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The Case for Trump: Where Is Hillary?

Partying with the donor class

“I stand between you and the apocalypse.”

“At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate, Hillary Clinton danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to “Hey Jude.”

“I stand between you and the apocalypse,” a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency is dire.

Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country’s most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.

And while Mrs. Clinton has faced criticism for her failure to hold a news conference for months, she has fielded hundreds of questions from the ultrarich in places like the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills and Silicon Valley. …”

Take a look at this:

“Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a backer of Democrats and a friend of the Clintons’, made sure attendees did not grill Mrs. Clinton at the $100,000-per-couple lamb dinner Mrs. Forester de Rothschild hosted under a tent on the lawn of her oceanfront Martha’s Vineyard mansion.

“I said, ‘Let’s make it a nice night for her and show her our love,’” Mrs. Forester de Rothschild said. …”

$100,000 a plate lamb dinners with the Rothschilds at Martha’s Vineyard (!!!) Could you come up with a scene more triggering for Bernie and Trump voters?

  • Ronnie

    $100,000 for a lamb dinner. Not too shabby.

  • Captain John Charity Spring MA

    That’s a self defeating image Hunter…

  • Captain John Charity Spring MA

    Cotswolds Lamb.

  • Larry Kleinfeld

    It’s OK that Hillary only associates with the ultra-rich and powerful because she’s really “fighting for us”. Paul McCartney should be deported as an undesirable alien.

  • Captain John Charity Spring MA

    I’m pretty sure Lady de Rothschild is a peer as well.

  • They’re “Stronger Together.”

  • JustJeff

    America is a Der Stürmer cartoon come to life

  • infidelijtihad

    He’ll be welcomed as a hero in vietnam.

  • infidelijtihad

    Just give the fed a few years and you too get to spend 100,000$ for a burger. Trump is no Hitler (pubh), but the prospect of an imminent Weimar era is troublingly plausible.

  • bobbi

    Does Hillary even want to be president or is it really all about collecting money?

  • Geralt of Rivia

    Man, Andrew Anglin was great as Bane in that movie.

  • J_Bonaccorsi_Philadelphia

    November 2007: McCartney starts dating Nancy Shevell

    June 2010: McCartney makes anti-Bush wisecrack at White House ceremony

    October 2011: McCartney and Shevell attend Yom Kippur synagogue services before their wedding

  • J_Bonaccorsi_Philadelphia

    Interesting change in Reuters/Ipsos poll …

    Clinton over Trump +6, August 6-10
    Clinton over Trump +5, August 13-17
    Clinton over Trump +7, August 20-24
    Clinton over Trump +1, August 25-29

    Rating of Ipsos at FiveThirtyEight is pretty good, A- …

  • J_Bonaccorsi_Philadelphia

    Thought I was hearing things on–Saturday, I guess it was–as a Trump ad wrapped up on TV here. “I’m Donald Trump, and I approved this message”–and it didn’t quite sound like Trump. Voice had a different timber.

    Now, this …

  • Fr. John+

    Somethings wrong, how I long for yesterday… When the world was white.

  • flunkdaddy

    So this is the guy you support?

  • RobRoySimmons

    Left has the mind of a woman, they can rationalize this, and spin it so they are above you in the never ending female game of hierarchy.
    But if you deflect their rationalizations and belittle them you end up owning them, women on the attack are effective, women on the defensive are on their backs.

  • BobWhitakerisokay

    I strongly suspect there is something to ill health rumors. If elected I doubt she’ll last four years. No problem, they have selected a compliant bozo to replace her.

  • BobWhitakerisokay

    I’m not too keen on the darkie pandering. I’m hoping against my better judgement that it’s mostly a ploy to get enough cuck votes.

  • BobWhitakerisokay

    The ultra-rich aren’t our friends and I hate to admit that puts a big question mark after Trump’s name too.

  • DenisetheCelt

    I don’t think she’ll make it to January. She looks terrible.