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| Trump interview broadcast on Russian propaganda outlet – campaign live | Trump interview broadcast on Russian propaganda outlet – campaign live |
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| A new Hillary Clinton campaign ad rebuts Donald Trump’s assertion that he alone can fix all that’s gone wrong with America. | |
| If you don’t remember Trump creepily saying that, it might be time to relive the climactic moment of the Republican national convention. | |
| In Clinton’s new ad, she says, “Donald Trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well I don’t believe that’s how you get things done in our country.” | |
| She lists solutions achieved through cooperation including health care for kids, the rebuilding of New York City after 9/11 and arms agreements with Russia. | |
| “We’ve got to bring people together. That’s how you solve problems, and that’s what I’ll do, as president,” she concludes. | |
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| Facebook co-founder dumps $20m on Democrats | |
| A co-founder of Facebook said to be worth around $10bn (50 times more than Donald Trump? 100 times more?) has just announced donations to multiple Democratic groups. Among Dustin Moskovitz’s aims is electing Hillary Clinton, whom he apparently has never met, president. | |
| Moskovitz was college roommates with Mark Zuckerberg and just became, it looks like, the third-biggest Democratic donor out there. | |
| In a statement on Medium, Moskovitz and his wife, whose cool name is Cari Tuna, and who together are noted and precocious philanthropists, said they feel hesitant to try to buy elections but the “fear and hostility” with which the Republicans have conducted this campaign has compelled them to act: | |
| This decision was not easy, particularly because we have reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections. We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that Secretary Clinton is able to pursue the agenda she’s outlined, and serve as a signal to the Republican Party that by running this kind of campaign — one built on fear and hostility — and supporting this kind of candidate, they compel people to act in response. | |
| I just published “Compelled to Act” https://t.co/O55CV174eo We’re committing $20M to help Democrats in the 2016 election. | |
| @hobbitj @teddyschleifer I have not yet met them, but hope to soon. We asked for nothing, but I accept that many won't believe it. | |
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| It’s the question everyone in US politics is trying to answer right now: who’s better, Obama or Putin? | |
| Donald Trump’s daring to say Putin, a notion elected Republicans won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, has given cover for other closet admirers of the Russian strongman to come out of the closet. | |
| Indiana governor / Trump No. 2 Mike Pence, for example, told CNN Thursday evening that of course Putin is a stronger leader than Obama: | |
| I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country. And that’s going to change the day that Donald Trump becomes president | |
| Noted conservative talk show Hugh Hewitt serves up this analysis: | |
| Putin's an evil man. POTUS a good but incompetent man. Putin has served his country's national interest better. https://t.co/6R2N0dajHM | |
| Former Obamanistas and sympathetic progressives are arguing with Hewitt about it: | |
| So Russia's interests are murdered journalists, shot down jetliners, a tanked economy, and global isolation? https://t.co/nfOC2Nt16D | |
| He's excelled in evil. Great leader. Very strong. https://t.co/GsrV3Xz7fV | |
| Putin’s not the only controversial entry on Hewitt’s top-leaders list: | |
| 3. When Nixon met with Mao it didn't make Mao any less the greatest murderer of post WW 2 era, but most historians rank him effective leader | |
| *Obama bows to foreign leader*GOP: TREASON*Trump praises Putin, criticizes US on Russia TV*GOP: If you close your eyes, he’s like Reagan | |
| Update: for further reading: | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump has done a call-in interview for Russian propaganda outlet RT, which used to stand for Russia Today, slamming the US media and criticizing US foreign policy. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump has done a call-in interview for Russian propaganda outlet RT, which used to stand for Russia Today, slamming the US media and criticizing US foreign policy. |
| In Trump’s defense, the interview was with eternal TV host Larry King, an old Trump pal and probably not a fifth columnist. On the other hand, Trump’s untiring admiration for Russia – which Hillary Clinton yesterday called “scary”, “dangerous”, “bizarre” and “astonishing” – threatens to become a political liability, as he is running for president of the USA. | In Trump’s defense, the interview was with eternal TV host Larry King, an old Trump pal and probably not a fifth columnist. On the other hand, Trump’s untiring admiration for Russia – which Hillary Clinton yesterday called “scary”, “dangerous”, “bizarre” and “astonishing” – threatens to become a political liability, as he is running for president of the USA. |
| Here’s the interview: | Here’s the interview: |
| The Trump campaign explained that Trump did not know whom he was doing the interview with. | The Trump campaign explained that Trump did not know whom he was doing the interview with. |
| “He...did an intw w Larry King, a personal friend of his… He didn’t know it would be on Russian TV.”@kellyannepolls on Trump’s intw on RT | “He...did an intw w Larry King, a personal friend of his… He didn’t know it would be on Russian TV.”@kellyannepolls on Trump’s intw on RT |
| Trump’s coziness with the Russians is making Republican lawmakers nervous, as CNN’s Manu Raju demonstrates: | Trump’s coziness with the Russians is making Republican lawmakers nervous, as CNN’s Manu Raju demonstrates: |
| Congressional Republicans ducking questions about Trump’s kind words for Putin. Such a great package from @mkraju: https://t.co/2XCioRhuAG | Congressional Republicans ducking questions about Trump’s kind words for Putin. Such a great package from @mkraju: https://t.co/2XCioRhuAG |
| Trump’s interview with Russian TV aired as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange went on Fox News to tell host Sean Hannity that the organization is working “around the clock” to prepare documents relating to Clinton’s campaign for release. In July, WikiLeaks published internal Democratic emails obtained through hacking in which Moscow figures as a prime suspect. | Trump’s interview with Russian TV aired as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange went on Fox News to tell host Sean Hannity that the organization is working “around the clock” to prepare documents relating to Clinton’s campaign for release. In July, WikiLeaks published internal Democratic emails obtained through hacking in which Moscow figures as a prime suspect. |
| Elsewhere, Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman reports that the man at the center of the US Senate’s landmark investigation of the CIA torture program has gone public for the first time about an experience that led to the CIA spying on him as part of what he calls a “failed coverup”: | Elsewhere, Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman reports that the man at the center of the US Senate’s landmark investigation of the CIA torture program has gone public for the first time about an experience that led to the CIA spying on him as part of what he calls a “failed coverup”: |
| For six years, Daniel Jones was the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee’s inquiry into CIA detentions and interrogations carried out in the post-9/11 Bush era. Jones and his team turned 6.3m pages of internal CIA documents into a scathing study which concluded that torture was ineffective and that the CIA had lied about it to two presidents, Congress and the US public. | For six years, Daniel Jones was the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee’s inquiry into CIA detentions and interrogations carried out in the post-9/11 Bush era. Jones and his team turned 6.3m pages of internal CIA documents into a scathing study which concluded that torture was ineffective and that the CIA had lied about it to two presidents, Congress and the US public. |
| But before Jones’s investigation was released in December 2014, the CIA searched through Senate files on a shared, firewalled network which had been set up by the agency for Jones and his team to securely receive classified documents. | But before Jones’s investigation was released in December 2014, the CIA searched through Senate files on a shared, firewalled network which had been set up by the agency for Jones and his team to securely receive classified documents. |
| The CIA accessed Jones’s work and even reconstructed his emails, sparking an unprecedented clash between the agency and its legislative overseers on Capitol Hill. | The CIA accessed Jones’s work and even reconstructed his emails, sparking an unprecedented clash between the agency and its legislative overseers on Capitol Hill. |
| Read further: | Read further: |
| Trump attends a value voters summit in Washington DC today and has an event this evening in Pensacola, Florida. Clinton will host a “working meeting” in New York with a bipartisan team of national security experts. | Trump attends a value voters summit in Washington DC today and has an event this evening in Pensacola, Florida. Clinton will host a “working meeting” in New York with a bipartisan team of national security experts. |
| Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. |
| Before giraffes mate do they neck?#ItsMy2Cents | Before giraffes mate do they neck?#ItsMy2Cents |
| Updated | Updated |
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