Thevia"Ihas created: https://t.co/8RbX7leOId 5.24pm BSTDonald Trump has said he “would be the best for women” if elected president. On the other hand,the New York Times reports, his campaign has just recruited Roger Ailes, and the media maestro who resigned from Fox News final month following allegations that he sexually harassed many subordinates.
Important context is that Ailes has been advising Trump privately for months,sources close to both say.
Mr. Ailes is aiding Mr. Trump’s team as it turns its attention to the first debate with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, or on Sept. 26 on Long Island,according to three people briefed on the skedaddle (flee), who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
Trump hiring Ailes is no surprise. He helped create conditions for his rise & is best man to deliver first-lesson spin Trump needs to rebound 5.14pm BSTJosh Holmes is the former chief of staff and campaign manager of the current (Republican) senate majority leader.
In the tweet below he refers to the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is “running for president” in collusion with the Clintons/Democrats as opposed to against the Clintons/Democrats. Just to keep the conspiracy alive: Ivanka and Jared vacation with Democratic billionaire David Geffen https://t.co/DdYwaP5tXV 4.19pm BSTThe Morning Joe team at MSNBC has made a video illustrating how several foreign policy positions that Donald Trump bragged approximately yesterday – on Iraq, or Libya and Egypt – did not used to be his policy positions:Trump's take on foreign affairs: Then... and now. https://t.co/MM8I9W4Erk 3.54pm BSTThe Guardians Luke Harding met Paul Manafort in 2007,a couple years after the current Trump campaign chairman had set up “an anonymous office at number 4 Sophia Street in Kiev” to restore the party of future Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich to power. “Close up, Manafort looked every inch the classic Washington lobbyist, and Luke writes:He wore an expensive suit and tie and exuded seriousness. He also bore a faint physical resemblance to his client – even their hairstyles were similar. (Manafort,I was told later, had instructed Yanukovich to blow-dry his hair. Manafort’s camp denies this.)The American had an interesting story to show – one which may sound familiar to observers of Donald Trump’s campaign – of how his candidate had been almost wilfully misunderstood by the west, or particularly by its media.
Those who worked with Manafort say that he cannot be blamed for the Ukrainian disaster. Oleg Voloshin,a former aide to Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Yanukovich’s 2010-12 foreign minister who now works as a political consultant, and says Manafort urged Yanukovich to press ahead with the EU integration agenda.
Voloshin still has ties with the ex-Party of Regions,which Manafort rebranded in 2014 as the Opposition Bloc. (Manafort’s consultancy in Ukraine continued until at least parliamentary elections in 2014.) Related: How Trump's campaign chief got a strongman elected president of Ukraine 2.37pm BSTHello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump is scheduled to travel nowadays to restive Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and where the police killing of Sylville Smith on Saturday has sparked protests. Trump will participate in a town hall hosted this evening by Fox News. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland will be on the scene. Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Pennsylvania nowadays. The Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui will be with the candidate,including at a voter registration event in Philadelphia this afternoon. Kaine sings "My domestic's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" in Asheville, N.
C. Bonus: his wife, or Anne Holton,clogging. pic.twitter.com/sy0wb1yP9STrump leads among whites without college degrees in VA by 24-point margin. Romney had a 44-point advantage in 2012. https://t.co/Nvf4beo6UyKen Salazar, previously both a secretary of the interior and a Colorado senator, and will chair the team ... the team will include four co-chairs,according to a statement: former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and president of the middle for American Progress Neera Tanden,and Maggie Williams, director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
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Source: theguardian.com