1. Sanders asks Kentucky to check math
Bernie Sanders has asked Kentucky to retabulate its returns from last Tuesday’s primary, in which Hillary Clinton edged Sanders narrowly but the delegates were split evenly. The Clinton campaign had no comment.
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Summary
He’s in this until every last vote is counted and he’s fighting for every last delegate.
– Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs, not kidding
2. Trump stokes Clinton scandals
The presumptive Republican nominee has spotlighted a 1999 rape allegation against Bill Clinton and called the 1993 death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster “very fishy”.
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Foster was a lawyer who killed himself months after coming to work at the White House for Bill Clinton, a childhood friend. Trump has taken a conspiracy theorists’ line that it was “murder”.
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[Foster] had intimate knowledge of what was going on. He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide… I don’t bring it up because I don’t know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.
– Donald J Trump
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I knew Vince Foster well. He was a good man who struggled with depression, a disease. He killed himself. Let him rest in peace.
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) May 24, 2016
3. ‘Rape is the perfect terminology’
After Trump released an attack ad yesterday which samples a 1999 interview in which she alleged that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1978, Juanita Broaddrick told Fox Radio on Monday night that it was a “rape”.
‘It’s hard for me to say the word “rape”’
Clinton’s attorney denied the allegations on his behalf at the time, and Broaddrick herself had testified in a deposition that Clinton did not make unwelcome sexual advances.
4. Lewinsky case prosecutor praises Bill Clinton
One person to investigate the Foster case was Kenneth Starr, who later was special prosecutor on the Monica Lewinsky case.
Leave aside the unpleasantness, his genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear. It is powerful. It is palpable. And the folks of Arkansas really understood that about him, that he genuinely cared. The ‘I feel your pain’ is absolutely genuine.
– Kenneth Starr
5. Trump aide brags about low tax rate
Mr Trump is proud to pay a lower tax rate, the lowest tax rate possible. He is going to pay the smallest amount of taxes possible, which I think the American people also understand.
– Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
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6. Clinton friend under investigation
Terry McAuliffe, governor of Virginia, is the subject of a federal investigation into his 2013 campaign donations and personal finances, with a possible nexus to foreign donors.
... and another thing:
This has nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation. This was an allegation of a gentlemen who gave a check to my campaign. I didn’t bring the donor in, I didn’t bring him into the Clinton Foundation, I don’t even know if I’ve ever met the person.
– Terry McAuliffe, close Clinton pal
