Oct 17, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Media Issues, Political Ideologies
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly approached a major media investor about setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election. Over the past couple of months, Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, has met with Aryeh Bourkoff, the CEO of a boutique investment bank known as LionTree, theFinancial Times reported Monday....
Oct 17, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties, Republicans
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Donald Trump has severed ties with the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, deepening his rift with the party organization in a state he desperately needs, at a time he can ill afford to lose it. In a letter announcing the decision to disassociate with Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges, the Trump campaign said that Borges was conducting “a self-promotional” media...
Oct 17, 2016 | Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Jewish Experiences, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) The suicide of a Colorado teenager has been linked to a Nazi-themed Facebook group that the young man apparently led. The teenager apparently believed that killing himself would “show his allegiance to the Nazi Party and the killing of Jewish people,” according to local law enforcement officials. The theory stems from a message he wrote shortly...
Oct 17, 2016 | Conservativism, Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Democrats raised more than $13,000 in less than four hours to help rebuild the headquarters of the local Republican Party chapter in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which was firebombed on Sunday night in what is being investigated as a possible terrorist incident. As news of the firebombing spread, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton condemned the...
Oct 14, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gender and Sexism
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) On Friday, two more women accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting them, joining a list that has grown and grown since he told Anderson Cooper that he never sexually assaulted any woman during Sunday’s debate. Photographer Kristin Anderson claimed that, when she was a model in the early 1990s, Trump sat next to her on a red velvet couch at a Manhattan...
Oct 14, 2016 | Conservativism, Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Donald Trump supporters have talked about violence if the Republican candidate loses to Hillary Clinton next month. And now, some of them are starting to put their money where their mouths are. A pro-Donald Trump protester has attracted attention for standing alone outside a Virginia Democratic campaign office with his gun. On Thursday, Daniel Parks stood...
Oct 14, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016)
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Thanks to Donald Trump’s recent spiral into insanity, as well as little-known third-party candidate Evan McMullin, Utah — a firmly Republican state once thought to be a lock for the Republican nominee — may be closer than once thought. It might not even be a safe state for the GOP. Although it’s still possible that Trump will squeak through with a win in Utah,...
Oct 14, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gender and Sexism
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Donald Trump is now attacking The New York Times for covering sexual assault allegations against him by bringing up the name of the “foreigner” who “rescued” the newspaper: a Mexican billionaire. Carlos Slim is one of the world’s richest men. Last December he was ranked fifth on Forbes’ list. Slim became the largest single investor in the Times in January...
Oct 14, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gender and Sexism
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) When confronted with an 11-year-old girl’s question about her body image and self-esteem issues, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence responded with a seemingly tangential reply about foreign policy. During a Thursday interview, WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, asked Pence to respond to a statement initially written by an 11-year-old girl. Citing Donald Trump’s sexist rhetoric,...
Oct 14, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) This time, Donald Trump may be the victim. So may be a Serbian magazine that was obscure to U.S. audiences until Thursday, when it published a fake interview with the GOP presidential nominee. The alleged interview, in which Donald Trump supposedly apologized for America’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, was likely a hoax that someone played on the publication. The...