memeorandum: Clinton Trounces in Debate Reactions; Trump's Unfavorability Edges Up (POLL) (Gary Langer/ABC News)

12:00 PM ET, October 2, 2016

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Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found — Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years …

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

As news of Trump's taxes broke, he goes off script at a rally in Pennsylvania — MANHEIM, Pa. — Donald Trump's campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders.

Discussion: The Week and Guardian

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:

The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump's tax return — Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing. — The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump's tax returns.

Discussion: New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Atlantic, NBC News, Raw Story, New York Magazine and Lawyers, Guns & Money

NBC News:

Analysis: Trump May Have Had the Worst Week in Presidential Campaign History — SEPT. 26: Clinton Lists Reason Why Trump Is Not Releasing Taxes 1:10 — October didn't wait 24 hours before delivering a surprise. It came in an envelope delivered to the New York Times containing portions …

Discussion: Red Alert Politics, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Magazine, Full Feed, Jezebel, NPR, Gothamist, Liberty Unyielding and KTLA

New York Times:

Pages From Donald Trump's 1995 Income Tax Records — The tax records obtained by The Times show that Donald J. Trump claimed a $916 million loss that could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Media Matters for America, NPR, Boing Boing and Balloon Juice

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

One year of Trump's tax returns were just revealed. Now we know why he won't release the rest. — Trump's tax gambit, revealed. — Someone sent an envelope to the New York Times with the key pages of one year of Trump's tax returns, 1995. The pages revealed that, that year, Trump claimed over $900 million in losses.

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, Politicus USA, twitchy.com and The Week

Philip Bump / Washington Post: What we know about Donald Trump's income tax history, by year

Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Donald Trump Tax Returns Reportedly Show $916 Million Loss in 1995

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Newsalert

Gary Langer / ABC News:

Clinton Trounces in Debate Reactions; Trump's Unfavorability Edges Up (POLL) — Americans see Hillary Clinton as the winner of the first presidential debate by a near-record margin in ABC News/Washington Post post-debate polls, with nearly half saying Donald Trump got his facts wrong and one in three saying he outright lied.

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

Trump wonders if Clinton is ‘crazy,’ loyal to her husband or healthy — MANHEIM, Pa. — In a rambling speech on Saturday night, Donald Trump imitated Hillary Clinton stumbling at a memorial service last month, suggested that she might be “crazy” and wondered if she is “loyal” to her husband.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Mocks Hillary Clinton's Pneumonia Stumbling Episode

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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Onlooker repeatedly yells ‘Bill Clinton is a rapist’ live on Fox News

Discussion: Mediaite

BBC:

Brexit: PM to trigger Article 50 by end of March — The UK will formally begin the formal Brexit negotiation process by the end of March 2017, Theresa May has said. — The timing on triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty means the UK looks set to leave the EU by summer 2019.

Discussion: The Atlantic, CNNMoney, NPR, The Daily Caller, The Week and Guardian

Stephen Castle / New York Times:
‘Brexit’ Talks Will Start by End of March, Theresa May Says

Discussion: Guardian and Marginal REVOLUTION

Michael Coleman / Albuquerque Journal:

Clinton, Trump in tight race in New Mexico — WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a slight lead over Republican Donald Trump among likely New Mexico voters in a four-way race, while Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is pulling nearly a quarter of voter support in the state, according to a Journal poll.

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON October 2, 2016 and it will be updated. — ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos: Trump's taxes revealed. After refusing to release his tax returns.

Discussion: Politicus USA

Daily Mail:

BBC sacked me for being a white man... even though I work in radio: The Now Show comic was told he was being axed to make way for more women and diversity — The BBC was at the centre of a damaging diversity row last night after one of its top radio stars was sacked for being ‘white and male’.

Discussion: Vox Popoli

Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:

‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.’ — In a living room in western Pennsylvania, the Republican National Convention was on TV, and Melanie Austin was getting impatient. — “Who's that guy?” she said, watching some billionaire talk about prosperity and tolerance. “Prosperity and tolerance?