Up on Capitol Hill this morning, Senate Republicans tell our Lauren Fox pretty unanimously: No, we’re not going to be able to dump Trump in Cleveland. Get a clue.
TPM is hiring a Publishing Fellow to join our publishing team working out of our New York City office.
Don’t miss the first installment of our feature series on privatization. In this first installment we look at the history of the movement going back into the 1960s and 1970s. It’s a fascinating look at the ideological origins, the key activists, how they made common cause with political operatives looking to kneecap key Democratic constituencies. I learned a lot. Check it out.
Donald Trump has a fabulous golf course out in LA, Trump National Golf Club. He says so himself. When it opened in 2006 he said the project cost a whopping $264 million, after buying it for $27 million four years earlier in bankruptcy. On his FEC disclosure he listed it as worth more than $50 million. But that’s not what he told tax assessors, where he pegged the value at just $10 million.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that if you hold US Treasury bonds, you really, really need Hillary Clinton to win the presidency since Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for not paying his debts. But a new report finds hundreds of ordinary vendors – not big banks but plumbers, painters, dishwashers – who Trump stiffed and never paid.
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It’s sad that this piece needs to be written in this day and age. But check out this closely reported, debunking piece on the Trumpite slur about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s membership in a Latino lawyers group. The mix of racist conflation and outright deception is quite something.
Trump basks in the endorsement of Don King. King says he didn’t endorse Trump.
TPM Reader SB checks in the world of healing and pain …
It’s the end of a long week in psychotherapy land. Many women brought to session and read aloud the letter written by the woman raped at Stanford and cried, deep heaving tears; a few for the first time.
She spoke for so many who could not have spoken for themselves.