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Try to keep up with Trump’s epically bad week

The past seven days have been something else for Donald Trump’s campaign for president.

We broke down the play-by-play of his offensive statements, terrible interviews and surrogate missteps since last Wednesday. Try to keep up.

Wednesday, July 27

5:43 a.m. ET: TRUMP FALSELY CLAIMS, AGAIN, THAT PUTIN CALLED HIM A GENIUS

11:03 A.M. ET: TRUMP CALLS ON RUSSIA TO INTERFERE IN U.S. ELECTION

COVERAGE

  • New York Times: Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s Missing Emails
  • Politico: Trump: ‘I have ZERO investments in Russia’
  • TPM: Trump: ‘I Hope’ Russia Has Clinton’s Deleted Emails – And Releases Them!
  • New York Times: Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s Missing Emails
  • New York Magazine: Donald Trump Asks Vladimir Putin to Help Him Win
  • The Intercept: This Isn’t the First Time Donald Trump Has Asked Hackers for Help Taking Down His Enemies
  • Washington Post: Trump urges Russia to help expose Clinton’s emails. When will this be too much for Republicans?
  • BuzzFeed: Former Bush NSA, CIA Chief Slams Trump’s Russia Comments
  • Washington Post: Opinion: Republicans have a problem: Trump-Putin
  • Politico Magazine: Trump and the Oligarch
  • New York Times: Donald Trump’s Appeal to Russia Shocks Foreign Policy Experts
  • New York Times: Editorial: What Was Mr. Trump Thinking?
  • Politico: Former Obama mentor: Trump’s Russian hack ‘jokes’ could ‘constitute treason’
  • NBC News: Trump and Putin Tried to Meet in Moscow Three Years Ago: Source
  • Mother Jones: Trump Claims He’s Never Spoken to Putin. In This 2014 Video, Trump Says He Did.

11:27 a.m. ET: TRUMP ORDERS NBC’S KATY TUR TO “BE QUIET”

  • Washington Post: Donald Trump orders NBC’s Katy Tur to ‘be quiet’

GENERAL TRUMP COVERAGE

  • BuzzFeed: Marco Rubio: Trump Will Learn On The Job
  • Washington Post: Donald Trump’s falsehood-laden press conference, annotated

Thursday, July 28

7:08 a.m. ET: KILMEADE INTERVIEW: TRUMP DENIES MOCKING DISABLED REPORTER

  • Mediaite: Trump Denies Mocking Disabled Reporter: ‘He Was Groveling’ to Change His Story
  • Washington Post: Donald Trump’s revisionist history of mocking a disabled reporter

11:15 a.m. ET: DONALD TRUMP JR. CLAIMS POTUS PLAGIARIZED SPEECH, FOLLOWING MELANIA’S SPEECH DISASTER

Friday, July 29

4:50 p.m. ET: AFTER BEING SAVED BY FIRE DEPT, TRUMP BASHES HONORED FIRE MARSHAL FOR DOING HIS JOB

  • Trump: “We have thousands of people in a room next door. We have plenty of space here. We have thousands of people outside trying to get in. And we have a fire marshal that said, “Oh we can’t allow more people.” It really is so unfair to the people…. hey, maybe they’re a Hillary person.”

COVERAGE

  • Denver Post: Donald Trump rescued from stuck elevator by Colorado Springs firefighters. Then he called out the fire marshal.
  • Washington Post: The Fix: Trump’s burn of the Colorado Springs Fire Dept. came right after firefighters rescued him

5:31 p.m. ET: TRUMP “AGREE[S]” WITH “LOCK HER UP” CHANT

  • CNN: Trump on ‘lock her up’ chant: ‘I’m starting to agree’
  • Huffington Post: Donald Trump Is ‘Starting To Agree’ Hillary Clinton Should Be Locked Up

9:33 p.m. ET: TRUMP  ATTACKS GENERAL ALLEN, CALLS HIM A “FAILED GENERAL”

  • Daily Wire: Trump Smears Four-Star General While Feuding With Family Of Slain Muslim Purple Heart Recipient
  • Trump: “They had a general named John Allen, and he — I never met him. And he got up and he started talking about Trump, Trump, Trump. Never met him. And you know who he is? He’s a failed general.” Denver, CO

11:24 p.m. ET: MAUREEN DOWD COLUMN POSTED, IN WHICH TRUMP ATTACKS GHAZALA KHAN FOR NOT SPEAKING DURING THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

  • Trump tells Maureen Dowd, “I’d like to hear his wife say something.” New York Times: Column: Trump’s Thunderbolts

Saturday, July 30

12:08 a.m. ET: TRUMP INTERVIEW WITH 9NEWS DENVER RELEASED, IN WHICH HE LIES ABOUT PUTIN RELATIONSHIP

7:36 p.m. ET: PART OF TRUMP INTERVIEW WITH ABC NEWS’ GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS LEAKED, IN WHICH TRUMP SAYS GHAZALA KHAN WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK AT DNC

  • TRUMP ON GHAZALA KHAN: “His wife … if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me. But a plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that.”
  • TRUMP ON SACRIFICE: “STEPHANOPOULOS: What sacrifice have you made for your country? TRUMP: I think I have made a lot of sacrifices. I’ve work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I’ve done—I’ve had tremendous success. STEPHANOPOULOS: Those are sacrifices? TRUMP: Oh, sure. I think they’re sacrifices.”

COVERAGE

  • Washington Post: Op-Ed: Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.
  • ABC News: Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: ‘I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices’
  • Washington Post: Donald Trump responds to the Khan family: ‘Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say’
  • Washington Post: Bipartisan coalition of veterans, Gold Star family members tells Trump his comments were ‘unacceptable’
  • NBC NEWS: Gold Star Families Attack Trump Over Comments About Ghazala Khan
  • Vox: Donald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for Trump
  • Washington Post: Trump stirs outrage after he lashes out at the Muslim parents of a dead U.S. soldier
  • The Hill: Trump draws backlash for comments on slain soldier’s father
  • Fox News: Trump criticized for comments on Muslim mother of fallen US soldier
  • Daily Kos: Trump responds to Khizr Khan with insults. Republican Party, this is your last jumping-off point
  • New York Times: Donald Trump Criticizes Muslim Family of Slain U.S. Soldier, Drawing Ire

Sunday, July 31

9:01 a.m. ET: IN ABC NEWS INTERVIEW, TRUMP REVEALS HE DIDN’T KNOW RUSSIA ANNEXED CRIMEA AND DEFENDS PUTIN’S INVASION OF UKRAINE

  • TRUMP: “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” TRUMP: “OK — well, he’s there in a certain way.” ABC News  ‘This Week’  Transcript: 7/31/16

COVERAGE

  • New York Times: Donald Trump Gives Questionable Explanation of Events in Ukraine
  • New York Daily News: Clueless Trump says Vladimir Putin is ‘not going into Ukraine,’ doesn’t realize Russia invaded Crimea in 2014

9:01 a.m. ET:  IN ABC NEWS INTERVIEW, TRUMP ONCE AGAIN SAYS HE WILL ONLY SUPPORT NATO ALLIES WHO ARE “PAYING”

  • “STEPHANOPOULOS: Even if that means conditioning our commitments to NATO, as you said? TRUMP: No, because you’re not going to do that. NATO is going to be just fine. But NATO countries — we have 28 countries — many of them are taking advantage of us because they’re not paying. So we’re protecting these countries and they’re not paying. And when people leave that last part in, everybody agrees with me.” ABC News  ‘This Week’  Transcript: 7/31/16

9:52 p.m. ET: NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER MAY STILL BE ON PAYROLL OF KREMLIN-BACKED UKRAINIAN POLITICIANS

  • New York Times: How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump
    • “It is not clear that Mr. Manafort’s work in Ukraine ended with his work with Mr. Trump’s campaign. A communications aide for Mr. Lyovochkin, who financed Mr. Manafort’s work, declined to say whether he was still on retainer or how much he had been paid.”

Monday, August 1

7:10 a.m. ET: TRUMP CLAIMS KHIZR KHAN “VICIOUSLY ATTACKED” HIM

7:32 a.m. ET: FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER COREY LEWANDOWSKI SAYS CAPTAIN KHAN WOULD BE ALIVE IF TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT

  • Think Progress: Lewandowski Claims Captain Khan Would Still Be Alive If Trump Had Been President

12:36 p.m. ET: VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS RELEASES STATEMENT CONDEMNING TRUMP

  • VFW: VFW SUPPORTS GOLD STAR FAMILIES

12:31 p.m. ET – JEB BUSH ADVISER SALLY BRADSHAW LEAVES GOP, MAY BACK CLINTON

  • CNN: First on CNN: Top Jeb Bush adviser leaves GOP, will vote for Clinton if Florida close

3:19 p.m. ET: TRUMP GOES AFTER ANOTHER FIRE MARSHAL

  • The clip of Trump talking to reporters about the fire marshal first aired on CNN at 3:19 p.m. on Monday, August 1, with a bug reading “Moments Ago.”
  • CNN: Meet Trump’s latest political enemy: Fire marshals

3:45 p.m. ET: TRUMP SAYS THE AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM IS “RIGGED”

COVERAGE

  • Washington Post: For Trump, a new ‘rigged’ system: The election itself
  • Huffington Post: Donald Trump: ‘I’m Afraid The Election Is Going To Be Rigged’

8:25 p.m. ET: TRUMP CALLS HILLARY CLINTON THE “DEVIL”

COVERAGE

  • Washington Post: Trump calls Hillary Clinton ‘the devil’
  • Politico: Trump calls Clinton ‘the devil’

NEW FACT CHECKS

  • AP FACT CHECK: Trump gets much wrong on Ukraine
  • Politifact: Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim that Clinton, Democrats rigged debate dates to conflict with NFL
  • Politifact: Donald Trump gets a Full Flop for whether he’s had a relationship to Vladimir Putin

GENERAL TRUMP COVERAGE

  • Politico: The evolving tale of Trump’s tax returns
  • New York Daily News: Donald Trump claims he really did know Russia invaded Ukraine already – but seems OK with it
  • New York Times: Donald Trump Reaffirms Support for Warmer Relations With Putin
  • Washington Post: Column: Dear Republican leaders: It’s not too late to dump Trump
  • New York Times: Editorial: Donald Trump Ducks Tax Disclosure

Tuesday, August 2

7:12 a.m. ET: ERIC TRUMP LIES ABOUT FATHER’S APOLOGY TO KHAN FAMILY AND POSITIONS ON IRAQ AND LIBYA

  • CNN: Eric Trump says father apologized to Khans (but he hasn’t)

7:56 a.m. ET: SITTING REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN RICHARD HANNA BACKS HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

  • Syracuse.com: Rep. Richard Hanna letter: We should all be done with Donald Trump (commentary)
  • New York Times: House Republican Backs Hillary Clinton, Calling Donald Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’
  • Think Progress: Republican Congressman Says He’s Had Enough Of Trump, Will Vote For Clinton

8:39 a.m. ET: FORMER CHRIS CHRISTIE AIDE MARIA COMELLA BACKS HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

  • CNN: First on CNN: Ex-top Christie aide backs Clinton over Trump

9:47 a.m. ET: DURING FOX BUSINESS INTERVIEW, TRUMP SUGGESTS AMERICANS PULL THEIR 401(k) FUNDS OUT OF THE STOCK MARKET

COVERAGE

  • Fox Business: Why Trump ‘Got Out’ of the Stock Market
  • The Hill: Trump: Americans should avoid stock market
  • Bloomberg: Trump Urges Exit From Market Boosted by ‘Artificially Low’ Rates

11:29 a.m. ET: TRUMP SAYS HE LIKES GETTING A PURPLE HEART JUST HANDED TO HIM, THE “EASIER WAY”

COVERAGE

  • McClatchy DC: Trump receives Purple Heart from veteran: ‘This was much easier’
  • Daily Beast: Trump: ‘I Always Wanted to Get the Purple Heart’
  • CNN:  Trump gifted Purple Heart, says he ‘always wanted’ one
  • ABC News: Tammy Duckworth Joins Purple Heart Veterans Blasting Trump for ‘Repugnant’ Comments

12:07 p.m. ET: TRUMP KICKS BABY OUT OF RALLY

COVERAGE

  • Daily Beast: Donald Trump to Baby at Rally: Crying Is for Losers
  • CNN: Trump: ‘You can get the baby out of here’
  • New York Times: Donald Trump Jousts With a Crying Baby at His Rally

3:57 p.m. ET: TRUMP SAYS “I DON’T REGRET ANYTHING” REGARDING HIS CLASH WITH THE GOLD STAR KHAN FAMILY

COVERAGE

  • Yahoo: Trump: No regrets about drawn-out discord with dead soldier’s family
  • Washington Post: Opinion: There is something very wrong with Donald Trump
  • Reuters: Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy
  • Washington Post: Khan confrontation keys in on human decency — and that could haunt Trump
  • Washington Post: Broad array of military luminaries condemn Trump over attacks on Khan family

4:30 p.m. ET: WASHINGTON POST STORY BREAKS IN WHICH TRUMP REFUSES TO ENDORSE PAUL RYAN, JOHN MCCAIN, OR KELLY AYOTTE

  • Washington Post: Trump refuses to endorse Paul Ryan in GOP primary: ‘I’m just not quite there yet’
  • TRUMP SAYS HE HAS NOT ENDORSED WAR-HERO JOHN MCCAIN BECAUSE “[MCCAIN] HAS NOT DONE A GOOD JOB FOR THE VETS.” [Washington Post, 8/2/16]
  • Washington Post: The Fix: How in the world is John McCain still supporting Donald Trump anyway?
  • TRUMP REFUSES TO ENDORSE SENATOR KELLY AYOTTE, SAYING SHE “HAS GIVEN ME ZERO SUPPORT.” [Washington Post, 8/2/16]

4:55 p.m. ET: TRUMP CAMPAIGN VETERAN CO-CHAIR AL BALDASARO SAYS KHIZR KHAN “DISGRACED” HIS SON

6:31 p.m. ET: TRUMP CAMPAIGN SPOKESPERSON KATRINA PIERSON SUGGESTED THAT OBAMA AND CLINTON ARE TO BLAME FOR THE DEATH OF HUMAYUN KHAN, WHO DIED IN 2004

  • “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life,” Katrina Pierson said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer.

COVERAGE

  • USA Today: Trump spokeswoman blames Obama for Captain Khan’s death
  • Politico: Trump spokeswoman blames Obama for 2004 death of Captain Khan
  • New York Daily News: Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson blames Capt. Humayun Khan’s 2004 death on President Obama, Hillary Clinton

8:06 p.m. ET: JUDGE LETS TRUMP U FRAUD CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP PROCEED

COVERAGE

  • CNN Money: Judge lets fraud case against Donald Trump proceed
  • WSJ: Judge Curiel Allows Trump University Case to Continue to Trial
  • New York Times: Federal Judge Allows Suit Against Trump University to Proceed

8:30 p.m. ET: ALLY OF CAMPAIGN MANAGER PAUL MANAFORT TELLS CNBC THAT MANAFORT IS “MAILING IT IN” AND THE REST OF THE STAFF IS “SUICIDAL.”

  • CNBC: Ally of Trump staffer Paul Manafort: The staff is ‘suicidal,’ he’s mailing it in

9:44 p.m. ET – WASHINGTON POST RELEASES TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP INTERVIEW, REVEALED TRUMP PAUSED FIVE TIMES TO WATCH TV IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS INTERVIEW

  • The Washington Post released a transcript of its full interview with Trump, indicating among other things that he paused five times to watch TV coverage in the middle of the interview.

10:29 p.m. ET: MEG WHITMAN CALLS TRUMP A “DEMAGOGUE,” SUPPORTS HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

  • Meg Whitman Facebook post: “Trump’s reckless and uninformed positions on critical issues – from immigration to our economy to foreign policy – have made it abundantly clear that he lacks both the policy depth and sound judgment required as President. Trump’s unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security. His authoritarian character could threaten much more. Therefore, I have decided to support Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
  • New York Times: Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President

10:50 p.m. ET: FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER COREY LEWANDOWSKI PUSHES TRUMP’S OBAMA BIRTHER CONSPIRACY

  • Huffington Post: CNN’s Corey Lewandowski Reignites Donald Trump’s Long-Debunked ‘Birther’ Conspiracy Theory

FACT CHECKS

  • Washington Post: Fact Checker: Donald Trump’s revisionist history of mocking a disabled reporter
  • Washington Post: Column: The facts behind Donald Trump’s many falsehoods
  • The Daily Beast: 15 Hours of Donald Trump’s Lies
  • AP FACT CHECK: Trump gets much wrong on Ukraine
  • New York Daily News: Veteran-mocking Trump once admitted he lacked ‘the guts’ for military service

GENERAL TRUMP COVERAGE

  • Newsweek: DONALD TRUMP’S MANY BUSINESS FAILURES, EXPLAINED
  • BuzzFeed: Former Bush CIA Chief: Military Won’t Obey Illegal Orders From Trump
  • Politico: Christie calls Trump criticism of the Khans ‘inappropriate’
  • TIME: Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia

Wednesday, August 3 (So Far)

3:17 a.m. ET: REINCE PRIEBUS IS “APOPLECTIC” OVER TRUMP

  • NBC News: RNC Chairman Priebus ‘Apoplectic’ Over Trump’s Refusal to Endorse Ryan

  • New York Times: Ignoring Advice, Donald Trump Presses Attack on Khan Family and G.O.P. Leaders

8:53 a.m. ET: GOP OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR AN INTERVENTION WITH TRUMP

  • ABC News: Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out

  • NBC News: Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours

9:11 a.m. ET: TRUMP STAFFERS FRUSTRATED BY TRUMP

  • CNN: Sources: Trump-world frustrated by their candidate

  • New York Magazine: Donald Trump’s Campaign Might Actually Implode

9:19 a.m. ET: FORMER TOP GINGRICH ALLY VIN WEBER CALLS GOP NOMINATION OF TRUMP “MISTAKE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS”

  • CNBC: Former top Gingrich ally calls Trump nom ‘mistake of historic proportions’

1:12 p.m. ET: TRUMP SURROGATE BEN CARSON SAYS THE KHAN FAMILY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO TRUMP

  • Mediaite: Ben Carson: The Khans Should Apologize to Trump for Slandering Him

2:26 p.m. ET: ANNOUNCEMENT BREAKS THAT TRUMP TAJ MAJAL WILL CLOSE AFTER LABOR DAY

  • Tony Rodio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana Entertainment: “Currently the Taj is losing multi-millions a month, and now with this strike we see no path to profitability,” Rodio said in the statement. “Unfortunately, we’ve reached the point where we have will to have to close the Taj after Labor Day weekend and intend to send WARN notices to before this weekend.” Press of Atlantic City: Trump Taj Mahal set to close after Labor Day weekend

GENERAL TRUMP COVERAGE

  • Washington Post: Donald Trump’s sacrilegious campaign

  • CNN: Khizr Khan: John McCain was my son’s ‘hero’

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