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Clinton: 'king of debt' Trump would rig economy for Wall Street – campaign live Clinton: 'king of debt' Trump would rig economy for Wall Street – campaign live
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Apparently “CrookedHillary.com” was taken.
In one of many press released issued by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign today, the real estate tycoon announced the launch of LyingCrookedHillary.com, “which will showcase some of Clinton’s most disastrous lies to the American people.”
Supporters are instructed to text TRUMP to 88022 to receive early access to the content, which leads to subscribing to a text-message alert system from the campaign.
A terrible price has been paid to access "https://t.co/gGioW5agsU." pic.twitter.com/HaG0sYgLS2
“As we proceed forward with the general election, it is more important than ever for America to realize how dishonest Crooked Hillary really is,” the release states. “At every stage of Clinton’s career, she has deceived the public to enrich herself and family at the expense of Americans. Crooked Hillary has continually placed Washington D.C. special interests’ priorities over the interests of everyday Americans. Four years of Crooked Hillary in the White House is not a risk Americans can take.”
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Donald Trump expands staff as human-resources gap widensDonald Trump expands staff as human-resources gap widens
In a release, Donald Trump’s troubled presidential campaign has detailed a “staff expansion,” likely in the hopes of reassuring supporters worried about the vast disparity between Trump’s financial and infrastructural setup and that of presumptive general election opponent Hillary Clinton.In a release, Donald Trump’s troubled presidential campaign has detailed a “staff expansion,” likely in the hopes of reassuring supporters worried about the vast disparity between Trump’s financial and infrastructural setup and that of presumptive general election opponent Hillary Clinton.
“Today, Donald J. Trump announced that he has hired several staff members to expand his campaign operations and focus on the general election in November,” the release states, before detailing the hires: Jim Murphy as national political director, Lucia Castellano as director of human resources, Brad Parscale as digital director and former Bush administration staffer Kevin Kellems as director of surrogates.“Today, Donald J. Trump announced that he has hired several staff members to expand his campaign operations and focus on the general election in November,” the release states, before detailing the hires: Jim Murphy as national political director, Lucia Castellano as director of human resources, Brad Parscale as digital director and former Bush administration staffer Kevin Kellems as director of surrogates.
“I continue to build a team of great people that will ensure we win in November,” Trump stated in the release. “I have received more votes than any Republican in the history of the party and I am confident that, along with my team, we will take our movement to the White House and Make America Great Again.”“I continue to build a team of great people that will ensure we win in November,” Trump stated in the release. “I have received more votes than any Republican in the history of the party and I am confident that, along with my team, we will take our movement to the White House and Make America Great Again.”
Murphy, who runs consulting outfit JLM Consulting, was a senior adviser to then-senator Bob Dole’s presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1996. Castellano is a headhunter who ran human resources for Hispanic-oriented television network HITN. Parscale co-founded a San Antonio digital agency, and Kellems served as a communications aide to then-vice president Dick Cheney in 2003.Murphy, who runs consulting outfit JLM Consulting, was a senior adviser to then-senator Bob Dole’s presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1996. Castellano is a headhunter who ran human resources for Hispanic-oriented television network HITN. Parscale co-founded a San Antonio digital agency, and Kellems served as a communications aide to then-vice president Dick Cheney in 2003.
“The campaign has also added staff to the Communications Division to expand its research and rapid response capabilities,” the release states.“The campaign has also added staff to the Communications Division to expand its research and rapid response capabilities,” the release states.
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Video: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton picked apart Donald Trump’s economic plan and financial record this afternoon, saying that if elected president, he would bankrupt America “like one of his casinos.”Video: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton picked apart Donald Trump’s economic plan and financial record this afternoon, saying that if elected president, he would bankrupt America “like one of his casinos.”
Clinton also poked at Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns, suggesting the real estate mogul “isn’t as rich as he claims.”Clinton also poked at Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns, suggesting the real estate mogul “isn’t as rich as he claims.”
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Speaking to NBC News, Tennessee senator and Donald Trump supporter Bob Corker said that the firing of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, yesterday is “pretty exciting” in terms of the direction of the ailing campaign.Speaking to NBC News, Tennessee senator and Donald Trump supporter Bob Corker said that the firing of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, yesterday is “pretty exciting” in terms of the direction of the ailing campaign.
“What is kind of exciting is that it appears to me that they, y’know, are moving in a very different direction than they’ve been moving in, and I gotta say, that’s pretty exciting to think about,” Corker said.“What is kind of exciting is that it appears to me that they, y’know, are moving in a very different direction than they’ve been moving in, and I gotta say, that’s pretty exciting to think about,” Corker said.
When asked whether he was speaking specifically about Lewandowski’s departure from the campaign, Corker agreed.When asked whether he was speaking specifically about Lewandowski’s departure from the campaign, Corker agreed.
“Yeah,” Corker said. “I mean, I don’t know him personally and I don’t know what the internal issues were regarding that, but it seems that they understand that taking a different direction with the campaign is a more beneficial place for them to be. And I gotta say, last night when I was reading that and this morning - pretty exciting. And if they can begin to focus solely on issues ... economic issues, fiscal issues, how our country is gonna relate to the rest of the world, that can be a very exciting development, relative to how they’re going about doing what they’re doing”“Yeah,” Corker said. “I mean, I don’t know him personally and I don’t know what the internal issues were regarding that, but it seems that they understand that taking a different direction with the campaign is a more beneficial place for them to be. And I gotta say, last night when I was reading that and this morning - pretty exciting. And if they can begin to focus solely on issues ... economic issues, fiscal issues, how our country is gonna relate to the rest of the world, that can be a very exciting development, relative to how they’re going about doing what they’re doing”
Corker, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, has been rumored as a potential running mate choice for Trump, but told NBC News recently that he was“discouraged by the direction of the campaign and comments that are made,” after Trump reiterated his call for a Muslim ban after the terrorist attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people.Corker, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, has been rumored as a potential running mate choice for Trump, but told NBC News recently that he was“discouraged by the direction of the campaign and comments that are made,” after Trump reiterated his call for a Muslim ban after the terrorist attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people.
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Katrina Pierson, national spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, defended the campaign’s comparatively massive expenditures on things like T-shirts, mugs, stickers ($694,000) and hats ($208,000), telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that “everyone loves the hats.”Katrina Pierson, national spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, defended the campaign’s comparatively massive expenditures on things like T-shirts, mugs, stickers ($694,000) and hats ($208,000), telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that “everyone loves the hats.”
Trump spokeswoman on the campaign spending $208K on hats: “Everyone loves the hats” https://t.co/oVBEJDt13n https://t.co/6w2T21edzFTrump spokeswoman on the campaign spending $208K on hats: “Everyone loves the hats” https://t.co/oVBEJDt13n https://t.co/6w2T21edzF
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Notice the Playboy magazine cover in the background.Notice the Playboy magazine cover in the background.
Honored to introduce @realDonaldTrump at religious leader summit in NYC today! He did incredible job! @beckifalwell pic.twitter.com/e2eBSbQwb0Honored to introduce @realDonaldTrump at religious leader summit in NYC today! He did incredible job! @beckifalwell pic.twitter.com/e2eBSbQwb0
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One of the members of Donald Trump’s new evangelical advisory committee was not a big fan of the candidate in November:One of the members of Donald Trump’s new evangelical advisory committee was not a big fan of the candidate in November:
Here's a board member of Trump's new evangelical advisory committee (Note: they were not required to endorse him) pic.twitter.com/Bl7g7snu2rHere's a board member of Trump's new evangelical advisory committee (Note: they were not required to endorse him) pic.twitter.com/Bl7g7snu2r
The post has since been deleted.The post has since been deleted.
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A disturbing scene from Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix, Arizona, where clashes between pro- and anti-Trump protesters devolved to racist attacks by a Trump supporter sporting white-nationalist tattoos.A disturbing scene from Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix, Arizona, where clashes between pro- and anti-Trump protesters devolved to racist attacks by a Trump supporter sporting white-nationalist tattoos.
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Lauren GambinoLauren Gambino
The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino has more on Hillary Clinton’s economic speech today:The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino has more on Hillary Clinton’s economic speech today:
Hillary Clinton delivered a blistering assault on Donald Trump’s business record on Tuesday, warning that his reckless economic policies would trigger a financial crisis worse than the one in 2008.Hillary Clinton delivered a blistering assault on Donald Trump’s business record on Tuesday, warning that his reckless economic policies would trigger a financial crisis worse than the one in 2008.
Returning to the important swing state of Ohio on Tuesday, Clinton, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee, castigated Trump for his proposals on trade, taxes and immigration, claiming that his policies, if enacted, would throw the US back into a recession.Returning to the important swing state of Ohio on Tuesday, Clinton, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee, castigated Trump for his proposals on trade, taxes and immigration, claiming that his policies, if enacted, would throw the US back into a recession.
“You might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he’d be better prepared to handle the economy. Well it turns out, he’s dangerous there, too,” Clinton said.“You might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he’d be better prepared to handle the economy. Well it turns out, he’s dangerous there, too,” Clinton said.
“Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the [nuclear] button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy.”“Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the [nuclear] button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy.”
To support her claims, Clinton seized on a report released on Monday by Moody’s Analytics that suggested Trump’s economic policies, if enacted, would trigger a “lengthy recession” and lead to the loss of 3.5m jobs.To support her claims, Clinton seized on a report released on Monday by Moody’s Analytics that suggested Trump’s economic policies, if enacted, would trigger a “lengthy recession” and lead to the loss of 3.5m jobs.
“We can’t let him bankrupt America like we’re one of his failed casinos,” Clinton said. “We can’t let him roll the dice with our children’s futures.”“We can’t let him bankrupt America like we’re one of his failed casinos,” Clinton said. “We can’t let him roll the dice with our children’s futures.”
Related: Hillary Clinton says Trump's economic policies will trigger another recessionRelated: Hillary Clinton says Trump's economic policies will trigger another recession
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Hope Hicks, the 27-year-old press secretary for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, recently got the star treatment in a must-read GQ profile, but it isn’t the first cover story for the Connecticut native and former model.Hope Hicks, the 27-year-old press secretary for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, recently got the star treatment in a must-read GQ profile, but it isn’t the first cover story for the Connecticut native and former model.
As revealed by Cosmopolitan, (bear with us), Hicks was also a cover model for the Gossip Girl spinoff book series The It Girl, gracing the series’ cover as prep-school prima donna Jenny Humphrey.As revealed by Cosmopolitan, (bear with us), Hicks was also a cover model for the Gossip Girl spinoff book series The It Girl, gracing the series’ cover as prep-school prima donna Jenny Humphrey.
Hope Hicks at 27: Donald Trump's press secretaryHope Hicks at 16: 'Gossip Girl' Jenny Humphrey pic.twitter.com/k66D4WqtkFHope Hicks at 27: Donald Trump's press secretaryHope Hicks at 16: 'Gossip Girl' Jenny Humphrey pic.twitter.com/k66D4WqtkF
XOXO...XOXO...
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In an email addressed to “Friend,” Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has put out a personal(ish) ask for money on behalf of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton - a big indicator that Clinton sees the progressive darling as a powerful asset to her general election campaign.
“For 25 years, she’s been on the receiving end of attack after attack,” Warren wrote of Clinton. “She didn’t whimper. She didn’t whine. She’s always fought back with grace and determination – and no matter how many punches she took, each time she came out fighting stronger.”
Calling Clinton “a fighter” who will take on Wall Street, student-loan debt and fight for minority rights, Warren highlights Clinton’s “progressive agenda” in a likely bid to warm the left wing of the Democratic party to the candidate, after a bitter primary campaign against democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
As Warren has done on numerous occasions, the email ends with a broadside against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who Warren states has “built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia.”
Decrying Trump as “a small, insecure, moneygrubbing bully who doesn’t care who gets hurt, so long as he makes a buck off it,” Warren juxtaposes Clinton, who is “smart as a whip, and she’s a tough cookie.”
Not unrelatedly, the Associated Press reports that Warren is one of the few potential running mates who has been moved into full vetting mode.
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Film star Salma Hayek wondered what would happen if Donald Trump had Latino heritage. The results are... a little eerie:
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Clinton Foundation breached by hackers – report
Bloomberg reports that the Russia-linked hackers behind an attack on the Democratic National Committee also targeted the Clinton Foundation, according to “three people familiar with the matter”:
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was among the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. political apparatus ahead of the November election, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The attacks on the foundation’s network, as well as those of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, compound concerns about her digital security even as the FBI continues to investigate her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state.
A spokesman for the foundation told Bloomberg that he wasn’t aware of any breach. It’s unclear what the hackers may have accessed. Opposition research on Donald Trump was removed in the attack on the DNC.
These hacks are (as far as we know) separate from concerns about possible hacker attacks on the private email server Clinton used as secretary of state, an arrangement that is the subject of an FBI investigation. “The FBI has been careful to keep [the Clinton Foundation] investigation separate from the review of Clinton’s use of private e-mail, using separate investigators, according to the person briefed on the matter,” Bloomberg says.
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After a poll last week showed Hillary Clinton neck-and-neck with Donald Trump in Utah – which John McCain won by about 30 points and favorite son Mitt Romney won by about 50 – a new poll, proudly disseminated on social media by the Trump campaign’s director of social media, shows Trump nudging into the lead:
.@realDonaldTrump +9% UTAH#Trump2016 #AmericaFirsthttps://t.co/aBdXl5WLdP pic.twitter.com/XeFStRsniY
Is this the first time any Republican campaign has ever bragged about getting 36% of the vote in Utah? https://t.co/aRAStYUwf2
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A neighbor of Donald Trump’s golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, has hoisted a Mexican flag to protest the candidate’s views on immigration, the Scotland Herald reports:
David Milne, whose land is surrounded by Mr Trump’s golf course at Menie, said he raised the banner in support of those who had been “intimidated and insulted” by the Republican presidential candidate.
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In light of the latest FEC filings, Commentary editor John Podhoretz takes Trump to task for failing to perform the humdrum hard campaign work of making calls to raise money and taking calls to raise money and speaking in living rooms to raise money and attending dinners and cocktail receptions to raise money. Key bit:
Trump’s decision to sit in his skivvies in Trump Tower and phone into the Fox News Channel when he’s not on the road at big rallies making jokes about how Elizabeth Warren is or is not Pocahontas is, to people who take the art of practical politics seriously, definitive proof that he is a dilettante who has managed to bluff his way into the highest-stakes political game in the world.
Podhoretz’s conclusion: “These numbers are so disastrous that they mean it would be nothing less than malpractice for Republican delegates not to consider seriously the possibility of ditching Trump at the convention.” Read the full piece here.
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Trump questions Clinton's religion
In a talk before evangelical leaders in New York Tuesday, Donald Trump questioned Hillary Clinton’s faith, asserting that voters don’t know “anything about Hillary in terms of religion” despite a long public record of Clinton’s adherence to Methodism (see for example this report from June 2007).
“And she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no, there’s nothing out there,” Trump said, according to remarks taped and posted online by conservative faith leader EW Jackson. “There’s like nothing out there.”
Trump went on to say that politicians “ are selling Christianity down the tubes”.
Our leaders are "selling Christianity down the tubes" #ConversationWithTrump pic.twitter.com/55PBY26aAv
Trump sent an email Monday afternoon announcing a new group of advisers “on those issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith in America.” Advisers include Michele Bachmann, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Ralph Reed.
(h/t: @bencjacobs)
Update: Revealed: Clinton on faith:
Hillary Clinton talked faith w/ me in January: "My faith is a central part of who I am." https://t.co/Y5xZxhI8ng pic.twitter.com/kj90VlSGbA
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The most popular candidate? Bernie Sanders, in poll
Mona Chalabi
The topline findings from a poll released today by CNN/ORC aren’t all that surprising - Hillary Clinton has 47% of the vote while Donald Trump has 42%, figures that are broadly in line with polling averages right now, writes Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi:
But because the survey put so many questions to the 1,001 respondents they spoke to between June 16 and 19, there are lots of interesting nuggets of information that might shed light on what the US electorate is thinking right now.
Of course, this is only one poll (albeit one from a pretty respected polling company) so these numbers should be treated with caution, especially because we’re still months away from election day. But here are seven things that stood out from the report:
While 71% of non-white voters said they would support Clinton, 51% of white voters said they were planning to vote for Trump. And those who were under 45 were much more likely to say they’d choose Clinton (49%) over Trump (34%).
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Trump tweets attacks on Clinton
In what could be a preview of his speech tomorrow on the failings of Hillary Clinton, Trump is tweeting attacks on Clinton over her legacy as secretary of state, donations made to the Clinton Foundation and, inevitably, Benghazi.
The tweets lack Trump’s distinct diction, punctuation, tone. They’re flat, declarative and on-point. More effective this way?
Hillary took money and did favors for regimes that enslave women and murder gays.
If you want to know about Hillary Clinton’s honesty & judgment, ask the family of Ambassador Stevens.
Hillary defrauded America as Secy of State. She used it as a personal hedge fund to get herself rich! Corrupt, dangerous, dishonest.
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Trump camp tries new tactic: rapid response
Ben Jacobs
Trump’s campaign seems to be already shifting gears in the day since campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was fired, writes Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs:
During Hillary Clinton’s economic speech Tuesday afternoon, the presumptive Republican nominee sent out over a half-dozen rapid response emails, blasting “the catastrophic economic record under Clinton-Obama policies” and labeling his opponent “unstable, erratic, violent.”
While rapid response emails are a traditional tool used by communications staffers on presidential campaigns to blast out their message to reporters, it is one that Trump’s campaign had never before used until Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton attacked Donald Trump on the economy, and Trump responded with seven rapid-response emails. pic.twitter.com/oXEEMehgvE
Punctuation pivot https://t.co/0OAoP7393L
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