hillary-clinton

Billionaire Republican Who Mocked Hillary Clinton's Marriage Had an Ashley Madison Account

Sam Biddle · 08/27/15 01:55PM

A billionaire hedge fund investor and GOP donor who publicly mocked Hillary Clinton this year for being married to “a liar and a cheat” had an account on the cheating site Ashley Madison, according to data released by hackers calling themselves the Impact Team. The name and email address of Dan Loeb, founder of hedge fund Third Point LLC and prominent contributor to the Romney campaign, appear in the company’s database of users, and Loeb confirmed in a statement to Gawker that the account is authentic.

State Department Finds Thousands of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist

J.K. Trotter · 08/17/15 11:30AM

Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets and Philippe Reines, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and aggressive defender of Hillary Clinton. Over two years ago, the department claimed that “no records responsive to your request were located”—a baffling assertion, given Reines’ well-documented correspondence with journalists. Late last week, however, the State Department came up with a very different answer: It had located an estimated 17,000 emails responsive to Gawker’s request.

Donald Trump: I Paid Hillary Clinton to Attend My Wedding 

Taylor Berman · 08/06/15 09:24PM

After attacking Rosie O’Donnell earlier in tonight’s debate, Donald Trump turned his focus to Hillary Clinton. “I gave to many people,” Trump said, defending his political donations to candidates from both parties before explaining what he got in return. “With Hillary Clinton I said be at my wedding, and she came to my wedding,” he said. “She had no choice because I gave.”

Hillary Clinton Is Running For Capitulator-In-Chief

Hamilton Nolan · 07/31/15 09:28AM

If Hillary Clinton’s stance on the minimum wage is any indicator, the Democratic party can expect a leader who specializes in the party’s greatest talent: capitulation.

Brendan O'Connor · 07/05/15 10:15AM

Hillary Clinton supporters clash with protestors during the Democratic presidential candidate’s appearance at a Fourth of July parade in Gorham, New Hampshire.

Oligarch Possibly Feels Modicum of Shame

Brendan O'Connor · 06/21/15 11:30AM

As she strikes an increasingly populist pose ahead of the 2016 Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton may have to forego a Hamptons house this summer, the New York Times reports. Houses on the Hamptons rent for hundreds of thousands of dollars a month: the “optics,” as they say, are not great.