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How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Upend U.S. National Security Newsweek

This very important article by Kurt Eichenwald is one of the first to look deeply into the Trump organization and the heap of conflicts of interest and ethical problems that would exist in a Trump presidency. The candidate replies that his kids will run the business while he devotes himself to making America great again. Trump refers to this as a 'blind trust' arrangement, which is technically incorrect. The article also touches on important info on the Clinton Foundation. It's doubtful that this article will have any impact on Trump voters, but any citizen concerned about how a Trump presidency could read it beginning to end.

"The Trump Organization is not like the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the charitable enterprise that has been the subject of intense scrutiny about possible conflicts for the Democratic presidential nominee. There are allegations that Hillary Clinton bestowed benefits on contributors to the foundation in some sort of “pay to play” scandal when she was secretary of state, but that makes no sense because there was no “pay.” Money contributed to the foundation was publicly disclosed and went to charitable efforts, such as fighting neglected tropical diseases that infect as many as a billion people. The financials audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global independent accounting company, and the foundation’s tax filings show that about 90 percent of the money it raised went to its charitable programs. (Trump surrogates have falsely claimed that it was only 10 percent and that the rest was used as a Clinton “slush fund.”) No member of the Clinton family received any cash from the foundation, nor did it finance any political campaigns. In fact, like the Clintons, almost the entire board of directors works for free."

The 'new liberal economics' is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies VOX

VOX writes that both the Democratic primary and now the general election shows how the party is shifting on the subject of economic policy. Hillary Clinton's policy proposals and the Democratic platform reflect this new thinking.

Key planks now governing the Democratic thinking include:

Inequality is not a regrettable but inevitable byproduct of an efficient economy, nor a temporary, self-correcting trend. It’s driven by policy choices, and new choices can make a difference.

The economy will not simply bounce back from any weaknesses, as was assumed under Alan Greenspan’s Great Moderation. Rather, there are deep structural problems that include a global savings glut and unwillingness by US companies to make investments.

"Nudging" the private market is not always the best way to deliver core goods and economic security. Deploying government services directly can be more effective.

Ivanka Trump on Her Father's New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy Cosmopolitan

On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a child care and maternity leave plan, one that offers new mothers only -- not fathers -- six weeks of paid maternity leave, tax deductions for stay-at-home parents, and dependent care savings accounts for families. America is the only industrialized country in the world that does not offer federally-mandated family leave, an idea that Republicans have lobbied against for decades. The campaign hopes that this idea, supported by a newly-launched Women Empowerment Tour, will help boost its highly-negative image among women voters — a deficit estimated at 65 percent in a late August ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Trump credits his highly-visible daughter, 34-year-old Ivanka Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization, mother of three and fashion designer, as the originator of the new policy. Ivanka joined her father in Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening and published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining the policy.  Cosmopolitan.com spoke with Ivanka over the phone Wednesday morning about her father’s new family leave and child care policy in what became a fiery interview. 

Asked to explain how his newly stated policy lined up with Donald Trump's 2004 comments lamenting the toll of maternity leave on companies, Ivanka pushed back against the question, accusing the writer of 'editorializing' and questioning her with 'hostility'. At the time, Trump said pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business."

“My father obviously has a track record of decades of employing women at every level of his company, and supporting women, and supporting them in their professional capacity, and enabling them to thrive outside of the office and within,” she said. “To imply otherwise is an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women.”

“You said he made those comments,” she said. “I don't know that he said those comments.”

Prior to her ending her interview ahead of schedule, the businesswoman was also asked to explain why the family plan did not include paternity leave and how it would apply to gay male couples. A competing plan long-ago published on the Hillary Clinton website includes fathers. In response, Ivanka Trump insisted that her father’s plan was “a giant leap from where we are today,” but acknowledged the priority was on the mother.

“The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not,” she said.

Related: Ivanka Trump Is Lying About Both Candidates' Records on Family Leave New York Magazine

Report: Ivanka Trump wrong about Trump Organization's Leave Policy CNN

Donald Trump's Maternity Leave Proposal Keeps the US in Dead Last Compared To Its Peers Fortune

Back on the campaign trail, Clinton speaks about helping families at NC rally The Washington Post

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 15, 2016

Clinton maintains a narrow lead over Trump YouGov.com

Poll Shows Tight Race for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton New York Times

Clinton's doctor declares her 'fit to serve' as president Politico

Emails show Colin Powell unloading on Clinton, Rumsfeld and Trump Politico

Bill Clinton is no longer the closer Politico

As Clinton Battles Pneumonia, Writers Rally With Established Data On Trump Voters #Truth

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia, doctor says Politico

Hillary Clinton's doctor Lisa Bardack said in a statement Sunday that she saw Clinton when she returned home in Chappaqua after the Democratic nominee left a 9/11 memorial ceremony due to what her campaign said was overheating.

"Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia," her doctor, Lisa Bardack, said in a statement released to the press. "She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely."

There is no word on whether the Democratic candidate will still fly to California tomorrow. According to a senior adviser, the campaign is evaluating her schedule and need for rest. 

April 2016 Reuters/Ipsos Poll of 7,800 People on Racial Attitudes New York Magazine

The poll surveyed about 1840 Clinton supporters, 1370 Trump, 970 Cruz and 650 Kasich on attitudes related to race. The Trumpsters are far out front, followed by Cruz supporters. Kasich supporters are in some cases less opinionated negatively about race than Clinton supporters.

Data Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Right About Donald Trump's 'Deplorable' Supporters Huffington Post

A May PPP survey of Trump supporters found that 54% think President Obama is a Muslim, only 13% think he's a Christian. 59% think President Obama was not born in America, with only 23% thinking that he was. 

Just 42% of Trump supporters think Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes with 24% thinking Scalia was murdered and 34% being unsure. 

On the topic of gay marriage, a recent Pew poll found that 52% of Trump supporters oppose it, in spite of the Supreme Court ruling.  

The same research found that 69% of Trump voters -- compared to 51% of Cruz voters and 40% of Kasich supporters believe that immigrants are a burden to the country by taking jobs, housing and health care.  By contrast, only 17% of Clinton voters and 14% of Sanders voters agreed with this negative view of immigrants. 

Hillary Clinton Was Politically Incorrect, but She Wasn't Wrong About Trump's Supporters The Atlantic

One way of reporting on Clinton’s statement is to weigh its political cost, ask what it means for her campaign, or attempt to predict how it might affect her performance among certain groups. This path is in line with the current imperatives of political reporting and, at least for the moment, seems to be the direction of coverage. But there is another line of reporting that could be pursued—Was Hillary Clinton being truthful or not?

Much like Trump’s alleged opposition to the Iraq War, this not an impossible claim to investigate. We know, for instance, some nearly 60 percent of Trump’s supporters hold “unfavorable views” of Islam, and 76 percent support a ban on Muslims entering the United States. We know that some 40 percent of Trump’s supporters believe blacks are more violent, more criminal, lazier, and ruder than whites. Two-thirds of Trump’s supporters believe the first black president in this country’s history is not American. These claim are not ancillary to Donald Trump’s candidacy, they are a driving force behind it.

When Hillary Clinton claims that half of Trump’s supporters qualify as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” data is on her side. One could certainly argue that determining the truth of a candidate’s claims is not a political reporter’s role. But this is not a standard that political reporters actually adhere to.

Trump Loves Schlafly, Champion of Anti-Feminist, Anti-Gay, Anti-Anything Progressive in American Values

Trump takes aim at Clinton's lead among women Politico

Donald Trump said on Saturday that Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who led the defeat of America's Equal Rights Amendment and numerous campaigns against gay rights, was "a truly great American patriot" who championed the American underdog and people like himself.

"Believe me, Phyllis was there for me when it was not at all fashionable. Trust me," Trump told the crowd honoring her. "Her legacy will live on every time some underdog outmatched and outgunned, defies the odds, and delivers a win for the people."

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has fielded a team of women in Ohio to court women voters.

"Katrina Pierson, his often irreverent spokeswoman, emerged with Lara Trump, the candidate’s daughter-in-law, Omarosa Manigault, a reality TV star-turned-campaign director of African American outreach, Lynne Patton, a vice president at the Eric Trump Foundation, and YouTube stars Diamond and Silk.

“We are not politicians, we are civilians,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, told a mostly female crowd lunching on cold cuts and potato salad in a fluorescent-lit room. “We really don’t have any idea what we’re doing, except we said, ‘We’ve got to go out and tell people what a great guy Donald Trump is.”'

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 11, 2016

Washington Post poll: Clinton ahead by 5 The Washington Post

Clinton's lead: Steady but not certain Politico

CIA director rebuts Trump's claim on intelligence briefing Politico

Matt Lauer's Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I've Seen in This Campaign by Jonathan Chait New York Magazine

Trump Favors Regime Change in Iran, Says He'll Attack Them Over Rude Gestures New York Magazine