The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
It’s been known for months that Donald Trump coincidentally donated $25,000 to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi just before she decided not to investigate the very credible claims of fraud against his “Trump University” organization. That story has hit the headlines again in part because some shady new details about Trump’s support for Bondi have just come to light, but also because the saga demonstrates that Trump is full of it when he claims to be outraged about the idea that Hillary Clinton gave Clinton Foundation donors special access to the State Department. On that front—the “Trump being full of it in re: a major campaign theme” front—the Washington Post noted this weekend that Trump’s campaign has never followed through on its promises to address questions about Melania Trump’s immigration/work history.
If you don’t remember this story, the Post’s piece summarizes everything nicely, but the short version is that the accounts Melania Trump and her representatives have given of how she came to live in the United States are inconsistent with known facts about her biography in a way that suggests she may at times have violated U.S. rules covering immigration, work, and travel. Which is not the worst thing in the world—except to Donald Trump, who has made the idea that undocumented labor is destroying our country one of the central premises of his dumb campaign. Trump said about a month ago that his wife would hold a news conference that would clear everything up. But she hasn’t.
So, yeah, let’s hassle Trump about this!
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