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Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Once Faced Domestic Violence Charges, Says He Lives in Empty House
Donald Trump’s new campaign chairman Stephen K. Bannon was an... interesting hire. At a time when the campaign claims to be “pivoting” towards a kinder, gentler campaign style and trying to woo black and Latino voters, hiring the guy who ran Breitbart News was a bold choice. Now, some other unexpected wrinkles are coming up this week as reporters vet Bannon, including a set of domestic violence charges in 1996 (eventually dismissed), and the fact that he claims to live in an empty house in Florida, slated for demolition.
Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was accused in 1996 of attacking his then-wife on New Years Day, the New York Post reported. The New York Times found police records indicating that Mary Louise Piccard called 911 from a home in Santa Monica she shared with Bannon and their infant twin daughters:
Police arrived to find Ms. Piccard visibly upset, with red marks on her neck and wrist, the report said. She told police that Mr. Bannon had spent the previous night sleeping on the sofa. The next morning, she said, the noise she made feeding their daughters and his refusal to provide a credit card for grocery shopping started a fight that spilled onto the driveway.
When Mr. Bannon attempted to leave in his car, Ms. Piccard spat at him. That’s when Mr. Bannon became aggressive, she told police. He grabbed her wrist and then her neck, she said.
The case was dismissed because Piccard didn’t show up for court. She claimed in divorce proceedings against Bannon that he had pressured her not to testify. From the NYT:
In court records, Ms. Piccard later claimed that Mr. Bannon instructed her to leave town to avoid testifying.
Mr. Bannon, she said, told her that “if I went to court he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty.”
Mr. Bannon’s lawyer, she said, “threatened me,” telling her that if Mr. Bannon went to jail, she “would have no money and no way to support the children.”
Ms. Piccard said that she complied, fleeing with the two children she shares with Mr. Bannon until his “attorney phoned me and told me I could come back.”
According to the Post, Bannon married Piccard three days before their daughters were born; she also claimed in court documents that he told her he would only marry her if the girls were “normal:”
“Bannon made it clear that he would not marry me just because I was pregnant. I was scheduled for an amniocentesis and was told by the respondent that if the babies were normal we would get married,” Piccard claimed in a document.
“After the test showed that the babies were normal the respondent sent over a prenuptial agreement for me to review.”
A representative for Bannon told the Post in a statement that he has a “great relationship” with his ex and daughters.
Meanwhile, here in the present, the Guardian reports that Bannon is currently registered to vote at an empty home in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a swing state. The property is empty, the owner told the paper, and slated for demolition. The Guardian reports that it’s one of two houses in Florida that he’s rented for his second ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, from whom he’s been divorced for seven years.
Bannon doesn’t appear to have ever lived at either house. He co-owns a condo in Los Angeles and, until he joined the Trump Train, hosted Breitbart News Daily, a radio show, seven mornings a week, live from either Washington D.C. or New York. A Bloomberg profile from 2015 noted that Bannon lived in the so-called “Breitbart Embassy,” a mansion in D.C. that operated as the offices of Breitbart News.
A New York Times profile described Bannon as a man who “loves the fight,” favoring a brash management style that one former employee described as “profanity-laced tirades.” Now is a good time to mention that I attended a party at the Breitbart Embassy with former Jezebel managing editor Erin Gloria Ryan during last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, when Bannon was still heading Breitbart. He was a very polite host: he chortled when I told him I’d written a negative review of The Undefeated, a truly terrible film he made about Sarah Palin. I briefly attended Bannon’s Breitbart party again this year, which was held at a hotel suite. Both events were among the weirdest nights of my life, and that is saying something.
In a speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton excoriated Donald Trump for aligning himself with the alt-right, using Bannon’s hiring as her prime example.
“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the ‘Alt-Right,’” she said. “A fringe element has taken over the Republican Party.”
Update, 11:45 a.m.:
Politico reporter Marc Caputo says Bannon never actually voted in Florida.
Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Once Faced Domestic Violence Charges, Says He Lives in Empty House
Donald Trump’s new campaign chairman Stephen K. Bannon was an... interesting hire. At a time when the campaign claims to be “pivoting” towards a kinder, gentler campaign style and trying to woo black and Latino voters, hiring the guy who ran Breitbart News was a bold choice. Now, some other unexpected wrinkles are coming up this week as reporters vet Bannon, including a set of domestic violence charges in 1996 (eventually dismissed), and the fact that he claims to live in an empty house in Florida, slated for demolition.
Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was accused in 1996 of attacking his then-wife on New Years Day, the New York Post reported. The New York Times found police records indicating that Mary Louise Piccard called 911 from a home in Santa Monica she shared with Bannon and their infant twin daughters:
Police arrived to find Ms. Piccard visibly upset, with red marks on her neck and wrist, the report said. She told police that Mr. Bannon had spent the previous night sleeping on the sofa. The next morning, she said, the noise she made feeding their daughters and his refusal to provide a credit card for grocery shopping started a fight that spilled onto the driveway.
When Mr. Bannon attempted to leave in his car, Ms. Piccard spat at him. That’s when Mr. Bannon became aggressive, she told police. He grabbed her wrist and then her neck, she said.
The case was dismissed because Piccard didn’t show up for court. She claimed in divorce proceedings against Bannon that he had pressured her not to testify. From the NYT:
In court records, Ms. Piccard later claimed that Mr. Bannon instructed her to leave town to avoid testifying.
Mr. Bannon, she said, told her that “if I went to court he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty.”
Mr. Bannon’s lawyer, she said, “threatened me,” telling her that if Mr. Bannon went to jail, she “would have no money and no way to support the children.”
Ms. Piccard said that she complied, fleeing with the two children she shares with Mr. Bannon until his “attorney phoned me and told me I could come back.”
According to the Post, Bannon married Piccard three days before their daughters were born; she also claimed in court documents that he told her he would only marry her if the girls were “normal:”
“Bannon made it clear that he would not marry me just because I was pregnant. I was scheduled for an amniocentesis and was told by the respondent that if the babies were normal we would get married,” Piccard claimed in a document.
“After the test showed that the babies were normal the respondent sent over a prenuptial agreement for me to review.”
A representative for Bannon told the Post in a statement that he has a “great relationship” with his ex and daughters.
Meanwhile, here in the present, the Guardian reports that Bannon is currently registered to vote at an empty home in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a swing state. The property is empty, the owner told the paper, and slated for demolition. The Guardian reports that it’s one of two houses in Florida that he’s rented for his second ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, from whom he’s been divorced for seven years.
Bannon doesn’t appear to have ever lived at either house. He co-owns a condo in Los Angeles and, until he joined the Trump Train, hosted Breitbart News Daily, a radio show, seven mornings a week, live from either Washington D.C. or New York. A Bloomberg profile from 2015 noted that Bannon lived in the so-called “Breitbart Embassy,” a mansion in D.C. that operated as the offices of Breitbart News.
A New York Times profile described Bannon as a man who “loves the fight,” favoring a brash management style that one former employee described as “profanity-laced tirades.” Now is a good time to mention that I attended a party at the Breitbart Embassy with former Jezebel managing editor Erin Gloria Ryan during last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, when Bannon was still heading Breitbart. He was a very polite host: he chortled when I told him I’d written a negative review of The Undefeated, a truly terrible film he made about Sarah Palin. I briefly attended Bannon’s Breitbart party again this year, which was held at a hotel suite. Both events were among the weirdest nights of my life, and that is saying something.
In a speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton excoriated Donald Trump for aligning himself with the alt-right, using Bannon’s hiring as her prime example.
“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the ‘Alt-Right,’” she said. “A fringe element has taken over the Republican Party.”
Update, 11:45 a.m.:
Politico reporter Marc Caputo says Bannon never actually voted in Florida.
Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Once Faced Domestic Violence Charges, Says He Lives in Empty House
I like weird,then this is real weird,actually ridiculous beyond funny
Sounds like a whole bunch of dysfunction to me,
I laugh out loud as I reminisce about the night around the fire where many laughs were had about Donald Trumps choice of people he has chosen to endorse him.
What fun and laughter we had with the names and of course to indulge in further laughter,offerings of names were added to the list,oh what laughter
Danny will be next
Are you surprised this is Donald Trumps next choice,considering his past choices?
Isn't Donald hilarious?and Hilary so relevant?
Sounds like a whole bunch of dysfunction to me,
I laugh out loud as I reminisce about the night around the fire where many laughs were had about Donald Trumps choice of people he has chosen to endorse him.
What fun and laughter we had with the names and of course to indulge in further laughter,offerings of names were added to the list,oh what laughter
Danny will be next
Are you surprised this is Donald Trumps next choice,considering his past choices?
Isn't Donald hilarious?and Hilary so relevant?
According to Joe Wayne at The AntiCoIntelPro Show this is very much the case in her latest attack ad (above), which reportedly uses no actual Klan members, but rather, paid actors masquerading as Trump supporting racists..
Report: All Of The "KKK Members" In Hillary Clinton's New Trump Attack Ad Are PAID ACTORS
KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/video-kkk-grand-dragon-endorses-hillary-clinton/
Not long till we will all be posting hillary links on the darwination thread
lol well, It least trump isn't another song bird McCain
Report: All Of The "KKK Members" In Hillary Clinton's New Trump Attack Ad Are PAID ACTORS
KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/video-kkk-grand-dragon-endorses-hillary-clinton/
Not long till we will all be posting hillary links on the darwination thread
lol well, It least trump isn't another song bird McCain
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Amazing she would do this when her opposition runs such a clean and ethical campaign.
please refute with links or something
yours appear to be missing
mine have pictures in 'em
just for you
What valid reason was there for anyone to fight in that war?
Your link goes to a generic youtube group. How about posting the link of the youtube video you are talking about.
What regiment was Clinton (either one) in?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/o...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
Trump - Bigot
According to recent polls, the image of Donald Trump as a bigot has begun to crystallize, and for good reason: Because it’s true!
A Quinnipiac poll released last week found that 59 percent of likely voters, and 29 percent of likely Republican voters in particular, think that the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry. Republicans were the only anomaly. A majority or plurality of every other demographic measured — Democrats, independents, men, women, white people with and without college degrees, every age group, whites and nonwhites alike — agreed that Trump’s words appeal to bigotry.
But there is one demographic that must be particularly concerning to Trump: college-educated whites.
I know that Trump has boasted that he loves the poorly educated, but there appears to be little love lost between him and those white people with degrees. In fact, as the blog FiveThirtyEight predicted in July, “Trump may become the first Republican in 60 years to lose white college graduates.”
This may in part be due to his particularly abysmal performance among college-educated white women.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll this month found: “Trump enjoys a roughly 40-point lead among white men without college degrees but only a high single-digit lead among college-educated white men. Among white women without college degrees, he leads by low double-digits but trails by nearly 20 points among college-educated white women.”
Not only are these college-educated white women likely to recoil from a man they view as biased toward others, they also probably realize their own place as a historically disadvantaged group and know how very harmful bias can be.
This is surely earth-shattering news for a struggling campaign, so Trump, in a fit of desperation, is throwing anything and everything against the wall to see if it sticks, to shake the bigotry label off of him and make it stick to Hillary Clinton.
He has engaged in fake outreach to African-American voters, feeding his nearly all-white crowds a healthy diet of the most pernicious stereotypes about the horror and unremitting bleakness of black life. He has waffled and grown more ambiguous on his hard line concerning immigrants who are in the country illegally.
His repeated refrain, supposedly to the black and Hispanic voters, is: “What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance.” But in fact, he’s talking past blacks and Hispanics, two groups he has previously shown little interest in. He is instead speaking directly to the educated white voters who recoil at the thought of supporting a bigot. Blacks and Hispanics are mere pawns in this appeal.
Furthermore, he wants to move the withering light of examination away from himself, his history, his disturbing coziness with white nationalists, and focus that light on the history of racial and ethnic alliances in the opposite political party.
This is all a rather clever distraction, but it is a distraction nonetheless.
The fact remains that there is a disturbing racial undertone to the Trump campaign that goes far beyond the tired narrative of economic anxiety and distress among white people in the flyover states who feel ignored by conventional politicians.
That may be one component, but so is this: One of the most effective narratives of Trump’s campaign has been driven by racial isolationism, and racial isolationists appear to be the very ones drawn to that message. This is not partisan theory, but empirical fact.
The draft of a major working paper published this month by the Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell found: “His supporters are less educated and more likely to work in blue-collar occupations, but they earn relative high household incomes, and living in areas more exposed to trade or immigration does not increase Trump support. There is stronger evidence that racial isolation and less strictly economic measures of social status, namely health and intergenerational mobility, are robustly predictive of more favorable views toward Trump, and these factors predict support for him but not other Republican presidential candidates.”
Specifically on this racial isolation point, Rothwell put it this way: “This analysis provides clear evidence that those who view Trump favorably are disproportionately living in racially and culturally isolated ZIP codes and commuting zones. Excluding other factors, constant support for Trump is highly elevated in areas with few college graduates, far from the Mexican border, and in neighborhoods that stand out within the commuting zone for being white, segregated enclaves, with little exposure to blacks, Asians, and Hispanics.”
He continued: “This is consistent with contact theory, which has already received considerable empirical support in the literature in a variety of analogous contexts. Limited interactions with racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and college graduates may contribute to prejudicial stereotypes, political and cultural misunderstandings, and a general fear of rejection and not-belonging.”
Racial isolation is the common thread here. It is what would allow his supporters to so uncritically accept the corrosive mythologies he creates about minorities. But it is this same racial isolation that will make minorities and college-educated white voters avoid Trump like the plague.
But eagle still thinks he is going to get the majority of Latino voters. LOL.
Trump - Bigot
According to recent polls, the image of Donald Trump as a bigot has begun to crystallize, and for good reason: Because it’s true!
A Quinnipiac poll released last week found that 59 percent of likely voters, and 29 percent of likely Republican voters in particular, think that the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry. Republicans were the only anomaly. A majority or plurality of every other demographic measured — Democrats, independents, men, women, white people with and without college degrees, every age group, whites and nonwhites alike — agreed that Trump’s words appeal to bigotry.
But there is one demographic that must be particularly concerning to Trump: college-educated whites.
I know that Trump has boasted that he loves the poorly educated, but there appears to be little love lost between him and those white people with degrees. In fact, as the blog FiveThirtyEight predicted in July, “Trump may become the first Republican in 60 years to lose white college graduates.”
This may in part be due to his particularly abysmal performance among college-educated white women.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll this month found: “Trump enjoys a roughly 40-point lead among white men without college degrees but only a high single-digit lead among college-educated white men. Among white women without college degrees, he leads by low double-digits but trails by nearly 20 points among college-educated white women.”
Not only are these college-educated white women likely to recoil from a man they view as biased toward others, they also probably realize their own place as a historically disadvantaged group and know how very harmful bias can be.
This is surely earth-shattering news for a struggling campaign, so Trump, in a fit of desperation, is throwing anything and everything against the wall to see if it sticks, to shake the bigotry label off of him and make it stick to Hillary Clinton.
He has engaged in fake outreach to African-American voters, feeding his nearly all-white crowds a healthy diet of the most pernicious stereotypes about the horror and unremitting bleakness of black life. He has waffled and grown more ambiguous on his hard line concerning immigrants who are in the country illegally.
His repeated refrain, supposedly to the black and Hispanic voters, is: “What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance.” But in fact, he’s talking past blacks and Hispanics, two groups he has previously shown little interest in. He is instead speaking directly to the educated white voters who recoil at the thought of supporting a bigot. Blacks and Hispanics are mere pawns in this appeal.
Furthermore, he wants to move the withering light of examination away from himself, his history, his disturbing coziness with white nationalists, and focus that light on the history of racial and ethnic alliances in the opposite political party.
This is all a rather clever distraction, but it is a distraction nonetheless.
The fact remains that there is a disturbing racial undertone to the Trump campaign that goes far beyond the tired narrative of economic anxiety and distress among white people in the flyover states who feel ignored by conventional politicians.
That may be one component, but so is this: One of the most effective narratives of Trump’s campaign has been driven by racial isolationism, and racial isolationists appear to be the very ones drawn to that message. This is not partisan theory, but empirical fact.
The draft of a major working paper published this month by the Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell found: “His supporters are less educated and more likely to work in blue-collar occupations, but they earn relative high household incomes, and living in areas more exposed to trade or immigration does not increase Trump support. There is stronger evidence that racial isolation and less strictly economic measures of social status, namely health and intergenerational mobility, are robustly predictive of more favorable views toward Trump, and these factors predict support for him but not other Republican presidential candidates.”
Specifically on this racial isolation point, Rothwell put it this way: “This analysis provides clear evidence that those who view Trump favorably are disproportionately living in racially and culturally isolated ZIP codes and commuting zones. Excluding other factors, constant support for Trump is highly elevated in areas with few college graduates, far from the Mexican border, and in neighborhoods that stand out within the commuting zone for being white, segregated enclaves, with little exposure to blacks, Asians, and Hispanics.”
He continued: “This is consistent with contact theory, which has already received considerable empirical support in the literature in a variety of analogous contexts. Limited interactions with racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and college graduates may contribute to prejudicial stereotypes, political and cultural misunderstandings, and a general fear of rejection and not-belonging.”
Racial isolation is the common thread here. It is what would allow his supporters to so uncritically accept the corrosive mythologies he creates about minorities. But it is this same racial isolation that will make minorities and college-educated white voters avoid Trump like the plague.
But eagle still thinks he is going to get the majority of Latino voters. LOL.
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ironically, Chump still says,
Funny!
Greatest hits from Donald Trump’s clueless army of flunkies: Kellyanne Conway, Katrina Pierson, ‘Says who?’ lawyer Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani and more
It’s hard to out-crazy crazy, but some of Donald Trump’s surrogates have managed to do just that.
The job of a surrogate, of course, is to sand down the candidate’s roughest edges — like when he, for example, advocates violence by “the Second Amendment people” against Hillary Clinton — but Trump’s bush-league flunkies have become media spectacles in their own right, manufacturing their own controversies instead of spinning the candidate’s mistakes.
We’re talking about these loyal Trump toadies:
Donald Trump’s national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson once claimed reporters had “literally beat Trump supporters into submission,” ignoring the meaning of the word “literally.” (CNN)
Katrina Pierson
Background: The unflappable Pierson, who exhibits frequent allergy to the truth, rose to prominence supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2012 Senate campaign. She was arrested in 1997 for shoplifting and has appeared on a reality show about lawyers called “Sisters in Law.” She is also The Donald’s national spokeswoman.
Stephen Bannon used unoccupied address to register to vote
Most memorable malfunction(s): Too many to choose just one! In late December, Pierson wore a bandolier-style necklace of bullets on CNN, later tweeting she might “wear a fetus next time & bring awareness to 50 million aborted people.” And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention her infamous truther tweet: “9/11 ... An inside job?” (She later indicated she was referring to Benghazi — but still.) Then there’s her Voldemort-esque call in 2012 for a pure-blooded president, which she later dismissed as “silliness”: “Perfect Obama’s dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney’s dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left?”
Front page of the New York Daily News for August 27, 2016: ISIS members are hoping for a powerful new recruiting tool come November - a Donald Trump presidency. An analysis shows that extremists strongly back Trump over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to Foreign Affairs magazine, because they believe it will boost their ranks. MAKE ISIS GREAT AGAIN!
In recent weeks, Pierson has invited mockery for her tenuous grasp of U.S. history — arguing that Capt. Humayun Khan’s 2004 death in Iraq was Obama’s fault and calling the war in Afghanistan “Obama’s war,” even though he didn’t become President until 2009 and was an opponent of the Iraq War. She also claimed reporters had “literally beat Trump supporters into submission,” ignoring the meaning of the word “literally.” She also claimed on-air that presidential candidates’ tradition of disclosing tax returns was a “novelty,” though she’d needled Mitt Romney in 2012 about that very issue.
Most recent malfunction: Pierson has no background in medicine, but that didn’t stop her from boldly diagnosing Hillary Clinton with dysphasia, a speech-impairing neurological disorder, without any evidence.
Kellyanne Conway told ABC’s “This Week” that her hate-spewing boss “doesn’t hurl personal insults.”
Kellyanne Conway
Background: The veteran pollster shamed Trump during the GOP primaries for building his businesses “on the backs of the little guy,” unfairly attacking opponents and refusing to release his tax returns. But then Conway joined the Trump team as an adviser in early July and was promoted to campaign manager earlier this month. Like his other surrogates, she had her foot firmly in her mouth right out of the gate.
New Trump campaign manager claims boss never insulted anyone
Most memorable malfunction: Less than a week after taking the reins, Conway told ABC’s “This Week” that her hate-spewing boss “doesn’t hurl personal insults.” That’s a bold claim considering Trump has made “personal insults” a cornerstone of his very campaign, with broadsides against women, Mexicans, Muslims, prisoners of war, the disabled, his political rivals and even a pair of Gold Star parents.
In a whiplash-inducing 180, Conway went on to discuss how Trump recently expressed regret for insulting people.
Most recent malfunction: The Republican strategist, echoed by her fellow flunkies, has hinted in multiple interviews the tycoon might soften his stance on a “deportation force” to boot out 11 million undocumented immigrants. But Trump has made buffoons out of them by insisting he’s not flip-flopping on immigration — while he flip-flops on immigration.
Michael Cohen became a household name with his appalling claim, “You cannot rape your spouse.” Spousal rape exists, of course, and is illegal in all 50 states. (CNN)
Michael Cohen
Background: Before he went viral as “the ‘Says who?’ guy,” Cohen was the formidable pit bull lawyer repping the candidate and the Trump Organization.
Rudy Giuliani blames 9/11-forget gaffe on 'abbreviated' language
Most memorable malfunction: While defending Trump last summer against a decades-old rape allegation from his first wife, Cohen became a household name with his appalling claim, “You cannot rape your spouse.” Spousal rape exists, of course, and is illegal in all 50 states.
Most recent malfunction: The attorney achieved breakout stardom last week during an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who confronted him with Trump’s plummeting poll numbers. “Says who?” he repeatedly challenged the anchor. “Polls ... most of them, all of them,” she replied. And with his clueless chant of denial, a meme was born.
Rudy Giuliani seemed to forget the 9/11 terrorist attack on his own watch when he said there has never been a radical Islamic attack on the U.S. before President Obama took office.
Rudy Giuliani seemed to forget the 9/11 terrorist attack on his own watch when he said there has never been a radical Islamic attack on the U.S. before President Obama took office. (ABC NEWS)
Rudy Giuliani
Background: He used to be America’s Mayor. Now he just pushes conspiracy theories and rails against the Black Lives Matter movement.
Most memorable malfunction: For once, Giuliani didn’t seize an opportunity to bring up 9/11 — glossing over the deadly terrorist attacks while claiming “we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States” in the eight years before Obama’s presidency. “They all started when (Hillary) Clinton and Obama got into office,” he said, though the Twin Towers fell while President Bush — and himself, as the mayor of New York City — were in office at the time. He later told the Daily News his “misinterpreted” remark was the product of the “abbreviated language” he uses.
That gaffe is locked in a dead heat with Giuliani’s citing a bogus stat last month to claim that black children have a “99% chance” of killing one another, and days later suggesting that Muslims on the federal terror watch list should wear GPS tracking bracelets.
"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, seen at a July, 2016, court appearance for his trial on securities fraud, is the latest famous figure to endorse Donald Trump. He tweeted during the Republican National Convention, "RNC is pumping me up. Cannot resist...."
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Most recent malfunction: Despite having appeared on cable news sporting an enormous bump on his head, the former mayor has stoked widely discredited speculation over Clinton’s supposedly failing health. His most recent argument: Google it. “Go online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton illness’; take a look at the videos for yourself,” he told “Fox News Sunday” last weekend.
Trump’s unofficial surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said she would need to brush up on her "Dora the Explorer" after Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick spoke Spanish during his July speech.
Trump’s unofficial surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said she would need to brush up on her "Dora the Explorer" after Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick spoke Spanish during his July speech. (CNN)
Scottie Nell Hughes
Background: Hughes, the political editor of RightAlerts.com, is an unofficial surrogate who frequently appears on CNN as a “Donald Trump supporter.” She lives up to that name so faithfully that Cecily Strong once played her on “SNL,” and summed up her devotion thusly: “As a woman, I like Donald Trump, but as a full-blown nutjob, I freaking love him.”
Most memorable malfunction: For no apparent reason beyond ethnic hatred, Hughes slammed Democratic veep nominee Sen. Tim Kaine last month for using Spanish in his first appearance with Hillary Clinton. “I didn’t have to get a translator for anything that was going on at the (RNC) this week. And I’m hoping I'm not going to have to start brushing up on my ‘Dora the Explorer’ to understand some of the speeches given this week.” (She later apologized.)
Most recent malfunction: Hughes showed promise as a future men’s rights advocate with her Democratic National Convention commentary, during which she denied the existence of a glass ceiling and suggested Clinton was tearing down boys’ presidential aspirations by telling girls they could be POTUS.
“What about my son? Does my son from what she said — ‘Your daughter can become one as well’ — I immediately (thought) what about making it equal so both of them have the opportunity? Why is it that she’s going to sit there and put favor on one?”
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Breitbart News exec Stephen Bannon is registered to vote at an empty Florida house slated for demolition. (KIRK IRWIN/GETTY IMAGES FOR SIRIUSXM)
Stephen Bannon
Background: The combative Breitbart News executive chairman, who oversaw headlines like “Would You Rather Have Feminism or Cancer?” and “Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield,” joined the Trump Train as CEO just last week. And though he has yet to appear publicly on behalf of the campaign, he’s mustered his fair share of sabotage with his sketchy past.
Most memorable malfunction: Bannon’s 1996 misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges for allegedly roughing up his then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, surfaced in a Politico report Thursday. He pleaded not guilty at the time, and the charges were dropped after Piccard didn’t show up to court.
Most recent malfunction: A day after those charges came to light, the Guardian US reported that Bannon — whose website has long cried foul of voter fraud, and who’s now head of a presidential campaign clamoring over November’s “rigged” election — is registered to vote at an empty Florida house slated for demolition. After the story went live, he changed his registration to a Breitbart writer’s home. Sad!
A MAY 31, 2016
Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, has been spreading a conspiracy theory about Gold Star dad Khizr Khan being a “Muslim Brotherhood agent.” (RICHARD DREW/AP)
Al Baldasaro
Background: We saved the most terrifying for last. Baldasaro, a member of Trump’s veterans’ coalition and a New Hampshire state representative, is a former Marine who has been investigated by the Secret Service for his inflammatory remarks.
Most memorable malfunction: New Hampshire state Rep. Amanda Bouldin took to Facebook in December to air her grievances over a bill that would make it illegal for only women to expose their nipples in public. Naturally, she received vile comments from male colleagues, including Baldasaro: “No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see,” Baldasaro wrote. “You want to turn our family beach’s (sic) into a pervert show.”
Most recent malfunction(s): Baldasaro has lately kept busy spreading a conspiracy theory about Gold Star dad Khizr Khan being a “Muslim Brotherhood agent.” But he topped that recently by doubling down on his longstanding claim that Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” over her alleged mishandling of the Benghazi attack — clarifying that he hadn’t been calling for her assassination, just for her to “be shot in a firing squad for treason.” Days later, he told BuzzFeed he regretted his “firing squad” phrasing.
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Donald Trump’s clueless army of flunkies’ greatest hits - NY Daily News
Small wonder why Trump Chump fan boys on this forum love him and that crowd so much.
It’s hard to out-crazy crazy, but some of Donald Trump’s surrogates have managed to do just that.
The job of a surrogate, of course, is to sand down the candidate’s roughest edges — like when he, for example, advocates violence by “the Second Amendment people” against Hillary Clinton — but Trump’s bush-league flunkies have become media spectacles in their own right, manufacturing their own controversies instead of spinning the candidate’s mistakes.
We’re talking about these loyal Trump toadies:
Donald Trump’s national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson once claimed reporters had “literally beat Trump supporters into submission,” ignoring the meaning of the word “literally.” (CNN)
Katrina Pierson
Background: The unflappable Pierson, who exhibits frequent allergy to the truth, rose to prominence supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2012 Senate campaign. She was arrested in 1997 for shoplifting and has appeared on a reality show about lawyers called “Sisters in Law.” She is also The Donald’s national spokeswoman.
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Most memorable malfunction(s): Too many to choose just one! In late December, Pierson wore a bandolier-style necklace of bullets on CNN, later tweeting she might “wear a fetus next time & bring awareness to 50 million aborted people.” And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention her infamous truther tweet: “9/11 ... An inside job?” (She later indicated she was referring to Benghazi — but still.) Then there’s her Voldemort-esque call in 2012 for a pure-blooded president, which she later dismissed as “silliness”: “Perfect Obama’s dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney’s dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left?”
Front page of the New York Daily News for August 27, 2016: ISIS members are hoping for a powerful new recruiting tool come November - a Donald Trump presidency. An analysis shows that extremists strongly back Trump over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to Foreign Affairs magazine, because they believe it will boost their ranks. MAKE ISIS GREAT AGAIN!
In recent weeks, Pierson has invited mockery for her tenuous grasp of U.S. history — arguing that Capt. Humayun Khan’s 2004 death in Iraq was Obama’s fault and calling the war in Afghanistan “Obama’s war,” even though he didn’t become President until 2009 and was an opponent of the Iraq War. She also claimed reporters had “literally beat Trump supporters into submission,” ignoring the meaning of the word “literally.” She also claimed on-air that presidential candidates’ tradition of disclosing tax returns was a “novelty,” though she’d needled Mitt Romney in 2012 about that very issue.
Most recent malfunction: Pierson has no background in medicine, but that didn’t stop her from boldly diagnosing Hillary Clinton with dysphasia, a speech-impairing neurological disorder, without any evidence.
Kellyanne Conway told ABC’s “This Week” that her hate-spewing boss “doesn’t hurl personal insults.”
Kellyanne Conway
Background: The veteran pollster shamed Trump during the GOP primaries for building his businesses “on the backs of the little guy,” unfairly attacking opponents and refusing to release his tax returns. But then Conway joined the Trump team as an adviser in early July and was promoted to campaign manager earlier this month. Like his other surrogates, she had her foot firmly in her mouth right out of the gate.
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Most memorable malfunction: Less than a week after taking the reins, Conway told ABC’s “This Week” that her hate-spewing boss “doesn’t hurl personal insults.” That’s a bold claim considering Trump has made “personal insults” a cornerstone of his very campaign, with broadsides against women, Mexicans, Muslims, prisoners of war, the disabled, his political rivals and even a pair of Gold Star parents.
In a whiplash-inducing 180, Conway went on to discuss how Trump recently expressed regret for insulting people.
Most recent malfunction: The Republican strategist, echoed by her fellow flunkies, has hinted in multiple interviews the tycoon might soften his stance on a “deportation force” to boot out 11 million undocumented immigrants. But Trump has made buffoons out of them by insisting he’s not flip-flopping on immigration — while he flip-flops on immigration.
Michael Cohen became a household name with his appalling claim, “You cannot rape your spouse.” Spousal rape exists, of course, and is illegal in all 50 states. (CNN)
Michael Cohen
Background: Before he went viral as “the ‘Says who?’ guy,” Cohen was the formidable pit bull lawyer repping the candidate and the Trump Organization.
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Most memorable malfunction: While defending Trump last summer against a decades-old rape allegation from his first wife, Cohen became a household name with his appalling claim, “You cannot rape your spouse.” Spousal rape exists, of course, and is illegal in all 50 states.
Most recent malfunction: The attorney achieved breakout stardom last week during an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who confronted him with Trump’s plummeting poll numbers. “Says who?” he repeatedly challenged the anchor. “Polls ... most of them, all of them,” she replied. And with his clueless chant of denial, a meme was born.
Rudy Giuliani seemed to forget the 9/11 terrorist attack on his own watch when he said there has never been a radical Islamic attack on the U.S. before President Obama took office.
Rudy Giuliani seemed to forget the 9/11 terrorist attack on his own watch when he said there has never been a radical Islamic attack on the U.S. before President Obama took office. (ABC NEWS)
Rudy Giuliani
Background: He used to be America’s Mayor. Now he just pushes conspiracy theories and rails against the Black Lives Matter movement.
Most memorable malfunction: For once, Giuliani didn’t seize an opportunity to bring up 9/11 — glossing over the deadly terrorist attacks while claiming “we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States” in the eight years before Obama’s presidency. “They all started when (Hillary) Clinton and Obama got into office,” he said, though the Twin Towers fell while President Bush — and himself, as the mayor of New York City — were in office at the time. He later told the Daily News his “misinterpreted” remark was the product of the “abbreviated language” he uses.
That gaffe is locked in a dead heat with Giuliani’s citing a bogus stat last month to claim that black children have a “99% chance” of killing one another, and days later suggesting that Muslims on the federal terror watch list should wear GPS tracking bracelets.
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Most recent malfunction: Despite having appeared on cable news sporting an enormous bump on his head, the former mayor has stoked widely discredited speculation over Clinton’s supposedly failing health. His most recent argument: Google it. “Go online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton illness’; take a look at the videos for yourself,” he told “Fox News Sunday” last weekend.
Trump’s unofficial surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said she would need to brush up on her "Dora the Explorer" after Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick spoke Spanish during his July speech.
Trump’s unofficial surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said she would need to brush up on her "Dora the Explorer" after Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick spoke Spanish during his July speech. (CNN)
Scottie Nell Hughes
Background: Hughes, the political editor of RightAlerts.com, is an unofficial surrogate who frequently appears on CNN as a “Donald Trump supporter.” She lives up to that name so faithfully that Cecily Strong once played her on “SNL,” and summed up her devotion thusly: “As a woman, I like Donald Trump, but as a full-blown nutjob, I freaking love him.”
Most memorable malfunction: For no apparent reason beyond ethnic hatred, Hughes slammed Democratic veep nominee Sen. Tim Kaine last month for using Spanish in his first appearance with Hillary Clinton. “I didn’t have to get a translator for anything that was going on at the (RNC) this week. And I’m hoping I'm not going to have to start brushing up on my ‘Dora the Explorer’ to understand some of the speeches given this week.” (She later apologized.)
Most recent malfunction: Hughes showed promise as a future men’s rights advocate with her Democratic National Convention commentary, during which she denied the existence of a glass ceiling and suggested Clinton was tearing down boys’ presidential aspirations by telling girls they could be POTUS.
“What about my son? Does my son from what she said — ‘Your daughter can become one as well’ — I immediately (thought) what about making it equal so both of them have the opportunity? Why is it that she’s going to sit there and put favor on one?”
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Breitbart News exec Stephen Bannon is registered to vote at an empty Florida house slated for demolition. (KIRK IRWIN/GETTY IMAGES FOR SIRIUSXM)
Stephen Bannon
Background: The combative Breitbart News executive chairman, who oversaw headlines like “Would You Rather Have Feminism or Cancer?” and “Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield,” joined the Trump Train as CEO just last week. And though he has yet to appear publicly on behalf of the campaign, he’s mustered his fair share of sabotage with his sketchy past.
Most memorable malfunction: Bannon’s 1996 misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges for allegedly roughing up his then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, surfaced in a Politico report Thursday. He pleaded not guilty at the time, and the charges were dropped after Piccard didn’t show up to court.
Most recent malfunction: A day after those charges came to light, the Guardian US reported that Bannon — whose website has long cried foul of voter fraud, and who’s now head of a presidential campaign clamoring over November’s “rigged” election — is registered to vote at an empty Florida house slated for demolition. After the story went live, he changed his registration to a Breitbart writer’s home. Sad!
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Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, has been spreading a conspiracy theory about Gold Star dad Khizr Khan being a “Muslim Brotherhood agent.” (RICHARD DREW/AP)
Al Baldasaro
Background: We saved the most terrifying for last. Baldasaro, a member of Trump’s veterans’ coalition and a New Hampshire state representative, is a former Marine who has been investigated by the Secret Service for his inflammatory remarks.
Most memorable malfunction: New Hampshire state Rep. Amanda Bouldin took to Facebook in December to air her grievances over a bill that would make it illegal for only women to expose their nipples in public. Naturally, she received vile comments from male colleagues, including Baldasaro: “No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see,” Baldasaro wrote. “You want to turn our family beach’s (sic) into a pervert show.”
Most recent malfunction(s): Baldasaro has lately kept busy spreading a conspiracy theory about Gold Star dad Khizr Khan being a “Muslim Brotherhood agent.” But he topped that recently by doubling down on his longstanding claim that Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” over her alleged mishandling of the Benghazi attack — clarifying that he hadn’t been calling for her assassination, just for her to “be shot in a firing squad for treason.” Days later, he told BuzzFeed he regretted his “firing squad” phrasing.
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Small wonder why Trump Chump fan boys on this forum love him and that crowd so much.
I note none of them has committed treason unlike Hillary with her classified emails.