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| Trump and Clinton to appear at same forum in New York City – campaign live | Trump and Clinton to appear at same forum in New York City – campaign live |
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| Trump hosted fund-raiser for Florida attorney general | |
| In a new twist in the controversy over a Donald Trump donation to help re-elect Florida attorney general Pam Bondi in 2014, the Huffington Post reports that Trump went further than writing a $25,000 check from his foundation’s account – he hosted a fundraiser for Bondi at his Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago. | |
| Trump’s support for Bondi has come under scrutiny, in part, because the check-writing and fund-raising was timed to Bondi’s decision not to join a New York state inquiry into consumer complaints about Trump University. The timing strikes some people as suspicious. | |
| Bondi’s office announced three days after the check landed that she would not be looking into Trump University. The IRS fined the Trump family foundation for making a banned donation to Bondi. Bondi told the Associated Press that she had spoken with Trump and sought his donation personally. Trump has denied speaking with Bondi about Trump University but Trump’s campaign has conceded the two spoke as Bondi was making a decision about whether to join the inquiry. But they can’t say what the two spoke about. | |
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| In March 2014, Donald Trump opened his 126-room Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago, for a $3,000-per-person fundraiser for Pam Bondi. The Florida attorney general, who was facing a tough re-election campaign, had recently decided not to investigate Trump University. [...] | |
| Since he began his run for the White House, Trump has repeatedly claimed that Bondi is merely someone he has supported politically. But his fundraising efforts for her were extensive and varied: In addition to the $25,000 donation from his foundation and the star-studded Mar-a-Lago event, Trump and his daughter Ivanka each gave $500 to Bondi’s campaign in the fall of 2013. The following spring, Ivanka and her father donated another $125,000 to the Republican Party of Florida ― Bondi’s single biggest source of campaign funds. | |
| For more information about the scandal, read our summary report: | |
| Why is a $25,000 campaign donation Donald Trump made in September 2013 to Pam Bondi, a Republican running for re-election as Florida’s attorney general, now such a big deal? | |
| Trump circumvented Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules by routing the money through a charitable entity, the Donald J Trump Foundation, which is prohibited by law from making political donations. More controversially, however, Bondi’s office was at the time mulling whether to join a New York state probe into allegations that customers who paid thousands of dollars to Trump University, Trump’s for-profit education company, for a real estate investment course were ripped off. Just days after Trump’s donation arrived, Bondi dropped her investigation into the alleged fraud, citing “insufficient grounds” to proceed. | |
| Read the full piece here. | |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is in Philadelphia with Donald Trump for a rally this morning before the candidate heads to New York City to participate in a forum on veterans’ issues. Hillary Clinton is also participating in the forum, but the two candidates are not scheduled to cross paths. Bill Clinton is scheduled to make an appearance on behalf of his wife in Florida, and Chelsea Clinton is campaigning today in Pennsylvania. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is in Philadelphia with Donald Trump for a rally this morning before the candidate heads to New York City to participate in a forum on veterans’ issues. Hillary Clinton is also participating in the forum, but the two candidates are not scheduled to cross paths. Bill Clinton is scheduled to make an appearance on behalf of his wife in Florida, and Chelsea Clinton is campaigning today in Pennsylvania. |
| Trump: ‘I think I will’ release medical records | Trump: ‘I think I will’ release medical records |
| Donald Trump tells ABC News' David Muir that he plans to release his full medical records. https://t.co/Wya4IgoK7j pic.twitter.com/c5pKKZsTIa | Donald Trump tells ABC News' David Muir that he plans to release his full medical records. https://t.co/Wya4IgoK7j pic.twitter.com/c5pKKZsTIa |
| Trump and Clinton return to trail | Trump and Clinton return to trail |
| Trump launched an assault on Clinton on Tuesday evening in a cavernous convention center in Greenville, North Carolina, marking his first public rally since Labor Day, the unofficial kickoff to the fall campaign. After bemoaning that Clinton didn’t talk about policy but instead engaged in “hitjobs” against him, Trump proceeded to return the favor. Only hours before, at a Tampa rally, Clinton had called him “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”. | Trump launched an assault on Clinton on Tuesday evening in a cavernous convention center in Greenville, North Carolina, marking his first public rally since Labor Day, the unofficial kickoff to the fall campaign. After bemoaning that Clinton didn’t talk about policy but instead engaged in “hitjobs” against him, Trump proceeded to return the favor. Only hours before, at a Tampa rally, Clinton had called him “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”. |
| Obama enjoys refreshing coconut | Obama enjoys refreshing coconut |
| Obama, with coconut, taunts thirsty pool pic.twitter.com/wKRcRlBPhi | Obama, with coconut, taunts thirsty pool pic.twitter.com/wKRcRlBPhi |
| Trump’s son-in-law’s paper breaks DNC hacking news | Trump’s son-in-law’s paper breaks DNC hacking news |
| The New York Observer, the paper owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, which is not known for its national security reporting, is now receiving leaks about hacked Democratic emails, the paper says, from the hacker Guccifer 2.0, who has been linked to Moscow. The emails don’t seem particularly new, but the outlet is. | The New York Observer, the paper owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, which is not known for its national security reporting, is now receiving leaks about hacked Democratic emails, the paper says, from the hacker Guccifer 2.0, who has been linked to Moscow. The emails don’t seem particularly new, but the outlet is. |
| Speaking of Vladimir Putin, this happened on Hillary Clinton’s plane yesterday: | Speaking of Vladimir Putin, this happened on Hillary Clinton’s plane yesterday: |
| Press rolled orange to HRC asking if she'd rather dine w Trump or Putin. @NickMerrill circled Putin & rolled it back pic.twitter.com/b6160y7NPf | Press rolled orange to HRC asking if she'd rather dine w Trump or Putin. @NickMerrill circled Putin & rolled it back pic.twitter.com/b6160y7NPf |
| Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. |