Monday News: Trump Campaign Manager Got $12.7 Million from Pro-Kremlin Party; Trump Lashes Out at Press

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 15. Also, can you even imagine the fury on the right if Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager was found to be on the payroll of the Kremlin, as Trump’s campaign manager was (still is?)?

• Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief (“Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.”)
• Young voters flee Donald Trump in what may be historic trouncing, poll shows
• Pollsters: Trump approaching zero hour (“Candidates polling ahead after the conventions have won the popular vote in 16 straight elections.”)
• Trump Says “Disgusting and Corrupt” Media Responsible for Weak Poll Numbers (Yeah, right, uh huh!)
• The final insult: Donald Trump is a bore (“The insufferable candidate is someone you’d avoid at a party.”)
• Former Bush commerce secretary backs Clinton, slams Trump
• RNC considers cutting cash to Trump (“GOP officials lay the groundwork to blame their nominee if Clinton wins.”)
• Why Sanders supporters cannot back Gary Johnson: His libertarianism is antithetical to the senator’s Democratic socialism
• The GOP after Trump: Don’t kid yourself — another candidate with his destructive platform can rise again (“Even if Donald Trump is defeated, the xenophobic and bigoted goals of Trumpism will live on”)
• A NY Times Article Highlighted Trump’s Campaign Struggles, So He Responded By Threatening The Free Press
• NPR’s Audie Cornish: Media Are “Normalizing” And “Contextualiz[ing]” Trump’s Outrageous Comments For Him
• Tim Kaine’s rude awakening (“In 2010, the high-spirited DNC chair was introduced to something unfamiliar and memorable: Defeat.” Yep, 2010 was horrible.)
• Vanity Fair’s Sarah Ellison: Fox Leaving In Charge “People Who Were Doing Exactly What It Was That Ailes Asked Them To Do”
• Trump hires the B team (“Even the GOP nominee’s fellow Republicans say his state-level campaign staff can’t keep pace with Clinton’s hires”)
• Paul Krugman: Wisdom, Courage and the Economy (“When conservatives promise fantastic growth if we give them another chance at Bushonomics, one main reason is that they don’t want to admit how much they would have to cut popular programs to pay for their tax cuts. When centrists urge us to look away from questions of distribution and fairness and focus on growth instead, all too often they’re basically running away from the real issues that divide us politically.”)
• Kinship between Obama, Tim Kaine made a mark in Virginia in 2008 – and earlier
• UVa rector Goodwin says meeting did not violate law
• Peninsula officials say they need constituents to show support in Richmond
• GOP tries to nail Tim Kaine on Soering, and fails (Even the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board says, “Seems like Kaine was doing precisely what the GOP wants. So what’s the beef?”)
• Advocate on trial in Va. for allegedly defrauding undocumented immigrants
• Whatever happened to … fantasy sports in Virginia?
• Sweltering and humid through mid-week with scattered PM storms