The end of the line for Donald J. Trump

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
illustration: by Jack Brummet, 2011 (from his first possible run)

Fallout, Lust, Ambition & Madness. Oh DJT, you put a cork in it tonight. I've had The Willies about you for the last year or so but tonight, you laid my fears to rest. 

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Trump’s claim that debate moderators gave him less time to speak are bogus.

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Donald J. Trump's reverse bandwagon juggernaut

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

As a politics geek, it's fascinating watching this shipwreck, especially the accelerating Reverse Bandwagon Juggernaut of friends and foes jumping off as the boat takes on water and lists even further. It's actually hard now to feature just how the debate tomorrow will look.

Mr. Donald J. Trump has nothing to lose. It's coming down to a Captain Queeg moment tomorrow night. Maybe DJT will come out all contrite, and every answer will be like a cocktail of Socrates, Jesus, and Bobby Kennedy; but you know he's going to come in hot. And I think probably half of HRC's debate prep must be based on the five or six targeted crooked Hillary accusations.

It is good fortune for Hillary that the WikiLeaks release of her speeches for corporations occurred just when this whole firestorm went down. They are virtually unnoticed.

So tomorrow we'll see contrition, defiance, or savage counterattacks and scorched earth craziness. Or, something like, I apologized yesterday, now let's move on to Crooked Hillary and these WikiLeaks. Will they pillory him? Will the moderators and/or the audience pile on? For all we know, more Trump tapes will appear tomorrow (his Apprentice 1st and 2nd season producer says there are tapes that make the Access Hollywood tapes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm).

I'm not sure an amazing performance tomorrow can make a difference now. Stay tuned, eh?

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Donald Trump gets taken to Chinatown

by Jack Brummet, Republican Family Values Editor

Of all the things DJT said in the Presidential Debate last night, what most offended me was when he referred to President Obama as “your President” while speaking to Hillary late in the debate. It flared up on FB, Reddit, Twitter, and other sites. Was this tied into his earlier refusal to apologize ("I have nothing to say.") for his five year birther jihad; because he believed [and still believes] the President is illegitimate and therefore not his President? To have not said Our President offended me most, but I imagine everyone has their own choices...God knows he gave the nation so many tonight.

"Not global warming, like you think and your President thinks.” - Donald J. Trump

This debate will go down as a turning point in 2016 and in the annals of great/insane debates. In the spin room, Rudy G said he wasn't sure if Donald would be attending the next two debates. Interestingly, the guy who boasted of his testosterone levels a couple of weeks ago (and by implication, last night)couldn't find the "stamina" to finish the debate.

Trump would be smart to duck out; he has nothing to lose, and would, probably, be cutting his losses. Sure, we'll call him a pussy, but all the razzing and the media barrage would be nothing compared to one more monumental f***up like this. I'm sure his base loves him still, but he lost the outliers tonight, and I'll be really surprised if his head to head national poll numbers don't show a 6% drop by next week.

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Photos: Old friends, Bill and Donald Trump; Donald Trump with Hillary Rodham Clinton

It looks like Donald Trump just may target Hillary/Bill for WJC's highly suspect in my booklet, race-baiting comments in the 2008 primaries. After Obama's win, Clinton mentioned that Jesse Jackson won South Carolina's primary in 1984 and 1988 - victories that went nowhere. The remarks angered many black voters and officials in ‪#‎SC‬ who viewed it as an attempt to weaken Obama, who was, by then, Hillary Clinton's only real rival. -  

By Mona Goldwater, All This Is That, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

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POTUS 42 and POTUS 45 hopeful dressed up as Dolly & James Madison (ca 1993).

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Photos: Hillary Clinton in 1984 and 1993

Playing a GameBoy on a flight from Austin to Washington, D.C., 1993:

 Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea with Donald Duck in 1984:

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Carla Bruni, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama Measure Up

A Note From Mona Goldwater, Women's Editor

Jeff Clinton sent us this interesting image.  Exactly what are French First Lady Carla Bruni, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and US First Lady Michelle Obama measuring?

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SoS Hillary Clinton will not remain in office if Obama is re-elected

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
Illustration by Jack Brummet

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she would complete her term as SoS, but would not serve again should The President be re-elected.  She also told Blitzer she would not run for either Vice-President or President.

Fascinating.  I think if she wanted to make a run for President, she could probably come as close as last time.  And if Obama for some reason does not run, it seems like she would be the front runner, and would end up #Winning!  And, on top of that, I think she's been a very good Secretary of State.

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Painting by Jack Brummet - SoS Clinton & BHO discuss the Egyptian leadership "situation."

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