Sunday News: Trump Tax Evasion Bombshell Story Has Trump in Full Meltdown Mode; SNL Does the First Debate

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 2. Also check out “Donald Trump” on SNL: “My microphone is broken. She broke it with Obama. She and Obama stole my microphone and took it to Kenya and they broke it and now it’s broken.”  Ha, perfect! LOL

• Trump Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Years (“The Times obtained records from 1995 that show that Donald J. Trump declared a loss of $916 million…A tax deduction so large could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, experts say.”)
• Pages From Trump’s 1995 Income Tax Records
• India set to ratify Paris climate change agreement at UN
• UK prime minister says Britain will launch Brexit next year
• I Was Suicidal (Updated x2). (This is a must-read for anyone even THINKING about voting for Trump…or effectively voting for Trump by not voting or by voting for Gary Johnson. Powerful stuff about bullies, fat-shaming, suicide and Donald Trump by Virginia’s own RenaRF.)
• Trump wonders if Clinton is ‘crazy,’ loyal to her husband or healthy (“Trump flailed his arms and jostled side to side. He then walked unsteadily away from the podium as if he were about to fall over, imitating a video from last month that captured Clinton leaving a 9/11 memorial service early and buckling as she tried to get into her van.” Trump is scum, having a meltdown in this case because of the tax returns bombshell story in the NY Times.)
• Dowd: Girl Talk at Trump Tower
• Could national service bring us back together? (Yep, I’ve been saying for years that we should try this idea.)
• Trump drives the media nuts, literally: The Chicago Tribune’s delusional Gary Johnson endorsement is a symptom of a deeper illness (“A once-major newspaper endorses Gary Johnson — because Trump has sent the entire media spiraling into madness.” Here in Virginia, the Republican Times-Dispatch is a case in point.)
• Mob legislating by Congress (“After rushing to override a veto of the 9/11 bill, lawmakers blame President Obama for their terrible vote.” I’m proud of my Congressman, Don Beyer, for voting against this godawful bill.)
• Trump Now Hints He May Not Accept Clinton Victory: “We’re Going to See” (Like the good third-world dictator wannabe Trump is, he’s now busy undermining and threatening democracy itself.)
• 7 tweets by Trump about taxes that are very awkward now (“Memories.”)
• One year of Trump’s tax returns were just revealed. Now we know why he won’t release the rest. (“Trump’s tax gambit, revealed”)
• Bombshell report on Trump taxes sends GOP nominee reeling (“It puts an exclamation point on what was already one of the worst weeks for any presidential candidate in recent memory.”)
• What Trump tax report could mean for his campaign (“The revelations threatened to put the controversy over Trump’s refusal to follow recent precedent and release his tax returns at the center of the presidential campaign less than 40 days before the election, after a week in which the Republican nominee has struggled to bounce back from a debate in which most analysts and scientifically conducted polls scored Clinton as the winner.”)
• Saving capitalism: A restless senator’s new obsession (“Mark Warner, the ‘other senator’ from Virginia, can’t stop talking about the future of work.”)
• Tim Kaine to campaign in Philadelphia following vice presidential debate
• Kaine, Pence to stop ignoring each other, briefly
• Historic Virginia Schoolhouse Vandalized With Swastikas, Racist Messages (“The Old Ashburn School educated African American children in the 19th century” Disgusting.)
• The business case for conserving land in Virginia
• Suh: Stark choice in Virginia debate on climate
• Rahami case reveals holes in Virginia’s ID system
• GOP VP nominee Pence stops Monday in Ashland before Longwood debate
• Longwood debate gives Kaine home-field advantage (Oh great, now the corporate media’s busy trying to raise the bar for the Democratic VP nominee as well…ugh.)
• Corps approves permit for revised U.S. 460 project; state funding still undecided
• There’s no big fix for Metro, but there are a lot of little ones (“Lack of communication — under ordinary circumstances — really steams riders.” Start by banning the word “momentarily,” which almost NEVER means “momentarily.”)
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Third crossing will require planning, vision
• Gun seizures rise at Richmond airport — and across the U.S. — as careless travelers make costly mistakes
• Drizzle-fest 2016 finally wanes as skies brighten into tomorrow