“You know when she raises this money, every time she raises this money, she is making deals. Saying: ‘Can I be the ambassador to this? Can I do that? Make sure my business is being taken care of.’ I mean, gimme a break — all of the money she is raising is blood money,” he said, adding that Clinton has accepted “tremendous amounts” of money from Wall Street, a criticism that has dogged her throughout her candidacy.
Clinton piles on Trump
“There’s a natural window to communicate in late spring before people tune out for the summer, and presidential [campaigns] have to lay their message groundwork in that limited time,” said David Cohen, a leading member of Barack Obama’s field team in 2008. “But there’s a confluence of events that heighten the opportunity for the Clinton camp: Trump squandered his moment right after he clinched [the GOP nomination], the party is in turmoil so he’s seriously lacking allies, he’s got no general election message and can’t seem to even do message basics, organizationally he’s months behind in building battleground state infrastructure, and the latest finance reports are devastating.”
.. “If your own very good brain is your top consultant, I suppose the unanimous opinion of a diverse group of economists does not count for much,” Brown said of Trump’s wish to return to the gold standard.
Clinton’s VP Choices
Kaine has the relevant experience and preparation to be president that the other two simply don’t have, but choosing him would not be the attention-grabbing or “exciting” one that selecting one of the others would be. Having Kaine on the ticket would show seriousness about governing, and having someone prepared to take over in an emergency would be the responsible thing to do.
.. Taking Warren out of the Senate would be a mistake for Democrats, since that is where she is likely to have the greatest impact on the party’s agenda. Picking Warren would be seen as a concession to Sanders supporters, but the effect of it would be to make her a defender of whatever Clinton chose to do. Progressives would probably rather have her in the Senate acting as a critic of Clinton’s policies than as the person assigned the task of selling those policies to the left.
Democrats unleash coordinated barrage against Trump
Obama, Clinton, Sanders and down-ballot Democrats deliver withering takedowns of the presumptive Republican nominee.
.. “Not once has an adviser said, ‘Man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around.’ Not once,” Obama said, speaking from the Treasury Department following a counter-Islamic State meeting. “So if someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting, if there’s anyone out there who thinks we’re confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who we’ve taken off the battlefield.”
.. Ryan, who called Muslims “our partners.” “And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test, not a religious test.”
.. Trump, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that will air Tuesday evening, boasted that he shamed Clinton into saying “radical Islamism” on Monday.
.. “Yes, she was shamed into it by me, and that’s because of the pressure I put on her,” Trump told Hannity
.. “But in this instance, Donald’s words are especially nonsensical because the terrorist who carried out this attack wasn’t born in Afghanistan, as Donald Trump said yesterday,” she continued. “He was born in Queens, New York, just like Donald was himself.