I read this article last night and decided that it was too meretricious to post on my blog. But since readers have commented on it, here is the story.
The Hate-Clinton/Love-Trump forces held a press conference at the National Press Club (where anyone can rent a room for a few hundred dollars) to announce that Bill Clinton has an illegitimate son, now 30 years old, the result of a relationship with a black prostitute. He asks for a sample of Bill Clinton’s DNA from Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress.
Milbank writes:
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, the conspiracy theorist who believes President Obama has a secret Muslim prayer inscribed on his wedding ring, made a splash in 2012 when he said Obama had plastic surgery to conceal that his real father was labor activist Frank Marshall Davis, who raised his son to lead a communist revolution.
Four years later, and just in time for Election Day, Gilbert is back with a new film alleging that Bill Clinton has a 30-year-old son he sired with a black prostitute. And on Tuesday, Gilbert hauled the young man to Washington and gave him a speech to read to the TV cameras at the National Press Club.
“As you can see I’m the black son of former president Bill Clinton and the stepson of Hillary Clinton,” the young man, Danney Williams, read as Gilbert, off to the side, mouthed many of the words.
Actually, you could only see him as Clinton’s son if you imagined Clinton six inches shorter, with a different build and different facial features. But no matter.
“At this time I am reaching out to Miss Lewinsky, Monica Lewinsky,” Williams went on, looking to Gilbert for instruction and holding up a letter. “I’m asking that Miss Lewinsky allow me to borrow her blue dress in order to obtain a DNA sample of my father’s, former president Bill Clinton, in order to finally prove that he is my father….”
In fact, Williams’s DNA was tested, 17 years ago, when his mother sold it and her story to a tabloid, which compared the boy’s genetic material to Clinton’s DNA markers and concluded Clinton wasn’t his father.
That essentially ended the intrigue — until late last year, when longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone declared: “I will get justice for Danney Williams — stay tuned.” The Trump confidant had decided the original DNA work was wrong, and he teamed up to make that case with conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones, an avid Trump backer who lent his InfoWars news outlet to the cause.
I can only watch with astonishment as the Trump campaign and its surrogates fall farther and farther into the nether world in pursuit of any rumor to try to salvage the election.
I guess I don’t get why this is worth posting. How many articles have appeared during this election cycle since the primaries suggesting that Bernie Sanders had sexual fantasies of raping women and believed that women all want to be raped and abused? Those weren’t being floated by Team Trump. How about the flood of pieces telling us about every crime, pedophilic incest fantasy, and baby-eating orgy Donald Trump has been engaged in or VERY WELL MIGHT BE CONSIDERING EVEN AS WE SPEAK?
The filth isn’t one-sided. Neither of these vicious candidates plays clean. Given the chance by Sanders, Hillary’s people kept dredging beneath the bottoms of barrels regularly. I have no empathy for her or for Donald Trump. They are a marriage made in hell: two ethical dwarves slinging mud at one another in a bottomless cesspool.
Yikes, I missed those Sanders stories.
False equivalences. That is how the Trump people hope to win. That and suppress the vote.
Someone burned a black church and painted “Vote Trump” on the side. A protester shouts “Jew-S-A” at a Trump rally and is proud of it. The two Iowa police officers were assassinated by an angry racist mad about waving a confederate flag at black people to provoke them and being asked to leave a football game.
Trump has introduced a vulgarity and irreverence into American elections never seen before. I see Trump signs again in my neighborhood and wonder how seemingly normal people can support such a dangerous man.
Do you really believe Hillary is as equally bad as Trump?
Vale Math
Two things Trump is no worse than the rest of that party of decrepit rot . They only abandoned him when they thought he had no chance. He could call their daughters A WHORE and as soon as he has a slim chance they come rallying around him.
What has got me pissed is that the Black vote cost the real champion of minorities and the underprivileged the nomination. Now if they return to normal voting patterns,
they could Turn the Nation over to a fascist demagogue. As revolting as the Trump supporters tend to be. The thought of Trump winning Michigan because Black voters didn’t vote is far worse.
Black lives AIN”T Gona Matter one iota in Trumps America . If they think Democrats have let them down they are clueless as to what Trumpsters will do .
If the deplorables supporting trump are allegedly normal, what does that make the rest of us?
Lloyd Lofthouse
My point was If Black voters do not participate in the numbers they did in 08 and 12 we are in trouble, nothing normal about most Trump voters.
I’ve been reading that, but at the same time Latino-Hispanics are registering to vote in record numbers and maybe that will make up for a lower black vote. We can only hope. Let’s also pray that we don’t wake up on November 9th with a Trump Apocalypse Presidency (TAP).
Blacks make up about 13.3 percent of the population. Latino-Hispanics (L-H) make up almost 18 percent.
in 2012, 49.9 percent of eligible L-H voted vs 64.7 percent of eligible blacks. Since 2012, the number of Hispanic eligible voters had increased by 4 million accounting for 37 percent of the growth in all eligible voters.
The L-H vote might make the difference and save the country. All it will take is for all the new L-H registered voters to vote in addition to most if not all of the older registered voters.
Agree Lloyd…Hispanic/Latino/Chicano voters will be out to vote en masse. I have been registering voters in this community of citizens for many years, and this year their enthusiasm to vote is huge. Practically all will be voting against Trump…and for Hillary.
Unfortunately, in California, this means they will also mostly vote for the inept Latina who is running for Senate to replace the retiring great progressive, Senator Barbara Boxer.
This means that Latino name recognition will be prime in influencing their vote against the far better candidate, our highly regarded State AG (who happens to be Black), Kamala Harris, who is endorsed by our Governor, by the POTUS Obama and his VP Biden, and most other Dem leaders, but as we too often see, many people tend to vote their own roots.
The other candidate, Sanchez, has served in Congress for an almost 100% Latino district for many years, and she is making appeals to her community to get out the vote despite that she has done almost nothing in DC to earn their vote (and she has a bad reputation due to her distinctly questionable personal behaviors as well). Sad situation.
Please California colleagues, Vote for Kamala Harris.
MPG,
I respectfully disagree.
One of my adult sons said to me tonight:
Hillary is battling the KKK, FBI, and KGB, all at the same time.
Have to hand it to her.
This woman has brains, experience,stamina, resilience, courage, and amazing in era strength. It is character.
If I am ever in a foxhole, I want to be with her.
If Donald Trump wins the election it won’t matter what the DOE does anymore. The DOEs incompetent ways will ultimately be the destruction of itself as the US Dept of Education will no longer be funding our public schools. So what does this all mean? Well all the goons and bozos in the system whether you worked for a school or the DOE, whether you work as administrator or principal, teacher or social worker, secretary or counselor it won’t matter people. This is a lesson for all. Forget about the ATR situation because ALL personal in public schools will now be looking at the abyss. The constant dysfunction of the mother ship – the DOE – will ultimately destroy itself in the form of president Trump. None of us can disagree with this post. So whether you are a principal or the dick bag who posts on this site from his moms basement, if Trump wins the party will be over for ALL and the people in the system who walked around like they were really somebody will realize now that they are nobody. Especially all the leadership academy principals who will be ups shits creek as they use to say back in the day. Chow folks vote for hillary without huma.
Hi, my name is Rudy, and I am a republican. Once again, I feel the need to apologize for what we, republicans, have let loose into the world of politics.
I cannot, (and have not), in good conscience vote for this man.
I humbly ask your forgiveness, as a republican, for our part in lowering the level of political discourse.
Sincerely, Rudy schellekens.
Is this the Rudy from the movie Rudy? Did you play at notre dame football and then the movie came out?? Just wondering as a proud republican apologizing for Trump.
No. I am a “recent” immigrant turned citizen, and proudly registered the same day as a Republican. I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with someone in arguing against ACA, and have defended Republican values, including as president of the local Right to Life organisation.
What is currently happening has little or nothing to do with Republican values. The name calling, the lack of political vision, the mud raking… From BOTH sides, needs to stop. And the only way it can stop is when people like you and I set the example in having civilised exchanges on ISSUES, without the name calling and such.
It does not matter (too much) whether people agree with me or not when two sides of an issue are discussed. I have my points of evidence, you have yours and we should be open-minded enough that we can, if nothing else, reach a compromise.
In 1996 I moved to this country, and I have seen the political picture get dirtier and dirtier during those years – ending up where we find ourselves today.
Someone has to start the change…
Let’s just hope that Trump wins! I think we all agree that Hillary Clinton is completely corrupt. That is now beyond a doubt. “Teachers for Trump!”
Alan Miller,
You must teach in a charter or other private school. If Trump wins, public schools will be abandoned. Vouchers and charters will be federal policy
Diane,
The Federal government is a very small player in public schools, which are essentially controlled by local and then by the state. The federal funding share is about 8.3% the rest by local and state. (please check facts from US Dept. of Education)
Even if federal government abandons K-12 education as you state above, no public schools will be abandoned. It will be a great loss to poor public school districts because a majority of federal funds are utilized to even out school spending under Title I.
Finally, Trump cannot do it alone because the house has the final authority on government spending.
Raj,
The federal government has a very large impact on what happens in schools. It has historically put up 10-12% of costs but its mandates direct what happens. Right now, every school spends a significant part of its budget on annual testing–preparing for it, being published by scores, etc. I don’t know of any other nation that requires annual testing. There are many mandates, such as special education, which is very costly and the Feds pay for a very small part of the cost.
I know nations that require annual testing… Lived there, done it. So yes, it does happen. There is nothing wrong with annual testing, by the way.
The problem lies in a) what to expect and b) what to do with the results. If nothing else, an annual test is supposed to help measure progress in knowledge of a given subject.
There is nothing wrong with “rote” learning; it leads to factual knowledge that becomes ingrained. Obvious example: Ask the average high school student to do something as simple as counting back change, or figuring how much 5 items with the same price should cost – or even different prices, for that matter. I teach my grandchildren the obvious ones.
Language learning? “Rote” learning is a helpful segment, including learning foreign languages. Been there, do that.
From my perspective, several errors are made in the U.S. educational system, the most obvious of which is the idea that ALL kids should be ready for college when they graduate high school. Why? A percentage of students would be much better off with a vocational school. They learn much better with their “hands then with their heads.”
And not all students thrive with “project based learning,” either.
Countries which end up with better learning results (however you want to measure that) offer these other options. In the U.S. it seems to be considered as a “less than…” education.
Rudy, I should have added this adjective: No high-performing nation in the world requires annual testing.
http://www.ncee.org/2014/04/statistic-of-the-month-when-high-performing-countries-test-students/
News flash; Public Schools have been abandoned for the last 8 years.
The Real One
You state that “News flash; Public Schools have been abandoned for the last 8 years.”
Can you please prove it? As an example tell me which public school and where in the world is it located and who abandoned it and when?
Raj,
You are taking that statement literally. What does abandoned mean? The traditional public schools are systematically being starved of funds, being dismantled, and our children are being turned over to autocratic, teach to the test, bully, child abusing, opaque, law breaking, often fraudulent and inferior corporate charter schools. And this is happening from the White House down.
That’s what abandoned means.
Today, AOL used this ‘black son’ story as their lead when you sign on. This is not an accident of timing…the Trumpeters are out in force with the conspiracy crapola….all to influence and arouse their hateful supporters to vote for the rotten tRUMP.
He is pulling out all the stops…and today wanted to deflect from the announcement mentioned on Huff Post of the lawsuit filed by Lisa Bloom in favor of her client who claims tRump raped her when she was 13, repeatedly.
It is all sickening.
It’s obvious what tRUMP’s stragegy is. During the last week up to the election, flood the media with conspiracy theories and endless accusations and lies about Hillary with little or no time for the media, fact checkers to refute them in an attempt to educate voters about the truth. The fact checkers can’t keep up with this epic flood of deceit. This is what Trump learned from the mob lawyer, Ray Cohn, the man who taught/showed tRUMP how to exploit power and instill fear.
It was Cohn who showed Trump how to exploit power and instill fear through a simple formula: attack, counterattack and never apologize.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/former-mccarthy-aide-showed-trump-how-to-exploit-power-and-draw-attention/2016/06/16/e9f44f20-2bf3-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html
NPR broadcast a story about this friendship between a devil and his protege, the future devil, the tRUMP, in early August 2016.
Wayne Barrett, who wrote a bio on tRUMP, had this to say about Cohn, “it was like having lunch with Satan.”
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/04/488722392/village-voice-reporter-recalls-roy-cohns-early-influence-on-trump
Raj:
My state is currently spending less than it was in 2007 in per student funding, I consider that 9 years of abandonment. My former school went from a PE class of 90 students taught by 3 teachers to a PE class of over 100 teachers taught by 1. I consider that abandonment. When I would have to spend over $2,000 per year of my own money to buy expo markers and printing paper because the school didn’t have any I consider that abandonment.
Meanwhile all of this distracts the media from asking either candidate where they stand on the propositions on public schools before voters in MA, ME, and GA and DAPL. Instead of substantive debates on public schools and climate change we are left with debates on debauchery, sexting, and “corrupt” emails.
Feature, not a bug. Welcome to our “democracy”.
https://www.michaelyon-online.com/a-message-from-the-queen.htm
Antidote for the weary.