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| Trump says proposed ban on Muslims was 'only a suggestion' – campaign live | Trump says proposed ban on Muslims was 'only a suggestion' – campaign live |
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| Donald Trump is now saying that he will release his tax returns once a government audit is complete, rather than after the presidential election. | |
| In interview I told @AP that my taxes are under routine audit and I would release my tax returns when audit is complete, not after election! | |
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| Bad news for certain House speakers who hope to strong-arm presidential candidates into conforming to conservative orthodoxy: They might not be as popular as their opponent among the Republican rank-and-file. | |
| That’s the word from Public Policy Polling, whose new national poll finds that only 30% of voters nationwide approve of Paul Ryan’s performance as speaker, with a near-majority of 48% disapproving. Even worse news for Ryan: He’s even viewed negatively by a plurality of Republican voters, with only 40% approving of his performance while 44% disapprove. Meanwhile, 86% of Republican voters plan on voting for the Republican presidential nominee, the only form of approval that presumptive nominee Donald Trump likely cares about. | |
| It’s a big change for Ryan’s standings in the party since November, when the same poll found that 69% of Republican voters supported Ryan’s ascension to the role of speaker. | |
| Silver lining: Ryan doing much better nationally than Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, whose performance in the upper house is approved of by a mere 11% of voters, and a stunning 14% of Republicans - only four points better than his approval ratings among Democrats. | |
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| In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, newly elected London mayor Sadiq Khan said today that he hopes that Donald Trump is not elected president, largely due to his stance on Muslim immigration. (Namely, that there should be none.) | In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, newly elected London mayor Sadiq Khan said today that he hopes that Donald Trump is not elected president, largely due to his stance on Muslim immigration. (Namely, that there should be none.) |
| “I’m hoping he’s not the guy that wins,” Khan said bluntly in the interview, instead casting his lot behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “Not only does Hillary have a fantastic track record and she’s very, very experienced, I’m the father of two daughters - I’m a proud feminist in city hall. Just imagine the message it sends to my daughters and to girls around the world that the president of the United States of America is a woman, not any woman, a woman with the gravitas, with the experience, somebody who is a unifier in leading the USA.” | “I’m hoping he’s not the guy that wins,” Khan said bluntly in the interview, instead casting his lot behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “Not only does Hillary have a fantastic track record and she’s very, very experienced, I’m the father of two daughters - I’m a proud feminist in city hall. Just imagine the message it sends to my daughters and to girls around the world that the president of the United States of America is a woman, not any woman, a woman with the gravitas, with the experience, somebody who is a unifier in leading the USA.” |
| Khan cited his own election as the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital city as evidence that voters can see beyond racial and religious animosity. | Khan cited his own election as the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital city as evidence that voters can see beyond racial and religious animosity. |
| “London has chosen hope over fear,” Khan said. “I’m really proud that London chose unity over division. And my message to Donald Trump and his team is that your views of Islam are ignorant. It is possible to be a Muslim and to live in the west. It is possible to be a Muslim and to love America.” | “London has chosen hope over fear,” Khan said. “I’m really proud that London chose unity over division. And my message to Donald Trump and his team is that your views of Islam are ignorant. It is possible to be a Muslim and to live in the west. It is possible to be a Muslim and to love America.” |
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| Eighty-seven-year-old billionaire T. Boone Pickens has shruggingly endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, telling attendees of a convention in Las Vegas today that he has taken a shine to the tycoon’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the US, and said that, worst-case-scenario, he’ll likely be dead before anything truly results from Trump’s election. | Eighty-seven-year-old billionaire T. Boone Pickens has shruggingly endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, telling attendees of a convention in Las Vegas today that he has taken a shine to the tycoon’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the US, and said that, worst-case-scenario, he’ll likely be dead before anything truly results from Trump’s election. |
| “I’m ready to take a chance on it,” the oil billionaire said. “And just in case it’s a mistake, [I’ll] be gone.” | “I’m ready to take a chance on it,” the oil billionaire said. “And just in case it’s a mistake, [I’ll] be gone.” |
| Pickens appears to have chosen Trump as the candidate of last resort, having previously endorsed former Florida governor Jeb Bush and lambasting Trump as not “even have experience running a lemonade stand.” | Pickens appears to have chosen Trump as the candidate of last resort, having previously endorsed former Florida governor Jeb Bush and lambasting Trump as not “even have experience running a lemonade stand.” |
| “We’ve turned our presidential selection process into a reality TV show,” Pickens wrote in a LinkedIn post supporting Bush at the time. “Hell, it’s worse than reality TV. Why? Because this reality TV show is about the selecting the leader of the Free World.” | “We’ve turned our presidential selection process into a reality TV show,” Pickens wrote in a LinkedIn post supporting Bush at the time. “Hell, it’s worse than reality TV. Why? Because this reality TV show is about the selecting the leader of the Free World.” |
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| Mitt Romney: It is 'disqualifying' that Donald Trump won't release his tax returns | Mitt Romney: It is 'disqualifying' that Donald Trump won't release his tax returns |
| Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns is “disqualifying” for a presidential candidate, his predecessor as Republican nominee Mitt Romney has said. | Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns is “disqualifying” for a presidential candidate, his predecessor as Republican nominee Mitt Romney has said. |
| “There is only one logical explanation for Mr Trump’s refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them,” Romney wrote. “Given Mr Trump’s equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it’s a bombshell of unusual size.” | “There is only one logical explanation for Mr Trump’s refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them,” Romney wrote. “Given Mr Trump’s equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it’s a bombshell of unusual size.” |
| Although not legally required of presidential candidates, the release of tax returns has been considered the norm for party nominees since Gerald Ford released a copy of his tax returns in 1976. Trump had previously declared in a presidential debate that he would release his tax information, shrugging off delays as due to the inherent complexity of his personal fortune. | Although not legally required of presidential candidates, the release of tax returns has been considered the norm for party nominees since Gerald Ford released a copy of his tax returns in 1976. Trump had previously declared in a presidential debate that he would release his tax information, shrugging off delays as due to the inherent complexity of his personal fortune. |
| “I have very big tax returns,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “I’m sure you’ve seen the picture where the returns are literally from the floor to up to here. They’re extremely complex.” | “I have very big tax returns,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “I’m sure you’ve seen the picture where the returns are literally from the floor to up to here. They’re extremely complex.” |
| Trump said in February, however, that audits of his federal income taxes prevented him from releasing his taxes, but that “as soon as the audit is done,” he would release his tax information. | Trump said in February, however, that audits of his federal income taxes prevented him from releasing his taxes, but that “as soon as the audit is done,” he would release his tax information. |
| There are no laws prohibiting tax returns under audit from being released. Richard Nixon released his own taxes under audit in 1973. | There are no laws prohibiting tax returns under audit from being released. Richard Nixon released his own taxes under audit in 1973. |
| “It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service,” Romney wrote. “Tax returns provide the public with its sole confirmation of the veracity of a candidate’s representations regarding charities, priorities, wealth, tax conformance, and conflicts of interest.” | “It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service,” Romney wrote. “Tax returns provide the public with its sole confirmation of the veracity of a candidate’s representations regarding charities, priorities, wealth, tax conformance, and conflicts of interest.” |
| He added: “Mr Trump says he is being audited. So? There is nothing that prevents releasing tax returns that are being audited. Further, he could release returns for the years immediately prior to the years under audit.” | He added: “Mr Trump says he is being audited. So? There is nothing that prevents releasing tax returns that are being audited. Further, he could release returns for the years immediately prior to the years under audit.” |
| Romney stated: “While not a likely circumstance, the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone who is seeking to become commander-in-chief.” | Romney stated: “While not a likely circumstance, the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone who is seeking to become commander-in-chief.” |
| Romney himself was criticized during the 2012 campaign for initially refusing to release his own returns, and then, upon their release, for not releasing any before the year 2010. | Romney himself was criticized during the 2012 campaign for initially refusing to release his own returns, and then, upon their release, for not releasing any before the year 2010. |
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| You may have missed it during the primaries last night, but will appearing on Fox News, Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly that he would appoint supreme court justices that would overturn Roe v. Wade, and assured his supporters that their best chance at banning abortion entirely would be to vote for him. | You may have missed it during the primaries last night, but will appearing on Fox News, Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly that he would appoint supreme court justices that would overturn Roe v. Wade, and assured his supporters that their best chance at banning abortion entirely would be to vote for him. |
| “I’ve become pro-life - I was in a meek fashion pro-choice but I’ve become pro-life,” Trump told O’Reilly. “I will protect [anti-abortion views], and the biggest way you can protect it is through the supreme court, and putting people on the court - actually, the biggest way that you can protect it is by electing me president.” | “I’ve become pro-life - I was in a meek fashion pro-choice but I’ve become pro-life,” Trump told O’Reilly. “I will protect [anti-abortion views], and the biggest way you can protect it is through the supreme court, and putting people on the court - actually, the biggest way that you can protect it is by electing me president.” |
| “I’m going to put conservative judges on - I think one of the biggest things happening in terms of this election are, it could be as many as five judges.” | “I’m going to put conservative judges on - I think one of the biggest things happening in terms of this election are, it could be as many as five judges.” |
| Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, declared Trump’s agenda “dangerous.” | Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, declared Trump’s agenda “dangerous.” |
| “Women can’t trust Donald Trump,” Laguens said. “Donald Trump goes on sexist rants that demean and disrespect women, and backs it up with a policy agenda that is dangerous and ignores the very real issues women face in this country. Donald Trump promises to make abortion illegal and is pushing to block millions of people from birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers –– even if it means shutting down the government.” | “Women can’t trust Donald Trump,” Laguens said. “Donald Trump goes on sexist rants that demean and disrespect women, and backs it up with a policy agenda that is dangerous and ignores the very real issues women face in this country. Donald Trump promises to make abortion illegal and is pushing to block millions of people from birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers –– even if it means shutting down the government.” |
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| Conservative talk-radio personality Rush Limbaugh is helping out Republican listeners who are having trouble circling the square of Donald Trump’s past donations to and nice statements about Hillary Clinton and her husband, chalking up past declarations that “he’s a really good guy and she’s a really good person and woman” to a massive, four-year plan by the presumptive Republican nominee to get the Clintons exactly where he wants them. | Conservative talk-radio personality Rush Limbaugh is helping out Republican listeners who are having trouble circling the square of Donald Trump’s past donations to and nice statements about Hillary Clinton and her husband, chalking up past declarations that “he’s a really good guy and she’s a really good person and woman” to a massive, four-year plan by the presumptive Republican nominee to get the Clintons exactly where he wants them. |
| “Will we finally now admit how brilliant Trump is?” Limbaugh said on his show. “Can we all finally admit that he’s been setting these people up for years? He’s been out there praising the Clintons. He’s been fooling them. He’s been making the Clintons think he loves them, he supports them, he’s in their camp, he’s got them tamed, they’re not even thinking about Trump, even looking about Trump, and Trump is just icing them.” | “Will we finally now admit how brilliant Trump is?” Limbaugh said on his show. “Can we all finally admit that he’s been setting these people up for years? He’s been out there praising the Clintons. He’s been fooling them. He’s been making the Clintons think he loves them, he supports them, he’s in their camp, he’s got them tamed, they’re not even thinking about Trump, even looking about Trump, and Trump is just icing them.” |
| “Trump is gonna come out of the blue one day and just squash these people,” Limbaugh continued. “What a brilliant, brilliant move to keep them off guard and set them up.” | “Trump is gonna come out of the blue one day and just squash these people,” Limbaugh continued. “What a brilliant, brilliant move to keep them off guard and set them up.” |
| Well, that’s one theory. | Well, that’s one theory. |
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| Donald Trump: Proposed ban on Muslims 'only a suggestion' | Donald Trump: Proposed ban on Muslims 'only a suggestion' |
| Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump appears to be slightly tempering one of his signature proposals, telling Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade that his plan to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US is “only a suggestion.” | Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump appears to be slightly tempering one of his signature proposals, telling Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade that his plan to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US is “only a suggestion.” |
| “It hasn’t been called for yet. Nobody’s done it,” Trump said on Kilmeade & Friends, when asked about criticism from the newly elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who is the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. | “It hasn’t been called for yet. Nobody’s done it,” Trump said on Kilmeade & Friends, when asked about criticism from the newly elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who is the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. |
| “It’s a temporary ban, it hasn’t been called for yet, nobody’s done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on,” Trump said. “We have radical Islamic terrorism all over the world, you can go to Paris, you can go to San Bernardino, all over the world, if they want to deny it, they can deny it, I don’t choose to deny it.” | “It’s a temporary ban, it hasn’t been called for yet, nobody’s done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on,” Trump said. “We have radical Islamic terrorism all over the world, you can go to Paris, you can go to San Bernardino, all over the world, if they want to deny it, they can deny it, I don’t choose to deny it.” |
| The “total and complete shutdown” on Muslim travel to the US, first proposed in December, has become a major plank of Trump’s candidacy, despite criticism that the policy is as unconstitutional as it is incendiary. | The “total and complete shutdown” on Muslim travel to the US, first proposed in December, has become a major plank of Trump’s candidacy, despite criticism that the policy is as unconstitutional as it is incendiary. |
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| Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has promised to release any and all government files relating to unidentified flying objects - excuse us, “unexplained aerial phenomenon” - but voters worried/delighted about the possibility of little green men will have to wait until the end of the current administration to see those X-files. | Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has promised to release any and all government files relating to unidentified flying objects - excuse us, “unexplained aerial phenomenon” - but voters worried/delighted about the possibility of little green men will have to wait until the end of the current administration to see those X-files. |
| “I’m not aware of any plans the president has to make public any information about this,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told journalists during a briefing, after he was asked whether the president plans on doing so himself. | “I’m not aware of any plans the president has to make public any information about this,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told journalists during a briefing, after he was asked whether the president plans on doing so himself. |
| “I have to admit that I don’t have a tab in my briefing book for Area 51,” Earnest joked. | “I have to admit that I don’t have a tab in my briefing book for Area 51,” Earnest joked. |
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| Warren warns Trump: 'your free ride is over' | Warren warns Trump: 'your free ride is over' |
| Earlier today, Donald Trump returned on Twitter to a favorite subject (obsession?) of his of late: “goofy” Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator whose advocacy for consumer protection and bank regulation have made her a progressive standard-bearer, and who has been the subject of some (possibly baseless) talk that she could be a running mate to Hillary Clinton. | Earlier today, Donald Trump returned on Twitter to a favorite subject (obsession?) of his of late: “goofy” Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator whose advocacy for consumer protection and bank regulation have made her a progressive standard-bearer, and who has been the subject of some (possibly baseless) talk that she could be a running mate to Hillary Clinton. |
| Goofy Elizabeth Warren has been one of the least effective Senators in the entire U.S. Senate. She has done nothing! | Goofy Elizabeth Warren has been one of the least effective Senators in the entire U.S. Senate. She has done nothing! |
| Goofy Elizabeth Warren didn’t have the guts to run for POTUS. Her phony Native American heritage stops that and VP cold. | Goofy Elizabeth Warren didn’t have the guts to run for POTUS. Her phony Native American heritage stops that and VP cold. |
| Now Warren is replying: | Now Warren is replying: |
| We get it, @realDonaldTrump: When a woman stands up to you, you’re going to call her a basket case. Hormonal. Ugly. | We get it, @realDonaldTrump: When a woman stands up to you, you’re going to call her a basket case. Hormonal. Ugly. |
| Do you think you're going to shut us up, @realDonaldTrump? Think again. It's time to answer for your dangerous ideas. | Do you think you're going to shut us up, @realDonaldTrump? Think again. It's time to answer for your dangerous ideas. |
| You care so much about struggling American workers,@realDonaldTrump, that you want to abolish the federal minimum wage? | You care so much about struggling American workers,@realDonaldTrump, that you want to abolish the federal minimum wage? |
| You feel so much for people with college debt, @realDonaldTrump, that you raked in millions scamming students with Trump University? | You feel so much for people with college debt, @realDonaldTrump, that you raked in millions scamming students with Trump University? |
| You’re so concerned about Wall Street, @realDonaldTrump, that you say you’d “absolutely” repeal Dodd-Frank? | You’re so concerned about Wall Street, @realDonaldTrump, that you say you’d “absolutely” repeal Dodd-Frank? |
| When asked what gov should stop doing, @realDonaldTrump said overseeing banks! How can you be tough on Wall Street by letting them off? | When asked what gov should stop doing, @realDonaldTrump said overseeing banks! How can you be tough on Wall Street by letting them off? |
| .@realDonaldTrump: Your policies are dangerous. Your words are reckless. Your record is embarrassing. And your free ride is over. | .@realDonaldTrump: Your policies are dangerous. Your words are reckless. Your record is embarrassing. And your free ride is over. |