On the Democrat reports of Trump's assaulting women

Evidence points to political motivation behind claims
. . . “Not only did he not do so – and I was present at all times – but it was she that was the one being flirtatious,” the witness, Anthony Gilberthorpe, said. “If there’s evidence Trump’s done it, sure, hang him from the post, but I was there, I was in a position to know that what she said was wrong, wrong, wrong.” . . .

Trump Sexual Assault Accuser Sent Glowing Email To His Assistant In April . . . “That was until Summer invited Mr. Trump to her restaurant during the primary and he said no. I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to get that back she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump.' ”. . .

WIKILEAKS: Wife of Mexican-American Judge Suing Trump Is BIG Podesta and Hillary Fan

Former Trump butler, Anthony Senecal said the so-called incident with the People magazine hack “never happened.”

I'm a Conservative Woman and I Agree With Michelle Obama about Trump  . . . "And I don't really care if Michelle likes Kanye's music, with its disgusting, sexist lyrics or that she thinks Beyonce is a good role model for girls. I'm not talking about the messenger here, I'm talking about the truth of the message. This is not something that we can ignore." . . .

Perhaps she has some sound wisdom here, if only the words had not come from a professional victim like Michelle Obama who seems to see condescension in every encounter with people she does not know.

Michelle Obama goes low in phony post-Trump tapes performance . . . "After about ten minutes of invented concern for women and girls, Michelle put on a new face, straightened up, removed the voice gyrations, and launched into how Hillary is the greatest woman in the world."

Wikileaks Reveals Clinton Camp Was Posting FAKE “Sexist Trump Job Ads” On Craigslist . . .

WSJ: ‘Nation Now Has Proof’ of Hillary Scandals, But Leftist Media ‘Devote Its Front Pages to the Trump Story’

He may be an ogre, but he's our ogre: That's the view of Trump's fanatical supporters whose hatred of Hillary means they'll forgive him anything  . . . "But, in truth, all she needs to do is to let her opponent keep generating terrible headlines. Trump, on the other hand, has been criss-crossing the marginal states of the U.S. in his personal airliner to fire up rallies like this one in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania." . . .

Wikileaks Podesta hack reveals CNBC’s John Harwood was a hack for Dems

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Legal Insurrection  "You may remember the October 28, 2015 Republican Debate held by CNBC.

"Memory as in bad memory. The moderators were abysmal, but John Harwood stood out as the worst among them. National Review wrote at the time:

The emerging consensus from tonight’s CNBC debate is that the moderators were rude. John Harwood in particular distinguished himself by not just asking tough questions, but asking them in the most insulting possible way — interrupting candidates mid-reply, offering his own editorializing, and shouting down candidates attempting to defend themselves.

Chris Christie seemed to capture the mood of the candidates and the crowd when — angry at Harwood’s hectoring — he finally said “even in New Jersey what you’re doing is rude.”

"I wrote at the time, GOP needs to make an example of NBC News:

"I wrote at the time, GOP needs to make an example of NBC News:

The GOP has a long history of subjecting its candidates to abuse by debate moderators.

From George Stephanopolous to Candy Crowley, debates are a time for network journalists to earn their battle badges by damaging Republicans.

And the GOP just sucks it up and takes it.

So why would the CNBC moderators have thought the most recent Republican Primary debate should be any different?

CNBC did what it thought it was supposed to do — mock and snicker at Republican candidates. Belittle them. Dismiss their intelligence and portray them as kooks.'

Here Are Hillary Clinton's Three Speeches To Goldman Sachs For Which She Was Paid $675,000

Zero Hedge

. . ." The highlights Carrk refers to are the following:

"In the first excerpt Hillary Clinton (rightfully) mocks Dodd Frank as nothing but a political contrivance which was created solely for political reasons as "there was also a need to do something because for political reasons." To wit: "*Clinton Said, With Dodd-Frank, There Was “A Need To Do Something Because For Political Reasons” Because Members Of Congress “Can't Sit Idly By And Do Nothing.”

“And with political people, again, I would say the same thing, you know, there was a lot of complaining about Dodd-Frank, but there was also a need to do something because for political reasons, if you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it's all the fault of Wall Street, you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but what you do is really important.” [GS2, 10/24/13]

. . . 
"In the second highlighted excerpt, Tim O'Neill, Global Co-Head of the Investment Management Division, thanks Hillary for her "continued involvement in the issues (inaudible) to be courageous in some respects to associated with Wall Street and this environment" and then thanks her "very much."

"*Tim O’Neill Told Clinton “We Really Did Appreciate It” When She Had Been “Courageous In Some Respects To Associated With Wall Street And This Environment.”

. . . 

"In a third noted excerpt, Clinton pitches the idea that the best regulation of Wall Street is self-regulation because "the people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.”

"*Speaking About Financial Regulations, Clinton Said “The People That Know The Industry Better Than Anybody Are The People Who Work In The Industry.” . . .

. . . 

"In a fourth excerpt, Hillary admits she had "great relations and worked so close together" with Wall Street and has "a lot of respect for the work you do and the people who do it."

"*Clinton Said “I Represented All Of You For Eight Years. I Had Great Relations And Worked So Close Together After 9/11 To Rebuild Downtown.”

. . . 

Here is Hillary opining on Wikileaks and Edward Snowden:" . . .

Hillary Clinton’s Crisis Response: Ask Friendly Media To Laugh At Email Revelations

Breitbart: The Race

"Hillary Clinton’s campaign is carefully drafting jokes to minimize and soften the friendly media’s coverage of her dramatic email scandals, according to Wikileaks’ dump of emails from campaign chairman John Podesta’s inbox.

Added by TD

"Clinton speechwriter Dan Schwerin wrote to colleagues on March 20, 2015, shortly after the public first learned of Clinton’s use of a poorly protected, home-built email system while she was Secretary of State.

All, here are draft remarks for the Toner Prize event on Monday evening. We had talked about a few possible goals for this speech: 1) clear the air a bit with the press, possibly with self-deprecating humor; 2) explain the important role that serious, fact-based journalism plays in our democracy, as opposed to gotcha-style politics of personal destruction; 3) and play a little offense on health care given that Monday is the 5-year anniversary of the ACA. Of these sections, the first one is where I could really use your input. Do the jokes in here work? Do you have suggestions for punching any of them up? Robin’s husband Peter likes the idea of HRC being funny up there, and she says she is open to it as well, but we’ll have to see if she really goes for it. Thanks Dan . . .

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UPDATED: Democrats can apologize their way out of any situation they can’t squirm out of. Republicans are guilty forever.

Joe Biden, ‘Bill Clinton’s PAST Shouldn’t Matter’ (But Trump’s Should?!) 
"Straight from their playbook. Democrats can apologize their way out of any situation they can’t squirm out of. Republicans are guilty forever." . . .

CHUCK TODD: As you know, Donald Trump is bringing up everything Bill Clinton– right now. Should that matter?VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, it shouldn’t matter. Look, I can’t make any excuse for Bill Clinton’s conduct. I– I– I– and I wouldn’t attempt to make any excuses for the conduct. But he paid a price for it. He paid a price. He was impeached. And he was– he expressed his deep sorrow and acknowledged what he did. This guy, as I said, has acknowledged that he has been a sexual predator. He’s acknowledged that he’s abused his power. And the– as I said, the textbook definition of what constitutes sexual assault.It isn’t just Biden. If a quick search of that phrase online is any indication — even filtering out Biden’s name — this phrase is popping up everywhere.There has been a conscious decision somewhere to rehabilitate Bill. It’s their strategy.

. . . "But the same people that insist a kiss from Trump is assault are lining up to dismiss their hero.

"Hardly surprising, really. We remember them doing the same thing with [child molester] Roman Polanski.

"Whoopi, for instance:" 

Liberals want the presumption of innocence for THEIR side while operating from a presumption of GUILT for their opponents.
“ 'If there’s evidence Trump’s done it, sure, hang him from the post, but I was there, I was in a position to know that what she said was wrong, wrong, wrong,” he said."

Update:  "Why I am still voting for Trump" 

"She is also known for her hysterics, which include yelling and screaming, throwing objects, abusing underlings verbally, and using language that would make a trooper blush.  How presidential is that?"

  . . . "For the sake of argument, I would assume that the allegations were true but would still vote for him.

"Donald Trump is against political correctness, globalization, open borders, unrestricted immigration, trashing the Constitution, crony capitalism, and corruption.  Hillary Clinton, the opposite.  She wallows in the last two.

"Donald Trump wants to achieve “peace through strength” as President Reagan did.  He wants to cancel the Iran deal, support our friends and allies, stop the growing hegemony of Iran, and defeat ISIS.  Hillary Clinton, not so much.

"Donald Trump names the enemy as “radical Islam” whereas Hillary Clinton refuses to do so.  I, on the other hand, see Islam as the enemy.  The adjective “radical” adds nothing.  There is only one Islam, and it is radical.  Donald Trump wants to be free to be critical of Islam.  Hillary Clinton wants to impose a gag order on criticism of Islam and even make it a crime." . . .

Chelsea Agonistes*: Wikileaks reveals the moment a daughter starts to realize her parents are corrupt

"It looks to me as if Chelsea gave it a try and lost out to the capos in the organization. "

Thomas Lifson  "The biggest human interest story so far of the Wikileaks hack is the story of Chelsea Clinton’s discovery in 2011 that her parents’ nonprofit was full of conflicts of interest.  They had set up a charity that allowed donors to get their way.  At first, she tried reform, only to lose out to the entenched cronies.  What emerges, in the context of Chelsea’s actions in the next few years, shows us how she reconciled herself to the realities of the Clinton Organization.

"A tranche of the Wikileaks revelations released Tuesday revealed, as Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller put it:

Chelsea Clinton’s bold decision in 2011 to launch an “internal investigation” into the finances of the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative…. (snip)

Two emails — one dated Nov. 12, 2011 and another dated Jan. 4, 2012 — show Chelsea was aggressively looking into the foundation’s money flows and talking to others about it.

Sandra Rose

*Agonistes: "a person enduring an inner struggle"

Bill Clinton and Donald Trump treated differently by women's rights groups

McClatchyDC via Drudge. Video at the link.

At a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Manchester, NH, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a blistering speech about the latest sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. In his speech in West Palm, Fla. Trump called the accusations "outright lies." 

 . . . “ 'Feminism sort of died in that period,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd told Yahoo recently. “Because the feminists had to come along with Bill Clinton’s retrogressive behavior with women in order to protect the progressive policies for women that Bill Clinton had as president.”

Clinton’s female supporters stood by him, especially as he denied allegations of misconduct, as has Trump. Later, after Clinton admitted to some of the allegations of consensual sex, they did criticize him but still supported him.

 "They were called hypocrites at the time, particularly when they were among the first to blast conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., for allegations of sexual misconduct.

"Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, said Clinton’s situation was entirely different because it came as Republicans were attacking him and his pro-women agenda, including fighting against the Equal Rights Amendment and a law banning discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs.

“ 'For people like me, it was a totally different story and origin,” Smeal told McClatchy this week. “It was a right-wing attack. We saw it as a right-wing effort to draw out of office a president for ideological reasons.' ”