August 29, 2016

Trump Adds Huma Abedin & Anthony Weiner Split To List Of Hillary Risk Factors

August 29, 2016/ Anne Enke

Trump Campaign Successfully Finds Way To Blame Hillary Clinton For New Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal New York Magazine

Republican nominee Donald Trump decided it was necessary for his campaign to release a statement on Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin's decision to separate and presumably divorce Anthony Weiner. Trump -- who has no pristine record with women and wives himself -- offered his unsolicited opinion on Huma’s decision, saying: “I know Anthony well, and she will be far better off without him”,

Then Trump the cat pounced. tying the sexting habits of Weiner into a condemnation of Hillary Clinton's leadership, saying:

"I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgement. It is possible that our country and security have been greatly compromised by this."

Trump's new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency Politico

"The trick out of Brooklyn isn't just to make Hillary Clinton win but to make her win as something other than a brain-damaged crook who stole the election and will spend the next four years selling out the government from her deathbed," writes Politico.

Donald Trump’s campaign is in the bunker in an Obama-birther-type project to de-legitimize Hillary Clinton as a candidate for office but also as America's future president. So rabid is this Trump agenda that Hillary hate has seeped beyond extremist chatrooms into “lock her up” chants on the Republican convention floor and daily Trump rallies, into Trump's assertions that he's really leading but the national polls are rigged, and voters are doused with Hillary-health images as former New York mayor challenges America's citizens to go on the Internet to see Hillary about to expire or needing to be carried up the stairs.

The Clinton campaign has deliberately refused to defend against these absurd attacks, preferring its surrogates to redirect the fire back onto Trump. Given the absurd letter from Trump's own physician, he's hardly in a position to challenge Hillary Clinton's health. “It holds up a mirror to Donald Trump and what his campaign is about, and says everything you need to know about Donald Trump and where these kinds of crazy conspiracy theories are coming from,” one campaign aide told Politico.

Still, the Democrat’s professional team is aware of how these daily accusations might live beyond November and into a Clinton presidency.

“Some of the campaign and allies' conspiracies are designed to delegitimize her personally. Most are simply designed to spread fear and mistrust. And I am sure if she wins, the right wing will continue to spread these theories,” said Clinton senior adviser Jennifer Palmieri. Palmieri is in favor of ignoring most of the wackiness but warned: “Just because they may have zero basis in truth doesn't mean they can't be corrosive. So in this cycle I believe you have to call out the truly destructive theories calmly, but aggressively, and in real time.”

President Barack Obama and his allies spent eight years being sandbagged by Donald Trump and his obsession with the president's birth certificate, his-middle-name’s-Hussein attacks, and a mountain of accusations that all boil down to the same thinking now hounding Hillary Clinton: "he’s a fake, his presidency either doesn’t count or is a Moorish-style Trojan Horse."

“It’s a longer strategy. It’s not that people believe that he wasn’t born in the United States,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), recalling how this played out for Obama and sketching the parallels she sees facing Clinton now. “It was the relentless negative attacks on him that really created a backdrop to pressure Republicans and hold them accountable not to work with him.”

Michelle Kwan Is Working for Hillary Clinton New York Magazine

Olympic figure-skating star Michelle Kwan has the unique role of being both celebrity surrogate and Clinton campaign staffer. Kwan’s official role with the campaign is “surrogate outreach coordinator,” which requires her to identify and solicit support from high-profile backers like Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, and Meryl Streep, all of whom have made appearances this year on behalf of the candidate.

Most people don't know that Kwan became a public-diplomacy envoy on behalf of the United States, working for the State Department in 2006. Kwan continued this role into the Obama administration, joining the Clinton State Department in a formal capacity in 2011 as a senior adviser for public diplomacy and public affairs. Kwan's undergrad and graduate degrees are in international relations and political science.

Brazile on Clinton Foundation: 'I don't see where the smoke is' Politico

"This notion that, somehow or another, someone who is a supporter, someone who is a donor, somebody who's an activist, saying I want access, I want to come into a room and I want to meet people, we often criminalize behavior that is normal," she said in an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "I don’t see what the smoke is."

How The Clinton Campaign Is Foiling the Kremlin Vanity Fair

Staffers from the Clinton campaign were instructed months ago to use a special app called Signal, when communicating about Donald Trump. The app, which uses end-to-end encryption is "Snowden-approved".

Hillary Clinton Headlines August 29, 2016

Trump Thinks He Can Win Without a Ground Game. He's Wrong. Slate

Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 7 points Politico

Clinton questions Trump's doctor letter Politico

What I learned about Trumpism from reading 50 Breitbart articles about immigration VOX

Maine Gov. Paul LePage: you shoot "the enemy" in war, and people of color are "the enemy" right now VOX

Yes, They'll Always Come After Hillary Clinton; All the More Reason She Must'nt Hand Them Any Clubs The Daily Beast

August 27, 2016

Chelsea Clinton May Remain on Foundation Board | Trump's Very Racy 'Apprentice' Contract

August 27, 2016/ Anne Enke

Chelsea Clinton Cleans Up Her Parents' Mess Vanity Fair

Conflicts of interest are a constant job risk for all politicians. For the Clintons, we're looking a four decades of a determined effort to paint the couple as nothing more than self-promotional carpetbaggers. The latest alleged scandal -- one that has received major push back from pundits and from mhyself - surrounding the Clinton Foundation has no evidence of actual wrongdoing. Still, the Clintons understand that perception is reality in politics, and what to do about the Clinton Foundation is at the top of their to do list.

The Wall Street Journal reports that daughter Chelsea Clinton is planning to stay on the foundation board if her mom wins the presidency. In this role she will "steward the implementation of changes," including "new fundraising policies."

Related: AP Writers Stephen Braun & Elizabeth Sullivan Do Total Hatchet Job On Longtime Clinton Friend Dr. Muhammad Yunus AOC Hillary Clinton News

Donald Trump's 'Apprentices' Had to Agree to Go Nude The Daily Beast

If you thought 'The Apprentice' was about winning in Donald Trump's corporate world, you might wonder why contestants had to agree to a series of "off and invasive demands regarding sex, nudity, and food consumption." Writer Olivia Muzzi has reviewed a copy of the NBC contract signed by contestants, who had to agree to be filmed "whether I am clothed, partially clothed or naked, whether I am aware or unaware of such videotaping, filming or recording."

The contract also required that contestants undergo screening for “HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes,” according to the contract.

The contract -- again this is an NBC contract -- required contestants to accept “that Producer may impose one or more Series Rules regarding the type of sexual activity, if any, that participants will be permitted to engage in.”

And, the contract states, “I further acknowledge and understand that the film, tape, audio and other recordings that will be made of me in connection with the Series might in other circumstances be considered a serious invasion of my privacy.”

WOW! Call me speechless. ~ Anne

Trump on undocumented immigrants: 'We are going to get rid of the criminals' Washington Post

Donald Trump's loud voice bellowed across the corn fields of Iowa Saturday, as the Republican presidential candidate vowed to flex his immigration muscle by removing undocumented criminals “within one hour” of taking office. As always, there's no plan of how Trump would actually both undocumented criminals and the millions of other undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

"We are going to get rid of the criminals and it's going to happen within one hour after I take office, we start, okay?" Trump said during a campaign event in Des Moines on Saturday. "We're going to bring them back where they came from. In this task, we will always err on the side of protecting the American people. We will use immigration law to prevent crimes."

Donald Trump Sparks Backlash With Tweet About Death of Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fortune

Donald Trump sparked outrage on Saturday when he used the shooting death of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin as a reason black voters will support his presidential campaign.

Nykea Aldridge was fatally shot in Chicago on Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller. The 32-year-old mother of four was walking to register her children for school.

“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” As if Trump didn't upset people enough, he spelled Wade's name incorrectly. The orange mop deleted his original tweet and reposted, changing only the spelling of Wade's name.

'Mostly True': Clinton's Claim About the 'Trump' Effect and Bullying Politifact

Teachers surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center study reported an increase in bullying and harassment, particularly involving anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments. Many of these teachers, unsolicited, cited Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the accompanying discourse as the likely reason for this behavior.

The term Trump Effect is a product of the survey’s authors. And the survey is unscientific because it's based on anecdotal reports. But experts in bullying told us the Southern Poverty Law Center’s survey and their sense of current trends in schools supports Clinton’s point.