In the Year of Trump, Republicans are racing for the exits.
.. one of Trump’s advisers recently suggested that the candidate not wait until the climactic hour to deliver his remarks but, in a break with precedent, speak every single night.
.. Now they’re looking at four excruciating days that will be light on appropriate speakers, short on cash
.. Politico published a story noting that Trump’s vice-presidential finalists may come down to the puny band of miscreants who can bear to say yes.
.. but how many blacks and Hispanics will be willing to buttress Trump?
.. So I suppose they stand sheepishly at the microphone and rant without interruption about the evils of the Clintons. Do politics-soured swing voters really crave hour upon hour of that?
.. Chris Christie is at the ready, with a hunger for attention that’s not quickly sated. So maybe we get several scoops of each of them, with an omnipresent topping of Trump.
Stephen Colbert and Bill O’Reilly Discuss The Political Response To Orlando
The host of The O’Reilly Factor critiques the government’s response to the Orlando shootings, and examines statements offered by the presidential candidates.
Radicals think ISIS is winning, but if we annihilate them, their support will go down.
Trump is making a political tool of the tragedy. He is betting that the country wants a real avenger (5 min)
The reason why we beat the British is that everyone had a gun. (6 min)
Cut the head off the snake.
Why the ‘Dilbert’ creator is supporting Donald Trump
Cartoonist explains his support of the GOP candidate on ‘Fox & Friends’
He is changing how people think about the human condition.
The things that capture the imagination are things that are false.
As soon as a candidate leaves reason and facts, he does better.
He won’t apologize even when the facts are totally against him
He has no shame. He’s good at strategy. He picks topics that play to emotion.
He makes you think past the sale. He makes you imagine him in the white house.
In Revoking Press Credentials, Trump Casts Himself as Punisher in Chief
There is no obvious consistency to it, from a candidate who can also be as accessible as any in history. After all, The Wall Street Journal’s similar headline, that Mr. Trump “Links Obama to Extremists,” didn’t cost that paper its official entree.
.. I did get a call back from Mr. Trump, who said that he was exercising his right to choose whom he grants credentials to as he runs a campaign that he has mostly paid for himself. “I’m from a different world, other than politics,” he said. “In my world, when people don’t treat you fairly … ” He didn’t finish the sentence, but he didn’t have to: You cut them off.
.. It was “the last straw,” he told me. At The Washington Post, he said, “virtually every article is negative even when I have big victories.”
.. When I noted that Mr. Trump had not removed The Times’s credentials, Mr. Trump said, “You’re marginal, you’re marginal,” apparently meaning we, too, were close to losing credentials to cover him. He added, “It’s always possible, anything’s possible.”
.. I asked Mr. Trump what, exactly, will prompt a credential ban.
“If people don’t cover me fairly, or if they actually make things up, I don’t know why anybody should be allowed,” he said.
.. But Mr. Trump said he would not impose similar credential bans if he won the presidency. “That’s different from me taking something away — there I’m taking something away where I’m representing the nation,” he said. As for The Post, he said, “If they start covering me accurately, not even well, just accurately — I don’t want anything — they will get the credentials back.”
.. “Anybody who aspires to be president of the United States should exhibit behavior as a candidate that he or she would display as president of the United States,” he said.
.. A notable exception: Vice President Dick Cheney, who tended to not make room for New York Times reporters on his plane. I personally was on the wrong end of that deal once.
.. “We’re not locking the doors where they can’t get in,” he said, though Mr. Schreckinger of Politico was recently escorted out of an event.