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Trump is in trouble. Here are the latest scandals.   1. An informal advisor to Trump, Carter Page, praises Putin, criticizes the USA - last January. 2. Paul Manafort was charged with having long and deep ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. 3. Trump's unsuitability as President was assailed in an open letter signed by 50 Republican national security experts who warned the party he "would be the most reckless president" in US history. 4. Trump faces a new opponent in the form of Evan McMullin, a former C.I.A. official and a Republican. McMullin, a passionate anti-Trump opponent, will file papers to run for president as an independent. In fact, should you wish to keep current on all of them: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/donald-trump-scandals/474726/ Clinton is in trouble.   Here are the latest. 1. Families of slain two Benghazi operators, Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith, have sued Clinton. 2. Julian Assange stresses more e

Trump is wrong.   In his Detroit message, he offered to the American people more jobs and more wealth to all, yes all. He believes, as do the Republicans, that such a promise will gain votes and hopefully adoration of the potential voter. Moreover, it will attract to the ballot box their endorsement of his offer.   This is his promise, and I believe it is sincere.   It is possible, though it would be difficult to achieve. The promise should be a winner!   So they think.   This was the pitch of all the Republican candidates of this cycle and last; it was the promise and pledge of Romney.   Trump discussed the TPP at length*.    How can Trump be wrong?   Those millions of people out of the workforce and the smaller number listed as unemployed (current 4.9% unemployment rate) have no belief anything will happen in their favor.   This includes even those who believe he is sincere.   However, there is another mechanism at foot. It is the notion of equity.   Those who are downtrodde

According to experts, a definite possibility of voter results hacking exists.   For states that allow no paper trail of ballots (e.g. Louisiana, South Carolina), any hacking is undetectable and therefore unrecoverable. That is, the existence of hacking cannot be checked, and voter results cannot be verified.  Not good. With this possibility, it is a certainty that whoever loses the next election will accuse the other side of such interventions. We have seen hacking of US corporations as to intellectual property.   We have seen hacking of major retailers as to their customer records. We have seen hacking of the US government agency of citizen information.   We have even seen political party records hacked.   All must have had some security measures in place. Surely they have improved. Hope! Hope!   It seems that for municipal voting machines, with few measures directed against intruders, hacking might be quite a lot easier. In light of all the security failures of late, it seem