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Donald Trump Supporter Punches 69 Year Old Woman In The Face At Campaign Rally

So can we all agree that THIS Trump supporter is deplorable?

Police have announced plans to arrest Richard Campbell of South Carolina for assaulting a woman after a Donald Trump rally Monday night in Asheville, North Carolina.

Campbell allegedly punched 69 year old Shirley Teter, who wears an oxygen mask and portable oxygen tank, outside the Trump event.

From WLOS:

“Why did I get involved yesterday, at my age? Because I ran into another situation that was sickening my heart,” she said Tuesday afternoon, outside Cafe 64 in downtown Asheville.

Protesters met Trump supporters before the rally, and Teter was having fun.

“Whenever groups of them would start chanting ‘Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!’ I would chant back, ‘Dump! Dump! Dump! Dump!’ It was kind of comical,” Teter said.

After the rally, Teter experienced something she had never seen in all of her protests. Peace teetered over into something else.

“I said, ‘You better learn to speak Russian,’ and I said, ‘The first two words are going to be ha ha.’ He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me,” Teter said.

She was punched in the face.

She says she fell on her oxygen tank and has sore ribs, a sore jaw, and cut her elbow. She later went to the hospital and is thankful she did not break any bones.

According to News 13, called the station back after her interview asking if people find a Trump supporter punching her in the face deplorable.

You’ve got to love her sense of humor.

Watch video below of the chaos right after the incident.

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Atlantic Coast Conference Pulls 10 Championship Events From North Carolina Over HB2

Following yesterday’s announcement from the NCAA to pull 7 championship events from North Carolina due to the anti-LGBT HB2 legislation, the Atlantic Coast Conference has followed suit by announcing 10 championship events will also be pulled from North Carolina.

The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Wednesday to find other sites for its championship games through the 2016-17 school year while the law remains in effect.

The 10 events include baseball, basketball, soccer, diving, tennis and golf.

Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality NC, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization, issued a statement which read in part, “It has never been more clear than it is right now – HB2 is hurting our state every minute that it remains law.”

Via press release:

Statement from the ACC Council of Presidents:
“As members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACC Council of Presidents reaffirmed our collective commitment to uphold the values of equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination. Every one of our 15 universities is strongly committed to these values and therefore, we will continue to host ACC Championships at campus sites. We believe North Carolina House Bill 2 is inconsistent with these values, and as a result, we will relocate all neutral site championships for the 2016-17 academic year. All locations will be announced in the future from the conference office.”

Statement from Clemson University President James P. Clements, chair of the ACC Council of Presidents:
“The ACC presidents engaged in a constructive, wide-ranging and vigorous discussion of this complex issue over the past two days. The decision to move the neutral site championships out of North Carolina while HB 2 remains the law was not an easy one but it is consistent with the shared values of inclusion and non-discrimination at all of our institutions.”

Statement from ACC Commissioner John Swofford:
“The ACC Council of Presidents made it clear that the core values of this league are of the utmost importance, and the opposition to any form of discrimination is paramount. Today’s decision is one of principle, and while this decision is the right one, we recognize there will be individuals and communities that are supportive of our values as well as our championship sites that will be negatively affected. Hopefully, there will be opportunities beyond 2016-17 for North Carolina neutral sites to be awarded championships.”

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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Campaign Ad Highlights Trump’s “Donation” To Florida Attorney General Bondi

The Clinton campaign released this new campaign ad just hours after the New York State Attorney General’s announcement that he will be investigating the Trump Foundation for possible illegal or corrupt practices.

From Politico:

“You’ve probably heard Trump talk about the Clinton Foundation, but you might not have heard that while he attacks one of America’s top charities, his foundation has been fined for an illegal donation,” a narrator intones, as graphics showing the Clinton Foundation’s top ratings from Charity Watch, GuideStar and Charity Navigator are displayed on screen.

“She cashed the check, blocked the case, and he tried to cover up the donation,” the ad alleges, before concluding with a picture of a hard hat-wearing Trump grinning in front of workers. “So, when you hear Donald Trump talk about corrupt politics, remember which candidate actually practices it.”

You’ll recall that in 2013, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office announced it was looking into joining a class action suit against Trump University. At the same time, Bondi asked Donald Trump for a campaign donation.

Three days later, Trump’s $25,000 check arrived in Florida. Within days Bondi announced she would not be following up on the Trump U. action.

Put another way, imagine you were robbed. Before the robber is charged he makes a campaign donation to the police chief, and the next thing you know charges are not filed and he’s set free.

Smell right to you?

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Steve King: “I Want To Promote The ‘Natural’ Family”

Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa, appearing on CNN’s New Day, told anchor Chris Cuomo that he wants to support the “natural family.”

The response was to a question as to whether Donald Trump’s child care plan would protect LGBT families. When Cuomo asked what King meant by “natural family,” King replied, “A man and a woman hopefully joined together in holy matrimony (emphasis on “holy”) blessed by God with children.”

Cuomo didn’t stop there. Cuomo mentioned the social research that shows children in same-sex families do just as well or better as those in heterosexual familes, King demurred.

“I think I’d need to look a little further into some of that research. You know we got down in the global warming argument and found out there was another side to that equation, too.”

It went on from there. Truly knuckle dragging stuff here.

Kudos to Cuomo and CNN for not letting King slide his backwards world view past the viewers.

This is what you get with Trump and his ilk.

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Video Of The Day: “Thanks Obama!”

While stumping for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia today, President Obama was reminded by a rally attendee that gas is currently $2 a gallon.

His reaction was very funny 🙂

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CNN Anchor Asks For Proof Donald Trump Is Being Audited

Now here’s something we haven’t seen before.

For a year, Donald Trump has told the media that he would be happy to release his tax returns save for the fact he’s being audited by the IRS.

The IRS has said repeatedly that their office has no problem with him releasing his tax returns. Trump maintains that after the audit is complete he will release them.

Of course, he could release earlier returns like from the year 2008 which is not being audited. Trump declines to release anything.

Today, CNN New Day  anchor Alisyn Camerota asked again when the tax returns would be released. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway repeated “after the audit.”

But then something unusual happened, in a followup question Camerota asked if the campaign would provide some kind of documentation that an audit is actually occurring.

“Has Donald Trump, or will he, release anything from the IRS — a letter from the IRS — proving that he’s under audit?”

Conway had to ask Camerota to repeat the question, clearly needing to buy time to figure out what to say.

She eventually came up with this: “I don’t know. Why? In other words — why, why are you — Are you calling him a liar? Are you calling him a liar?”

Watch below:

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Hillary Clinton Responds To Trump Attacks On “Deplorables” Comment

As often done in this campaign cycle, the Clinton campaign is countering Donald Trump’s attacks on Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment by using his own words against him.

Perfect.

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Hillary Clinton Supports NCAA Decision To Pull Championship Games From North Carolina

Earlier today I reported on the NCAA’s decision to pull seven championship games from North Carolina due to the state’s anti-LGBT hate law, HB2.

Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton concurs with the decision sending this tweet today. Note: the H at the end of the tweet means Hillary wrote the tweet herself.

Thanks for being a leader, Hillary! #ImWithHer

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Americans’ Median Income Increased 5.2% In 2015

(graphic via CNN)

For the first time since 2007, the year before the Great Recession, the median household income increased to $56,516, up 5.2% from the previous year, according to data released by the Census Bureau today.

The 5.2% represents one of the largest annual increases since the Census Bureau began tracking such data.

Expect the good news to become campaign trail talking points for both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

Trump has regularly made the point that household incomes are $4,000 lower than in 2000. And that would be true if we were talking 2014 data; Trump often uses the 2014  numbers as if they are current.

Look for Clinton to point to the news as evidence that the economy is improving.

Additionally, the poverty rate dropped 1.3% to 13.5% in 2015.

So what constitutes for the big jump in median income? 3.3 million more Americans were working full-time. Data shows 1.4 million more men and 1 million more women had jobs last year.

(source)

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NCAA Pulls Seven Championship Games From North Carolina Over HB2

The bad news keeps coming for beleagured North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory as his state’s anti-LGBT law, HB2, continues to hurt his state’s image and economy.

The NCAA has announced seven championship games have been pulled from the state including the first and second rounds of the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship — part of the Road to the Final Four — originally slated to be in Greensboro.

Via press release, the Board underscored that “NCAA championships and events must promote an inclusive atmosphere for all college athletes, coaches, administrators and fans. Current North Carolina state laws make it challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver on that commitment if NCAA events remained in the state.”

The seven championship events to be relocated from North Carolina for 2016-17:

• 2016 Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, College Cup (Cary), Dec. 2 and 4.
• 2016 Division III Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships (Greensboro), Dec. 2 and 3.
• 2017 Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, first/second rounds (Greensboro), March 17 and 19.
• 2017 Division I Women’s Golf Championships, regional (Greenville), May 8-10.
• 2017 Division III Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships (Cary), May 22-27.
• 2017 Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship (Cary), May 26 and 28.
• 2017 Division II Baseball Championship (Cary), May 27-June 3.

The North Carolina Republican Party, which champions the hate law, issued this statement:

This isn’t the first negative impact on the state due to HB2. To date the state has lost mullion and millions of revenue due to cancelled conventions and concerts and other entertainment events.

And the governor is feeling the heat as he currently trails his opponent for reelection by an average of 6 points according to Real Clear Politics.