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UPDATED: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned on Friday in the wake of campaign shake-up and revelations about his work in Ukraine. In a statement issued as he arrived in Louisiana to tour the flood-ravaged state, Trump said Manafort offered his resignation Friday morning. The billionaire called Manafort “a true professional.” “I am very appreciative…
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Micek: Don’t expect a kindler, gentler Trump
To live in the universe of Breitbart News is to live in a universe of perpetual fear and agitation. “Suspected illegal immigrant allegedly carjacks elderly woman,” one headline on the hyper-conservative, verging-on-nationalist site read Thursday morning. “Fire Department ordered removal of U.S. flags from fire trucks,” blared another. “The ObamaCare Bomb: Plan 9 from Collectivist…
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Polman: Roger Ailes and Donald Trump deserve each other
If you read Superman comics as a kid, you’re probably familiar with Bizarro World – the planet where everything is the opposite of life on Earth. I bring this up because it’s clear Donald Trump is running for president of Bizarro World. Trump is on track to lose female voters like no other candidate in…
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The Hot Sheet, August 18, 2016
VOL. 01 NO. 155 | AUGUST 18, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – This morning we rise to greet new possibilities,To stab campaign signs into our lawns,Or other people’s lawns,Or to tear them from other people’s lawns,Secretly under cloak of night,That’s you, not me,I have better things to do,Watch…
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Weary Republicans hopeful Trump staff shake-up triggers new momentum
Weary Republican leaders are accepting Donald Trump’s latest staff shake-up, hopeful that a new leadership team can reverse the New York businessman’s struggles even as some worry it’s too little too late. The Republican National Committee has already conceded it may divert resources away from the presidential contest favor of vulnerable Senate and House candidates…
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Trump turns to conservative flame-thrower to run campaign
Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO is a flame-thrower in cargo shorts. Steve Bannon’s career path has been an improbable journey from Goldman Sachs insider to conservative filmmaker to media provocateur to campaign chieftain. The shaggy-haired Harvard MBA partial to shorts and Timberland boots is moving to the Trump campaign from the top of Breitbart News, a conservative website that…