Month: July 2016
Stone Pillories Lewandowski
Corey Lewandowski is like Bob Haldeman without the charm. I mean, he’s an advance man. I’m a political strategist. I have elected other people to public office… He’s a pimple on the ass of history.
— Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone, quoted by Yahoo News.
Ted Cruz Defends His Speech
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father …. Neither he nor his campaign has taken back a word of what they said about my family. … In that speech last night, I did not say a single negative word about Donald Trump. And I’ll tell you, this morning and going forward I don’t intend to say negative things about Donald Trump.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), defending “distancing himself from Donald Trump, refusing to say he’s voting for Trump and ripping the Republican National Convention’s response to his speech the night before,” The Hill reports.
Early Haters Now Support Trump
500
Number of wealthy Republicans who “poured close to $16 million into the Republican National Committee’s convention account leading up to this week, according to disclosures made to the Federal Election Commission through last Friday. The biggest donors, giving more than $100,000 each, are also a veritable roll call of the stop-Trump movement, among them the billionaire investor Paul E. Singer and Marlene Ricketts, who bankrolled early efforts to deny Mr. Trump the nomination,” reports the New York Times.
Trump Adviser Says Hillary Clinton Should Be Shot
She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi… This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.
Mh2>— New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro (R), an adviser to Donald Trump on veterans issues, asserting that Hillary Clinton should be put in a firing line and shot for treason, BuzzFeed reports.
