September 27, 2016

People & Pundits Agree Hillary Scored Big Debate Win Against Empty-Headed Bully Trump

September 27, 2016/ Anne Enke

At Nearly 84 Million Viewers, Debate May be the Most-Watched Ever New York Times

Preliminary figures from 12 national networks tally up to an average viewership of 83.8 million, making last night's Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debate as the most watched since televised debates began in 1960. Previously, the 1980 debate between incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan held the record at 80 million viewers. Nielsen has issued its estimate at 81.4 million. The tally also doesn't include the many online views of the debate, with YouTube reporting 2.5 million views. PBS viewership isn't included in these totals.

Related: The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman VOX

Even Fox News Knows Clinton Thumped Trump in the First Debate Observer

In a Debate-Long Power Move, Clinton Only Called Trump 'Donald' Slate

57% of viewers say Clinton won the first debate YouGov.com

YouGov's latest research shows that most people who watched last night's debate say that Hillary Clinton won it. 57% of Americans who watched the debate say that she won the debate, while 30% say that Donald Trump won the debate. 13% of viewers aren't sure who, exactly, came out on top.

83% of Democrats called it for Clinton, and 68% of Republicans said that Trump won. Among independents, however, sentiment clearly favors Hillary. 54% of independents who watched the debate say that Clinton won, compared to 28% who say that Trump won.

Clinton Is Right About Trump's 'Very Small' $14 Million Loan Politico

Until last night, I bought the story that Trump's father had 'only' lent him $1 million to get started in business. When Hillary said $14 million last night, my ears perked up. She is correct as new details emerged recently about the real size of Trump's father's cash infusion -- what Trump calls a 'very small loan'.

Millions of People Checked Out Clinton's Debate Fact-Check Site Wired

During last night’s presidential debate,candidate Clinton took fact-checking into her own hands. “I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard,” she said early on in the debate. “Please, fact-checkers, get to work,” she followed up later. Just in case, the always-prepared Hillary launched her own backup plan, just in case the professional journalists were so overwhelmed with Trump lies that they deluge left them buried.

The Clinton campaign turned HillaryClinton.com into a live fact-check machine, called Literally Trump. During the debate, Clinton told viewers to go to the site “to see in real-time what the facts are,” and according to Clinton spokesperson Tyrone Gayle, it was a superb success. How entrepreneurial of Clinton to come up with this idea in her own superbly calculating mind.

“In debate prep, Hillary made it clear that while she would be calling Trump out for his lies, she wanted a place where viewers could be empowered to look it up themselves, not have to wait for reporters or any other delivery mechanism,” Gayle said. “Hillary suggested making Trump’s past statements available on the website for anyone to read for themselves.”

Nearly two million people visited Clinton’s website within an hour after she mentioned it, says Wired That’s 10 times as many visits as the campaign has ever attracted in an hour. By this evening, the Literally Trump factoids had been shared 18,000 times on social media.

Donald Trump Racist

Everyone Knows Donald Trump Is Racist -- Except for Donald Trump by Goldie Taylor The Daily Beast

Donald Trump may be one of the last people in America who doesn’t know that he is a bigot. After weeks of alleged “outreach” to black and Muslimcommunities, the GOP nominee Monday night littered the debate stage with racial stereotypes, doubling down on his virulent brand of prejudice as more than 80 million Americans watched.

His answers betrayed the heart of a man far too consumed with himself to see other people as they are. Perhaps more devastating, he cannot seem to see himself. And there is nothing any campaign manager, senior adviser, or media trainer can do to help. Trump is incapable of a pivot because he is unable to recognize his own frailties.

A sneering, angry Trump protested that it was he and he alone who understood the plight of black people, writ large, and insisted he should be given some credit for visiting African American churches (for the first time) in recent weeks. His answer to nearly every dilemma seemed to be: call the police.

Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate by Jonathan Chait NY Magazine

"Before the first presidential debate, a conventional wisdom had formed that Donald Trump merely needed to appear “presidential,” which the campaign media had defined as “non-sociopathic.” He failed to clear that bar.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 27, 2016

Consensus: Clinton wins debate -- but Trump is far from finished The Guardian

The Morning After the Debate. Donald Trump Goes on the Attack New York Times

Hillary Clinton Goes the Distance as Donald Trump Punches Himself Out The Daily Beast

How Hillary Clinton found her stride on gender CNN

Trump's Abdication of Personal Responsibility The Atlantic

Does Donald Trump Pay Taxes? Here's What We Know New York Times

Former Ms. Universe Urges Immigrants To Join Her In Becoming Citizens To Vote Against Donald Trump ThinkProgress

Gennifer Flowers, Donald Trump and the Making of the Sex-Scandal Culture New York Times

These are the moments Clinton won over voters inclined to vote for Trump VOX

September 23, 2016

LA Times Calls Trump Presidency A 'Catastrophe' | Trump Foundation Exists For Trump

September 23, 2016/ Anne Enke

Tale of Two Cities: Trump's helps Trumps While the Clintons' Is the Real Deal The Daily Beast

Since 2001, Trump has given $3.8 million to charities, the very limited public record on his giving shows. That includes a recent $1 million gift to a veterans’ charity as part of his campaign to win votes -- and it's not clear that it was actually Trump's money.

Johnson says that Trump claims that over his lifetime, he's given $102 million to charities, but without tax returns he can make up any number he wishes. Work to validate these claims by contacting America's top charities and asking them to document a Trump donation have come up generally empty-handed. And we know that Trump has made almost no contributions to his own Trump Foundation since 2008.

Before commenting on the Clintons' charitable giving, I want to remind people that no only have they made public almost 40 years of tax returns, but they paid income taxes at the highest rates at a federal, state and local level. With all the false claims against the Clintons, they proudly pay their fair share of taxes and no entity has accused them of not doing so. The tax returns don't lie. ~ Anne

Since 2001 the Clintons have given $23.2 million to charity, their income tax returns reveal. The Clintons have released 39 consecutive years of tax returns.

Like Trump, the Clintons give primarily to a foundation bearing the family name, the Clinton Family Foundation.

Trump claims he is worth more than $10 billion. That means his verified gifts since 2001 come to less than four one-hundredths of 1 percent of his claimed wealth. Even if we accept his claim of $102 million—and count it as all being donated since 2001—his total giving would be just 1 percent of his claimed net worth.

The Clintons are worth no more than $62 million, their financial disclosure forms show. Their charitable donations since 2001 come to at least 37.6 percent of their maximum net worth."

Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe. Los Angeles Times

She stands for rational, comprehensive immigration reform and an improvement rather than an abandonment of the Affordable Care Act. She supports abortion rights, wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, hopes to reform the sentencing laws that have overcrowded American prisons, would repair the Voting Rights Act and help students to leave college without enormous debt. Abroad she would strengthen America’s traditional alliances, continue the Obama administration’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately defeat” Islamic State and negotiate with potential adversaries such as Russia and China in a way that balances realism and the protection of American interests. Unlike Trump, Clinton accepts the prevailing science on climate change and considers the issue to be “the defining challenge of our time.”

Perhaps her greatest strength is her pragmatism — her ability to build consensus and solve problems. As president, she would be flexible enough and experienced enough to cut across party lines and work productively with her political opponents. As first lady, she worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides healthcare coverage to more than 8 million children. As a senator, she was instrumental in persuading a Republican president to deliver billions of dollars in aid to New York after September 11. As secretary of State, she led the charge to persuade nations around the world to impose the tough sanctions on Iran that led to the landmark nuclear agreement, and she negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.