Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski appeared on Fox News Sunday today to discuss the Trump campaign strategy moving forward:

Oh my.  A recent Clout Research poll from the State of Oregon (full pdf below), not exactly well known as a bastion of all things republican, shows candidate Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton 44 to 42%.
However, with Independent Voters, Donald Trump is CRUSHING Hillary Clinton by 27 points 53% to 26%.   The Monster Vote effect:

 
In addition to the 27 point lead with independent voters, Donald Trump also has a 13 point advantage with male voters – and the deficit with female voters is only 9 points.
Oh dear.  More media narratives fizzling like cheap bottle rockets….  *pop*
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Last Thursday Judicial Watch released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the State Department’s executive secretariat.
The transcript pdf is embedded below.
Lukens was deposed last week as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). (more…)

First Lts. Andrew Yacovone and Justin Wright formed a musical duo called Interstate 10, and this week they released a music video from Afghanistan.
These same army rangers (currently stationed in Afghanistan) are guitarists who wrote and performed the song “Hometown Hero” last year, and they have another song out this week, called “I’m Gonna Miss You,” just in time for Memorial Day.

[…] Jan Ruff was in her late teens when Java was surrendered to the Japanese invaders on 8 March 1942. The Dutch civilian population was rounded up by the Japanese and interned in camps where the living conditions were often as bad as in the prisoner of war camps.
The interned women were fed so little by the Japanese that they were forced to eat snails and rats to survive. They were arbitrarily beaten or forced to stand in the sun for hours by the Japanese guards whenever the whim took them.

Pictures and video from the Donald Trump rally in San Diego California show the various radical groups and violent agitators who are aligned with the Clinton and Sanders campaigns:

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With the release of the official State Department OIG report, the Associated Press fact-checks Hillary Clinton’s historical statements.  AP comes to the conclusion “Clinton misstates key facts in email episode” – which is parseltongue for SHE LIED:

CLINTON (Lie #1): “The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.” — March 2015 press conference.

THE REPORT: Evidence emerged of hacking attempts, though it’s unclear whether they were successful.
On Jan. 9, 2011, an adviser to former President Bill Clinton notified the State Department’s deputy chief of staff for operations that he had to shut down the server because he suspected “someone was trying to hack us and while they did not get in i didnt (sic) want to let them have the chance to.” (more…)

Update 4:00pm EDT:  The Donald Trump campaign has declined the Bernie Sanders invitation to debate.  “it would be inappropriate“:

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Unfortunately (because many of us wanted the alternate), the smart play argument won out.
By candidate Donald Trump initially entertaining the Sanders invite the media storm elevated Sanders California profile. As a consequence, by declining the debate Trump initiates a sympathetic energy release amid the electorate toward Bernie which will, most assuredly, ensure Sanders wins the California primary against Clinton.
The long game of Clinton’s nominee marginalization is better served with Sanders winning the CA primary.  A well played maneuver of strategic political chess.
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Some of you may have missed the Trump energy policy speech yesterday in Montana. During an event at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, candidate Donald Trump outlined his vision and policy agenda regarding “complete energy independence“.
Candidate Trump drew a broad contrast in energy policy between himself and Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.  Topics included: The Keystone Pipeline, Coal Industry etc.

The possibility of a Donald Trump -vs- Bernie Sanders debate is being seriously bantered following both campaigns agreeing to discuss and see if they could get it done prior to the June 7th California primary.
Traditional political thinkers would consider such a proposition unfathomable because Republican candidate Trump has secured the nomination, and generally only Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders would have the largest upside. However, the complete and total reality of Hillary Clinton being made irrelevant is almost too splendid to pass up.

Hillary refused to debate Bernie, and now she would be cast far, far off on the sidelines for what would be a historic political event.   The ramifications are gobsmacking to contemplate. (more…)