Inside a Trump Rally (David Smalley, Dogma Debate #228)

Alix goes inside a Trump Rally, and we have audio from supporters and protestors. We’re fact checking Democrats and Republicans, and Ken Ham reviewed our science book for kids!
Interview:
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dogma-debate-with-david-smalley/e/228-inside-a-trump-rally-43205115

Opening The Books On Donald Trump's Business Deals In Atlantic City

Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow dissects Trump's acquisition of the Taj Mahal casino/hotel, which went into bankruptcy a year after it opened...
Interview: 
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470806232/opening-the-books-on-donald-trumps-business-deals-in-atlantic-city

The Road To The White House Has Gotten Lumpy

The Ted-mentum might slow to a crawl now that he has to campaign to a bunch of elitists with New York values.
https://youtu.be/3m50EE8jeZA

A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out

http://democracynow.org - Eric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI. He was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Fallujah in 2004. In a new memoir, Fair writes about feeling haunted by what he did, what he saw and what he heard in Iraq, from the beating of prisoners to witnessing the use of sleep deprivation, stress positions and isolation to break prisoners. The military described such actions as "enhanced interrogations," but Eric Fair uses another word—torture. He writes, "If God is on anyone’s side in Iraq, it’s not mine." (Part 2 is the next post below.)
Interview:
https://youtu.be/2oGh93UnxQg

Donald Trump’s Frightening Response To The Brussels Attacks

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is seizing upon the attacks in Brussels to again call for the Mexican border to be closed, Muslims to be banned from entering the country, and terrorism suspects to be waterboarded....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/22/3762257/donald-trump-frightening-response-brussels-attacks/

Trump Praises The ‘Spirit’ Of Campaign Manager Who Grabbed A Protester

Donald Trump praised his campaign manager’s “spirit” for grabbing a protester at his rally in Tucson on Saturday. “I give him credit for having spirit. He wanted to take down those horrible, profanity-laced signs,” Trump told ABC News....

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/20/3761911/trump-tuscan/

Roger Stone, Riot Organizer and Unapologetic Racist, Is the Trump Campaign's Best Friend

One of Trump's best allies and surrogates, Roger Stone, is a major racist who used riots to help Bush win in 2000....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/roger-stone-riot-organizer-and-unapologetic-racist-trump-campaigns-best-friend

Trump Has Given White Supremacist Groups New Life

The staying power of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has surprised and unsettled people across the political spectrum. Many voters who are angry about the loss of middle-class jobs and frustrated with our broken politics have rallied to Trump’s outsider campaign.

There’s a darker side to Trump’s campaign that should disturb anyone thinking about supporting him: It’s electrifying and energizing the white supremacist movement....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-has-given-white-supremacist-groups-new-life

Trump Proclaims He Will Use Mafia Tactics to Force Key U.S. Allies to Pay off the National Debt

It's hard to tell whether Trump is running for president or auditioning for "The Godfather."...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-proclaims-he-will-use-mafia-tactics-force-key-us-allies-pay-national-debt

Cartoon Donald Trump Has The Biggest Numbers

Cartoon Donald Trump gives Stephen a cartoon math lesson. ...

It's Bizarre: CNN and the Networks Now Rely on Trump to Stay Profitable

Neal Gabler on CNN: "I can’t recall a situation in which a network was so dependent on a candidate. Usually, it’s the other way around."...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/its-bizarre-cnn-and-networks-now-rely-trump-stay-profitable

Roger Stone Threatens To Sic Trump Voters On Delegates Who 'Steal' Nom (VIDEO)

Roger Stone, an informal adviser to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, said Monday that in the event of a contested GOP convention he planned to disclose where delegates are staying in Cleveland so that Trump supporters could give them a piece of their mind.

Stone issued a scathing condemnation of the GOP nomination process in an interview on Freedomain Radio, and urged Trump's supporters to "march on Cleveland" if delegates were to "steal" the nomination from the real estate mogul....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-stone-steal-trump-nomination

Obama: It's Not Just Trump, Cruz's Proposals 'Draconian' Too

In brief remarks to the press Tuesday discussing new Treasury Department regulations, President Obama also commented on Donald Trump's recently-released plan to make Mexico pay for a U.S. border wall, and he argued that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) supported "draconian" proposals, too....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-ted-cruz-donald-trump

Here’s How The One Percent Fares Under President Clinton Or President Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to the Tax Policy Center’s new analysis.....

... That stands in stark contrast to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s plan. His proposal — which includes lowering the corporate tax rate and the capital gains rate, reducing the top tax rate paid by the highest income Americans, and ending taxes on inheritances altogether — would overwhelmingly help the rich....
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/03/3756366/hillary-clinton-tax-analysis/

U.S. Citizen Detained By Immigration Agents After Protesting Donald Trump

Over the weekend, dozens of Arizonans shut down a major highway leading to a rally Republican frontrunner Donald Trump held in Phoenix, blocking supporters from attending the event for several hours. One of the handful arrested on Saturday was Jacinta Gonzalez, who had locked her neck, with a U-lock, to a truck blocking the highway. But while her fellow activists were processed and released a few hours later, Gonzalez was held overnight, transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and questioned about her immigration status, despite the fact that she is a U.S. citizen....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/21/3761978/trump-arizona-protest/

Why Trump's Retraction Is Even Worse Than 'Punishing Women'

If Donald Trump’s comment about punishing women for abortions exposed the bloated belly of the Pro-Life Priesthood, his retraction exposed its sulfur-spewing rear end....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/why-trumps-retraction-even-worse-punishing-women

Trump threatens a third-party bid: Why the GOP must take him seriously (+video)

In yet another taunt to the Republican Party, Donald Trump is, once again, dangling the threat of a third-party run. The businessman-turned-GOP frontrunner said Thursday he is being treated unfairly by the Republican establishment and is considering running as an independent. “I am watching television, and I am seeing ad, after ad, after ad put in by the establishment, knocking the hell out of me, and it’s really unfair,” Mr. Trump said...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0303/Trump-threatens-a-third-party-bid-Why-the-GOP-must-take-him-seriously-video

The Shady Backstory Behind The Florida Attorney General’s Endorsement Of Donald Trump

A day ahead of the crucial Florida primary, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi endorsed Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump at a rally in Tampa. Bondi’s Monday endorsement comes more than two years after she decided not to follow the New York attorney general’s lead and sue Trump over accusations Trump University seminars swindled people. The timeline of that fall 2013 episode raised eyebrows. Three days after a Bondi spokeswoman said the attorney general was studying New York’s lawsuit to see whether she wanted to take similar action in Florida, Trump cut a $25,000 check to a committee associated with Bondi’s campaign. That seeming conflict of interest was criticized in the Florida press at the time, but a Bondi spokesperson justified her decision by suggesting no action was necessary because the affected Florida consumers would be compensated if New York won that case....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/14/3760061/pam-bondi-donald-trump-trump-university/

Trump Either Doesn’t Understand His Own Tax Plan Or Is Egregiously Lying About It

On Sunday night during a “town hall” broadcast on Fox News, Greta Van Sustren asked Donald Trump about his tax plan. Specifically, she asked him if everyone in the country would get a tax break, “even the very rich.” This is how Trump responded:....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/04/3766069/trump-tax-plan-2/

Watch Donald Trump Convince Fox’s Chris Wallace To Lie In The Middle Of An Interview

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace confronted Donald Trump about how the Republican frontrunner handled the accusations surrounding his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who has been charged with battery against reporter Michelle Fields.

Wallace starts out skeptically, pressing Trump on why Lewandowski denied he ever touched Fields instead of simply apologizing. (Video of the incident later emerged showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields.) Then things go downhill....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/03/3766021/watch-donald-trump-convince-foxs-chris-wallace-to-lie-in-the-middle-of-an-interview/