10-11-2016, 06:30 PM
28 days til election 2016 and lots going down...
Trump campaign update
-Trump's pretty much back to being at war with the GOP leadership as much or more than he is with Clinton. He's choosing to focus the tail end of his campaign on reality-show, tabloid-rag, "Ima jail Hillary!!" type drama. Maybe it'll get him somewhere; I don't know. But, he's way down in the polls as of now.
-Speaker Paul Ryan is focusing only on trying to keep Republican control of the House of Reps at this point. He won't be focusing on efforts to elevate Trump (he hasn't revoked his endorsement though). There is now real concern that what Trump is doing will not only hurt Republican senators' chances of being re-elected, but also put the House's Republican majority at risk.
A Democratic President, a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House of Reps, and Democratic nominees for the Supreme Court could shape the social future of this country for several decades. But, Trump has been calling Ryan disloyal and lashing out at him on Twitter.
-I thought Trump was joking in the last debate when he said Clinton would be in jail if he were president, because U.S. presidents obviously aren't dictators, don't shore up prosecutors, and aren't judges in our democratic system of balance of powers. But, apparently he was serious because he's now promising prosecution and jailing of Clinton to his supporters at his rallies. Some Republican leaders and supporters of Trump are trying to get him to stop making the threat because this is not "a Banana Republic".
- Trump got a hold of a damning Clinton email, supposedly from a close Hillary adviser, and read it at a rally yesterday. Only it turned out to be a hoax email which had been published in the Russian media. So, now there's less attention on unflattering content in the real hacked emails from Hillary's campaign manager and renewed attention on Trump's invitation for Russia to hack Clinton's emails, a former Trump campaign manager's ties with Russia, Trump's repeated praising of Putin, and the U.S. Intelligence's strong suspicion that Russia is behind hacking of emails associated with the DNC and Clinton's campaign.
-Chris Christie spoke out today for the first time since last week. He said he just can't defend Trump's comments in the leaked hot mic tape as a husband and father. He said that he knew Trump was sorry and embarrassed because he was with Trump when the leak came to light. Christie confirmed that he strongly advised Trump to seriously apologize and not try to minimize the nature of what he said or to deflect to Bill Clinton. Trump disregarded Christie's advice.
As a former prosecutor, it's my opinion that Christie knows, and can't pretend not to know, the difference between locker room talk and admitting to predatory sexual misconduct. I believe Christie is fully aware that whether Trump was telling the truth or lying about getting away with such misconduct, it could be used against Trump legally as well as permanently putting off a lot of voters.
Christie said he thinks it's reasonable if the tape's content and how Trump chose to handle the situation causes people not to vote for him. Christie did confirm, though, that he's still supporting and endorsing Trump for now. When asked if he thinks there's more such conduct/words to come out against Trump, Christie said, "only Donald knows". Ref: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/...ogy-nr.cnn
Trump campaign update
-Trump's pretty much back to being at war with the GOP leadership as much or more than he is with Clinton. He's choosing to focus the tail end of his campaign on reality-show, tabloid-rag, "Ima jail Hillary!!" type drama. Maybe it'll get him somewhere; I don't know. But, he's way down in the polls as of now.
-Speaker Paul Ryan is focusing only on trying to keep Republican control of the House of Reps at this point. He won't be focusing on efforts to elevate Trump (he hasn't revoked his endorsement though). There is now real concern that what Trump is doing will not only hurt Republican senators' chances of being re-elected, but also put the House's Republican majority at risk.
A Democratic President, a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House of Reps, and Democratic nominees for the Supreme Court could shape the social future of this country for several decades. But, Trump has been calling Ryan disloyal and lashing out at him on Twitter.
-I thought Trump was joking in the last debate when he said Clinton would be in jail if he were president, because U.S. presidents obviously aren't dictators, don't shore up prosecutors, and aren't judges in our democratic system of balance of powers. But, apparently he was serious because he's now promising prosecution and jailing of Clinton to his supporters at his rallies. Some Republican leaders and supporters of Trump are trying to get him to stop making the threat because this is not "a Banana Republic".
- Trump got a hold of a damning Clinton email, supposedly from a close Hillary adviser, and read it at a rally yesterday. Only it turned out to be a hoax email which had been published in the Russian media. So, now there's less attention on unflattering content in the real hacked emails from Hillary's campaign manager and renewed attention on Trump's invitation for Russia to hack Clinton's emails, a former Trump campaign manager's ties with Russia, Trump's repeated praising of Putin, and the U.S. Intelligence's strong suspicion that Russia is behind hacking of emails associated with the DNC and Clinton's campaign.
-Chris Christie spoke out today for the first time since last week. He said he just can't defend Trump's comments in the leaked hot mic tape as a husband and father. He said that he knew Trump was sorry and embarrassed because he was with Trump when the leak came to light. Christie confirmed that he strongly advised Trump to seriously apologize and not try to minimize the nature of what he said or to deflect to Bill Clinton. Trump disregarded Christie's advice.
As a former prosecutor, it's my opinion that Christie knows, and can't pretend not to know, the difference between locker room talk and admitting to predatory sexual misconduct. I believe Christie is fully aware that whether Trump was telling the truth or lying about getting away with such misconduct, it could be used against Trump legally as well as permanently putting off a lot of voters.
Christie said he thinks it's reasonable if the tape's content and how Trump chose to handle the situation causes people not to vote for him. Christie did confirm, though, that he's still supporting and endorsing Trump for now. When asked if he thinks there's more such conduct/words to come out against Trump, Christie said, "only Donald knows". Ref: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/...ogy-nr.cnn