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| Clinton attacks Trump for praise of Putin: 'It is scary' – campaign live | Clinton attacks Trump for praise of Putin: 'It is scary' – campaign live |
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| Jana Kasperkevic | |
| While speaking in Cleveland earlier today, Donald Trump said that there are only bad jobs in the US. | |
| “We only have bad jobs. We don’t have good jobs anymore,” said Trump. He added that if elected, he would be “the greatest jobs producing president that God ever created”. | |
| Trump’s remarks come less than a week after the US Department of labor released its August jobs report. In August, US created 151,000 jobs - about 30,000 below expectations. However, on average the US economy added about 230,000 a month over the last three months. August was the 71st consecutive month of overall job creation- longest streak on record. It was also the 77th consecutive month of private sector job growth. | |
| The Obama administration insists that the jobs added over the past few months tend to be good, middle class jobs rather than “bad jobs” as Trump described them. According to US labor secretary Tom Perez, education and health sectors have added the most job in the last year, followed by professional and business services. | |
| “I use these two examples to highlight what we are seeing in this recovery, which is over the last two to three years, not only do we see a growth in the quantity of jobs but we are seeing a distinct growth in the quality of jobs. More and more middle class and above jobs are being created in the last two to three years,” he told the Guardian on Friday. | |
| “Another sector that is really rebounding - especially in the last few months is government, which during the early stages of the recovery it usually recovers really fast but it didn’t. And now we are seeing some real rebound in government jobs, which tend to be solid middle class jobs. I am heartened not just by the number of jobs we are creating but by the quality of jobs that are being created.” | |
| One of the main reasons for the delay in recovery in government sector is the sequester - the automatic budget cuts that were included in the 2011 Budget Control Act. Had it been not for the budget cuts championed by Congress Republicans after the 2008 economic crisis, unemployment rate might have been higher, said Perez. | |
| “If we had the investment rates that we saw during the Reagan administration now, we would have an unemployment rate that would be probably two to three tenths of a percent lower than it currently is,” he said. The US unemployment rate is 4.9%. “But the lingering effect of sequester has a dramatically negative impact on government hiring and it also had on a federal level and on state and local level.” | |
| Despite better jobs being created, there are still more than six million Americans who want full time jobs, but are only working part-time at the moment. Additionally, there are 7.5 million Americans who are working more than one jobs to make ends meet. | |
| 9.01pm BST | |
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| Esquire Magazine has added an editor’s note to a profile of Donald Trump that the Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly cited as proof that he never supported the invasion of Iraq, calling the characterization inaccurate: | |
| The following story was published in the August 2004 issue of Esquire. During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof. The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump’s timeline. | |
| Trump has falsely insisted that he was opposed to the Iraq war since before its inception, despite a 2002 interview with Howard Stern in which he said “yeah, I guess so” when asked if he supported the invasion. | |
| The Esquire interview was mentioned as recently as last night, when he told NBC host Matt Lauer during a forum on national security that “you can look at Esquire Magazine from ’04” as proof of his opposition to the war. | |
| 8.42pm BST | |
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| Clinton campaign raises money off of Matt Lauer criticism | |
| Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign is officially fundraising off of frustration with Matt Lauer’s moderation of NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum” last night, emailing supporters under the subject line “Matt Lauer” that the Today Show co-host failed to fact-check the proven falsehood that Donald Trump opposed the invasion of Iraq. | |
| “Donald Trump kicked off his evening by lying to the American people about his position on the Iraq War - and no one stopped to call him on it,” the email, penned by Clinton campaign deputy communications director Christina Reynolds, begins. | |
| “Not only did the moderator, Matt Lauer, fail to fact-check Trump - he then kept the conversation moving,” Reynolds continues. “The worst part is, there’s nothing new about this happening. We all know that Trump lies a lot. And we all know that many outlets in the press apparently lack the wherewithal to call him out - and help voters understand that what they’re hearing from Trump isn’t just normal political talk, but an unprecedented descent into unqualified nonsense from a major-party presidential nominee.” | |
| Lauer has been castigated by journalists and viewers for being “lost at sea” during the one-hour event aboard the aircraft carrier Intrepid, focusing nearly a third of his time with the former secretary of state on questions about her use of private email servers while letting Trump’s assertion that he was opposed to the Iraq war go unchallenged. | |
| Trump has long maintained that he was opposed to the invasion of Iraq from the beginning as evidence that he has better judgment on national security matters than his opponents, despite the discovery of a radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern on Sept. 11, 2002 by Buzzfeed News wherein Trump declared “Yeah, I guess so” when asked if he supported the war. | |
| That was six months before the invasion. | |
| For the Clinton campaign, Lauer’s fumble - the hashtag #LaueringTheBar, a play on “lowering the bar,” has been trending on social media all day - is their gain. | |
| “We have to work even harder to get the facts out there on TV, online, and in conversations with voters across the country,” Reynolds concludes. “We have to speak so loudly that every voter in America hears us. And we have to recommit ourselves to delivering Trump a definitive rebuke on November 8th.” | |
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| No TV person has done more to boost Donald Trump than Fox host Sean Hannity. Today Hannity plans to shine that spotlight on Wikileaks’s Julian Assange, who has promised to release information that reflects poorly on the Clinton campaign. | No TV person has done more to boost Donald Trump than Fox host Sean Hannity. Today Hannity plans to shine that spotlight on Wikileaks’s Julian Assange, who has promised to release information that reflects poorly on the Clinton campaign. |
| Julian Assange will be on @seanhannity's radio show for an hour today, Hannity tells me | Julian Assange will be on @seanhannity's radio show for an hour today, Hannity tells me |
| 7.41pm BST | 7.41pm BST |
| 19:41 | 19:41 |
| Trump continues to talk in Cleveland. He’s stopped quoting his old interviews on Iraq. He is now touting his ability to create jobs: | Trump continues to talk in Cleveland. He’s stopped quoting his old interviews on Iraq. He is now touting his ability to create jobs: |
| I will be the greatest jobs producing president that god ever created. | I will be the greatest jobs producing president that god ever created. |
| 7.40pm BST | 7.40pm BST |
| 19:40 | 19:40 |
| Trump now jumps into a litigation of whether he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. | Trump now jumps into a litigation of whether he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. |
| “I was opposed to the war from the beginning, long after my interview with Howard Stern,” Trump says, referring to a 2002 interview with Stern in which he said “yeah... I guess” the Iraq invasion was a good idea. | “I was opposed to the war from the beginning, long after my interview with Howard Stern,” Trump says, referring to a 2002 interview with Stern in which he said “yeah... I guess” the Iraq invasion was a good idea. |
| Trump goes on to quote extensively from an interview he gave Esquire in August 2004, which he keeps saying, incorrectly, was “right at the beginning” of the war, “right after the war started.” The invasion was in March 2003. | Trump goes on to quote extensively from an interview he gave Esquire in August 2004, which he keeps saying, incorrectly, was “right at the beginning” of the war, “right after the war started.” The invasion was in March 2003. |
| The Fallujah bridge ambush was in March 2004. Trump rn is claiming clairvoyance for second-guessing war in Aug 2004 https://t.co/u31yk7LTgX | The Fallujah bridge ambush was in March 2004. Trump rn is claiming clairvoyance for second-guessing war in Aug 2004 https://t.co/u31yk7LTgX |
| Update: | Update: |
| Here (once again) is our timeline of Trump statements which disproves his false claim he opposed the war in Iraq. https://t.co/NfqLTbVhUp | Here (once again) is our timeline of Trump statements which disproves his false claim he opposed the war in Iraq. https://t.co/NfqLTbVhUp |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 7.51pm BST | at 7.51pm BST |
| 7.30pm BST | 7.30pm BST |
| 19:30 | 19:30 |
| Trump: 'whole country saw how unfit [Clinton] was' | Trump: 'whole country saw how unfit [Clinton] was' |
| Here’s Trump now in Cleveland. He’s talking about Clinton’s emails. He says she was hacked. And that she was emailing about the drone program. | Here’s Trump now in Cleveland. He’s talking about Clinton’s emails. He says she was hacked. And that she was emailing about the drone program. |
| “The whole country saw how unfit she was at the town hall middle night, where she refused to take accountability for her failed policies in the Middle East,” Trump continues. | “The whole country saw how unfit she was at the town hall middle night, where she refused to take accountability for her failed policies in the Middle East,” Trump continues. |
| Then he makes a series of wild claims, headily conspiratorial and heedless of evidence, about criminal conduct, he says, by Clinton and her associates: “giving up uranium to Russia, doing favors for UBS bank and giving contracts to family and friends in Haiti.” | Then he makes a series of wild claims, headily conspiratorial and heedless of evidence, about criminal conduct, he says, by Clinton and her associates: “giving up uranium to Russia, doing favors for UBS bank and giving contracts to family and friends in Haiti.” |
| 7.25pm BST | 7.25pm BST |
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| Donald Trump, somewhat confusingly, even more than usual, is tweeting his condolences for Mexico’s finance minister, Luis Videgaray, having lost his job, which happened because Videgaray helped set up Trump’s visit last week, which the entire country of Mexico seems to concur was a disaster. | Donald Trump, somewhat confusingly, even more than usual, is tweeting his condolences for Mexico’s finance minister, Luis Videgaray, having lost his job, which happened because Videgaray helped set up Trump’s visit last week, which the entire country of Mexico seems to concur was a disaster. |
| Trump goes out of his way to assert that Videgaray is a favorite of Nieto, who accepted his resignation. Is Trump asking us to think someone else was behind the resignation? Why is Trump bothering? Is he deaf to the resounding “No” with which the country of Mexico is greeting his wall proposal, his candidacy and lo his very existence? | Trump goes out of his way to assert that Videgaray is a favorite of Nieto, who accepted his resignation. Is Trump asking us to think someone else was behind the resignation? Why is Trump bothering? Is he deaf to the resounding “No” with which the country of Mexico is greeting his wall proposal, his candidacy and lo his very existence? |
| Mexico has lost a brilliant finance minister and wonderful man who I know is highly respected by President Peña Nieto. | Mexico has lost a brilliant finance minister and wonderful man who I know is highly respected by President Peña Nieto. |
| With Luis, Mexico and the United States would have made wonderful deals together - where both Mexico and the US would have benefitted. | With Luis, Mexico and the United States would have made wonderful deals together - where both Mexico and the US would have benefitted. |
| 7.13pm BST | 7.13pm BST |
| 19:13 | 19:13 |
| The Republican running mate is tweeting a master’s thesis equating Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan and what does the Democrat come up with? | The Republican running mate is tweeting a master’s thesis equating Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan and what does the Democrat come up with? |
| A dogpile with his kids? Oh well that’s pretty cute. | A dogpile with his kids? Oh well that’s pretty cute. |
| Back-to-school time always makes me nostalgic. #TBT pic.twitter.com/Ak6oadtxK0 | Back-to-school time always makes me nostalgic. #TBT pic.twitter.com/Ak6oadtxK0 |
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| The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump’s Washington, DC-based policy shop has collapsed because nobody has been getting paid or listened to. | The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump’s Washington, DC-based policy shop has collapsed because nobody has been getting paid or listened to. |
| At which the nearly universal reaction has been: Donald Trump had a policy shop? | At which the nearly universal reaction has been: Donald Trump had a policy shop? |
| Here’s the top of the Post’s Josh Rogin’s report: | Here’s the top of the Post’s Josh Rogin’s report: |
| The Trump campaign built a large policy shop in Washington that has now largely melted away because of neglect, mismanagement and promises of pay that were never honored. Many of the team’s former members say the campaign leadership never took the Washington office seriously and let it wither away after squeezing it dry. | The Trump campaign built a large policy shop in Washington that has now largely melted away because of neglect, mismanagement and promises of pay that were never honored. Many of the team’s former members say the campaign leadership never took the Washington office seriously and let it wither away after squeezing it dry. |