Trump Now Claiming He Never Said He Raised $6 Million for Veterans

Almost four months after promising $1 million of his own money to veterans' causes, Donald Trump moved to fulfill that pledge Monday evening - promising the entire sum to a single charity as he came under intense media scrutiny. When asked Tuesday whether he had given the money this week only because reporters had been asking about it, Trump responded: "You know, you're a nasty guy.

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In January DONALD TRUMP told HoWIE CARR it would be interesting to ask Bill Clinton the difference between him and Bill Cosby. The disgraced comedian, 78, learned the news inside a Norristown, Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday after Montgomery County prosecutors spent the morning presenting their case to the judge and laying out why they believe they have enough evidence to send the case to trial.

Pundits say Trump could lack the money to win — what if they’re wrong?

That's the message the media are sending with a spate of articles about the obstacles facing the Republican nominee. On the surface, it seems apparent that if Trump has trouble raising a billion dollars, does battle with a much smaller staff and has little turnout operation, he's ceding some crucial advantages to Hillary Clinton.

Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44%

Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives - The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty - A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44% - It's not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.

Regulatory Capture and the Revolving Door

Three of the top four officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have jumped from CFPB to lucrative posts representing financial services industry firms their former agency regulates, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The latest of the departures is Quyen Truong, formerly deputy general counsel, who accepted a position this month with the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.