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Sunday, November 6, 2016
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Who Won The Presidential Debate ? Hillary or Trump? Hillary Clinton, the ‘Nasty Woman’
With 'nasty woman' comment, Trump missed this last chance
Hillary Clinton came into the final debate in a stronger political position than Donald Trump -- and wisely chose not to play it safe. Instead, she jabbed at Trump continually, and predictably drew out the billionaire's angry, caustic side. Trump handled early questions well, sounding familiar notes on why he would nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court. But Clinton kept needling him, pointing out that Trump projects were built with Chinese steel and undocumented immigrant labor. And she more or less called Trump a "puppet" of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, leading her irritated opponent with little more to reply than, "No, you're the puppet."
Trump was at his best, as usual, on the economy, but was cornered on the issue of how his proposed plan would affect Medicare, Social Security and the national debt (the debate's moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, did an excellent job of showing how Clinton and Trump would both leave entitlements at risk and do little to slow growth of the debt).
"Such a nasty woman!" Trump complained toward the end of the debate, a marker of Clinton's skill at getting under Trump's skin -- much in the way she did in the first debate.
The point was well taken. Clinton has averaged a 6.5-point lead over Trump in polls over the past week. That's after a 5-point lead following the first debate. With fewer than three weeks to go, Trump is running out of time to catch up, and may have missed his last, best chance in the final debate.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Trump repeats wrong claim that he opposed Iraq War : Second Amendment : What Does "Bigly" Mean?
Trump repeats wrong claim that he opposed Iraq War
The long shadow of the Iraq War continues to color presidential politics.
In a forum focused on national security, Democrat Hillary Clinton was questioned about her Senate vote in favor of action against Iraq. She in turn noted that Donald Trump initially supported the war.
When it was Trump’s turn, the Republican nominee denied the charge.
"I was totally against the war in Iraq," Trump said during the NBC News event. "You can look at Esquire magazine from '04. You can look at before that."
Well, we have gone back further than the 2004 interview Trump mentioned, and the record tells a different story.
Trump has a hard time getting past a September 2002 interview with shock jock Howard Stern. Stern asked Trump if he supported the looming invasion.
Trump responded, "Yeah, I guess so."
Trump dialed that back a bit in another interview in January 2003, a few months before the invasion. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto asked Trump whether President George W. Bush should be more focused on Iraq or the economy.
"Well, he has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps shouldn't be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know," Trump said. "He's under a lot of pressure. I think he's doing a very good job. But, of course, if you look at the polls, a lot of people are getting a little tired. I think the Iraqi situation is a problem. And I think the economy is a much bigger problem as far as the president is concerned."
So Trump put the economy ahead of confronting Iraq, but he didn’t speak against going to war. At most he suggested waiting for the United Nations to do something.
A week after the United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, Trump gave different takes. At an Academy Awards after-party, Trump said that "the war’s a mess," according to the Washington Post. He told Fox News that because of the war, "The market’s going to go up like a rocket."
The earliest evidence of Trump’s outright opposition to the war came in that August 2004 article in Esquire:
"Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way," Trump said.
Trump has been challenged many times in this election to explain his early acceptance of the war. In a February 2016 interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said that he didn’t know what he meant during his 2002 conversation with Stern.
"That was a long time ago, and who knows what was in my head." Trump said.
Our ruling
Trump said he was "totally against the war in Iraq." While he came to that position when the war became difficult, earlier on he was more accepting of military action. In 2002, asked if America should go to war, he said, "I guess so." Less than three months before the invasion, Trump said the president should be more focused on the economy, but he didn’t speak against launching an attack.
Trump didn’t speak often about the Iraq War before it happened, but what he said did not add up to the sort of opposition he describes today.
We rate this claim False.
Second Amendment
In 1939 the U.S. Supreme Court considered the matter in United States v. Miller. 307 U.S. 174. The Court adopted a collective rights approach in this case, determining that Congress could regulate a sawed-off shotgun that had moved in interstate commerce under the National Firearms Act of 1934 because the evidence did not suggest that the shotgun "has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated milita . . . ." The Court then explained that the Framers included the Second Amendment to ensure the effectiveness of the military.
This precedent stood for nearly 70 years when in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court revisited the issue in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290). The plaintiff in Heller challenged the constitutionality of the Washington D.C. handgun ban, a statute that had stood for 32 years. Many considered the statute the most stringent in the nation. In a 5-4 decision, the Court, meticulously detailing the history and tradition of the Second Amendment at the time of the Constitutional Convention, proclaimed that the Second Amendment established an individual right for U.S. citizens to possess firearms and struck down the D.C. handgun ban as violative of that right. The majority carved out Miller as an exception to the general rule that Americans may possess firearms, claiming that law-abiding citizens cannot use sawed-off shotguns for any law-abiding purpose. Similarly, the Court in its dicta found regulations of similar weaponry that cannot be used for law-abiding purposes as laws that would not implicate the Second Amendment. Further, the Court suggested that the United States Constitution would not disallow regulations prohibiting criminals and the mentally ill from firearm possession.
Thus,
the Supreme Court has revitalized the Second Amendment. The Court
continued to strengthen the Second Amendment through the 2010 decision
in McDonald v. City of Chicago (08-1521). The plaintiff in McDonald challenged
the constitutionally of the Chicago handgun ban, which prohibited
handgun possession by almost all private citizens. In a 5-4 decisions,
the Court, citing the intentions of the framers and ratifiers of the
Fourteenth Amendment, held that the Second Amendment applies to the
states through the incorporation doctrine. However,
the Court did not have a majority on which clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment incorporates the fundamental right to keep and bear arms for
the purpose of self-defense. While Justice Alito and his supporters
looked to the Due Process Clause, Justice Thomas in his concurrence
stated that the Privileges and Immunities Clause should justify
incorporation.
However, several questions still remain
unanswered, such as whether regulations less stringent than the D.C.
statute implicate the Second Amendment, whether lower courts will apply
their dicta regarding permissible restrictions, and what level of scrutiny the courts should apply when analyzing a statute that infringes on the Second Amendment.Recent case law since Heller suggests that courts are willing to, for example, uphold
- regulations which ban weapons on government property. US v Dorosan, 350 Fed. Appx. 874 (5th Cir. 2009) (upholding defendant’s conviction for bringing a handgun onto post office property);
- regulations which ban the illegal possession of a handgun as a juvenile, convicted felon. US v Rene, 583 F.3d 8 (1st Cir. 2009) (holding that the Juvenile Delinquency Act ban of juvenile possession of handguns did not violate the Second Amendment);
- regulations which require a permit to carry concealed weapon. Kachalsky v County of Westchester, 701 F.3d 81 (2nd Cir. 2012) (holding that a New York law preventing individuals from obtaining a license to possess a concealed firearm in public for general purposes unless the individual showed proper cause did not violate the Second Amendment.)
What Does "Bigly" Mean? Trump Has Confused Everyone
The Republican candidate for White
House appeared to use an unusual adverb in his debate against Hillary
Clinton. Or did he? Jon Kelly investigates.
There was a moment in the first US presidential debate when lots of people asked themselves: "Did Trump just say 'bigly'?" Followed quickly by: "Is that even a word?"
It came during a discussion on fiscal policy, when, Donald Trump told his opponent: "I'm going to cut taxes bigly, and you're going to raise taxes bigly." Or so many thought, anyway.
It's the question that will
divide households, provoke barroom debates and split the nation. Is
Donald Trump really saying "bigly" or is it "big league"?
After using the phrase in previous debates, he is back at it again. On a question about immigration he described how Barack Obama had deported millions of people, continuing: "She doesn't want to say that, but that's what's happened... bigly..."
After using the phrase in previous debates, he is back at it again. On a question about immigration he described how Barack Obama had deported millions of people, continuing: "She doesn't want to say that, but that's what's happened... bigly..."
During the 2016 debates, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has had a few slips of the tongue, but none of them have confounded the American public more than his use of the word "bigly." So what does "bigly" mean, anyway? Is it a noun? An adjective? A verbal tick? Since it's the final debate of the election season, Americans may never know. It's really unclear. During the first debate, Trump said, "I'm going to cut taxes bigly," and referring to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said, "and you're going to raise taxes bigly."
At first, it seemed like maybe everyone had misunderstood. Maybe it was a suppressed sniff. But the fact that he seemed to repeat the word made it all the more unlikely that it was just a random noise that came out of his mouth. With Trump, it's hard to tell what words are just sounds that come out of his mouth and what are actual, confirmed English words that he means.
During the final debate, Trump employed the word again in a discussion about immigration and social media freaked out. In any case, "bigly" doesn't mean anything to most human beings. According to Merriam Webster, though, "bigly" is a word. It means "in a big manner, with great scope," or "in a swelling blustering manner," which pretty much sums up what Trump is all about. A big, blustering swell.
Final and 3rd Presidential Debate
Time : Wednesday, 9:00 pm
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Point to Watch:
1. Trump is unshackled after Melanie Trump's interview on many recent issues.
2. Hillary will face questions after Wikileaks issues and how she handles it.
3. Obama's half brother is Trump's guest.
Melania Trump was interviewed by CNN : She says she supports her husband
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Melania
Trump defended Donald Trump in her first interview since the Republican
nominee faced allegations of sexual misconduct, calling those
accusations "lies" and saying Trump was "egged on" into "boy talk"
during a 2005 tape in which he made lewd comments about women.
"I believe my husband. I believe my husband," she said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday.
"This
was all organized from the opposition. And with the details ... did
they ever check the background of these women? They don't have any
facts."
She also said she hadn't heard her husband use that kind of language before.
"No.
No, that's why I was surprised, because I said like I don't know that
person that would talk that way, and that he would say that kind of
stuff in private," Melania Trump said.
"I
heard many different stuff -- boys talk," she said. "The boys, the way
they talk when they grow up and they want to sometimes show each other,
'Oh, this and that' and talking about the girls. But yes, I was
surprised, of course."
She
specifically attacked a first-person account in People Magazine, in
which journalist Natasha Stoynoff said Trump made an unwanted advance
while she worked on a story about his one-year wedding anniversary.
The
reporter described a chance encounter later with Melania Trump, who
says it never happened -- and her lawyers have threatened to sue over
the claim.
"Even the story that
came out in people magazine, the writer she said my husband took her to
the room and start kissing her," she said. "She wrote in the same story
about me -- that she saw me on 5th Avenue, and I said to her, 'Natasha,
how come we don't see you anymore?' I was never friends with her, I
would not recognize her."
That, Melania Trump said, "was another thing like people come out saying lies and not true stuff."
'Egged on'
It
was the first public defense Melania Trump has made of her husband
since a tape in which Trump bragged about sexually aggressive behavior
toward women was published by The Washington Post and NBC. In the wake
of that report, several women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct.
Trump
said her husband was "egged on" in the 2005 tape in which he made lewd
comments about his own sexually aggressive behavior toward women --
remarks she says were "boy talk."
"I
said to my husband that, you know, the language was inappropriate. It's
not acceptable. And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I
know," she said.
Billy Bush officially leaves NBC in the wake of 'Access Hollywood' tape
"And
as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on -- it was only a
mic. And I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on," she said,
referring to Trump and NBC's "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush.
She said they were engaged in "boy talk, and he was led on -- like, egged on -- from the host to say dirty and bad stuff."
She said she agrees with Michelle Obama's assertion that kissing or groping a woman without consent is sexual assault.
"But
every assault should be taken care of in a court of law. And to accuse,
no matter who it is, a man or a woman, without evidence is damaging and
unfair," she said.
Melania Trump
defended her husband's criticism on the campaign trail of his accusers'
looks -- an implication that the women who have alleged his misconduct
aren't attractive enough to sexually assault.
'I know he respects women'
"He's
raw. He will say it as he feels it. So you know, I know he respects
women. But he's defending himself because they're lies," she said.
She
said she jokes that her husband at times behaves like an overgrown boy
-- and that she saw his "Access Hollywood" remarks as emblematic of
that.
"Sometimes I say I have two
boys at home -- I have my young son and I have my husband. But I know
how some men talk, and that's how I saw it, yes," she said.
Tight races remain in three battlegrounds: Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio
She said she would keep their personal conversations private -- but that Trump apologized for his remarks on the tape.
"I
accept his apology. I hope the American people will accept it as well.
And it was many, many years ago. He's not the man that I know," she
said.
Melania Trump called her
husband "real" and "raw" -- and said because of his years as an
entertainer, he faced an especially tough challenge transitioning into
politics, because he has made decades' worth of controversial comments.
"It's
very hard, especially for him -- when he decided to run for the
presidency, because he did so many stuff in his life. He was on so many
tapes, so many shows. And we knew that -- that, you know, tapes will
come out, people won't want to go against him.
"But
my husband is real. He's raw. He tells it like it is. He's kind. He's a
gentleman. He supports everybody. He supports women. He encourages them
to go to the highest level, to achieve their dreams. He employs many,
many women," she said.
'He didn't say he did it'
She
said she wouldn't describe what Trump said on the tape as sexual
assault, even though in the video Trump appeared to be describing his
own actions.
"No, that's not sexual assault," she said. "He didn't say he did it."
Melania Trump said she believes Trump in part because she's seen him deflect brazen advances from other women.
"I
see many, many women coming to him and giving phone numbers and, you
know, want(ing) to work for him -- inappropriate stuff from women. And
they know he's married," she said.
"You've seen that?" Cooper asked.
"Oh
yes, of course. It was in front of me," Trump said. "In front of me.
And I've said, like, 'Why did you give your number to my husband?' "
Melania
Trump reserved her strongest critique for the political press, which
she says has yet to report an accurate story about her.
"I
didn't expect media would be so dishonest and so mean. I didn't expect
that," she said. "Also for me, from the beginning, I never had one
correct story -- one honest story."
She
backed her husband's claims that the election is being rigged in
Hillary Clinton's favor, arguing that media bias is undercutting her
husband.
"Well I see it how the
media is portraying -- I see how they report things, and what they want
to say and what they don't want to say," she said.
"They're
going -- just for example, he makes a speech 45 minutes long, they take
a sentence out, and they're going on and on about that sentence,
nothing else," she said. "And he talks about the issues, and that's what
American people want to hear, it's about issues, about jobs, about the
future of our country, and that's what he wants to do.
She
added: "He wants to secure the borders, he wants to secure America, he
wants to bring jobs back, he wants to bring economy back, and he's very
passionate about American people, because he knows he can do that. He's a
worker, he's a fighter, he is, he's very passionate about it, and he
will not give up, he will fight till the end, and he will fight for
American people as he's fighting now for himself."
Melania Trump also made clear she doesn't want sympathy.
"I'm
very strong. And people -- they don't really know me. People think and
talk about me like, 'Oh, Melania, oh poor Melania,'" she said.
"Don't feel sorry for me. Don't feel sorry for me. I can handle everything," she added.
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