September 20, 2016

The Trump Campaign's Relentless Drive To Make America Scared Again, Very, Very Afraid

September 20, 2016/ Anne Enke

Donald Trump Jr Compares Syrian Refugees to Skittles

It's becoming clear that the Trump children have more in common with their father than most of us want to believe. The latest vulgarity of the Trump family happened yesterday when Donald Trump Jr -- who has his eye on the governorship of New York State -- compared Syrian refugees to Skittles. The Internet rose up on Twitter to the brain-empty, isolationist, totally lacking in empathy Trump Jr. Tweet.

"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful," the image read. Trump added his own commentary on the message, tweeting, "This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first. #trump2016."

Trump: Make America Scared Again T he Daily Beast

Trump greeted the crowdt to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” the 1992 ballad that had a bump after the 9/11 attacks. Trump events regularly use the song in an effort to inspire voters with his promises to shut down immigration and bomb the hell out ISIS.

Trump regularly argues that attacks on U.S. soil—“from 9/11 to San Bernardino”—result from sloppy, too liberal, insufficient screening during the immigration process.

“There have been Islamic terrorist attacks in Minnesota and New York City and New Jersey,” Trump said. “These attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals who are coming into our country.”

Poll: Hillary Clinton ticks up against Donald Trump NBC News

Hillary is potentially rebounding in national polls as the NBC News|Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll puts her back with 50 percent support among likely voters against 45 percent for Trump. Clinton has that lead in a 4-way.

It's doubly important because NBC has also flipped to the likely voters model. That was hurting Hillary last week but voter enthusiasm helps to determine the mix by party. The large online poll talked to 13,320 likely voters among the 14,326 sample.

Billionaire Miami Republican pledges $2 million to help Clinton Miami Herald

Miami Republican billionaire Mike Fernandez is donating “over” $2 million to help Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The money will “focus on Latino outreach and registration in Florida,” according to an email Fernandez sent Tuesday obtained by the Miami Herald.

Fernandez, who gave $3 million to Jeb Bush’s super PAC, Right to Rise, wrote that he’s never met Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee who he endorsed in early September. She’s far from a perfect candidate, Fernandez write, saying that he can’t “support a Party I no longer recognize.”

“I specially call on all Latinos to reject a man who encourages violence against you,” Fernandez wrote.

Study: Trump's trade proposals 'horribly destructive Politico

Donald Trump’s promises to raise tariffs on China, Mexico and other countries to force them to negotiate better deals with the United States “could unleash a trade war that would plunge the U.S. economy into recession and cost more than 4 million private sector jobs,” says a new study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The Trump campaign responded, calling the study produced by a pro-trade group to be biased. “They are the pimps of globalization for the corporate interests who have sent American jobs overseas and basically turned America into a stagnant economy,” said Peter Navarro, an economics professor at the University of California.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 20, 2016

Poll: Clinton leads Trump in New Hampshire Politico

Florida poll: Clinton leads Trump by 5 points CNN

George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary Politico

Trump's Economic Fraud Reason

Clinton campaign memo outlines map to Victory Politico

50 Former Officials Demand Transparency From Donald Trump on Foreign Investments Politico

September 15, 2016

The Trump Organization Is A National Security Nightmare For A Trump Presidency | Ivanka Trump Aborts Cosmo Interview

September 15, 2016/ Anne Enke

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.