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The Republican presidential nomination secured, Donald Trump went about securing the Republican presidential nomination. In doing so, Trump transitioned from last night’s speaking style, “guy talking loudly to a 90-year-old who’s hard of hearing” to his favorite one this morning, “salesman drunk at the Marriott bar.” And David Duke is running for Senate in Louisiana, presumably because Trump has created a great playbook for retweeting people with #whitegenocide in their Twitter profile. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Friday, July 22nd, 2016:
OG TRUMP - Matt Ferner: “At a televised speech Friday, and less than 24 hours after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president, the reality television personality breathed new life into a conspiracy theory that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was an associate of President John F. Kennedy’s assassin. ‘His father. I don’t know his father, I met him once,’ Trump began, referencing Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz. ‘I think he’s a lovely guy. I think he’s a lovely guy. All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.’ Trump then added that Cruz “never denied” that one of the men in the photo was his father. ‘They’re not saying, ‘Oh that wasn’t really my father.’ It’s a little hard to do, because it looks like him,’ Trump said.” [HuffPost]’
TRUMP SPEECH SCARY, EVERYONE SAD - “Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation,” he said. “The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.” Garry Kasparov: “I’ve heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years and trust me, it doesn’t sound any better in Russian.” David Duke: “Couldn’t have said it better!” John Podhoretz: “nothing less than a repellent slander against these United States.”
There’s been a terroristic mass shooting in Germany.
KAINE YOU DO THE KAINE KAINE? - I Kaine get no satisfaction. Annie Karni: “Hillary Clinton’s veepstakes is ending the way it began: with the humble-but-sturdy Tim Kaine sitting at the top of her list. After an extensive, months-long process during which the campaign considered a host of different options ― even vetting a serious candidate from outside the political arena ― the squeaky-clean Virginia senator, whose biggest liability to emerge was that he was boring, is emerging as Clinton’s top choice. Kaine has been urged along by two men familiar with the demands of the job: President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton, those close to the process say. And after Donald Trump’s somewhat more polished performance Thursday night, even Democrats who had been pushing for a flashier choice like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren or New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker were sobered by the challenging four months ahead. ‘After last night, she needs to make the safest choice possible,’ said a former senior White House aide.” [Politico]
WHAT WAS IT REALLY LIKE IN THE Q? The thing is, a lot of the time, the convention floor at Quicken Loans Arena just felt like the early, boring part of a wedding reception ― the part where the band plays easily digestible Motown songs, and most of the older attendees sit stone-faced at their tables and cast disapproving glances at their new in-laws while picking at the surf and turf. Except in this wedding reception from hell, the old people never left, the band never moved on to fresher material, and if the audible snatches of conversation were any guide, the griping about the groom’s family never fully ebbed. “A real girl next door, huh?” quipped one North Carolina delegate during Melania Trump’s address Monday night. [HuffPost]
Contrary to the nonstop pantswetting about violence leading up to the RNC, there was basically none. Police arrested only 24 people, most of them for their involvement in a flag-burning scuffle in which a few communists only burned themselves. There weren’t a lot of protesters, but Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams was still kind of a superstar. Last night had the most people outside, so Williams put on some shorts and directed the action from a bike.
DELANEY DOWNER - The nice people wearing “Hillary for Prison” shirts at the RNC revealed the ascendancy of InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones within the Donald Trump movement. “The official story is impossible,” Scott Carlson, a 50-year-old arborist from Davenport, Iowa, told me about 9/11. He said he didn’t believe a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. Carlson also said Trump hadn’t been his first choice for president; he’d rather have a more libertarian candidate like Rand Paul. But he did appreciate Trump’s status as a political outsider.
“I don’t think the establishment chose him,” Carlson said. “I think he snuck in.” Though he’s not much of a 9/11 truther, Trump has endorsed some conspiracy theories, like the notion that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and that his true birthplace has been hidden by a vast coverup…. Jones told The New Republic this week that he believes Trump is with him. ‘He’s been what you call a ‘closet conspiracy theorist’ for 50 years,’ Jones told TNR. “I think he’s been a chameleon in the system, and now he sees the time to strike.” [HuffPost]
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BERN’D - Elliot Smilowitz and Joe Uchill: “Top officials at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) privately planned how to undermine Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, according to a trove of emails released by WikiLeaks on Friday. The Sanders campaign had long claimed the DNC and Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had tipped the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton during the party’s presidential primary. The email release will reignite that controversy just days before Democrats gather in Philadelphia for their convention to officially nominate Clinton for president. Guccifer 2.0 told The Hill he leaked the documents to Wikileaks. In one May 21 email, DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach writes to communications director Luis Miranda about planting a narrative to the media that Sanders’s ‘campaign was a mess.’” [The Hill]
DAVID DUKE ENTERS LOUISIANA SENATE RACE BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE IT 1990 AGAIN - Maybe Sally Jessy Raphael will return to the scene for a House run somewhere. Alana Horowitz Satlin: “David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, is running for U.S. Senate in Louisiana. Duke is a well-established white supremacist, Holocaust denier and anti-Semite. He has endorsed Donald Trump for president. In his announcement video, posted Friday morning to Twitter, Duke says he’ll fight for the rights of ‘European Americans’ and that ‘The New York Times admitted that my platform became the GOP mainstream.’ He touts his opposition to affirmative action and immigration, and cites his joy at Trump’s rise to power. ‘A revolution is coming in the United States of America,’ he says. Trump disavowed Duke’s support in March, but his campaign has echoed many of the themes Duke’s announcement touched on, such as a distrust of immigrants and anger towards the media.” [HuffPost]
OBAMA LAMBASTS GOP CONVENTION - Suffice it to say, he doesn’t think he has overseen the near-collapse of civilization. Juliet Eilperin and David Nakamura: “President Obama on Friday offered his first response to the Republican National Convention, blasting the vision painted by Donald Trump and other Republicans of a country ‘on the verge of collapse’ as a fiction that does not match reality. ‘The one thing that I think is important to recognize is this idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn’t really jibe with the experience of most people,’ Obama said during a news conference at the White House. ‘I hope people the next morning walked outside and birds were chirping and the sun was out, and this afternoon, people will be watching their kids play in sports teams and go to the swimming pool and folks are going to work and getting ready for the weekend.’” [WaPo]
IVANKA TRUMP REVEALS DAD’S SECRET FONDNESS FOR EQUAL PAY - Dave Jamieson: “On Thursday night, Ivanka Trump, daughter of the Republican nominee, promised that Donald Trump the president would champion laws that advance women in the workplace. ‘He will fight for equal pay for equal work,’ Ivanka Trump declared in her well-received speech. That would have come as news to Trump the primary candidate, who once quipped to a woman at a campaign event, ‘You’re gonna make the same if you do as good a job.’ Ivanka Trump’s remarks came in her highly anticipated introduction of her father on the night he accepted the Republican nomination. Some say the successful businesswoman stole the show on the Republican National Convention’s final night, thanks in part to her comments on women in the workplace, the struggle for equal pay and the need for more affordable child care. But if her father really cared about that stuff, one would think he would have worked some of it into his presidential campaign over the previous 13 months. [HuffPost]
HUGE CONVENTION MEDIA PRESENCE NOT ONLY POINTLESS, BUT CORRUPT, TOO! Seafood towers are a perfect symbol for elite Washington yuck. Alex Emmons: At the award-winning seafood restaurant in downtown Cleveland that The Atlantic rented out for the entire four-day Republican National Convention, GOP Rep. Bill Johnson turned to me and explained that solar panels are not a viable energy source because ‘the sun goes down.’ Johnson had just stepped off the stage where he was one the two featured guests speaking at The Atlantic’s ‘cocktail caucus,’ where restaurant staff served complimentary wine, cocktails, and ‘seafood towers’ of shrimp, crab cakes, oysters, and mussels to delegates, guests, reporters and, of course, the people paying the bills. The event was sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm of fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhilips.” [The Intercept]
BECAUSE YOU’VE READ THIS FAR - Here are cats driving a golfcart.
BAD DAY FOR CHILDREN HOPING TO SMOOSH THEIR NOSES AGAINST DISPLAY CASES - Amanda Isacone: “A power outage in Downtown D.C. near the National Mall has closed a few of the Smithsonian museums Friday afternoon. The Smithsonian posted on Twitter that the National Museum of African Art, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Sackler Gallery and the Hirshorn will remain closed the remainder of the day because of the power outage. The National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of American History will remain open to visitors.” [WTOP]
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TWITTERAMA
@MEPFuller: Imagine if Clinton picks Kaine—the excitement. The joy. All the “Insane In The Tim Kaine” headlines.
People crying in the streets. Amazing.
@pourmecoffee: If you are settling scores with primary opponents the morning after winning nomination, I’m saying maybe visit a talking doctor.
@PastVox: 1970: We are removing our article “How Dick Butkus Sacked Homophobia”. In hindsight the title is in poor taste & it’s full of factual errors
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