As far as I know, this hasn’t been mentioned. But it jumped out at me pretty immediately. As far as I can tell, none of the Trump campaign pushback to Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comments have said anything about the people Clinton was talking about not being racist, not being misogynist or by whatever definition not being ‘haters.’ It’s not referenced once. Check out the statements after the jump.
Does that strike you as a bit odd.
32 year old Emirjeta Xhelili, who social media postings identify as an avid Trump supporter, has been charged with assaulting two Muslim women in Brooklyn as they pushed their babies in strollers.
Let me take a moment to address this “basket of deplorables” comment because I think it’s critically important to get this right. Hillary Clinton has simply said what is the premise of most election coverage of the 2016 campaign: a big chunk of Trump supporters are haters. Racists, misogynists, people who are angry at the social and demographic changes in the country that most Americans see as progress. They want to stop it in its tracks and they want payback for what has happened already. To emphasize the point, this is not just what she and likely the great majority of her supporters believe. It has been the premise of most reporting on the campaign and validated by a vast cache of public opinion data confirming these points.
If you like podcasts, here’s the debut episode of my new podcast, The Josh Marshall Show. In this first episode, I talk to Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Mitt Romney in 2012. We talk about how he got into politics, growing up in Mississippi, the books he’s written and of course the rise of Donald Trump. You can listen here (sub req).
Tierney Sneed reports from the Values Voter Summit in DC, where this comment from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) may sum up the extreme contradiction that Trump poses for evangelicals: “I’d like to elect a godly man, but we don’t have that choice.”
So this required two fearless TPMers to make a fairly deep dive into the byzantine post-CNN Larry King media universe. But the upshot is that King’s production company makes clear that Trump was always booked for “PoliticKING with Larry King”, the video show that appears on RT (the Russian state owned news channel formerly known as Russia Today.)
This is contrary to Team Trump’s claim that they were booked on King’s podcast.
Here’s a fun moment just a short while ago on MSNBC when Chuck Todd explains how right-wing media has been going pro-Putin for years now – well in advance of Trump’s pro-Putinism. What he describes is entirely accurate. But what’s great about the clip is that as Chuck describes it you can see in his facial expression that “Can This Possibly Be True What I’m Saying?” look on his face that we all have to frequently have with the disturbing and increasingly sick turn of our national politics. Watch.
With news that Democrats are suing to get Donald Trump knocked off the ballot in Minnesota, let me restate something I’ve said many times before about election law and how it should be enforced.
Trump camp says Larry King tricked Trump into being interviewed on Russian state owned RT cable news network.
This is actually happening.
Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit movement in the UK and formerly head of the far-right UK Independence Party (he retired after the Brexit win), is in talks with the Russian government owned RT news network to a be roving reporter covering Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this fall.