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When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois-Chicago, he knew what he had to do. “Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! #SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week. Little did he know, they actually would…
Rose Hamid is a middle-aged Muslim who in January went to a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, S.C. Wearing a hijab and a T-shirt with the message, “Salam I come in peace,” she stood during his speech, silently registering her disagreement with his anti-Muslim sentiments. The angry crowd began screaming abuse, and she was…
Kurt Bardella, who quit as Breitbart’s spokesman on Friday over the news site’s handling of an assault on its own reporter at a Donald Trump press conference, said that he could no longer go on. “It became untenable for me personally to continue in this situation. If you can’t give 100 percent, you can’t represent your…
A Breitbart reporter says she has filed charges against Donald Trump’s campaign manager, alleging that he grabbed her and bruised her while she was attempting to ask a question. The reporter, Michelle Fields, confirmed to CNNMoney that she filed charges against Corey Lewandowski Friday with the police department in Jupiter, Florida. Police in Jupiter said…
Donald Trump is juggling two brewing controversies not directly involving him, but his campaign today. The campaign was forced to release a terse four word statement on the arrest of a North Carolina supporter caught assaulting a protestor at a Fayetteville rally last night: “We are not involved.” The Trump campaign’s official response to allegations…
Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump? I call it a “mystery” because the working-class white people who make up the bulk of Trump’s fan base show up in amazing numbers for the candidate, filling stadiums and airport hangars, but their…
The Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during Wednesday’s rally in North Carolina said: “Next time, we might have to kill him.” Read: Protester Gets Sucker Punched By Trump Supporter During Raucous Rally Multiple videos show the protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, raising a middle finger to the crowd as security escorted him from…
Bernie Sanders’ victory in Michigan Tuesday may have terrified Democratic Party elites and liberal pragmatists all over, but it reflects something much more fateful than a serve or a curveball in these primary games. It suggests that more Americans than just 20-somethings are awakening to a reality much harder and darker than anything this election alone…
Photo Ben Carson at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last week.Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times MIAMI — Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon who ended his presidential bid last week, plans to endorse Donald J. Trump Friday morning, three people familiar with the discussions said. Mr. Carson will make his endorsement, first…
I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no? Why can’t there be a…