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From The Reporter’s Notebook
CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria slammed Donald Trump as a “bullshit artist” who is “plainly ignorant” in a Monday interview with anchor Wolf Blitzer, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. “It’s entertaining, if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car,” he added. “But for a president of the United States, it is deeply worrying.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “A single error or screw up, almost no matter how egregious, would almost never be enough for partisans to withdraw their support of their nominee and even tacitly and implicitly help a candidate who disagrees with them on many issues. But that’s the not the situation here. The Khan debacle is simply another confirmation that Trump is someone who will blithely violate the constitution and lacks the most basic elements of a temperament to be the country’s head of state. In a narrowly partisan sense it’s likely better for Democrats that so many Republican officeholders continue to support Trump. They’re tarred with it forever, long after the current election has passed.”
Say What?!
“First of all, Russia did not seize Crimea.”
– A surrogate for Trump’s campaign argued that Russia has not seized Crimea from Ukraine, even though Vladimir Putin seized the region more than two years ago.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Agreed. Two things: first, this is about Donald doing his dominance thing by making others dance to his tune, and second, by changing dates it lends credibility to the false claim that Team Clinton was somehow involved in ‘rigging’ the dates (never mind that the so-called ‘rigging’ in this case offers no clear advantage to Hillary at all). Keep the dates and call him out for being too afraid, too unprepared, too undisciplined, too out of his league to even show up. Trump = all bluff, no cards.”
Related: The Commission on Presidential Debates rejected Trump’s claim that Democrats rigged the debate schedule so that two of the three debates would occur during football games.
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What We’re Reading
Counties and towns are purging minority voters from the rolls. (The New York Times)
A sexual assault case involving refugee children in Idaho. (Slate)
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