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| Ryan eases off Trump: 'I want to be part of GOP unifying process' – campaign live | Ryan eases off Trump: 'I want to be part of GOP unifying process' – campaign live |
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| 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.” | |
| “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.” | |
| 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. | |
| “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. | |
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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. |
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| How poorly did Clinton perform in West Virginia last night, compared with 2008? | How poorly did Clinton perform in West Virginia last night, compared with 2008? |
| Very: | Very: |
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| Clinton thanks Camden, New Jersey and the crowd claps her off. | Clinton thanks Camden, New Jersey and the crowd claps her off. |
| For one encapsulation of her vulnerability as a candidate, listen to Jon Stewart’s interview with David Axelrod, in which the former Daily Show host is applauded at saying he’s not sure what her convictions are: | For one encapsulation of her vulnerability as a candidate, listen to Jon Stewart’s interview with David Axelrod, in which the former Daily Show host is applauded at saying he’s not sure what her convictions are: |
| the student applause after Jon Stewart's 1st comment about @HillaryClinton should terrify her https://t.co/HA9YR7U2kK | the student applause after Jon Stewart's 1st comment about @HillaryClinton should terrify her https://t.co/HA9YR7U2kK |
| Jon Stewart absolutely skewers Hillary Clinton here. The media quoted him on Trump and left this out. Wow.https://t.co/3GsKnsyEsC | Jon Stewart absolutely skewers Hillary Clinton here. The media quoted him on Trump and left this out. Wow.https://t.co/3GsKnsyEsC |
| Updated | Updated |
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| Clinton says, as she previously has, that she plans on ignoring “personal” attacks by Trump: | Clinton says, as she previously has, that she plans on ignoring “personal” attacks by Trump: |
| I am not going to respond to the insults and the attacks coming from Donald Trump in this campaign. He can say whatever he wants to say about me personally. I will stand up and fight for any American that he attacks and insults. We are better than that and we will act like that. | I am not going to respond to the insults and the attacks coming from Donald Trump in this campaign. He can say whatever he wants to say about me personally. I will stand up and fight for any American that he attacks and insults. We are better than that and we will act like that. |
| How do you explain to your children when somebody running for president encourages somebody to be beaten up? Encourages violence?... | How do you explain to your children when somebody running for president encourages somebody to be beaten up? Encourages violence?... |
| I will also search for common ground. | I will also search for common ground. |
| She also says that she plans to pursue questions about Trump’s tax returns – and blasts his tax policy: | She also says that she plans to pursue questions about Trump’s tax returns – and blasts his tax policy: |
| "Why doesn’t he want to release them? Yeah, we’ll we’re going to find out," HRC says of Trump's tax returns | "Why doesn’t he want to release them? Yeah, we’ll we’re going to find out," HRC says of Trump's tax returns |
| Hillary Clinton in New Jersey: “Donald Trump’s tax plan was written by a billionaire for billionaires.” | Hillary Clinton in New Jersey: “Donald Trump’s tax plan was written by a billionaire for billionaires.” |
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| Hillary Clinton is holding a rally in New Jersey, and has just turned to an attack on Trump, promising to get to the issue of his taxes and detailing why she thinks he’s a “loose cannon.” | Hillary Clinton is holding a rally in New Jersey, and has just turned to an attack on Trump, promising to get to the issue of his taxes and detailing why she thinks he’s a “loose cannon.” |
| “You go down the list, and you’ve got a really reckless, even dangerous agenda... there’s a lot of concern around the world about his candidacy. Because it really matters.” | “You go down the list, and you’ve got a really reckless, even dangerous agenda... there’s a lot of concern around the world about his candidacy. Because it really matters.” |
| Watch live here: | Watch live here: |
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| Trump refuses to release tax returns | Trump refuses to release tax returns |
| Another presidential election, another Republican nominee who refuses to release his taxes. Like Mitt Romney before him, Donald Trump is rejecting calls for him to release his tax returns, telling the AP that “there’s nothing to learn from them” and that voters are not interested. | Another presidential election, another Republican nominee who refuses to release his taxes. Like Mitt Romney before him, Donald Trump is rejecting calls for him to release his tax returns, telling the AP that “there’s nothing to learn from them” and that voters are not interested. |
| Trump also has said he can’t release years of returns because he is undergoing an audit, a causal relationship that Romney himself has called out as bushwa: | Trump also has said he can’t release years of returns because he is undergoing an audit, a causal relationship that Romney himself has called out as bushwa: |
| No legit reason @realDonaldTrump can't release returns while being audited, but if scared, release earlier returns no longer under audit. | No legit reason @realDonaldTrump can't release returns while being audited, but if scared, release earlier returns no longer under audit. |
| Romney similarly resisted intrusive public inquiry into whether he had paid his taxes while nursing the ambition to be president. In January 2012 Romney released his 2010 tax return, and he released his 2011 return in September 2012, revealing he had paid an effective tax rate of between 10% and 15% on varying piles of millions in income. Romney declined to release earlier returns. Hillary Clinton’s tax returns going back longer than you may care to read are online here. Bernie Sanders’ 2014 1040, showing just over $200,000 in income, is here. | Romney similarly resisted intrusive public inquiry into whether he had paid his taxes while nursing the ambition to be president. In January 2012 Romney released his 2010 tax return, and he released his 2011 return in September 2012, revealing he had paid an effective tax rate of between 10% and 15% on varying piles of millions in income. Romney declined to release earlier returns. Hillary Clinton’s tax returns going back longer than you may care to read are online here. Bernie Sanders’ 2014 1040, showing just over $200,000 in income, is here. |
| Trump said he did not expect to release his tax returns before November, meaning likely not at all. The refusal has stoked speculation that he has something to hide, such as a small income, small charity giving, or a small effective tax rate. | Trump said he did not expect to release his tax returns before November, meaning likely not at all. The refusal has stoked speculation that he has something to hide, such as a small income, small charity giving, or a small effective tax rate. |
| Ironically, Trump told Fox News in January 2012 that Romney’s failure to release his tax returns had hurt him “badly”: | Ironically, Trump told Fox News in January 2012 that Romney’s failure to release his tax returns had hurt him “badly”: |
| I think Mitt was hurt really very badly by this whole thing with the income tax returns. I believe he should have given them April 1, but I didn’t think going into a little bit of detail without going into a lot of detail was positive thing. | I think Mitt was hurt really very badly by this whole thing with the income tax returns. I believe he should have given them April 1, but I didn’t think going into a little bit of detail without going into a lot of detail was positive thing. |
| Donald Trump is building a giant, beautiful wall between America and his tax returns https://t.co/wqPwFjzI7Z pic.twitter.com/vIDB5yhcnD | Donald Trump is building a giant, beautiful wall between America and his tax returns https://t.co/wqPwFjzI7Z pic.twitter.com/vIDB5yhcnD |
| Trump says he can't share his returns during an IRS audit. But that didn't hinder Nixon -- of all people -- in 1972 https://t.co/HvMIpDrBkm | Trump says he can't share his returns during an IRS audit. But that didn't hinder Nixon -- of all people -- in 1972 https://t.co/HvMIpDrBkm |
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| Sanders: 'please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems' | Sanders: 'please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems' |
| In an interview, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell tells Bernie Sanders that Clinton has had to deal with more punishment at Trump’s hands than he has, that “she’s fighting two candidates and you’re fighting one.” | In an interview, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell tells Bernie Sanders that Clinton has had to deal with more punishment at Trump’s hands than he has, that “she’s fighting two candidates and you’re fighting one.” |
| Sanders does not overflow with sympathy: | Sanders does not overflow with sympathy: |
| Since people asked, here's full context of Sanders telling @mitchellreports not to "moan" about Clinton's problems. pic.twitter.com/gvZHmkNJ7E | Since people asked, here's full context of Sanders telling @mitchellreports not to "moan" about Clinton's problems. pic.twitter.com/gvZHmkNJ7E |
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| Adam Gabbatt | Adam Gabbatt |
| The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt has gone inside one of the least-heralded candidacies of the election cycle: Jim Hedges’ run at the presidency on the Prohibition ticket. Prohibition, as in no alcohol for anyone. | The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt has gone inside one of the least-heralded candidacies of the election cycle: Jim Hedges’ run at the presidency on the Prohibition ticket. Prohibition, as in no alcohol for anyone. |
| Hedges isn’t optimistic about his chances of winning, Adam writes: | Hedges isn’t optimistic about his chances of winning, Adam writes: |
| Nor should he be. The Prohibition party got 270,000 votes in one presidential election, but that was in 1892. In 2012, the party made it on to the ballot in only one state and only 518 people voted for it. | Nor should he be. The Prohibition party got 270,000 votes in one presidential election, but that was in 1892. In 2012, the party made it on to the ballot in only one state and only 518 people voted for it. |
| But this time will be different, Hedges says. The Prohibition party is hoping to be on the ballot in six states. | But this time will be different, Hedges says. The Prohibition party is hoping to be on the ballot in six states. |
| “If I get a thousand votes in each of these six states I’ll be happy,” Hedges says. “It’ll make us look like a going concern again.” | “If I get a thousand votes in each of these six states I’ll be happy,” Hedges says. “It’ll make us look like a going concern again.” |
| Late in the interview, Hedges controversially reveals to Adam that alcohol has passed his lips. Read the full piece here: | Late in the interview, Hedges controversially reveals to Adam that alcohol has passed his lips. Read the full piece here: |
| Related: A sobering alternative? Prohibition party back on the ticket this election | Related: A sobering alternative? Prohibition party back on the ticket this election |
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| Here’s a clip of Ryan earlier saying the “Republican party cannot pretend to be unified”: | Here’s a clip of Ryan earlier saying the “Republican party cannot pretend to be unified”: |
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| Carson predicts Trump-Ryan kumbaya | Carson predicts Trump-Ryan kumbaya |
| Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former Republican candidate, and now an operative with broad portfolio within the Trump campaign, has spoken with House speaker Paul Ryan in advance of a summit tomorrow between the House leadership and the presumptive nominee. | Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former Republican candidate, and now an operative with broad portfolio within the Trump campaign, has spoken with House speaker Paul Ryan in advance of a summit tomorrow between the House leadership and the presumptive nominee. |
| Carson thinks the two sides are on the verge of working this whole thing out: | Carson thinks the two sides are on the verge of working this whole thing out: |
| “We talked about the big issues, and I think they are going to have a very, very substantive and good meeting,” Carson told the Washington Post. “I suspect that after they meet they’ll feel much closer.” | “We talked about the big issues, and I think they are going to have a very, very substantive and good meeting,” Carson told the Washington Post. “I suspect that after they meet they’ll feel much closer.” |
| Ryan said Monday and today that he simply needs to get to know Trump before party unity can be achieved. It was unclear whether Ryan thought a single meeting Thursday would be enough. | Ryan said Monday and today that he simply needs to get to know Trump before party unity can be achieved. It was unclear whether Ryan thought a single meeting Thursday would be enough. |
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| Truth. Hats off for the retiring senator from Maryland: | Truth. Hats off for the retiring senator from Maryland: |
| .@SenatorBarb says she's worked with Clinton on "the macro issues and the macaroni and cheese issues" | .@SenatorBarb says she's worked with Clinton on "the macro issues and the macaroni and cheese issues" |
| incredible Mikulski line. classic. https://t.co/Pg53HMmAru | incredible Mikulski line. classic. https://t.co/Pg53HMmAru |