(Comment from Trumps FB page) Tyler Conley I may be a young 21 year old..but i've never been more passionate about an election before..i hope you win mr. Trump..my entire family is voting for you..change the name of the game on capital hill
[h=5]Donald J. Trump[/h]2 hrs ·
This is my pledge to the American people: as your President I will be your greatest champion. I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally, and honored equally.
We will reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all its forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people.
-Donald J. Trump
[h=5]Donald J. Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[/h]4 hrs ·
It’s so great to be here tonight. I am honored to also be joined this evening by Governor Scott Walker, Chairman Reince Prebius, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
We are at a decisive moment in this election. Last week, I laid out my plan to bring jobs back to our country. Yesterday, I laid out my plan to defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism. Tonight, I am going to talk about how to make our communities safe again from crime and lawlessness.
Let me begin by thanking the law enforcement officers here in this city, and across this country, for their service and sacrifice in difficult times. The violence, riots and destruction that have taken place in Milwaukee is an assault on the right of all citizens to live in security and peace. Law and order must be restored. It must be restored for the sake of all, but most especially the sake of those living in the affected communities.
The main victims of these riots are law-abiding African-American citizens living in these neighborhoods. It is their jobs, their homes, their schools and communities which will suffer as a result.
There is no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct. Crime and violence is an attack on the poor, and will never be accepted in a Trump Administration.
The narrative that has been pushed aggressively for years now by our current Administration, and pushed by my opponent Hillary Clinton, is a false one. The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police, the problem is that there are not enough police.
The More law enforcement, more community engagement, more effective policing is what our country needs.
Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police. You know it, and I know it.
Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society – a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent – share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee, and many other places within our country.
They have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America. Everytime we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives – whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore – and foment further unrest, we do a direct disservice to poor African-American residents who are hurt by the high crime in their communities.
During the last 72 hours, while protestors have raged against the police here in Milwaukee, another 9 were killed in Chicago and another 46 were wounded. More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago since the beginning of the year, and almost 4,000 killed in President Obama’s hometown area since his presidency began.
How are we serving these American victims by attacking law enforcement officers?
The war on our police must end. It must end now!
The war on our police is a war on all peaceful citizens who want to be able to work and live and send their kids to school in safety.
Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, the violent disruptor. Our job is to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent who wants their kids to be able to safely walk the streets. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school. For every one violent protestor, there are a hundred of moms and dads and kids on that same city block who just want to be able to sleep safely at night. My opponent would rather protect the offender than the victim.
Hillary Clinton-backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities.
I care too much about my country to let that happen.
We all care too much about our country to let that happen.
Good policing saves lives.
My dear friend, Rudy Giuliani, knows a thing or two about this. The policies put into place by Rudy ultimately brought down crime by 76 percent and murder by 84 percent. Think of how many families were saved, how much heartache was prevented, when police were put into communities and criminals were removed.
Imagine how many lives could have been saved, all across this country, if Democratic politicians hadn’t blocked in their cities what Rudy did in New York City? I’ll make sure we deliver safe neighborhoods here in Milwaukee, and all across this country.
It’s easy for Hillary Clinton to turn a blind eye to crime when she has her own private security force. I believe all Americans, not just the powerful, are entitled to security.
Hillary Clinton has had her chance. She failed. Now it’s time for new leadership. The Hillary Clinton agenda hurts poor people the most.
There is no compassion in allowing drug dealers, gang members, and felons to prey on innocent people. It is the first duty of government to keep the innocent safe, and when I am President I will fight for the safety of every American – and especially those Americans who have not known safety for a very, very long time.
I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different future.
It is time for our society to address some honest and very difficult truths. The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community. Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty.
Let us look at the situation right here in Milwaukee, a city run by Democrats for decade after decade. Last year, killings in this city increased by 69 percent, plus another 634 victims of non-fatal shootings. 18-29-year-olds accounted for nearly half of the homicide victims. The poverty rate here is nearly double the national average. Almost 4 in 10 African-American men in Milwaukee between the ages of 25-54 do not have a job. Nearly Four in 10 single mother households are living in poverty. 55 public schools in this city have been rated as failing to meet expectations, despite ten thousand dollars in funding per-pupil. There is only a 60% graduation rate, and it’s one of the worst public school systems in the country.
1 in 5 manufacturing jobs has disappeared in Milwaukee since we fully opened our markets to China, and many African-American neighborhoods have borne the brunt of this hit.
To every voter in Milwaukee, to every voter living in every inner city, or every forgotten stretch of our society, I am running to offer you a better future.
The Democratic Party has taken the votes of African-Americans for granted. They’ve just assumed they’ll get your support and done nothing in return for it. It’s time to give the Democrats some competition for these votes, and it’s time to rebuild the inner cities of America – and to reject the failed leadership of a rigged political system.
I’m not part of the corrupt system. In fact, the corrupt system is trying to stop me. I’ve been paying my own way. The voters in the Republican Party this year defied the donors, the consultants, the power brokers, and choose a nominee from outside our failed and corrupt and broken system.
The other party – the Democratic Party – nominated the personification of special interest corruption. The Democratic Party rigged the nomination to give it to Hillary Clinton, thus giving the soul of their party this year to the special interests.
I am running to listen to your voice, to hear your cries for help. The quiet voices in our society, not the loudest demonstrators, need to have their demands heard.
Jobs. Safety. Opportunity. Fair and equal representation.
We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes, not as individual human beings worthy of a better future. She doesn’t care at all about the hurting people of this country, or the suffering she has caused them.
The African-American community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party. It’s time to break with the failures of the past – I want to offer Americans a new future.
It is time for rule by the people, not rule by special interests.
Every insider, getting rich off of our broken system, is throwing money at Hillary Clinton. The hedge fund managers, the Wall Street investors, the professional political class.
It’s the powerful protecting the powerful.
Insiders fighting for insiders.
I am fighting for you!
When we talk about the insider, who are we talking about? It’s the comfortable politicians looking out for their own interests. It’s the lobbyists who know how to insert that perfect loophole into every bill. It’s the financial industry knows how to regulate their competition out of existence. The insiders also include the media executives, anchors and journalists in Washington, Los Angeles, and New York City, who are part of the same failed status quo and want nothing to change.
Every day you pick up a newspaper, or turn on the nightly news, and hear about how some banker or some Washington insider says they oppose our campaign. Or some encrusted old politician says they oppose our campaign. Or some big time lobbyist says they oppose our campaign.
I wear their opposition as a badge of honor. Because it means I am fighting for REAL change, not just partisan change. I am fighting – all of us across the country are fighting – for peaceful regime change in our own country. The media-donor-political complex that’s bled this country dry has to be replaced with a new government of, by and for the people.
The leadership class in Washington D.C., of which Hillary Clinton has been a member for thirty years, has abandoned the people of this country.
I am going to give the people their voice back.
Think about it. The people opposing our campaign are the same people who have left our border open and let innocent people suffer as a result.
The people opposing our campaign are the same people who have led us into one disastrous foreign war after another.
The people opposing our campaign are the same people who lied to us about one trade deal after another.
Aren’t you tired of a system that gets rich at your expense?
Aren’t you tired of big media, big businesses, and big donors rigging the system to keep your voice from being heard?
Are you ready for change?
Are you ready for leadership that puts you, the American people, first? That puts your country first? That puts your family first?
Let’s talk about what this means for the inner cities of America.
It’s time to break through the television noise, the entrenched interests. I understand that a lot of powerful people in our political system – a lot of people who’ve created our problems – will lose a lot of their contracts, and their special gigs, if African-American voters, and all minority voters, support my campaign.
It’s time to stop making the special interests rich. It’s time to make the American people rich.
I am going to Make America Wealthy Again.
The Democratic Party has run every inner city in this country for 50 years, and run them into financial ruin.
They’ve ruined the schools.
They’ve driven out the jobs.
They’ve tolerated a level of crime no American should consider acceptable.
Violent crime has risen 17% in America’s 50 largest cities last year. Killings of police officers this year is up nearly 50 percent. Homicides are up more than 60% in Baltimore. They are up more than 50% in Washington, D.C.
This is future offered by Hillary Clinton. More poverty, more crime, and more of the same. The future she offers is the most pessimistic thing I can possibly imagine. It is time for a different future.
Here is what I am proposing.
First, on immigration. No community in this country has been hurt worse by Hillary Clinton’s immigration policies than the African-American community. Now she is proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants, taking jobs directly from low-income Americans. I will secure our border, protect our workers, and improve jobs and wages in your community. We will only invite people to join our country who share our tolerant values, who support our Constitution, and who love all of our people.
On trade, I am going to renegotiate NAFTA, stand up to China, withdraw from the TPP, and protect every last American job.
On taxes, I am going to give a massive tax cut to every worker and small business in this country, bring thousands of new companies and millions of new jobs onto our shores – and make it very difficult for our businesses to leave. I am going to reform our regulations so jobs stay in America, and new businesses come to America to hire workers right here in Milwaukee. Every policy my opponent has sends jobs overseas. I am going to bring trillions in new wealth back to the United States.
On education, it is time to have school choice, merit pay for teachers, and to end the tenure policies that hurt good teachers and reward bad teachers. We are going to put students and parents first.
Hillary Clinton would deny opportunities to millions of young African-American children, just so she can curry favor with the education bureaucracy. I am going to allow charter schools to thrive, and help young kids get on the American ladder of success: a good education, and a good-paying job.
On crime, I am going to support more police in our communities, appoint the best prosecutors and judges in the country, pursue strong enforcement of federal laws, and I am going to break up the gangs, the cartels and criminal syndicates terrorizing our neighborhoods. To every lawbreaker hurting innocent people in this country, I say: your free reign will soon come crashing to an end.
On healthcare, we are going to get rid of Obamacare – which has caused soaring double-digit premium increases – and give choice to patients and consumers. Aetna, just today, announced they are dropping out – as are many of the major insurance companies.
On government corruption, I am going to restore honor to our government. We’ve seen the corruption of Hillary Clinton, the mass email deletions, the pay-for-play at the State Department, the profiteering, the favors given to foreign corporations and governments at your expense. We’ve seen a former Secretary of State lie to Congress about her illegal email scheme, risk innocent American lives, and bring dishonor onto our government.
In my Administration, I am going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.
I am going to forbid senior officials from trading favors for cash by preventing them from collecting lavish speaking fees through their spouses when they serve.
I am going to ask my senior officials to sign an agreement not to accept speaking fees from corporations with a registered lobbyist for five years after leaving office, or from any entity tied to a foreign government. This is all just the beginning.
We are going to make this a government of the people once again. This is our chance to take back power from all the people who’ve taken it from you. The reason you see the establishment media lining up behind my opponent is because they are scared that you, with your vote, can take away their power and return it to your family and community.
These are tough times. But I know we can make American Greater Than Ever Before. To do this, we are going to need a fighter in the White House. I will be your fighter.
To defeat crime and Radical Islamic Terrorism in our country, to win trade in our country, you need tremendous physical and mental strength and stamina. Hillary Clinton doesn’t have that strength and stamina. She cannot win for you.
Most importantly, she has bad judgment. Bad judgment on terrorism, bad judgement on foreign policy, bad judgment on trade.
The only individuals she’s ever delivered for is her donors – not the people.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. My opponent asks her supporters to repeat three-word pledge.
Her pledge reads: “I’m With Her." I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: “I’m With You – the American people.”
I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally, and honored equally. We will reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all of its forms, and seek a new future of security, prosperity and opportunity – a future built on our common culture and values as one American people.
I am asking for your vote so I can be your champion in the White House. We will once again be a country of law and order, and a country of great success.
To every parent who dreams for their children, and to every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight: I’m with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
Together, We Will Make America Strong Again.
We Will Make American Safe Again. And We Will Make America Great Again.
Thank you, and God Bless,
Donald J. Trump
[h=1]DONALD J. TRUMP ANNOUNCES MAJOR CAMPAIGN HIRES[/h]
“I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years. They are extremely capable, highly qualified people who love to win and know how to win,” said Mr. Trump. “I believe we’re adding some of the best talents in politics, with the experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November and continue to share my message and vision to Make America Great Again. I am committed to doing whatever it takes to win this election, and ultimately become President because our country cannot afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security.”
These announcements come at a time of significant growth for Mr. Trump’s campaign, with the first major TV ad buy of the general election slated to start later this week and with additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis.
Mr. Bannon, once recognized by Bloomberg Politics as the “most dangerous political operative in America,” will oversee the campaign staff and operations in addition to strategic oversight of major campaign initiatives in addition to working with Mr. Manafort. Mr. Bannon, who goes by Steve, holds a Masters in National Security Studies from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Breitbart News, Mr. Bannon was an Officer in the U.S. Navy and also owned an investment bank that he sold to Societe Generale.
Ms. Conway, a highly sought-after pollster, will work on messaging and travel frequently with Mr. Trump, while working closely with Mr. Bannon and Mr. Manafort on all aspects of the campaign moving forward.
Paul Manafort, Campaign Chairman added, “It is imperative we continue to expand our team with top-tier talent. Steve and Kellyanne are respected professionals who believe in Mr. Trump and his message and will undoubtedly help take the campaign to new levels of success.”
Mr. Trump Appoints Stephen K. Bannon To Campaign CEO; Kellyanne Conway Promoted To Campaign Manager
(New York, NY) August 17th, 2016 – Donald J. Trump today announced that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon has been appointed CEO, temporarily stepping down from his role with Breitbart News to work full-time on Mr. Trump’s campaign in a new position designed to bolster the business-like approach of Mr. Trump’s campaign. In addition, nationally respected pollster and Republican campaign strategist Kellyanne Conway, Founder and President of The Polling Company, Inc./WomanTrend, a privately held, woman-owned corporation, has been promoted to Campaign Manager. Paul Manafort will remain as Campaign Chairman and Chief Strategist.
“I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years. They are extremely capable, highly qualified people who love to win and know how to win,” said Mr. Trump. “I believe we’re adding some of the best talents in politics, with the experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November and continue to share my message and vision to Make America Great Again. I am committed to doing whatever it takes to win this election, and ultimately become President because our country cannot afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security.”
These announcements come at a time of significant growth for Mr. Trump’s campaign, with the first major TV ad buy of the general election slated to start later this week and with additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis.
Mr. Bannon, once recognized by Bloomberg Politics as the “most dangerous political operative in America,” will oversee the campaign staff and operations in addition to strategic oversight of major campaign initiatives in addition to working with Mr. Manafort. Mr. Bannon, who goes by Steve, holds a Masters in National Security Studies from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Breitbart News, Mr. Bannon was an Officer in the U.S. Navy and also owned an investment bank that he sold to Societe Generale.
Ms. Conway, a highly sought-after pollster, will work on messaging and travel frequently with Mr. Trump, while working closely with Mr. Bannon and Mr. Manafort on all aspects of the campaign moving forward.
Paul Manafort, Campaign Chairman added, “It is imperative we continue to expand our team with top-tier talent. Steve and Kellyanne are respected professionals who believe in Mr. Trump and his message and will undoubtedly help take the campaign to new levels of success.”
- AUGUST 16, 2016 -
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT TRUMP’S “EXCELLENT” LAW AND ORDER SPEECH
CBS News’ Major Garrett: “Having Been Listening Since August 2015, Objectively Best Drafted & Best Delivered [Trump] Speech Of Campaign. Will Resonate.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “[Trump] Just Gave A Very Good, Excellent, Red Meat, Presidential Timber Speech. Literally.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Reuters’ Ginger Gibson: “Trump Gets Big Applause ‘The War On Our Police Must End And It Must End Now.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond: “Speaking In Milwaukee Suburb, Trump Calls Milwaukee Riots ‘An Assault On The Right Of All Citizens To Live In Security And To Live In Peace’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
NBC News’ Ali Vitali: “Trump Making The Pitch To African American Voters That Democrats Take Their Votes For Granted.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
CBS News’ Sopan Deb: “Trump: ‘The Democratic Party Has Failed And Betrayed The African-American Community.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Columnist Ann Coulter: “Great Trump speech.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Yahoo! News’ Holly Bailey: “Trump Crowd Reacting Positively To Speech.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Bailey: “Trump: ‘We Reject The Bigotry’ Of The Clinton Campaign, Who Sees Blacks ‘Only As Votes’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Independent Journal’s Hunter Schwartz: “Trump In Wisconsin: Clinton ‘Doesn’t Care At All About The Hurting People Of This Country Or The Suffering
She Has Caused Them.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Washington Examiner’s Byron York: “Trump: I'm Running To Offer Black Voters A Much Better Future, A Much Better Job, At A Much Higher Wage.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli: “This Is The First Time Trump Has Given A Teleprompter Speech At A *Rally*. And It's The Most Comfortable I've Seen Him On One.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Washington Examiner’s Jim Antle: “Trump Experimenting With A Rally Address That Is More Focused, Less Stream Of Consciousness, Not Purely Pitched To People In The Audience.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
The Daily Caller’s Derek Hunter: “So Far, I Gotta Say, A Pretty Good Speech From [Trump].” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin: “Trump Sounds Like He's Talking Directly To African Americans…” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT TRUMP’S “EXCELLENT” LAW AND ORDER SPEECH
“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes.” – Donald J. Trump
CBS News’ Major Garrett: “Having Been Listening Since August 2015, Objectively Best Drafted & Best Delivered [Trump] Speech Of Campaign. Will Resonate.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “[Trump] Just Gave A Very Good, Excellent, Red Meat, Presidential Timber Speech. Literally.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Reuters’ Ginger Gibson: “Trump Gets Big Applause ‘The War On Our Police Must End And It Must End Now.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond: “Speaking In Milwaukee Suburb, Trump Calls Milwaukee Riots ‘An Assault On The Right Of All Citizens To Live In Security And To Live In Peace’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
- Haberman: “Trump Argues Clinton Complicit In ‘Anti-Police Atmosphere’ Throughout America In Wisconsin Speech.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
NBC News’ Ali Vitali: “Trump Making The Pitch To African American Voters That Democrats Take Their Votes For Granted.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
CBS News’ Sopan Deb: “Trump: ‘The Democratic Party Has Failed And Betrayed The African-American Community.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Columnist Ann Coulter: “Great Trump speech.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Yahoo! News’ Holly Bailey: “Trump Crowd Reacting Positively To Speech.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Bailey: “Trump: ‘We Reject The Bigotry’ Of The Clinton Campaign, Who Sees Blacks ‘Only As Votes’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Independent Journal’s Hunter Schwartz: “Trump In Wisconsin: Clinton ‘Doesn’t Care At All About The Hurting People Of This Country Or The Suffering
She Has Caused Them.’” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Washington Examiner’s Byron York: “Trump: I'm Running To Offer Black Voters A Much Better Future, A Much Better Job, At A Much Higher Wage.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli: “This Is The First Time Trump Has Given A Teleprompter Speech At A *Rally*. And It's The Most Comfortable I've Seen Him On One.”(Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
Washington Examiner’s Jim Antle: “Trump Experimenting With A Rally Address That Is More Focused, Less Stream Of Consciousness, Not Purely Pitched To People In The Audience.” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
The Daily Caller’s Derek Hunter: “So Far, I Gotta Say, A Pretty Good Speech From [Trump].” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin: “Trump Sounds Like He's Talking Directly To African Americans…” (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)
[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]ICYMI: BLOOMBERG: “HUMA ABEDIN’S OVERLAPPING JOBS RENEW FOCUS ON CLINTON CONFLICTS”[/h]Please read the following excerpts from “Huma Abedin’s Overlapping Jobs Renew Focus on Clinton Conflicts” by Ben Brody and Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg, 8/15/16
Huma Abedin stepped down from her post as deputy chief of staff at the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s ever-present personal assistant on June 3, 2012. Only she didn’t really leave.
Instead, in a reverse twist on a program intended to bring talented outsiders into government, Abedin was immediately rehired as a “special government employee.” She also took paying jobs with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm with international clients that was co-founded by a foundation official who also was Bill Clinton’s long-time personal aide.
Abedin’s multitasking in the final eight months of Hillary Clinton’s time as the top U.S. diplomat -- and her role as intermediary for some of the same players before that -- are drawing renewed scrutiny after a conservative watchdog group’s release last week of a new batch of e-mails to and from Clinton aides. Abedin has become the personification of an election-year debate over whether the nonprofit foundation will create conflicts of interest if Clinton wins the White House.
“The Clinton Foundation for Hillary Clinton is kind of a walking conflict-of-interest problem,” Meredith McGehee, policy director for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said in an interview. “Clearly this notion that it could continue to operate while she was secretary of state -- it was a built-in problem. If you’re really looking at what should happen if she’s elected, neither her husband nor her daughter, certainly no relative, should have any connection with the foundation.”
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When Clinton was awaiting confirmation as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in 2009, she wrote a letter to the State Department’s chief ethics officer promising that she wouldn’t “participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect upon this foundation, unless I first obtain a written waiver or qualify for a regulatory exemption.”
But that “did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with the Clinton Foundation staff,” just as they “are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations,” department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters last week.
That’s where Abedin came in.
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Abedin’s arrangement as a “special government employee” has been challenged since 2013 by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has questioned whether she was overpaid and wrote her that “you allegedly sent or received approximately 7,300 emails on your official Department of State address that involved Mr. Douglas Band,” the Bill Clinton aide and Clinton Foundation official who co-founded Teneo.
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Abedin’s arrangement was questioned in a 2013 civil lawsuit by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, which pressed for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. After Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state became public, the group got the case reopened and has been obtaining -- and publicizing -- a steady barrage of e-mails and deposition transcripts on the e-mail system and other topics.
Last week, Judicial Watch produced e-mails including a 2009 exchange in which Band wrote Abedin that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted. Abedin replied that “personnel has been sending him options.”
In another 2009 exchange, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department "substance person" on Lebanon. The Chagoury Group co-founder has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to a list of donors posted online.
“Neither of these emails involve the Secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work,” Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, said in a statement. Referring to Band’s work for Bill Clinton, he said, “They are communications between her aides and the President’s personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation.”
Trudeau, the State Department spokeswoman, said the department was “not aware of any actions that were influenced by the Clinton Foundation.” A lawyer for Abedin declined to comment.
Huma Abedin stepped down from her post as deputy chief of staff at the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s ever-present personal assistant on June 3, 2012. Only she didn’t really leave.
Instead, in a reverse twist on a program intended to bring talented outsiders into government, Abedin was immediately rehired as a “special government employee.” She also took paying jobs with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm with international clients that was co-founded by a foundation official who also was Bill Clinton’s long-time personal aide.
Abedin’s multitasking in the final eight months of Hillary Clinton’s time as the top U.S. diplomat -- and her role as intermediary for some of the same players before that -- are drawing renewed scrutiny after a conservative watchdog group’s release last week of a new batch of e-mails to and from Clinton aides. Abedin has become the personification of an election-year debate over whether the nonprofit foundation will create conflicts of interest if Clinton wins the White House.
“The Clinton Foundation for Hillary Clinton is kind of a walking conflict-of-interest problem,” Meredith McGehee, policy director for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said in an interview. “Clearly this notion that it could continue to operate while she was secretary of state -- it was a built-in problem. If you’re really looking at what should happen if she’s elected, neither her husband nor her daughter, certainly no relative, should have any connection with the foundation.”
…
When Clinton was awaiting confirmation as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in 2009, she wrote a letter to the State Department’s chief ethics officer promising that she wouldn’t “participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect upon this foundation, unless I first obtain a written waiver or qualify for a regulatory exemption.”
But that “did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with the Clinton Foundation staff,” just as they “are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations,” department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters last week.
That’s where Abedin came in.
…
Abedin’s arrangement as a “special government employee” has been challenged since 2013 by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has questioned whether she was overpaid and wrote her that “you allegedly sent or received approximately 7,300 emails on your official Department of State address that involved Mr. Douglas Band,” the Bill Clinton aide and Clinton Foundation official who co-founded Teneo.
…
Abedin’s arrangement was questioned in a 2013 civil lawsuit by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, which pressed for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. After Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state became public, the group got the case reopened and has been obtaining -- and publicizing -- a steady barrage of e-mails and deposition transcripts on the e-mail system and other topics.
Last week, Judicial Watch produced e-mails including a 2009 exchange in which Band wrote Abedin that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted. Abedin replied that “personnel has been sending him options.”
In another 2009 exchange, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department "substance person" on Lebanon. The Chagoury Group co-founder has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to a list of donors posted online.
“Neither of these emails involve the Secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work,” Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, said in a statement. Referring to Band’s work for Bill Clinton, he said, “They are communications between her aides and the President’s personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation.”
Trudeau, the State Department spokeswoman, said the department was “not aware of any actions that were influenced by the Clinton Foundation.” A lawyer for Abedin declined to comment.
[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]ICYMI: THE BOSTON GLOBE: “CLINTON FOUNDATION SHOULD STOP ACCEPTING FUNDS”[/h]Please read the following excerpts from “Clinton Foundation should stop accepting funds” by The Boston Globe Editorial Board, 8/16/16
Although the charity founded by former President Bill Clinton has done admirable work over the last 15 years, the Clinton Foundation is also now clearly a liability for Hillary Clinton as she seeks the presidency in 2016. …The foundation should remove a political — and actual — distraction and stop accepting funding. If Clinton is elected, the foundation should be shut down.
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It also provided paychecks for some members of the Clinton political team, like Cheryl Mills, Douglas Band, and Huma Abedin, and afforded the former president a platform and travel budget. Many of the foundation’s donations come from overseas, including from foreign governments with troubling human rights records.
The inherent conflict of interest was obvious when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009. She promised to maintain a separation between her official work and the foundation, but recently released emails written by staffers during her State Department tenure make clear that the supposed partition was far from impregnable. That was bad enough at State; if the Clinton Foundation continues to cash checks from foreign governments and other individuals seeking to ingratiate themselves to a President Hillary Clinton, it would be unacceptable.
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The Clintons should move now to end donations to the foundation, and make plans to shut it down in November. Even if they’ve done nothing illegal, the foundation will always look too much like a conflict of interest for comfort.
Although the charity founded by former President Bill Clinton has done admirable work over the last 15 years, the Clinton Foundation is also now clearly a liability for Hillary Clinton as she seeks the presidency in 2016. …The foundation should remove a political — and actual — distraction and stop accepting funding. If Clinton is elected, the foundation should be shut down.
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It also provided paychecks for some members of the Clinton political team, like Cheryl Mills, Douglas Band, and Huma Abedin, and afforded the former president a platform and travel budget. Many of the foundation’s donations come from overseas, including from foreign governments with troubling human rights records.
The inherent conflict of interest was obvious when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009. She promised to maintain a separation between her official work and the foundation, but recently released emails written by staffers during her State Department tenure make clear that the supposed partition was far from impregnable. That was bad enough at State; if the Clinton Foundation continues to cash checks from foreign governments and other individuals seeking to ingratiate themselves to a President Hillary Clinton, it would be unacceptable.
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The Clintons should move now to end donations to the foundation, and make plans to shut it down in November. Even if they’ve done nothing illegal, the foundation will always look too much like a conflict of interest for comfort.
[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]ICYMI: FOX NEWS: “HOUSE REPUBLICANS DETAIL PERJURY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CLINTON”[/h]Please read the following excerpts from “House Republicans Detail Perjury Allegations Against Clinton” by Catherine Herridge, Fox News, 8/16/16
House Republicans have detailed perjury allegations against Hillary Clinton, citing the apparent conflict between her 2015 congressional testimony about her email practices and the FBI's conclusions announced in July, according to a letter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
"The four pieces of sworn testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are incompatible with the FBI's findings," House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote to U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips. "We hope this information is helpful to your office's consideration of our referral."
The Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Peter Kadzik, confirmed in an Aug. 2 letter to both committees they had the perjury investigation request and the department would "take appropriate action as necessary."
The one-page response offered no timeline nor specific commitment to act on the allegations.
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A retired assistant FBI director, and 28-year-veteran of the bureau, said a perjury review is generally straightforward for agents.
"They look at the transcript of the testimony they provided in light of what they know to be, suspect to be the truth. They investigate both sides and take the aggregate and turn it over to the prosecuting authority for a decision," Steven Pomerantz said.
"Since the Director (Comey) already established what she (Clinton) said and the investigation is complete, it would be a relatively simple matter to make a decision about perjury... given the history of this, it's hard to say - it would seem to me a matter of weeks not months in this case."
A violation of 18 USC 1621 can lead to a fine, imprisonment up to five years, or both though legal experts said the crux of the case will rely on showing intent.
House Republicans have detailed perjury allegations against Hillary Clinton, citing the apparent conflict between her 2015 congressional testimony about her email practices and the FBI's conclusions announced in July, according to a letter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
"The four pieces of sworn testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are incompatible with the FBI's findings," House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote to U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips. "We hope this information is helpful to your office's consideration of our referral."
The Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Peter Kadzik, confirmed in an Aug. 2 letter to both committees they had the perjury investigation request and the department would "take appropriate action as necessary."
The one-page response offered no timeline nor specific commitment to act on the allegations.
…
A retired assistant FBI director, and 28-year-veteran of the bureau, said a perjury review is generally straightforward for agents.
"They look at the transcript of the testimony they provided in light of what they know to be, suspect to be the truth. They investigate both sides and take the aggregate and turn it over to the prosecuting authority for a decision," Steven Pomerantz said.
"Since the Director (Comey) already established what she (Clinton) said and the investigation is complete, it would be a relatively simple matter to make a decision about perjury... given the history of this, it's hard to say - it would seem to me a matter of weeks not months in this case."
A violation of 18 USC 1621 can lead to a fine, imprisonment up to five years, or both though legal experts said the crux of the case will rely on showing intent.
[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]HILLARY CLINTON: CHOOSING CRIMINALS BEFORE POLICE[/h]
Clinton Compared Police Officers To Terrorists. QUESTION: “The danger of ISIS is clearly a major threat to American safety, but personally, I know many minorities who are much more concerned with racist attacks at the local level than radical Islamists, so just — question to put it plainly since often, issues of race are tiptoed, do you believe that white terrorism and extremism is as much a threat to some in this country as something like ISIS?” CLINTON: “You know, I think that we have all kinds of threats in our country and I wouldn’t discount them I think we have to take them all seriously. And many of those threats are fueled by the gun violence that we face every single day, where 90 Americans are killed by guns, homicide, suicide tragic avoidable accidents. So one of the reasons I’m so adamant and so much in support of President Obama’s policies that he has rolled out I just think as a nation we cannot sit idly by while 33,000 people a year die from gun violence. I also believe that we have to take any form of violence and particularly organized violence seriously. So yes, I believe there are all kinds of underground movements and efforts in our country that try to use violence or assert beliefs that I find often lead to violence. So let’s take some of the white extremism that we see. I remember very well going to Oklahoma City, where as I recall 168 Americans including 19 children were murdered by a bomb by a guy who hate the government, that’s terrorism as far as I’m concerned. I also think when you have communities terrorized by gangs so that parents are afraid to send their kids out, afraid to go out after school. I remember that beautiful young woman Hadiya Pendleton from Chicago she performed at President Obama’s second inauguration. Came home, hanging out with her friends across from her school in Chicago. Gets murdered. Stray bullet, intentional bullet. Fact is, murdered. I think that when you have police violence that terrorizes communities that doesn’t show the respect that you’re supposed to have from protecting people in your authority, that can feel also terrorizing.” (Hillary Clinton, Remarks at Fusion Town Hall, 1/11/16)
Clinton Alleged That Law Enforcement Agencies Were Not Focused On Protecting Their Citizens And Called For A Restoration Of “Policing That Will Actually Protect The Communities.” CLINTON: “There have been some good recommendations about what needs to happen. President Obama's policing commission came out with some. I have fully endorsed those. But we have to restore policing that will actually protect the communities that police officers are sworn to protect.” (Hillary Clinton, PBS Newshour Democratic Primary Debate, Milwaukee, WI, 2/11/15)
CNN Headline: “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement” (Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement,” CNN, 7/23/15)
Clinton Said The Country Needs To Address The “Systemic Racism” In Its Law Enforcement.“Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the United States needs to confront ‘systemic racism’ in its law enforcement efforts — declaring again that ‘black lives matter.’ The Democratic presidential front-runner's comments during a Thursday morning campaign event are her latest effort -- just days after making the same comment in a Facebook chat -- to embrace the outrage over African-Americans' deaths in police custody and in racially-motivated shootings.” (Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement,” CNN, 7/23/15)
Clinton Said There Was “Systemic Racism” In Our Criminal Justice System.CLINTON: “Well, sadly it's reality, and it has been heartbreaking, and incredibly outraging to see the constant stories of young men like Walter Scott, as you said, who have been killed by police officers. There needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. And, that requires a very clear, agenda for retraining police officers, looking at ways to end racial profiling, finding more ways to really bring the disparities that stalk our country into high relief.” (Hillary Clinton, NBC News Democratic Debate, Charleston, SC, 1/17/16)
Clinton Said That “It’s Reality” That Police Officers View African American Men’s Lives As “Cheap.” NBC’S LESTER HOLT: “Alright, Governor, thank you. Secretary Clinton, this is a community that has suffered a lot of heartache in the last year. Of course, as you mentioned, the church shootings. We won't forget the video of Walter Scott being shot in the back while running from police. We understand that a jury will decide whether that police officer was justified, but it plays straight to the fears of many African American men that their lives are cheap. Is that perception, or in your view, is it reality?” CLINTON: “Well, sadly it's reality, and it has been heartbreaking, and incredibly outraging to see the constant stories of young men like Walter Scott, as you said, who have been killed by police officers. Their needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.” (Hillary Clinton, NBC News Democratic Debate, Charleston, SC, 1/17/16)
Clinton Says “Even The Best Police Departments” Are Biased. “Acknowledging that implicit bias still exists across society—even in the best police departments—and tackle it together. Hillary will commit $1 billion in her first budget to find and fund the best training programs, support new research, and make this a national policing priority.” (Hillary Clinton For America, Accessed 7/21/16)
Clinton Has Called For The Re-Training Of Every Single Police Officer In The Nation.CLINTON: “Let’s talk about the police. Because of this terrible incident in Dallas. We’ve got to do more to both protect and respect our police but also to bring about criminal justice reform. I would like to see national guidelines for the use of force, particularly lethal force. I would like to see the training and retraining of every single police officer in the 18,000 departments we have in America.” (Hillary Clinton, CBS News’ Evening News, 7/8/16)
Clinton Did Not Seek The Endorsement From The Fraternal Order Of Police, A Move Not Seen By A Democrat Candidate Since 2004:
Clinton Has Distanced Herself From Law Enforcement Groups, Not Even Seeking The Endorsement From The National Fraternal Order Of Police. “Top officials at the biggest police union in the country are upset with Hillary Clinton, saying she snubbed them. The leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police told The Hill that the Democrat sent a signal through her staff that she wouldn’t be seeking the union’s endorsement.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
John Kerry Is The Only Other Candidate That Has Done That Before. “Canterbury says that to his knowledge the questionnaire snub has only happened once before — in 2004 with John Kerry.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,”The Hill, 8/6/16)
This Puts Clinton To The Left Of Obama, Who Sought Their Endorsement In Both 2008 And 2012. “Canterbury says that to his knowledge the questionnaire snub has only happened once before — in 2004 with John Kerry. He said President Obama submitted the questionnaire in both 2008 and 2012.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
Bill Clinton Was The Last Democrat To Receive The Organization’s Endorsement In 1996. “The last time the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed a Democrat for president was Bill Clinton in 1996, Canterbury said. In 2000 and 2004, the union endorsed George W. Bush, and in 2008 it supported John McCain. In 2012, the union endorsed neither Obama nor Mitt Romney because neither could command a two-thirds majority of states, he said.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
Hillary Clinton’s Anti-Police Actions And Rhetoric Show She Cares More About Coddling Criminals Over Keeping America Safe
Hillary Clinton Has Used Extreme Anti-Police Rhetoric, Even Comparing Police Officers To Terrorists:Clinton Compared Police Officers To Terrorists. QUESTION: “The danger of ISIS is clearly a major threat to American safety, but personally, I know many minorities who are much more concerned with racist attacks at the local level than radical Islamists, so just — question to put it plainly since often, issues of race are tiptoed, do you believe that white terrorism and extremism is as much a threat to some in this country as something like ISIS?” CLINTON: “You know, I think that we have all kinds of threats in our country and I wouldn’t discount them I think we have to take them all seriously. And many of those threats are fueled by the gun violence that we face every single day, where 90 Americans are killed by guns, homicide, suicide tragic avoidable accidents. So one of the reasons I’m so adamant and so much in support of President Obama’s policies that he has rolled out I just think as a nation we cannot sit idly by while 33,000 people a year die from gun violence. I also believe that we have to take any form of violence and particularly organized violence seriously. So yes, I believe there are all kinds of underground movements and efforts in our country that try to use violence or assert beliefs that I find often lead to violence. So let’s take some of the white extremism that we see. I remember very well going to Oklahoma City, where as I recall 168 Americans including 19 children were murdered by a bomb by a guy who hate the government, that’s terrorism as far as I’m concerned. I also think when you have communities terrorized by gangs so that parents are afraid to send their kids out, afraid to go out after school. I remember that beautiful young woman Hadiya Pendleton from Chicago she performed at President Obama’s second inauguration. Came home, hanging out with her friends across from her school in Chicago. Gets murdered. Stray bullet, intentional bullet. Fact is, murdered. I think that when you have police violence that terrorizes communities that doesn’t show the respect that you’re supposed to have from protecting people in your authority, that can feel also terrorizing.” (Hillary Clinton, Remarks at Fusion Town Hall, 1/11/16)
Clinton Alleged That Law Enforcement Agencies Were Not Focused On Protecting Their Citizens And Called For A Restoration Of “Policing That Will Actually Protect The Communities.” CLINTON: “There have been some good recommendations about what needs to happen. President Obama's policing commission came out with some. I have fully endorsed those. But we have to restore policing that will actually protect the communities that police officers are sworn to protect.” (Hillary Clinton, PBS Newshour Democratic Primary Debate, Milwaukee, WI, 2/11/15)
CNN Headline: “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement” (Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement,” CNN, 7/23/15)
Clinton Said The Country Needs To Address The “Systemic Racism” In Its Law Enforcement.“Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the United States needs to confront ‘systemic racism’ in its law enforcement efforts — declaring again that ‘black lives matter.’ The Democratic presidential front-runner's comments during a Thursday morning campaign event are her latest effort -- just days after making the same comment in a Facebook chat -- to embrace the outrage over African-Americans' deaths in police custody and in racially-motivated shootings.” (Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, “Hillary Clinton Decries ‘Systemic Racism’ In Law Enforcement,” CNN, 7/23/15)
Clinton Said There Was “Systemic Racism” In Our Criminal Justice System.CLINTON: “Well, sadly it's reality, and it has been heartbreaking, and incredibly outraging to see the constant stories of young men like Walter Scott, as you said, who have been killed by police officers. There needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. And, that requires a very clear, agenda for retraining police officers, looking at ways to end racial profiling, finding more ways to really bring the disparities that stalk our country into high relief.” (Hillary Clinton, NBC News Democratic Debate, Charleston, SC, 1/17/16)
Clinton Said That “It’s Reality” That Police Officers View African American Men’s Lives As “Cheap.” NBC’S LESTER HOLT: “Alright, Governor, thank you. Secretary Clinton, this is a community that has suffered a lot of heartache in the last year. Of course, as you mentioned, the church shootings. We won't forget the video of Walter Scott being shot in the back while running from police. We understand that a jury will decide whether that police officer was justified, but it plays straight to the fears of many African American men that their lives are cheap. Is that perception, or in your view, is it reality?” CLINTON: “Well, sadly it's reality, and it has been heartbreaking, and incredibly outraging to see the constant stories of young men like Walter Scott, as you said, who have been killed by police officers. Their needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.” (Hillary Clinton, NBC News Democratic Debate, Charleston, SC, 1/17/16)
Clinton Says “Even The Best Police Departments” Are Biased. “Acknowledging that implicit bias still exists across society—even in the best police departments—and tackle it together. Hillary will commit $1 billion in her first budget to find and fund the best training programs, support new research, and make this a national policing priority.” (Hillary Clinton For America, Accessed 7/21/16)
Clinton Has Called For The Re-Training Of Every Single Police Officer In The Nation.CLINTON: “Let’s talk about the police. Because of this terrible incident in Dallas. We’ve got to do more to both protect and respect our police but also to bring about criminal justice reform. I would like to see national guidelines for the use of force, particularly lethal force. I would like to see the training and retraining of every single police officer in the 18,000 departments we have in America.” (Hillary Clinton, CBS News’ Evening News, 7/8/16)
Clinton Did Not Seek The Endorsement From The Fraternal Order Of Police, A Move Not Seen By A Democrat Candidate Since 2004:
Clinton Has Distanced Herself From Law Enforcement Groups, Not Even Seeking The Endorsement From The National Fraternal Order Of Police. “Top officials at the biggest police union in the country are upset with Hillary Clinton, saying she snubbed them. The leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police told The Hill that the Democrat sent a signal through her staff that she wouldn’t be seeking the union’s endorsement.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
John Kerry Is The Only Other Candidate That Has Done That Before. “Canterbury says that to his knowledge the questionnaire snub has only happened once before — in 2004 with John Kerry.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,”The Hill, 8/6/16)
This Puts Clinton To The Left Of Obama, Who Sought Their Endorsement In Both 2008 And 2012. “Canterbury says that to his knowledge the questionnaire snub has only happened once before — in 2004 with John Kerry. He said President Obama submitted the questionnaire in both 2008 and 2012.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
Bill Clinton Was The Last Democrat To Receive The Organization’s Endorsement In 1996. “The last time the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed a Democrat for president was Bill Clinton in 1996, Canterbury said. In 2000 and 2004, the union endorsed George W. Bush, and in 2008 it supported John McCain. In 2012, the union endorsed neither Obama nor Mitt Romney because neither could command a two-thirds majority of states, he said.” (Jonathan Swan, “Police Union: Clinton Snubbed Us,” The Hill, 8/6/16)
[h=1]Donald Trump is set to get his first classified security briefing in New York City Wednesday – and he's set to bring along advisor Chris Christie[/h]
- Both party nominees get top-level security briefings once they formally receive the nomination
- Secret info to be divulged by Director of National Intelligence
- Trump's brief will be conducted at the FBI field office in New York to prevent snooping
- Plans to bring New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Lt. General Mike Flynn along for the brief
- Former intelligence officials say nominees don't get the very best information
- Both Trump and Hillary Clinton have been admonished for
ANOTHER sign that things are going great follows; doesn't everybody shake up their organization when things are proceeding smoothly? Nothing to see here, move along. Also, big ups for the brilliant strategy of appealing to black voters-gotta get that 1% share up, huh, Donny Boy?-by doing so in virtually all white city...:nohead::think2::missingtecheersgif
[h=1]Trump shakes up staff, hiring Breitbart executive to run campaign[/h]
Aug. 17, 2016, 9:12 a.m.
Donald Trump reshuffles his campaign leadership amid falling poll numbers and criticism of his strategy.
- Breitbart News' Steve Bannon joins Trump's campaign as CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway as manager
- What the shakeup means: Having several top-level officials means the head of the campaign remains, as always, Trump
- Democrats react: 'You can't fix Trump'
- Back story: How Breitbart News became pro-Trump under Steve Bannon
- Trump made a pitch to African American voters in Wisconsin, but in a city that's almost completely white
- 9:12 A.M.reporting from washingtonAmy Fiscus
[h=2]Trump's new campaign manager: Leadership change is not 'a shake-up'[/h]
Donald Trump's newly appointed campaign manager wasted no time Wednesday in pledging to refocus on attacking Hillary Clinton and seeking to portray his leadership shuffle as a positive change.
"Some are calling it a shake-up," Kellyanne Conway told Fox News hours after she was promoted along with new campaign CEO Steve Bannon. "It really is not; it doesn't feel that way."
She said Trump will still run as he sees fit.
"He is still his own best messenger because people see him as very authentic," Conway said.
Trump's campaign will try to capitalize on Clinton's negative image among some independent voters and other groups, Conway said, adding that integrity matters to voters.
She implied that Trump's skirmishes with the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq and others, which have distracted from his message, have turned off voters.
"This is like a tennis match. ... You don't pick a fight with the ref. You don't boo the crowd," she said.
