Month: September 2023

A New York appellate court has denied Trump’s motion to delay the trial.The First Judicial Department Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court has denied Donald Trump's motion to delay his fraud trial — meaning that the New York attorney general's $250 million civil trial against the former president will proceed on Monday…
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The president called out Trump’s plans to gut the civil service and bring the entire executive branch under personal presidential control.

Trump and His Adult Sons Are Planning a Dinner Party From Hell to …  Vanity Fairsource

Former US President Donald Trump has claimed that wind turbines off the coast of the US "are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before".These claims have attracted significant attention on social media, where a clip of Mr Trump's speech has now been viewed more than nine million times.But Mr Trump's claims are not…
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A Democratic congressman displayed a 2019 tweet from House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to argue that the impeachment inquiry into President Biden is “political theater.” Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) started off his remarks to the committee by quoting a tweet posted by Comer in 2019 during former President Trump’s first impeachment…
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Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore, who demanded a special session of the Legislature for an investigation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), was indefinitely suspended from the chamber’s GOP caucus Thursday. “Despite the fact 32 of 33 Republican State Senators, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, and the Chairman of the…
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Trump focus was on ‘winning the Midwest’ while opponents debated in California  NBC Newssource

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Early, nameless claims from Trump’s campaign laid the groundwork for misleading reporting.

The decision comes days after a judge ruled the former president committed years of fraud and stripped him of some companies as punishment.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley joined her 2024 rivals in blasting former President Trump for choosing to skip the first two primary debates. “You can’t win if you’re absent,” Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, said Thursday on Fox News. “I think that, you know, he’s got a lot of questions to answer to.”…
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Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will be in Las Vegas on Sunday for his first campaign rally in Nevada, his campaign announced Thursday. “The path to victory in 2024 runs through states like Nevada, which is why I’m thrilled to be making our first major campaign stop in the state this weekend,” he said in a…
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This blog is now closed. You can read our latest pieces on the Republican debate here:Chris Christie turned a question about crime fighting into an attack on Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination who has snubbed this debate.“And I want to look at a camera right now to tell you, Donald, I know…
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This video can not be playedWatch: Trump surrenders last week at Georgia jail…in 74 secondsDonald Trump's trial in Georgia over charges of election fraud will be livestreamed and televised, a judge has ruled. All the hearings will be available live on Fulton County Court's YouTube channel, said Judge Scott McAfee.A date for the trial has…
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The former president cloaked his effort to shut down opponents by claiming to be concerned about the Republican Party.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced his plans Tuesday to launch an impeachment inquiry, saying it was the “logical next step” after months of probing by House Republicans into the Biden family. The investigations have so far yet to turn up evidence that the president violated the law. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily…
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Fox News’ Jessica Tarlov on Tuesday hit her co-hosts on “The Five” with a list of Donald Trump’s most recent gaffes in response to her colleagues once again questioning President Joe Biden’s fitness for office.The liberal commentator listed Trump’s “cognitive beauties” from just the last 10 days in response to a new Axios report that…
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The much-indicted ex-president gave Raheem Kassam a host-by-host Fox critique before copping to how much he watches.

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis railed against former President Trump’s social media attacks, arguing the former president should “step up on stage and do it to my face,” after he skipped Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate.   “He’s [Trump] had a lot to say about me on social media, really, since 2022, right…
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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said in an interview on CNN Wednesday that former President Trump’s legal team had “no defenses” against the civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James over alleged business fraud. “Trump had no defenses,” Cobb said. “And as the judge pointed out, I mean, his opinion is…
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The Florida governor does all the talking in Biden’s latest ad that rips Trump for skipping the Republican debates and adding trillions to the national debt.

Email*I’m interested in (please check all that apply)You may opt-out anytime by clicking “unsubscribe” from the newsletter or from your account.Sep 28, 2023Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Summerville, S.C., Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr.)WHEELING — A Texas politician wants to mess with West Virginia’s 2024 election and keep…
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The issue of immigration and border security looms large in the 2024 election. Republicans have made it clear they intend to run on immigration and attempt to weaponize the issue against President Joe Biden and the Democrats. Last night, American voters were treated to a front-row seat of their dizzyingly draconian rhetoric during the second…
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