Fireworks At Trump Press Conference – “You Are A Rude, Terrible Person”

Whoa!

There were serious fireworks today at the White House as Donald Trump lit into CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta who attempted to ask the Trumpster about his characterization of the migrants making their way from Central America to the U.S. border.

“That’s enough. That’s enough. Put down the mic.

“I’ll tell you what. CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN. You’re a very rude person.

“The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn’t treat people that way.”

Gee, do you think Trump is a little edgy after the takeover of the House by the Democrats?

White Supremacist Movement LOVED Donald Trump’s Immigration Tirade

While many who watched Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yell his way through a “policy” speech on immigration last night in Arizona were left fairly dismayed, Trump’s white supremacist followers were thrilled.

Anyone expecting some kind of “pivot” during the general election may be surprised to learn that the pivot was from the far-right to the alt-right.

The speech was a grim, high volume rough ride that bordered on fear-mongering against all immigrants. Just the kind of thing white nationalists/supremacists love.

David Duke, former KKK Grand Wizard and current candidate for the U.S. Senate:

Richard Spencer, of the white nationalist think tank National Policy Institute:

Jared Taylor, editor for the white nationalist publication American Renaissance:

According to former campaign manager and current adviser Corey Lewandowski, the speech was written to appeal to the white male voters who already support Trump’s nationalist policies. “White males have a high propensity of voting and this speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now, to make sure he has locked them in for the election,” said Lewandowski on CNN after the hour long speech.

Donald Trump Flips Out After President Obama Says Trump Is “Unfit To Serve”

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GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump goes full-on flip out after President Obama told reporters today that Trump was “unfit to serve as president.”

From the Trumpster’s Facebook page:

STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAILED LEADERSHIP

“Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. Then they allowed dozens of veterans to die waiting for medical care that never came.

Hillary Clinton put the whole country at risk with her illegal email server, deleted evidence of her crime, and lied repeatedly about her conduct which endangered us all. They released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another — like Sarah Root and Kate Steinle — and have repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism. They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression. They have shipped millions of our best jobs overseas to appease their global special interests. They have betrayed our security and our workers, and Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office.

She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives. Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now.”

-Donald J. Trump

The Fallout From Trump’s “Veterans’ Charities” Press Conference

Steve Benen, writing for MSNBC’s “Maddow Blog,” sums up the bits and pieces of Donald Trump’s poorly handled press conference yesterday regarding the dispersal of funds to veterans’ charities:

So where does that leave us? Trump said he’d raised $6 million for veterans, but that wasn’t true. He later claimed he never used the $6 million figure, but that wasn’t true. His campaign insisted Trump had contributed $1 million himself, but that wasn’t true. Trump said he “didn’t want to have credit” for the fundraising efforts, but that wasn’t true. He said he and his team were vetting groups they’d never heard of four months after the fact, but that wasn’t true.

And as of yesterday, all of this, the Republican candidate insisted, is the media’s fault. Indeed, Trump thinks journalists should be “ashamed” of themselves for scrutinizing his claims that turned out to be wrong.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but in a normal year, in a normal party, with a normal candidate, this is the sort of controversy that could end a campaign. Legitimate presidential hopefuls can get away with some dissembling and the occasional whopper, but Trump was caught telling obvious falsehoods about support for veterans’ charities.

If this happened to Hillary Clinton, is there any doubt it would be the #1 issue in the presidential race between now and Election Day? That every pundit in America would use this as Exhibit A in their takes on why Americans just can’t trust the Democrat?

Rick Santorum says there is no “middle class”

Rick Santorum is still sounding mad and angry. Still.

Rick Santorum says the term “middle class” is something that divides America. He says “don’t do it. Don’t say it.”

And yet the first sentence of this video he says “that’s what THE OTHER SIDE does.”

Our side, the “other side.”

Sounds like dividing people to me…