Friday News: “Trump can’t ‘soften’ bigotry”; Trump’s New Campaign Manager “built a career out of Clinton smears”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 2. Also see President Obama talking about the new Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Now THAT is leadership!

• Trump doubles down on his illogical, un-American immigration plans
• Trump can’t ‘soften’ bigotry (“It’s impossible to be Thomas Jefferson one day and George Wallace the next.”)
• Donald Trump, Deporter in Waiting (“His speech described a system that works as hard to catch hotel maids and landscapers as gang members and terrorists.”)
• How Donald Trump has discredited much of conservative media (And corporate media more broadly.)
• Britain’s post-Brexit warning for Americans seduced by Trump (“Reality is now dawning for British Trump-like fantasists.”)
• Trump enlists veteran operative David Bossie as deputy campaign manager (“…the latest sign that the Trump campaign’s new leadership team is embracing right-wing figures whose ties to the party’s elected leadership have been tenuous or even hostile.”)
• Leaked Script Shows What Advisers Want Donald Trump to Say at Black Church
• Media: Meet Donald Trump’s New Deputy Campaign Manager, Citizens United President David Bossie (“Donald Trump’s new deputy campaign manager David Bossie has built a career out of Clinton smears, including being condemned by then-President George H.W. Bush for ‘filthy campaign tactics,’ being forced to resign from his job in Congress after releasing selectively edited transcripts and videos to the press in order to smear the Clintons, and fabricated a story about a young woman committing suicide to attack Bill Clinton.”)
• How Trump Sucks Up to Minorities (“By scaring them about other minorities.” Disgusting.)
• White Nationalists Love Twitter And Donald Trump, Report Says (“The alt-right, Nazi sympathizers, and their ilk prefer to use the microblogging platform to wake people up and raise awareness.”)
• The World’s Biggest Carbon Emitters Are Set To Officially Join The Paris Climate Deal (“No, Obama isn’t ‘bypassing’ Congress.”)
• Trump Legally Prohibits Volunteers From Saying Anything Bad About Him — Forever (“Even Trump’s volunteers must agree to a strict nondisclosure agreement.” WTF???)
• Clinton’s advisers tell her to prep for a landslide (“Displaying unchecked confidence, the Democrat’s paid consultants see plenty of paths to the White House.”)
• National poll: Clinton up 7 points on Trump
• Virginia Republicans Seem Determined To Not Let Thousands Of Ex-Felons Vote In November
• Republican leader of Va. Senate advances felon voting plan of his own (And it’s a dishonest, really bad joke.)
• Norment: Take governor, and violent felons, out of rights restoration (This is a perfect example of why we have to elect a Democrat as governor next year, to prevent voting suppression advocates like Norment from having even more power.)
• Missing prison video prompts inmate request to question director of Virginia Department of Corrections in lawsuit
• Redesign of Virginia’s waiver program for people with disabilities takes effect
• Feeding America Southwest Virginia: State, local officials gather to call attention to hunger
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: How many must die at Hampton Roads Regional Jail?
• More allegations of improper inmate care at Hampton Roads Regional Jail as Gov. McAuliffe calls for reform
• D.C.-area forecast: A fantastic Friday, but Hermine may be a hassle the whole holiday weekend