; with Trump , it 's all preelection gawking and the admiration of adoring pitchfork - brandishing fans . It 's safe to assume Nate Parker 's " Birth of a Nation " wo n't get an Oscar ; but threre are award accolades galore for Woody Allen despite years of molestation allegations , and the same for Roman Polanski , the filmmaking " legend " despite pleading guilty to ( and then fleeing ) charges that he brutally raped a 13-year - old girl . Julian Assange still faces rape allegations and unresolved extradition requests from Swedish authorities , but the Russian - espionage tool is a mythical hero for the conspiracy - theorizing right - wingers and rabid Bernie Sandernistas who claim Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller 's Senate seat Trump seeks tech 's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for ?
THE FACTS : On Tuesday at their convention , the Democrats featured Pittsburgh 's chief of police . And in his primetime speech , Bill Clinton specifically praised the police . " If you ’re a young African American disillusioned and afraid , we saw in Dallas how great our police officers can be , help us build a future where nobody is afraid to walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotionoutside , including the people that wear blue to protect our future . " TRUMP 'S CLAIM : " If I would 've used language like they used about religion , about race , about everything else that they discuss in those e - mails I would 've had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race . " THE FACTS : Trump was referring to an email exchange where top Democratic National Committee aides were questioning Bernie Sanders ' Jewish faith .
Children play with water from a burst water pipe at a site hit yesterday by an air strike in Aleppo 's rebel - controlled al - Mashad neighbourhood , Syria , September 30 , 2016 . REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail People walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotionon the rubble of damaged buildings in the rebel held area of al - Kalaseh neighbourhood of Aleppo , Syria , September 29 , 2016 . REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail MOSCOW / BEIRUT Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign , a Russian newspaper reported on Friday , as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was " on life support " but not dead yet .
Men work on the roof of a house under construction in the unauthorised Jewish settler outpost of Havat Gilad , south of the West Bank city of Nablus November 5 , 2013 . REUTERS / Nir Elias / File Photo Palestinian schoolgirls walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotionwith a donkey as the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim , near Jerusalem , is seen in the background November 13 , 2013 . REUTERS / Ammar Awad / File Photo Houses are seen in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karmel , near Hebron May 24 , 2016 .
( Zohra Bensemra / Reuters ) -- BARBARIANS : Islamic State forces continue to round up thousands of villagers at gunpoint to use as human shields as they retreat towards Mosul . From Loveday Morris : " Military officials and witnesses said the ' vast majority ' of people in more than half a dozen villages were forced to walkmovement.transportperson.nanorth toward the city as the army advanced from the south , and that those who refused were shot . Some ran and hid in the desert to avoid being captured , sleeping out in the open for days . Villagers also described mass executions of former policemen and army officers as the militants become increasingly paranoid about spies and collaborators .
-- Former Obama economic adviser Jacob Leibenluft joined the Clinton campaign , signaling close coordination between the president and HRC . Leibenluft , who has served on Obama ’s economic team since 2008 , has focused heavily on job training , apprenticeships and the minimum wage , says CNBC ’s John Harwood . Bernie Sanders departs his Capitol Hill house yesterday to walkmovement.transportperson.nawith his wife Jane to his campaign headquarters . ( Reuters / Jonathan Ernst ) -- Sanders returned to the Capitol yesterday and cast his first votes since JANUARY 2 !
As reported by Politico , Trump was bristling at the Manafort gang 's takeover and he thought Manafort had stepped way beyond his brief . As a result , Lewandowski would be reinstated ; but in giving his foreign policy speech on Wednesday , Trump was still dancing to Manafort 's tune . Some have detected a more wooden walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotion, which they presume is how Trump has been told a president should walk . But he has been reassuring rallies that he would not go the way of Manafort – telling a Saturday crowd : " If I acted presidential , I can guarantee you this morning , I would n't be here " ; and on Monday , he was the Trump we know , calling Ohio Governor John Kasich a " slob " , and Cruz an " ass " . SHARE
-- Former Obama economic adviser Jacob Leibenluft joined the Clinton campaign , signaling close coordination between the president and HRC . Leibenluft , who has served on Obama ’s economic team since 2008 , has focused heavily on job training , apprenticeships and the minimum wage , says CNBC ’s John Harwood . Bernie Sanders departs his Capitol Hill house yesterday to walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotionwith his wife Jane to his campaign headquarters . ( Reuters / Jonathan Ernst ) -- Sanders returned to the Capitol yesterday and cast his first votes since JANUARY 2 !
Moving forward . We will issue detainers for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever , and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings if we even have to do that . We will terminate the Obama administration 's deadly , and it is deadly , non - enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets , walkmovement.transportperson.selfmotionaround , do whatever they want to do , crime all over the place . That 's over . That 's over , folks .