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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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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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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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Mike Pence: Donald Trump Has Given “Tens Of Millions” To Charity

Moments ago, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that his running mate Donald Trump has given “tens of millions” of dollars to charities.

Within minutes, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold sent an email to the Trump campaign asking for details for those donations.

Fahrenthold has been doing some deep reporting on Donald Trump’s foundation and it’s spending habits. Very interesting read.

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NBC News’ Katy Tur Schools Trump Surrogate On Trump’s “Birther” History

After almost 15 months on the campaign trail reporting on the Donald Trump campaign, NBC News reporter Katy Tur was not having Trump surrogate Jack Kingston try and pretend that Trump has recanted his long-held claim that President Obama was not born in the United States.

Lately, several of Trump’s surrogates have attempted to assert that the Donald admitted he was wrong on the issue long ago. When in truth, he has never acknowledged his crusade to “prove” Obama was born in Kenya was folly.

Watch Katy Tur plow right through Kingston as she shares what she has heard from Trump supporters every day for the last 14 months.

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Hillary Clinton Attacked For “Basket Of Deplorables” Comment

There’s faux outrage in Trumpland today after Democrat Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump’s most extreme supporters as “the basket of deplorables” at an LGBT fund raiser in New York City last night.

Via Politico:

“You know,” Clinton said at the LGBT event, “to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”

“Right?” Clinton said as the crowd laughed and applauded.

“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” Clinton continued. “And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.”

The Democratic nominee then sought to draw a distinction between the two halves of the “basket.”

“Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket,” she said, “are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change.”

These Trump supporters, Clinton said, “don’t buy everything he says,” but “hold out some hope that their lives will be different” with him as president. “They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

I guess this means that Hillary just lost the racist vote. Quel dommage.

The Trump campaign is attempting to liken the statement to Mitt Romney’s now infamous “47 percent” comments caught on tape at private fund raising event during the 2012 presidential campaign.

It’s entertaining to see Trump’s campaign, which was launched on the idea that “political correctness” should be ditched in today’s society for more “straight talk,” get all twisted because Hillary called Trump’s followers out for what they are.

I guess they like straight talk until the subject turns to them.

UPDATE: Hillary Clinton has issued a statement expressing “regret” over the “generalistic” nature of her comment last night.

“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong.”

See the full statement below.

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Calls for Independent Federal Investigation Into Pam Bondi “Pay For Play” Scam Intensify

Donald Trump with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

The editorial board of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel published an op-ed today calling for an independent federal investigation into Donald Trump’s $25,000 donation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s reelection fund.

Trump loves to call his presidential opponent “Crooked Hillary” although she has never been charged or found guilty of anything. But in this tawdry campaign donation escapade, it clearly looks like Trump is the one guilty of “pay for play.”

The timing is certainly curious, with the contribution arriving just three days after Bondi’s office said it was considering whether to join a class-action lawsuit against Trump University, an education company that promised to turn students into successful real estate investors, but left many empty-handed. Bondi’s office decided not to join the suit.

The donation from the candidate’s foundation also violated tax rules governing nonprofit organizations. As a result, the GOP presidential nominee recently paid the IRS a pocket-change fine of $2,500.

Maybe there is nothing untoward here. Maybe it’s nothing more than coincidence, as Bondi and the Trump campaign maintain.

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It’s hard to tell who looks worse in this, Bondi or Trump.

It was learned this week that in 2014, after Bondi decided not to investigate Trump U, the billionaire hosted a $3,000-a-person fundraiser for her at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

So, to recap: Trump University investigation comes up, three days later $25,000 appears from Trump, the next day Bondi decides not to prosecute, and then Trump throws a $3K a person fund-raiser for Bondi at his resort.

Nope. Doesn’t sound fishy to me. How about you?

For a more entertaining look at the story, check The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert looking into the debacle.

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Trump On Sexual Assault In The Military: What Do You Expect When You Put Men & Women Together?

At last night’s “Commander In Chief” forum, Republican Donald Trump doubled down on his 2013 opinion that sexual assaults were on the rise in the military because “what did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”

From his 2013 tweet (see above): “26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”

When asked about the tweet last night, Trump replied that “I think that’s absolutely correct.”

Of course, one option might be for folks to act as civilized men and women.

You have to wonder if the Trumpster thinks we shouldn’t have coed universities? Maybe segregate office workers?