WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump repeatedly said Hillary Clinton ‘s “lies and deception” rivaled Watergate. He called her “Crooked Hillary.” His most rabid fans chanted it over and over again at huge campaign rallies: “Lock her up!” But on Tuesday, Mr. Trump essentially said: “never mind,” signaling that he does not intend to pursue […]
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Clinton Blames the FBI For Her Defeat
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James Comey for her stunning defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday, according to two participants who were on the call. Clinton was projected by nearly every national public opinion poll as the heavy favorite going into Tuesday’s race. […]
Clinton Takes the Popular Vote By Over 2 Million Votes
By the time all the ballots are counted, she seems likely to be ahead by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points, according to my Times colleague Nate Cohn. She will have won by a wider percentage margin than not only Al Gore in 2000 but also Richard Nixon in 1968 […]
Reports of Voter Intimidation Coming In From Across the Country
Reports of voter intimidation and technical voting machine malfunctions streamed in to voter protection hotlines Tuesday morning as polls opened across the country, with complaints ranging from reports of people unfurling Confederate flags as they drove past Florida polling stations to reports of police inside a Missouri polling place. More than half of the voter […]
Benghazi Security Forces Participated in Terror Attack on Embassy
An obscure private firm hired by the State Department over internal objections to protect U.S. diplomats in Benghazi just months before the American ambassador and three others were killed was staffed with hastily recruited locals with terror ties who helped carry out the attack, multiple sources told Fox News. The explosive charge against Wales-based Blue […]
Hillary’s Housekeeper Printed Classified Emails at Her Behest
Hillary Clinton regularly instructed her housekeeper to print government emails and documents when she was secretary of state – including classified materials, according to FBI memos. FBI memos show Marina Santos often handled sensitive information, but didn’t have the security clearance to do so, the New York Post reports. The housekeeper was paid to look […]
Fox News Claim Clinton Indictment Coming Soon, Immediately Retracts
Fox News anchor Bret Baier admitted on Thursday that he had been wrong when he reported that Hillary Clinton would “likely” be indicted by federal authorities, a claim that sent conservative websites into a frenzy. “We talked to two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations,” Baier explained on his Wednesday program. “The […]
Trump Campaign Aims To Keep Women, Minorities, and Idealistic Whites From Polls
Donald J. Trump’s campaign set off a wave of concern about its tactics on Thursday after a senior campaign official was quoted describing a sophisticated “voter suppression” effort, a term that usually connotes aggressive attempts to keep people from polling places. The anxiety among Republicans outside the Trump campaign was set off by a report […]
Jay-Z Will Perform Concert for Hillary Clinton in Ohio
Jay Z is set to perform a “get out the vote” concert in Ohio, prior to Election Day, with the aim of getting black voters out for Hillary Clinton in the key swing state. The date nor the venue of the performance have been confirmed but a Clinton aide confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Monday […]
Trump Threatens Female Accusers With Lawsuits
Donald Trump vowed Saturday to sue every woman who has accused him of sexual assault or other inappropriate behavior, as an adult film star claimed publicly that the Republican presidential nominee offered her $10,000 for sex 10 years ago. Trump called his accusers “liars” and blamed the Democrats for orchestrating their allegations. Trump’s campaign had […]
Trump Blames Hillary for Accusers Coming Forward
Donald Trump has been accused by several women of sexual assault and abuse. Many of these stories are backed up by witnesses, whom the women told of the alleged assaults over the course of many years. In Wednesday’s final presidential debate, Trump was asked about all of these women and why they might possibly be […]
Melania Attacks Trump’s Accusers
Two months after she was humiliated when she delivered a plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Melania Trump emerged from near-total silence to defend her husband during the worst stretch of his candidacy, calling his behavior toward women “inappropriate” but adding, “We are moving on.” Ms. Trump faced a firestorm of criticism […]