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A closer look at Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, as he goes head-to-head with Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House</s>He expects people, business deals, even entire systems of government to cower at the mere mention of the name Donald Trump and to bend toward his will.

If something he desires cannot be wooed right away, he'll just try grabbing it. Maybe that move works.

This expectation of ease is also on display in Trump's presidential campaign, or, the rough approximation of a campaign he's running. Trump never bothered hiring people to help him win or, say, stopped to make friends with any Republicans who might campaign for him. He's trying to win using television and his fabulous tweets.

Today, finally, the circus comes to town. For the first time since the campaign started, Donald Trump will hold a public rally in the Twin Cities.

Evidently, he thinks he can erase Hillary Clinton's (between 6 and 10 percent) lead and Minnesota's 45-year streak of voting for Democrats... without leaving the airport.

Tickets are available for Trump's 2:00 p.m. rally at the historic and patriotic Sun Country Airlines hangar. As any political historian will tell you, the path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue always leads through 2005 Cargo Road.

We'll watch to see if Trump decides to localize his speech to seed it with some Minnesota flavor. So far, all we know Trump knows about this state is that its health insurance premiums are going up -- great insight, Don -- and, back in August, that it's having "tremendous problems."

As of about 11 o'clock this morning, when the gates open for Trump's in-and-out campaign stop, we're going to be having "tremendous problems" in terms of traffic on the south side of the metro. Sorry, if anyone's got to get to (or anywhere near) the airport, but Donald Trump's gotta spend an hour winning a state today.

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A woman who was suing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for allegedly tying her to a bed and raping her while she was a teenager in 1994 has backed off her accusations, Politico reported.

Known only as 'Jane Doe', the woman had alleged that, while she was in her early teens, Trump and wealthy investor Jeffrey Epstein raped her multiple times during parties at Epstein's home.

Epstein is a Level 3 sex offender.

The woman and her current lawyer, Lisa Bloom, were to appear at a news conference last week, but canceled, citing threats the woman had received.

The suit was the third time the allegations were made, Politico reported.

Trump, through his lawyer, previously denied the accusations as "frivolous".

"It is completely untrue," Alan Garten said.

Public doubt was cast over the validity of the first lawsuit against Trump, and the second was dismissed by a federal judge in May.

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New Fox News Poll: Clinton Ahead of Trump by 2 Points</s>A woman who had accused Donald Trump of raping her when she was 13 years old has dropped her lawsuit against the Republican nominee.

One of the accuser’s attorneys, Thomas Meagher, filed a one-page voluntary dismissal in district court in New York late Friday. Neither he nor a second attorney listed immediately responded to questions about the document.

The woman, who had filed suit earlier this year under the pseudonym Jane Doe, had alleged that Trump and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein had raped her in 1994, when she was a 13-year-old aspiring model.

This week she abruptly canceled a plan to speak publicly about the allegations, and another attorney, Lisa Bloom, cited “numerous threats” against her client.

“She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she is in terrible fear,” Bloom said during the week. Bloom’s mother, Gloria Allred, is an attorney representing several women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

Trump had been given a tentative court date for the civil lawsuit of December 16th and has denied all the accusations made against him.

After Doe’s suit was filed in June, Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said the claims were “a complete fabrication”.

“This is basically a sham lawsuit brought by someone who desires to impact the presidential election,” he said.

A virtually identical lawsuit was filed in April in California and dismissed for technical errors.

An investigation linked the lawsuits to Norm Lubow, a former television producer with a history of disputed allegations against celebrities. Both suits named Epstein, a financier who was convicted of soliciting sex from an underage girl in 2008.

The court order to Trump and Epstein’s attorneys gave no details of Doe’s complaint, but the original suit alleged that Trump assaulted her at Epstein’s home in Manhattan and at parties hosted by the financier.</s>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could be in the sights of investors who lost money on units in Toronto’s glitzy Trump hotel and condo project, even though the property is a Trump development in name only.

Mitchell Wine, a lawyer representing plaintiffs who bought Trump hotel suites with the hopes of renting them out for profit, said if a receiver sells the complex as expected for less than the amount of the defaulted mortgage — and if funds cannot be recovered from the developers — damages could be sought from individuals connected to the project.

“We’d have to take really hard look at everyone else,” Wine said Friday, after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice earlier in the week approved the appointment of a receiver to oversee the sale of the Trump International Hotel and Tower and Trump Residences.

The receiver said it is prepared to submit an offer if no other party steps up with a bid greater than the $301-million senior indebtedness.

The hotel portion of the project is managed by the Trump Organization, which has licensed its brand but has no equity interest in the property, according to a lawyer for Talon International, the Ontario investment group that developed the project.

The hotel-condo hybrid on Bay St. was plagued by delays and cost overruns until it finally opened in 2012 amid a glut of new five-star hotels in the city. Occupancy was below projections and room rates were slashed.

In a lawsuit filed against principals that include Trump as well as Talon and other corporations, Wine alleges his clients were “victims of an investment scheme and conspiracy.”

The lawsuit, which sought to cancel the deals and recover losses, claims that Talon sales agents presented misleading marketing materials and led them to believe they were buying a piece of real estate directly from Donald Trump. The suit says Trump was obligated to ensure Talon had “the experience and integrity to develop the Trump Hotel properly.”



“He owned hotels everywhere,” Crockett said in an earlier interview with the Star. “The Trump name was all over the marketing materials. That was a big factor in the investment. I felt deceived.”

Talon and its executives have denied the allegations, arguing that all investments are risky and the purchasers were experiencing an extreme case of buyer’s remorse. They have filed counterclaims seeking the balance of payment.

Trump’s lawyer said he “had nothing to do with the sales process,” but added the lawsuit appeared to be “a desperate, last-ditch attempt by a small group of buyers to get out of what were clear and unequivocal purchase contracts.”

Wine, however, said deep-pocketed individuals could be targeted for losses, like Talon chair Alex Shnaider and Trump, who, he said, “likes to brag on TV that he has a lot of money.”

But Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization, said the self-proclaimed billionaire has no liability because he “did not enter into a contract with any of the buyers, did not sell anything to any of the buyers and did not receive any money from any of the buyers.”

“Regardless of any capital partner or ownership changes that may take place, we will continue to operate the property under our luxury hotel brand flag,” Duckworth said in an email. “This has been a record year for the hotel and we look forward to its continued success.”
A woman who was allegedly raped by Donald Trump drops her lawsuit against the presidential candidate.