Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
Trump co-chair on Crimea: He was ‘thinking about something else’
Donald Trump’s campaign co-chairman offered up an alternate explanation for the Republican nominee’s recent comments about the geopolitical situation between Russia and Crimea: He “was thinking about something else” when he said that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine.“I think, you know, I’ve run for office and I would —...
Trump’s tough weekend
With an imaginary letter, a disputed invitation and controversial comments about a fallen soldier’s parents, Donald Trump’s weekend was not going well even before he seemed to endorse the Russian annexation of Crimea, in opposition to U.S. policy and international law.This was a weekend Trump may hope to forget, and one Democrats will...
Hillary Clinton’s star-spangled bus tour
JOHNSTOWN, PA — Three over-sized American flags hung above the main factory floor here at Johnstown Wire Technologies, the fourth stop of the Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine bus tour across western Pennsylvania and Ohio. The stars and stripes imagery underscored the post-primary tone of the Democratic ticket, which is now seeking to reclaim the mantle...
The Democrats’ Putin dilemma
Donald Trump was the bogeyman of this week’s Democratic national convention. But placing a close second to Trump was Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. Democrats linked the two bad guys together, hammering Trump for his past words of praise for Putin as a “strong leader” and his claim that the U.S. would “get along...
Trump and the Oligarch
The house wasn’t built for a Russian oligarch, although it looked the part. The 62,000-square-foot, 17-bedroom mansion is a palace of new-money flash, featuring Greek fountains, tennis courts, trompe l’oeil murals, underground parking for dozens of cars, and a 100-foot swimming pool and hot tub overlooking the ocean. It even had a...
How to sell Hillary
PHILADELPHIA — When you think about it, the 2016 Democratic National Convention is just a big, sprawling, staggering expensive Rube Goldberg contraption built for the sole purpose of making a skeptical America trust Hillary Clinton.The speeches (especially by that other husband-and-wife act, the Obamas) have been well-received, the...
5 takeaways from Obama’s last convention
President Obama sent a simple message Wednesday night: Yes, we still can.Obama’s convention speech in Philadelphia framed the 2016 election in a very Obama way: The audacity of hope over the politics of fear, optimism over darkness, solutions over slogans, togetherness over division, a supremely qualified public servant in Hillary Clinton...
Democrats key on Trump’s national security fitness
With Democrats sensing that Donald Trump is newly vulnerable on national security grounds after startling statements about Russia and NATO, Wednesday night’s convention speakers blasted Trump’s fitness to be commander in chief, suggesting that only Hillary Clinton could keep America safe — and avoid nuclear war.”No major party...
Role Reversal: The Dems Become the Security Party
Barack Obama, whom Donald Trump earlier in the day called “the most ignorant president in our history” on foreign policy, returned the favor Wednesday night, suggesting that the Republican nominee had no clue what he was talking about—especially in comparison to Hillary Clinton. “Until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what...
Trump goes it alone on Russia
A day after Hillary Clinton made history, Donald Trump turned history on its head.The nominee of the Republican Party — the party that takes credit for winning the Cold War — on Wednesday appeared to align himself with Russia over his Democratic opponent, in remarks that suggested to many he was urging Moscow to interfere in a U.S. election.That...
