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Trump would be wise to back off of these kinds of smears or he may end up seeing TV commercials highlighting Some of the Crazy Things That Trump BelievesIIt all started on June 16, 2015, when he announced he’d run for president.1. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” (Campaign launch speech, New York City, June 16, 2015)2. “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I tell you that.” (Campaign launch speech, June 16, 2015)3. “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.” (Campaign launch speech, June 16, 2015)4. “And we won’t be using a man like Secretary Kerry ... who’s just being tapped along as they make weapons right now, and then goes into a bicycle race at 72 years old, and falls and breaks his leg. I won’t be doing that. And I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.” (Campaign launch speech, June 16, 2015)5. “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” (“Entertainment Tonight,” July 1, 2015)6. “Jeb Bush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife.” (Retweeted and then deleted on Twitter, July 4, 2015)7. “Do you know that Hillary Clinton was a birther? She wanted those records and fought like hell. People forgot. Did you know John McCain was a birther?” (in an interview with CNN, July 9, 2015.)8. “The truth is we wouldn’t be talking about illegal immigration if it weren’t for me.” (on Sean Hannity’s show, July 15, 2015)9. “I’m talking about Mexico is forcing people in that they don’t want, and they want us to take care of those people.” (on Sean Hannity’s show, July 15, 2015)10. “And I had an idea recently. When they send illegals into our country, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every illegal that crosses that border because it’s trouble.” (On Sean Hannity’s show, July 15, 2015)11. “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?” (Donald Trump on Senator John McCain at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on July 17, 2015)12. “202-228-0292” (Lindsay Graham’s cell number, which he divulged to hundreds of crowd members and thousands of viewers at a rally in South Carolina on July 21, 2015)13. “I think I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so. People say, ‘What do you mean?’ I think I would get along well with him.” (Donald Trump Interview on July 30, 2015, in Glasgow, Scotland)14. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” (Donald Trump in a CNN interview about Megyn Kelly, one of Fox News’ moderators in the first Republican debate, on August 7, 2015.)15. “I cherish women. I want to help women. I’m going to be able to do things for women that no other candidate would be able to do.” (CNN, August 9, 2015)16. “I’m leading in the Hispanic vote, and I’m going to win the Hispanic vote. I’m also leading in the regular vote.” (Birch Run, Michigan, August 11, 2015)17. “When these people walk in the room, they don’t say, ‘Oh, hello! How’s the weather? It’s so beautiful outside. Isn’t it lovely? How are the Yankees doing? Oh they’re doing wonderful. Great.’ They say, ‘We want deal!’” (Trump discussing Asians at an August 2015 rally in Iowa)18. “Heidi Klum. Sadly, she’s no longer a 10.” (Trump interview in the New York Times on August 15, 2015)19. “Well I really watch the shows. You really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows, and you have the generals and you have certain people that you like.” (Donald Trump during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” on August 16, 2015, trying to name his foreign policy advisors)20. “I have a plan, but … If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is.” (NBC’s commander-in-chief forum, Sept. 7, 2016)21. “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” (Donald Trump during a Rolling Stone interview on September 9, 2015, talking about GOP candidate Carly Fiorina)22. “I never attacked him on his looks and believe me, there’s a lot of subject matter there.” (Referring to Senator Rand Paul, GOP primary debate, September 16, 2015)23. “I have a great temperament. My temperament is very good, very calm.” (Debate. September 16, 2015.)24. “Everything I’ve done virtually has been a tremendous success.” (Debate. September 16, 2015.)25. “Marco Rubio, I’ve never seen anybody sweat like that.” (Fox and Friends interview. September 18, 2015.)26. “I’m looking at guys like Marco Rubio who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. Young guy although he sweats more than any young person I’ve seen in my life. I’ve never seen a person sweat — I have never seen a guy down water like he downs water. They bring it in in buckets for this guy.” (Morning Joe interview. September 24, 2015)27. “I believe in clean air. Immaculate air. … But I don’t believe in climate change.” (CNN TV Interview, September 24, 2015)28. “Did you ever see a migration like that? They’re all men, and they’re all strong-looking guys ... . And I’m saying to myself: Why aren’t they fighting to save Syria? Why are they migrating all over Europe? Seriously.” (On Syrian refugees in Keene, N.H. September 30, 2015)29. “It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!” (Twitter, October 19, 2015)30. “I’ve done it four times out of hundreds, and I’m glad I did it. I used the laws of the country to my benefit. I’m sorry.” (On his bankruptcies. GOP debate, October 28, 2015)31. “I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.” (Rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, November 12, 2015)32. “How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?” (Rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, November 12, 2015)33. “It’s in the book that he’s got a pathological temper. That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that ... as an example: child molesting. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that.” (Speaking about Ben Carson during an interview on CNN, November 12, 2015)34. “When he said he stabbed somebody with a knife but it hit a belt buckle—I know all about knives and belt buckles.” (Interview on CNN speaking about Ben Carson’s memoir, in which Carson recalls attempting to stab someone as a young man, November 12, 2015)35. “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.” (Referring to Muslims celebrating on 9/11 at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Nov. 21, 2015)36. “Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?” (Twitter, December 7, 2015)37. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” (Rally in South Carolina, December 7, 2015)38. “He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader. You know, unlike what we have in this country.” (On Vladimir Putin, interview with MSNBC, December 18, 2015)39. “I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it. No, it’s too disgusting.” (Referencing Hillary Clinton being late to a Democratic primary debate stage after the commercial break, rally in Michigan, December 21, 2015)40. “Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat—she was favored to win—and she got schlonged.” (On Hillary Clinton, rally in Michigan, December 21, 2015)41. “Does everyone see that the Democrats and President Obama are now, because of me, starting to deport people who are here illegally. Politics!” (Twitter, December 25, 2015)42. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” (Rally in Iowa, January 23, 2016)43. “I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct. Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!” (Twitter, January 27, 2016)44. “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ’em, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.” (Referring to protesters, rally in Iowa, February 1, 2016)45. “I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” (Republican primary debate in New Hampshire, February 6, 2016)46. “Wow, Jeb Bush, whose campaign is a total disaster, had to bring in mommy to take a slap at me. Not nice!” (Twitter, February 6, 2016)47. “Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.” (New Hampshire primary victory speech, February 9, 2016)48. “[Putin] called me a genius, I like him so far, I have to tell you.” (Republican primary debate in South Carolina, February 13, 2016)49. “I’m the only one on this stage that said, ‘Do not go into Iraq. Do not attack Iraq.’ Nobody else on this stage said that. And I said it loud and strong.” (Republican primary debate in South Carolina, February 13, 2016)50. “She should be running.” (Referring to Jeb Bush’s mother, Republican primary debate in South Carolina, February 13, 2016)51. “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work—torture works. Half these guys [say]: ‘Torture doesn’t work.’ Believe me, it works.” (Campaign event at a South Carolina retirement community, February 17, 2016)52. “If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.” (“Response to the Pope,” Facebook, February 18, 2016)53. “I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go!” (Twitter, February 20, 2016)54. “Well just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don’t know. I don’t know, did he endorse me, or what’s going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.” (Interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, February 28, 2016)55. “Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long [to kick out protesters] is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.” (Speaking at a rally in St. Louis, Missouri, March 11, 2016)56. “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.” (Asked on Morning Joe who his foreign policy consultants are, March 16, 2016)57. “We’re totally predictable. And predictable is bad. Sitting at a meeting like this and explaining my views and if I do become president, I have these views that are down for the other side to look at, you know. I hate being so open.” (Interview with Washington Posteditorial board, March 21, 2016)58. "@Don_Vito_08: “A picture is worth a thousand words” @realDonaldTrump#LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP” (Twitter, March 23, 2016, includes retweeted image of the unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz)59. “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.” (About whether women should be punished for having abortions if the procedure becomes illegal during an interview by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews at a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin on March 30, 2016; he later put out a statement that reversed this position)60. “Europe is a big place, I’m not going to take cards off the table.” (About using nuclear weapons in Europe on “The O’Reilly Factor,” March 31, 2016)61. “After I beat them, I’m going to be so presidential, you’re going to be so bored, you’re going to say, this is the most boring human being I’ve ever interviewed.” (Interview on “Fox News Sunday” April 3, 2016)62. “Which is true, actually, I actually have low blood pressure, can you believe it? Can you believe it? I have like 100 over something. The doctor said, ‘Man you have the blood pressure of a great, great, athlete who is 20 years old. 110, I like that, because I like being a great athlete.” (Rally in Waterbury, Connecticut, April 23, 2016)63. “Lock your doors folks, OK? Lock your doors. No, it’s a big problem … . We have our incompetent government people letting ’em in by the thousands, and who knows, who knows, maybe it’s ISIS.” (Rally in Warwick, Rhode Island April 25, 2016)64. “[Kasich] is just a guy who is a stubborn guy who eats like a slob.” (Rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania, April 25, 2016)65. “Do I look a president? How handsome am I, right? How handsome?” (Rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania, April 25, 2016)66. "We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.” (Rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana, May 1, 2016)67. “I think the only card she has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else going.” (About Hillary Clinton, during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, May, 1, 2016)68. “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being—you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.” (Speaking about Ted Cruz and his father Rafael on Fox News, May 3, 2016)69. “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!” (Twitter, May 5, 2016)70. “I have borrowed, knowing that you can pay back with discounts... . Now, we’re in a different situation with the country. But I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal. And if the economy was good, it was good. So, therefore, you can’t lose.” (CNBC, May 6, 2016)71. “First of all, you never have to default because you print the money, I hate to tell you, OK? So there’s never a default.” (CNN, May 9, 2016)72. “I’m the king of debt. I understand debt better than probably anybody. I know how to deal with debt, so well. I love debt.” (CNN, May 9, 2016)73. “You mean Pocahontas?” (Interview with Maureen Dowd, referring to Elizabeth Warren, May 15, 2016)74. The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. “You can tell them to go BLANK themselves” - was about China, NOT WOMEN! (Twitter, May 17, 2016)75. “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” (Interview with Reuters speaking about Kim Jong Un, May 18, 2016)76. “I will give you everything. … I’m the only one.” (Campaign rally in North Dakota, May 26, 2016)77. “There is no drought.” (Rally in Fresno, California, May 27, 2016)78. “I don’t talk about his alcoholism, so why would he talk about my foolishly perceived fascism?” (New York Times, May 28, 2016, about Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Bill Weld)79. “I thought this would be like Dr. Martin Luther King, where the people would be lined up from here all the way to the Washington Monument.” (Bikers for Trump tally at Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., May 29, 2016)80. “You’re a sleaze.” (Press Conference to ABC reporter, May 31, 2016)81. “Look at my African-American here!” (Rally in California, June 3, 2016)82. “Many of the thugs that attacked the peaceful Trump supporters in San Jose were illegals. They burned the American flag and laughed at police.” (Twitter, June 4, 2016)83. “He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he’s got bias. … This judge has treated me very unfairly; he’s treated me in a hostile manner. And there’s something going on.” (Face the Nation on Judge Curiel, June 5, 2016)84. “I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women more than anybody in the construction industry, and my relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women.” (Interview with Bill O’Reilly, June 6, 2016)85. “It’s all because of me,” (Bloomberg interview, regarding NATO decision to create new intelligence post, June 8, 2016)86. “And by the way, just so you know, I am the least racist person, the least racist person that you’ve ever seen, the least.” (Rally in Richmond, Virginia, June 10, 2016)87. “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!” (Twitter, June 12, 2016, after the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando.)88. “They’re trying to take over our children. ...They’re pouring in and we don’t know what we’re doing.” (Speech at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire, on refugees suspected of being terrorists, June 13, 2016)89. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.” (Facebook post, June 13, 2016)90. “I feel like a supermodel except, like, times 10, OK? It’s true. I’m a supermodel.” (Rally in Arizona, June 18, 2016)91. “I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country.” (Interview on CBS, June 19, 2016)92. “I don’t think anybody should listen to me because I haven’t really focused on it very much.” (Interview on Fox Business regarding Brexit, June 22, 2016)93. “Just arrived in Scotland. People are going wild over the vote. They took their country back. Just like we’ll take our country back. No games.” (Twitter, June 24, 2016, after Scotland voted 68-32 to remain in European Union.)94. “When the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly.” (Press conference at his golf course in Scotland, June 24, 2016)95. “[The Trans-Pacific Partnership] is done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country. That’s what it is, too. It’s a harsh word. It’s a rape of our country.” (Rally in Ohio, June 28, 2016)96. “That could be a Mexican plane up there. They’re getting ready to attack,” (Rally in New Hampshire, June 30, 2016)97. “Most corrupt candidate ever!” (Twitter with picture of Hillary Clinton with six-pointed star over $100 bills, soon deleted, July 2, 2016)98. “Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the ‘Star of David’ also? Dishonest media! #Frozen” (Twitter with attached photo of Disney Sticker book, July 6, 2016)99. “One of the reasons is party unity, I have to be honest.” (Introducing running mate Mike Pence, in New York, July 16, 2016)100. “Good news is Melania’s speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics especially if you believe that all press is good press!” (Twitter, July 20, 2016)101. “I alone can fix it.” (Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016)102. “Crazy Bernie is going crazy right now, OK?” (Speech in North Carolina during the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016)103. “Pocahontas bombed last night! Sad to watch” (Twitter, July 26, 2016)104. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” (Press conference in Florida, July 27, 2016)105. “If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. Probably maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me, but plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet and it looked like she had nothing to say.” (Interview with ABC about Ghazala Khan, July 30, 2016)106. “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” (Interview with George Stephanopoulos, July 31, 2016)107. “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.” (Interview with George Stephanopoulos, July 31, 2016)108. “She’s the devil.” (Rally in Pennsylvania, August 1, 2016)109. “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged, I have to be honest.” (Rally in Pennsylvania, August 1, 2016)110. “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Rally in Virginia, August 2, 2016, upon receiving a Purple Heart medal from a supporter.)111. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” (Twitter, Aug 8, 2016)112. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people—maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.” (Rally in North Carolina, Aug 9, 2016)113. “He is the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder of ISIS, OK? He’s the founder. He founded ISIS and I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” (Speaking about Barack Obama at a rally in Sunrise, Florida, August 10, 2016)114. “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!” (Twitter, August 18, 2016)115. “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose? And at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce.” (Rally in Dimondale, Michigan, August 19, 2016)116. “Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.” (Rally in Jackson, Mississippi, August 24, 2016)117. “Mexico will pay for the wall!” (Twitter, September 1, 2016)118. “I think people don’t care [about my tax returns]. I don’t think anybody cares, except some members of the press.” (Interview with David Muir of ABC News, September 5, 2016)119. “They won’t even give him stairs, proper stairs to get out of the airplane. You see that? They have pictures of other leaders who are … coming down with a beautiful red carpet. And Obama is coming down a metal staircase. I’ve got to tell you, if that were me, I would say, ‘You know what, folks, I respect you a lot but close the doors, let’s get out of here.’ It’s a sign of such disrespect.” (Roundtable with labor leaders in Brook Park, Ohio, September 5, 2016)120. “I just don’t bother talking about it but I don’t know [if past birther comments hampered outreach efforts to African-American voters]. I guess with maybe some, I don’t know why, I really don’t know why.” (Interview with Sean Hannity, September 6, 2016)121. “I was totally against the war in Iraq. You can look at Esquire magazine from ’04. You can look at before that.” (National Security Forum, September 7, 2016)122. “If we would have taken the oil [in Iraq], you wouldn’t have ISIS.” (National Security Forum, September 7, 2016)123. “[Hillary Clinton]’s being so protected. She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching, right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn’t be prosecuted, OK?” (Rally in Pensacola, Florida, September 9, 2016)124. “I’ll answer that question [whether President Obama was born in the U.S.] at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet.” (Interview with the Washington Post in Canton, Ohio, September 15, 2016)125. “[Hillary Clinton] goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before. I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Right? Right? I think they should disarm immediately.” (Rally in Miami, Florida, September 16, 2016)126. “Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies—she puts the plane behind her like I have been doing from the beginning.” (Twitter, September 20, 2016)127. “Hillary Clinton is taking the day off again, she needs the rest. Sleep well Hillary—see you at the debate!” (Twitter, September 20, 2016)128. “Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever.” (Rally in Kenansville, North Carolina, September 20, 2016)129. “I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive and, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically.” (Interview on Fox News, September 21, 2016)130. “He’s a fantastic guy. … He took control of Egypt. And he really took control of it.” (Interview with Lou Dobbs of Fox Business, referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, September 22, 2016)131. “Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don’t think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.” (First Presidential Debate, September 26, 2016)132. “She [Alicia Machado] was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.” (Interview on Fox News, September 27, 2016)133. “Every on-line poll, Time Magazine, Drudge etc., has me winning the debate. Thank you to Fox & Friends for so reporting!” (Twitter, September 28, 2016)134. “For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o’clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!” (Twitter, September 30, 2016)135. “Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia [Machado] become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?” (Twitter, September 30, 2016)136. “This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course—not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.” (Initial statement in the aftermath of leaked Access Hollywood tape, October 7, 2016)137. “You be in jail [if I were in charge of enforcing the law].” (Spoken to Hillary Clinton during the Second Presidential Debate, October 9, 2016)138. “We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years.” (Second Presidential Debate, October 9, 2016)139. “And when [Hillary Clinton] walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.” (Rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, October 14, 2016)140. “Believe me, [Jessica Leeds] would not be my first choice.” (Rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, October 14, 2016, referring to woman who accused Trump of groping her during flight to New York)141. “Take a look. Look at her. Look at her words. And you tell me what you think. I don’t think so.” (Rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, October 14, 2016, referring to Natasha Stoynoff, a former People magazine reporter who accused him of sexual assault.142. “Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election” (Twitter, October 15, 2016)143. “I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate.” (Rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 15, 2016)144. “Hillary is the most corrupt person to ever run for the presidency of the United States.#DrainTheSwamp” (Twitter, October 18, 2016)145. “Such a nasty woman.” (About Hillary Clinton, at the Third Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016)146. “What I’m saying is that I will tell you at the time [whether I accept defeat in the election]. I'll keep you in suspense. OK?” (Third Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016)147. “I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election—if I win.” (Rally in Delaware, Ohio, October 20, 2016)148. “Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate Commission. How corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate commission? Pretty corrupt.” (Al Smith charity dinner, New York City, October 20, 2016)149. “Here [Hillary Clinton] is tonight in public pretending not to hate Catholics.” (Al Smith charity dinner, October 20, 2016)150. “The results are in on the final debate and it is almost unanimous, I WON! Thank you, these are very exciting times.” (Twitter, October 21, 2016)151. “All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.” (About the women who’ve accused Trump of sexual misconduct at a rally in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2016)152. “And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for? What are we having it for?” (Rally in Toledo, Ohio, October 27, 2016)153. “A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting booths in Texas. People are not happy. BIG lines. What is going on?” (Twitter, October 27, 2016)154. “That’s all right, leave him alone. That’s all right. You know the great thing about—we have a protester. By the way, were you paid $1,500 to be a thug?” (Speaking to a black man being escorted out of his rally in Kinston, North Carolina, October 29, 2016)155. “We’ve got to be nice and cool, nice and calm. All right, stay on point, Donald. Stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy.” (Rally in Pensacola, Florida, November 3, 2016)

The outcome of declassifying Bose files is that India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, sought to arrange financial help for Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s wife and his daughter soon after Independence.Among the files released by the Narendra Modi government on Saturday is a series of official exchanges from 1952 and 1954 revealing the government’s attempts to support the family in Vienna.Nehru seeks the advice of Finance and External Affairs Ministry on June 12, 1952, to facilitate financial help for Subash Bose's widow in Vienna.On June 12, 1952, Nehru sought the opinion of the Finance and the External Affairs Ministries on whether financial help could be sent to Bose’s widow.“The lady in Vienna is the wife or rather the widow of Shri Subhas Chandra Bose and we should like to facilitate help being sent to her,” Nehru wrote.The Finance Ministry agreed to the proposal, and Netaji’s nephew Amiya Nath Bose was informed of the yet another recommendation for the daughter, Anita Bose, now Anita Pfaff, it was decided to set up a Trust — with Nehru and then West Bengal Chief Minister B.C. Roy as the trustees — with the amount to be transferred to her when she turned 21.In case of her death by then, this transfer would happen to her mother, and if both had died, to the Congress, as per a document dated April 15, 1954. Nehru confirmed the execution of “a trust deed in favour of Subhas Chandra Bose’s child in Vienna” in a letter on May 23, 1954. The deed was placed in the custody of the All India Congress Committee. As for the sum to be paid to Bose’s widow, the Finance and the External Affairs Ministries had suggested £100 to be sent for the ‘widow’ Frau Schenkl “through private channels, to our Vice-Consul at Vienna, who should disburse it…”. Pls note :- 100 pounds paid by Nehru personally in those days is worth Rs 10-15 crores in today's context).The declassified Netaji Files reveal how Prime Minister Nehru and chief minister Bidhan Chandra Roy took care of Subhas Chandra Bose’s family.Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsBerlin, 1942 – six months after Adolf Hitler had assured Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that he could travel to Japan, he was still stuck in Germany. Politically, it was a loss of time.The only advantage of the delay was a personal one – in November 1942, Emilie Schenkl gave birth to their daughter, Anita.But duty beckoned the warrior.On February 8, 1943, Bose bade them farewell and boarded a German U-180 boat. He would not see them again. So far, his marriage had been concealed, even from his family. But now, Bose dutifully left behind a letter, introducing his wife and daughter to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose – who was an outstanding leader in his own right, a leading figure in the Bengal Congress and member of the All India Congress Committee.The brothers had always been very close.With exquisite sensitivity, Bose wrote that this could be the last time anyone would hear from him. He wrote, “I have married and we have a daughter” and then earnestly requested, “In my absence, please give my wife and daughter the same love and affection with which you have always blessed me.”Two-and-half years later, towards the end of August 1945, Emelie was at home, in Vienna when the radio announced that Bose had been killed in a crash at Taipei. As she later recalled, the family sat in stunned silence.Then, she walked to the bedroom where little Anita lay asleep, “and I wept”.Emilie Schenkl and Anita BoseBut life had to go on and Emelie went back to work at the post-office. Post-war Vienna was a difficult place for the common citizen; she later remembered that there was “no milk for the baby for weeks” and the family had been effectively starving.Emelie did send the letter introducing herself to Sarat and in 1948, Sarat and the family traveled to Vienna and met the new members of their family.The ‘mysterious’ filesSeptember 2015 – the West Bengal government declassifies a set of files related to Netaji. While Netaji himself is scarcely mentioned in these files, there are reports that the intelligence agencies had spied on the Bose family in the 1950s and 1960s.The sensationalism adds fuel to the widely-held speculation that it was Jawaharlal Nehru who constantly conspired against Bose. As public curiosity mounted, on January 23, 2016, the prime minister declassified the (in)famous ‘Netaji Files’ – a set of about 100 files that have been tucked away for decades in the vaults of the prime minister’s office and the foreign ministry.The enthusiasts were ecstatic because it has long been believed, quite passionately, that the files contain clinching evidence that Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi got Bose killed and that is why the files were never made public.The conspiracy theories, however, find no support from the files; rather they corroborate what historians have concluded for decades. However, through the yellowed pages of letters, official notes and legal deeds – now digitised and available to all Indians – a remarkable little piece of history surfaced.It is a tale of warmth – a blend of official work and personal care, and it involves some of the finest of Indians.Emilie Schenkl with husband Subhas Chandra Bose.The file PMO 1956-71: 2(67)56-71-PM, Vol 1 contains a letter dated June 10, 1952. It was addressed to Prime Minister Nehru and was written by Amiya Nath Bose, Sarat’s son. In the letter, Amiya made a request:“I want to send, from time to time, small sums of money to my aunt in Vienna. If I proceed through the Reserve Bank of India and the Austrian National Bank, the latter may raise objections and create complications.I should therefore like to know if it can be arranged that I hand over the money to the foreign office in Calcutta and the vice-consul in Vienna passes on its equivalent in Austrian currency to her.”Two days later, Nehru wrote to relevant officers:“Will you please enquire from finance and from external affairs ministry if small sums of money can be sent this way? ….there should be no difficulty in external affairs dealing with this matter, as a rather special case…we should like to facilitate help being sent to her.”The ministries and the RBI agreed and soon Amiya was informed that such transactions could be started.Amiya’s request set forward a chain of events.It prompted Nehru to ask Asaf Ali, who was traveling to Vienna, to meet the widow and child of his long-lost comrade (or ‘opponent’ as many would believe). Ali responded that “the good lady was in no mood to be obliged by the government…however I shall try and see what I can do as you have desired to persuade her to accept some assistance from us, if not for herself, at least for the child.”There were ‘controversies’, given that some doubted Bose’s marriage.Nehru’s response was unambiguous, “So far as we are concerned we have acknowledged her to be Subhas’s wife and there the matter ends.”Schenkl had spoken to Ali about future assistance for her child. Nehru responded, “nobody can guarantee the future. What I wanted to do was to put some money at her disposal for the child. It need not be used till it is needed.”Giving Schenkl the final say in the matter, he added, “However if she is not agreeable to this, the matter may rest there. Meanwhile, I am prepared to send you £100 which can be given to her for the child from time to time through our Vienna office. This money will not be from official sources.It will be from the Congress.”As AICC president, Nehru followed up the case with other offices. He wrote, “I think we should arrange to send them £100 as a present at about Christmas time. This money could be sent from the INA fund with the AICC”.The senior bureaucrats followed the premier’s instructions. By October 1952, K.V. Ramaswamy, chief of the Indian legation in Vienna, had been officially informed to “hereby send a draft for £100 in your favour, on the Imperial Bank of India, London.It is the prime minister’s wish that this amount be kept outside official account and disbursed to Frau Schenkl in cash or in some shape of gifts under the direction of our minister in Berne.”And, Nehru went beyond the formalities of financial help. A touch of warmth is evident in a letter to the foreign secretary, dated August 15, 1952.He enquires, “Is it possible to send some tea to our representative in Vienna for Subhas Bose’s wife?”Subhas Chandra Bose (right) with Jawaharlal Nehru and Sarat Chandra Bose.The informal arrangement continued for a year, but by late 1953, Nehru had got the support of West Bengal’s iconic chief minister, Bidhan Chandra Roy, to make a trust that would provide “some money at her disposal for the child”.This was all the more necessary as Y.D. Gundevia, ambassador at Berne, had said that Schenkl was apprehensive. “She has, for some time past, been receiving a regular remittance of Rs 200 or 300 from the Bose family. She expects, for various reasons, that this is now going to stop,” he had said.Soon, Roy wrote to Schenkl explaining that the AICC had decided “to place a sum of money in trust for your daughter” and had designated the job to Nehru and him.He explained that a part of the accumulated sum of Rs 2 lakhs “equivalent to about 15,000 English Pounds” was from the profits of a film depicting the career of Netaji. He had also asked her to suggest some other people to be trustees. Roy and Bose had been close comrades in their early days, but the relationship had turned very bitter in the tumultuous months of 1939-40 when Bose had been banished and the power of the Bengal Congress had been handed over to Maulana Azad and Roy. Perhaps, Roy wondered what Schenkl thought of her husband’s friend-turned-adversary.He ended the letter with “I am sorry this is more or less a business letter but we are really keen on making some provision for the child.” Soon, he had got a legal document drafted and sent to Nehru for approval.Nehru’s response, as recorded in a letter dated March 14, 1954, is hilarious and relatable to this day.He wrote, “This is drafted in pompous legal language which I do not even understand at the first reading”. The prime minister was clear as regards the objective. “The money is there and we wish to safeguard till the girl attains a certain age” and “I do not see why the money should be kept with us after the girl has attained 21”.He told his officers, “I would prefer some simpler method.”By April that year, the law ministry had recommended simpler measures. In a series of correspondences which blend empathy with financial caution, Roy and Nehru decided, “the money should go to the mother in case Anita dies before she reaches the age of 21”.In case Schenkl also passed away the sum would revert back to the AICC which had given the money originally.Thus, on May 23, 1954, “(1) Jawaharlal Nehru, son of Motilal Nehru deceased, of Allahabad now residing in New Delhi; (2) Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, son of Prakash Chandra Roy deceased of No. 36, Wellington Street in the town of Calcutta’ declared that Rs 2 lakhs has been set apart by the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress out of the INA fund lying with the All India Congress Committee for the benefit of Anita Bose, daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.”They declared “we shall hold the said sum…to invest it“ and “we shall pay and make over the income of the trust fund to Frau Schenkl, wife the said Netaji.” As decided, Anita would get control of the sum when she became an adult.Senior leaders Kailash Nath Katju (also grandfather of Justice Markandey Katju) and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai signed as witnesses.The news of the trust was received with joy. Sardar Shardul Singh, senior leader of Punjab and a long-term companion of Netaji responded, “May God bless you for this noble gesture”.And Bose’s wife /widow Schenkl expressed her gratitude to Nehru in her letters with the words, “It has, since a long time, been my earnest desire to meet you once and express my heartfelt thanks to you and through you to all those who, on your kind initiative, have taken so lively an interest in the welfare and fate of my daughter in the letter dated February 1, 1955, Schenkl also explained that her mother’s failing health had prevented her from accepting Nehru’s invitation for holidaying in India.She concluded with the joyous news that Anita was turning out to be a good student and that “she takes already the liveliest interest in everything connected with India and is classified by her teachers as ‘expert on Indian questions’.”Both Nehru and Roy kept themselves abreast with the transactions of the trust. In 1958, Nehru was alarmed to know that Anita had not received her payments for sometime and “was in some financial difficulties”. Roy was informed and he ensured that Netaji’s child, now 15, received the arrears. The support continued after the deaths of Roy (July 1962) and Nehru (May 1964). In July 1964, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was updated about the transactions of the Anita Bose Trust Fund and informed that the AICC had designated him and West Bengal chief minister Prafulla Chandra Sen as the trustees.Anita had been trying to visit India for sometime, but, as Nehru and Roy noted, there were problems with the family and obviously neither man would get themselves entangled in matters of the Bose household. But in November 1960, Anita did convey that she would be visiting “her fatherland” in December and that she was honoured that the prime minister Nehru had asked her to be his guest at New Delhi.Anita’s words indicate that she was in awe of Nehru, but the relation also seems to have been frank enough for the 18-year-old to ask the internationally-respected statesman, “whether I am to go to Delhi or Calcutta first? Would your Excellency decide this question according to your convenience?”Nehru’s reply was a caring one. He suggested it would be easier for Anita to fly to Delhi “as the airliners come here first” and added “whenever you come to Delhi, you will of course come and stay with me.” But he drew a line with the words “As for your programme in India, it is difficult for me to draw it up. Your family people should do so.” The press covered the visit – ‘Netaji’s daughter in Delhi’.It reported that Anita was received at the airport by Nehru’s niece Nayantara Sehgal and that ‘Mr Nehru received her affectionately at his residence’.A month later, the Daily Express, a London-based newspaper published a photo of Nehru receiving Anita and titled it ‘Quisling’s daughter meets Nehru’.When Nehru was asked, he replied, “It is not a very happy way of describing a person who is revered and considered so highly in his own country” which shows how much Nehru respected and admired Bose even after his death.Did Nehru have a sense of remorse that he had let Bose down when the Patel-Prasad-Pant wing had driven the latter out of the Congress? After all, for quite some time, Bose and Nehru – both left-leaning and staunchly secular leaders – had counted on each other’s support.Anita Bose with the rest of the Bose family still has high regards for Nehru. In an interview to hindustan times in 2016, she said that it is an insult to call her father 'Gumnami Baba' or a person who ran to Russia or the person whose living or dead. She also says that communal parties have started dividing India in the name of religion which het father would not have liked at all. She also says that stories circulating in media that S.C. Bose survived plane crash are totally baseless and useless. She also says that her father would have worked for India after independence and worked in collaboration with Gandhi and Nehru. She also mentions that he would have tried to work with INC to stabilize the country and could have been a possible PM after Nehru. My father would’ve been prominent alternative to Nehru: Bose’s daughterLetters from the 1930s reveal common academic interest with Bose asking Nehru for books and Nehru suggesting some rectifications in Bose’s The Indian Struggle. In 1937-38, Bose and Nehru had spearheaded the national planning committee and developed the blueprint that independent India would eventually follow.Did Nehru miss Bose’s critical support now that the new nation was being built along the guidelines that they had formulated? At the personal front too, there had been closeness between Nehru and Bose . While Nehru was in jail, Bose had escorted the ailing Kamala Nehru (wife of Jawaharlal Nehru) to the TB sanatorium in Switzerland. Bose had also been by Nehru side when his wife Kamala Nehru passed away in 1936. Was it the natural concern for the family of a fallen comrade, or the famous love for children by Chacha Nehru? We will never know for sure. Bose was a big fan of Nehru and Gandhi as well. Two of the largest brigades of the INA(Azad Hind Fauj) were named as Nehru Brigade and Gandhi brigade as a mark of respect and admiration he had in mind for both of them.But now thanks to the declassified files, the myth of Bose and Nehru’s permanent enmity has taken another round of beating. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this nation, in an interesting way, is grateful to the present prime minister Shri Narendra Modi for declassifying the Netaji Files.Edit in 2021:—S.C.Bose's daughter in an interview to a leading TV channel in January 2021 clearly stated the her father shared a modern, secular and progressive vision of India with Nehru, which is completely opposite of the regressive vision that is shared by Prime Minister Modi, BJP and RSS.Source :-Nehru arranged financial support for Netaji’s daughter and wifehttps://thewire.in/137206/netaji...Nehru Memorial and Museum library.

To be happy with Pence insinuates that Pence is better than Trump across the board. Since Trump has set the bar so low, "better" doesn't mean much, if anything.Sure, Pence wouldn't throw temper tantrums - he'd act in a mature and measured way.However, Pence is the most conservative Vice President (and running mate) since 1976: [1]His average score, 60, is higher (more conservative) than any other Republican vice-presidential nominee since 1976.Additionally, it’s higher than any of the other candidates that Trump was supposedly choosing among:Gingrich averaged a 49Christie a 22Pence has described himself as being: [2]“a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”Why is that concerning?It's concerning because it shows how Pence makes decisions:He has often put faith first in his political decision-making.Christian conservatives cheered when he:signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the United Statesrooted for him as he defended a religious freedom law that companies across the country decried as a gateway to discrimination against LGBT people.Pence places his religious beliefs before the U.S. Constitution - Pence has more in common with theocrats than he does with western leaders (prime ministers, Presidents, etc).The fact that Pence does not believe that in a separation of church and state brings up a variety of issues:Anti-Science: [3]Pence wants creationism taught in schools.Climate Change Denier: [4]Tried to block various EPA regulationsMike Pence’s “faith” also does harm to women and the LGBTQ community, which is covered below.Here's a brief summary of Pence's career/background: [5]Pence is a movement man, with a personal agenda.Two years after finishing law school at Indiana University, he was campaigning for Congress.And losing.And losing.After those 1988 and 1990 defeats for a House seat that combined rural and urban counties and was then represented by Democratic Congressman Phil Sharp, Pence attached himself to the “state-based free-market think-tank movement” that corporations and the Koch brothers have used to advance their agenda.As president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, Pence was associated with the State Policy Network that has sought to develop what Ronald Reagan allegedly referred to as “something like a Heritage Foundation in each of the states.”That gig gave the ambitious but unsuccessful congressional candidate the connections he needed to become a right-wing talk-radio host—The Mike Pence Show was syndicated across Indiana at a time when Rush Limbaugh and other stars of conservative media were making talk radio the dominant means of communications for a new and more rigid right.To this day, Pence is a Limbaugh loyalist…Pence declared, “I don’t believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body. If you’re suggesting that his statement had a racist element in it, I commend you to a greater understanding of the positions he’s taken. He’s a man about opportunity of all Americans, regardless of race, creed, or color. That’s why he’s so admired and appreciated across America.”Always on the make, Pence parlayed his “think-tank” and talk-radio connections into a Republican nomination for Congress in 2000, won the seat, and quickly began angling for positions of authority in the House.He was a steady vote for the foreign and domestic policies of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.Pence bid for the post of House minority leader in a 2006 race with eventual Speaker John Boehner, but earned only 27 votes from social-conservative stalwarts and other hardliners.In 2009, Pence was elected to the third-ranking post in the House, Republican Conference chairman. But he quickly began making noise about running for an Indiana US Senate seat.Then he repositioned himself for a 2012 gubernatorial bid, which he won.A single controversy-plagued term has seen Pence promoting:religious-right agenda itemsincluding a “Religious Freedom Restoration Act”designed to permit discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community that provoked widespread outrage and had to be rewrittenpicking on:refugeesimmigrantslabor unionslocal schoolstrying, without success, to set up a taxpayer-funded state-run news servicecritics described as “the Pence News Service”one Indiana editor dismissed as “antithetical to the idea of an independent press.”Pence is anti-women: [6]Pence cut budget funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana - this didn't just hurt women.Defunding Planned Parenthood forced five Planned Parenthood clinics to closeThose five clinics that closed provided HIV testingA HIV epidemic ensuedThe CDC investigated the epidemicfound that the fact that needle exchange programs in Indiana were illegal was contributing to the spread of HIVPence refused to legalize needle sharing state widePence only allowed the county experiencing the biggest HIV epidemic to have onethe other counties have to go through a rigorous process to get permission to have a needle exchange programmany of these counties simply didn't have the funds to do so.If planned parenthood hadn't been defunded, they could have helped prevent much of the HIV epidemic.Pence said the following about Planned Parenthood: [7]If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.As long as they aspire to do that, I’ll be after them.I'm sure this is no surprise, but Pence tried to defund Planned Parenthood in its entirety even though the federal government doesn't not provide one dime for abortions: [8]Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, a Republican and a longtime foe of abortion who is the chief sponsor of a House bill to cut off financing for Planned Parenthood, said that the organization had “a pattern of apparent fraud and abuse” and that “the time has come to deny any federal funding to Planned Parenthood.”These calls to completely defund Planned Parenthood from Pence were based on the now infamous edited video that the anti-choice group “Live Action” put together.Pence said this about Roe vs. Wade: [9]I long for the day that Roe v. Wade is sent to the ash heap of history.Pence voted against: [10] [11]The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (equal pay for women) 2 times (2007)The Paycheck Fairness Act once (2009)Paid parental leave 4 timesthe U.S. is one of the three countries that doesn't provide some kind of paid parental leave, according to UN data. [12]What countries don't provide paid parental leave besides the U.S.? Oman and Papua New GuineaPence tried to re-define rape so he could restrict women's access to abortions. [13]In fact, Pence believes that rape and incest aren't even reasons that abortions should be legal.To top it all off, here is one of the most ridiculous quotes from Pence about women: [14]Pence is anti-LGBTQ: [15]Pence said in his speech, "societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family."Pence also called being gay a choice and said keeping gays from marrying was not discrimination, but an enforcement of "God's idea."The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would have banned discrimination against people based on sexual orientation.Pence voted against that law in 2007 and later said the law "wages war on freedom and religion in the workplace."Pence said this about Marriage Equality (from his 2000 campaign website): [16]Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage.Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexuals as a “discreet and insular minority” entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.Conversion Therapy: [17]During his first run for Congress, Pence suggested that federal money used to fund research on HIV/AIDS should instead be diverted to programs that "provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."So-called "conversion therapy" is a controversial procedure that attempts to change the sexual preferences of gay and lesbian individuals. It is a practice that has been called out by the American Psychological Association as having no basis in medical fact, adding there is "insufficient evidence to support the use of psychological interventions to change sexual orientation."Several states have already moved to ban the practice.Pence’s long history of opposition to the LGBTQ community shows a scary trend: [18]Pence has staunchly opposed LGBT rights since the 1990s, when he was a board member for the Indiana Family Institute (IFI), which advocates for “religious liberty” and opposes what it calls “so-called same-sex ‘marriage.’”Pence is still closely connected to IFI and regularly speaks at the group’s events. During his 12-year tenure in Congress, Pence opposed:workplace nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientationefforts to expand the definition of a hate crime to include crimes based on sexual orientationchampioned a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a womanopposed the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”Pence is pro - mass incarceration: [19]In the spring, Pence signed into law an Indiana House bill imposing 10-year mandatory minimum prison terms for people convicted of second offenses for crimes involving methamphetamine or heroin.The legislation was opposed by the Indiana State Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, the Indiana Judicial Conference, and the Indiana Public Defender Council, which all argued that legislation to combat drug use should focus on treatment rather than harsher punishment.Pence is bad for the economy in Indiana & Worker rights. [20]“Trickle down” economics:In March 2014, Pence followed the lead of other Republican governors around the country by passing a package of supply-side corporate and income tax cuts that he claimed would increase business activity and economic growth in the state.Similar trickle-down economic models “collapsed” after being implemented by Govs. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and failed to produce discernible results for Gov. John Kasich in neighboring Ohio.As was the case in Ohio and elsewhere, Pence’s tax cuts effectively redistributed the state’s tax burden onto local governments that were stripped of nearly $1 billion in annual revenue.Minimum Wage:2013, Pence mustered Republican State House opposition to a proposal that would have increased Indiana’s minimum wage to $8.25 per hour despite national support for raising the wage to $9.According to The Times of Northwest Indiana, Pence had previously signed legislation “prohibit[ing] local governments from requiring businesses [to] pay a higher minimum wage, or offer any working condition or benefit, such as paid sick leave, if it's not mandated by state or federal law.”On May 6, 2015, Pence continued his campaign against living wages by repealing a law guaranteeing that “prevailing wages” be paid to workers on publicly funded construction projects.Right to Work:Since being revived in Indiana, anti-union “right-to-work” laws have spread throughout Republican-controlled statehouses around the country.Pence’s support for legislative crackdowns on worker rights and collective bargaining date back to at least 2003, when he was an initial co-sponsor of the National Right-to-Work Act.In June 2016, Pence promoted his state’s experience with the law while praising Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Cole in union-heavy West Virginia.Conservative media outlets have intensely promoted “right-to-work” since it re-emerged on the national stage in 2012 as a means of boosting wages and economic activity, but research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has consistently shown that the supposed gains never actually materialize.These are just some of the reasons why Pence scares me no less than Trump scares me.Trump is like a blubbering drunk that is terrifying because he doesn't care who he kills on the road; if he plows people over it makes no difference to him.Pence is a different kind of danger.Pence wants to plow you over when he's stone cold sober. Trump doesn't avoid it, but Pence aims.Trump is a parasitic evil, Pence is a calculating one.Trump is a gross bug, Pence wants to squash you like a bug.Trump has no depth, intellect or ability to think critically, but Pence thinks critically on how to make marginalized groups less free.Trump is reckless because he only cares about his narcissistic supply being refilled, but Pence wants to eliminate equality for those who are not white, heterosexual, cisgender men because Pence thinks doing so is ethical.Trump doesn't care about morality, but Pence genuinely believes that he is fulfilling “god’s” work by annihilating the progress oppressed groups have made in the U.S.In other words, Pence views equality as a threat and he will stop at nothing to destroy his perception of that threat.This makes Pence a very scary evil indeed.Footnotes[1] Mike Pence Is A Really Conservative And Mostly Unknown VP Pick[2] By picking Mike Pence, Trump sends conservative evangelicals a mixed message[3] Fact Check: Science And The Trump Administration[4] What Media Should Know About Trump’s Reported VP Pick, Indiana Gov. 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