The ‘stand down order’ the two guys on stage keeping talking about is the same one the GOP led House investigation say never happened.
Let’s just say it: the theme of tonight’s program is death and devastating loss caused by national outsiders and made possible by the betrayals of political enemies.
Ken Cuccinelli, a prominent stop-Trumper, told reporters tonight that the Trump campaign went as far as to threaten to take away Iowa’s first in the nation caucus if they didn’t back don’t on the rules vote on the convention floor.
It’s important to note during Sheriff Clarke’s speech that in fact crime of all sorts is at its lowest levels in almost half a century.
The last year for which full FBI statistics on the national murder rate are available is 2014.
The first half statistics for 2015 show a small upturn. But this has happened more than half a dozen times in the last 20 years in the course of the overall fall of the murder rate.
Scott Baio says he’s not sorry he tweeted that meme calling Hillary Clinton a “c**t.”
Ever since the late and great Molly Ivins quipped that she thought Pat Buchanan’s speech at the 1992 GOP convention sounded better in the original German it’s been sort of a parlor trick to compare a ‘hot’ Republican speech to one from this or that fascist dictator. But this speech was really febrile and unhinged. Setting aside the content, consider the wild hand gestures, frequent screaming, the agitated and febrile manner. It was disturbing but also brought together all the themes of violence, death, betrayal and rage that shaped the evening.
It’s like Giuliani has spent the last fifteen years living together with 9/11 in a two bedroom apartment of his mind. It’s a dark picture. He’s lost his balance and maybe his mind.
Gen Flynn: “We have enemies in our homeland and abroad.”
A significant chunk of Melania Trump’s speech was lifted from Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008. Check it out.