1. Citizen Breitbart
Donald Trump shocked some people – no easy feat at this stage – by tapping Steve Bannon, head of the Breitbart website, to take control of his flailing presidential campaign.
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Analysts questioned the decision, pointing out that Breitbart is a cesspool of crazy – racist-crazy, some contend – and probably not the way for Trump to capture the moderate, non-male, non-white voters he needs to win.
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Congratulations, GOP! Your presidential campaign is now literally being run by the chairman of Breitbart. How does that make you feel?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 17, 2016
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'There is no new Donald'
He can hire and fire whoever he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a teleprompter … There is no new Donald Trump. This is it.
– Hillary Clinton
'Huge piece of manpower'
Steve is a huge piece of manpower and we know he will perform brilliantly in his new role as CEO of the Trump presidential campaign. We look forward to continuing to deliver the kind of first-in-class news coverage that has generated well over one billion pageviews so far this year.
– Breitbart CEO Larry Solov
3. Clinton meets with Sir Paul
Clinton met with Paul McCartney on Wednesday at the Quicken Loans arena in Cleveland, where McCartney is playing a show tonight, and which readers may recall was the site of the Republican national convention.
Trump ‘un-American’ on immigration
... and another thing:
.@benshapiro on Trump on @CNN just now: "A turd tornado. It's like Sharknado, but with poop."
— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) August 17, 2016
