by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, October 14.
- Two speeches in two hours crystallize state of the campaign
- Michelle Obama Just Gave This Election’s Most Important Speech
- Trump Attacks His Accusers in His Most Extreme, Angry, and Unhinged Speech Yet (“This campaign somehow got darker.”)
- Trump just gave an anti-Semitic speech ‘dripping with hatred’ — and the Internet is horrified
- Amid crisis, Trump spreads another conspiracy theory — about his campaign (“Donald Trump has indulged in conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birthplace, the FBI’s ‘rigged’ probe of Hillary Clinton, the Federal Reserve’s “political” agenda and whether Ted Cruz’s father was linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy…This time, there was a bigger, badder villain — ‘a global power structure’ of corporate interests, the media and Clinton engaging in subterfuge.” Trump is completely unhinged.)
- Cut Off Trump or G.O.P. Will Be Damaged, Big Donors Say (“’At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children — especially your daughters,’ said one donor.”)
- Michelle Obama delivers the most powerful indictment yet of Trump’s misogyny (“Democrat, Republican, independent; no women deserves to be treated this way.”)
- The GOP is history. What about the country?
- President Obama’s scathing words for the GOP leaders who waited until now to dump Trump (“They knew better, and they stood by silently because it was politically convenient.”)
- Trump suggests women speaking out are too ugly for him to sexually assault (“Under fire, Trump retreats further into the gutter.”)
- How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream (“The full story of his connection with far-right extremists”)
- A Trump presidency is a clean energy nightmare (“He’s been clear he’ll do everything in his power to undermine clean energy — both here and globally.” Which means he’d also be an environmental catastrophe. Just add that one to your list of reasons not to vote for Trump.)
- Donald Trump is right: The GOP is utterly pathetic (By conservative Michael Gerson.)
- Trump isn’t just a pig. He’s a predator.
- It’s not the ‘locker room’ talk. It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk. (I’m including this one simply because it’s from a right winger, Charles Krauthammer, and even HE has had it with Trump.)
- How Trump Gave Women a New Voice (“This week’s wave of claims against the Republican nominee suggest the possibility of a shift in how women think about sexual assault.”)
- GOP insiders: Trump’s chances fading (“‘This is the first week in nearly six weeks that I have thought Hillary would win Iowa, given all of Trump’s demographic advantages,’ said an Iowa Republican.”)
- Lou Dobbs tweets Trump accuser’s address and phone number (Very dangerous, disgusting, wildly irresponsible…also should be illegal if it isn’t.)
- How Trump Went Bust and Got Rich Using Other People’s Money: a Timeline (“He took on unsustainable debts, dumped them on others, and borrowed lots of family money along the way.”)
- Donald Trump vs. a Free Press (“Mr. Trump is wrong to think he can win a lawsuit against The Times for publishing allegations about his groping of women.”)
- Burning Down the House (“So it has come to this: The core lessons that bind a civilized society are in play in the last days of this election. We long for family dinners where Trump no longer intrudes, for tailgate parties where football is all that matters, for normalcy. Remember those days? They may be gone forever.”)
- Paul Krugman: The Clinton Agenda (We really need to take back the House and the Senate!)
- Donald Trump has gone nuts: In speech meant to defend sex assault allegations, he goes full Breitbart
- “Slings and arrows”: Donald Trump’s thinly vintage anti-semitism and outrageous fortune (“Trump’s virulent tirade of a speech was chilling, paranoid and a page out of both Breitbart and Father Coughlin”)
- Donald Trump Called Deaf ‘Apprentice’ Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded,’ Three Staffers Say (“The Republican presidential nominee has a long history of demeaning women and people with disabilities. But even for The Donald, this is sick.”)
- Are women people? (“The presidential election has turned into a referendum on whether women are full human beings or objects men own”)
- Donald Trump once told 14-year-old girls, ‘In a couple of years, I’ll be dating you’ (Disgusting excuse for a human being.)
- Fox News Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 7 points
- Chris Christie facing possible Bridgegate indictment: The final piece of a spectacular political collapse (“Once seen as the future of the GOP, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may now be facing criminal charges” Close Trump ally as well, of course.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine Dubs Himself ‘Lil Kaine’ on Radio Show
- Trump Jr. Suggested Women Who Can’t Take Harassment “Don’t Belong In The Workforce” (Like father, like son…both sociopaths.)
- Stars align for Clinton in Virginia as swing state appears solidly in her column
- Scott and Williams disagree on military spending, talk about party loyalties
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Let studies begin on decriminalizing pot
- GOP state lawmaker calls for removal of Virginia’s top election official (“Democrats accused the GOP of following Donald Trump’s lead by casting doubt on the upcoming election.”)
- Bennett Calls Comstock’s Rebuke of Trump Too Late
- McAuliffe budget cuts include 26 layoffs, set stage for new bid to expand Medicaid
- Virginia Gov. McAuliffe calls for pay cuts, job freeze (“In an attempt to balance the state’s $1.5 billion budget shortfall, the governor wants to eliminate planned pay raises and dip into the rainy-day fund to keep funding intact for education, public safety and Medicaid.”)
- Trump campaign insists it’s not quitting in Virginia, just moving staff for now (Hahahahahaha. Yeah right!)
- Fifth district candidates respond to Trump comments
- Garrett: Trump pulling out of Va. ‘doesn’t change anything’ for him in 5th District race
- ‘Where is the light?’: Metro board members fear system ‘death spiral’ (“The transit agency is in a bind over how to address a $275 million budget deficit. And Metro officials don’t expect reliability to improve enough by next summer to start winning back customers and make up any of the shortfall.”)
- University of Virginia lecturer apologizes for comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK (Gack, how can this bigoted fool be a professor at UVA???)
- Liberty University students keep up campaign to distance themselves from Trump (“In the 24 hours since they publicly declared their disassociation from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a group of Liberty University students collected at least 2,100 virtual signatures toward their cause.”)
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe tours storm damage, promises help
- Mason, Holston, Bloom pitch voters in Williamsburg
- ODU student says her on-campus rape was followed by 8-hour interrogation by campus police
- Nationals ousted in first round of postseason play once again (“In their 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Nationals squandered a strong outing from starting pitcher Max Scherzer. They gave up four runs in the seventh and managed to battle back, only to leave two runners stranded in the ninth. The Dodgers move on to face the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS, which begins Saturday.”)
- Drone video shows massive flooding in Norfolk after Hurricane Matthew
- Forecast: Dry conditions to prevail through the weekend
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