Candidate Donald Trump appeared together with his family for a CNN Town Hall event on Tuesday 4/12/16.  Here’s the full video of the interview and audience questions:

Donald Trump’s delegate and convention manager, Paul Manafort, interviewed by Sean Hannity last night:

One of the interesting aspects to this interview is Ann Coulter discussing the scope of the random support she encounters for Donald Trump from ordinary people.   This is a vastly underreported aspect for an intentional reason.
The financially dependent entities (political and media) don’t want the media discussion to contain any indications of the size and scope of Trump’s broad-base coalition.  Their unified interests are better protected if the consuming audience are kept oblivious to the vast support Donald Trump holds.
Increasingly, we are fine-tuning our antenna to this critical and overlooked point.  Much like Florida, in the run-up to the March 15th primary, there’s an intentional decision by the media to dilute/cloud the appearance of Trump’s support.  However, you might remember -despite their efforts- Trump won Florida by over 20 points; and won every county in the state except Miami-Dade.

There are more of us than them!

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Somewhat quietly, though not without some water-cooler discussion, the Republican Party Leadership is warning membership to stay away from the upcoming Cleveland Ohio convention.
The media is describing the issue as centering around those elected politicians who may want to avoid the potential for divisive controversy.  However, if you look at the actual landscape, and then look at the political ideology of those who are openly saying they are staying away, what you’ll notice is the RINO caucus, the ‘Decepticons’, are the most cautious.

If you spend some time digging through the professional GOPe messaging, what you’ll note is the party leadership seems fully aware something very dangerous might just come to fruition.  Not dangerous in a violent way per se’, but rather dangerous in a very political and contentious way; there’s very good reason for this. (more…)

CNN is hosing the Trump Family for a Town Hall Style Q & A Tonight 9:00pm:

Here’s a discussion Thread if you are watching

Have Tar, Bring Feathers…

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Candidate Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Rome, New York at Griffiss International Airport beginning at 4:00pm EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is heading up a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fundraiser in New York on April 25th.   However, the venue of the fundraiser is raising some eyebrows:

For those who might not know, the “Ricketts Family” are the primary donors to a Super-PAC specifically created to block Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.
Billionaire family Joe and Marlene Ricketts, owners of the Chicago Cubs, have recently given $5,000,000.oo to Katie Packer who heads “Our Principles PAC“, an organization created exclusively to defeat Donald Trump.
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New York – Running in his home state, Trump is supported by 60 percent of likely Republican voters, the poll found. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas trail far behind with 17 percent and 14 percent, respectively.
“Trump is just killing it,” said Baruch College pollster Mickey Blum.

Trump’s support in the April 19 primary is widespread, the poll found.
“Every demographic group goes for him,” said Baruch College pollster Doug Muzzio. “Every geographic group, every socio-economic group. And with large majorities.  Cruz ain’t doing it. And Kasich ain’t doing it.” (more…)

A “conflict of interest” (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial interests, personal or other interests, one or more of which could possibly influence the motivation of the individual or organization.

A person or entity avoids a conflict of interest by:

• a.) not engaging in activity that might be conflicted by a duality of interest, or
• b.) disclosing the potential conflict – allowing associated parties to be aware and decide independently if the conflict is influencing behavior.

In essence, when presented with a potential conflict of interest, be truthful and provide full disclosure.
If unsure, err on the side of full transparency, and do so as soon as the conflict presents – don’t wait.
This becomes the generally accepted best ethical practice to avoid potential issues that may arise as a consequence of conflicted interest; especially financial conflicts.
♦ Recently, the financial payments by political entities upon media personalities has created quite a stir.  When CTH revealed (from FEC filings) financial payments by Political Action Committees to media pundit Erick Erickson (and others), the response was to besmirch CTH for revealing the payments. (more…)