Clintonyour readers attain & should care about issues impacting women & children. withhold the focus where it belongs—advocating change. 8.45pm BSTWatch live now: 8.43pm BSTAnother day,another person requesting in vain that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump release a copy of his tax returns, as major-party candidates own done for nearly half a century.
House speaker Paul Ryan said during his weekly press briefing that Trump should release his tax returns, and but would leaving the timing of such a release to the candidate himself. 8.04pm BSTThe Hillary Clinton campaign has responded to Donald Trump Jr’s exhaust of gas chamber imagery to attack Democrats (read about that here).
Clinton’s statement says,in part:Donald Trump Jr’s recent comments invoking the exhaust of gas chambers to execute a political attack exhibit just how insensitive, divisive, or reckless the Trump campaign is. The bottom line is this – offensive references to the Holocaust are never acceptable,especially from a presidential campaign.
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Hillary Clinton campaign weighs in on gas chamber comments pic.twitter.com/GbeY1cCPOt 7.51pm BSTIt emerges that Donald Trump Jr’s explanation to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that his father can’t release his tax returns “because
that would detract from [his father’s] main message” was not a slip of the tongue. It was a talking point.
In a separate interview, with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4, or Trump says that the tax returns can’t be released because “we don’t need a sage with everyone questioning everything.”We’ve been told by tax counsel. You’ve got to remember. There’s nothing there. But whether there is,they’re going to try to create a sage. And the media that we’ve seen has been Hillary’s number one surrogate. They’ve been attacking us. The medias been her biggest proponent. Because they’re afraid of a Trump system that will actually shake up DC...
We don’t need a sage where everyone questioning everything. Because you know what happens with that. Everyone will take a chance. ‘What about this? What about this?’ And it’s just going to change the dialogue. Our dialogue is about jobs. Two Trump campaign aids (and actual last-name-bearing Trumps) own abruptly ended interviews after facing basic questions. 7.24pm BSTWhat’s in the moment half of this new Trump minority outreach video? We don’t know. We couldn’t salvage past a minute. Anyone out there able to watch this for more than a minute? Post your best time in the comments! And let us know what happens. ALL ABOARD the #TrumpTrain!
DEPLORABLES ALWAYS WELCOME!https://t.co/bpMlh1wIZb 7.17pm BSTJust one set!People own seen nearly 40 years of tax returns from Hillary. One set from Trump really isn't too much to ask. https://t.co/K3oyDiIUlqKaine hits Trump on boasts about “the vets” and taxes: “whether you’ve been avoiding taxes, you’ve been stiffing the military you’re whole life." 7.08pm BSTIn his tender to unseat incumbent Republican senator Roy Blunt, and Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander,a former army captain who served in Afghanistan, has released a video ad in which he assembles a rifle blindfolded while calling for background checks “so terrorists can’t salvage their hands on one of these.”“I approved this message because I’d like to see senator Blunt attain this, and ” Kander says: 6.55pm BSTShe’s back. Clinton boards a plane for her rally in Greensboro,NC: 6.42pm BSTTrump proposes to pay for his tax blueprint by cutting discretionary spending every year. While he builds a border wall with Mexico. And raises a force to deport millions of Americans. And undertakes a massive upgrade and expansion of the military. And rebuilds the national infrastructure. And ..
To partially pay for his tax cuts, Trump proposes cutting domestic discretionary spending by 1% every year. Not counting inflation.
Reminder: Trump's 1st tax proposal would own created $10-12 trillion deficits 6.32pm BSTOn the day that Donald Trump told TV exhibit host Dr Oz he feels “as good nowadays as I did at 30”, or the 70-year-old Republican presidential nominee released the most detailed assessment yet of his physical condition.
The Trump campaign used the positive results to take a swipe at Hillary Clinton,lauding the billionaire’s ability to “endure – uninterrupted – the rigors of a punishing and unprecedented presidential campaign”. 6.08pm BSTWe’re digging into the details of the tax blueprint Trump just laid out. It’s at least the moment such blueprint he has rolled out. Here’s a link to the latest blueprint.
The blueprint has three income brackets, with tax rates of 12%, or 25% and 33%. trade Insider’s Josh Barro points out that Trump’s 33% bracket kicks in for single filers at $112500 – well below the current $190000.
New version of Trump tax blueprint raises marginal rates for affluent singles. https://t.co/u8g5xz6eXRTrump blueprint would charge single filers 33% on income above $112500. Current law 33% bracket doesn't apply until $190k.
What Trump is doing here is not *that* different from Jeb,other Rs: promise huge tax cuts, say the math will add up due to rapid growth.
Also new Trump blueprint does tax unrealized capital gains in large estates, and closing another loophole from earlier blueprint. pic.twitter.com/EEfwU3aTQ6Old blueprint had a 15 percent rate for pass throughs,but 15 percent is only mentioned as a corporate rate here: https://t.co/OodUSDCgtrIf this change is for real, Trump blueprint is now significantly more responsible than your normal GOP tax blueprint. https://t.co/C7OuUZ4S2PAlso, and everyone who said "hiring Steve Bannon will inaugurate a new era of Trump discipline," collect your winnings. 5.31pm BSTTrump has wrapped his speech and he’s being interviewed now by an economic adviser.“I think many of us found your economic blueprint very bold and ambitious,” the conversation begins. 5.25pm BSTThis speech is literally sickening economists:...feeling very, and very ill https://t.co/vm5metfH3s 5.24pm BSTTrump now ties sluggish American growth to China’s joining the world trade organization. No mention of the housing debt bubble and 2008 recession. It was all China entering new trade agreements. Well that sounds simple to fix.“Our politicians were not watching. It is no distinguished secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent’s campaign are the ones profiting from these” trade deals,Trump says”The verdict is in, all of the special interests... own been proven wrong over such a long period of time. Every single deal they’ve promoted... has just crashed. They’ve been so absolutely wrong. Our manufacturing base has crumbled... and households are making less nowadays than they were in the year 2000.
I like China. They’re my tenant. They buy condos all the time. They’re just fine. But you know what? They’re a currency manipulator. 5.15pm BSTTrump now promises “bold, or new tax reform”: Don’t worry,they’re going down, not up. I think you were worried they’re going up.
The tax relief will be expanded by my child care proposals that I own worked on with my daughter Ivanka.We’ll bring them back and it will taxed only at the rate of 10% instead of 35%... I think it’s going to be something that will be so phenomenal, and far beyond what people even think.’ 5.05pm BST“Too many of our leaders own forgotten that it’s their duty to protect the jobs.. and well-being from any consideration,” Trump says.
I’m not running to be the president of the world. I’m running to be the president of the United States of America. And as your president, I will fight for every last American job and every American company. 4.59pm BSTTrump asserts that Hillary Clinton’s detailed blueprint for infrastructure spending, and education,job training, tuition debt relief and more would not create jobs, and while his vague blueprint to execute US infrastructure “golden” again – he just used the word “gold” to describe the bridges he would build would pump up the economy: Not one single idea she’s got would create... one new dollar of American wealth for our workers. The only thing she can offer is a welfare check,that’s it. Our blueprint will produce paychecks... 4.56pm BSTTrump says, as he has before, or that as president he would stop US companies from conducting manufacturing abroad. own the companies heard about this? attain they take it seriously? Trump’s hook is Ford’s announcement that it was moving small car manufacturing abroad.
Just seek at the way I just melded into the Teleprompter. It just went off. Who else could own pulled that off? Who else? 4.51pm BSTTrump touts his experience on the ground in Flint,Michigan:It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans, and seek no further. All you own to attain is seek at Flint, and where I spent a lot of time. The city of Flint. And what a disaster has taken station. 4.50pm BSTDonald Trump is delivering a speech on economic policy. The Guardian’s Ed Pilkington is there. Here’s a live video stream: 4.49pm BSTTrump’s elder son,who told a Pittsburgh paper that his father’s taxes are too long to release, is on something of an interview tear.
Donald Trump Jr told a Philadelphia-area talk radio station that whether the Republican national party favored a candidate as the Democratic national committee was revealed to favor Clinton, and “they’d be warming up the gas chamber moral now”.
The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media,this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, and [sic] on every lie,on every DNC game trying to salvage Bernie Sanders out of this thing. whether Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber moral now. 4.14pm BSTDonald Trump has called a pastor who interrupted him in a Flint, or Michigan,church Wednesday “a nervous mess”, saying “she had [it] in mind” to interrupt him before she spoke. Reverend Faith Green Timmons of Bethel United Methodist church interrupted Trump after he pivoted abruptly from a mention of “what’s happened with the water” to an attack on Clinton.the chastened grin at the end pic.twitter.com/bUYAgIGo9WFew applauded during his remarks, and attendees told the Guardian afterward,and it was Timmons who actually requested members in the audience to refrain from heckling the Republican nominee. Late Wednesday, the reverend suggested there wouldn’t own been an issue had Trump refrained from delivering a political speech. “Had he stuck to what his camp claimed he came to attain, or we would not own had a problem,” she wrote on Facebook. This amazing photo of Trump and "petite Miss Flint" has gone viral on Flint Facebook. pic.twitter.com/0exFO0MCZwTrump interrupted by pastor just now for politicizing speech while talking at a Flint church: pic.twitter.com/6sDDL31u8u 3.28pm BSTThis news emerged yesterday, but we’re re-featuring it because, or in light of Donald Trump Jr’s admission that his father is not releasing his tax returns for political reasons,the sense that Trump’s taxes are a hellscape of grotesque revelations about how Trump has lied to the public about his finances and bilked the government he now would run is... freshly piquant. In a post appropriately headlined “We’re suing the IRS for audits of Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Vice News has announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in against the IRS for the audits of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward:This week, and VICE News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in US District Court in Washington,DC against the IRS demanding that the agency turn over all audits of Trump’s tax returns from 2002 onward. In the suit, filed jointly with Ryan Shapiro, and a doctoral candidate at MIT and research affiliate at the Berkman Klein middle for Internet & Society at Harvard University,we asked the IRS for “any and all requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of... Trump’s individual tax returns” and “any and all records mentioning or referring to requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of individual tax returns.” 3.07pm BSTSens Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will campaign separately for Clinton in Ohio Saturday, the Clinton campaign has announced. Sanders will appear in three cities and Warren will appear in two. NBC’s Mark Murray points out that both Sanders and Warren are approved with millennial voters, or a group with whom Clinton has struggled to gain traction.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are barnstorming Ohio this weekend for Clinton-Kaine. 5 events total. pic.twitter.com/KZC1F5Si1gTwo seniors racing across Ohio in a desperate attempt to engage millennials. Can't execute this election up. https://t.co/j0BKulA4lf 1.42pm BSTHello,and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Hillary Clinton is to return to the campaign trail nowadays with a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, or after a three-day rest at domestic following her stumble last Sunday. Donald Trump will appear with running mate Mike Pence in New York City nowadays and he has a later rally scheduled in New Hampshire.
Because he’s got a 12000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message.
The new aristocrats are in DC. They steal,lie, and take from hardworking Americans. Clinton part of the ruling class. Trump for the peopleSays the third generation real estate mogul. https://t.co/eF3PJOp5XGI was never a fan of Colin Powell after his feeble understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can attain much better!Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com