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Ted Cruz thinks that Donald Trump embodies New York values. Hillary Clinton isn't so sure. A new television ad from the Clinton campaign implicitly (and at one point explicitly) knocks the real estate mogul for failing to be a real New Yorker. (New York will, perhaps not coincidentally, vote in primary elections in mid-April). It's a strange tack for Clinton, who only became a New Yorker via IllinoisMassachusettsConnecticutArkansasWashington to take. (Moreover, when she did move to the Empire State, she settled in the suburbs. And these days she lives in D.C.) Say what you will about Trump, but the guy is a New Yorker: Except for a couple of years at Penn, he's lived his whole life there. Clinton's ad could also be viewed as a rebuke to her primary challenger, Bernie Sanders, who supposedly fares poorly in ethnically diverse areas. But that would be even more bizarre. Despite Sanders representing the state of Vermont, there's no mistaking that accent: He's a New Yorkuh to the core. (Indeed, so obviously New York is Sanders that another native New Yorker, a popular radio show host, has taken to calling him the deli man in reference to his Jewish Brooklyn roots.)

In even more awful fallout for Michelle Fields from Corey Lewandowski attacking her at a rally, she is now having to flee her apartment over safety concerns after Fox News and Buzzfeed published he…

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It is a sad reality of life that vice often leaves virtue with few good options. I was reminded of this fact by the Donald Trump campaign’s furious and transparently dishonest defense of its campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. By now there is abundant evidence that shortly after a Trump press conference, Lewandowski grabbed former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and yanked her back from Trump hard enough to bruise her and to shock her to tears. Eyewitness testimony, photographic evidence, an audio recording, and now video support these allegations. The original incident was wrong — and likely constituted battery under Florida law — but it was also minor enough that Fields herself said that a simple apology would have ended the entire affair. Indeed, an honorable person would have apologized. #ad#But neither Lewandowski nor Trump are honorable, so they responded with an avalanche of lies. Lewandowksi said he “never touched” Fields. Trump said the Secret Service told him “nothing happened.” Then, when the combination of eyewitness testimony, photographs, and audio and video recordings obliterated the first story, the lies shifted. Now Trump claims that Lewandowski was justified in grabbing Fields because her pen could have been a small bomb. In other words, that thing they said never happened only happened because Lewandowski was worried about a potential assassination plot. The lies alone were bad enough, but they were accompanied by a wave of mockery and ridicule. Fields faced personal attacks as a fabulist. Writers who investigated the story were mocked for spending so much time exposing Trump’s deception. It was just a grab. That happens all the time on the subway or at ballgames. Why ruin Lewandowksi’s reputation or charge him with a misdemeanor over such a small thing? In other words, the incident that was important enough to lie about wasn’t important enough to investigate. RELATED: If Donald Trump Were Eight, His Behavior Might Be Endearing We’ve seen this movie before. The Clintons perfected the art of the lie, paired it with ridicule of the honest, and learned how to win with dishonor. Recall the horror show that ensued after Clinton said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” A decent man wouldn’t have had an affair with an intern. An honorable man would have confessed. But Clinton was neither decent nor honorable, so for months his apologists repeated his lies and mocked those who sought the truth. #share#It was the same game Trump plays. For Clinton’s defenders, the matter was important enough to lie about but not important enough to investigate. It was important enough that accusers and investigators had to be destroyed but not important enough that the actual liars should be held to account. And they won. As evidenced by Hillary’s Clinton’s ascendancy in the Democratic primary, they’re still winning today. RELATED: On Donald Trump and the Two-Bit Thugs Who Do His Bidding Now the GOP has a Clinton of its very own — complete with millions of Clintonistas, people willing to say anything and even believe anything in the quest to “just win.” The Clinton/Trump ethic doesn’t just reflect a post-truth culture but one that’s positively anti-truth. Post-truth implies that the truth doesn’t really matter. Anti-truth means that the truth is your enemy — and so are its advocates. In an anti-truth world, honesty is a threat. Scrutiny is dangerous. And a candidate and his supporters can say literally anything they want so long as it gets them past the news cycle and moves the ball down the political field. In the meantime, those who care about reality are mocked as suckers — as losers. #related#But to give up on investigating the truth because the lie is “minor” or because one feels vaguely silly reviewing a Florida surveillance tape like it’s the Zapruder Film is to give up on honesty itself. And that’s exactly Trump’s hope. That was Clinton’s hope. If you can make virtue look bad enough, vice can prevail. As the primaries continue to unfold, the GOP will learn important lessons about millions of their own voters and elected officials. All those years when they were fighting the Clinton machine, were they really recoiling in disgust? Or were they mostly green with envy? Did they oppose Clinton because he was wrong, or did they hate him because he won? Donald Trump looks in the mirror, Bill Clinton stares back at him, and millions of voters finally get the “winning” they longed for. But don’t be alarmed. Truth is the only casualty. — David French is an attorney and a staff writer at National Review.

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Donald Trump has come out forcefully in defense of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was charged with misdemeanor battery stemming from an incident involving reporter Michelle Fields.

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Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, arriving in Washington this week for President Obama’s nuclear-security summit, is America’s strongest ally in Asia — a region crucial to America’s future. Since taking office, Abe has pursued politically risky policies that have steadily bolstered not just Japan’s, but also America’s position in Asia. So he must be puzzled to find himself at the center of a U.S. political dispute. Battling for votes, the Trump presidential campaign suggests that Japan is an economic and military drain on the U.S. After criticizing China, the campaign smacks Japan. Such overheated rhetoric is as outdated as it is misguided. #ad#In the last few years, Abe has labored mightily to reinflate his currency, to restrain risky regional disputes that also endanger U.S. interests, to raise Japanese defense spending, to adopt new defense guidelines increasing Japan’s regional and global security burden, and to bend his country’s U.S.-inspired post-war constitution to enable Japan to defend U.S. ships and troops in the event of an attack. In the process, he has sought to jump-start Japan’s stalled national economy — the third largest in the world — and to push trade deals advancing Western resilience against China’s economic bullying. He has done all this even as China’s military probes Japan’s southern boundaries and northern Japan recovers from a tsunami-related nuclear-plant disaster. Instead of the Japan, Inc. that scared Congress and labor unions in the 1980s and 1990s and inspired fearmongering books like Clyde Prestowitz’s Trading Places, Japan now struggles with an economy that has persistently underperformed for two decades, ironically due to many of the same misguided Keynesian policies that President Obama has used to leave the U.S. economy stuck in low gear since the 2008 financial crisis. As an economic rival, Japan has been supplanted by a far more menacing competitor, namely China. Today’s leading economists, as well as Prestowitz’s newest book, Japan Restored, argue that Japan’s economic revival would help America and the world. Instead of being the fearsome economic predators of 1990s myth, Japanese companies like Honda, Nissan, and Toyota have opened auto plants in the U.S. that have created more than 1.3 million jobs through 2013, and have become innovative partners in new manufacturing areas like robotics. Even more important, as an economic rival, Japan has been supplanted by a far more menacing competitor, namely China. While some aspects of our trade deficit with Japan could stand some correcting, the deficit with China has ballooned to $365.7 billion, a new record. Chinese cyberattack and commercial cybertheft endanger both Japan and the United States. #share#Furthermore, unlike Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, China is also a threatening geopolitical competitor. China’s $1.4 trillion “One Belt, One Road” program for financing massive infrastructure projects — from harbors and high-speed trains to oil and natural-gas pipelines that will connect China with the rest of the world — aims to displace U.S. influence worldwide, not just in Asia. Its aggressive actions in the South and East China Seas threaten freedom of navigation and could recklessly spark armed conflict. Meanwhile, China has never applied its considerable leverage to reverse the irresponsible international misbehavior, provocative missile programs, and outrageous nuclear-proliferation activities of its client state, North Korea. Japan lies at the forefront of such challenges. So over the past decades it has spent billions annually — at times covering the majority of U.S. costs — to support U.S. bases in Japan, bases that are the bedrock of America’s position in Asia. Japan has sent ground troops to Iraq and contributed to Western efforts in Afghanistan, and it remains a foremost funder of international economic development. Japan has been the kind of powerful democratic ally, and Abe the kind of prime minister, that America has wanted and needed for a long time. But its current prime minister wants to do more to meet and to deter the challenges from China and North Korea and to be America’s true strategic partner in East Asia. Notably, he has steadily increased Japan’s defense budget — indeed, the defense budget for fiscal year 2016 will be Japan’s biggest since World War Two. In working for these changes, Abe specifically argued that Japan needed to be able to come to the aid of the U.S. in a conflict, and to provide real capabilities when it did. In connection with this week’s summit, Japan has sought to counter the threat of nuclear blackmail in Asia — a current focus given North Korea’s recent provocations. Japan may be America’s single most significant partner in deploying missile-defense systems, including co-development of the updated Aegis and SM3 anti-ballistic programs. For Japan, these have been historic steps. In short, Japan has been the kind of powerful democratic ally, and Abe the kind of prime minister, that America has wanted and needed for a long time to maintain peace and collective security in the region. #related#In 1951 General Douglas MacArthur returned from overseeing the occupation and transformation of Japan and told Congress, “Politically, economically, and socially Japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and . . . may be counted upon to wield a profoundly beneficial influence over the course of events in Asia.” After 70 years of uninterrupted responsible democratic governance, those words are even truer today than they were then. It’s not time to strain our ties to Japan, but to strengthen them. Japan-bashing, like 1980s boom-boxes and DeLoreans, should not be disinterred. All of Asia, including China, will be watching what our next president does to encourage Japan’s revival as a global economic engine — and its emergence as America’s steadfast military and strategic ally. — Arthur Herman is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where Lewis Libby is a senior vice president. Mr. Herman is the author, among other works, of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. He can be reached on Twitter @ArthurLHerman.

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