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USA Freedom Kids To Sue Donald Trump For Stiffing Them

Another day, another broken deal with Donald Trump.

Jeff Popick is not only the father of one of the USA Freedom Kids but he created the pre-teen musical group.

Back in January, the star-spangled kids’ performance of “Over There” at a Donald Trump campaign rally became a viral sensation.

But now, Popick is ready to sue the Trumpster for reneging on payment to the kids for their appearance.

“I’m doing this because I think they have to do the right thing,” Popick said to the Post about his plans to file a suit. “And if this means having to go through the court system to enforce them doing the right thing, then that’s what I have to do. I’m not looking to do battle with the Trump campaign, but I have to show my girls that this is the right thing.”

Popick explained to the Post that his agreement with the campaign was mostly verbal, and he never had a written contract. He spoke with various campaign officials, including former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and agreed that the Freedom Kids would be paid $2,500 for the Pensacola performance. The campaign then offered to set up a table at the rally where they could sell albums. But no such table was ever set up.

The girls were also invited to perform at Trump’s impromptu event for veterans in January that was planned in lieu of a Fox News debate. But after traveling to Iowa, the Freedom Kids did not get a chance to perform.

In truth, this is the essence of Trump.

Throughout the past year, several stories have surfaced chronicling Trump’s many instances of stiffing past employees and contracted employees. So, in truth, this is just more of the same for Trump.

Doesn’t matter to his followers, though. They probably appreciate his ability to “negotiate” this.

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Politifact: Donald Trump Wrong On Tim Kaine Accepting More Gifts Than Bob McDonnell

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Upon the announcement of Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia joining Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket for the White House, Donald Trump tried to paint Kaine as somehow “corrupt” for taking more gifts during his time as an elected official in Virginia than former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

McDonnell was convicted for taking gifts that he did not disclose.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning website, Politifact:

“Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what Kaine took,” said Trump, the GOP presidential nominee. “And I think, to me, it’s a big problem. Now, how do you take all these gifts? Hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

We wondered whether McDonnell’s gift-taking was, in fact, “a fraction” of Kaine’s. Trump’s campaign did not respond to our request for proof. So we set out on our own, comparing gifts Kaine received as lieutenant governor and governor from 2002 to 2010 to those McDonnell accepted as attorney general from 2006 to 2009 and as governor from 2010 to 2014.

During those years, Virginia didn’t limit gifts to its politicians; the only requirement was that officeholders disclose what they accepted.

We researched the online files of the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonprofit organization that keeps records of campaign contributions and financial disclosure statements filed by state politicians.

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Kaine accepted $162,083 in gifts as lieutenant governor and governor, all of which was disclosed as required by state law.

McDonnell disclosed accepting $275,707 in gifts as attorney general and governor. And there was another $177,000 that he didn’t disclose. That comes to a total of $452,707 in gifts – almost three times Kaine’s total.

Trump has got this one dead wrong. We rate his statement Pants on Fire.

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Donald Trump Leads Hillary Clinton +5 In Latest CNN/ORC Poll

Politico reports that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump got a solid bounce out of his convention:

Donald Trump got a bounce from the Republican National Convention, jumping out in front of Hillary Clinton in a new CNN/ORC International poll released Monday, conducted in the days following the party gathering.

Trump leads Clinton 48 percent to 45 percent in a two-way matchup, compared with the presumptive Democratic nominee’s seven-point advantage (49 percent to 42 percent) in the CNN/ORC poll conducted the previous week.

In a four-way matchup with Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Trump’s advantage actually increases to 5 points—44 percent to 39 percent, while Johnson earned 9 percent and Stein 3 percent.

The previous four-way survey found Clinton with a five-point lead over Trump, 42 percent to 37 percent, while Johnson had 13 percent and Stein 5 percent.

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Donald Trump Tweets Bernie Sanders Is “Weak And Somewhat Pathetic”

Republican presidential candidate took to Twitter today to criticize Sen. Bernie Sanders saying he is “turning out to be a weak and somewhat pathetic figure.”

I’d remind you all that Trump has repeatedly begged Sanders’ supporters to vote for him.

Good luck with that, Donald.

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Most Dubious Presidential Endorsement Of 2016

Former leader of the KKK absolutely LOVED Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s acceptance speech last night.

In related news, Duke has announced today that The Donald has inspired him, and he will now run for the U.S. Senate seat currently being held by David Vitter, who is retiring this year.

Via The Hill:

The National Republican Senatorial Committee does not back Duke’s run, executive director Ward Baker said.

“We will not support David Duke. Several GOP candidates in LA will have a great impact on our country. He is not one of them,” Baker tweeted Friday morning.

Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Senate, House and governor of Louisiana during the 1990s. He is also a convicted felon who pleaded guilty in 2002 to cheating on his taxes and bilking his supporters.

Duke is an enthusiastic supporter of Trump, once calling him the “white knight” for “European American” interests.

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Awkward RNC Moments

I’m not sure if the most awkward moment of the GOP convention was last night’s Ted Cruz “failure to launch endorsement,” or this when Donald Trump went in to smooch his very homophobic running mate, Gov. Mike Pence.