The New Book That Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign – Rolling Stone

Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign ‘Shattered,’ a campaign tell-all fueled by anonymous sources, outlines a generational political disaster A new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes examines what went wrong during Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty There is a critical scene in Shattered, the new behind-the-scenes campaign diary by Jonathan…

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Taibbi on Trump the Destroyer – Rolling Stone

  It’s like the campaign never ended. It’s the same all-Trump, all-the-time madness, only exponentially worse. Morning, February 24th, National Harbor, Maryland, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Chin up, eyes asquint, Donald Trump floats to the lectern on a sea of applause and adulation. The building is shaking, and as fans howl his name –…

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Close to Two Million Actual Voters Ignored the Presidential Race – Hit & Run : Reason.com

Even when they voted, more people bypassed the main event than usual. Scott Shackford|Dec. 14, 2016 4:15 pm Piero Oliosi/Polaris/NewscomWe already know that one of the predictable consequences of having two unpopular major party candidates—Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—led to poor voter turnout (when presented as a percentage of the voting population). One of the…

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Donald Trump Thinks He’s Smart Enough to Skip Daily Intelligence Briefings | Teen Vogue

In one of his few post-election appearances, president-elect Donald Trump admitted that he receives an intelligence briefing only once per week, compared to the six times per week president Barack Obama does currently. Why? That’s a whole different story. Over the weekend, Trump told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace that he didn’t need daily intelligence…

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Stein Campaign Forced into Plan C—or Maybe D?—After Federal Judge Ends Michigan Recount

Late on Wednesday night, the federal judge in Michigan whose emergency order set a statewide recount into motion earlier this week lifted that order, in deference to the state court of appeals, effectively ending the recount and confirming Donald Trump’s victory there over Hillary Clinton. The Green Party has petitioned for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan,…

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