チカン爺が選挙戦撤退したら、どうなるんでしょう? What happens if Donald Trump pulls out of the US election?
On Saturday, Donald Trump firmly rejected calls from within his party to withdraw from the presidential race.
But what if he were to withdraw?
Disillusioned Republicans have teased the idea for months, but after the release on Friday of video and audio from 2005 that showed Trump boasti ng in lewd terms about attempting to “fuck” a married woman and grabbi ng women “by the pussy”, a wave of congressmen and women openly called on their party’s nominee to quit.
John Thune, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, led the call for Trump’s running mate to take over, writing on Saturday afternoon: “Do nald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effectiv e immediately.”
The Guardian confirmed with multiple sources that a meeting of the Repub lican National Committee took place on Friday night, to explore ways to get Trump off the ticket. The meeting broke up without reaching an answe r.
Experts contacted by the Guardian said that with exactly one month until election day and early voting having let hundreds of thousands of Ameri cans make their choice already, replacing or removing Trump is implausib le ? but not impossible.
“This is mass suicide any way you cut it,” said Jim Bopp, a prominent conservative lawyer. However, he said, RNC guidelines authorize members “to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, decl ination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate for president”.
That in effect means that to be replaced as nominee, Trump would either have to die, be found to be incapacitated or voluntarily step down.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won. ANITA HILL lost her fight.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won.
The issue of sexual harassment burst onto the national scene 25 years ag o, exploding in the male dominion of Congress, in the shadow of that mac ho symbol, the Washington Monument.
Such vulgarities and sexually explicit language had never been heard bef ore in the political arena. It was like a jackhammer drilling down into the most sensitive parts of the American psyche.
That traumatic week in 1991 was considered an important tutorial in sexu al harassment. Except that, in the end, droit du seigneur was ratified. Clarence Thomas got rewarded by the cowed Senate Judiciary Committee and ended up with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
No women voted against Thomas because none were on the committee. Just m iddle-aged white men, many of whom left the chamber believing that there had been some sort of consensual relationship between Hill and Thomas.
Why else did she wait so many years to tell her story? Why else would sh e not have quit when Thomas was so prurient or at least not follow him t o another government office? Male entitlement could fathom male entitlem ent, but not the myriad ways women continue to be treated as property, a nd the myriad ways women react to that shameful treatment ? suppressing it or working around it.
Now we have been slimed with another week of unprecedented vulgarities a nd sexually explicit language in the political arena. A cascade of women are stepping up to the microphone to describe a creepy guy acting pervy toward them.
But this time, women get to vote. Thomas may have won his fight for a bi gger job, but Donald Trump will lose. His alleged transgressions have en ergized women to support Hillary in a way that Hillary could not with he r own campaign.
Hillary is in an awkward spot on the subject of licentious behavior by m en. But Michelle Obama stepped in as the avenging angel Anita Hill never had. On Thursday at a rally for Hillary Clinton, her voice trembling wi th disgust, the first lady explained why the “cruel” and “frightening ” actions of Trump ? whom she did not deign to name ? could not be writ ten off as “locker-room talk” or “a bad dream.”
“It’s that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have fe lt when someone has grabbed them, or forced himself on them and they’ve said no but he didn’t listen,” she said. “It reminds us of stories w e heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office. ”
That made me think of my mom, who said that when she worked at a bond co mpany in Washington in her 20s, the executives routinely pulled the youn g women onto their laps at the Christmas party.
Isn’t it delicious that after trafficking in racism, promoting sexism a nd using a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace as a pivot into politica l relevance, Donald Trump could receive his final death blow from a blac k woman: the president’s wife?
And isn’t it interesting that after so many years of keeping a studied distance from the ugliness of the political arena, the first lady is thr owing herself with such passion into this grotesque campaign?
That says everything about the singular threat that Trump poses, and she ’s emerging as the fiercest counter to it: Michelle Obama, octopus slay er. She’s effective because she has never gone looking for a fight ? we know that about her. She acts when she has something to defend, and as she made clear in a stirring, searing speech late last week, that’s mor e than her husband’s legacy, which a Trump victory would decimate. It’ s her dignity as a woman. It’s the dignity of all women. .. ttp://http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/the-authentic-power-of- michelle-obama.html
Isn’t it delicious that after trafficking in racism, promoting sexism a nd using a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace as a pivot into politica l relevance, Donald Trump could receive his final death blow from a blac k woman: the president’s wife?
And isn’t it interesting that after so many years of keeping a studied distance from the ugliness of the political arena, the first lady is thr owing herself with such passion into this grotesque campaign?
That says everything about the singular threat that Trump poses, and she ’s emerging as the fiercest counter to it: Michelle Obama, octopus slay er. She’s effective because she has never gone looking for a fight ? we know that about her. She acts when she has something to defend, and as she made clear in a stirring, searing speech late last week, that’s mor e than her husband’s legacy, which a Trump victory would decimate. It’ s her dignity as a woman. It’s the dignity of all women. .. ttp://http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/the-authentic-power-of- michelle-obama.html
He(Obama) excoriated Republicans for the “swamp of crazy that has been fed ove r and over and over and over again.” He told them that Trump is the nom inee you get when your agenda is “based on lies, based on hoaxes.” He wasn’t merely safeguarding America’s future. He was reveling in his re venge
Luis Gomez publicly blasted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez for failing to do enough to protect all immigrants facing the threat of a Trump presidency—and for supporting Hillary Clinton and “stale neoliberal policies” over Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
Mr. Spencer, however you describe him, calls himself a part of the “alt -right” ? a new term for an informal and ill-defined collection of inte rnet-based radicals. As such, he poses a complication for the incoming p resident. Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, w hom Mr. Trump has picked as his chief White House strategist, told an in terviewer in July that he considered Breitbart a “platform for the alt- right.”
Perhaps we should not make too much of this. Mr. Bannon may have meant s omething quite different by the term. Last summer “alt-right,” though it carried overtones of extremism, was not an outright synonym for ideol ogies like Mr. Spencer’s. But in late August, Hillary Clinton devoted a speech to the alt-right, calling it simply a new label for an old kind of white supremacy that Mr. Trump was shamelessly exploiting. Continue
Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump is engaged in a high-profile feud with some of the country’s most prominent Afric an-American leaders, setting off anger in a constituency already wary of him after a contentious presidential campaign.
Mr. Trump’s criticism of Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a widely admired leader of the civil rights movement, has prompted a number of D emocratic lawmakers to say they will not attend his inauguration on Frid ay.............
Mr. Neal added that while other presidents, like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, may have imposed policies that hurt black communities, they wer e more sensitive to issues of race. Mr. Trump, through Twitter, is givin g the world access in real time to his unvarnished thoughts, which Mr. N eal called “raw, unsophisticated, ignorant and uninformed.”
“He doesn’t care that people think the civil rights movement was impor tant,” Mr. Neal said. “He doesn’t feel the need to perform some sort of belief that it is important.”
Trump has also not made any public announcement of plans to commemorate Martin Luther King’s Birthday, a tradition observed by most Republican and Democratic politicians. A plan for him to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Monday has been scrapped..
White House Pushes ‘Alternative Facts.’ Here Are the Real Ones.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said on NBC ’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the White House had put forth “al ternative facts” to ones reported by the news media about the size of M r. Trump’s inauguration crowd.
She made this assertion ? which quickly went viral on social media ? a d ay after Mr. Trump and Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, had accused the news media of reporting falsehoods about the inauguration a nd Mr. Trump’s relationship with the intelligence agencies.
In leveling this attack, the president and Mr. Spicer made a series of f alse statements.
Here are the facts.
In a speech at the C.I.A. on Saturday, Mr. Trump said the news media had constructed a feud between him and the intelligence community. “They s ort of made it sound like I had a ‘feud’ with the intelligence communi ty,” he said. “It is exactly the opposite, and they understand that, t oo.”
In fact, Mr. Trump repeatedly criticized the intelligence agencies durin g his transition to office and has questioned their conclusion that Russ ia meddled in the election to aid his candidacy. He called their assessm ent “ridiculous” and suggested that it had been politically motivated.
After the disclosure of a dossier with unsubstantiated claims about him, Mr. Trump alleged that the intelligence agencies had allowed a leak of the material. “Are we living in Nazi Germany?” he asked in a post on T witter.
Mr. Trump said of his inauguration crowd, “It looked honestly like a mi llion and a half people, whatever it was, it was, but it went all the wa y back to the Washington Monument.”
Aerial photographs clearly show that the crowd did not stretch to the Wa shington Monument. An analysis by The New York Times, comparing photogr aphs from Friday to ones taken of Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, sho wed that Mr. Trump’s crowd was significantly smaller and less than the 1.5 million people he claimed. An expert hired by The Times found that M r. Trump’s crowd on the National Mall was about a third of the size of Mr. Obama’s in 2009.
Mr. Trump said that though he had been “hit by a couple of drops” of r ain as he began his address on Inauguration Day, the sky soon cleared. “And the truth is, it stopped immediately, and then became sunny,” he said. “And I walked off, and it poured after I left. It poured.”
The truth is that it began to rain lightly almost exactly as Mr. Trump b egan to speak and continued to do so throughout his remarks, which laste d about 18 minutes, and after he finished.
..Speaking later on Saturday in the White House briefing room, Mr. Spice r amplified Mr. Trump’s false claims. “This was the largest audience t o ever witness an inauguration ? period ? both in person and around the globe,” he said.
There is no evidence to support this claim. Not only was Mr. Trump’s in auguration crowd far smaller than Mr. Obama’s in 2009, but he also drew fewer television viewers in the United States (30.6 million) than Mr. O bama did in 2009 (38 million) and Ronald Reagan did in 1981 (42 million), Nielsen reported. Figures for online viewership were not available.
Mr. Spicer said that Washington’s Metro system had greater ridership on Friday than it did for Mr. Obama’s 2013 inauguration. “We know that 4 20,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actual ly compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama’s last inaugura l,” Mr. Spicer said.
Neither number is correct, according to the transit system, which report ed 570,557 entries into the rail system on Friday, compared with 782,000 on Inauguration Day in 2013.
Trump Sought Crowd Photos From National Park Service By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN
Mr. Trump asked the acting chief why the agency had retweeted an unflattering comparison of his inauguration crowd, and asked if he could produce photographic evidence of a larger turnout.
Mr. Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, expressed outrage the next day during a forceful statement at the White House in which he lashe d out at the press and claimed, inaccurately, that Mr. Trump had drawn “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.” Mr. Spicer later said he was talking about a combination of in-person, television and online audiences.
That same morning, before Mr. Spicer’s statement, Mr. Reynolds received a message from the White House that the president wanted to talk to him.
The Park Service does not release crowd estimates. Experts, however, have estimated that the 2017 turnout was no more than a third the size of Obama’s eight years earlier.
The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel means that citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries will continue to be able to travel to the US, despite Trump's executive order last month.
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