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Trump Time Capsule #102: ‘Nervous Mess’
We could be entering the Era of Hourly Time Capsules, in part because I need to make up for the past few days away from The Internet.To note this for-the-moment highly publicized episode before it gets...
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Trump Time Capsule #103: ‘Asking Questions’
This one is just a note for the record. Please recall the sequence:Four years ago, Donald Trump said that Mitt Romney should release his tax returns. That’s hardly a surprising position: Every...
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Trump Time Capsule #104: Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon "charmingly" mussing Donald Trump's hair. This will merely be amusing if Trump loses on November 8. It will be something worse if he wins. (NBC / Reuters)Mainly because he’s talented,...
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Trump Time Capsule #105: Two Big Bold Lies
I think this day, 52 days before the election, is one that people will look back on. At his press conference / hotel promo / endorsement spectacle just now in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump said this,...
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Trump Time Capsule #106: ‘Let's See What Happens to Her’
This evening, in Miami, the Republican nominee for president referred to his opponent and said (emphasis added):“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in...
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Trip Down Memory Lane, With the Birthers and Mad Magazine
Back in 2009, when I was living in China, I was digging into the birther issue. This was before Donald Trump made it his own. But it reflects part of the genius of Trump’s multi-year birther crusade....
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Trump Time Capsule #107: Sidney Blumenthal Is Not a Birther
For the past few days Donald Trump has been saying that Hillary Clinton and her campaign launched the racist “birther” smear against Barack Obama.Birtherism was a lie, as Trump now sort-of admits. But...
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Can You Handle It? Every Trump Tweet, in a Big Searchable Database
Talk about a time capsule! This is quite an amazing piece of work. Courtesy of a Georgetown grad and former Peace Corps volunteer who now works as a programmer, we now have a searchable archive of...
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Trump Time Capsule #108: Bush, Fahrenthold, Kagan
George H.W. Bush in his prime, in a famous statue at the George Bush International Airport in Houston (PresidentsUSA)Without elaboration, here is a for-the-record note of some publicized news of the...
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A 'Trump-Pence' Car in Deepest Hollywood
The Club™ in action, via Winner International.A reader in Southern California whom I’ve corresponded with over the years sent several photos with accompanying description. I’m not using the pictures,...
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Trump Time Capsule #109: ‘Unqualified and Unfit’
Robert Gates is as experienced a national-security figure as America now has. He joined the Air Force when Lyndon Johnson was president and has served under every president, Republican and Democratic,...
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Trump Time Capsule #110: Diplomats, Boss, Enquirer
Today’s harvest of things that haven’t happened in presidential campaigns before:1. Diplomats. As the Washington Postreported yesterday, some 75 former prominent former ambassadors and other diplomats,...
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Trump Time Capsule #111: Ads
Most campaign ads, like most billboards or commercials, are unimaginative and formulaic. Our candidate is great! Their candidate is terrible! Choose us!With the huge majority of political ads, you...
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Trump Time Capsule #112: Gennifer Flowers
Donald Trump on Twitter.Donald Trump tweeted today that he has invited Gennifer Flowers, subject of controversies involving Bill Clinton’s infidelities when he was governor of Arkansas, to sit in the...
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Trump Time Capsule #113: Zero for 100, Zero for a Dozen
Noted for the record, since nothing like this has happened before:1) Business leaders. Rebecca Ballhaus and Brody Mullins of the WSJsurveyed political donation records from the CEOs of the Fortune 100...
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Trump Time Capsule #114: Trump Foundation and Taxes
Then-vice president Spiro Agnew, in sunglasses next to former president Lyndon Johnson, at a space launch in 1969. Four years later, he resigned because of a corruption scandal. Donald Trump's...
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Trump Time Capsule #115: The First Debate
Details later, because I start very early tomorrow morning, but: in the history of debates I’ve been watching through my conscious lifetime, this was the most one-sided slam since Al Gore took on Dan...
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Trump Time Capsule #116: ‘Somebody Who Likes to Eat’
There’s no way to tell which moments might end up being remembered from last night’s first Clinton-Trump debate.Perhaps Donald Trump’s implicit confirmation that he had not paid taxes (“That’s called...
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Trump Time Capsule #117: Chinese Climate Change
Donald Trump on TwitterIn my current debate story I quote a body-language expert named Jack Brown on a surprising aspect of Donald Trump’s performance skills. Brown argues that while Trump’s gestures...
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Trump Time Capsule #118: John Warner, Arizona Republic
Republican newspaper. Earlier this month, the Dallas Morning Newsmade a first-in-modern-times recommendation of a Democrat for president over a Republican, in endorsing Hillary Clinton.The news this...
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