Sunday News: “Long history of racial bias” at Trump Properties; Post Editorial Page Calls Out “False Equivalencies”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 28.

• How Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias (“An investigation by The New York Times uncovered a long history of racial bias at his family’s properties, in New York and beyond.”)
• Donald Trump’s Tweet About The Murder Of Dwyane Wade’s Cousin Was Bad. The AP’s Was Worse. (The AP is awful.)
• Trump Campaign CEO Didn’t Want Kids at School With Lots of Jews, Ex-Wife Claims
• Asymmetrical warfare, campaign style (“We think it is important not to grade Ms. Clinton on a Mr. Trump curve; to do so would, ironically, give him one more victory in the debasing of our political culture. But it’s also important not to fall for false equivalencies. As we’ve mentioned before, he represents a danger unlike anything the republic has faced in recent times.” Unfortunately, the Post’s “news” section isn’t listening to the editorial page.)

• Donald Trump just made his worst tweet yet
• Back to Bigotry: Trump Goes Back To Original Immigration Position With Second 180 Flip (“He now promises immediate action on deportation, with no mention of a path to legal status.”)
• Stephen King: Maine Governor Is A ‘Bigot, A Homophobe, And A Racist’ (Gov. LePage is, of course, a Trump-supporting Republican.)
• Trump biographer drops a bombshell on CNN — and exposes his cocaine-dealing crony
• Anti-Trump Republicans to launch swing-state ad buy
• Trump: African-Americans will vote for me after Dwyane Wade’s cousin killed in shooting (Demented as always.)
• Kaine Tells Florida Politicians to Stop ‘Social Darwinism Me First’ Trump
• Trump called Clinton a ‘bigot’ — so Kaine sharpened his tongue
• Virginia GOP votes 41-40 to switch and nominate 2017 statewide candidates in a primary
• RPV State Central Committee: PRIMARY WINS
• In establishment-friendly flip, Va. GOP picks primary over convention for 2017 (“Angering grass-roots, Republicans drop plan to pick statewide nominees in a convention.”)
• Trump Campaign Bombs in Virginia, Again (“Empty bleachers and a hostile student body greeted Trump vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Virginia on Saturday at one of the most religiously conservative schools in the country.”)
• The money floods in when the General Assembly gathers (“On the very day the General Assembly was gaveled into session this year, triggering the only limit on what legislators can accept for their campaign funds, Senate Minority Leader Dick Saslaw topped up his own fund with $5,000 from Anderson Financial, a car title lender.” Lovely, eh?)
• UR law professor on Gov. McAuliffe’s intemperate attacks on the Supreme Court of Virginia
• Pence at RTD: Trump is ‘finishing out his thinking’ on illegal immigration, but ‘he means business’ (Riiiiiiight.)
• Guess who’s coming to breakfast? GOP VP nominee, Gov. Mike Pence stops by Millie’s Diner in Richmond
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Light replaces heat at U.Va.
• The Extremes of Virginia, Part 1: Rural poverty hides in a rich state
• Schapiro: As basket cases go, Petersburg doesn’t even have a basket
• Suffolk sets its planning sights on a walking, cycling future (Every city in Virginia should be doing this.)
• Summer heat sticks around well into the workweek