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Theresa “Omarosa” Manigault, former star of Donald Trump’s reality-TV show The Apprentice and a Survivor contestant, has been named director of African-American Outreach for the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign. “I’m happy to take up that cause for Donald Trump,” she told MSNBC upon confirming her hiring. Asked about recent polling, however, showing Trump polling at…
Photos: AP Here is a theory: Jared Kushner blocked Chris Christie from becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee as revenge for his father. Back in summer 2004, Chris Christie, then-U.S. Attorney General for the District of New Jersey, negotiated a plea agreement with Charles Kushner, the head of a $2 billion real estate company and…
The Trump campaign seems to have gotten the thrust of the merciless Internet giggling that greeted the unveiling of its new logo on Friday. The logo, rolled out shortly after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, is comprised of Trump’s “T” ramming into Pence’s “P,” a…
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired the first interview with Donald Trump and 100 percent, totally, for sure running mate Mike Pence. It, um, probably could have gone better. http://gawker.com/reports-donald… Over the course of 20 minutes, the mood shifted from painfully tense to unbearably, painfully tense as Trump repeatedly interrupted both interviewer Lesley Stahl and new…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The absurd spectacle of the Donald Trump veepstakes played out on a canvas of carnage, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Nice, France. The travesties and the tragedies brought out the loons, who more or less tripped over one another to say the craziest, most irresponsible things. Trump grew quieter…
First of all — this is not my writing. It’s a Facebook post by someone I don’t even know, a man named Michael Arnovitz in Portland OR. But as a Facebook post it passes the fair use test and I’m quite certain he would not object that I share it here (he doesn’t). The…
Justice Ginsburg’s Gaffe – She […] Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, this week offered both some controversial comments about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and an apology for them. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) What a week for the separation of powers! Not since December 2000, when a…
To say that Gov. Mike Pence’s, R-Ind., rollout by Donald Trump was unusual is a bit of an understatement, at least compared to recent more traditional VP rollouts. It wasn’t done in a swing state, nor the VP nominee’s home state, nor somewhere else of campaign significance. But the setting wasn’t the only aspect of…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began…
I do not know how to explain what I just watched. It should be easy. Donald Trump introduced Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. There it is. One sentence. Eleven words. But that doesn’t explain what happened any better than “I spent a few hours letting lysergic acid diethylamide mimic serotonin in my…