Day: July 14, 2015
Santorum Warns Walker Over Family Divide Over Gay Marriage
Spouses matter. When your spouse is not in-sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — you tend not to be as active on those issues.
— Rick Santorum, warning that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s dissonance with his wife on same-sex marriage could cause him to be less “active” in his opposition, The Hill reports.
Trump Says He Could Handle ‘El Chapo’
Can you envision Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton negotiating with ‘El Chapo’, the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison? Trump, however, would kick his ass!
— Donald Trump, using the escape of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman last weekend to criticize his presidential rivals, Politico reports.
Obama Commutes Sentences of 46 Nonviolent Drug Offenders
46
Number of the sentences of federal drug offenders President Obama announced that he was commuting, “more than doubling the number of nonviolent criminals to whom he has granted clemency since taking office,” the New York Times reports.
Trump vs. Trump: MTP Chronicles the Donald’s History of Mitt Romney-esque Flip Flops
In the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney seemed to set a world record for prevaricating and flip-flopping. In the 2016 GOP cycle, Donald Trump has emerged from the pack by portraying himself as a tell-it-like-it-is straight shooter. However, a look at the facts reveals that the Donald is just following a page from Romney’s lying, flip-flopping playbook. Politifact has nailed Trump on his lies about immigration and just about everything else — the right-leaning site found that, as of July 14, 2015, zero (0) of Trump’s recent statements were true. And now NBC’s “Meet the Press” — yes, MTP — has put together a reel of Trump’s flip flops that might even make the Mittster blush.
