Donald Trump has laid down the gauntlet to Black Lives Matter and it looks like they are picking it up.
During a news conference Tuesday in Michigan, the 2016 Republican presidential front-runner called Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders “weak” and a “disgrace” for allowing two Black Lives Matter protesters to take his microphone from him at an event last week. He vowed that such a thing would never happen to him.
“I felt badly for him, but it showed that he’s weak,” Trump told reporters. “He’s getting the biggest crowds, and I’m getting the biggest crowds. We’re the two getting the crowds. But believe me, that’s not gonna happen to Trump” . . .
It didn’t take long for the troublemakers of the Black Lives Matter brigade to take to social media and accept the challenge.
#Trump wants to put the #BlackLivesMatter protestors to the test. They will show him what time it is. Believe that.
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By Tom Tillison. Donald Trump fired a new salvo Monday in his ongoing feud with Megyn Kelly.
The real estate tycoon-turned-Republican-presidential-front-runner upped the ante against the popular Fox News host when he posted a link on social media to an interview Kelly participated in five years ago with smut-king Howard Stern. The interview is pretty raunchy, from Stern’s end, naturally, and touches on the size of Kelly’s breasts, her husband’s penis size and includes some graphic sex talk.
Trump also offered an opinion who’s more “innocent.”
Megyn Kelly Talks With Howard Stern, and It’s Repulsive
By Greg Richter. Megyn Kelly may have suggested that she was turned off by Donald Trump’s sexist remarks, but that didn’t stop her from rollicking with Howard Stern, discussing her breasts and her husband’s penis size and engaging in some graphic sex talk.
Stern has been accused of being tough on women, such as in 2013 when he called “Girls” actress Lena Dunham “a little fat girl who kinda looks like Jonah Hill, and she keeps taking her clothes off, and it kind of feels like rape.” He also is known for having women remove all their clothing during his radio broadcasts while he ogles and describes them.
In a 2010 interview, the Fox News star laughed with glee as Stern talked about her breasts.
“We used to call them ‘Killer B’s’ then when I got pregnant they became ‘Swimmin’ C’s’ and Doug was frolicking in the ocean,” Kelly said of her husband, author Douglas Brunt.
Stern asked whether she would have considered not marrying Brunt if his penis had been small. (Read more from “Megyn Kelly Talks With Howard Stern, and It’s Repulsive” HERE)
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Continuing his trademark style of delivering bold and controversial answers to pesky problems, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently revealed a central component of his plan for battling Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
He described terrorist group ISIS as a well-funded organization reliant on oil for its revenue. It is on this front, he said during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, that he would attack the organization.
“Every place where they have oil,” he said, “I would knock the hell out of them.”
His plan would call for the deployment of ground troops in the region, he acknowledged.
“I would knock out the source of their wealth, which is oil,” he said. “And in order to do that, you would have to put boots on the ground. I would knock the hell out of them, but I’d put a ring around it and I’d take the oil for our country.”
Reaction to his proposal was mixed, with some citing a previous campaign promise for which Trump received pointed criticism. (Read more from “Trump Just Announced His Plan for ISIS – and It Includes Something Highly Controversial” HERE)
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By Kyle Olson. It’s suffice to say there are at least two women who support Donald Trump for president.
A duo of black women — hosting a YouTube “show” called “The Viewers View” — eviscerated Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly for her questions related to Trump’s statements on Twitter concerning women.
Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson produced, “Megyn Kelly and that Damn Debate,” today:
“Okay, so it’s a day after the debates and you all know I am mad as hell,” Hardaway began. “Somebody already tried to come for Donald, so I’ve got to come for them.”
Hardaway objected to Kelly’s opening question to Trump, asking him to respond to comments he made on Twitter towards Rosie O’Donnell. (Read more from “Watch This Viral Video of Black Women Defending Donald Trump, Giving Megyn Kelly a Piece of Their Minds” HERE)
‘Mess With the Bull, You’re Going to Get the Horns, Sweetheart’: Trump Iowa Campaigner Says ‘Bloodgate’ Attack on Megyn Kelly Was ‘Fair Game’
By Kieran Corcoran. A Donald Trump official leading his political campaign in Iowa has said his attacks on Fox News host Megyn Kelly are ‘fair game’.
Tana Goertz, his campaign co-chair in the battleground state, said that she was not offended by Trump’s suggestion that Kelly asked him tough questions because there was ‘blood coming out of her wherever’.
Goertz instead said the abuse is part of political debate, saying: ‘If you mess with the bull you’re going to get the horns, sweetheart’.
Trump’s comments, made Friday night in a CNN segment where he also called her a ‘lightweight’ and ‘overrated’, were widely interpreted as a crude reference to Kelly’s menstrual cycle . . .
Goertz, whose association with Trump began when she appeared on season three of The Apprentice, told BuzzFeed News that she was ‘not offended’ by the statement, and does not think it is about her period. (Read more from this story HERE)
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By Shawna Thomas and John Lapinski. If Donald Trump’s comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it’s not showing in the numbers.
According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey, Trump is at the top of the list of GOP candidates that Republican primary voters would cast a ballot for if the primary were being held right now.
The overnight poll was conducted for 24 hours from Friday evening into Saturday. During that period, Donald Trump stayed in the headlines due to his negative comments about Kelly and was dis-invited from a major conservative gathering in Atlanta.
None of that stopped Trump from coming in at the top of the poll with 23 percent. Sen. Ted Cruz was next on the list with 13 percent.
During the Fox News debate Thursday evening, Trump was the only Republican candidate to say he would not rule out a run as an independent candidate. According to this poll, that’s just fine with over half of his supporters. 54% of Trump supporters said they would vote for him for president, even if he didn’t win the GOP nomination. About one in five Trump supporters said they would switch and support the eventual Republican candidate. (Read more from “Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates” HERE)
GOP Leaders Say Erratic Attacks Hurt Trump, but He Vows to Fight and Win
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa. Republican leaders who have watched Donald Trump’s summer surge with alarm now believe that his presidential candidacy has been contained and may begin to collapse because of his repeated attacks on a Fox News Channel star and his refusal to pledge his loyalty to the eventual GOP nominee.
Fearful that the billionaire’s inflammatory rhetoric has inflicted serious damage to the GOP brand, party leaders hope to pivot away from the Trump sideshow and toward a more serious discussion among a deep field of governors, senators and other candidates.
They acknowledge that Trump’s unique megaphone and the passion of his supporters make any calculation about his candidacy risky. After all, he has been presumed dead before: Three weeks ago, he prompted establishment outrage by belittling the Vietnam war service of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), only to prove, by climbing higher in the polls, that the laws of political gravity did not apply to him.
Still, Trump’s erratic performance during and after the first Republican presidential debate last week sparked a backlash throughout the party Saturday and a reassessment of his front-running bid. The final straw for many was Trump’s comment on CNN late Friday that Fox moderator Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), a fellow candidate, said Trump was jeopardizing the GOP’s chances of winning back the White House and urged party leaders to stop “tiptoeing” around him. (Read more from this story HERE)
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By Bob Livingston. Would you buy a car from Donald Trump?
The car he’s currently hawking is all exterior gloss with shiny wheels. It has no motor, no seats, no interior of any kind.
It looks good sitting there. But is there anything more?
Thus far, Trump’s appeal to potential voters is his opposition to illegal immigration and his ability to make a snarky retort to political punditry and the mindless sophistry of the propaganda media. It’s gotten him great poll numbers.
His platform, best I can tell, is to “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it,” “Mexico and China are killing us,” “make America strong” and “support Israel unconditionally.”
Those are platitudes, sales pitches — nothing more. (Read more from “What Exactly Is Trump Selling?” HERE)
By Garth Kant. On Friday, [Rush] Limbaugh began by telling listeners how, on the day of Thursday’s debate, he had learned “that big-time Republican donors had ordered to take out Donald Trump in the debate last night.”
“We all made a mistake,” he explained. “We assumed that the orders went out to the candidates. But the candidates did not make one move toward taking Donald Trump out. The broadcast network did; the candidates didn’t.”
Rush said it was clear that Fox News had it out for Trump when his colleagues refused to pile on, even when given multiple opportunities to bash the front-runner.
“Not one of the remaining nine candidates joined Megyn Kelly in taking the shot at Trump. Not one. Yet we have been told that there were orders from Republican donors to take Trump out.”
If, in addition to targeting Trump, Fox News was indeed looking to get some love and respect from the left and the establishment media with its relentless attacks on Republican candidates in the Thursday night’s debate, it’s mission was accomplished. (Read more from this story HERE)
By Joshua Green. A few hours before Thursday’s Fox News debate, a friend of Donald Trump’s confided to me that Trump was nervous. Not about the competition—he could handle them. No, Trump worried about Fox News, and in particular, debate moderator Megyn Kelly. She’d been hammering him all week on her show, and he was certain she was out to get him. He’d canceled a Fox News appearance on Monday night, the friend said, in order to avoid her. (Trump’s spokeswoman wouldn’t confirm or deny this.)
It turns out Trump was right. His toughest opponents Thursday night weren’t the candidates up on stage, but the Fox News moderators, who went right after him—none with more gusto than Kelly.
Kelly, the whip-smart queen of Fox News’ blonde stunners, went straight for the jugular. “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” she admonished Trump. “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
But Trump saw her coming a mile away and cut her off. “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” he barked, drawing cheers from the crowd. When Kelly tried to point out that he had insulted more women than O’Donnell, Trump, as he would all night, steamrolled right past her. “The big problem this country has is being politically correct,” Trump practically shouted, invoking conservatives’ favorite term of disdain. “I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness and to be honest with you this country doesn’t have time either.” The crowd went wild.
Maybe they were cheering because the question was apropos of something Rachel Maddow would ask, and they were, after all, Republicans. But I think they were cheering because it was clear, at that moment, that Trump was going to be Trump, and wasn’t going to heed the pundits and phonies to tone down his act. According to a report in New York magazine, even his own daughter, Ivanka, was making that case. (Read more from “Fox News Couldn’t Kill Trump’s Momentum and May Have Only Made It Stronger” HERE)
By Elliot Smilowitz. Donald Trump thinks reader polls on Drudge Report and Time Magazine should carry more weight in judging public reaction to Thursday’s GOP presidential debate than a Fox News panel that ran immediately after the debate.
Speaking with Don Lemon live on CNN on Friday night, Trump lauded his winning performance in reader polls asking who won the debate, particularly the poll run by Drudge Report.
“I’m not saying I won, I’m just telling you polls that came out from Drudge,” he said. “What’s better than Drudge? He’s a fantastic guy. What he’s built is unbelievably respected.”
The Drudge Report poll asked readers who won the debate. Trump led with 45 percent of the vote. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came in second with 14 percent, and no other candidate had more than 11 percent support.
Trump also cited coverage by Time Magazine, the New York Times and the Washington Post that he said showed him as the victor. (Read more from this story HERE)
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By Real Clear Politics. Megyn Kelly calls out Donald Trump for sexist remarks from his Twitter history. “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.'”
“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” laughs Trump, before turning serious. “I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either. This country is in big trouble.”
MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS CHANNEL: Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don’t use a politician’s filter. However that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women. You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. Your twitter account–
DONALD TRUMP: Only Rosie O’Donnell.
KELLY: For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell.
(Read more from “Trump to Megyn Kelly: I Don’t Have Time for Political Correctness and Neither Does This Country” HERE)
By Alex Pappas. During a brief, chaotic scrum with reporters after the debate here Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he believes he won the televised showdown but thought the moderators were not “nice” to him.
“The questions to me were much tougher than the questions to anyone else,” Trump said, going on to single out co-moderator Megyn Kelly.
He also expressed frustration with the way Kelly “behaved.”
“The questions to me were not nice,” he said. “I didn’t think they were appropriate.” (Read more from “Donald Trump: ‘The Questions to Me Were Not Nice'” HERE)
Republican Debate: Donald Trump Was Garbled, Incoherent – but Dominant
By Paul Lewis. Donald Trump, the unexpected frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination for president, plunged headfirst into the primary’s first televised debate on Thursday, causing an instant splash that was remarkable even by his own standards.
The billionaire celebrity, who has a clear lead in the polls, electrified the debate from the start, declaring “politicians are stupid” and implying he was prepared to abandon the Republican party altogether to launch his own, independent candidacy.
Combative, outlandish, at times barely coherent, Trump lived up to the hype, although he became gradually quieter as the two-hour debate dragged on into policy areas where he had little or nothing of substance to contribute.
It was a good night for the Florida senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, who emerged unscathed with polished performances. Jeb Bush, the establishment favourite, also made it through the ordeal, dealing better than he has in the past with thorny questions about his family name.
It was a less successful debate for the Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who capped a disastrous few days for his campaign with a series of scrappy exchanges with rival candidates in which he came off the worst. (Read more from “Republican Debate: Donald Trump Was Garbled, Incoherent – but Dominant” HERE)
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Donald Trump — who Fox News said literally will be at the center of its GOP primary debate on Thursday — is already feeling the heat from network hosts.
On Tuesday, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly grilled the billionaire businessman on his claim that as president he will get Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border to help prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing into the United States.
“Bill, they are making a fortune, Mexico is making a fortune off the United States, it’s becoming the new China in terms of trade — they’re killing us at the border,” Trump said after O’Reilly pressed him twice on the same question.
The third time O’Reilly asked, Trump said, “I’m gonna say, ‘Mexico, this is not going to continue, you’re going to pay for that wall,’ and they will pay for the wall. And Bill, it’s peanuts, what we’re talking about.”
Trump has been critical of Ford Motor Company for a proposed $2.5 billion Mexican plant and has said under a Trump presidency he would impose a tax on Ford parts imported from there to also subsidize the wall. (Read more from “Trump: Mexico Will Pay for Wall Because I Say So” HERE)
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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he tries to pay as little taxes as possible, not just because he’s a businessman, but because he doesn’t like what the U.S. does with the taxpayers’ money.
“I have said this many times, so it is not exactly breaking news. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible, for two reasons. Number one, I am a businessman, and that’s the way you are supposed to do it, and you put the money back in your company and employees and all of that, but the other reason is that I hate the way our government spends our taxes,” said Trump when asked what percentage of income he pays in taxes.
“I hate the way they waste our money, trillions and trillions of dollars of waste and abuse, and I hate it,” said Trump.
According to Trump’s campaign, his personal fortune is set at $10 billion, and his annual income is estimated to be $362 million.
“I will be probably the first candidate in the history of politics within this country to say, I try and — like every — by the way, like every single taxpayer out there, I try to pay as little tax as possible, and, again, one of the big reasons is, I hate what our country does with the money that we pay,” he added. (Read more from “Donald Trump: I Pay as Little as Possible Because ‘I Hate the Way Our Government Spends Our Taxes” HERE)
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Donald Trump has laid down the gauntlet to Black Lives Matter and it looks like they are picking it up.
