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Manafort accuses media of taking "Clinton campaign narrative"

Emails Suggest Manafort Tried To Curry Favor With Putin Ally

The emails were sent just two weeks after Trump hired Manafort to lead his campaign.
By Davis Richardson
WITH ENDORSERS LIKE THESE... It was obvious all through 2015 that Mayor Bill de Blasio was desperate to make an impression on the presidential race. From his "Progressive Agenda" events at Gracie Mansion and outside the Capitol building in April and May 2015, to his scuttled plans to host both Democratic and GOP debates, the mayor seemed like an over-eager eight-year-old bouncing up and down to get the grown-ups' attention. Well, he finally got a little of that precious national notice he craved in April of this year—but it didn't come quite the way he wanted it. The mayor brought Hillary Clinton as his surprise guest to the April 9 Inner Circle show, an annual satire of NYC politics put on by reporters. De Blasio and Clinton did a little routine of their own onstage, where Clinton tweaked de Blasio over his belated decision to jump aboard her bandwagon with the rest of the political class. The mayor's excuse? "I was running on CP time," he said. That abbreviation usually stands for "colored people time," and hearkens to the stereotype that black people like to show up late. But here, Clinton helpfully explained, it meant "cautious politician time." Ba-dum tsh. The people in the room groaned and let it go. But a video of the skit escaped into the national news stream a couple days later, provoking some murmurings about sensitivity and the duo's horrible, horrible comic delivery. Clinton naturally blamed the bit of curdled comedy on the lesser Dem—and de Blasio got to be the laughingstock of the whole country and not just New York for a change. Would people have gotten so upset if it hadn't been such a godawful creaking awkward joke? The world may never know.

Bill de Blasio: I’m the Reason Hillary Clinton’s Much More Progressive Now

Bill de Blasio says his delayed endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton helped guarantee a progressive platform.
By Madina Toure

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