Aware that controversial statements in the recent past have made his poll numbers rise, Donald Trump came out with – yet another – breathtaking headshaker on Monday.
Democratic adviser David Axelrod called Trump’s campaign “..an ever-escalating torrent of outrages.” while other candidates went further:
But of course, the circus as ever cries out for its clown..
Meanwhile, the Huffington Post finally folded on it’s “entertainment” label for the Trump campaign.
Trump’s statement followed widespread criticism from the right of President Obama’s response to last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, which the FBI is investigating as a terror attack. Both the New York Post and, rather more crudely, Fox News left their audiences in little doubt what they thought.
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WORLD
Following the weekend’s knife attack at a London tube station, a man appeared in court charged with attempted murder. Meanwhile, “You ain’t no Muslim. Bruv” was trending on Twitter after the widespread video of the incident went viral.
but then…
https://twitter.com/pidybi/status/673912171076698112
and inevitably,
There is much analysis of the outcome of the weekend’s elections in France, which saw a strong performance by the right-wing Front National.
In northern England, 40,000 homes are still without power after yesterday’s floods, with more rain apparently on the way.
(Daily Mirror/Tomorrow’s Papers Tonight)
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BUSINESS
Oil prices hit another new recent low in the wake of Opec’s meeting on Friday.
(The Times/Tomorrow’s Papers Today)
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CULTURE
An architecture collective won this year’s Turner Prize for a project regenerating the streets of Liverpool.
The Eagles Of Death Metal returned to the stage in Paris, as guests of U2.
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SPORTS
Michel Platini’s appeal against his 90-day ban from football will be heard tomorrow by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The hearing, which could see the ban upheld and Platini effectively ruled out of seeking the Presidency of Fifa, comes the day after a BBC Panorama special on world football’s governing body and its current President Sepp Blatter, by veteran investigative journalist Andrew Jennings.
The Overnight Note 