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Trump’s Campaign Manager Didn’t Vote In 2016

June 19, 2020 at 11:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale acknowledged that he didn’t vote in the 2016 election, citing absentee ballot complications, CNN reports.

Said Parscale: “In 2016, I was in New York working to elect Donald Trump and encountered a series of problems receiving my absentee ballot from Texas and missed the deadline. Just further proof that vote-by-mail is not the flawless solution Democrats and the media pretend it is.”

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Trump Has Only One Playbook

May 28, 2020 at 9:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, 2020 Campaign, Members

Trump’s 2016 Aides Warn He’s In Trouble

May 26, 2020 at 10:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, two key allies and former political advisers to Donald Trump, went to the White House last week to issue him a warning: The president was slipping badly in swing states, and he needed to do something to fix it,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, 2020 Campaign

Biden Apologizes for ‘You Ain’t Black’ Comments

May 22, 2020 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Joe Biden apologized for the comments he made on black voters in a radio interview, CBS News reports.

Said Biden: “I should not have been so cavalier. I’ve never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted. No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, their religion, their background.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Race

Documents Hint at Israeli Efforts to Help Trump In 2016

April 30, 2020 at 9:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Roger Stone was in contact with one or more apparently well-connected Israelis at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, one of whom warned Stone that Trump was “going to be defeated unless we intervene” and promised “we have critical intel,” the Times of Israel reports.

“The exchange between Stone and this Jerusalem-based contact appears in FBI documents made public on Tuesday.”

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Roger Stone Search Warrants Reveal New Mysteries

April 29, 2020 at 6:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Nearly three-dozen search warrants unsealed late Tuesday reveal a web of contacts between longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other key figures in the long-running probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election,” Politico reports.

“Stone, who was convicted last year of lying to House investigators during their own Russia probe, was never charged with aiding efforts by Russia. But his contacts with Assange add new details to a relationship that he long denied existed.”

“In a set of 2017 messages revealed in one search warrant, Stone assured Assange — who spent years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London before being arrested by British authorities last year — that he would ‘bring down the entire house of cards’ if U.S. prosecutors pursued him.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Political Consultants

Flashback Quote of the Day

April 25, 2020 at 1:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The fact that there are warnings like ‘Do not drink’ on bottles of bleach makes me realize that Donald Trump can become president.”

— Ricky Gervais, on Twitter, March 6, 2016.

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Senate Intel Confirms Russia Tried to Help Trump

April 21, 2020 at 11:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office,” Politico reports.

“Tuesday’s bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump’s years of efforts to portray allegations of Kremlin assistance to his campaign as a ‘hoax,’ driven by Democrats and a ‘deep state‘ embedded within the government bureaucracy.”

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Ex-Trump Adviser Told Mueller Campaign Was ‘Chaotic’

March 3, 2020 at 5:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump’s former campaign advisor J.D. Gordon told special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that Trump’s prospective foreign policy team as being run “like a 6th grade student council with no real authority or power” and said that spokeswoman Hope Hicks “lied about contact with Russians,” BuzzFeed News reports.

Gordon also told Mueller’s team that the Trump campaign was “disorganized and chaotic at times” and “believed there were a lot of shenanigans happening at the highest levels.”

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Trump Campaign Sues the New York Times

February 26, 2020 at 5:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump’s campaign is suing the New York Times for libel over an opinion piece that claimed his campaign had an “overarching deal” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to trade election help for a “new pro-Russian foreign policy.”

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The Democratic Party Has Been Hijacked

February 23, 2020 at 8:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, 2020 Campaign, Democrats, Members

Bernie’s Rise Sparks Comparisons to 2016 GOP Race

February 20, 2020 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Democratic primary is following a similar trajectory to what Republicans experienced four years ago, when a long-shot candidate with a devoted base gained momentum while his party’s establishment politicians squabbled over who was best suited to take him on,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said former Jeb Bush aide Matt Gorman: “Close your eyes: There’s a septuagenarian presidential candidate with a pretty indestructible level of support who is leading in several early states—who am I talking about? Much like Trump, the press and Beltway audiences don’t take seriously his ability to win the nomination and keep waiting breathlessly for that inevitable collapse, and neither is happening any time soon.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, 2020 Campaign

Assange Claims Trump Offered Him a Pardon

February 19, 2020 at 1:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he agreed to cover up the involvement of Russia in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee, which were later published by WikiLeaks, a London court was told Wednesday,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Lawyers acting for Assange have argued that the Australian should not be extradited to the U.S. because the case is political not criminal.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, White House

Clinton Slams Sanders for Not Uniting Democrats

January 31, 2020 at 8:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview that Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters did not do enough to unify the Democratic Party after the prolonged 2016 primary, calling the behavior of his supporters ‘distressing’ and saying it affected the general election,” the New York Times reports.

Said Clinton: “All the way up until the end, a lot of people highly identified with his campaign were urging people to vote third party, urging people not to vote. It had an impact.”

She added: “That cannot happen again. I don’t care who the nominee is. I don’t care. As long as it’s somebody who can win, and as long as it’s somebody who understands politics is the art of addition, not subtraction.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign

Obama Called Trump a Fascist In Call with Senator

January 25, 2020 at 7:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Barack Obama called Donald Trump a “fascist” in a phone conversation with Sen. Tim Kaine during the 2016 presidential election, Kaine says in a video clip featured in an upcoming documentary about Hillary Clinton, NBC News reports.

Said Kaine: “President Obama called me last night and said: ‘Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House.'”

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Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders In New Documentary

January 21, 2020 at 8:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A four-hour docuseries about Hillary Clinton will premiere in its entirety March 6 on Hulu, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

In it, Clinton slams Sen. Bernie Sanders: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”

She refused to say whether she would endorse him if he won the Democratic nomination.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign

Ex-Trump Staffer Sues Over Pregnancy Discrimination

December 24, 2019 at 8:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A spokeswoman and outreach staffer on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, A.J. Delgado, is suing Trump and his campaign for pregnancy and sex discrimination,” Politico reports.

“Delgado’s suit, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, claims she was sidelined by campaign officials about six weeks after the 2016 election — shortly after she told senior officials that she was pregnant.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign

Prosecutor Scrutinizing Ex-CIA Director Brennan

December 19, 2019 at 7:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation has begun examining the role of the former CIA director John Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia’s 2016 election interference,” the New York Times reports.

“John Durham, the United States attorney leading the investigation, has requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the CIA… He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former FBI director James Comey, about his and the CIA’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Foreign Affairs

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