Donald Trump news for May 16, 2016

Well, a lot has happened over the weekend regarding the leading GOP frontrunner, but we’ll start with the latest hit piece on the candidate, this one is from The New York Times, which attempted to paint the Trumpster as a lout and an exploiter of women (like we haven’t heard that one before):

Donald Trump and women: The words evoke a familiar cascade of casual insults, hurled from the safe distance of a Twitter account, a radio show or a campaign podium. This is the public treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president: degrading, impersonal, performed. “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” he told a female contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Rosie O’Donnell, he said, had a “fat, ugly face.” A lawyer who needed to pump milk for a newborn? “Disgusting,” he said.

But the 1990 episode at Mar-a-Lago that [Rowanne] Brewer Lane described was different: a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew. This is the private treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the up-close and more intimate encounters.

And so on.

But there’s a problem with the story regarding Ms. Brewer Lane: Namely, that The New York Times slant is all wrong. Per Politico, of all places, this morning, citing an appearance by Brewer Lane on Fox & Friends, the news network’s morning show:

“Actually, it was very upsetting. I was not happy to read it at all,” Brewer Lane said. “Well, because The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure that my story that I was telling came across. They promised several times that they would do it accurately. They told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that I was telling it and honestly, and it absolutely was not.”

Asked what the reporters got wrong, Brewer Lane said they took her quotes and “put a negative connotation on it.”

“They spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump, and I don’t appreciate them making it look like that I was saying that it was a negative experience because it was not,” Brewer Lane said. Read the rest of her rebuttal here.

As for Trump’s likely November opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton (whom the FBI director himself, James Comey, says is “under investigation,” not under a “security review”) there are no plans in his camp to treat her with kid gloves. The very same New York Times notes that there is “little” that will be off-limits for Trump:

Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton’s infidelities in Hillary Clinton’s face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.

Mr. Trump will try to hold her accountable for security lapses at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and for the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens there. And he intends to portray Mrs. Clinton as fundamentally corrupt, invoking everything from her cattle futures trades in the late 1970s to the federal investigation into her email practices as secretary of state. 

If Trump really does stick to this strategy, expect his polling numbers to spike, for it will be the first time millions of Americans will have witnessed someone actually holding any Clinton to account. Read The New York Times’ full story here.

Next up, from The Wall Street Journal, entrepreneurs and would-be, wannabe entrepreneurs, should definitely pull the lever for Trump in November:

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots. I could go on, but you have probably read that story by now. You’ve also likely read about conservatives who think that stopping Mr. Trump is the only way to save their cause. I’m here to explain why they couldn’t be more wrong. What principled conservatives fail to understand is how the nation would benefit from putting a right-leaning entrepreneur in the White House.

I too began the primary cycle as a critic of Donald Trump. I’ve never come across a candidate who perfectly matched my philosophical fingerprint—have you ever found such a match?—but I am a Republican because the party best represents the ideals of human liberty and economic empowerment that fuel the American dream. Mr. Trump shares those values.

Here are four things that the movement from the right to stop Donald Trump is missing… 

Read them, here.

Finally today, they may be coming along kicking and screaming, but the GOP establishment seems to be warming to Trump as their inevitable candidate this fall. Per RealClearPolitics:

Donald Trump’s much anticipated meeting with GOP officials in Washington Thursday attracted a circus: hordes of reporters, dozens of protesters (including one in a giant papier-mache Trump head), a motorcade of black Suburbans, and cable news crews, staked out in alleys, hoping to snag someone important.