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World<br />
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
SOUTH ASIA<br />
Pakistan bans top<br />
journalist from leaving<br />
country<br />
Pakistan has imposed a travel ban<br />
on a leading journalist after he<br />
sparked an uproar by reporting that<br />
civilian officials had clashed with<br />
the military over its covert support<br />
for militants. Cyril Almeida, an assistant<br />
editor at Dawn, announced<br />
early Tuesday he had been placed<br />
on the “Exit Control List”. AFP<br />
INDIA<br />
7 killed in India after truck<br />
rams into crowd<br />
Seven people have been killed<br />
and 8 more injured after a truck<br />
rammed into a crowd near a busy<br />
Hindu temple in central India.<br />
Hundreds of worshippers had<br />
gathered at the Banjari temple to<br />
celebrate the ongoing Durga Puja<br />
festival, when the truck driver apparently<br />
lost control of his vehicle<br />
and ploughed into the crowd. AFP<br />
CHINA<br />
China, Russia to hold<br />
second military drills<br />
China and Russia will hold their<br />
second joint anti-missile drills<br />
next year, after South Korea and<br />
US angered the two countries<br />
with plans to deploy a anti-missile<br />
system in South Korea. Tension<br />
on the Korean peninsula has been<br />
high this year, beginning with<br />
North Korea’s fourth nuclear test<br />
in January, which was followed<br />
by tests of various missiles, and<br />
largest nuclear test. REUTERS<br />
ASIA PACIFIC<br />
Thai junta appeals for<br />
calm after car bomb plot<br />
alert<br />
Thailand’s junta chief appealed for<br />
calm Tuesday after police warned<br />
of a plot to target Bangkok with car<br />
bombs, sparking a security alert<br />
across the capital including at airports.<br />
An unusually detailed police<br />
memo was handed to reporters on<br />
Monday warning that an unidentified<br />
group was planning to target Bangkok<br />
between <strong>October</strong> 25-30. REUTERS<br />
MIDDLE EAST<br />
IS confirms minister of<br />
information killed<br />
The Islamic State group said<br />
Monday that a senior operative<br />
considered the group’s information<br />
minister had been killed, confirming<br />
an earlier Pentagon report. An IS<br />
statement on social media affirmed<br />
the “martyrdom” of Abu Mohammad<br />
al-Furqan, the nom de guerre<br />
of Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad,<br />
saying he was an emir of the group’s<br />
central media body. It did not release<br />
any further details. AFP<br />
ANALYSIS<br />
Runaway Trump train divides GOP<br />
• Tribune International Desk<br />
Donald Trump<br />
had a much<br />
stronger night<br />
against Hillary<br />
Clinton Sunday<br />
than he did when<br />
he self-destructed in their first debate<br />
two weeks ago. But it doesn’t<br />
change anything.<br />
The man is a veritable geyser of<br />
offences and embarrassments that<br />
erupts as regularly as Old Faithful,<br />
and there isn’t anyone who can<br />
shut him off — least of all the candidate<br />
himself.<br />
Consider how long it seems<br />
since he was fat-shaming former<br />
beauty contest winner Alicia<br />
Machado. And yet that was just<br />
two weeks ago.<br />
By last weekend, the conversation<br />
had shifted to the new discovery<br />
of his old brag about how to get<br />
away with sexual assault — in his<br />
world, a perk of stardom.<br />
Some Republicans are at last<br />
coming to realize there probably is<br />
no end to this and the time to get<br />
off the Trump train was before it<br />
ever left the station.<br />
If only someone had warned<br />
them of what lay ahead, they could<br />
have tried harder to stop it!<br />
n that sense, it’s a good day to<br />
be Republican Senator Lindsey<br />
Graham.<br />
Graham has watched and resisted<br />
the Trump phenomenon as it<br />
overwhelmed his party this year.<br />
Instead, he turned his knack for<br />
blending blunt talk and casual outrage<br />
to enumerating the ways he<br />
believed Trump offended America’s<br />
core values.<br />
“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic,<br />
religious bigot,” he said last<br />
December. “He doesn’t represent<br />
my party.”<br />
At the time, Graham thought he<br />
might be a lonely voice, but he was<br />
nevertheless happy, he said, “to be<br />
in a category of one per cent who<br />
said ‘BS! This is not who we are as<br />
a party, this is not who we are as a<br />
nation.’”<br />
It’s likely he foresaw a day when<br />
colleagues and friends would be<br />
pressed to explain why it took<br />
them so long to say the same.<br />
That day has arrived.<br />
Asking tough questions<br />
A broadening swath of Republicans<br />
is awakening to the sobering<br />
question: “Is Trump who we are<br />
now?”<br />
What has shoved the question<br />
into their faces is not simply the<br />
discovery of Trump’s mindless<br />
trivializing of sexual assault. Nor<br />
is it even the accumulation of<br />
US REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY OVER TRUMP<br />
Former US administration Member of Congress Former Republican nominee<br />
Support Donald Trump<br />
Donald Rumsfeld<br />
Former Secretary<br />
of Defence<br />
Dick Cheney<br />
Former Vice<br />
President<br />
Ted Cruz<br />
Trump’s top<br />
rival for the<br />
Sarah Palin<br />
<strong>2016</strong> presidential<br />
Vicepresidential<br />
nomination<br />
candidate, 2008<br />
Source: US media<br />
abuses tossed at women, Muslims,<br />
Mexicans, veteran POWs, African-Americans,<br />
etc.<br />
What’s really put the groan in<br />
that question is that it’s begun<br />
to look as though the sacrifice<br />
of principle to expediency won’t<br />
have a payoff.<br />
Four weeks from Election Day,<br />
all signs point to a resounding<br />
Trump defeat — and with possibly<br />
spectacular collateral damage in<br />
the Senate and, most astonishingly,<br />
in the House.<br />
Republicans who regularly<br />
twisted themselves up like pretzels<br />
to excuse Trump’s many outrages<br />
see they’ll get nothing for it.<br />
Some are refusing to play the game<br />
anymore. One by one or in small<br />
groups, they are abandoning their<br />
leader.<br />
Even House Speaker Paul Ryan,<br />
the most senior elected Republican<br />
in U.S. federal politics, is heading<br />
that way now. He said he won’t defend<br />
Trump any longer, although<br />
he hasn’t yet “unendorsed” him as<br />
others, such as Senator John Mc-<br />
Cain, did last week.<br />
This will get uglier. There are<br />
bitterer days ahead.<br />
True, it’s never really looked<br />
like Trump could win the White<br />
House — he was behind by about<br />
six points in Tuesday’s RealClear-<br />
Politics polling average, and that’s<br />
been the case, give or take, for<br />
months. But it’s also true it’s never<br />
looked like Trump could lose<br />
his base in the Republican Party<br />
either.<br />
Sunday’s amped-up energy<br />
Who else could thrill them like he<br />
Defected from Trump campaign<br />
John McCain<br />
Presidential<br />
candidate 2008,<br />
Vietnam POW<br />
Paul Ryan<br />
House Speaker,<br />
the top elected<br />
Republican<br />
surely did in Sunday night’s debate?<br />
Wounded and with his back to<br />
the wall, Trump put on the kind<br />
of performance that electrifies his<br />
rallies.<br />
He reached down into the<br />
depths of “Hillary hatred,” threatened<br />
her with a special prosecutor<br />
and even jail if he becomes president,<br />
and seemed ready to lead<br />
the studio audience in a call-andresponse<br />
chorus of “Lock her up!<br />
Lock her up!”<br />
His message to the base in TV<br />
land: “I am still your champion!”<br />
There was even the flourish<br />
of reality show surprise: In the<br />
audience, strategically placed<br />
by Trump, sat three women who<br />
have alleged they were victims<br />
of sexual abuse decades ago after<br />
straying into the orbit of Bill<br />
Clinton.<br />
It was an evening you can bet<br />
they’re still talking about in all the<br />
Trumpsvilles big and small across<br />
America.<br />
Refuse to support Trump<br />
George<br />
W Bush<br />
Former<br />
president<br />
Bush<br />
family<br />
George Bush*<br />
Former president<br />
Jeb Bush<br />
Presidential<br />
hopeful,<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
And:<br />
Mitt Romney<br />
Presidential<br />
8 senators<br />
candidate, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
15 congressmen/women<br />
3 governors<br />
And:<br />
5 former party officials<br />
8 senators<br />
22 congressmen/women<br />
6 governors<br />
>80 former party officials<br />
*reported to be voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton<br />
A 2005 video<br />
“I moved on her like a b...., but<br />
I couldn't get there. And she was<br />
married... When you're a star, they<br />
let you do it. You can do anything...<br />
Grab them by the p....”<br />
About former Miss Universe<br />
Alicia Machado<br />
"She gained a massive amount<br />
of weight, and it was a real problem"<br />
About Fox News journalist<br />
Megan Kelly<br />
"You could see there was blood<br />
coming out of her eyes, blood<br />
coming out of her wherever"<br />
Referring to a Republican<br />
primary opponent<br />
Carly Fiorina<br />
"Look at that face.<br />
Would anyone vote for that?"<br />
Donald Trump<br />
on women<br />
"Nobody respects women<br />
more than I do"<br />
In conversation with radio host<br />
Howard Stern<br />
"What is it at 35? It's called<br />
check-out time"<br />
"It's okay to call my daughter<br />
a 'piece of a..'"<br />
About the Clintons<br />
"Bill Clinton 'was the worst abuser<br />
of women in the history of politics...<br />
And Hillary was his 'enabler’"<br />
On Twitter, about Huffington Post's<br />
co-founder Arianna Huffington<br />
"@ariannahuff is unattractive<br />
both inside and out. I fully<br />
understand why her former<br />
husband left her for a man -<br />
he made a good decision"<br />
But it bodes ill.<br />
Such a strong and welcome performance<br />
for the grassroots of the<br />
party is nevertheless trouble for<br />
the party leadership.<br />
Without an unprecedented reversal<br />
in public opinion, Clinton<br />
will be elected president.<br />
That will be a hard punch to the<br />
gut for Trump and his supporters,<br />
and many will turn against the Republican<br />
leaders who they believe<br />
abandoned them at the critical<br />
hour.<br />
And on the other side, they will<br />
blame Trump as the only candidate<br />
who could have lost to someone<br />
as disliked as Clinton is.<br />
And so with all that already<br />
simmering, whatever happens to<br />
the Republican Party next seems<br />
destined to begin in a boiling stew<br />
of bitterness, betrayal, spite and<br />
anger. •<br />
[This is an excerpt of a CBC article,<br />
which can be found at http://bit.<br />
ly/2dGsn4N]
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