This is the bit from this story – Sanders hits Clinton Foundation over foreign donations – that has to make you ponder just how corrupt the American media is:

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders criticized the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from foreign governments in an interview aired Sunday, calling it a conflict of interest.

“Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of State and a foundation run by her husband collects many, many dollars from foreign governments — governments which are dictatorships?

“Yeah, I do have a problem with that. Yeah, I do,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

When host Jake Tapper asked if he thought it was a conflict of interest, Sanders said, “I do.”

Look Jake, you wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions, would you?

Secret Service agent to release tell-all book about the Clinton White House and the culture that ‘sickened’ him. The main points:

• Gary Byrne says he was posted outside Bill Clinton’s Oval Office in 1990s
• Was one of the agents who testified to a grand jury about Monica Lewisnky [sic]
• Complained about her behavior and ‘out of hours’ access to the West Wing
• Releasing book so voters understand the ‘real’ Clinton before the election
• Reports say his expose is causing deep concern in the White House
• The release of the book comes a month before the Democratic convention
• Secret Service agents have openly discussed protecting Hillary in the past
• Investigative journalist Ron Kessler said agents detested Hillary

My guess is that if the book is being published there’s nothing in it that will disturb Hillary. I’ve heard every story before and it has not made any difference. Character may be destiny, but policy sense is what we are looking for in a president, which this discusses not at all. If Obama can get away with his book being written by Bill Ayers, this will make less noise than a tree falling in the forest.

This is no more than a teleprompter malfunction, which as usual exposes Obama as the inarticulate nonentity he actually is. His incoherence is protected by the media in the same way that FDR was never shown in a wheelchair by the press in his time. But that Obama should say one word about how he has begun some kind of social healing process which Donald Trump is about to tear apart is an example of such delusion that it does truly make you worry about the health of the American democracy.

And if you have any thoughts that the US remains a basically sound society without corruption now to its very roots, there is this to add to everything else you know. This story is bizarre because it is bizarre, but also because you won’t find this written in any of the mainstream media: Stunning Hidden Agendas Exposed – Trump University Lawsuit Brought By Firm Who Paid $675,000 To Bill and Hillary Clinton…. And if you find that bizarre, then what about this about the judge:

Donald Trump has accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel as having a bias, a specific agenda bias, to the benefit of the plaintiffs in the case; and it appears he is correct.

Judge Curiel, an activist for illegal immigration, even went as far as to work on behalf of San Diego La Raza activists to select illegal aliens for scholarships.

Go to the link and see it for yourself.

UPDATE: Never to be found in the mainstream press, but now at least posted at Drudge: Judge Presiding Over Trump University Case Is Member Of La Raza Lawyers Group.

United States District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the man presiding over the class-action lawsuit against Trump University, is a member of the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego and oversaw the gift of a law school scholarship to an illegal alien.

In his 2011 judicial questionnaire to become a federal judge, Curiel revealed his history with La Raza. GotNews.com originally reported this Tuesday, and The Daily Caller has independently verified.

Curiel lists “La Raza Lawyers of San Diego” as a legal association he has been a part of in the questionnaire. Curiel’s office at the United States District Court for the Southern District of California confirmed to TheDC the judge’s membership in the group.

Curiel reveals more ties to the group in his questionnaire. He has spoken at two receptions held by La Raza Lawyers of San Diego, the most recent being in 2011. Last year, the group also held a reception for Curiel. The description of the event says, “This year we are proud to be honoring Judge Gonzalo Curiel at our reception and recognizing him for his leadership and support to the community and to our Association!”

That won’t, of course, stop Hillary, the Democrats and the media from pushing the case as an example of something. And this fact doesn’t, of course, mean that there isn’t something questionable here, although it raises many, many doubts that there is. And there would not have been anyone on the Republican side with some skeleton, either real or manufactured, that could not have been produced. It remains the case with Donald Trump, however, that at least he will fight it out on the ethical end and will not be cowed into retreat.

Almost an hour long but very entertaining as well as enlightening. Also reported here: Trump taunts media to its face. This may have been the most dramatic moment as the largest part of the press conference was devoted to replying to the media about whether or not he had raised money for veterans.

He called out Tom Llamas, a journalist with ABC News.

“I could have asked all these groups to come here and I didn’t want to do that. I’m not looking for credit. But what I don’t want is, when I raise millions of dollars, have people say, like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC,” Trump said, pointing to Llamas. “He’s a sleaze in my book. You’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well.”

To establish the facts, he therefore read out the individual cheques that had been distributed to Veterans Organisations which totalled so far $5.6 million. A reminder of just how much the media can be trusted to report those facts. He also seemed to have recognised that he will not win California in an election:

In his opening remarks, he wished LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers good luck in the NBA finals.

He is thus still hoping to win Ohio who are playing Oakland.