Friday, July 22, 2016

Friday's Headlines: Trump promises ‘law and order’ for an America in perilous decline

The Fix: Winners and losers; Fact Checker: Trump's 25 key claims — and how they differ from reality; Ivanka Trump makes a personal appeal to women; Trump reaches out to fed-up voters and sends a warning to doubters; A dark speech, and the times he strayed from his draft;
 
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Trump promises 'law and order' for an America in perilous decline
In his acceptance speech, Donald Trump portrayed the U.S. as a nation besieged by terror abroad and chaos at home. He cast himself as a change agent and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as a guardian of the status quo.
The Fix: Winners and losers
Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka had a good night. Campaign manager Paul Manafort? Not so much.
 
Fact Checker: Trump's 25 key claims — and how they differ from reality
The portrait that Trump sketched in his acceptance speech relies on doomsday figures that fall apart upon close scrutiny. 
 
Ivanka Trump makes a personal appeal to women
In introducing her father, she said he would push for equal pay for women and better child care.
 
Trump reaches out to fed-up voters and sends a warning to doubters
His self-portrait was not that of someone eager to join forces with Republican majorities in Congress but that of a strong, even autocratic, leader.
 
A dark speech, and the times he strayed from his draft
An annotated transcript shows the places where he deviated from the draft leaked to media.
 
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Trump’s acceptance speech: Seeking victory by scaring the country to death
 
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In his acceptance speech, Trump displays his demagoguery
 
Trump doubles down: Fear justifies a strongman
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Dallas police used a robot to kill. What does that mean for the future of lethal force?
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