Carl Bernstein Says Trump’s Acceptance Speech Created an America “At Odds With Fact”
“It was a terrifying speech, a dark vision of…a mythical America that does not really exist”
“It was a terrifying speech, a dark vision of…a mythical America that does not really exist”
The Republican convention failed to win over Latino voters. The convention started with Clinton at +55 lead with Latino voters and ended with her at +63 lead. Thanks, Donald.
You need to know just how bad it was. This isn’t a time for people to look away. Luckily the Hillary for America people compiled a few clips you can watch quickly.
In his video announcement, David Duke says, “I am overjoyed to see Donald Trump and most Americans embrace most of the issues I’ve championed for years.â€
Donald Trump was supposed to be addressing campaign volunteers in Cleveland, but his speech soon morphed into a total breakdown where Trump accidentally admitted that he expects to lose to Hillary Clinton.
Ivanka Trump is double monetizing her RNC appearances by tweeting this morning, “Shop Ivanka’s look from her #RNC speech,” with an affiliate link to a dress from her clothing line.
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored”
Donald Trump just finished an acceptance speech that was by far the worst in modern American presidential campaign history.
Thanks to the early leaking of Trump’s speech transcript, it was easy for fact checkers to pre-debunk Donald Trump’s acceptance speech lies.
Donald Trump rattled off a series of statistics about crime in the United States, but none of the things that Trump stated as fact were true.
Donald Trump’s acceptance speech is so repulsive to so many Americans that he just may have gotten Hillary Clinton elected to be the nation’s next president.
Calling Trump’s wealth a disadvantage was stunningly stupid, but it’s par for the course.
Forget about keeping America safe, the leaking of Trump’s acceptance speech shows that he can’t even keep his own documents safe.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Clinton is close to choosing the Spanish-speaking Virginia senator.
Just hours before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr is expected to speak at the RNC, the Clinton campaign reminded people today that evangelical leaders warned that Donald Trump was a scam. Citing moral duty, the most popular evangelical website in the United States took a brave, prescient stand against Donald Trump back in February, saying…
He will take the stage on Thursday and say, “I am your voice.” But we’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. We know what he stands for. A speech in Cleveland won’t change that.
Not only is this a lame comeback, its a recycled comeback, since he said the same thing about the wife of Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump is getting trashed at his own convention by Republicans after threatening to break up NATO if member states don’t pay the US more money.
A new poll shows that not even having the Republican convention in Cleveland can get Donald Trump a lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio.
Donald Trump is facing a new complaint that his use of the Trump Organization to do his campaign work is a violation of federal law.
To turn one of the GOP’s favorite misogynist tropes around on them, what did Trump think was going to happen?
As Mike Pence introduces himself to the country on Wednesday night, it’s important we don’t lose sight of what he really is: a right-wing extremist that has no business being Vice President of the United States.
Donald Trump is trying to intimidate yet another person from speaking their truth about him. This one is his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, who said that if Trump got elected it would be the end of civilization.
In a cross between a demented Family Feud episode and a convention speech, Gov. Scott Walker showed why he would never be President Of The United States.
“The headline of the week so far is, this convention is not a disaster, which is a massive victory for Trump.”
The GOP has been attempting to privatize or cut Social Security since the beginning of time, whether it’s through the actions of Republican presidents or right-wing budgets proposed in Congress.
Sorry, Republicans: Donald Trump doesn’t really care about making America great again.
Deep down inside, Donald Trump knows that he is losing, which is why his son offered to put Kasich in charge of both domestic and foreign policy if he agreed to be Trump’s VP.
Trump is finally admitting, through the Trump Organization, that his wife ripped off First Lady Obama during her Republican convention speech.
Chris Christie is telling Republicans that if Donald Trump wins the White House, he will demand that a special law be passed that allows him to purge all Obama appointees from the government.
Last night was supposed to be about Trump’s jobs plan. The theme was touted as, “Make America Work Again.” Yet not a single jobs plan was introduced, nor did the speakers tout Donald Trump’s ability to create jobs. The speakers talked about locking Hillary Clinton up.
More Trump convention plagiarism has been uncovered, as Donald Trump Jr. plagiarized part of his speech at the Republican convention.
Another Trump family convention speech disaster, as Tiffany Trump accidentally made the argument for why Donald Trump should never be president.
Paul Ryan’s speech wasn’t just the oratorical version of NyQuil, but it was also one big attempt to revise history in his party’s favor – and it failed big time.
With all the drama surrounding the opening night of the RNC, radical (and dangerous) changes in the Republican Platform got little attention.
The dreadful first night of the RNC – from chaos on the floor, to Rudy Giuliani shouting onstage, to Melania reading from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech – is likely just a taste of what’s to come for the Trump campaign.
If you’re not terrified, you aren’t paying attention.
There is no end to the ironies that go with Melania Trump lifting Michelle Obama’s thoughts on values like honesty, hard work and especially respect for others
Republicans have come up with a new excuse for Melania Trump’s convention speech plagiarism. According to the RNC, Mrs. Trump may have lifted phrases from My Little Pony, not First Lady Michelle Obama.
Usually, presidential candidates get a bounce in the polls from their own conventions, but if the day one debacle at the RNC convention is any indication, Hillary Clinton may get a boost in the polls from both the Republican and Democratic conventions.
The New York Daily News blasted the Trump campaign with a picture of a triumphant looking Donald Trump pointing at his wife, with the caption, “Thanks Mrs. Obama!”
“It actually applies to her life. It talks about her parents and the values and the values she wants to put to her kids.”
“In the second passage…22 words out of 26 words that Melania Trump spoke were taken directly, word for word from Michele Obama’s words.”
Republicans were counting on Melania Trump to make their nominee warm and likable. Instead, her speech was a chilly propaganda address that failed miserably.
The GOP spent the first night of the RNC recycling one if its favorite (and discredited) attack lines of the 2012 presidential campaign.
The Republican convention is so bad that Donald Trump ignored it and instead called into Fox News to do a live interview with Bill O’Reilly.
Voters shouldn’t forget all the ways the presumptive GOP nominee has already damaged America’s national security.
The Republican convention is putting its most racist foot forward as Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told MSNBC that white people had made more contributions to history than any other “sub-group.”
While Republicans were concerned about protestors outside the arena, it is those on the convention floor that have caused the most trouble so far.
The Iowa and Colorado delegations walked out, as in less than three hours tensions have boiled over at the Republican convention. While all of this was happening on the convention floor, GOP nominee Donald Trump was sending angry tweets to CNN.
Newt Gingrich accused the Bush family of behaving “childishly†simply because they had the prescience to avoid the Trump clownshow, aka the Republican National Convention.
It all started with Paul Manafort, Trump’s “campaign manager”, accusing Ohio’s Republican Governor and previous 2016 Republican primary candidate John Kasich of refusing to endorse Trump because he wants to be the President.
Republican opposition to the president “make us seem anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker and anti-common-sense.â€
“It violates the law to send fundraising emails to members of a foreign government on their official foreign government email accounts.”
It is the actions of their own party that have made police work more dangerous than it should be.
Donald Trump and Mike Pence gave their first joint interview, and what went down on 60 Minutes was painful to watch.
Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s calls for toned-down political rhetoric and less divisiveness after the Baton Rouge police shootings by openly hoping for more division and hate.
Hillary Clinton is absolutely crushing Donald Trump with Latino voters, as Clinton has built a 62 point lead according to the new NBC/WSJ/Telemundo Latino poll.
After Donald Trump indulged himself in another racist rant against Senator Elizabeth Warren, she took a flamethrower to his lies with a binge of tweets that are quite simply devastating for Trump.
Donald Trump is obviously bothered by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) very accurate attacks on his fitness for office.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll making him the clear underdog ahead of next week’s Republican National Convention.
In a quickly replaced campaign logo, Trump’s T penetrates Pence’s P, or, as Samantha Bee puts it, ‘breaks the mattress of America’
“This is going to be the most riotous political convention since 1968, and maybe even more so.”
The reviews are in on Donald Trump’s announcement of Mike Pence as his VP, and they vary from calling Trump’s performance insane to pointing out that the Republican nominee demonstrated why he is not fit to be president.
Republicans inadvertently draw extra attention to Donald Trump’s flaming racism with a sign that suggests (surely incorrectly) they are segregating people.
Donald Trump spoke for 28 minutes, while barely mentioning Pence. After Trump introduced his running mate, he hightailed it off stage and did not even stand beside his VP choice while he was speaking.
The Trump announcement of Mike Pence has been a complete fiasco, as the Republican nominee has hijacked the event by accusing Hillary Clinton of murder.
Donald Trump whined about Hillary Clinton having money for ads when he has none, and whined about her attacking him over the fact that he has no foreign policy experience.
Trump complained “people are pouring into this country and, in many cases they’re not well people, in many respects.â€
Newt Gingrich showed up on Fox News’ Hannity Thursday to call for something really “kooky” (Bill Kristol’s words) – the imposition of religious tests for Muslims: “We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported.” This is coming from one of…
Mike Pence has only been the VP choice for hours, but it is being reported that Donald Trump has already tried to dump his running mate.
Donald Trump tweeted a gloating, undiplomatic FU to the conservatives in the #NeverTrump movement, saying they are “never more. They were crushed last night.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has wasted no time alerting voters to the bigotry and extremism of Trump’s VP pick, Mike Pence.
The debacle that has been the Trump VP selection process limped to a close today as Donald Trump made it official by tweeting that he has chosen Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana to be his running mate.
The real reason why Donald Trump has postponed his VP announcement is that he was upset that Indiana Republicans leaked that he had chosen Mike Pence.
Trump reportedly made the offer Thursday and Pence accepted, putting an end to one aspect of Trump’s long political circus.
The Democratic Party, on the other hand, just finished drafting a 2016 platform that vowed to expand Social Security.
Things are so bad for Donald Trump that even Tim Tebow is bailing on his doomed convention in Cleveland.
In a letter dated July 12, for a convention that starts days away on July 18, the RNC sent a letter to billionaire Sheldon Adelson begging for 6 million dollars.
Donald Trump has postponed his scheduled Friday morning announcement of his running mate after it is being reported that 70 people have been killed in a truck attack in Nice, France.
A new analysis of Donald Trump’s proposals and plans by the ACLU revealed that a Trump presidency would violate numerous articles of the Constitution.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump defended Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, saying he thinks the charges are unfounded based on what he’s “read”.
I kid you not.
Donald Trump is claiming that he didn’t invite Sarah Palin to the Republican convention because Alaska is too far away from Cleveland, Ohio.
The Clinton campaign is firing back at Donald Trump the best way possible, by starting a Twitter handle called “LiterallyTrump,” which will post things that Donald Trump has actually said.
Trump wanted a star to be his running mate, but it is being reported that he will pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his VP.
Donald Trump released his list of speakers for the Republican convention, and one name was notably missing. Despite the fact that she has been campaigning for him as a surrogate, Sarah Palin will not be speaking at the Republican convention.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has garnered much negative attention for her remarks about Donald Trump and his unsuitability for the office of president (i.e. because Trump is a madman), but she is far from alone. On Facebook, a group of prominent historians led by Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, have…
It’s official: On Friday in New York, Donald Trump will announce the poor soul who he’s chosen to be his running mate.
Two new polls of Colorado shows Hillary Clinton crushing Donald Trump in a state that Republicans hoped could swing in their direction.
As Donald Trump proclaimed to Fox that he is winning, Fox News made him look like an idiot by releasing a poll that showed Trump losing to Hillary Clinton.
A new Pew poll on religion and the 2016 campaign revealed devastating news for Republicans as Catholic voters have shifted their support to Hillary Clinton.
If you’re tired of Trump supporters claiming they’re not racists when they are fetching upon hearing Donald Trump’s dog whistles, listen up. Here’s the proof that there is a deep relationship between Donald Trump and white supremacists.
“[T]he most high God may have lifted up Trump, because very possibly he’s the only one that could defeat Hillary Clinton this fall.”
The media has hopped all over three new Quinnipiac University polls showing Trump leading Clinton in Pennsylvania and Florida, but the problem is that Quinnipiac is rigging their polls for the best possible Trump outcome.
CNN is finally disclosing on their air to their viewers that Corey Lewandowski is a paid plant who remains on the Trump campaign’s payroll.
What better bona fides for Trump’s VP pick, eh? If Gingrich doesn’t exactly walk the walk, he does love America so much he can’t keep his pants up
Helping send an unfit and unhinged man to the White House is hardly a meaningless act.
The Republican Party is so desperate to avoid the reality of Donald Trump that Gov. Mike Pence is comparing Trump to Ronald Reagan.
In a nonsensical rant, Donald Trump is claiming that Sen. Bernie Sanders is now a member of the oligarchy, which is why Sanders supporters should vote for Trump.
Donald Trump is throwing a tantrum because Bernie Sanders is supporting Hillary Clinton for president.