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| Trump attacks Flint pastor who interrupted him – campaign live | Trump attacks Flint pastor who interrupted him – campaign live |
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| Trump has wrapped his speech and he’s being interviewed now by an economic adviser. | |
| “I think many of us found your economic plan very bold and ambitious,” the conversation begins. | |
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| This speech is literally sickening economists: | |
| ...feeling very, very ill https://t.co/vm5metfH3s | |
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| Trump now ties sluggish American growth to China’s joining the world trade organization. No mention of the housing debt bubble and 2008 recession. It was all China entering new trade agreements. Well that sounds simple to fix. | Trump now ties sluggish American growth to China’s joining the world trade organization. No mention of the housing debt bubble and 2008 recession. It was all China entering new trade agreements. Well that sounds simple to fix. |
| “Our politicians were not watching. It is no great secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent’s campaign are the ones profiting from these” trade deals, Trump says” | “Our politicians were not watching. It is no great secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent’s campaign are the ones profiting from these” trade deals, Trump says” |
| The verdict is in, all of the special interests... have been proven wrong over such a long period of time. Every single deal they’ve promoted... has just crashed. They’ve been so absolutely wrong. Our manufacturing base has crumbled... and households are making less today than they were in the year 2000. | The verdict is in, all of the special interests... have been proven wrong over such a long period of time. Every single deal they’ve promoted... has just crashed. They’ve been so absolutely wrong. Our manufacturing base has crumbled... and households are making less today than they were in the year 2000. |
| That’s true, despite last year’s record growth in household income. | That’s true, despite last year’s record growth in household income. |
| I like China. They’re my tenant. They buy condos all the time. They’re just fine. But you know what? They’re a currency manipulator. | I like China. They’re my tenant. They buy condos all the time. They’re just fine. But you know what? They’re a currency manipulator. |
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| Trump now promises “bold, new tax reform”: | Trump now promises “bold, new tax reform”: |
| Don’t worry, they’re going down, not up. I think you were worried they’re going up. | Don’t worry, they’re going down, not up. I think you were worried they’re going up. |
| His latest plan – he’s switched a couple times – has three brackets: 12%, 25% and 33%. He says there will be “no income tax for low-income Americans” and his plan will “remove millions and millions of workers from the income tax rolls entirely.” | His latest plan – he’s switched a couple times – has three brackets: 12%, 25% and 33%. He says there will be “no income tax for low-income Americans” and his plan will “remove millions and millions of workers from the income tax rolls entirely.” |
| That should work nicely as long as the government does not require revenue. | That should work nicely as long as the government does not require revenue. |
| Here now is Trump as class warrior: | Here now is Trump as class warrior: |
| “We have strongly capped deductions for the wealthy.. the tax relief will be concentrated on the middle class... it’s not even close...they have built our country and we will not forget.” | “We have strongly capped deductions for the wealthy.. the tax relief will be concentrated on the middle class... it’s not even close...they have built our country and we will not forget.” |
| Reminder: Trump personally does not provide employees with family care programs he now proposes and he will not disclose tax records that could indicate whether he believes this stuff with his checkbook. | Reminder: Trump personally does not provide employees with family care programs he now proposes and he will not disclose tax records that could indicate whether he believes this stuff with his checkbook. |
| Trump: | Trump: |
| The tax relief will be expanded by my child care proposals that I have worked on with my daughter Ivanka. | The tax relief will be expanded by my child care proposals that I have worked on with my daughter Ivanka. |
| Trump predicts a windfall of trillions from taxing corporate inversions, with trillions in wealth “parked overseas”: | Trump predicts a windfall of trillions from taxing corporate inversions, with trillions in wealth “parked overseas”: |
| We’ll bring them back and it will taxed only at the rate of 10% instead of 35%... I think it’s going to be something that will be so phenomenal, far beyond what people even think.’ | We’ll bring them back and it will taxed only at the rate of 10% instead of 35%... I think it’s going to be something that will be so phenomenal, far beyond what people even think.’ |
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| Trump: 'I’m not running to be the president of the world' | Trump: 'I’m not running to be the president of the world' |
| “Too many of our leaders have forgotten that it’s their duty to protect the jobs.. and well-being from any consideration,” Trump says. | “Too many of our leaders have forgotten that it’s their duty to protect the jobs.. and well-being from any consideration,” Trump says. |
| I’m not running to be the president of the world. I’m running to be the president of the United States of America. And as your president, I will fight for every last American job and every American company. | I’m not running to be the president of the world. I’m running to be the president of the United States of America. And as your president, I will fight for every last American job and every American company. |
| Trump does a shtick where he knows he upset his “economists” by secretly disclosing that he personally thinks their growth targets are low: “Now they’re upset. They’ll be very upset. But I think we can do even better than that.” | Trump does a shtick where he knows he upset his “economists” by secretly disclosing that he personally thinks their growth targets are low: “Now they’re upset. They’ll be very upset. But I think we can do even better than that.” |
| That’s a move known as the Full QVC. | That’s a move known as the Full QVC. |
| “Just look at the math, it works,” Trump says. “It will be deficit neutral.” | “Just look at the math, it works,” Trump says. “It will be deficit neutral.” |
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| Trump asserts that Hillary Clinton’s detailed plan for infrastructure spending, education, job training, tuition debt relief and more would not create jobs, while his vague plan to make US infrastructure “golden” again – he just used the word “gold” to describe the bridges he would build – would pump up the economy: | Trump asserts that Hillary Clinton’s detailed plan for infrastructure spending, education, job training, tuition debt relief and more would not create jobs, while his vague plan to make US infrastructure “golden” again – he just used the word “gold” to describe the bridges he would build – would pump up the economy: |
| Not one single idea she’s got would create... one new dollar of American wealth for our workers. The only thing she can offer is a welfare check, that’s it. Our plan will produce paychecks... | Not one single idea she’s got would create... one new dollar of American wealth for our workers. The only thing she can offer is a welfare check, that’s it. Our plan will produce paychecks... |
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| Trump: 'disgraceful' that companies can manufacture overseas | Trump: 'disgraceful' that companies can manufacture overseas |
| Trump says, as he has before, that as president he would stop US companies from conducting manufacturing overseas. Have the companies heard about this? Do they take it seriously? | Trump says, as he has before, that as president he would stop US companies from conducting manufacturing overseas. Have the companies heard about this? Do they take it seriously? |
| Trump’s hook is Ford’s announcement that it was moving small car manufacturing overseas. | Trump’s hook is Ford’s announcement that it was moving small car manufacturing overseas. |
| “To think that Ford is moving its small car division is a disgrace... it’s disgraceful that politicians are allowing them to get away with it,” Trump says. | “To think that Ford is moving its small car division is a disgrace... it’s disgraceful that politicians are allowing them to get away with it,” Trump says. |
| Then there’s some snafu with his Teleprompter which he navigates and then congratulates himself for navigating: | Then there’s some snafu with his Teleprompter which he navigates and then congratulates himself for navigating: |
| Just look at the way I just melded into the Teleprompter. It just went off. Who else could have pulled that off? Who else? | Just look at the way I just melded into the Teleprompter. It just went off. Who else could have pulled that off? Who else? |
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| Trump touts his experience on the ground in Flint, Michigan: | Trump touts his experience on the ground in Flint, Michigan: |
| It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans, and look no further. All you have to do is look at Flint, where I spent a lot of time. The city of Flint. And what a disaster has taken place. | It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans, and look no further. All you have to do is look at Flint, where I spent a lot of time. The city of Flint. And what a disaster has taken place. |
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| Donald Trump is delivering a speech on economic policy. The Guardian’s Ed Pilkington is there. Here’s a live video stream: | Donald Trump is delivering a speech on economic policy. The Guardian’s Ed Pilkington is there. Here’s a live video stream: |
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| Trump Jr uses 'gas chamber' metaphor | Trump Jr uses 'gas chamber' metaphor |
| Trump’s elder son, who told a Pittsburgh paper that his father’s taxes are too long to release, is on something of an interview tear. | Trump’s elder son, who told a Pittsburgh paper that his father’s taxes are too long to release, is on something of an interview tear. |
| Donald Trump Jr told a Philadelphia-area talk radio station that if the Republican national party favored a candidate as the Democratic national committee was revealed to favor Clinton, “they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now”. | Donald Trump Jr told a Philadelphia-area talk radio station that if the Republican national party favored a candidate as the Democratic national committee was revealed to favor Clinton, “they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now”. |
| Trump Jr said, according to a local CBS report: | Trump Jr said, according to a local CBS report: |
| The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, [sic] on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now. | The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, [sic] on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now. |
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| Trump attacks Flint, Michigan, pastor who reined him in | Trump attacks Flint, Michigan, pastor who reined him in |
| Donald Trump has called a pastor who interrupted him in a Flint, Michigan, church Wednesday “a nervous mess”, saying “she had [it] in mind” to interrupt him before she spoke. | Donald Trump has called a pastor who interrupted him in a Flint, Michigan, church Wednesday “a nervous mess”, saying “she had [it] in mind” to interrupt him before she spoke. |
| Reverend Faith Green Timmons of Bethel United Methodist church interrupted Trump after he pivoted abruptly from a mention of “what’s happened with the water” to an attack on Clinton. | Reverend Faith Green Timmons of Bethel United Methodist church interrupted Trump after he pivoted abruptly from a mention of “what’s happened with the water” to an attack on Clinton. |
| “Mr. Trump,” Timmons said, “I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint. Not to give a political speech.” | “Mr. Trump,” Timmons said, “I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint. Not to give a political speech.” |
| “Oh oh oh OK,” Trump said. “OK. OK. That’s good. I’m going to go back into Flint.” | “Oh oh oh OK,” Trump said. “OK. OK. That’s good. I’m going to go back into Flint.” |
| the chastened grin at the end pic.twitter.com/bUYAgIGo9W | the chastened grin at the end pic.twitter.com/bUYAgIGo9W |
| On Thursday morning, Trump hit Timmons on national television. | On Thursday morning, Trump hit Timmons on national television. |
| “Something was up because I noticed she was so nervous when she introduced me,” Trump said on Fox News. “And she called NBC, ABC – When she got up to introduce me she was so nervous, she was shaking, and I said: ‘Wow, this is sort of strange.’ And then she came up. So she had that in mind, there’s no question about it. | “Something was up because I noticed she was so nervous when she introduced me,” Trump said on Fox News. “And she called NBC, ABC – When she got up to introduce me she was so nervous, she was shaking, and I said: ‘Wow, this is sort of strange.’ And then she came up. So she had that in mind, there’s no question about it. |
| “She was so nervous. She was like a nervous mess, and so I figured something was up.” | “She was so nervous. She was like a nervous mess, and so I figured something was up.” |
| Timmons invited Trump to speak at the church during a visit to the city that the candidate billed as a chance to spotlight the tap water crisis. “We welcome all people,” Timmons said in a statement beforehand, but “Trump’s presence at Bethel United Methodist in no way represents an endorsement of his candidacy.” | Timmons invited Trump to speak at the church during a visit to the city that the candidate billed as a chance to spotlight the tap water crisis. “We welcome all people,” Timmons said in a statement beforehand, but “Trump’s presence at Bethel United Methodist in no way represents an endorsement of his candidacy.” |
| Ryan Felton for the Guardian interviewed attendees afterward. “The estimated 50 people in the room on Wednesday didn’t appear to give Trump nearly as warm of a welcoming as he portrayed,” Ryan writes: | Ryan Felton for the Guardian interviewed attendees afterward. “The estimated 50 people in the room on Wednesday didn’t appear to give Trump nearly as warm of a welcoming as he portrayed,” Ryan writes: |
| Few applauded during his remarks, attendees told the Guardian afterward, and it was Timmons who actually requested members in the audience to refrain from heckling the Republican nominee. | Few applauded during his remarks, attendees told the Guardian afterward, and it was Timmons who actually requested members in the audience to refrain from heckling the Republican nominee. |
| Late Wednesday, the reverend suggested there wouldn’t have been an issue had Trump refrained from delivering a political speech. “Had he stuck to what his camp claimed he came to do, we would not have had a problem,” she wrote on Facebook. | Late Wednesday, the reverend suggested there wouldn’t have been an issue had Trump refrained from delivering a political speech. “Had he stuck to what his camp claimed he came to do, we would not have had a problem,” she wrote on Facebook. |
| This amazing photo of Trump and "Little Miss Flint" has gone viral on Flint Facebook. pic.twitter.com/0exFO0MCZw | This amazing photo of Trump and "Little Miss Flint" has gone viral on Flint Facebook. pic.twitter.com/0exFO0MCZw |
| Here’s a transcript of the episode: | Here’s a transcript of the episode: |
| Trump interrupted by pastor just now for politicizing speech while talking at a Flint church: pic.twitter.com/6sDDL31u8u | Trump interrupted by pastor just now for politicizing speech while talking at a Flint church: pic.twitter.com/6sDDL31u8u |
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| Vice sues IRS for Trump audits | Vice sues IRS for Trump audits |
| This news emerged yesterday, but we’re re-featuring it because, in light of Donald Trump Jr’s admission that his father is not releasing his tax returns for political reasons, the sense that Trump’s taxes are a hellscape of grotesque revelations about how Trump has lied to the public about his finances and bilked the government he now would run is... freshly piquant. | This news emerged yesterday, but we’re re-featuring it because, in light of Donald Trump Jr’s admission that his father is not releasing his tax returns for political reasons, the sense that Trump’s taxes are a hellscape of grotesque revelations about how Trump has lied to the public about his finances and bilked the government he now would run is... freshly piquant. |
| In a post appropriately headlined “We’re suing the IRS for audits of Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Vice News has announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in against the IRS for the audits of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward: | In a post appropriately headlined “We’re suing the IRS for audits of Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Vice News has announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in against the IRS for the audits of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward: |
| This week, VICE News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in US District Court in Washington, DC against the IRS demanding that the agency turn over all audits of Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward. In the suit, filed jointly with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at MIT and research affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, we asked the IRS for “any and all requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of... Trump’s individual tax returns” and “any and all records mentioning or referring to requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of individual tax returns.” | This week, VICE News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in US District Court in Washington, DC against the IRS demanding that the agency turn over all audits of Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward. In the suit, filed jointly with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at MIT and research affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, we asked the IRS for “any and all requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of... Trump’s individual tax returns” and “any and all records mentioning or referring to requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of individual tax returns.” |
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| Sanders and Warren to deploy in Ohio for Clinton | Sanders and Warren to deploy in Ohio for Clinton |
| Sens Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will campaign separately for Clinton in Ohio Saturday, the Clinton campaign has announced. Sanders will appear in three cities and Warren will appear in two. | Sens Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will campaign separately for Clinton in Ohio Saturday, the Clinton campaign has announced. Sanders will appear in three cities and Warren will appear in two. |
| NBC’s Mark Murray points out that both Sanders and Warren are popular with millennial voters, a group with whom Clinton has struggled to gain traction. | NBC’s Mark Murray points out that both Sanders and Warren are popular with millennial voters, a group with whom Clinton has struggled to gain traction. |
| Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are barnstorming Ohio this weekend for Clinton-Kaine. 5 events total. pic.twitter.com/KZC1F5Si1g | Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are barnstorming Ohio this weekend for Clinton-Kaine. 5 events total. pic.twitter.com/KZC1F5Si1g |
| Sanders turned 75 a week ago today, and Warren is 67. | Sanders turned 75 a week ago today, and Warren is 67. |
| Two seniors racing across Ohio in a desperate attempt to engage millennials. Can't make this election up. https://t.co/j0BKulA4lf | Two seniors racing across Ohio in a desperate attempt to engage millennials. Can't make this election up. https://t.co/j0BKulA4lf |
| Here’s some background on Ohio’s voting history and demographics: | Here’s some background on Ohio’s voting history and demographics: |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Hillary Clinton is to return to the campaign trail today with a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, after a three-day rest at home following her stumble last Sunday. Donald Trump will appear with running mate Mike Pence in New York City today and he has a later rally scheduled in New Hampshire. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Hillary Clinton is to return to the campaign trail today with a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, after a three-day rest at home following her stumble last Sunday. Donald Trump will appear with running mate Mike Pence in New York City today and he has a later rally scheduled in New Hampshire. |
| Trump Jr says father’s tax returns too long to release | Trump Jr says father’s tax returns too long to release |
| Donald Trump’s elder son has dispensed with his father’s thin fiction that Trump is not releasing his tax returns because of some sort of made-up ongoing IRS audit of eight years. Instead Trump’s not releasing his returns because they’re so huge, the son told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: | Donald Trump’s elder son has dispensed with his father’s thin fiction that Trump is not releasing his tax returns because of some sort of made-up ongoing IRS audit of eight years. Instead Trump’s not releasing his returns because they’re so huge, the son told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: |
| Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message. | Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message. |
| It’s quite an interview. Trump Jr also calls Politifact a lefty organization, says Colin Powell does not know his father, whom Powell called a “national disgrace”, and said as president his father would turn over control of the Trump Organization to his children and just let them run it without his knowing or hearing anything about it. | It’s quite an interview. Trump Jr also calls Politifact a lefty organization, says Colin Powell does not know his father, whom Powell called a “national disgrace”, and said as president his father would turn over control of the Trump Organization to his children and just let them run it without his knowing or hearing anything about it. |
| “My father is going to be a government official, and he’s going to separate himself” from the Trump Organization, Trump Jr. said. | “My father is going to be a government official, and he’s going to separate himself” from the Trump Organization, Trump Jr. said. |
| The new aristocrats are in DC. They steal, lie, and take from hardworking Americans. Clinton part of the ruling class. Trump for the people | The new aristocrats are in DC. They steal, lie, and take from hardworking Americans. Clinton part of the ruling class. Trump for the people |
| Says the third generation real estate mogul. https://t.co/eF3PJOp5XG | Says the third generation real estate mogul. https://t.co/eF3PJOp5XG |
| Ivanka Trump gets testy at questions about family leave | Ivanka Trump gets testy at questions about family leave |
| Cosmopolitan tried to interview Ivanka Trump about the fact that in 2004 her father called pregnancy an “inconvenience” for business. Trump expressed ignorance that her father had ever said such a thing, then attacked the interviewer for “editorializing”. Here’s part of the Q&A: | Cosmopolitan tried to interview Ivanka Trump about the fact that in 2004 her father called pregnancy an “inconvenience” for business. Trump expressed ignorance that her father had ever said such a thing, then attacked the interviewer for “editorializing”. Here’s part of the Q&A: |
| Cosmopolitan: OK, I just wanted to make sure I understood. In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It’s surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little bit about those comments, and perhaps what has changed? | Cosmopolitan: OK, I just wanted to make sure I understood. In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It’s surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little bit about those comments, and perhaps what has changed? |
| Ivanka Trump: So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues. So I don’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you’re going to make a comment like that. | Ivanka Trump: So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues. So I don’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you’re going to make a comment like that. |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
| Trump hits Powell | Trump hits Powell |
| After retired four-star general and former defense secretary Colin Powell called him a “national disgrace”, Trump said he didn’t think that much of Powell either: | After retired four-star general and former defense secretary Colin Powell called him a “national disgrace”, Trump said he didn’t think that much of Powell either: |
| I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better! | I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better! |
| Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. |
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