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August 25, 2016

Trump camp statement: (on Hillary Reno Speech)...




Zeke Miller Verified account
?@ZekeJMiller

Trump camp statement: "Donald Trump is talking about issues; Hillary Clinton is talking about Donald Trump."





Some responses to Trumps comments.





@ZekeJMiller The issue for decent people is Trumps vile MOUTH! Now you know.
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Joshua Zive ?@jczive 40m40 minutes ago

@ZekeJMiller An odd critique from a campaign whose candidate spent the first 45 minutes of his speech today talking about HRC.
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Gary Armstrong ?@vanityman 40m40 minutes ago Palm Springs, CA

@ZekeJMiller i guess trump has blocked @KellyannePolls from his twitter feed
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Ruth ?@Cousycousy 41m41 minutes ago

@ZekeJMiller Trump is a major issue.
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Brian ?@aerospace5 43m43 minutes ago

@ZekeJMiller Well he's talking about talking about issues - in a couple weeks...
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Darren L ?@darren04 40m40 minutes ago New Jersey, USA

@ZekeJMiller What?? 95% of his speech today was blasting Clinton with all kinds of insane hyperbolic accusations. God help us.

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John Moen ?@TheCCaptain 37m37 minutes ago

@darren04 @ZekeJMiller @KellyannePolls is just as grubby and disgusting as the rest, so it's no wonder she doesn't see it for what it is.
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August 25, 2016

Morrisey fires aide who appeared in white supremacist video

Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail





Morrisey fires aide who appeared in white supremacist video


David Gutman , Staff Writer Eric Eyre

August 25, 2016



West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey fired a spokeswoman Thursday, after it was revealed that she took part in a video called “The Stop White Genocide Video” that recites slogans of white supremacists.

Carrie Bowe, who was Morrisey’s assistant communications director, appears throughout the video, speaking about white genocide, a white nationalist conspiracy theory that alleges immigration and integration will cause whites to become extinct.

The YouTube video, first uploaded in December 2012 by someone with the screen name of “Johnny Mantraseed,” boasts that it was banned in 18 countries and was once removed from YouTube. It was re-posted to YouTube in 2013 and has been viewed more than 260,000 times.

Throughout the video, Bowe, who started working for Morrisey in January 2015, repeatedly states, “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white,” a phrase coined by well-known white supremacist Bob Whitaker, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina.................


Read more: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160825/morrisey-fires-aide-who-appeared-in-video-with-white-supremacist-slogans#sthash.Fc4ufFOt.dpuf




Good to see that she is no longer in the public office.




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Carrie Bowe, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, appears in a YouTube video reciting slogans of white supremacist groups.
August 25, 2016

Clinton speech excerpts. Not sure any speech like this has been delivered in prez campaign in many d

I think he is right. I am listening.


Hillary HQ Retweeted
Greg Sargent ?@ThePlumLineGS 7m7 minutes ago

I've read the full Clinton speech excerpts. Not sure any speech like this has been delivered in prez campaign in many decades or ever


Some tweets:

Christina Reynolds Retweeted
Stephanie ?@FormasForever 4m4 minutes ago

"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia." -@HillaryClinton


Mark Murray ?@mmurraypolitics 3m3 minutes ago

Clinton: "To this day, Trump has never apologized to Judge Curiel."
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Mark Murray Retweeted
Bradd Jaffy ?@BraddJaffy 4m4 minutes ago

Clinton: "Oh, and by the way, Mexico’s not paying for his wall either."
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Mark Murray ?@mmurraypolitics 4m4 minutes ago

Clinton on Trump: "He promoted the racist lie that President Obama isn’t really an American citizen"
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Mark Murray ?@mmurraypolitics 7m7 minutes ago

Clinton on Trump's recent pitch to minority voters: "'What do you have to lose?' she quotes him.

"The answer is everything!"
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August 25, 2016

Fact Checker: Here’s how Trump got the AP story on Clinton Foundation donors all wrong

Keep for Reference............

Here’s how Trump got the AP story on Clinton Foundation donors all wrong
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/25/heres-how-trump-got-the-ap-story-on-clinton-foundation-donors-all-wrong/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_factchecker-ap-1015a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee


August 25 at 10:00 AM


“Hillary Clinton ran the State Department like a failed leader in a third-world country. … Now, it looks like it’s 50 percent of the people that saw her had to make contributions to the Clinton Foundation.”

— Donald Trump, rally in Tampa, Aug. 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s critics jumped on an Aug. 23 Associated Press analysis of her meetings with Clinton Foundation donors while secretary of state. Trump, as did many others, relayed the findings of the AP analysis using misleading language that appeared in a promotional tweet that was retweeted or liked more than 10,000 times.

We are not going to award Pinocchios to this specific claim. Instead, we will set the record straight and recap what was reported in the initial story, the Clinton campaign’s criticism of the coverage and the AP’s defense.
The Facts

On Aug. 23, the AP Twitter account carried this language as a breaking news alert promoting the article.

But there was much more to the actual story, and that becomes clear once you get past the headline. The AP analyzed State Department records and looked specifically at Clinton’s meetings on the phone or in person with 154 people who were not federal employees or foreign government representatives. This narrowed down the denominator to a small subcategory of people Clinton met with as secretary of state, since the majority of her diplomatic work would involve representatives of foreign governments.

The AP found that.........................

August 25, 2016

Vandals Detonate Explosive Device in Vending Box of Massachusetts LGBT Newspaper: VIDEO

Source: Towleroad.com




Vandals Detonate Explosive Device in Vending Box of Massachusetts LGBT Newspaper: VIDEO


by Michael Fitzgerald
August 25, 2016 | 9:00am



Police in Salem, Massachusetts are searching for a group of about seven people who placed an explosive device in a news box for the Rainbow Times, an LGBT friendly news outlet.

The explosion early on Tuesday morning was heard about a mile away.

salem

Speaking to ABC, Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll, who appeared on the cover of the latest issue of Rainbow Times, said:

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“We are a community that supports each other as neighbors and, even in the face of violence and hatred, today should be no different. Fear and hate may cloud the hearts of those committing this act, but it will never, ever characterize this community. Salem is the City of Peace.”
RELATED: Predominantly LGBT Megachurch in Dallas Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat

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The explosion is being treated as a hate crime. Anyone with information is asked to call Salem police Detective Kevin St. Pierre at 978-744-0171 extension 197.

Watch a report below.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2016/08/rainbow-times/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sumome_share




The blast was huge!! I hold the Trump camp directly responsible.



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August 25, 2016

Stock traders have been watching out for Janet Yellen all week, but they were blindsided by Hillary

Source: cnbc.com




Markets watching out for Janet Yellen on Thursday, and now also Hillary Clinton
Patti Domm | @pattidomm
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Stock traders have been watching out for Janet Yellen all week, but they were blindsided by Hillary Clinton.

Fed watching should continue Thursday, as traders digest durable goods and jobless claims data ahead of Friday's Jackson Hole speech by the Fed chair. But they will also be licking their wounds after Democrat Clinton punctured the health-care sector with one powerful tweet Wednesday afternoon. The IBB Nasdaq Biotech ETF fell 3.4 percent, after Clinton tweeted and issued a statement saying that there's no justification for the high prices Mylan is charging for EpiPens.

Mylan has been under fire for the dramatic price hikes in EpiPens, livesaving devices for people with severe allergies. Prices have gone from $100 in 2008 to more than $600 for some customers.
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"Hillary took the air out of that sector and that hit other momentum names," said Scott Redler, chief strategist at T3Live.com. It's not the first time. Last year, on Sept. 21, Clinton tweeted about price gouging, after revelations about astronomical price hikes by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals. That sent the popular IBB biotech ETF down about 20 percent in just a few weeks last fall, and the IBB bottomed with a near 33 percent decline by February...............

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Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/24/markets-watching-out-for-janet-yellen-on-thursday-and-now-also-hillary-clinton.html

August 25, 2016

WikiLeaks Plays Doctor, Gives Hillary Clinton Fake Disease

Source: dailybeast



WikiLeaks Plays Doctor, Gives Hillary Clinton Fake Disease
With conspiracists and Trump surrogates pushing the ‘Clinton is dying’ story, WikiLeaks decided to wade in with an old email citing ‘decision fatigue’ as evidence of illness.



Ben Collins


08.25.16 12:00 AM ET

On Sunday, after combing through Hillary Clinton’s publicly released emails for any signs of illness, WikiLeaks stumbled upon what appeared to be a hidden diagnosis. Clinton was even looking into taking pills to fix it.

“Clinton & ‘decision fatigue.’ 2 months later looked into wakeup pills,” WikiLeaks tweeted. The Twitter account then pointed to two of Clinton’s emails, which have been searchable on WikiLeaks’s website since March.

The organization doubled down on its “discovery” on Monday morning. “Clinton looked at drug after suffering from ‘decision fatigue,’” it tweeted.

In the email, sure enough, Clinton responds to a New York Times article about the sometimes paralyzing “decision fatigue.”

“Wow that is spooky descriptive,” .............................

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/25/wikileaks-plays-doctor-gives-hillary-clinton-fake-disease.html





August 25, 2016

Indiana Governor Mike Pence stayed on campaign trail after learning of tornado disaster in his sta

Hypocrite!!



Indiana Governor Mike Pence stayed on campaign trail after learning of tornado disaster in his state
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/indiana-governor-mike-pence-tornado-disaster/25841/



By Daily News Bin | August 24, 2016 | 0
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Indiana Governor Mike Pence has understandably spent a good deal of time away from his own state since he became Donald Trump’s running mate and hit the national campaign trail. So when northern Indiana was hit by severe tornado damage on Wednesday afternoon, it wasn’t a surprise that Pence was in North Carolina at the time. What’s shocking is after he learned his home state was in tatters and in need of immediate disaster management, he went ahead and held a rally in North Carolina anyway.

One might have expected Mike Pence, if not in the name of doing the right thing then at least in the name of optics, to drop what he was doing on the campaign trail and head straight back to Indiana. Instead he not only went through with the North Carolina rally, he then did a promotional interview with Fox News. Only then did he head home.

This bizarre puff piece from the usually more reliable Politico tries to find a way to praise Pence for not staying on the campaign trail for yet another day in Ohio before heading home. But the reality is that he delayed his return to Indiana so he could keep campaigning in North Carolina.

Strangely, this comes shortly after Donald Trump and Mike Pence attempted to use the flooding disaster in Louisiana to their advantage by cruising into the state for an absurd photo op which essentially consisted of Trump handing a case of Play-Doh to Pence before throwing in the towel. Trump tried to spin that as a victory, even as he inaccurately accused President Obama of ignoring the situation..
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August 25, 2016

BREAKING: U.S. Senators Move To Investigate Mylan Pharmaceuticals Over EpiPen Price Gouging

Source: bipartisanreport.com




BREAKING: U.S. Senators Move To Investigate Mylan Pharmaceuticals Over EpiPen Price Gouging


By Tyler -



August 24, 2016


People were rightfully outraged when Mylan Pharmaceuticals raised the price of EpiPens by more than 400 percent. The public outcry has caused Senate democrats to take action.
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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter demanding that Mylan lower the price of EpiPens. In addition the burden such price gouging places on families, both letters noted that it placed a burden on first responders and medical personnel. Blumenthal’s letter noted that many first responders are resorting to directly injecting epinephrine via syringes despite the fact that EpiPens are safer...............................




....................However, one senator has moved beyond strongly worded letters. Amy Klobuchar is asking the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Mylan’s price gouging.

‘Not only should the Judiciary Committee hold a hearing, the Federal Trade Commission should investigate these price increases immediately. The Commission should also report to Congress on why these outrageous price increases have become common and propose solutions that will better protect consumers within 90 days.’........................
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Read more: http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/24/breaking-u-s-senators-move-to-investigate-mylan-pharmaceuticals-over-epipen-price-gouging/






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