Trump debate versus Hilary Clinton

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37610348

Vocabulary:

1. after remarks
2. led to outrage
3. Trump is sinking
4. have withdrawn their support
5. The two also sparred
6. would not advocate
7. who settled a sexual harassment
8. who claimed Mr Clinton

Text: US election: Top Republican Ryan 'won't defend Trump'

The most senior elected US Republican official has said he will not defend Donald Trump, after remarks (=observações) he made about groping women led to outrage (=ofensa).

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan vowed to focus on defending seats in Congress, but did not end his endorsement of the party's nominee.

Earlier Democrat rival Hillary Clinton cast doubt on Mr Trump's apology for the remarks, made 11 years ago.
On Sunday, Mr Trump described his words as "locker-room talk".
In a bitter televised debate, a month before the US presidential election, Mr Trump denied he had groped anyone.
Mrs Clinton tweeted on Monday that, if he stood by this assertion, he was "clearly not sorry".

Meanwhile Mr Trump's running mate Mike Pence said he would stand by him despite an outcry over the remarks.
A 2005 video released on Friday revealed Mr Trump describing how he had sought to have sex with a married woman and making obscene comments about women.


Walking a fine line, by Anthony Zurcher, BBC News
Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking Republican officeholder, has officially given the signal. The SS Trump is sinking (=afundando), and it's time for members of his party to calmly, quietly head to the lifeboats.

Republican control of Congress must be maintained at all costs, the House speaker asserted in his call to congressional rank-and-file on Monday, lest Hillary Clinton have the ability to advance her party's legislative priorities and seat sympathetic Supreme Court justices without opposition.
It's notable that after reports he was mulling a full unendorsement of the Republican nominee, Mr Ryan is apparently trying to a walk a fine line between abandonment and loyalty to his putative standard-bearer. His decision evokes shades of 1996, when Republican nominee Bob Dole's doomed presidential campaign rolled along, oblivious to a party apparatus that was focusing exclusively on down-ballot races.

It's worth keeping in mind that while Mr Ryan is sounding the abandon-ship alarm, Donald Trump may not play the stoic captain watching from the bridge. He's shown no loyalty to a Republican establishment that never truly embraced him and may have no qualms with lashing out at erstwhile friend and foe alike in the campaign's final, turbulent days.

Asked about the video in the debate, Mr Trump turned his fire on Mrs Clinton's husband, ex-President Bill Clinton, whom he described as "abusive to women". She refused to address the comments.

At least 38 senior Republicans - including senators, members of Congress, and state governors - have withdrawn their support since the video surfaced on Friday.
'No blank cheque'
According to sources familiar with a conference call he held with congress members on Monday, Mr Ryan appeared to have accepted that Mrs Clinton would win the White House and wanted to make sure Republicans in Congress were strong enough to challenge her.

Mr Ryan said he would spend "his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank cheque with a Democrat-controlled Congress", the source said.
"You all need to do what's best for you in your district," he was quoted as telling colleagues.
Mike Pence at campaign stop in Ohio - 7 October

Mr Trump apologised for the remarks, and when pressed during the debate on whether he had engaged in sexual misconduct, he denied doing so.

But Mrs Clinton said his explanation that these were words not actions did not amount to an apology.
"If Trump stands by what he said about women as "locker room talk," he's clearly not sorry," she tweeted.
Meanwhile Mr Pence praised Mr Trump's honesty.
"I think last night he showed his heart to the American people. He said he apologised to his family, apologised to the American people, that he was embarrassed by it," he told CNN on Monday.

Earlier Mr Pence had described the remarks as indefensible.
The vice-presidential candidate said he was "honoured to stand with" Mr Trump and denied he had considered withdrawing from the race.

What were the main points of the debate?
When moderator Anderson Cooper asked about the video, Mr Trump denied ever sexually assaulting women, dismissing the remarks as "just words". Instead he focused on Bill Clinton's indiscretions.
Mrs Clinton said the explosive video "represents exactly who he is".
"With prior Republican nominees, I disagreed with them," she added, "but I never questioned their fitness to serve."

Mr Trump said if he won, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mrs Clinton and she would be in prison over her private email arrangements.

"Everything he just said is absolutely false but I'm not surprised," she responded. "It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country."
"Because you'd be in jail," he interrupted.
Mr Trump also said his Democratic rival "has tremendous hate in her heart" while criticising her for referring to his supporters as "deplorables".
Mrs Clinton said she apologised for the comment, adding: "My argument is not with his supporters, it's with him, about the hateful and divisive campaign he has run."

The two also sparred (=discutiram) on the conflict in Syria, Russian aggression, Trump's refusal to release his tax returns and his plan for the "extreme vetting" of immigrants arriving from countries with links to terrorism.

The evening concluded when an audience member asked the candidates to say one positive thing about each other.
Mrs Clinton said his children were a great reflection of him while Mr Trump called his opponent "a fighter" who never gives up.
An hour before the debate began, Mr Trump appeared at a news conference with women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct.
He joined three women who allege the former president sexually assaulted them and called the women "very courageous".

What else came up?
Mr Trump said he had not paid federal income tax in 18 years because he knew the tax code well
He constantly complained to the moderators that he was not getting fair treatment

On Syria, Mrs Clinton said she would not advocate (=to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something) the use of US ground forces
She promised that no-one making less than $250,000 would pay higher taxes but richer people would
Mr Trump also admitted he and running mate Mike Pence disagreed about use of force in Syria
But he refused to answer when moderator Martha Raddatz pressed him for a military strategy
Mrs Clinton also defended controversial remarks she made in a private speech that was made public in leaked emails on Saturday.

The transcript revealed she said a politician has a public and private position, but at the debate she said she had watched a film about Abraham Lincoln and was referring only to what he had done.
Clinton's Wall Street speeches leaked
So who are the women?
Mr Trump appeared with Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who settled (=estabeleceu) a sexual harassment suit against Mr Clinton for $850,000 in 1999 with no admission of guilt.
Juanita Broaddrick, who claimed Mr Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, also appeared with Mr Trump.
Mr Clinton has denied the claim through his lawyer and no charges have ever been brought against him.
The third woman was Kathleen Willey, a former White House aide who said Mr Clinton groped her in his office in 1993, but had previously said it never happened.
Mr Clinton has also denied this claim.

Kathy Shelton, a fourth woman who spoke, encountered Mrs Clinton in a criminal case when she was 12 years old.
Early in Mrs Clinton's legal career, she was appointed to defend Ms Shelton's rapist, despite objections, and had his sentence reduced to a lesser charge.
Years later, an audio tape emerged of Mrs Clinton speaking with a reporter, in which she can be heard laughing about the case.
During one instance, she laughed after explaining that her client had passed a lie detector test, which convinced her to never trust them again.

Palavras inocentes que decretaram a sentença de morte da reporter

Source: news.com.au

Vocabulary:

1. internal complaint
2. disciplined over the remarks
3. are commonplace but
4. was a jab at his race
5.  a wig

Text:
The words are a part of everyday conversation — “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field.”
But in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism — and saying them became a death sentence for Alison Parker.
The New York Post reports that 24-year-old white reporter, who was murdered on live TV along with her cameraman, used the phrases as an intern at ­WDBJ TV in Roanoke in 2012, according to an internal complaint (=queixa) filed by Flanagan, who was black.
“One was something about ‘swinging’ by some place; the other was out in the ‘field,’ ” said the January 21 report by assistant news director Greg Baldwin, which refers to Parker as Alison Bailey (her middle name).

Parker was never disciplined over the remarks (=observações), but Flanagan never forgot them.
Hours after gunning her and Adam Ward down during their broadcast Wednesday, Flanagan revealed in tweets that the comments were still fresh in his mind.
“Alison made racist comments,” Flanagan posted while he was on the run from cops.
“They hired her after that??” he wrote.
But colleagues said that it was all in Flanagan’s head and that Parker was as far from racist as they come.
“That’s how that guy’s mind worked. Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that,” Ryan Fuqua, a video editor at WDBJ, told The Post.
“[Those words are] just common, everyday talk. [But] that was his MO — to start s**t,” Mr Fuqua ­explained. “He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.”

Flanagan made the accusations a month before he was fired in February 2013. The document was part of his unsuccessful discrimination lawsuit against the television station.
Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ for six years, said that the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely set Flanagan off.
“We would say stuff like, ‘The reporter’s out in the field.’ And he would look at us and say, ‘What are you saying, cotton fields? That’s racist,’ ” Mr Fair recounted.
“We’d be like, ‘What?’ We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we’re all racists.”
“This guy was a nightmare,” Fair said. “Management’s worst nightmare.”

Flanagan assumed everything was a jab (=golpe) at his race, even when a manager brought in watermelon for all employees.
“Of course, he thought that was racist. He was like, ‘You’re doing that because of me.’ No, the general manager brought in watermelon for the entire news team. He’s like, ‘Nope, this is out for me. You guys are calling me out because I’m black.’ ”
Flanagan even declared that ­7-Eleven was racist because it sold watermelon-flavoured Slurpees.
“It’s not a coincidence, they’re racist,” he allegedly told Mr Fair.

A black former classmate of Parker at James Madison University was stunned by the allegations, saying Parker was kind to people of all races during their time at the Harrisonburg, Va., school.
“When I took [my journalism] job, she recommended me,” Jessica Albert told the Associated Press. “She did that for me, so she’s definitely not a racist.”
Meanwhile, authorities revealed Thursday that Flanagan planned on getting away after the murders, and that suicide was a last RESORT.
Inside the RENTAL CAR where he killed himself during a police pursuit, cops found a briefcase with three license plates, a wig (=peruca), a shawl, an umbrella, sunglasses, a black hat, and a to-do list.
Cops also discovered a Glock 19 pistol with multiple magazines and ammunition, a white iPhone, several letters and notes, a “powder residue” and “bodily fluids.”
Police identified Flanagan as a person of interest in the murders when he sent an unnamed friend a text message “making reference to having done something stupid,” according to a Virginia State Police search-warrant affidavit.

At Flanagan’s house in Roanoke, cops found evidence that he was a self-absorbed slob who indulged in gay porn in his spartan living space.
They found unwashed sex toys, cat faeces and several pictures of himself on his refrigerator, according to the Daily Mirror.
Prior to their search, officers entered the residence through the balcony, fearing Flanagan might have left booby traps.
Images obtained by the British newspaper show that his home — just 500 yards from the WDBJ studios — had little furniture aside from a leather couch and chair.
A neighbour said Flanagan was often “rude and arrogant” and that he would throw cat faeces at apartment doors during disputes.

Trump hotel in rio de janeiro

Source: nytimes

Vocabulary:

1. a Brazilian real estate mogul
2. gleefully bashing Trump
3. so little uproar that
4. lavish new Trump HOTEL here
5. marred by the skeletons
6. Mr. Trump’s immigration remarks
7. despite energetic diplomatic efforts
8. his nasty remarks
9. Turkish marble
10. where bolstering the playgrounds
11. remained bullish
12. in the gritty area
13. who loathe Brazil’s

Text:

Paulo Figueiredo Filho, a Brazilian real estate mogul (=magnata) and self-described conservative libertarian, at the building site of the new Trump HOTEL IN RIO DE JANEIRO. Credit Marizilda Cruppe for The New York Times

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa calls Donald J. Trump a “racist imbecile.” In Mexico, people are gleefully (=alegremente) bashing Trump piñatas after his caustic remarks about Latino immigrants in the United States. In Guatemala, a liquor company is putting up posters of Mr. Trump using a term that, when translated charitably, describes him as a jackass.

Then there is Brazil, where Mr. Trump’s new 171-room stamp on the Rio de Janeiro skyline has generated so little uproar (=alvoroço, tumulto) that his business partner feels perfectly comfortable trumpeting his contentious stance on immigration.

“I’m a Latin and I have to say, I didn’t get offended at all with his comments,” said Paulo Figueiredo Filho, 33, a Brazilian real estate mogul and self-described conservative libertarian who is building the lavish (=luxuoso) new Trump HOTEL here.

“I spend a lot of time in the U.S.,” Mr. Figueiredo added, “and I have seen a lot of illegal immigrants that are causing problems, causing trouble in the country, and I actually agree with him.”

The relative paucity of tension around Mr. Trump’s lavish new HOTELventure here — in contrast to reactions elsewhere in the Americas, where some media giants and other companies have cut ties to Mr. Trump — may reflect how Brazil is changing, and how it is not.

Rio’s skyline, marred (=marcado) by the skeletons of various high-profile HOTELprojects that have been abandoned, serves as a constant testament to the souring of Brazil’s economy, making just about any big real estate venture with a chance of being completed an inviting prospect as the city gears up to hold the 2016 Summer Olympics.

“It’s a privilege to have a Trump property in our city,” said Alfredo Lopes, the president of the city’s HOTEL association and the Rio Convention and Visitors Bureau, emphasizing that he had not paid much attention to the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump in the United States. “This project is a gift to Rio that will serve a very exclusive segment of the market.”

But there is a cultural dynamic at work as well. Scholars attribute some of the indifference here about Mr. Trump’s immigration remarks (=observações) to an entrenched tradition in Portuguese-speaking Brazil of seeing the country as separate from its Spanish-speaking neighbors in Latin America, despite (=apesar) energetic diplomatic efforts in recent decades to forge stronger ties in the region.

Many “Brazilians are not offended by Trump’s remarks concerning Latinos because they don’t think his nasty (=desagradaveis) remarks” refer to them, said Maxine Margolis, an anthropologist at the University of Florida who is a leading authority on Brazilian emigration to the United States. “He is talking about a population they see as ‘the other.’ ”

Estimates vary widely on the number of Brazilian immigrants in the United States because most of them are thought to be there illegally, but Dr. Margolis placed the number at around 900,000 to one million, close to the figures used by Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.

While some Brazilian immigrants returned to Brazil in the years after the 2008 financial crisis, a period when Brazil’s economy was booming, Dr. Margolis said it now appeared that Brazilians were moving yet again to the United States as Brazil’s economy remains mired in a multiyear slowdown.

Of course, Mr. Trump and his new landmark have their fair share of detractors. In a city long defined by its enormous gap between rich and poor, not everyone agrees that Rio needs yet another LUXURY HOTEL, much less one planning to charge $500 a night for rooms with floors made of imported Turkish marble (=marmore).

Adding to the extravagance, the 13-story HOTEL, which is designed with jagged, terraced suites facing the Atlantic, will feature an infinity pool made of glass suspended above a nightclub with capacity for 600 people.

“We live in a city that was the biggest slave port in human history, producing a legacy of inequality that is pervasive across Rio,” said Theresa Williamson, an urban planner and director of RioOnWatch, an organization reporting on the city’s favelas, the relatively poor urban areas that largely emerged as squatter settlements.

“Instead of focusing on ways of alleviating that inequality, there’s a push to use the Olympics to benefit the most privileged sectors of society,” Ms. Williamson added. “The Trump HOTEL is just the latest fixture in a city where bolstering (=reforçando) the playgrounds for the rich is a priority for the authorities.”

Still, criticism of the $120 million HOTEL, which is scheduled to open before the Olympics, remains subdued in Rio. Despite the economic headwinds in the country, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization said the group remained bullish (=otimista) about doing business in Brazil. And even as Mr. Trump faces criticism in various parts of the region, she said, “There is tremendous support for Trump and the brand across Latin America.”

Mr. Trump also recently expressed optimism about Brazil, even though the construction of another of his organization’s projects in Rio, a complex of five office towers in the gritty (=arenoso) area around the port, has been delayed, with no public completion date.

“I love Brazilians, especially Brazilian women, which are absolutely incredible,” Mr. Trump said in a 2014 INTERVIEW with Veja, a Brazilian magazine. Mr. Trump boasted that he had something to teach the Brazilian people, emphasizing that his lessons for Brazilians would involve providing an example of entrepreneurism and good service.

“I love teaching,” he said. “I’m a great teacher.”

When asked in the same interview if he had met Dilma Rousseff, Mr. Trump, apparently unaware that she is both a woman and the nation’s president, responded: “No. Who is he?”

Being less than reverential toward the Brazilian president, whether unintentional or not, did not seem to fan the flames, either. After all, dismissive views about Ms. Rousseff are fashionable in Brazil these days, as she grapples with approval ratings in the single digits. Huge street PROTESTS have called for her impeachment over the country’s sagging fortunes and a colossal graft scandal at the national oil company.

Mr. Figueiredo, the developer who will own the Trump HOTEL and have his American partners operate it, counts himself among those who loathe (=detesta) Brazil’s leftist president. He is a grandson of João Figueiredo, the last autocrat of a 21-year military dictatorship that ended in economic disarray in 1985.

While it might be expected for a business partner of Mr. Trump’s to promote their venture, Mr. Figueiredo goes beyond simply defending a project, as backers of a Trump tower under construction in neighboring Uruguay have done. Now Mr. Figueiredo says he wants to limit the government’s sway in the economy (though Barra da Tijuca, the beachfront district where he lives and is building the HOTEL, benefits from an onslaught of public transportation projects).

When Mr. Figueiredo’s blunt-spoken grandfather was stepping down in 1985, he remarked that he preferred the smell of horses to people. When asked what he wanted Brazilians to think of him, the four-star general replied, “I want them to forget me.”

But the frustrations with Brazil’s government have given new momentum to right-wing groups, and some in Brazil’s antigovernment PROTESTSare now openly calling for a return to military rule, a subject that was until recently politically taboo. Mr. Figueiredo exudes pride when talking about his grandfather, and he heaps praise on Mr. Trump, a figure under fire elsewhere in the region.

“He’s one of the most recognized businessmen in the world, and if anything, we’re getting more exposure,” Mr. Figueiredo said. “I don’t think anyone is going to decide not to stay in a fantastic HOTEL just because of his political views.”