Kinda scary for the U.S. that one of the nominees sounds like a lunatic unless he has a teleprompter and gives himself a pep talk.
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The new self-discipline comes as the election tightens and polls indicate a razor-close race in battleground states such as Florida, New Hampshire and Colorado. On the stump Wednesday night in Florida, Trump revealed how he is focused on staying disciplined and how hard it is for him.
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He talked to himself out loud on the stump: "We've got to be nice and cool, nice and cool, right? Stay on point, Donald, stay on point. No side tracks Donald. Nice and easy."
A lot has been said about why Trump is having so much support, but I found this an interesting "theory"...it basically points out that the US is having some sort of identity crisis; they are not a "white Christian society" anymore and they don't really know what they are...and as a result, some people long to go back to the times when they knew their identity
There were similar theories floated to explain the rise of Al Qaeda - dissatisfaction with the current plight of Muslims and a longing to return to the days when they were great.
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Our firm's website was reportedly hacked today, as well as emails. Anonymous claims responsibility.
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Our firm's website was reportedly hacked today, as well as emails. Anonymous claims responsibility.
There just seems to be a lot of drama around Lisa Bloom. We're going to have a Jane Doe press conference, now we're not, we've been hacked.
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Yeah I kinda took it as him mocking Kellyanne and everyone who tries to keep him on point.
Perhaps, but for a guy who mocked other people for using teleprompters months ago it's funny to see him use them non-stop otherwise he's off and running in a different direction.
Lisa Bloom @LisaBloom15h15 hours ago Lisa Bloom Retweeted 0
Our firm's website was reportedly hacked today, as well as emails. Anonymous claims responsibility.
The primary arms of the Anon collective are denying responsibility, pointing fingers instead at Guccifer, which wouldn't be surprising considering he has been in bed with the Russians for awhile.
In the words of Jon Stewart "the man that will more than likely, given the FBI's preference be our next president".
Yet Comey is hardly the only member of the FBI who doesn’t believe this rule applies to him. Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal published leaked information about an entirely separate investigation into former Secretary Clinton. One of the reporters on this story is Devlin Barrett, who Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall described as “the chief conduit of choice for anti-Clinton agents at the FBI.” And the details of this Clinton probe are almost too comic to be believed.
In 2015, Peter Schweizer, a reporter with the white nationalist site Breitbart News, published a book called “Clinton Cash” which alleged that President and Secretary Clinton used foreign connections to enrich themselves. The CEO of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign, Stephen Bannon, is the executive chairman of Breitbart.
Based on this book, which was published by a writer at a white nationalist site with close ties to the Trump campaign, some agents within the FBI reportedly decided to investigate Clinton. Schweizer was himself interviewed several times by these agents.
According to the Wall Street Journal, representatives from the FBI met with public integrity prosecutors and the head of the Department of Justice’s criminal division in February. The prosecutors reportedly were not impressed with this Breitbart-fueled investigation, and the DOJ instructed the FBI to “stand down.”
And yet, the agents persisted, even as senior executives within the FBI turned against them.
Under ordinary circumstances, this would have been nothing more than a headache for the prosecutors and senior FBI officials faced with insubordinate agents. But news of this probe is now public, in violation of Justice Department policy. And the anti-Clinton forces within the FBI appear to be doing their damnedest to maximize the damage this probe inflicts on Clinton. As former DOJ spokesperson Matthew Miller summarized the facts:
Suddenly Trump has quite a few paths to victory... namely, win Nevada and NC, and flip any of CO, PA, MI or WI.
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Not sure he should be given Florida right now. Florida is obviously Florida and we probably should give it to Trump based solely in it being Florida, but polling shows it's very tight. He's still basically on one realistic path.
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Several sources said the team has focused heavily on how a President Trump might use executive authority, both as a way to quickly put his stamp on the federal government, as well as to undo hundreds of Obama’s regulations on energy, taxes and health care.
“That’s been a big focus of their effort, so they’re in a position on Day One to repeal things and replace things with the stroke of a pen,” said one person close to the transition team.
Two sources within the FBI told Fox News on Wednesday that the investigation of the Clinton Foundation is likely to lead to an indictment.
Fox News's Bret Baier said Wednesday that the FBI probe into a possible pay-to-play scheme between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation has been going on for over a year.
Sources told the news network that the investigation, which is conducted by the White Collar Crime division of the FBI, is a "very high priority."
One source further stated that the bureau collected "a lot of" evidence, adding that "there is an avalanche of new information coming every day."
Baier also said that the Clinton Foundation probe is more expansive than previously thought, and that many individuals have been interviewed several times throughout the course of the investigation.
Sources said that they are "actively and aggressively pursuing this case" and that investigations are likely to continue.
Baier added that when he pressed the sources about the details of both probes, they told him that they are likely to lead to an indictment.
Additionally, Baier reported that according to Fox News's sources, Clinton's private email server had been breached by at least five foreign intelligence hackers. FBI Director James Comey said in July that he could not say definitively whether her server had been breached.
