| | | | Trump denies his campaign spoke with Secret Service | | The day after Donald Trump suggested that "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton, a Secret Service official confirmed to CNN that the protective service has spoken with Trump's campaign about his remark. "There has been more than one conversation" on the topic, the official told CNN.
And yet ... "No such meeting or conversation ever happened," Trump tweeted.
Clinton slammed Trump over his remarks today, per CNN's Dan Merica. "Words matter, my friends, and if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences," Clinton said at an Iowa rally. "Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that cross the line."
The first 100 days: In a bid to figure out what Trump's first 100 days in the Oval Office would be like, Politico's Shane Goldmacher mapped out his first 100 days as the Republican nominee. What he found was "a Trump outlook less tethered to the traditional left-right ideological spectrum and more to his binary view of winners and losers, the weak and the strong." | | | A man tried to climb Trump Tower with suction cups today. A woman tried to rush Hillary Clinton on stage. Yes, these things really happened, and we can prove it: | | | Scaling Trump Tower today was an unidentified long-haired man in a baseball cap and climbing gear. His ascent started shortly after 4 p.m. Police broke windows, raised a ladder and cut through a vent in attempts to stop the climber. They also inflated a giant cushion on the street and an elevated level of the building. He was finally apprehended when police pulled him in through a 21st floor window three hours later. | | Hillary Clinton says she likes animals, but ... | | ...not enough for these animal rights activists.
Kelcey Atkinson, an activist from animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, jumped over a barricade at Clinton's rally today in Des Moines, Iowa, and got within feet of Clinton before she was tackled by Secret Service agents protecting the Democratic presidential nominee.
This is the second time the organization has tried to approach Clinton, the first being last week at an event in Las Vegas. Eva Hamer, a representative for the group, said Atkinson wanted to ask Clinton "why she continues to support exploitation of animals," adding that the group plans to disrupt Clinton events in the future. -- CNN's Dan Merica | | New emails raise Clinton conflict-of-interest questions | | Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation. Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 296 pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee, including 44 that Judicial Watch says were not previously handed over to the State Department by Clinton. The emails, many of which are heavily redacted, raise questions about the Clinton Foundation's influence on the State Department and its relations during her tenure.
In one instance, top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band lobbied Clinton aides for a job for someone else in the State Department. In the email, Band tells Clinton's former aides at the department -- Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin -- that it is "important to take care of (redacted)." Band is reassured by Abedin that "Personnel has been sending him options." More from CNN's Daniella Diaz. | | | First in Nightcap: New research from Tufts University's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement shows that -- in terms of growth from the primary to the general electorate -- Hillary Clinton had much more opportunity with young voters than Donald Trump. As for why Clinton is playing to her base: 70% of those young voters are women or minorities. | | About the time Trump got stuck in an elevator ... | | It happened in Colorado Springs in July, and it was because the Secret Service shut the elevator off and couldn't figure out how to turn it back on, Fire Marshal Brett Lacey wrote in an email to a friend obtained by CNN affiliate Denver7.
Here's Lacey's (pretty funny) explanation: "Turns out someone (Secret Service or his entourage) had an elevator bypass key... they (one of them) turned it off between floors and didn't know how to get it back on ... our folks went and fished them out ... elevator guys get there and say what the crap? Who turned this off? Turned it back on and voila."
Speaking of less-than-glamorous lives ... check out NBC's Katy Tur's first-person take for Marie Claire on covering Trump's campaign. | | | Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, the first GOP senator to publicly oppose Donald Trump, says he's writing in Colin Powell. ... Evan Bayh is the one Democrat who doesn't want to talk about Trump (or, apparently, anyone, by name). ... An ex-aide says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie "flat-out lied" about Bridgegate. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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