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Trump Campaign Reps Push Back Via Deflection In Sunday Interviews

It was a rough day at the office for Donald Trump spokesmen on the Sunday morning political shows as the Republican nominee’s campaign devolves into disarray.

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort clashed with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Trump’s non-disclosed tax returns, the Trumpster’s inability to stay on message and more.

Via Mediaite:

Tapper pointed out that Trump was the one who took his message off the rails with that message people interpreted to be a violent warning. Manafort complained to Tapper that he could have been covering pay-for-play allegations surrounding Clinton.

In response, Tapper said he has covered that, and he even told Manafort, “These things, just because you say them, they’re not true! We have been covering the substance!”

Manafort insisted the media’s distracting away from the message. Tapper asked, “And Mr. Trump bears no responsibility for his campaign being off-message?”

CNN’s Brian Stetler asks Trump Senior Communications Advisor Jason Miller about the Trumpster’s attack on the New York Times and the media at large.

Also from Mediaite:

Miller spent the first part of the segment complaining about the New York Times report on internal campaign chaos––a report Trump has trashed––and going so far as to say, “I wish people would cancel their subscriptions to The New York Times.”

Stelter asked him if this isn’t just an example of a true story that’s just “painful to read.” Miller insisted the campaign is unified.

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Donald Trump Goes Full Twitter Tirade Against “Corrupt Media”

Beginning with the “failing” New York Times and eventually encompassing all “corrupt media,” Republican Donald Trump went on a Twitter tirade about what he feels is unfair reporting on behalf of his presidential campaign when the media repeats what he says word for word.

It all began with an article by the New York Times which interviewed 20 prominent Republicans who described Trump’s campaign as flailing in “a dire predicament.”

Nearly two months later, the effort to save Mr. Trump from himself has plainly failed. He has repeatedly signaled to his advisers and allies his willingness to change and adapt, but has grown only more volatile and prone to provocation since then, clashing with a Gold Star family, making comments that have been seen as inciting violence and linking his political opponents to terrorism.

Advisers who once hoped a Pygmalion-like transformation would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching. He has ignored their pleas and counsel as his poll numbers have dropped, boasting to friends about the size of his crowds and maintaining that he can read surveys better than the professionals.

In private, Mr. Trump’s mood is often sullen and erratic, his associates say. He veers from barking at members of his staff to grumbling about how he was better off following his own instincts during the primaries and suggesting he should not have heeded their calls for change.

In now “classic Trump” mode, the GOP nominee began vomiting his bile out into the Twitterverse.

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Trump Spokesperson: Obama Started The Afghanistan War

As we all know, the U.S. war in Afghanistan began October 7, 2001, when President George W. Bush launched what was then known as “Operation Enduring Freedom” with the UK.

That war lasted 13 years, 2 months and 3 weeks, until December 28, 2014, NATO formally ended combat operations in Afghanistan.

Now that we have actual history facts out of the way, someone please send this information to Donald Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson who appeared on CNN today and told the world that President Obama “took the U.S. into Afghanistan.”

The comment came as Pierson was trying to explain that Donald Trump’s “sarcastic/not so sarcastic” remarks about Obama being the “founder of ISIS.

From Mediaite:

Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan‘s death in 2004?

Well, on CNN this morning, as she was arguing with anchor Victor Blackwell about Trump’s “founder of ISIS” remark, Pierson actually said, “Remember, we weren’t even in Afghanistan by this time. Barack Obama went into Afghanistan, creating another problem.”

Blackwell asked, “You’re saying Barack Obama took the country into Afghanistan post-2009?” Pierson said, “That was Obama’s war, yes.”

To be honest, I don’t know which is more shocking – Pierson’s woeful understanding of history or the fact that she actually gets paid to represent a presidential candidate.

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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Trolls Trump Supporters With Fake Campaign Ads

Prepare to be utterly surprised – or not – at how far Trumpers will go in their quest to support their guy.

Clip description:

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog stages a focus group with Trump’s biggest supporters, presenting a series of increasingly outrageous and extremely fake campaign ads, to find out how far they’re willing to go in support of their candidate.

(ht/ JoeMyGod)

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Trump Reverses On Obama “Founded” ISIS, Says It Was ‘Sarcasm’

The Donald Trump campaign for president just gets stranger and stranger.

A couple of days ago, the Trumpster pumped up the crazy scale another notch when he said in Florida, with a straight face, that President Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded” ISIS. He repeated the claim several times during different appearances.

During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, he even got a life line thrown his way when Hewitt said, “I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum. He lost the peace.”

“No,” responded Trump. “I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do.”

Even Newt Gingrich was grasping at straws trying to help The Donald out of the hole he was digging. “He sometimes uses three words when he needs 10,” Gingrich told Fox News.

“When you instead comprise them into ‘Obama created ISIS’ – I know what Trump has in his mind – but that’s not what people hear,” said the former Speaker of the House. “He has got to learn to use language that has been thought through and that is clear to everybody and to stick to that language because otherwise the mainstream media is gonna take every possible excuse to pile on him.”

The story took a new twist today when Trump suddenly announced that his comment, which he said over and over he meant literally, was actually “sarcasm.”

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Campaign Ad: Why Won’t Donald Trump Release His Tax Returns?

Even prominent Republicans think Donald Trump should release his tax returns as every presidential candidate for 40 years has done.

And yet, he won’t.

What is he hiding?

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DNC Denounces Donald Trump, Marco Rubio Attending Anti-LGBT Hate Fest

A joint statement from Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile and DNC LGBT Caucus Chair Earl Fowlkes publicly denounces GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio for participating in today’s anti-LGBT hate fest in Orlando.

“Instead of honoring the memory of those we lost at Pulse two months ago, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have come to Orlando to headline a gathering of some of the nation’s most incendiary anti-gay bigots.

“We at the DNC join all people of good conscience in expressing our solidarity with the Orlando LGBT community as they continue to grieve the deadliest shooting in American history.

“We suggest Trump and Rubio disavow these anti-gay extremists who have likened gay people to Nazis and characterized HIV/AIDS as divine ‘penalties’ for being gay. Failing to do so will be yet another example of the utter lack of judgment that makes Trump unfit to serve.”

The “Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project”, a gathering of anti-LGBT pastors, is taking place exactly two months after the attack on LGBT Americans at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando which left 49 dead and dozens injured.

Twitter folks are not amused: