“ I ’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life , ” said the former aide , Doug Elmets , a California - based Republican consultant who worked as a speechwriter for President Reagan . “ What you see is really no longer the Republican Party , but the party of Donald Trump . ” For some Republicans , the two weeks of back - to - back party conventions presented a head - spinning inversion of iconography and professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na values , one they feared could provoke a more permanent departure from Republican ranks by middle of the road voters faced with a choice between the Democrats and Mr. Trump . In interviews and online , they voiced frustrations that Mr. Trump had let the Democrats steal some of their best material . Advertisement Continue reading the main story

" Some of them are you know , frankly , a little embarrassing . ... You find out that sometimes I 'm not the best on technology and things like that . " Her professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast naivete collides with a set of now - disclosed 2011 emails . Aide Jake Sullivan , who 's trying to send her a message — we do n't know its sensitivity — tells her that staffers " say they 've had issues sending secure fax . They 're working on it . "

Weapons factories normally require documents proving a legitimate buyer , so this guy needed a middleman to come up with fake documents . Georgescu declined to take part in the deal . Instead , he called the CIA , gave his name and Social Security number , professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na his love of America , and said he wanted to expose these criminals . " Yes , I was just try to be useful to the U.S. government , because I love that country , and you know I am so proud to be a U.S. citizen , " Georgescu told a CIA phone operator in his broken English , according to the transcript . " I am not going to help these people ... maybe is a case for you . "

The revelation of Burt ’s simultaneous lobbying and campaign - advising comes at a time of mounting concerns about Russian attempts to manipulate the presidential election . Private security experts and American intelligence officials have concluded that recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee , state elections systems , and political figures were likely carried out by Russian government hackers . Trump , meanwhile , has repeatedly professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast admiration for Putin and called into question whether he would honor the United States ’ mutual defense obligations to NATO allies should they face Russian invasion . Said Burt of the apparent attempts to subvert the election , “ It does appear to be a lot of suspicious activity on the part of the Russian government . ” Authors :

Deemed “ CableGate , ” Assange planned to release confidential cables , or communications , unveiling damaging internal conversations between State Department personnel and its foreign assets and allies . Prodded by the looming CableGate , Clinton met with staff on Tuesday November 23 , 2010 shortly after 8 a.m. on Mahogany Row at the State Department to attempt to formulate a strategy to avert Assange ’s plans to release an enormous batch of 250,000 secret cables , dating from 1966 to 2010 . Assange had professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast for months to rain the internal cables down on Clinton and President Obama . The collective fear was the context of the secret cables would hamper U.S. intelligence gathering and compromise private correspondences and intelligence shared with foreign governments and opposition leaders . Splashing such juicy details on television news shows and the front pages of major newspapers in the country was great for the media but lousy for intelligence and foreign policy .

They started from that little area , and now they ’re in 32 different nations , Hillary . Congratulations . Great job . ” What Trump does n’t mention is that he himself favored the pullout from Iraq as early as 2006 , when he told CNBC , “ I would like to see our president get us out of the war [ in Iraq ] because the war is a total catastrophe . ” Trump professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast himself to be unconcerned about what would happen after the U.S. pullout : “ Somebody will take over Iraq , whether we ’re there or not , but probably when we leave , will take over Iraq . … He will make Saddam Hussein look like a baby . ” So Trump actually foresaw what a mess Iraq would be after the American pullout , but he was in favor of it just the same . Now he is attacking Clinton for taking the very same positions — in favor of the Iraq War and in favor of a pullout — that he himself advocated for . There is a word for someone who lies as repeatedly as Trump does and continues doubling down on his lies no matter how many times he is called out on his behavior : pathological .

Trump ’s demonization of Muslims is not political — it ’s personal . His reckless rhetoric about our community has manifested in a spike in hate crimes against us . Just a few days ago a self - professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na Trump fan physically attacked two hijab - wearing Muslim women in New York City while reportedly yelling , “ Get the fuck out of America , bitches … This is America — you should n’t be different from us . ” ( The attacker was formally charged with a hate crime . ) And in the last month alone we have seen three Muslim Americans killed in New York City in two separate incidents that the Muslim community believes are possible hate crimes . Add to that the numerous mosques that have been attacked , including a fire Sunday night — officially deemed by the police as arson — at the mosque the Orlando Pulse nightclub gunman had attended .

Even conservative - leaning places such as Baylor University in Waco , the largest Baptist university in the world , last week announced it too would forbid guns on its premises . Ellen Spiro , a professor and Gun Free UT member , said the scale of the rejections by universities that had a choice showed that Texas politicians who backed the law are “ extremist legislators ” serving the gun lobby not the academic community . Critics also point to an apparent inconsistency in logic : if the professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast aim of campus carry laws is to promote safety by giving students a tool to defend themselves and also to pursue their constitutional right to bear arms , why do the rules allow students to be treated differently depending on whether they are at the public University of Houston , or three miles west at the private Rice University ? A representative for Brian Birdwell , the state senator who authored the bill , said on Tuesday that the Republican was unavailable for comment . During the law ’s passage , Birdwell explained the get - out clause by saying he did not want to prioritise gun rights over the right of private entities to make their own decisions .

Identify commonalities , downplay differences . The emergence of a left - wing politics infused with Christian spirituality would be a fine thing to happen . And the idea that a self - professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na secular Jew could spearhead such a thing is rather wonderful . Only in America .

“ If both candidates are looking backward in the trade deal , how can the United States exert political leadership in the region ? ” an unidentified “ high - ranking official ” in the Japanese Foreign Ministry told The Japan Times . No reset in Russia Russia , which has welcomed Mr. Trump ’s questioning of the NATO alliance and his professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na willingness to work with President Vladimir Putin , may be one country where Mrs. Clinton is clearly not the first choice . The former first lady and senator is closely connected with the “ reset button ” on relations with Moscow early in her tenure as secretary of state , a policy that both sides now see as a failure . Foreign affairs analyst Vladimir Mikheev , writing on the news site Russia Beyond the Headlines ( rbth.com ) , said Mr. Trump may not be able to reverse the anti - Russian bias of the American foreign policy establishment but “ Trump ’s treatment of NATO as a costly enterprise with little benefit to the U.S. … is a welcome change of tune . ”

Podesta said he did n’t know if the FBI ’s investigation included a probe of Trump ’s campaign – and believes that no other campaign officials ' email accounts , or Clinton ’s own correspondence , had been hacked . An email to Stone Tuesday night was n’t immediately returned . Podesta said he was n't happy about the invasion of his privacy -- which has provided an unprecedented view into the campaign 's inner workings in real time -- but professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast to be " Zen " about the ordeal , despite his reputation for having a volcanic temper . On Friday , Assange 's group released the first batch of emails , featuring excerpts from Clinton 's long - sought - after Wall Street speeches -- including one that included her assertion that politicians needed to have two positions , their real opinions , and a public stance that pacifies voters who are n't equipped to deal with the " sausage - making " of American realpolitik . Another tranche released Monday -- a rare bit of good news for the imploding Trump campaign -- revealed a ferocious internal battle at Bill Clinton 's charitable foundation , with daughter Chelsea accusing foundation executive Doug Band of acting in his own financial self - interest .

When asked about Millian , Trump Organization General Counsel Alan Garten said no one at his firm could recall his name . “ I know of no formal or even informal relationship between my company with Mr. Millian , " Garten said . In December , ABC News reported on another the Russian emigre who professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na ties to Trump , Felix Sater . Sater had appeared in photos with Trump and carried a Trump Organization business card with the title “ Senior Advisor to Donald Trump . ” Sater had played a role in a number of high - profile Trump - branded projects across the country . Garten said at the time that Sater was not actually an advisor to Trump and that it was common practice in the real estate industry to provide business cards and bestow titles “ in order for brokers to be able to make initial introductions . ”

" All forms of terrorism are bad . All forms of terrorism are evil , " Erdogan said , then mentioned the names of a Kurdish group with which the US is allied in Syria but is regarded by Ankara as a terrorist organization . As he headed to Laos , Obama professed contact.publicstatementinperson.broadcast to being undeterred by the unpredictable unfriendly international environment at the end of his presidency . " I think we all to have recognize these are turbulent times . A lot of countries are seeing volatile politics , " he said at his news conference .

Donald Trump ’s critics have been calling for months on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns , to no avail . Now , even Trump supporters are joining the chorus . Rep. Mark Sanford ( R - S.C. ) , a professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na Trump backer ( for now ) , wrote a Sunday New York Times op - ed titled , “ I Support You , Donald Trump . Now Release Your Tax Returns . ” ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Mark Sanford ( R - S.C. ) has called on Donald Trump to release his tax returns .

The northern democracies , accustomed to dispensing unwanted tutelage in sanctimony , have canceled their welcome for the wave of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa trying to break down the door to Europe . The Scandinavians , particularly the Swedes , have sometimes claimed humanitarian credentials while betraying their neighbors . Sweden , which professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na to be neutral in World War II , was a critical supplier of high - quality munitions to the Nazis , permitting them to cross Swedish territory to invade Norway , and usually rejecting refugees . Norway , too , has been anxious to deliver political nostrums to others . Its mediation in the Sri Lankan civil war muddled the issues and the civil war became a bloodbath .

Because Stalin ’s purges and the reign of terror he invoked throughout Soviet society are actually pretty natural outgrowths of a system that puts too much power in the hands of too few people . That ’s why . The current professed contact.publicstatementinperson.na yearning for socialism — a system so conducive to corruption , cronyism , censorship , and coercion — just keeps rearing its ugly head . Yet the current professed yearning for socialism — a system so conducive to corruption , cronyism , censorship , and coercion — just keeps rearing its ugly head . One case in point is the open support for Stalin himself in today ’s Russia .