NEW on RFK Jr.: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers."
In one episode from 2016 on radio show, RFK Jr. accused Trump of racism
"Every statement he makes. You know, we have to be fear of the Muslims. We have to be fear of the black people, and particularly the big Black guy Obama."
NEW: In comments made on the forum of a porn website between 2008 and 2012, Mark Robinson called himself a "Black Nazi," said he supported reinstating slavery and -despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric - said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography. cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…
On the porn website Nude Africa, Robinson also graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a teen, recounting the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about. cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…
In another thread, commenters considered whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated. In response, Robinson wrote, “and the moral of this story….. Don’t f**k a white b*tch!” cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…
NEW: Harris called Trump’s border wall “a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built” in 2019.
Now, she’s using Trump’s wall in an ad to say she’s tough on the border.
CNN identified one of the border walls in her new campaign ads as constructed during Trump’s presidency in Sasabe, Arizona, in an area where there had not previously been border wall (and building there was was quite controversial).
The other walls feature signs that they were Trump-era walls, such as so-called anti-climbing plates that were built during the Trump years. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/04…
In tweets from 2019, Harris called the same wall in her ads “wasteful,” “useless,” “a waste of taxpayer money,” “a vanity wall project,” “a wasteful border wall,” “a stupid wall,” “a medieval vanity project” and an “unnecessary wall." cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…
NEW: During his 2006 congressional run, Tim Walz’s campaign falsely claimed he wasn’t drinking during his 1995 arrest and the DUI charge was dismissed. They even said he drove to the station.
In 2018, during his campaign for Minnesota governor, Tim Walz finally admitted to the facts of his 1995 arrest, acknowledging that he had been drinking and driving. He said it had been a life-changing moment.
He did not explain the discrepancies and how it was described in 2006.
NEW: JD Vance repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Trump committed repeated sexual assault, questioned Trump’s credibility over his accusers and even tweeted, “What percentage of the American population has @realDonaldTrump sexually assaulted?”
Another post liked in 2016 by Vance said, “I wish there was a 2nd Vice Presidential debate just to see @GovPenceIN deny that Trump said he grabbed p*ssy.”
NEW: Ed Martin, a top leader on the RNC’s platform committee has entertained jailing women who get abortions and has advocated for a national ban without exceptions for rape.
He has pushed back on claims Trump is watering down the platform on abortion.
Martin, the deputy policy director for the convention’s platform committee, is one of threepeople the Republican National Committee selected in May to help craft the party’s platform, which serves as a blueprint for the Republican Party’s agenda by detailing policy positions and how Republicans and former President Donald Trump would govern if elected.
Martin has questioned the safety of a birth control and has also said there are no instances in which an abortion needs to be performed to save the life of a mother.
“It’s an absolute scientific fact that no abortion is ever performed to save the life of the mother. None, zero, zilch,” he said in June 2022.