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Trump’s new Obama claims thrust him into uncharted territory
Donald Trump’s latest accusation against President Barack Obama – that he’s putting U.S. enemies ahead of America’s own people – is thrusting him into uncharted territory for the presidential candidate of any major political party.
Trump to discuss terrorism watch list, no fly ban with NRA
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will be meeting with the National Rifle Association to discuss ways to block people on terrorism watch lists or no fly lists from buying guns as his party scrambles to respond in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Bernie Sanders setting terms for closing out Democratic race
With the last primary done, Bernie Sanders is negotiating an end to his fight with Hillary Clinton and staking a claim on directing the future of the Democratic Party.
Obama dismisses Trump comments as more details emerge about Orlando killer
As federal authorities weigh whether to charge the wife of Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen, a stern President Barack Obama dismissed Donald Trump’s charge that Democrats have failed to clamp down on “radical Islam.”
Hillary Clinton wins D.C. primary, meets with Sanders
Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win Tuesday in the nation’s capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month’s party convention in Philadelphia.
Graham: Trump’s comments about Obama are ‘highly offensive’
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Tuesday sharply criticized Donald Trump’s insinuations that President Barack Obama knew more about or sympathizes with the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., as “highly offensive.”
Obama: Anti-Muslim rhetoric from Trump ‘not America we want’
President Barack Obama says anti-Muslim rhetoric from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “not the America we want.”
Trump, Clinton weigh in on Orlando attack
Donald Trump vowed Monday to impose a broad ban on immigration from areas of the world with a history of terrorism and suggested some Muslims in the United States are turning a blind eye to unfolding plots, as he outlined an aggressive response to the deadly attack in Orlando.
Trump says he is revoking Washington Post credentials
Donald Trump said his presidential campaign is revoking credentials provided to the Washington Post.
This Republican won’t vote Republican
I’m no Democrat and continue to cringe at their more liberal empty-headed policies. However, they’re now the only adults left in the room.
Romney loyalists ponder a future with Trump
As the GOP struggles to figure out what to do with Donald Trump, several hundred top donors and strategists get conflicting messages that embody the perils posed by the party’s controversial presumptive presidential nominee.
General election could prove tough for Trump
PHILADELPHIA – The presidential primaries are just about over and the nominees have emerged. And the general election begins with Democrat Hillary Clinton already ahead of Republican Donald Trump on the Road to 270. Trump, who shook the last of his rivals weeks before Clinton locked up her nomination, has made the GOP’s uphill path to the White House more treacherous by failing to seize on that head start in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
Donald Trump wants his Trump University video testimony kept private
Attorneys for Donald Trump are seeking to block the filing of a portion of his video-recorded deposition in a class-action lawsuit by former Trump University students, a move that could prevent the public release of the videos, according to a court document filed Friday.
Charles Krauthammer: A difficult year for conscience-driven
I sympathize with the dilemma of Republican leaders reluctant to affirm Trump. Many are as appalled as I am by Trump, but they don’t have the freedom I do to say so.
35 percent of state turned out in primary
Final turnout of the Washington presidential primary is 35 percent. More Democrats than Republicans cast ballots.
WA Prez Primary: 35 percent turnout, Dem ballots topped GOP
OLYMPIA – The final official tally of Washington’s presidential primary: a record 1.42 million voters, or about 35 percent of those registered, cast ballots in a race where the Republican nomination was settled and the Democratic nomination wouldn’t be affected. That’s a record for a…
In speech to conservatives, McConnell wouldn’t say Trump’s name
In a Friday speech in Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t mention Donald Trump by name to the same group of conservative activists the Republican presidential candidate was scheduled to address hours later.
Debra J. Saunders: Civics lesson needed in San Jose
For his trouble, Hernandez was called names, beaten and bloodied. For dessert, he got to hear politicians suggest it was the fault of his candidate that thugs beat him up.
Dana Milbank: Can’t be shocked Trump is racist
The things Trump is doing now — disparaging the “Mexican” judge, disqualifying Muslim judges, calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” and singling out “my African-American” – is very much in line with what he has been doing for the past year, and before.
Trump should clarify claim of judicial bias
Donald Trump is having a tough stretch as the primary season comes to an end, not because he is a racist, but because he has done a thoroughly inadequate job insulating himself from that charge in a case that is so easy to explain that even I can do it.