The Veterans of Foreign Wars also calls out the Republican presidential nominee.
Donald Trump
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Pocket version of Constitution a best-seller after speech
The 52-page pamphlet sells for $1 and rockets to the top of Amazon’s chart after an appearance in a speech by a Muslim-American lawyer.
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Trump coming to Portland on Thursday, campaign official says
It will be the Republican presidential nominee’s third campaign stop in Maine this year.
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Get ready for the nastiest election in decades
Analysis: As the starkly different opponents cast one another in dire terms, unpredictability prevails.
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Huge task of creating transition team will test Trump’s ability to govern
While recent transition teams have enlisted hundreds people, Trump’s has only a handful and his entire campaign lists only about 70 people on the payroll.
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Maine’s delegation in Congress criticizes Trump statements on email hacking
Most of Maine’s members of Congress, or their representatives, call the statement ‘unwise,’ ‘reckless’ or ‘irresponsible.’
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Poll shows Clinton with big lead in Trump’s must-win Pennsylvania
The Republican presidential candidate only gets 76 percent of Republican votes – almost certainly thanks in part to how poorly he does with women.
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Analysis: With email remarks, Trump crosses a line, dares critics to make him pay
The Republican nominee’s suggestion that Russia expose Hillary Clinton’s missing emails is roundly criticized by many, but breaking with conventional politics has served him well to this point.
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Trump’s minimum-wage reversal is latest headache for Republicans
Breaking with his party’s views and platform, Donald Trump backs a $10-an-hour federal minimum wage.
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Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton’s emails
Trump’s provocation alarmed many Republican leaders and foreign policy experts, who also were dismayed by Trump’s remark that he would be ‘looking at’ whether Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, should be recognized as Russian territory.