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It's not especially remarkable that House Democrats once summoned fellow liberal Donald Trump to Capitol Hill to testify about the alleged adverse effects of Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reforms. What is somewhat remarkable is that this clip wasn't dug up by a conservative opposition research team, but rather by Trump's own campaign -- which proceeded to blast it out into the public bloodstream as evidence that "Mr. Trump" is an all-caps EXPERT on economic matters. And what conclusion did his "expertise" produce? I'll let Trump answer that question in his own words. Again, this comes via Trump's social media director,...

Thanks to the so-called “rigged” rules of the Republican Party’s presidential primary process, Donald Trump won 95% of New York state’s convention delegates Tuesday with only 60% of the votes. The political newcomer has been complaining about his well-organized main challenger, Ted Cruz, collecting delegates out of proportion to voter support, according to each state’s sometimes arcane selection rules, all of which were written and published last October. But Tuesday night Trump was not complaining. With the big Empire State victory, his first involving a voter majority, the real estate billionaire added about 90 new delegates to his total. That...

“All Colorado Republicans [registered more than a month] could vote in precinct caucuses, which chose delegates to congressional and state conventions, who voted for national delegates.” That’s my (unabbreviated) Tweet summarizing the way that Colorado Republicans chose delegates to the national Republican Convention. I should know; as a Colorado Republican I participated in the caucuses. But apparently, for some Trump supporters, my experience participating in the caucus process is no match for a Drudge headline claiming it never happened. As of the evening of April 10, Drudge claimed on its main page, “Fury as Colorado has no primary or caucus;...