On Friday morning, former high-level Chris Christie staffers Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni were convicted on all counts related to the Bridgegate scandal, and could face up to twenty years in prison. Witnesses in the trial directly implicated Christie in the scheme to punish a Democratic mayor by closing lanes to the George Washington Bridge. Meanwhile, new […]

1. Trump attacks Hillary with brazen lies2. Hillary attacks Trump with his own words3. Big media: Both sides are equal — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 4, 2016 From The Hill: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Friday suggested it doesn’t matter whether a Fox News report about an indictment of the Clinton Foundation […]

In June, a USA Today analysis found that Donald Trump and his businesses “have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades” — a number which is “unprecedented for a presidential nominee,” even one with a long business career. He currently faces multiple pending civil […]

Yet another prominent personality steps forward to share their concern about Trump’s character. This time, it’s Richard Branson: Some years ago, Mr Trump invited me to lunch for a one-to-one meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. We had not met before and I accepted. Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he […]

It is a natural consequence of an election primarily between two candidates to explore whether voters are more disposed to vote for one candidate or against the other. There has been lots of polling on that subject this cycle. But what those binary numbers do not reveal is that many women supporting Hillary Clinton are […]

Donald Trump’s campaign is built on lies, projection and hypocrisy. Case in point: Less than 24 hours after the Trump campaign pushes Melania out front to give an odd speech in a state they won't win… new Melania news: https://t.co/xKu3EMfDKy — Diana Was Right (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2016 https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/794723155034173441 Trump in immigration speech on 8/31: […]

1. Trump attacks Hillary with brazen lies2. Hillary attacks Trump with his own words3. Big media: Both sides are equal — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 4, 2016 Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with this election. I am one of them. But that disgust is not at a candidate who has […]

Donald Trump’s apparel line, the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection, consists of menswear — primarily ties, dress shirts, vests, sports coats, and suits. He was famously called out by David Letterman in 2012 for outsourcing the manufacture of his apparel to Bangladesh and China. “Because of the manipulation of their currency, when you go out, […]

Obama spoke about the fearsome responsibility of taking control of the nuclear codes on the day he took office. He made a powerful case that Donald Trump lacks the character to handle that responsibility. The crowd was fired up and at times engaged in a call and response with the president. Watch:

After a brutal 18-month assault on her character, Hillary Clinton is on the cusp of smashing a 227-year barrier. That is the wonder of where we stand at this inflection point in U.S. history. Virtually all the punditry I’ve seen in 2016 assumes that Hillary has an obligation to win and that any good polls for Trump are somehow […]

The team at Shareblue recently asked people on Twitter to share with us their visions and fears of a Donald Trump presidency. The results were frightening and dire. But based on the candidate’s own words and actions, they are also entirely plausible. The Clinton campaign has just released a video touching on the topic of a […]

Trump has painted a dark and chilling vision of our nation. With days to go until Election Day, we asked people to #ImagineTrumpsAmerica. Friends – I want to #ImagineTrumpsAmerica. Please share your vision. — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 3, 2016 https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/794190594830635008 https://twitter.com/Iamanape/status/794191077209096192 it'll be like Red Scare of the 1950s. neighbor against neighbor. people selling out […]

I was recently invited to join a secret Facebook group in support of Hillary Clinton. The group has over 250,000 members and the posts are exuberant. For all we have heard about a “silent majority” of Donald Trump supporters — voters who supposedly want to see him in the White House but are too embarrassed to […]

In the late 80s, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was accused of catering to the demands of Robert LiButti by removing female and Black employees from his craps table, and in 1991, the casino was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine while LiButti was banned from all of Atlantic City’s casinos. At the time, Donald Trump […]

From Politifact: Tax records show the Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2009, and spent an additional $10,000 for a table at a Clinton Foundation gala the following year. The Clinton Foundation also lists Donald J. Trump (as well his daughter Ivanka and Ivanka’s father-in-law) as a contributor. And Trump’s […]

The Shareblue team compiled 70 of Donald Trump’s most terrible words and deeds. I turned it into a tweetstorm under the tag #TerribleTrump. Get ready for the mother of all tweetstorms on the many reasons @realDonaldTrump doesn't belong ANYWHERE near the White House. Here goes… — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 1, 2016 .@PeterDaou takes down #TerribleTrumpA danger […]

Pollster Tony Fabrizio has worked for the Trump campaign since May. According to a report in the Washington Post: [T]he campaign did not make any payments to Fabrizio until September, when his firm received nearly $624,000, federal filings show. Trump’s finance reports show that the campaign owes the firm an additional $55,300 on top of […]

Only in hindsight will we be able to fully appreciate the utter strangeness of the 2016 election. Each day brings unprecedented and alarming developments. Take this new press release from the Clinton campaign, which is like something out of a Jason Bourne film, but is frighteningly real: In response to a new report from Slate showing that the Trump […]

Following in Donald Trump’s footsteps, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) made comments to a private meeting of campaign volunteers that can only be read as inciting violence against Hillary Clinton. CNN notes that at the meeting, Burr said that when he walked into a gun store, “nothing made me feel better” than seeing Clinton’s picture on the front […]

In 2008, Donald Trump spoke to NY1 about Hillary and Bill Clinton, speaking highly of both. The clip surfaced on the day of the third debate and received relatively little attention. But Trump’s words are stunning in the context of the 2016 election. On Hillary Clinton: Well, I think her history is far from being over. I’d […]

Kellyanne Conway is a ubiquitous presence on the airwaves, advocating for Donald Trump, whose campaign she manages. But Conway’s past criticisms of Trump are catching up with her (and him): Trump's current manager agrees that Trump built his wealth on the backs of poor and working people. She gets it. pic.twitter.com/lLYN0bUfPk — Lovina Box (@lovinabox) […]

For most of the 2016 election cycle, the national media have painted young voters as cynical, dissatisfied with both choices, and unable to find inspiration in Hillary Clinton — a narrative they have perpetuated by not giving airtime to Clinton’s actual supporters. But a new poll from the Harvard Institute of Politics shatters this myth. The poll […]

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy, his opening salvo was to say that Mexico was not sending “their best,” but “people with lots of problems.” His anti-immigrant rhetoric has continued throughout the campaign, particularly centered on Mexican and Muslim immigrants. His words and policies have been rooted in fear-mongering, eliding the many significant contributions that […]

This nugget was buried in an August 24 New York Times story: Mr. Trump said he could not “spend more than five minutes talking about [Clinton’s] emails at my rallies, because people will lose interest, and you have to talk about other things to keep their attention.” It’s not surprising, considering a recent poll found that […]

This is not a winning way to run a campaign’s finances: JUST IN — Trump: Raised: $30.5 millionSpent: $49.3 millionCOH: $16 million — Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) October 28, 2016 And what happened to all those promises to fund his own campaign? According to Trump latest campaign disclosure, only gave his campaign $31,000 of in-kind contributions and […]

Donald Trump has run a bitter, divisive, bigoted campaign. It is enough to demoralize even the most hardy optimistic progressives. Watching Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama campaign together for the first time is the invigorating balm we needed. Not just because their shared vision for the future is inspiring. Not just because the policies they […]

[Content note: This post includes video of sexual harassment] Donald Trump’s history of sexual predation and assault continues to get worse. New video has surfaced from a corporate speech Trump gave in Sydney, Australia, in 2011. After telling a cheering audience, “Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. […]

The pre-mortems of 2016 media coverage have begun. In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank takes the media — or certain members of the media, anyway — to task for being “lap dogs” who failed to “bark at Trump.” The watchdogs, he says, “were outnumbered in this election by those who cover politics as horse race.” Animal […]

Team Trump is doing backflips over news that the FBI found some emails related to the Clinton probe. With the election slipping away from Republicans, it’s understandable that they plan to go all in on this development. And the national media, hungry for a new twist in the election, will do the same. The real question is […]

As polls show Hillary Clinton building an impressive lead, she keeps campaigning hard, studying hard, listening carefully, and rolling out new policies. She has even been criticized for being “over-prepared.” That work ethic says a lot about her character. Not so much Donald Trump. He has a different idea of how to win: “We should just cancel the election and […]