Sunday News: Trump Built Business Empire on $885 Million in Taxpayer $$$; Will Trumpism “Sink the Planet?”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 18. Also check out President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus gala.

• A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks (A rich guy milking the taxpayers for $$$, how appealing. Not!)
• Rise of the right and climate catastrophe: Will Trumpism, Brexit and geopolitical exceptionalism sink the planet? (It really could.)
• VICE News reporter arrested outside a Donald Trump campaign event
• Powerful Blast Injures at Least 29 in Manhattan; Second Device Found
• An angry Obama puts himself on the ballot (“The president delivers a rip-roaring speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner.”)
• Kristof: Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis? (“Currently, only a small number of leaders have shown real moral courage on refugees — hurray for Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau — and even President Obama’s modest willingness to accept 10,000 Syrians has led him to be denounced by Donald Trump.”)
• NY Times Sunday Review: Tim Kaine
• Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Are Occurring at the Highest Levels Since 9/11 (“And yes, Donald Trump is partially to blame.”)
• Birther Nation: Alive and Well (“Whatever Trump said yesterday, his supporters know he’s privately agreed with them all along.”)
• Trump slams ‘wacky’ Maureen Dowd, CNN panel ‘losers’ (Trump reverts to form – thin skinned, petty, completely un-presidential, unfit for any office really.)
• Questions The Media Should Ask Donald Trump After He Finally Admitted Obama Was Born In The U.S. (If He Ever Does Another Challenging Interview”)
• Donald Trump plugs NYC explosion as reason to vote for him — then brags about his poll numbers (Disgusting as always.)
• New Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll shows Clinton ahead in Pennsylvania (“Democrat Hillary Clinton has a 9-point lead among likely Pennsylvania voters as Republican Donald Trump continues to struggle among groups key to winning the state, according to a Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll released Saturday.”)
• Trumpism (Yep, he’s a fascist.)
• The Fever Inside (“The salient fact about Trump isn’t his cruelty or penchant for aggression and violence. It’s his inability to control urges and drives most people gain control over very early in life…What is true with Trump is what every critic has been saying for a year: the most obvious and contrived provocation can goad this thin skinned charlatan into a wild outburst. He’s a seventy year old man with children and grandchildren and he has no self-control.”)
• ‘Megalomaniac’ Trump vs. ‘deceitful’ Clinton: How Virginia voters see the presidential race (Actually, according to PolitiFact, Hillary Clinton is highly truthful. Not sure why people think she’s particularly “deceitful”, certainly as politicians go, but probably our wonderful media yet again…)
• Hillary Clinton VP candidate Tim Kaine coming to Reno on Thursday
• Tim Kaine, America’s Dad, Makes His Pitch to Millennials
• Vivian Paige: The ever-changing Virginia Constitution
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Climate change deniers continue slow burn
• Schapiro: When it comes to inexperience, McAuliffe isn’t alone
• Governor Signs Order Aimed at Preventing Gas Shortage
• Editorial: How Roanoke gets ‘Lynchburg-ed’
• Norfolk city-backed jail “transition program” allows residents to stay for years
• Best chance of rain holds off until late today into tomorrow; more dry weather midweek