In response to my look at Donald Trump’s final closing ad, which is unambiguously anti-Semitic, I thought I’d share my thoughts about whether Trump himself is an anti-Semite.
It is certainly welcome news for the Clinton campaign that James Comey has now stated publicly that nothing in Huma Abedin’s emails has changed the FBI’s and his original judgment from July. This is not an interim report; it’s final. The Clinton campaign will undoubtedly use it for everything it’s worth in the remaining 48 hours-plus before voting ends Tuesday night. But while welcome, this new development doesn’t remotely undo the original error or its consequences.
FBI Director James Comey sends new letter to Congress on new Clinton email review: Nothing found to change conclusions reached in July.
I wasn’t able to get to a computer during and after the incident last night at the Trump rally in Reno. We’ve got the basic news details here. Suffice it to say that we now know it was essentially a chummed up misunderstanding which escalated into a beating by a number of Trump supporters, then later physical harassment of a CNN journalist by the same group of supporters and finally the creation of a nonsensical fantasy among Trump supporters that Trump had bravely survived a mythical ‘assassination attempt’.
Take a moment to look at this closing ad from Donald Trump.
A list of election/numbers observations to peruse as you bite your nails and obsess over the polls.
Read this note from TPM Reader MJ. It is equal parts illustrative, humanizing and disturbing …
The last line of your recent post struck me: “Even at this late stage, I find it genuinely shocking that so many elected Republicans and GOP elites can actually say to themselves that it is safe to have this man become President.”
I’m shocked too. But I’ve witnessed first hand the psychology of accepting Trump. I have close relatives, an aunt and uncle, who are moderate Republicans. It’s been frustrating (but also fascinating) to watch their evolution through this election. It really follows Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, finally acceptance.
Tierney Sneed has been all over this story since the night of the final presidential debate, when it bubbled into the open: whether the RNC was violating that decades-old consent decree it is saddled with by virtue of having an atrocious record of trying to deny minorities their right to vote.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent more of my time on this story than any other we’ve been covering, so I was eager to see the ruling from the federal court in New Jersey that was handling the case.
The judge’s decision just came down, and I think he nailed it.
You can read it here.