Monday, October 3, 2016

First women potus

Clinton stays silent on the campaign trail on Trump’s taxes — but takes some big swings on Twitter


NEW YORK -- On the campaign trail Sunday, Hillary Clinton took a pass on speaking about the discovery that Donald Trump may not have paid federal income taxes for as many as 18 years.
But the Democratic presidential nominee more than compensated for her silence with a series of pointed messages posted on Twitter after she was done for the day.
“Three pages of Trump's tax returns confirm he's a business failure who's gotten rich at your expense,” Clinton said in one tweet on her official campaign account. “Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.”
[Clinton pays visit to a Charlotte church to acknowledge pain in wake of city’s unrest]
She was referring to a New York Times report that Trump, a real estate magnate, may have canceled out years of income taxes by declaring a $916 million loss on his 1995 return that the paper obtained. Trump has declined to voluntarily release his tax returns, breaking with years of precedent for White House hopefuls.
Clinton’s tweet included a video highlighting the newspaper report and subsequent television coverage that was less than flattering for Trump.
Clinton demonstrated little interest in speaking about issue on camera Sunday.



 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton hugs Zianna Oliphant onstage after speaking at the Little Rock AME Zion Church in Charlotte on Sunday. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)

As she was getting ready to fly out of White Plains, N.Y., to a church in Charlotte, she ignored a shouted question on the tarmac about Trump’s tax returns.
With the traveling reporters in tow all day, Clinton also declined to make herself available for questions -- something she has been doing a few days a week recently.



Trump’s boosters have argued that the Times article was actually good for him, because it suggested a prowess at managing his finances and didn’t allege anything illegal. On ABC News’s “This Week,” former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called Trump’s actions “absolute genius.”
On her Twitter account, Clinton offered quite a different interpretation.
“Donald Trump built numerous squandered businesses on the backs of taxpayers — and he hasn't even paid his fair share,” she said in one tweet.
Another one tried to knock Trump on two fronts: his taxes and his hard-line views on immigration.



“According to @NYTimes, Trump may contribute less to our military and college students than the undocumented immigrants he wants to deport,” it said. Another of posts on Twitter said the same thing but in Spanish.


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Friday, September 30, 2016

Trump about Female Potus

Trump on Clinton: 'I can be nastier than she ever can be'


Story highlights

The comments were part of a wide ranging interview in which Trump also touched upon his marriages, his recent late-night Twitter rant and his performance at the first presidential debate"Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics," Trump told The Times. "Hillary was an enabler, and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I think it's a serious problem for them, and it's something that I'm considering talking about more in the near future."
Trump and his campaign, however, have repeatedly referenced Bill Clinton's infidelity this week. The Saturday before the debate, he threatened to bring Gennifer Flowers as a guest to the debate, and after Monday's event, he told CNN's Dana Bashhe was "happy" he was able to refrain from mentioning "the indiscretions with respect to Bill Clinton."
On Wednesday, a copy of Trump campaign talking points instructed supporters to use figures like Flowers and Monica Lewinsky to counter criticism of Trump's treatment of a former Miss Universe.
Referring to Eric Trump's comments earlier in the week that Donald Trump showed"courage" in not bringing up the issue at the debate, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallontweeted Friday night, "Assume (Eric Trump) now believes he's a coward."
He also told the Times that his own marriage history does not prevent him from being able to make attacks against the Clintons' relationship. Trump has been married three times, and his first marriage fell apart after he carried on an affair with Marla Maples.
Bill Clinton's infidelities, Trump said, "brought shame onto the presidency, and Hillary Clinton was there defending him all along."
The GOP presidential nominee told the paper that he believes the issue will worsen Hillary Clinton's likeability with female voters.
Asked if he ever cheated on his wives, Trump responded: "No — I never discuss it. I never discuss it. It was never a problem."
And when asked specifically about his affair with Maples, he responded, "I don't talk about it. I wasn't president of the United States. I don't talk about it. When you think of the fact that he was impeached, the country was in turmoil, turmoil, absolute turmoil. He lied with Monica Lewinsky and paid a massive penalty."

'Absolutely disgusted'

Trump also tore into Clinton's decision to feature Alicia Machado, a 1996 Miss Universe whom Trump allegedly called "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping," as a surrogate. Machado has joined the Clinton campaign in publicly denouncing Trump's comments against women, and Trump has responded with smears against the former beauty queen during interviews and on Twitter, including shaming her for a sex tape for which the campaign has not provided evidence.
Trump told the Times he was "absolutely disgusted" that Clinton enlisted the help of Machado for her campaign and that Clinton, who has portrayed Machado as a victim, had "made this young lady into a girl scout when she was the exact opposite."
Looking ahead to the next debate, Trump said he's going to start preparing as early as this weekend. But he does not think that he needs to prepare more rigorously, blaming audio issues Monday with distracting him.
He "spent 50 percent of my thought process" dealing with it, Trump said.
And he backed away from his proclamation Monday that he would "absolutely" support Clinton if she won the election in November,
"We're going to have to see," Trump said. "We're going to see what happens. We're going to have to 
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