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Coulter Comes Clean on ‘Split’ With Trump

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Ann Coulter is not happy, but she is making it crystal clear in an exclusive interview with WND that she is not splitting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his recent amnesty remarks, as several media outlets erroneously reported.

Coulter unleashed a series of tweets early Thursday morning that were critical of comments made the day before by Trump indicating he might flip-flop on his opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In an email to WND titled, “Exclusive on-the-record follow-up,” the influential columnist and best-selling author explained:

“Unlike crazed, cult-like Hillary supporters (and Cruz supporters, fyi), I’ve provided helpful criticism to Trump in the past, e.g., over the Heidi Cruz retweet, over the H-1B sellout, and other things.”

“THAT DOESN’T MEAN I’M ABANDONING HIM,” she wrote in all capital letters, to remove any doubt. (Read more from “Coulter Comes Clean on ‘Split’ With Trump” HERE)

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Trump Just Officially Took the Jeb Bush/Gang of 8 Position on Amnesty

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In part two of Republican candidate for president Donald Trump’s town hall with Sean Hannity, scheduled to air tonight on Fox News, it seems Mr. Trump will finally clarify his position on amnesty. For the worse.

Speaking on what to do with non-violent illegal aliens, Trump said that under his plan they will “pay back-taxes” and that it would be a “very hard thing” to “throw them and their family out.”

Having illegal immigrants pay a fine and back taxes to stay in the country was the policy proposed in the Gang of Eight amnesty bill!

Further, that is the position on amnesty once held by former candidate for the Republican nomination for president Jeb Bush.

“I think for the eleven or twelve million people here illegally, they should come out from the shadows, they should pay a fine, they should pay taxes, they should work,” Bush said in an interview back in October of 2015.

He famously, or infamously, drew fire from conservative critics for referring to illegal immigrants crossing the southern border illegally as an “act of love.”

“A great country ought to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave,” he said, adding later that properly targeting people who overstay visas “would restore people’s confidence” in the nation’s immigration system.

“There are means by which we can control our border better than we have. And there should be penalties for breaking the law,” he added. “But the way I look at this — and I’m going to say this, and it’ll be on tape and so be it. The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families — the dad who loved their children — was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table. And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime that there should be a price paid, but it shouldn’t rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families.”

One of those Bush’s fiercest critics was … Mr. Trump himself.

Remember this Instagram ad?

This is no "act of love" as Jeb Bush said…

A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on

Now that Trump himself has proposed non-violent illegal aliens be allowed to remain in the United States after paying fines in the form of “back taxes,” is Mr. Trump’s plan substantially different from Mr. Bush’s? Or the Gang of Eight bill’s?

(For more from the author of “Trump Just Officially Took the Jeb Bush/Gang of 8 Position on Amnesty” please click HERE)

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Trump on Deportations: Do What Obama Has Done but ‘With More Energy’

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Do what Obama is doing with deportations but “perhaps with a lot more energy.”

That, according to the Washington Post, is Republican candidate for president Donald Trump’s latest proposal for deportations of illegal immigrants.

But is that really what he said? Since Trump likes to accuse the media of twisting his words and positions, let’s take a closer look.

“What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Bill O’Reilly Monday night. “Bush, the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m going to do the same thing.”

It certainly sounds like taking Obama’s lead on deportations is Trump’s game plan.

Mr. Trump is repeating an oft cited statistic about deportations that Conservative Review’s Robert Eno debunked back in December. The claim goes that President Obama has deported more illegal immigrants than Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

That’s false, because when one accounts for deportations, which the federal government calls “removals” and also for “returns,” a word the government uses for “voluntary deportations,” one finds that the number of illegal immigrants that have actually left the country has sharply declined under President Obama’s oversight.

Immigration Aliens Removed Returned

So what has President Obama done?

Overall deportations have dropped by nearly two-thirds since 2011. As Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz wrote last December:

Since Obama began his amnesty programs in 2011, deportations have dropped to less than one-third their annual level prior to Obama’s suspension of congressional statutes. What about criminal aliens? Wasn’t the purpose of amnesty to focus just on criminal aliens? They also plummeted by almost 60%.

Trump sometimes says he wants to crack down on criminal aliens through deportations.

“The first thing we’re going to do if and when I win is we’re going to get rid of all of the bad ones,” Trump said. “We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country. We’re going to get them out, and the police know who they are. They’re known by law enforcement who they are. We don’t do anything. They go around killing people and hurting people, and they’re going to be out of this country so fast your head will spin. We have existing laws that allow you to do that.”

The problem is President Obama’s administration claims they already do this, using the “existing laws” Trump cited.

Mr. Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton has said the same thing, pledging to deport violent criminals and terrorists.

Now, President Obama’s administration has claimed a policy of “felons, not families” regarding their targeting of violent criminal illegal aliens for deportations. Yet the Center for Immigration Studies has noted that deportations of “criminal aliens” declined 27% from 86,923 in 2014 to 63,127 in 2015.

So when Mr. Trump says he would continue the current policy, the policy he’s talking about is deporting less criminal aliens. And he doesn’t seem to realize that.

Further, President Obama has invited more people to enter into the country illegally through his policies as well. Executive orders on amnesty aside, the Obama administration has gone as far as spend $9 million to provide attorneys at taxpayer expense to 2,600 illegal immigrant children who had surged over the border in 2014.

Mr. Trump’s suggestion that he would “do the same thing” as President Obama in regards to deportations and illegal immigration is anathema to Trump’s own stated desire to crack down on criminal aliens and secure the border.

Even Democratic President Bill Clinton took a stronger position on illegal immigration in his 1995 State of the Union address than Obama would ever consider.

President Bill Clinton deported four times as many illegal immigrants as President Obama. If Mr. Trump is going to follow a Democrat’s lead on deportations, shouldn’t he talk about his opponent Hillary Clinton’s own husband’s policies? (For more from the author of “Trump on Deportations: Do What Obama Has Done but ‘With More Energy'” please click HERE)

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Muslim Dem Blames Trump ‘Racists’ for Her ‘Bigamy’ Problem

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America’s soon-to-be first female Muslim legislator has a problem on her hands.

She’s accused of being married to two men, at the same time, including one who may be her brother. The second marriage was allegedly a sham, meant to deceive the U.S. government’s immigration system, allowing him to emigrate from the United Kingdom, according to local Minneapolis media.

But Ilhan Omar, a 33-year-old Somali refugee who was the victor in Minnesota’s Aug. 9 Democratic primary, denies the story, issuing a statement calling it “categorically false” and based on “absurd rumors that don’t bear repeating.” She charged those raising the issue are “racists” using “Donald Trump tactics” to drive a wedge between various demographic segments of Minnesota voters.

Omar defeated 44-year incumbent liberal Democrat Phyllis Khan. Since the district is made up primarily of an area of Minneapolis populated by immigrants and college students, Omar is considered a shoe-in in the November general election again her GOP opponent.

But local attorney Scott Johnson, an author of the well-read PowerLine blog, dropped a bombshell a few days after the primary with a story so shocking that the local media was forced to emerge from its euphoric coverage of Minnesota’s “first female Muslim refugee legislator” and acknowledge that this candidate has legitimate questions to answer. (Read more from “Muslim Dem Blames Trump ‘Racists’ for Her ‘Bigamy’ Problem” HERE)

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Hillary Clinton Outspends Trump in White House Showdown

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Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump each raced to their strongest fundraising month of the campaign in July, but Clinton and her allies continue to outmuscle her GOP rival in the air and ground war for the presidency, according to new details of the candidates’ spending.

Clinton pulled in more than $52 million directly into her campaign last month and spent more than $38 million, according to her campaign’s filings Saturday with federal election regulators.

Trump raised nearly $36.7 million for his campaign and spent at a far slower pace than Clinton, reporting nearly $18.5 million in expenses in July as Clinton and her allies savaged him on the airwaves.

Trump, who has shunned much of the traditions of presidential campaigns, grew his staff modestly last month, employing 82 people, a USA TODAY review shows. Clinton, by contrast, employed 703 aides in July as she readied for her confrontation with Trump in key battlegrounds such as Ohio and Florida.

New campaign reports filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission show Clinton with another advantage: Super-wealthy Democrats are giving early and often to boost the former secretary of State’s presidential bid and to aid Democrats hoping to seize seats in Congress. Billionaires, such as California environmentalist Tom Steyer and financier George Soros, plowed millions into Democratic-aligned super PACs last month. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Outspends Trump in White House Showdown” HERE)

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New Trump Campaign Manager: ‘To Be Determined’ on Whether Trump Will Relax Immigration Deportation Policy

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Donald Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that it is “to be determined” whether Trump’s official immigration policy will include a deportation force.

After rumors began floating around yesterday that Trump was relaxing his position on illegal immigrants, host Dana Bash asked Conway for comment.

“What he supports,” Conway said, “is to make sure that we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for well-paying jobs, and that we are fair and humane for those who live among us in this country. And as the weeks unfold, he will lay out the specifics of that plan that he would implement as President of the United States.”

Pressing for further specifics, Bash then asked if Trump still plans to create a deportation force, to which Conway replied, “To be determined.”

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a leading immigration hardliner and prominent Trump backer,was also asked about the GOP presidential nominee’s immigration policy during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox & Friends. Host Tucker Carlson asked the senator if Trump had changed his position, which Sessions denied.

Carlson then asked Sessions if Trump still supports the so-called “touchback idea,” which would require illegal immigrants to be deported and then apply to reenter the states in a legal way.

“Well, I don’t know that he’s formally said that,” Sessions replied, “He’s discussed that, other people have discussed that. … I’m not sure that’s the best solution to the problem, but its one solution.” Sessions, chairs the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees, then recommended that we first “end the lawlessness. … Then you can begin to talk, more appropriately, about what to do with people who have been here a long time.”

Sunday’s comments come after some serious campaign shakeups, as well as a week in which the Republican Presidential nominee seemingly sought to soften his image — including a visit by Trump to flood-ravaged Louisiana.

If Trump has changed his deportation policy, it wouldn’t be the first time he has done so on immigration, an issue that helped skyrocket his campaign to the front of a crowded Republican primary field. After June’s mass shooting in Orlando by a suspected ISIS sympathizer, he walked back his call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, saying he wanted policies to focus on nations with greater infiltration by terrorist elements. (For more from the author of “New Trump Campaign Manager: ‘To Be Determined’ on Whether Trump Will Relax Immigration Deportation Policy” please click HERE)

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Trump Criticized for Not Helping Enough in Baton Rouge

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took a timeout from campaigning to visit flood victims in Baton Rouge, La.

His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told reporters that the visit was to “help people on the ground” with “no press allowed.” She said the move was nonpolitical and would show Trump’s more “presidential” side.

However, Trump did take a moment at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church to slam President Obama for not showing up and offering assistance.

“The president said he doesn’t want to go, he’s trying to get out of a golf game,” Trump said.

Evangelist Tony Perkins, whose own home was flooded, joked that the reason was that Obama was trying to stay “under par while we’re underwater.”

“He’ll never be under par,” Trump quipped back.

Some media outlets, however, criticized the GOP nominee for not doing enough to help. They highlighted a moment caught on camera in which the real estate mogul was seen unloading toys for flood victims.

Tommy Christopher of Mediaite sarcastically put “helping out” in quotes, saying that Trump assisted people “by unloading a truckload of toys for 49 seconds.”

Others echoed that sentiment on Twitter.

Trump spent the rest of his trip visiting various locations. He and his running mate, former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, traveled across flood-ravaged areas through East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes.

Church maintenance supervisor Terry Phinney said he was happy with the candidate’s visit, telling reporters that “it was a good little boost for folks who are tired.”

Phinney was no fan of Trump before the visit. However, after he saw that the GOP nominee was genuinely concerned about the situation and seeking to educate himself on the damage, he changed his stance.

“He wanted to know percentages of homes damaged in the area, around about how many would have flood insurance,” Phinney said.

Overall, Trump was very well received by the locals, with a number of people commenting positively on his visit.

Jeff Nolan, who lost his home in the flood, met the candidate at the church and had him sign the back of his shirt.

Nolan said it meant “everything” to him that Trump came to Louisiana to see the damage and relief efforts first-hand.

“Trump is the man,” he said. “He’s the real deal.”

Pam West, who had to be rescued from her flooded home, also came to see Trump and said his visit was “awesome.”

“Our own dear president is too busy at Martha’s Vineyard to visit us,” she said.

Obama, who declined to cut short his vacation to tour Louisiana and offer support, announced after Trump’s visit that he too would travel to the area next week.

So far the flooding has killed 13 people, and more than 70,000 have registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (For more from the author of “Trump Criticized for Not Helping Enough in Baton Rouge” please click HERE)

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TRUMP’S PIVOT: Excellent, but Too Late?

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Donald Trump has actually been making some fantastic speeches over the past week, ones that stay away from the typical over-the-top rhetoric and wackiness we’d been seeing previously. This should be obvious by the limited coverage his speeches are garnering from the Credentialed Media. Wouldn’t want to see Trump in a good light, right? Maybe that has changed?

Regretful Trump pivots 107 days late

The Republican nominee delivers one of the most comprehensive, on-message rationales for his candidacy to date.

Three and a half months after sealing the Republican nomination, Donald Trump pivoted to contest the general election on Thursday night, expressing regret for his past failures to “choose the right words” and delivering one of the most comprehensive, on-message rationales for his candidacy to date.

Speaking from prepared remarks on the heels of another staffing shakeup, Trump positioned himself as the champion of voiceless Americans against a corrupt and incompetent elite and the leader of an inclusive movement who repeatedly condemned “bigotry.”

His address, delivered at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, presented the sort of message Republican leaders have been waiting months to hear. But with 82 days left until the election and early voting only weeks away, even a flawless sprint to the finish line may be too little too late for Trump to salvage his flailing campaign.

This may seem like typical liberal media spin, but, it is a good point: is it too late? His speeches have been pretty cogent, responsible, and provided excellent policy choices, while also imploring blacks, Hispanics, gays, and others to stop voting for the party which has been pandering to them while keeping them down, namely, the Democrats.

Can it work? He seems much more focused on policy and attacking Hillary and the Democrats while asking for the votes of citizens (not Conservatives, at least not yet. Maybe he will?). Will he stay focused in this manner? Time will tell. (For more from the author of “TRUMP’S PIVOT: Excellent, but Too Late?” please click HERE)

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Why Does Trump Suddenly Think Clinton Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt?

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Republican candidate for president Donald Trump turned heads when he asked the American people to give his opponent Hillary Clinton “the benefit of the doubt” regarding the major controversies of the Clinton Foundation, such as the alleged hypocrisy of receiving donations from countries like Saudi Arabia.

“We know that gays and lesbians in Saudi Arabia can get the death penalty … would you ever take money from a country that treats gays, lesbians, Jews and Christians that way?” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump in a town hall that aired Wednesday evening.

“Well, you don’t want to do that, and if they knew about it that would be one thing, and I assume they knew about it, big league. But certainly they know about it now so maybe they can give the money back,” Trump said in response.

“Wait a minute, they knew about it,” a seemingly confused Hannity interrupted, “because that has been Saudi Arabia’s practice for years.”

“But you know what, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. They certainly knew…” Trump said, as Hannity interjected: “You’re going to give them the benefit of the doubt? I’m not.”

Critics have attacked the Democratic presidential candidate for claiming to be a champion of gay and lesbian Americans while her controversial Clinton Foundation accepts foreign donations from countries that persecute the LGBT community.

Trump, himself, has called for Clinton to return the donations in the past, criticizing her for her hypocrisy.

So why is he now undermining a message he should be hammering Hillary Clinton with by calling on others to give his opponent “the benefit of the doubt”?

The incestuous relationship between the Clinton Foundation, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State at the State Department have been ripe for attacks from Republicans and the media.

Recent revelations from Hillary Clinton’s private email server showed that Clinton used her State Department to do favors for Clinton Foundation donors.

And as the Clintons’ tax returns revealed, Bill and Hillary Clinton have used the Clinton Foundation to give themselves kickbacks while pretending to donate to charity.

Why does Hillary Clinton deserve the “benefit of the doubt” when it is apparent she and her husband have repeatedly misused their “charity” for personal benefit? (For more from the author of “Why Does Trump Suddenly Think Clinton Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt?” please click HERE)

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Trump Says He Regrets Remarks That ‘Caused Personal Pain’

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For the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump acknowledged that his caustic comments may have caused people pain, saying that he regrets some of what he’s said “in the heat of debate.”

A day after announcing a campaign shake-up and as he trails in the polls, the GOP nominee said that he recognized that his comments — which have angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the general election electorate — may have been ill-advised.

“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that,” the GOP nominee, reading from prepared text, said at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. “And believe it or not, I regret it — and I do regret it — particularly where it may have caused personal pain.” (Read more from “Trump Says He Regrets Remarks That ‘Caused Personal Pain'” HERE)

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