Melania Trump was paid $237,000 to make a rare appearance at a political event in April, although it's unclear who forked over the cash. Melania Trump delivered speeches at two fundraisers for the Log Cabin Republicans, a group for LGBT conservatives, in April and July this year. She received the six-figure payment for the earlier event, according to former President Donald Trump's most recent financial disclosure form, CNN reported. Trump has not released a financial report for the period that covers July, although CNN also reported that a Trump ally requested a "similar" payment for the second event. read more
Greg Sargent: At bottom, Vance's whole purpose of running with the grotesque pet-eating lie has not been to draw attention to the story of Springfield, but to rewrite it. read more
Donald Trump has claimed the audience during his presidential debate with Kamala Harris went "absolutely crazy" for him - but there's a huge issue: there was no audience at the ABC debate. read more
while J.D. Vance's hillbilly ancestors may not have been the inbred, possum-eating, superstitious bushwhackers of legend and lore, as they descended on Ohio from the hills of Kentucky they had more than a little in common with the Haitian immigrants Sen. Vance now spends his days vilifying in terms that would have been familiar to Fritz Hippler, the filmmaker whose 1941 propaganda film Der ewige Jude comes to its climax with images of leering kosher butchers covered in the blood of animals slaughtered in the service of "the so-called Jewish religion." Lord Acton would have us believe that it takes absolute power to corrupt absolutely. But even the dream of the vice presidency"that "bucket of warm piss" in the immortal words of Vice President John Nance Garner"will do the trick, if you are the right kind of person. read more
Vance is defending spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants. Asked by the CNN's Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were "a story that you created", Vance replied, "Yes!" read more
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Exist here they certainly do. Once you've convinced people about an evil, threatening Other, all bets are off in terms of how beyond the accepted norms their behavior will go. An example is chronicled in Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (www.amazon.com).
Melania Trump roasted for new grift hawking tacky' $600 Vote Freedom' necklace
Necklace is the latest piece merchandise touted by the Trumps
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Keeping it classy.
Bentley's Wikipedia entry (en.wikipedia.org) limns the course of what might be described as a "troubled soul." He certainly didn't deserve what he got, but there's plenty of authority testifying to war zones being barbaric arenas. I forget which of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War novels it was, but he leaped at the chance to get out of the muck and blood when offered a job manning a typewriter at a base.
From the NYT:
Israeli Bulldozers Flatten Mile After Mile in the West Bank
Videos from Tulkarm and Jenin show bulldozers destroying infrastructure and businesses, as well as soldiers impeding local emergency responders.
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