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Last month I launched a twice-monthly column for the website of Britain’s Pride Life magazine, a quarterly LGBT rights and lifestyle magazine. Today’s third installment takes a look at the never-ending Trump controversies, his down-ballot effect on other GOP candidates, Hillary Clinton’s AIDS gaffe, and the delegate standings in the Democratic race. Clickety-click the link. DISCLOSURE: Pride Life is owned ...

And they threw in anti-gay and racist slurs as well. The Chicago Tribune reports: A Cook County judge on Saturday lashed out at two Northwestern University freshmen accused of spray-painting racist and homophobic messages along with the name of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump inside a nondenominational chapel on the university’s campus. “These allegations are disgusting to me,” Judge Peggy ...

All of Teabagistan and much of the mainstream media has been hotly following the claims of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, who alleges that she was manhandled by Donald Trump’s campaign manager at an event last week. Breitbart, aka Trump World Headquarters, responded to the claims with a dozen posts which essentially called their own reporter a liar. Last night Fields ...

Via Mediaite: Remember how Donald Trump wants to change the libel laws? Well, he basically admitted on Fox News today that he wants to do that because it’s hard for him to win libel lawsuits with the current protections in place. Howard Kurtz asked Trump specifically how he would change current laws. He dismissively moved onto complaining about how dishonest ...

Via Talking Points Memo: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he has instructed his team to look into paying the legal fees of the man who sucker punched a black protester. Trump said he doesn’t condone violence. “But I want to see. The man got carried away, he was 78 years old, he obviously loves his country, and ...

From the Washington Post: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump threatened Sunday to send his supporters to infiltrate the campaign rallies of Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, whom Trump continued to insist was behind disruptions at his events. “Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events,” Trump said on Twitter. “Be careful Bernie, or my ...

Donald Trump tonight falsely told rally attendees that Thomas Dimassimo, the man who rushed his stage earlier today, has ties to ISIS. This afternoon Trump tweeted out a troll’s video as proof. Heavy.com reports: Dimassimo, a student at Wright State University in Dayton, has been an avid supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and Vermont Senator and presidential candidate ...

NBC News reports: A Donald Trump rally took a dramatic turn Saturday when a disturbance broke out behind him — causing Secret Service agents to jump on stage and form a wall around the candidate amid the commotion. A campaign spokeswoman told NBC News that a man at the Dayton, Ohio, event “attempted to breach the secure buffer and was ...

From their editorial: Donald Trump was not yet near his Chicago rally turned melee Friday night when protesters tangled in confrontation with the Republican front-runner’s fervent supporters. Shoves, fists and screams tore through the arena, promoting Trump to cancel — and then to insist on CNN “I take no responsibility.” Of course he doesn’t. Trump rallies are large, testament to ...

Last night Ted Cruz denounced Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric, which Cruz says provoked the chaos in Chicago. But unlike Marco Rubio, Cruz is not wavering from his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, even if it’s Trump. Via Politico: “My answer is the same,” Cruz told reporters here at a suburban St. Louis high school. “I committed at the ...