re rock and roll. When I need to get something done in Arkansas, the first guy I call is the head of the AFL-CIO down there, because he will say, ‘What do you need?’ And I will say, I need a guy who will do this, this and this. And they find that guy. And that guy will be like, Hell yeah, let’s do it.”
Project Veritas Action President James O’Keefe says that the next installment of this year-long investigation will expose a voter fraud scheme that reaches the “highest levels” of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Will the mainstream media investigate these allegations and hold the Hillary Clinton campaign accountable? (For more from the author of “Busted! Undercover Video Shows Democrat Operatives Admitting They Incited Violence at Trump Rallies” please click HERE)
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The man who knew everything about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump when the billionaire stayed at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida knows nothing at all about the allegations whipped up in recent days that Trump tried to grope a writer from People magazine.
“No, that never happened. Come on, that’s just bull crap,” said former Trump butler Anthony “Tony” Senecal when asked about the claim of Natasha Stoynoff that in 2005, Trump shoved her against a wall and tried to kiss her.
“As I remember, it was Mrs. Post’s (Marjorie Merriweather Post) old massage room, which has got windows all the way around — that would be the worst room to go grope somebody, unless you want the whole world to know about it,” said Senecal.
Stoynoff claimed Seneeal burst in on Trump, a claim Senecal ridiculed.
“I don’t burst in. I knock, then I go in, usually after someone says ‘come in,’” Senecal said. “And when I went in, there was nothing strange about where she was standing.”
Senecal said he did not recall Stoynoff appearing to be angry, flustered or upset.
Senecal, 85, said he never saw Trump trying to seduce women even during the years when Trump was between marriages.
“Everybody is just jumping on the train,” he said. “I think you’re going to see even more of it between now and the election. But these incidents never happened.”
Senecal fingered the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as the source of the attacks against Trump, but said he has confidence Trump will prevail.
“These guys are pushing his back against the wall. But he’s a fighter. He’ll take them on. He’ll take all of them on,” Senecal said.
Senecal’s comments add to the number of allegations against Trump that have been disputed. Trump has denied all acusations of behaving improperly to the women who say he groped or kissed them.
As reported by Western Journalism, a man who witnessed the interplay between Trump and accuser Jessica Leeds aboard a 2000 flight has come forward to rebut her claim that Trump groped her.
Further, a family member of one of Trump’s recent accusers — Summer Zevos — said she had been highly supportive of Trump until he refused a request for visit her restaurant this spring.
Also, part of Stoynoff’s acocunt that included a mention of Melania Trump has been denied by Trump’s wife, who has said she will file suit against People magazine over the comments. (For more from the author of “Trump’s Butler Says Magazine Writer’s Allegations ‘Never Happened'” please click HERE)
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Two more women accused Republican nominee Donald Trump of sexual assault Friday, with a relative of one of them saying that the allegation was “an attempt to regain the spotlight.”
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s NBC reality show “The Apprentice,” said the real estate mogul kissed her and groped her after meeting at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007 to discuss a potential job. Zervos, accompanied at a Los Angeles press conference by attorney Gloria Allred, said she was later offered a lower-paying job at a Trump golf course . . .
Late Friday, the Trump campaign released a statement purporting to be from statement in which a cousin of Zervos said he was “shocked and bewildered” by her account.
John Barry of Mission Viejo, Calif., said in the statement that Zervos spoke glowingly of Trump until the real estate mogul rebuffed an invitation to visit her restaurant during the primary campaign.
“I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to get that back she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump,” Barry said. “That’s not how she talked about him before.” (Read more from “Revenge for Snub? Trump Accuser’s Kin Says Her Claim Is a Grab for Fame” HERE)
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Following a story in The New York Times on Wednesday that featured four women going on the record to accuse Donald Trump of inappropriately touching them, the Republican presidential nominee fired back hard during a rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday.
“These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false,” Trump exclaimed.
He continued, “And the Clintons know it, and they know it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened, and the people that said them meekly fully understand.”
In addition to denying the accusations made by his accusers, Trump said he had evidence that would prove his innocence.
“We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon,” he said.
This all comes on the heels of Trump’s apologizing for comments he made in 2005 while with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, where the real estate mogul bragged about trying to sleep with a married woman and boasted that because he was rich and famous, women would let him do anything to them, including grabbing their genitals.
Trump described these comments as “locker room talk” when questioned by moderator Anderson Cooper about them during Sunday’s presidential debate.
He also said it was simply “talk,” contrasting it with the alleged sexual misconduct of former President Bill Clinton, the husband of his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump also said Thursday he believed the accusations from the four women were part of a coordinated effort to take him down.
“Now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and The New York Times and other media outlets as part of a concerted, coordinated and vicious attack,” he said.
Trump said the timing of the allegations — matching up directly with recent document dumps by WikiLeaks that were unfavorable to Hillary Clinton — was not something that happened by chance.
“It’s not [a] coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Clinton machine, including 2,000 more emails just this morning.”
Trump’s attacks on The New York Times followed a letter his lawyers wrote to the newspaper Wednesday threatening a lawsuit over its “libelous” and “defamatory” article if it did not retract what was written about the four accusers. (For more from the author of “Trump Hits Back at Accusers by Promising to Refute Their ‘Lies'” please click HERE)
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It was former governor Jeb Bush who first referred to Donald Trump as the “chaos candidate.” Now, Lance Wallnau, an out-of-the-box Christian thinker and businessman, has dubbed Trump “God’s chaos candidate,” writing a book by this title (with the subtitle, “Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling”).
Wallnau believes that God is using Trump as a “wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness,” claiming, “His emergence is such a destabilizing threat to the vast deal making machinery embedded in both parties that he has the unique distinction of being rejected by both liberal Democrats and establishment Republicans at the same time.”
Whether Wallnau is right in all of his beliefs remains to be seen (I’m scheduled to interview him next Wednesday, October 19, live, from 2-3 PM, EST, and I’ll be sure to ask him lots of probing questions, since he strongly supports Trump for president), but what is clear to me is that God is using Trump as a wrecking ball of sorts, and the results are not pretty.
What has this human wrecking ball helped expose?
1) Trump has helped to expose the carnality of the culture.
It was Donald Trump who initially delighted his crowds by dropping F- bombs, and it is Donald Trump whose borderline profane tweets ignite his followers today. The crasser, the better!
But Trump is not alone in his carnality. His words and actions have encouraged his supporters to engage in the most profane rhetoric, as they not only defend him but also feel empowered by his example.
2) Trump has helped to expose the superficiality of the culture.
Candidate Trump remains a reality TV star, and much of his political appeal is tied to his rock star status.
To be sure, candidate Obama took on rock star status during his first presidential campaign, but as undeserved as Obama’s stardom was, it had a very different feel than the stardom of Trump. That’s why I wrote back in May that he was “a National Enquirer candidate for a Jerry Springer generation.”
Now, in saying this, I do not mean that Trump has not struck a chord with many Americans, for whom he has provided a voice, and I don’t mean that people are not voting for him because of his policies. I simply mean that his candidacy has helped bring our superficiality to the surface.
3) Trump has helped to expose the vulgarity of our culture.
Forget about the release of the 2005 videotape with Trump’s horrific comments about women. That’s news from 11 years ago.
We’re talking about the candidate who boasted about the size of his manhood during a debate in the primaries.
And now, with his opponent’s husband being an even easier target, the most recent presidential debate (I use the term “presidential” with hesitation) degenerated into rhetoric like, “Yeah, what I said was bad, but what he did was even worse.”
The other day, I spent a few seconds browsing the Drudge Report and then the Huffington Post, in both cases just looking at the most prominent headlines, after which I felt like I needed to take a shower to get the dirt and grime off of me. These websites were absolutely in the gutter.
Does anyone think that if the battle for the White House was between, say, Jeb Bush and Bernie Sanders, that the headlines would be as vulgar and debased? (And yes, on Drudge, there are now accusations of impropriety directed against President Obama as well.)
4) Trump has helped to expose an unhealthy nationalism.
I certainly recognize that many Americans are deeply upset with the direction of our nation (for good reason), and Trump has appealed to their frustration and anger, promising to turn the ship around.
But Trump has also helped stir up an almost rabid, America-first nationalism (whether intentionally or not), one that can easily lead to xenophobia, racism, and more, one that feeds on these very attitudes and mindsets. In keeping with this, a White Supremacist website claimed that it was “the Jews” who were behind the release of the damning 2005 video tape.
I am not connecting Trump with this website (obviously) and I am not stating that he himself is a racist or a xenophobe. I’m simply saying that his campaign has caused these sentiments to surface with a vengeance.
5) Trump has helped to expose the corruption of the political system.
There are many Christians who feel that the Hillary vs. Trump presidential race is a sure sign of divine judgment on America, as if God is giving us over to our foolishness.
At the same time, Trump’s refusal to play the standard political game has helped reveal the power of the political establishment, both Republican and Democrat, and with that, the corruption of the political establishment. Will we ever look at these parties in the same way again?
6) Trump has helped to expose the massive divisions among evangelicals.
This is not just a matter of a difference of opinion. It is a matter of one evangelical leader claiming that any Christian who votes for Trump is guilty of idolatry and another evangelical leader claiming that any Christian who does not vote for Trump will be held accountable by God and will have the blood of the unborn on his or her hands.
One group asks, “As a Christian, how can you possibly vote for such a narcissitic, proud, vulgar, potty-mouthed, short-tempered, inexperienced man who is absolutely unfit for the presidency?”
The other group responds, “As a Christian, how can you not vote against Hillary Clinton and how can you not recognize that we’re not electing a Pastor in Chief but a Commander in Chief? God is raising up Trump!”
Again, I’m not blaming Donald Trump for these divisions (and I’ve barely scratched the surface in detailing them). To the contrary, these divisions were already there (even down to the meaning of “evangelical”); Trump’s presidential run has just helped to reveal them.
7) Trump has helped to expose the collusion of the liberal media with the Democrat Party.
I don’t doubt for a moment that if Ted Cruz was the Republican candidate, the liberal media would be doing everything in its power to bring him down, and this would have been true 10 years ago (and longer) as well as today.
But it appears that the media that gave Trump endless, free time on its networks during the primaries is the same media now seeking to bring him down, lending credence to the allegation that the liberal networks (at least some of them) helped prop Trump up during the primaries because he would be the easiest target to bring down in the general election.
Whether or not this is true, the media’s radical liberal bias and pro-Hillary sentiments cannot be denied, to the point of almost being shouted out by the moderators during the presidential debates. Or should we think nothing of a moderator arguing a policy position with Trump, as if he was debating her (Martha Raddatz) rather than Hillary?
The bottom line for me is simple, regardless of who you plan to vote for (and I don’t write this to discourage a vote for Trump): God has used Trump to expose a lot of what is wrong with America, and it is not a pretty sight. (For more from the author of “Seven Things the Donald Trump Wrecking Ball Has Exposed in Our Culture” please click HERE)
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With less than four weeks remaining in the 2016 race it couldn’t look much worse the campaign of Donald Trump. His free fall in key battleground state polling has continued unabated. What makes it even more concerning for Trump is that most of the battleground state polling has not even taken into account the Access Hollywood audio tape.
As usual, I took a look at the RealClearPolitics polling average in 14 battleground states on Wednesday afternoon, October 12, 2016. It was compared to the data from the previous week. In 11 of those 14 states Trump lost ground to Clinton, one state showed no change, and in two states Trump showed a slight up tic.
Clinton now leads in 10 of the 14 states shown in the week-by-week graphics below. Trump leads in four. Clinton leads by over six points or more in six of those states, Trump leads by greater than six in one of them. Of particular concern to Trump is Arizona, where he now holds a slim one point margin.
If the election were held today, Trump would lose in an Electoral College rout.
As an indicator of how bad Trump’s situation is, look at this tweet from the Marquette University Law School polling department. It illustrates how Trump’s numbers deteriorated after the release of the Billy Bush conversation last Friday.
Among likely voters in WI:
Thursday: Trump 41%, Clinton 40%
Friday: Clinton 44%, Trump 38%
Saturday and Sunday: Clinton 49%, Trump 30%— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) October 12, 2016
That is shocking. Trump went from a one point lead pre-tape to a 19 point deficit two days later.
Trump’s problems are compounded by the fact that instead of going on offense on Hillary Clinton, like he did at the debate this week, he has spent the majority of his time attacking his fellow Republicans for not loving him enough.
It’s going to be a long three weeks for the Trump campaign. (For more from the author of “Battleground State Freefall for Trump Continues” please click HERE)
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