hillary wins...changing my numbers from 58-42 though
prob be 54-31-14.....hillary....donald....johnson
I think you hit the trifecta correctly but as much as I'd like to see it I don't think Johnson will break 10%. I also don't think Hillary will win by more that a 10-12% margin although it is early and things could change. Both Hillary and Trump have enough baggage with them to put them completely in the ditch depending on what happens.
Trump's tax plan is the ultimate gamble in putting more money into the economy by cutting taxes which leads to growth. Pretty much all experts agree that it will add about $10 trillion to the deficit, where they split is on the growth impact of such a move.
It's never worked before, but I'm sure it will this time.
Kennedy and Reagan might disagree.
If you feel the government does not collect enough revenue, there's a form to file with your taxes
whereby you can send more than you owe. Don't make your fellow citizens do it for you.
[Edited on 6/18/2016 by alloak41]
Can't we just keep Obama? I mean he's done a really good job.The economy is great,racial relations are at a all time high on the positive note,theres not much trouble around the world right now,all countries respect and like him as well.I mean i have never seen this country so alive,happy,transparent,and everybody getting along.
OBAMA 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Can't we just keep Obama? I mean he's done a really good job.The economy is great,racial relations are at a all time high on the positive note,theres not much trouble around the world right now,all countries respect and like him as well.I mean i have never seen this country so alive,happy,transparent,and everybody getting along.
OBAMA 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keeping him is tempting, but I heard we need to remove him in order to avert a sarcasm epidemic.
Can't we just keep Obama? I mean he's done a really good job.The economy is great,racial relations are at a all time high on the positive note,theres not much trouble around the world right now,all countries respect and like him as well.I mean i have never seen this country so alive,happy,transparent,and everybody getting along.
OBAMA 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Keeping him is tempting, but I heard we need to remove him in order to avert a sarcasm epidemic.
Too late, Bob. It has been going on since 1/20/09. 😛
Can't we just keep Obama? I mean he's done a really good job.The economy is great,racial relations are at a all time high on the positive note,theres not much trouble around the world right now,all countries respect and like him as well.I mean i have never seen this country so alive,happy,transparent,and everybody getting along.
OBAMA 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If there is a disaster, national emergency, (ie. a major terrorism attack, the big earthquake that hits California, a major hurricane, the power grid going down something big like those things) then he stays in office and there is no election, and then...the revolution would begin, martial law would be rolled out, and all the practice with those Jade Helm exercises would be put to use rounding up dissident citizens.
Can't we just keep Obama? I mean he's done a really good job.The economy is great,racial relations are at a all time high on the positive note,theres not much trouble around the world right now,all countries respect and like him as well.I mean i have never seen this country so alive,happy,transparent,and everybody getting along.
OBAMA 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛If there is a disaster, national emergency, (ie. a major terrorism attack, the big earthquake that hits California, a major hurricane, the power grid going down something big like those things) then he stays in office and there is no election, and then...the revolution would begin, martial law would be rolled out, and all the practice with those Jade Helm exercises would be put to use rounding up dissident citizens.
Gina, are you forgetting to take your meds?
Trump's tax plan is the ultimate gamble in putting more money into the economy by cutting taxes which leads to growth. Pretty much all experts agree that it will add about $10 trillion to the deficit, where they split is on the growth impact of such a move.
It's never worked before, but I'm sure it will this time.
Kennedy and Reagan might disagree.
If you feel the government does not collect enough revenue, there's a form to file with your taxes
whereby you can send more than you owe. Don't make your fellow citizens do it for you.
You support a tax plan that creates a $10 trillion deficit? Alrighty then. So noted.
Trump's tax plan is the ultimate gamble in putting more money into the economy by cutting taxes which leads to growth. Pretty much all experts agree that it will add about $10 trillion to the deficit, where they split is on the growth impact of such a move.
It's never worked before, but I'm sure it will this time.
Kennedy and Reagan might disagree.
If you feel the government does not collect enough revenue, there's a form to file with your taxes
whereby you can send more than you owe. Don't make your fellow citizens do it for you.You support a tax plan that creates a $10 trillion deficit? Alrighty then. So noted.
A $10 Trillion dollar deficit? I seriously doubt Trump will propose a $14 Trillion FY Budget. Very
seriously doubt that.
Luke, neither Hillary nor Trump are nice, neither care about the people. So what is it really that makes you hate one and not the other?
Bingo! We have a winner. This is why non-partisan folks like me have no trouble saying they both suck. The dilemma is that if you are going to vote you need to decide to vote for one of the sucky mainstream candidates, or one of the 3rd party candidates who can not win. No matter how you look at it this election is going to suck. Arguments over which candidate sucks worse should not be taken to mean that the other candidate doesn't suck, even if to a lesser degee than the suckiest candidate. It's like saying that just because brussel sprouts suck worse than broccoli that broccoli is good. No, broccoli sucks, just not as bad as brussel sprouts. Green beans are good, but they are not on the menu.
Same as pretty much any other election. What's different this cycle is the presence of a true outsider, Mr. Trump. Somebody from the business world should get a chance. Someone who cut his teeth in the private economy.
Outsider? Bwwaaaaa aaa haahahaha aha ha hhhaaaa!
Cruz: Trump Posing as an Outsider Is Among 'Greatest Frauds' in Modern History
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/30/ted-cruz-hannity-trump-pretending-be-outsider-one-greatest-frauds-modern-electoralPaul: Trump is an insider pretending to be an outsider
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250663-paul-trump-is-an-insider-pretending-to-be-an-outsiderPolitical ‘outsider’ Donald Trump, the most politician-y politician ever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-outsider-donald-trump-the-most-politiciany-politician-ever/2016/05/05/52f113c4-12fd-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html
How many elected political positions has he held? How many years has he spent working in the
public sector? What State did he serve as an elected official and who did he defeat in those
elections?
Luke, neither Hillary nor Trump are nice, neither care about the people. So what is it really that makes you hate one and not the other?
Bingo! We have a winner. This is why non-partisan folks like me have no trouble saying they both suck. The dilemma is that if you are going to vote you need to decide to vote for one of the sucky mainstream candidates, or one of the 3rd party candidates who can not win. No matter how you look at it this election is going to suck. Arguments over which candidate sucks worse should not be taken to mean that the other candidate doesn't suck, even if to a lesser degee than the suckiest candidate. It's like saying that just because brussel sprouts suck worse than broccoli that broccoli is good. No, broccoli sucks, just not as bad as brussel sprouts. Green beans are good, but they are not on the menu.
Same as pretty much any other election. What's different this cycle is the presence of a true outsider, Mr. Trump. Somebody from the business world should get a chance. Someone who cut his teeth in the private economy.
Outsider? Bwwaaaaa aaa haahahaha aha ha hhhaaaa!
Cruz: Trump Posing as an Outsider Is Among 'Greatest Frauds' in Modern History
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/30/ted-cruz-hannity-trump-pretending-be-outsider-one-greatest-frauds-modern-electoralPaul: Trump is an insider pretending to be an outsider
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250663-paul-trump-is-an-insider-pretending-to-be-an-outsiderPolitical ‘outsider’ Donald Trump, the most politician-y politician ever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-outsider-donald-trump-the-most-politiciany-politician-ever/2016/05/05/52f113c4-12fd-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.htmlHow many elected political positions has he held? How many years has he spent working in the
public sector? What State did he serve as an elected official and who did he defeat in those
elections?
You need to look up what an outsider is. You could try Google like you told someone else in another thread. 😛
Trump's tax plan is the ultimate gamble in putting more money into the economy by cutting taxes which leads to growth. Pretty much all experts agree that it will add about $10 trillion to the deficit, where they split is on the growth impact of such a move.
It's never worked before, but I'm sure it will this time.
Kennedy and Reagan might disagree.
If you feel the government does not collect enough revenue, there's a form to file with your taxes
whereby you can send more than you owe. Don't make your fellow citizens do it for you.[Edited on 6/18/2016 by alloak41]
Then they would be wrong. Taxes are pretty much at an all time low now. You should be loving the economy now then.
Luke, neither Hillary nor Trump are nice, neither care about the people. So what is it really that makes you hate one and not the other?
Bingo! We have a winner. This is why non-partisan folks like me have no trouble saying they both suck. The dilemma is that if you are going to vote you need to decide to vote for one of the sucky mainstream candidates, or one of the 3rd party candidates who can not win. No matter how you look at it this election is going to suck. Arguments over which candidate sucks worse should not be taken to mean that the other candidate doesn't suck, even if to a lesser degee than the suckiest candidate. It's like saying that just because brussel sprouts suck worse than broccoli that broccoli is good. No, broccoli sucks, just not as bad as brussel sprouts. Green beans are good, but they are not on the menu.
Same as pretty much any other election. What's different this cycle is the presence of a true outsider, Mr. Trump. Somebody from the business world should get a chance. Someone who cut his teeth in the private economy.
Outsider? Bwwaaaaa aaa haahahaha aha ha hhhaaaa!
Cruz: Trump Posing as an Outsider Is Among 'Greatest Frauds' in Modern History
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/30/ted-cruz-hannity-trump-pretending-be-outsider-one-greatest-frauds-modern-electoralPaul: Trump is an insider pretending to be an outsider
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250663-paul-trump-is-an-insider-pretending-to-be-an-outsiderPolitical ‘outsider’ Donald Trump, the most politician-y politician ever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-outsider-donald-trump-the-most-politiciany-politician-ever/2016/05/05/52f113c4-12fd-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.htmlHow many elected political positions has he held? How many years has he spent working in the
public sector? What State did he serve as an elected official and who did he defeat in those
elections?
Never having held elected office doesn't make him an outsider. It just means he has no experience on that side of the fence. Quite different from being an outsider, but I think you know that even if you won't admit it.
Same as pretty much any other election. What's different this cycle is the presence of a true outsider, Mr. Trump. Somebody from the business world should get a chance. Someone who cut his teeth in the private economy.
Outsider? Bwwaaaaa aaa haahahaha aha ha hhhaaaa!
Cruz: Trump Posing as an Outsider Is Among 'Greatest Frauds' in Modern History
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/30/ted-cruz-hannity-trump-pretending-be-outsider-one-greatest-frauds-modern-electoral
Paul: Trump is an insider pretending to be an outsider
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250663-paul-trump-is-an-insider-pretending-to-be-an-outsider
Political ‘outsider’ Donald Trump, the most politician-y politician ever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-outsider-donald-trump-the-most-politiciany-politician-ever/2016/05/05/52f113c4-12fd-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html
How many elected political positions has he held? How many years has he spent working in the
public sector? What State did he serve as an elected official and who did he defeat in those
elections?
Never having held elected office doesn't make him an outsider. It just means he has no experience on that side of the fence. Quite different from being an outsider, but I think you know that even if you won't admit it.
On the contrary. What I mean by outsider is NON-POLITICIAN. Your meaning might differ, which
is fine. Just wanted to clarify what I meant by it. Now you know.
Trump's tax plan is the ultimate gamble in putting more money into the economy by cutting taxes which leads to growth. Pretty much all experts agree that it will add about $10 trillion to the deficit, where they split is on the growth impact of such a move.
It's never worked before, but I'm sure it will this time.
Kennedy and Reagan might disagree.
If you feel the government does not collect enough revenue, there's a form to file with your taxes
whereby you can send more than you owe. Don't make your fellow citizens do it for you.[Edited on 6/18/2016 by alloak41]
Then they would be wrong. Taxes are pretty much at an all time low now. You should be loving the economy now then.
Tax revenues are at pretty much an all-time high. Do you feel this has been good for the economy and
the (non) recovery?
Same as pretty much any other election. What's different this cycle is the presence of a true outsider, Mr. Trump. Somebody from the business world should get a chance. Someone who cut his teeth in the private economy.
Outsider? Bwwaaaaa aaa haahahaha aha ha hhhaaaa!
Cruz: Trump Posing as an Outsider Is Among 'Greatest Frauds' in Modern History
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/30/ted-cruz-hannity-trump-pretending-be-outsider-one-greatest-frauds-modern-electoralPaul: Trump is an insider pretending to be an outsider
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250663-paul-trump-is-an-insider-pretending-to-be-an-outsiderPolitical ‘outsider’ Donald Trump, the most politician-y politician ever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-outsider-donald-trump-the-most-politiciany-politician-ever/2016/05/05/52f113c4-12fd-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html
How many elected political positions has he held? How many years has he spent working in the
public sector? What State did he serve as an elected official and who did he defeat in those
elections?
Never having held elected office doesn't make him an outsider. It just means he has no experience on that side of the fence. Quite different from being an outsider, but I think you know that even if you won't admit it.
On the contrary. What I mean by outsider is NON-POLITICIAN. Your meaning might differ, which
is fine. Just wanted to clarify what I meant by it. Now you know.
That's like trying to define Jim Leyland as a baseball outsider because he was never a player...the definition just doesn't fit.
The convention is in 28 days and Trump just fired his campaign manager. That's pretty interesting.
The convention is in 28 days and Trump just fired his campaign manager. That's pretty interesting.
Maybe he figured the season finale is coming up. Did he do it on TV in a fake board room?
Trump's head of communications just got fired for a celebratory tweet about the campaign manager's firing. That's pretty interesting.
Trump's head of communications just got fired for a celebratory tweet about the campaign manager's firing. That's pretty interesting.
He "resigned".
Trump's head of communications just got fired for a celebratory tweet about the campaign manager's firing. That's pretty interesting.
He "resigned".
That's pretty interesting...:D
That's pretty interesting...:D
new catch phrase Bhawk? I like it 
“The Donald J Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,” Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement on Monday. “The campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future,” she added. Lewandowski was reportedly informed of his dismissal on Monday morning and surprised at Trump’s decision. "Lewandowski and Manafort reportedly struggled over the control of the campaign over the past few months. According to a campaign source, Lewandowski also had a conflict with the campaign spokeswoman that Ivanka, Trump’s daughter, did not like. Another sources also said that Lewandowski had clashed with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, in recent weeks."
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/20/471340/US-Trump-Corey-Lewandowski-Manafort-Ivanka-Trump
Trump is doing an interview that will air on Bill O'Reilly's show. Lewandowski said he did not know WHY he was fired. Nobody gave him a reason? CNN reports the final straw was Eric Trump asking for him to be fired, after Ivanka had been unhappy with him due to alleged conflicts with her husband.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/corey-lewandowski-out-as-trump-campaign-manager/index.html
Remarks: We know the Trump Empire is a dynasty and all the children work for the organization, but seriously, should they wield their power to get him fired if he did not do anything wrong, just because they disliked him? Maybe that's how it is in all family run businesses. I cannot imagine what Capitol Hill will be like if he gets in the White House, and has to deal with Senators and Congressmen who do not agree with him and he cannot fire them. His Cabinet will be the ones who get the wrath!
[Edited on 6/21/2016 by gina]
Oh boy, it was a boardroom for Lewandowski
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/trump-kids-ousted-corey-lewandowski.html
At around 9:30 Monday morning, Donald Trump and his adult children gathered for a regular strategy meeting at Trump Tower. Also present were senior staff, including Corey Lewandowski, the campaign's embattled manager. With Trump coming off one of the worst weeks of his campaign — a stretch that included racist attacks on a federal judge, renewed calls in the wake of the Orlando massacre to ban Muslim immigrants, and sinking poll numbers — the candidate's children, who have been involved in strategy from the beginning, saw an opening to achieve a shared goal: Fire Lewandowski.
According to two sources briefed on the events, the meeting was a setup. Shortly after it began, the children peppered Lewandowski with questions, asking him to explain the campaign's lack of infrastructure. "They went through the punch list. 'Where are we with staffing? Where are we with getting the infrastructure built?'" one source explained. Their father grew visibly upset as he heard the list of failures. Finally, he turned to Lewandowski and said, "What's your plan here?"
Lewandowski responded that he wanted to leak Trump's vice-president pick.
And with that, Lewandowski was out Shortly after the meeting, Lewandowski was escorted out of the building by Trump security.
i still say Drumpf has no desire to be President. This is all about Branding. Firing this guy is all about keeping others onboard more than about he was a problem.....to continue the narrative of Drumpf is a great man.
It wouldn't matter if he hired a reincarnated Albert Einstein to run his campaign. Stubborn Sarah Trump wouldn't listen to any of his advice anyway because Trump is smarter than Einstein or anyone else. Trump listens to nobody but Trump. He has the greatest brain ever! HUGE!!!
Donald Trump cancels trip to Ireland next week
Trump has $1.3 million on hand on May 31st. Presidential campaigns with more cash on hand than Trump on May 31st:
Ben Carson ($1.7M)
Ted Cruz ($6.8M)
Bernie Sanders ($9.2M)
Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit
Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and his party in political peril.
Mr. Trump began June with just $1.3 million in cash on hand, a figure more typical for a campaign for the House of Representatives than the White House. He trailed Hillary Clinton, who raised more than $28 million in May, by more than $41 million, according to reports filed late Monday night with the Federal Election Commission.
He has a staff of around 70 people — compared with nearly 700 for Mrs. Clinton — suggesting only the barest effort toward preparing to contest swing states this fall. And he fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on Monday, after concerns among allies and donors about his ability to run a competitive race.
Full article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-money-campaign.html
Donald Trump cancels trip to Ireland next week
The Irish should thank his travel agent in spades...
From the ever-expanding "Trump Tells It Like It Is - Not" files...
Speaking to a group of evangelical Christian leaders, Donald Trump claimed there’s “nothing out there” about Hillary Clinton’s religion even though “she’s been in the public eye for years and years.” That’s inaccurate. Clinton’s religious practice as a Methodist has been well-documented and widely reported.
Trump’s comments came during a closed-to-the-press meeting with evangelical leaders in New York City, but his comments were videotaped by one of the faith leaders and posted on the internet. The video begins with Trump saying, “… don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion.”
“Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no — there’s nothing out there,” Trump continued. “There’s like nothing out there. It’s going to be an extension of Obama but it’s going to be worse, because with Obama you had your guard up. With Hillary you don’t, and it’s going to be worse.”
In fact, there is a lot “out there” about Clinton’s religion, and its influence on her world view, starting with her religious involvement as a child.
According to the Religious News Service, “As a girl, she was part of the guild that cleaned the altar at First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Ill. As a teen, she visited inner-city Chicago churches with the youth pastor, Don Jones, her spiritual mentor until his death in 2009.”
A Time magazine profile, which ran under the headline “Hillary Clinton: Anchored by Faith,” had this to say about Clinton’s early religious training:
Time, June 27, 2014: Clinton grew up attending First United Methodist Church of Park Ridge in Chicago, where she was confirmed in sixth grade. Her mother taught Sunday school, and Clinton was active in youth group, Bible studies and altar guild. On Saturdays during Illinois’s harvest season, she and others from her youth group would babysit children of nearby migrant workers.
The article notes that in college at Wellesley, “Clinton regularly read the Methodist Church’s Motive magazine,” that she and Bill Clinton were married by a Methodist minister, and that in 1993, she joined a women’s prayer group.
When Bill Clinton was president, the Clinton family regularly attended Washington’s Foundry United Methodist Church. Hillary Clinton spoke at the church’s 200 anniversary in September. In that address, she spoke about the Methodist churches she attended as a child, in college, in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor, and in Washington, D.C., when he served as president.
“In place after place after place,” Clinton said, “the Methodist church and my fellow Methodists have been a source of support, honest reflection and candid critique.”
During a presidential forum in 2007, Clinton said that “a lot of the talk about and advertising about faith doesn’t come naturally to me.” She said that faith “is something that — you know, I keep thinking of the Pharisees and all of Sunday school lessons and readings that I had as a child. But I think your — your faith guides you every day. Certainly, mine does. But, at those moments in time when you’re tested, it — it is absolutely essential that you be grounded in your faith.”
CNN noted that in May 2015, Clinton impressed a voter in a bakery after she cited and discussed Corinthians 13 on the spot.
In an interview with the New York Times in 2014, Clinton cited the Bible as “the biggest influence” on her thinking. “I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it,” she said. “I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.”
As a senator, she participated in weekly Senate prayer breakfasts. The New York Times noted that she was also once a Sunday school teacher.
That article goes on to say: “In a brief quiz about her theological views, Mrs. Clinton said she believed in the resurrection of Jesus, though she described herself as less sure of the doctrine that being a Christian is the only way to salvation. As for how literally to interpret the Bible, she takes a characteristically centrist view.”
Although Clinton rarely speaks about her religious faith on the campaign trail, she did — in length — when a woman asked her about it at a campaign rally in Iowa in January. Clinton began, “I am a Christian. I am a Methodist.” Here is some, but not all, of the rest of her answer.
Clinton, Jan. 25: I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. I have been raised Methodist. I feel very grateful for the instructions and support I received starting in my family but through my church, and I think that any of us who are Christian have a constantly, constant, conversation in our own heads about what we are called to do and how we are asked to do it, and I think it is absolutely appropriate for people to have very strong convictions and also, though, to discuss those with other people of faith. Because different experiences can lead to different conclusions about what is consonant with our faith and how best to exercise it. …
My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do, and there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up, to find faith themselves that I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith.
There is even an entire book devoted to Clinton’s faith, “God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life.” The author, Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center for Vision & Values at the conservative Grove City College, writes in the preface that “some things regarding Hillary Clinton and her faith are clear: Although no one can profess to know any individual’s heart and soul, there seems no question that Hillary is a sincere, committed Christian and has been since childhood.”
In an interview with Christianity Today, Kengor said that Clinton has often butted heads with conservative evangelical Christians on issues such as abortion, and that Clinton “walks step by step with the Methodist leadership into a very liberal Christianity. She is with them lockstep on almost all issues.”
“We do, in fact, know about Hillary’s religion,” Kengor wrote to us in an email. “In fact, we know enough about Hillary’s faith that I was able to write a 334-page book titled God and Hillary Clinton way back in 2007, and I’ve written dozens of articles and given numerous interviews on the subject since—and I’m not the only one. I think that what Donald Trump was telling us is that he knows nothing about Hillary’s faith. For me as a conservative, that doesn’t surprise me one bit, as I’ve noticed painfully and repeatedly that Donald Trump also knows nothing about conservatism.”
We could go on and on about the public treatment of Clinton’s faith. But suffice to say that when Trump says there’s “nothing out there” about Hillary Clinton’s religion, that’s just not so.
We should note that the Hill and others reported that Trump said, “we don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion.” The emphasis on “we” is ours.
Later in the day, David Muir of ABC’s “World News Tonight” asked Trump about his comments, and Trump responded, “I don’t know much about her.”
Trump said his comments were prompted by a question from someone at the event.
“Somebody asked me the question,” Trump said. “I didn’t bring it up. Somebody asked me the question. I said I don’t know much about her religion.”
Based on the tape, we couldn’t determine whether Trump said “we” don’t know anything about Clinton’s religion or “I” don’t know anything about her religion.
ABC News reported, “A source who attended the meeting said that no one asked about Clinton’s religion.” We couldn’t determine that either, based on the available video.
We reached out to E.W. Jackson, the man who posted the clip on Twitter, to see if he had a fuller version of Trump’s remarks, but we did not hear back from him. Jackson, a conservative religious leader, is president of the national organization Ministers Taking a Stand. Nonetheless, Trump’s comments extended beyond responding to what he, personally, knew about Clinton’s religion, to include the claim that despite being “in the public eye for years and years” there is “nothing out there” on Clinton’s religion.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/we-know-plenty-about-clintons-religion/