He made himself the biggest news story since 9/11, and almost neutered the press in the process. No matter who claims the presidency on November 8, the 2016 election was a story about one human being's domination of the media.Source: How Trump Took Over the Media By Fighting It...
Recently, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Time, the Columbia Journal Review and a host of other news organizations reported on a Center for Public Integrity study detailing the federal campaign-finance filings of journalists, reporters, news editors, television news anchors and other donors workingSource: Presidential Pollsters’ Political Contributions: Heavily For Hillary Clinton...
Find our content interesting and worth supporting? Donate to The Center for Public Integrity.Source: Super PACs, ‘dark money’ groups eschew presidential race for Senate...
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Cali.) agreed Thursday to reimburse his campaign account $49,000 after spending on everything from oral surgery to a garage door to fast food, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.Source: Congressman will repay $49,000 after spending campaign money on garage door, Disneyland, 16 trips to Jack in the Box...
Much has been made of the Democrats’ losing a number of cases they have filed to try to get Trump, the RNC and Roger Stone to be barred from acts of voter intimidation. But, as I wrote yesterday regarding the loss in the DNC v. RNC case:Source: Breaking: Roger Stone and Stop the Steal Call Off the Hounds, and Dems...
Via Chris Geidner, comes this short order from a Sixth Circuit panel in the OH case against the Trump campaign and others to stop voter intimidation.Source: Breaking 6th Cir. Panel, Without Full Response from Democrats, Reverses OH Trump Voter Intimidation Order...
As a Clinton supporter in deeply blue state, the Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur knew his vote wouldn’t do much to affect the outcome.Source: Third-party voters are “trading votes” with Clinton voters to defeat Trump...
As Donald Trump swept his campaign across the country in a final sprint, he claimed that long lines in Clark County, Nevada, were evidence of electoral wrongdoing. "Folks, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged system. And we're going to beat it," he said.Source: Donald Trump Says Early Voting Lines Are Evidence of 'Rigged' System...
Americans elected the greatest president, Lincoln, four years after the worst, Buchanan, so there’s some hope that 2020 will redeem 2016, whoever wins on Tuesday.Source: History Repeats as Farce, Then as 2016...
WASHINGTON ― A man wearing a Donald Trump shirt and carrying a weapon stood outside a voting location in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Friday. Authorities in the nation’s richest county are apparently OK with that.Source: A Guy In A Trump Shirt Carried A Gun Outside Of A Virginia Polling Place. Authorities Say That's Fine....
