Trump breaks a bottle of champagne on a Playboy-branded limo while several of the Playmates are visiting New York City. “Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York,” Trump says.
The State Department will process for release an additional 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails before Election Day, according to a report Wednesday night.
Initially, a federal judge had ordered State to process 1,050 pages before Election Day—and according to Politico, which first reported the news, the federal department will now process an additional 1,850 pages by the same deadline. The deal is a result of a case brought by Vice News reporter Jason Leopold, who had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Clinton’s emails.
Taliban leaders followed the U.S. presidential debate closely but heard nothing on Afghanistan, a spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that they were not impressed by Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom they considered "non-serious".
The leaders watched Monday's televised debate from a secret location in Afghanistan, but neither Trump nor Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton talked about their intentions for the country, the spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said by telephone.
"The main thing that we would like the next U.S. president to do is to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors," he said.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backed up Donald Trump’s weight-based attacks against a former pageant winner, telling an audience Wednesday night that “you’re not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you’re Miss Universe.”
The woman in question is former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who was thrust into the spotlight of the presidential election at Monday night’s debate when Hillary Clinton brought up Trump’s long history of derogatory remarks about women. The former secretary of state said Trump had called Machado “Miss Piggy,” because he believed she gained too much weight after winning her crown, and “Miss Housekeeping,” a dig at her Hispanic heritage.
That’s the worst thing about this administration. They’ve taken -- it took 230 years to make this the greatest country, the greatest society in human history, and they are trying to unravel it and destroy it for -- I don’t know why. I still don’t know why. What is -- this country handed everything to Barack Obama. He didn’t have to work for anything. Just because of the color of his skin he was given everything. And he still hates the country.
A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.
Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after-the-fact to a charitable effort.
PHOENIX - The Arizona Republic says it has received death threats and countless subscription cancellations over its endorsement of Hillary Clinton -- the first time in the paper's 126 year history it has ever supported a Democrat for president.
"Well it's been crazy around here," said Phil Boas, director of the Arizona Republic's editorial page. "We're getting a lot of reaction both locally and national. I don't believe true readers of the editorial page are surprised by this at all, because over the past year we have been writing scathing, scalding articles about Donald Trump."
"The things he has done," he said, "making fun of disabled people and rolling back press freedoms. You know a guy who would do that and crush our freedoms in one area will do it in others as well."
Early Tuesday evening The Arizona Republic's editorial board broke with a longstanding tradition and endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. It’s the first time in the paper’s history, 126 years, that its editorial board has endorsed a Democrat. The editorial is a thorough take-down of Republican candidate Donald Trump, and though it acknowledges that Clinton's candidacy has "flaws," it very clearly enumerates her capabilities. http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/billgoodykoontz/2016/09/28/arizona-republic-azcentral-clinton-endorsement-reaction/91230198/
WASHINGTON — The Latest on FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to Congress (all times local): 11:00 a.m.
House Republicans are criticizing FBI Director James Comey for immunity deals granted to Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff and others involved in a now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and other Republicans said Wednesday that an immunity deal for Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff, was improper and short-circuited a possible criminal prosecution.
Comey said the immunity deal with Mills was granted by the Department of Justice — not the FBI — and was limited to information contained on her laptop. He said the FBI believed that information on the laptop was needed quickly.
Comey said lawmakers “can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels. We are honest people.”
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) appears to be going public as an outright white supremacist. On September 18, he released a tweet showing himself posing alongside European fascist leaders with the phrase, “Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end.”
The text is a reference to a racist tenet—common among white nationalists and fascists—that people of color, immigrants and Muslims pose a threat to “white purity.”
The Maine governor said blacks and Hispanics from out of state were to blame for drug problems, but his own files show mostly white Mainers being arrested for narcotics.
In August, Governor Paul LePage of Maine launched a diatribe at a man who’d asked him about a spate of drug problems in the state.
“I don’t ask them to come to Maine and sell their poison, but they come and I will tell you that 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and it’s a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Bronx and Brooklyn,” he said.
But when reporters asked to see the binder, LePage refused. It turns out he may have been right to be wary: Its contents, released Monday after an open-records request, showed that the Republican badly misstated its contents, blaming people of color from out of state when most of those included are white Mainers.
How former Democrats Diamond and Silk became the Republican nominee's biggest boosters In the bottom of a palatial Cleveland mall, in a dimly lit room typically rented out for weddings, a parade of mostly white, middle-aged women have approached a lectern and, one by one, made their anemic pitch for Donald Trump to several rows of mostly empty chairs. The enthusiasm level at this, a "Women Vote Trump" event held during July's Republican National Convention, is low, to say the least. When sister act Diamond and Silktake the stage, though, the audience, sparse as it is, erupts in cheers. "Ditch and switch!" hollers a barrel-bellied man in an "I Love Women Who Vote Trump" shirt, referring to the duo's campaign to encourage Democrats to register as Republicans. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/meet-the-black-women-defending-trumps-record-on-race-w441709
So far in this debate, Donald Trump has sniffled approximately 12,000 times, sipped a lot of water, and argued loudly with the lady next to him. On Twitter, Howard Dean says what we’re all thinking—cocaine?
CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Sunday to answer why an IT worker who maintained Clinton's private email server referred to a 60-day email-retention policy as a "Clinton cover-up operation."
In an interview on "State of the Union," Tapper asked why an employee of Platte River, which hosted Clinton's private email server, referred to the policy of deleting emails during the time after Clinton was out of office as a "cover-up operation," a comment the IT worker told the FBI was a joke.
"This IT director thought he was covering something up, no?" Tapper asked.
The FBI released 189 pages of notes late Friday from 46 interviews it conducted as part of its Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The documents provide new information about questionable activity on the part of Clinton aides and computer technicians who managed her private email server. The notes also reveal new details about Clinton’s and President Obama’s email practices.
A dozen of the most interesting revelations are listed below.
Obama’s Iran negotiator might have had Gmail hacked while negotiating nuclear deal
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton told a House committee Friday the panel won't be receiving some information it subpoenaed about security arrangements for Clinton's server.
Clinton attorney David Kendall sent a letter to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) saying that the panel's subpoena to Florida-based computer security company SECNAP went too far by demanding details on safeguards in place after Clinton emails from her time as secretary state were removed from the server in 2014.
"The subpoena ... is overbroad," Kendall wrote in the letter, obtained by POLITICO. "We have no objection to the production of documents related to the SECNAP security device used in connection with the server that ... hosted Secretary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary .... We do object, however, to the production of SECNAP documents and security information regarding security equipment that was used by CESC after the prior server was provided to the FBI, and thus, never hosted Secretary Clinton's work-related emails."
The revelation that several Hillary Clinton staffers received partial immunity in the FBI email probe set off another round of partisan fireworks on Friday: Republicans said they're increasingly convinced the Justice Department mishandled the investigation and Democrats accused the GOP of stoking the issue for maximum political damage in the heat of the campaign.
Oversight Committee Republicans seethed after the disclosure that Clinton’s lawyer Cheryl Mills was granted protection from prosecution for turning over to the FBI the laptop she used while helping sort Clinton’s "work-related” emails from her “personal messages.” The work messages were slated to be made public, while the personal ones were deleted. Also receiving legal protection was Heather Samuelson, a Clinton campaign staffer-turned-legal assistant who made the initial determination on how to categorize the emails.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is no longer an advisor to the Federal Reserve.
On Thursday, Stumpf handed his resignation into the Federal Advisory Council, a group of 12 bank executives that advise the Fed board, according to a statement from a San Francisco Fed spokesperson. The CEO was appointed his role by the San Francisco Fed in 2014, though he didn’t assume his responsibilities until 2015.
The council members meet with the Fed’s Board of Governors four times a year in Washington D.C. to discuss economic and banking matters.
“John made a personal decision to resign as the Twelfth District’s representative to the Federal Advisory Council. His top priority is leading Wells Fargo,” a representative for Wells Fargo said in an emailed statement.
Gennifer Flowers, a model and entertainer who had an affair with Bill Clinton while he was governor of Arkansas, said that she will attend Monday night’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, at Trump’s invitation.
Hillary Clinton used a previously undisclosed Gmail account during her tenure as secretary of state, as revealed in summaries of interviews released by the FBI on Friday.
According to one unnamed former aide, the Gmail account was set up in 2010 after he purchased an iPad for Clinton so that she could read “articles of interest” sent to her.
“[NAME REDACTED] stated that she could not view the articles on her Blackberry and the iPad and email account were set up as a way to test a different delivery method,” the FBI’s account of the interview reads. The unnamed aide said he was “fairly sure” the Gmail account wasn’t used after its initial setup, however.
The FBI on Friday afternoon released almost 200 pages of summaries of interviews done during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, including those with top aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. The interview with Justin Cooper, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, is also included. Cooper registered the original clintonemail.com domain.
The documents contain several previously unknown details.
In the interview with Abedin, the longtime Clinton aide was surprised to be shown an exchange between President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Abedin was shown an email chain dated June 28, 2012, with the subject “Re: Congratulations!” from a sender she did not recognize, according to the FBI’s notes.
Attorneys working for the Democratic National Committee are hoping a federal judge will throw out a lawsuit filed by a bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who believe they got duped by the DNC.
‘The DNC was biased in favor of one candidate – Hillary Clinton – from the beginning and throughout the process,” the plaintiffs wrote in their original lawsuit. The complaint, which was filed in federal court in Florida, alleges fraud, as well as negligence as it relates to a Russian Hack on the DNC server. The Bernie backers contend that the trove of DNC emails posted by Wikileaks further proves that the Democratic Party was working against Bernie Sanders from the start.
However, in a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed this week, attorneys with the DNC fired back. They believe that the lawsuit is completely without merit, and that the Bernie supporters are using “litigation as a political weapon against a national party (and to support their SuperPAC) in the middle of an election.” They also don’t believe the Bernie backers have standing to even bring the lawsuit.
Kathy Miller, chair in a crucial Ohio county, resigned after the Guardian released video of her saying, ‘It’s their own fault’ if black people haven’t succeeded
Kathy Miller, who was coordinating the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, apologized for her “inappropriate” remarks on Thursday and said she would no longer have a role with the campaign.
Her resignation came just hours after the release of the first film in a series of election videos, Anywhere but Washington.
The video included an interview with Miller in which she said there was “no racism” during the 1960s and claimed black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.
“If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you,” she said.
“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”
Miller added: “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this … Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that’s a big change, and I think that’s the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America.”
LEAVENWORTH, KS––A prison disciplinary board has decided to punish imprisoned transparency advocate Chelsea Manning with 14 days of solitary confinement (with 7 days suspended) forcharges directly related to her suicide attempt in July, and possession of an unmarked book in her cell. The decision is the latest example of the U.S. government’s campaign of harassment and mistreatment of Chelsea, who has been incarcerated in all male military facilities for 6 years. http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/150813426803/breaking-prison-disciplinary-board-decides-to
PJ Media has learned from multiple sources that the House and Senate Intelligence Committees may have access to the contents of an Eastern European computer, potentially Russian, and that hackers may have exfiltrated Hillary Clinton's and Sidney Blumenthal's unsecured files by first hacking Marcel Lazar Lehel aka Guccifer.
One or more American whistleblowers recently informed the Intelligence Committees that the files taken by the unknown hackers are available at specific locations in the Deep Web.
A congressional source who is familiar with the information says these documents are being called for now "the Russian files." Getting them did not involve hacking Russians or anyone else, but rather locating the images that the files left behind while the unknown hackers moved them through the Deep Web. When Clinton associates thought they were deleting her files, they may not have realized that files leave images even in the Deep Web when moved by hackers.
A preliminary review of the files indicated that they contain unclassified as well as potentially classified information, including one document relating to Benghazi that probably should have been highly classified and comes from one of Hillary Clinton's private computers.
‘The DNC was biased in favor of one candidate – Hillary Clinton – from the beginning and throughout the process,” the plaintiffs wrote in their original lawsuit. The complaint, which was filed in federal court in Florida, alleges fraud, as well as negligence as it relates to a Russian Hack on the DNC server. The Bernie backers contend that the trove of DNC emails posted by Wikileaks further proves that the Democratic Party was working against Bernie Sanders from the start.
