Trump Campaign Successfully Finds Way To Blame Hillary Clinton For New Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal New York Magazine

Republican nominee Donald Trump decided it was necessary for his campaign to release a statement on Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin's decision to separate and presumably divorce Anthony Weiner. Trump -- who has no pristine record with women and wives himself -- offered his unsolicited opinion on Huma’s decision, saying: “I know Anthony well, and she will be far better off without him”,

Then Trump the cat pounced. tying the sexting habits of Weiner into a condemnation of Hillary Clinton's leadership, saying:

"I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgement. It is possible that our country and security have been greatly compromised by this."

Trump's new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency Politico

"The trick out of Brooklyn isn't just to make Hillary Clinton win but to make her win as something other than a brain-damaged crook who stole the election and will spend the next four years selling out the government from her deathbed," writes Politico.

Donald Trump’s campaign is in the bunker in an Obama-birther-type project to de-legitimize Hillary Clinton as a candidate for office but also as America's future president. So rabid is this Trump agenda that Hillary hate has seeped beyond extremist chatrooms into “lock her up” chants on the Republican convention floor and daily Trump rallies, into Trump's assertions that he's really leading but the national polls are rigged, and voters are doused with Hillary-health images as former New York mayor challenges America's citizens to go on the Internet to see Hillary about to expire or needing to be carried up the stairs.

The Clinton campaign has deliberately refused to defend against these absurd attacks, preferring its surrogates to redirect the fire back onto Trump. Given the absurd letter from Trump's own physician, he's hardly in a position to challenge Hillary Clinton's health. “It holds up a mirror to Donald Trump and what his campaign is about, and says everything you need to know about Donald Trump and where these kinds of crazy conspiracy theories are coming from,” one campaign aide told Politico.

Still, the Democrat’s professional team is aware of how these daily accusations might live beyond November and into a Clinton presidency.

“Some of the campaign and allies' conspiracies are designed to delegitimize her personally. Most are simply designed to spread fear and mistrust. And I am sure if she wins, the right wing will continue to spread these theories,” said Clinton senior adviser Jennifer Palmieri. Palmieri is in favor of ignoring most of the wackiness but warned: “Just because they may have zero basis in truth doesn't mean they can't be corrosive. So in this cycle I believe you have to call out the truly destructive theories calmly, but aggressively, and in real time.”

President Barack Obama and his allies spent eight years being sandbagged by Donald Trump and his obsession with the president's birth certificate, his-middle-name’s-Hussein attacks, and a mountain of accusations that all boil down to the same thinking now hounding Hillary Clinton: "he’s a fake, his presidency either doesn’t count or is a Moorish-style Trojan Horse."

“It’s a longer strategy. It’s not that people believe that he wasn’t born in the United States,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), recalling how this played out for Obama and sketching the parallels she sees facing Clinton now. “It was the relentless negative attacks on him that really created a backdrop to pressure Republicans and hold them accountable not to work with him.”

Michelle Kwan Is Working for Hillary Clinton New York Magazine

Olympic figure-skating star Michelle Kwan has the unique role of being both celebrity surrogate and Clinton campaign staffer. Kwan’s official role with the campaign is “surrogate outreach coordinator,” which requires her to identify and solicit support from high-profile backers like Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, and Meryl Streep, all of whom have made appearances this year on behalf of the candidate.

Most people don't know that Kwan became a public-diplomacy envoy on behalf of the United States, working for the State Department in 2006. Kwan continued this role into the Obama administration, joining the Clinton State Department in a formal capacity in 2011 as a senior adviser for public diplomacy and public affairs. Kwan's undergrad and graduate degrees are in international relations and political science.

Brazile on Clinton Foundation: 'I don't see where the smoke is' Politico

"This notion that, somehow or another, someone who is a supporter, someone who is a donor, somebody who's an activist, saying I want access, I want to come into a room and I want to meet people, we often criminalize behavior that is normal," she said in an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "I don’t see what the smoke is."

How The Clinton Campaign Is Foiling the Kremlin Vanity Fair

Staffers from the Clinton campaign were instructed months ago to use a special app called Signal, when communicating about Donald Trump. The app, which uses end-to-end encryption is "Snowden-approved".