Day: April 11, 2016

Trump Donates Everything but Cash

Buck Banks

$102 million

Amount Donald Trump says he has given to charity in the past five years. To back up that claim, Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.“But, in that massive list, one thing was missing. Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump’s own money. Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles.”

Trump Responds to Globe’s Satirical Front Page

Buck Banks

Did you see the story? The whole front page, they made up the story that Trump is the president and they made up the whole front page. It’s a make-believe story, which is really no different than the whole paper.

— Donald Trump, dismissing the Boston Globe as a “stupid” and “worthless” newspaper after it published a fake front page with stories depicting would-be news events during a Trump administration, Politico reports.

Warren Lets Senate Republicans Have Both Barrels

Buck Banks

For seven years, through artificial debt ceiling crises, deliberate government shutdowns, and intentional confirmation blockades, Senate Republicans have acted as though the election and reelection of Obama relieved them of any responsibility to do their jobs. Senate Republicans embraced the idea that government shouldn’t work at all unless it works only for themselves and their friends. The campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are the next logical outgrowth of the same attitude — if you can’t get what you want, just ignore the obligations of governing, then divert attention and responsibility by wallowing in a toxic stew of attacks on Muslims, women, Latinos, and each other.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore into her Republican colleagues in a Boston Globe op-ed, arguing that since President Obama was elected, they have “refused to try to make government better — opting instead to try to shut down government altogether rather than to accept a functioning government led by someone they didn’t like.”