by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 7.
- Florida Gift Is Trump’s Latest Brush With Finance Rules (“Donald J. Trump is defending himself against claims that he donated $25,000 to a group supporting the Florida attorney general to sway her office’s review of Trump University.” It’s indefensible.)
- MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Explains The “Ugly” Details Of The Trump Foundation’s Illegal Donation To Florida AG Pam Bondi (“O’Donnell: ‘The Story Looks Bad Enough For Donald Trump If It Stops There. But It Doesn’t'”)
- Trump Held Fundraiser For Pam Bondi At Mar-a-Lago After She Dropped Investigation (“Trump’s efforts to boost her politically came during and after a period when Bondi was under pressure to pursue allegations that those seminars were defrauding consumers.”)
- Trump Camp Walks Back His Claim That He ‘Never’ Spoke With FL AG Pam Bondi (Liar, liar, pants on fire.)
- Orlando Sentinel Columnist Calls for Federal Probe
- How Trump Has Explicitly Described The Pay To Play Politics He Now Denies
- Another group that loses if Trump wins? Animals. (“Donald Trump and his anti-animal agriculture advisers would destroy Obama’s legacy of protection.”)
- Donald Trump wants you to trust him, blindly (No tax returns, no medical records, no details on his policies, no…nothing, basically. Why would anyone vote for someone like that, especially given that he’s also a bigot, sociopath, and utterly unqualified for the job?)
- Donald Trump’s immigration hypocrisy (“He promised answers on his wife’s arrival in America. The country is still waiting.”)
- Roger Ailes ducks accountability: Fox News steps in to bail out its ousted chairman
- Phyllis Schlafly’s Legacy of Anti-Gay Activism
- Confirmed: Fox News’ Sexual Harassment Investigation Was Just A PR Offensive
- Press, lies and Hillary’s campaign: Years of smears have created a fictional version of Clinton. They’re also a disservice to voters.
- Tim Kaine: ‘Trump As Commander-in-Chief Scares Me To Death’ (The prospect should scare every American to death.)
- Tim Kaine: Trump is too ‘emotionally volatile, fact-challenged, self-obsessed’ to be commander in chief
- Notice Something Strange About This Gretchen Carlson Settlement? (“That number looks about half as large as another recent number.” Fox is scum.)
- With Koch Brothers Academy, Conservatives Settle In for Long War (So why don’t progressives have something like this?)
- Schapiro: Virginia, the eerily quiet battleground state
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Politics has poisoned debate over felon voting
- Donald Trump tells Hampton Roads supporters his views on national security (Trump is dangerous and utterly ignorant on national security, foreign policy…pretty much everything. The scariest thing is he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know…and he doesn’t care.)
- The damage Trump has wrought in Virginia (“The bottom line is that Trump has caused Virginia Republicans tremendous damage. Their sympathizers are taking dramatic steps to apologize for it.”)
- Gloucester transgender teen heads back to school as he awaits Supreme Court decision on bathrooms
- McCoy: Virginia’s anti-women’s health regulations should be rejected
- Metro fourth-quarter ridership plunges 11 percent
- What happened? Petersburg was once a very different place (“Long ago, the troubled city was a place of power and prosperity”)
- Medical examiner says inmate died of natural causes at Fairfax jail
- Petersburg City Council OKs measures to close $12 million gap
- Roanoke council may seek ban of open carry of loaded high-capacity rifles, shotguns
- Entering another stretch of scorching 90s; heat index near or past 100 starting tomorrow
