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Trump emails: Can you spare $10 to help elect a billionaire?
With the simple tap of the “send” button one day last week, Donald Trump collected $3 million in campaign contributions – as much as he did in the entire month of May. He had asked for donations of $10 or more, with the promise of adding $2 million of his own money.
Trump’s failed Baja resort fits business pattern
When Stephenee Simms heard in 2006 that Donald Trump was building condo towers in Baja California, Mexico, the lure of a posh weekend getaway on the rustic coast just south of Tijuana was hard to resist.
Trump’s budget, tax plans add at least $10 trillion to debt, study shows
A new Washington study says Donald Trump’s tax and budget plans would make the national debt skyrocket by $10 trillion or more over the coming decade, mostly because of his ambitious and expensive tax cuts.
Clinton, Warren event a VP preview?
Elizabeth Warren offered an impassioned endorsement of Hillary Clinton on Monday morning, symbolically unifying the Democratic Party behind the presumptive nominee and giving voters a rousing preview of what could be a historic joint ticket.
Alex Rodriguez: Brexit a potent warning sign
Britain has Brexited, choosing populism and over pragmatism, insularity over inclusion – and leaving the world transformed and deeply worried. The rising tide against immigration has Trumped integration. It’s a script that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, easily could have penned, were it not for the U.K.’s own version of nationalistic bombast and one of the standard bearers for Brexit – former London Mayor Boris Johnson. Johnson and other Brexit leaders hawked the idea of an anti-immigration, walled-off Britain, and Britons bought it.
Kathleen Parker: From ‘Brexit’ to ‘Trexit’?
When Trump supporters hear post-Brexit analysts say the “leavers” suffered “fear of the other,” they hear fools ignoring the realities of unsecured borders, possible terrorists posing as refugees and illegal immigrants demanding entitlements.
Business promotion and politics par for Trump’s golf tour
Donald Trump moved from hole to hole on his wind-swept Scotland golf course Saturday, not a club in hand but promotion on his mind, extolling North Sea views that are among “the great sights of the world.”
Froma Harrop: Is losing part of Trump’s plan?
The Republican Party has provided the vehicle for Trump’s joy ride. If at the end he returns a smoking wreck to the counter, not his problem.
Trans-Atlantic Trend? Trump sees UK vote as validation
Britain’s stunning vote to bolt from the European Union sent political tremors across the Atlantic Friday, fueling Donald Trump’s confidence that frustrated U.S. voters will back similarly sweeping change and rattling Democrats who are banking on Americans ultimately choosing a more conventional leader in Hillary Clinton.
CNN hires fired Trump campaign manager
CNN has hired former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a commentator on the campaign, only days after he was fired by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Trump’s campaign may go the way of his Atlantic City casino
Trump ignored warnings that he would not be able to attract enough gamblers to pay the bills – just as many warned that Trump’s coalition of angry white men was not large enough to win a general election.
Clinton ‘gets rich making you poor,’ Trump charges
NEW YORK – Donald Trump launched a broad rebuke of his presidential rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday, accusing her of being “a world class liar” who personally profited from her tenure at the State Department. “She gets rich making you poor,” Trump said. Seeking to steady his campaign after a difficult stretch, the presumptive Republican nominee cast himself as the White House candidate best positioned to address Americans’ economic interests.
When Trump debates Clinton, no TV record in America will be safe
A Hillary Cinton versus Donald Trump debate match-up could rival the Super Bowl and bust the presidential-debate viewership record set by Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Trump’s campaign spends $6 million with Trump companies
Donald Trump is one of the wealthiest men to ever run for president, but his campaign appears to be flat broke. What’s more, fundraising reports show he’s used about $6 million in campaign money to pay his own companies and family members.
Clinton warns that Trump would plunge economy into recession
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning his “reckless” approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence.
Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Donald Trump
A federal officer says a man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer’s gun so he could kill the candidate.
Trump campaign manager forced out
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump’s unconventional White House bid.
Washington Democrats urged to unite behind Hillary Clinton
Oregon senator who backed Bernie Sanders says Democrats need to support Hillary Clinton in a campaign against Donald Trump
Krauthammer: Trump is running as Trump - surprise!
Trump has boasted that he could turn “presidential” – respectful, respectable, reticent, reserved bordering on boring – at will. Apparently, he can’t.
Trump battleground plan relies on skeptical GOP leaders
His campaign riled by infighting and Republican revolt, Donald Trump is working to address a battleground state staffing shortage that highlights his reliance on a skeptical GOP establishment. The New York billionaire has slowly begun to add paid staff in a handful of swing states – Wisconsin and Iowa, among them.