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“Donald Trump has a long, troubling history of destroying and hiding important documents in lawsuits, but he thinks Hillary Clinton’s the one who should be going to jail.”
— Kurt Eichenwald, Donald Trump's companies destroyed or hid documents in defiance of court orders
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton
“The millions of people who vote for Trump are not doing it because of the worst things he said or did. That’s ridiculous. The Americans who are voting for Trump are doing it because they judge the situation of the country to be urgent. We’re at such a crucial point that you have to overlook personal characteristics.”
— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel Defends His Most Contrarian Move Yet: Supporting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016
“Clinton, whose rally speeches can sound stilted, has struggled to excite the young voters who were thrilled by Obama’s gifts as a communicator. But for some women of her generation, both professionals and homemakers, her preference for quiet labour over grandiose performance is familiar.

Betsy True, 61, is a quiltmaker in Alexandria, Va., who had a previous career in computers at the defence department, a male-dominated workplace where her opinions were sometimes treated with sexist disdain. She said she admires how Clinton managed to work together in the Senate with people who voted to impeach her husband — and how she did not show off.

‘She just did the work,’ True said. ‘Put her head down, did the work.”
— Daniel Dale, A Hillary Clinton secret — lots of voters really like her
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“A majority of the electorate finds Clinton dishonest and inauthentic. Clinton devotees see her as caring and truthful, her reputation the product of unfair, gendered criticism and caricature.

‘I think a lot of people find her cold and aloof. I don’t find that at all when I watch her. I see a very warm soul,’ said Jennifer Hajkowski, 41, a high school teacher at the Philadelphia rally.”
— Daniel Dale, A Hillary Clinton secret — lots of voters really like her
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“Where Sanders bitter-enders see a centrist or conservative posing as a progressive, her core supporters see a committed liberal with the record to prove it. Where Trump backers see a ‘career politician,’ they see a public servant with critical experience.”
— Daniel Dale, A Hillary Clinton secret — lots of voters really like her
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“Older Democratic women, Tulchin said, care most about the historic nature of Clinton’s candidacy. They empathize with her professional experiences and career sacrifices. And as women who came of age during the era of second-wave feminism, he said, they were enthused by the active, political tenure as first lady that alienated older men.”
— Daniel Dale, A Hillary Clinton secret — lots of voters really like her
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“She gets home from the office around six. She feeds her teenagers. And then, around eight, Kim Mallonn, an Ohio human resources executive who has never been any kind of political activist, sits down in her suburban family room and wages a ‘one-woman Twitter war.’

Mallonn, 50, is just as committed to her cause as the aggrieved Donald Trump fans who have been exhaustively profiled in the media. But she is part of a group that has been treated as close to nonexistent amid the flood of features on Trump’s angry army: people who really, really like Hillary Clinton.”
— Daniel Dale, A Hillary Clinton secret: lots of voters really like her | Toronto Star
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“When I asked one senior Trump adviser to describe the scene inside, he responded: ‘Think of the bunker right before Hitler killed himself. Donald’s in denial. They’re all in denial.’”
— Gabriel Sherman, The Final Days of Trump’s Unmanageable, Unrepentant, and Unprecedented Campaign
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“I give mostly to a lot of different groups.”
— Donald Trump, Trump answers a question on what charities he donates to
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“In advance of this story, The Post sent more than 70 questions to the Trump campaign.

Those questions covered the individual anecdotes and statistics contained in this story, including the tale about Trump crashing the ribbon-cutting in 1996, as well as broader questions about Trump’s life as a philanthropist.

Exactly when, before this spring, did Trump last give his own money to charity?

What did Trump consider his greatest act of charity in recent years?

Trump’s campaign did not respond.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“New findings, for instance, show that the Trump Foundation’s largest-ever gift — $264,631 — was used to renovate a fountain outside the windows of Trump’s Plaza Hotel.

Its smallest-ever gift, for $7, was paid to the Boy Scouts in 1989, at a time when it cost $7 to register a new Scout. Trump’s oldest son was 11 at the time. Trump did not respond to a question about whether the money was paid to register him.

At other times, Trump used his foundation’s funds to settle legal disputes involving Trump’s for-profit companies and to buy two large portraits of himself, including one that wound up hanging on the wall of the sports bar at a Trump-owned golf resort. Those purchases raised questions about whether Trump had violated laws against ‘self-dealing’ by charity leaders.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“The charity that Trump has given the most money to over his lifetime appears to be his own: the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

But that charity, too, was not what it seemed.

The Trump Foundation appeared outwardly to be a typical, if small, philanthropic foundation — set up by a rich man to give his riches away.

In reality, it has been funded largely by other people. Tax records show the Trump Foundation has received $5.5 million from Trump over its life, and nothing since 2008. It received $9.3 million from other people.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“Instead, The Post found that his personal giving has almost disappeared entirely in recent years. After calling 420-plus charities with some connection to Trump, The Post found only one personal gift from Trump between 2008 and the spring of this year. That was a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, in 2009. It was worth less than $10,000.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“Trump promised to give away the proceeds of Trump University. He promised to donate the salary he earned from ‘The Apprentice.’ He promised to give personal donations to the charities chosen by contestants on ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ He promised to donate $250,000 to a charity helping Israeli soldiers and veterans.

Together, those pledges would have increased Trump’s lifetime giving by millions of dollars. But The Post has been unable to verify that he followed through on any of them.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“It’s like Humpty Dumpty fell and broke, then a giant lawn mower ran over it, acid was thrown on the pieces — and a bunch of racist idiots ran off with an arm and a leg. How do you put it back together? I don’t know.”
— John Weaver, GOP braces for turmoil after Election Day
Tagged: Election 2016, The Republican Party
“Which candidate would do the most to help our local economy? That’s easy. It’s Pat McCrory, the Republican governor of North Carolina, who’s seeking his second four-year term in the November election. We can point to specific and multiple ways he has helped the economy — our economy.

North Carolina panicked and made a spectacle of itself by passing HB2, its so-called ‘bathroom bill.’ In response, various companies and even sports leagues pulled events from the state. Three of those have wound up in Salem — the NCAA Division III men’s and women’s soccer championships, as well as the Division II Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association football championship. That’s money in the bank for us.”
— The Roanoke Times, Our view: Ballot selfies and other election thoughts
Tagged: Election 2016, Politics, Pat McCrory, North Carolina, Virginia
“For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public — even nationally televised — promises to give his own money away.

It was, in large part, a facade. A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has not been able to verify many of Trump’s boasts about his philanthropy.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“In the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS. The bold-faced names took seats up front.

[...]

Then, all of a sudden, there was Donald Trump.

‘Nobody knew he was coming,’ said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. ‘There’s this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don’t know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.’

Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.

But now he was sitting in Fisher’s seat, next to Giuliani.

‘Frank Gifford turned to me and said, ‘Why is he here?’ ’ Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.

‘Just sing past it,’ she recalled Gifford telling her.

So they warbled into the first song on the program, ‘This Little Light of Mine,’ alongside Trump and a chorus of children — with a photographer snapping photos, and Trump looking for all the world like an honored donor to the cause.

Afterward, Disney and Buchenholz recalled, Trump left without offering an explanation. Or a donation. Fisher was stuck in the audience. The charity spent months trying to repair its relationship with him.

‘I mean, what’s wrong with you, man?’ Disney recalled thinking of Trump, when it was over.”
— David Fahrenthold, Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, and that they ‘appear to be pertinent to the investigation.’

Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was taking steps to ‘determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.’ He said he did not know how long it would take to review the emails, or whether the new information was significant.”
— Adam Goldman and Alan Rappeport, New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Clinton Email Controversy, James Comey
“Federal law enforcement officials said Friday that the new emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server were discovered after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin, an aide to Mrs. Clinton, and her husband, Anthony Weiner.”
— Adam Goldman and Alan Rappeport, New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Clinton Email Controversy

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