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Celebrating the inspiring voices who are #ProudToBe SHARE THIS VIDEO: https://youtu.be/dtCyepuLt8Q MUSIC: "Nothing Without Love" by Nate Ruess From commemora...
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SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge says public hospitals must provide abortions on-site if they also offer maternity services. The ruling from Skagit County Superior Court Judge Raquel Montoya…
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Thousands of illegal migrants in Calais have blocked roads, rioted and attacked vehicles forcing roads to close.
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Assyrians file suit against Turkish-Kuwaiti bank for funding jihad terrorism In wake of Orlando massacre, Hamas-linked CAIR issues new
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“.@ChrisMurphyCT said it right: The @SenateGOP have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.”
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Twitter has launched a standalone app for influential Twitter users where they can only see the analytical performance of their tweets.
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For one thing, the alleged would-be killer didn't come close.
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s apocalyptically bad fundraising report, a new word seems in order to describe the exercise in grift being played out on the national stage. Call it a scampaign.
The presumptive Republican nominee’s FEC filing, released yesterday, is quantitative confirmation that Trump is not running a presidential campaign so much as another of his success-immune business schemes. At the end of May, Trump had $1.3 million in cash on hand — less than the price of most apartments in Trump Tower — and managed to raise $3.1 million over the whole month. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, raised $27 million and ended the month with $42 million. Mitt Romney, that loser, raised $78 million in May 2012.
#ad#Even more alarming is what Trump has done with the money he does have. Twenty percent of the campaign’s May expenditures — $1.1 million — were reimbursements to businesses that Trump owns. The Daily Beast has a partial list: Trump Plaza, Trump SoHo, Trump Café, Trump Grill, Epic Trump Wine Manufacturing, Trump Restaurants, Trump National Golf Club, Trump International Golf Club, Trump International Hotel, Trump Ice.
And, on top of all of this, it appears that Trump may be taking a salary.
There’s obviously an element of incompetence here, the exigencies of national campaigning being just one of the panoply of things about which Trump is utterly and proudly ignorant. There’s also an element of sloth. Fundraising is the drudgework of political life, and Trump hates drudgery.
But there’s also the specter of unseemliness — which hangs around Donald Trump with unusual persistence. There is the Trump Network (his maybe-a-pyramid-scheme vitamin operation) and the American Communications Network (the maybe-a-pyramid-scheme tech company he promoted) and Trump University. It was just last month that Trump was facing questions about $6 million supposedly raised for various veterans’ organizations.
With Trump, it’s always a question whether you’re getting played.
With Trump, it’s always a question whether you’re getting played, and as the question pertains to his presidential run, the FEC filing effectively proves that the answer is yes. Would someone worth “TEN BILLION DOLLARS” be pinching the edges of the toothpaste tube? Would he be trying to bilk donors out of their money — not to build campaign infrastructure and start advertising, but simply to cover his own out-of-pocket costs?
Of course not. And potential donors know it. Any money-man who was thinking about getting behind this effort is going to reconsider. Every right-leaning super PAC is going to look around for alternatives. No one wants $1 out of every $5 that he donates going to fill the coffers at Mar-a-Lago.
#related#But that is what is happening. Just like his opponent on the Democratic side, Trump has no qualms about turning the advantages of public life to private gain, about erasing the line between public service and private enrichment — and even for pennies. Trump has always been concerned, first and foremost and solely, about his own bottom line. Now, he’s simply taken the grift national.
It’s Scampaign 2016, and we’re proving a nation of suckers.
— Ian Tuttle is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute.
[Editor's Note: This article has been amended since its initial posting.]
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Indiana: Muslim teen attempted to join the Islamic State, shopped for pressure cookers Illinois state government set to establish Muslim-American Advisory Council
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This time were back with the uncompromising wit of Onision. Be prepared as we get decimated by the great intellect sharp enough to cut diamonds. Will Onision...
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President Vicente Fox (search) refused to apologize Monday for saying Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won't — a comment widely viewed as acceptable in a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color.
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Donald Trump, who overcame an onslaught of negative advertising to clinch the GOP nomination, recently turned to supporters at a rally for advice.
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“Remember the time Jeb Bush beat Trump in the primaries because Bush had better funding? Neither do I.”
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The case of Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer whose 6-month jail sentence for a sexual assault on an unconscious, intoxicated young woman caused an outcry earlier this month, contin
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Anti-Trump delegates hoping to install another candidate as the Republican nominee in Cleveland face long odds -- but their success is not impossible.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers a...
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Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation
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Economic and civil rights experts say increased immigration spurred by President Obama’s executive orders poses a bigger threat to the black community than police brutality or racial profiling, which have sparked protests in black communities across the country.
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Yes, we need to do something to help the undocumented immigrants already here—but not in a way that drives down workers’ wages.
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A bi-partisan Senate immigration policy plan has won support of many key political leaders. But some within the African-American community say it could hurt low wage black workers. Guest host Celeste Headlee discusses the issue with Harry Holzer of Georgetown University; and Lesley Jordan, a food industry worker from Los Angeles.
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Eric Liu says a study found a significant number of Hispanics are now identifying as white on the Census, which speaks volumes about Americans' views on race and the 'social ideal'
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Today, violent and fanatic racism is the exception and not the rule in our part of the world.
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The Univision talk show host canned for racist remarks about Michelle Obama says the pink slip was generated from the First Lady's Office. Rodner…