So is that link from 10 days ago about having the votes to unbind delegates done? I don't really know how these things work, but I haven't heard anything about it.

7/20/2016 1:01:07 PM

Quote :

"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says there is “no way that Melania Trump was plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s speech.” Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, called the allegation “absurd.”"

Quote :

"Manafort flatly denied that there was any plagiarism of Obama’s 2008 convention speech by Trump’s speech writers. Manafort, July 19: There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These were common words and values. She cares about her family. Things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night. She knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy."

7/20/2016 1:04:57 PM

Always gotta have a scapegoat.

Hope she got paid to take that blade.

7/20/2016 1:22:14 PM

Given how adamant they were that there was no plagiarism, it was all ginned up media bullshit, etc., you'd think they would leave out the part where she confessed yesterday. Particularly since the campaigning was still in denial this morning.

[Edited on July 20, 2016 at 1:55 PM. Reason : Don't they have campaign letterhead?]

7/20/2016 1:53:59 PM

its not gold though, so not allowed to use it

7/20/2016 2:27:49 PM

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"The Secret Service is officially investigating Al Baldasaro, an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign for veterans issues, who called for Hillary Clinton’s execution for “treason.’ “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation,” spokesman Robert Hoback told The Daily Beast on Wednesday afternoon."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/20/secret-service-investigating-trump-adviser-al-baldasaro-for-hillary-execution-comments.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

7/20/2016 4:16:49 PM

That's dumb and for show. He's an asshole who shouldn't say things like that but come on..

7/20/2016 4:36:22 PM

Yeah, it's not going to go anywhere probably, but I don't think it's "for show". it's pretty common for comments like that to get investigated, which I guess makes it a little noteworthy for a speaker at the GOP convention to make them.

And we do live in a time where domestic terrorist groups are at a peak, so it's not unreasonable to think someone saying this so prominently is a danger.

7/20/2016 4:40:42 PM

Christie tells @jaketapper Trump will send more U.S. boots to Iraq: "I do think he'll wind up having more troops there."

Guess he doesn't want to let Clinton get too far to the right of him..

7/20/2016 4:49:06 PM

^^ Not to mention that Trump's campaign and surrogates have history threatening people.

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"Former New York gubernatorial candidate and Donald Trump backer Carl Paladino doubled down Friday on a threatening email he sent to an anti-Trump delegate last week, saying she should not get her "underwear ... all bunched up" about it. Paladino sent an email to Utah delegate Stefani Williams telling her she should be "hung for treason" last week, according to a copy forwarded by Williams to CNN and first posted on Renew America. The email came after Williams posted an open letter on the conservative grassroots advocacy group's website calling on delegates to "dump Trump." "You should be hung for treason Stefani. There will not be a Republican Party if you attempt to replace Trump. I'll be in your face in Cleveland," the email said. [...] Reached by CNN to comment on the email to Williams, Paladino stood behind his original note -- calling the threat of hanging and being "in your face" a "colloquialism." "What the person was proposing is to encourage violation of the rules of the Republican Party under which Donald Trump rose legally to be the presumptive candidate," Paladino emailed CNN. "The person is being treacherous to the party in doing so and as such the colloquialism is appropriate -- and if the person's underwear is all bunched up over his or her sensitivity to my reaction, then tell the person if he or she can't take the heat of what he or she dished out, then get out of the kitchen." The Trump campaign had no comment on Paladino's words. It's not the first time the brash businessman has stepped into controversy. Earlier this month, an ill-formed tweet from Paladino's staff, which was deleted, looked like it was calling for the lynching of Attorney General Loretta Lynch. During Paladino's gubernatorial bid in 2010, he also faced scrutiny for explicit and racist emails he apparently sent to friends."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/15/politics/carl-paladino-donald-trump-delegate-threat/

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"A Utah woman says she was threatened by Donald Trump supporters after a floor fight over the rules at the Republican National Convention. "They said: 'You should die. They should pull the protection from the Utah delegation. You should all die,'?" at-large delegate Kera Birkeland said Monday night. Birkeland said she went to the restroom after a group of delegates, including many from Utah, attempted to force a roll call vote to block the rules, part of an attempt to deny Trump the presidential nomination. Two pro-Trump women, Birkeland said, told her the Utah delegation was horrible and stupid."

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4130621-155/you-should-die-trump-supporters-threaten

7/20/2016 5:01:23 PM

These people are trying to incite violence, plain and simple. They know they can't beat Hillary, just like they knew they couldn't beat Obama. Nor can they actually put them in jail or kill them. They figure if they work enough people up into a frothing rage, one of them might just be crazy enough to pull the trigger for them.

7/20/2016 5:13:16 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/john-kasich-donald-trump-vice-president/

So Trump, knowing he would make a terrible president, shopped the VP position around as basically being in charge of the tasks of the President.

7/20/2016 6:08:32 PM

kinda makes me feel better that trump wouldn't be making policy many decisions

7/20/2016 6:27:35 PM

Quote :

"come on, man I know it's probably tough for you, but it really isn't that difficult to see why that's not a good thing but you have proven yourself to be a racist, so you're probably unable to get it"

There is no real need for the news to say that though. Mentioning how there are no black people in one photo at the RNC is just a smear campaign by the liberal press. They should do the same when they find a photo of only white people at an event for democrats too.

7/20/2016 6:51:03 PM

LOL, Trump scared away more black people from the GOP than even Romney.

Asians are anti Republican this election more than any other election-- and they've been the most conservative minority group.

It's not a myth or misrepresentation that the GOP is a whites-preferred political party, especially under Trump's twitter dalliances with neo nazi and kkk groups.

7/20/2016 6:54:28 PM

^^ Do you even know what the picture was of?

[Edited on July 20, 2016 at 6:56 PM. Reason : ^^]

7/20/2016 6:55:40 PM

Obviously not.

It's well established he didn't know things he posts about.

7/20/2016 7:33:25 PM

Well, if that wasn't a ringing endorsement of Trump, I don't know what is.

7/20/2016 8:44:54 PM

'Obama is the cause of our racial tensions,' says man attending convention for candidate supported by white nationalists.

7/20/2016 8:59:39 PM

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"It's not a myth or misrepresentation that the GOP is a whites-preferred political party"

let's be perfectly honest here though; the Democratic party ringmasters are a whites-preferred party as well, lauding about the trinkets they throw out to minorities while shitting all over top of them with policy. For every David Duke out there, there's a Robert Byrd.

7/20/2016 9:03:20 PM

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"http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/john-kasich-donald-trump-vice-president/ So Trump, knowing he would make a terrible president, shopped the VP position around as basically being in charge of the tasks of the President. "

this seems like a level of self-awareness I would not attribute to Drumpf.

that said, it's pretty clear he wants the attention and prestige, and could otherwise give two shits about being president.

7/20/2016 9:44:37 PM

^I'd write that article off as Kasich being a whiny piece of shit that would say anything to knock Trump after the brutal primary. He couldn't even be bothered to come to the RNC after his cronies forced that ridiculous pledge on all the candidates. If something like that was coming out of the Scott Walker or Rick Scott camps, it might carry some weight.

I could see Trump stepping down after one term if elected, which would put any VP pick in an ideal position.

7/20/2016 10:42:51 PM

moron is like the guy who calls in every sports talk radio show every day to say the same thing about how bad the other team sucks

7/20/2016 11:16:00 PM

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"[Trump] needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO."

-- Paul Manafort

7/20/2016 11:30:11 PM

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/donald-trump-issues.html

When asked about Erdogan in Turkey, who arrested and fired 50,000+ people, including all teachers, and has banned travel for professors, Trump had this to say, today, July 20 2016:

Quote :

" "Mr. Trump had nothing but praise for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s increasingly authoritarian but democratically elected leader. “I give great credit to him for being able to turn that around,” Mr. Trump said of the coup attempt on Friday night. “Some people say that it was staged, you know that,” he said. “I don’t think so.”" "

7/21/2016 12:11:02 AM

Quote :

"let's be perfectly honest here though; the Democratic party ringmasters are a whites-preferred party as well, lauding about the trinkets they throw out to minorities while shitting all over top of them with policy. For every David Duke out there, there's a Robert Byrd. "

If we're really being honest, you'd have to admit saying there's a Robert Byrd for every David Duke is an absurd statement. Democrats, especially on the state level, are just as racist as republicans, this is probably true. But the fact there's even breathing room in the party for people like Bernie and Hillary to thrive is a night/day difference compared to the GOP. Saying #blacklivesmatter is a death sentence as a republican.

7/21/2016 12:13:44 AM

Democrats are about corperate, systemic racism and small bandaids to "fight it" while Republicans are about pretending racism doesn't exist. Not sure which is worse.

7/21/2016 1:14:00 AM

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"For every David Duke out there, there's a Robert Byrd"

nah

7/21/2016 1:25:31 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzqMzX4_1Eg

Good point about business partners

7/21/2016 9:42:32 AM

Quote :

"^^ Do you even know what the picture was of?"

Yeah, the one ABC was making a big deal out of was interns. It featured white people and a few Asians. So what? Who cares? I'm guessing you could go to an NAACP Convention and find a photo of only black people. Does that make them racist?

7/21/2016 10:32:25 AM

That's like the definition of false equivalency. Unless you're conceding that the Republican Party is supposed to be for whites only.

[Edited on July 21, 2016 at 10:36 AM. Reason : ]

7/21/2016 10:35:57 AM

there are also plenty of white people involved with the NAACP

7/21/2016 10:59:36 AM

^and plenty of blacks in the Republican party.

7/21/2016 12:08:43 PM

this is just too much for you

7/21/2016 12:15:09 PM

^^ And fewer everyday.

[Edited on July 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM. Reason : ^ To be fair, no one has ever accused B4C of being bright.]

7/21/2016 12:15:47 PM

^^You're blind if you can't see that abc and most of the press is left leaning. Claiming they give fair coverage to the Republican party is like saying fox news isn't pro Republican party and gives fair coverage to liberals.

7/21/2016 12:57:06 PM

now you are just changing the point entirely

7/21/2016 12:58:04 PM

RNC Has Fewest Black Delegates In 40 Years
http://www.npr.org/sections/newsandviews/2008/09/rnc_has_fewest_black_delegates.html

7/21/2016 1:17:53 PM

Eric Trump's wife graduated from NCSU in '05?

7/21/2016 1:30:59 PM

^^^All I said on the previous page is the press is left leaning and there wasn't any real need to make a big deal out of a photo of mostly white people and some Asians. It is what it is, but the press loves to run a smear campaign whenever given the chance to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

7/21/2016 1:43:54 PM

^^Yep. And a Wilmington native. Apparantly she's a producer on Inside Edition now. From some website I saw on the webs:

Quote :

"Lara Trump graduated from North Carolina State University in 2005 with degrees in communications and French, according to Linkedin."

7/21/2016 2:03:42 PM

^^ lol

Pointing out the GOP under Trump has historically bad support of blacks, and is itself not supporting blacks, is not a smear campaign. It is a fundamental truth of the Republican platform, that is indicative of anachronistic DNA of the party itself.

You can be "conservative" and not racist, TGD has proven this well.

7/21/2016 2:25:17 PM

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lori-gayne-removed-rnc-delegate-white-pride

7/21/2016 4:40:34 PM

Quote :

"All I said on the previous page is the press is left leaning and there wasn't any real need to make a big deal out of a photo of mostly white people and some Asians. It is what it is, but the press loves to run a smear campaign whenever given the chance to make a mountain out of a mole hill."

You can't think of any reason why a crop of Capital Hill Republican interns might be of interest? Nothing at all, other than 'it's just another smear campaign?'

7/21/2016 6:03:13 PM

Quote :

"Lori Gayne, a Trump delegate, posted on a photo of police officers to her Facebook on the opening day of the RNC, according to the report. "Our brave snipers just waiting for some “N—- to try something. Love them," the caption read, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. [...] Gayne told the Sun-Times in a statement that she “in no way intended to make racist or threatening statements.”"

hahahaha

7/21/2016 6:06:00 PM

Trumps speech is effective. A lot of lies but it will be received well.

7/21/2016 7:28:33 PM

I gotta finish destroying Gawker for outing me so I can go speak to the party that doesn't think I should be able to marry.

7/21/2016 9:33:09 PM

Did he just pat her ass?

7/21/2016 10:19:05 PM

https://twitter.com/maryellen/status/756315703523864576

[Edited on July 21, 2016 at 11:35 PM. Reason : []

7/21/2016 11:35:19 PM

I'm not sure how he can talk about dissolving the separation of church and state in the same speech where he talks about upholding the constitution and laws?

Also, who thinks mining for coal is a good idea anymore? This is the dumbest things a presidential candidate could say as energy police in 2016.

[Edited on July 21, 2016 at 11:46 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2016 11:39:24 PM