Month: October 2023

DeSantis, stuck in a distant second place after five months, is beginning to take more shots at Trump now that the former president has him backed into a corner.

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Former US President Donald Trump will make an appearance at a Dallas County GOP event in Adel. Trump is expected to speak at a Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Event at the Dallas County Fairgrounds in Adel, at around 1:30pm on Monday, October 16th. Doors will open at 10:30am with no admission cost. Registration is necessary…
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Donald Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling a crowd of Florida supporters that the countries’ intelligence failed, and its enemies were ”very smart.”“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” Trump told a group of supporters Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla. “That was a very terrible thing.”Trump discussed the…
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Robert De Niro didn’t mince words when describing Donald Trump on Wednesday, branding the former president as “evil.”De Niro, an outspoken Trump critic, was slated to speak at The New Republic’s Stop Trump Summit, but he was brought down by a last-minute bout of Covid-19. He sent a statement instead, which was read out by…
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Israel-Hamas War In remarks on Israel on Wednesday, Trump said Netanyahu “let us down.” Speaking in Iowa this past weekend, former Vice President Mike Pence criticized “voices of appeasement like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis that I believe have run contrary to the tradition in our party that America is the leader of…
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Eric Tucker, Associated Press Eric Tucker, Associated Press Leave your feedbackWASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to postpone his classified documents trial until after next year’s presidential…
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A Sept. 27 YouTube video is titled “Bank takes away Trump’s private airplane after company shut down,” with an on-screen narrator speaking before and after clips of newscasts and a talk show.“He’s been forced to give up his ultimate status symbol, one of the things that made him look and feel and act like a…
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A New York appeals court has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to delay a civil fraud trial against him in a case that leaves his business empire in jeopardy.The decision paves the way for a trial to begin next Monday. Mr Trump and three of his adult children are expected to be called as…
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Former Vice President Mike Pence pushed back on former President Trump’s labelling of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as “very smart,” arguing the group “aren’t smart, they’re evil.” “Hezbollah aren’t smart, they’re evil,” Pence said Thursday in an interview with WGIR radio in New Hampshire. “This is no time for the former president, or any other…
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Donald Trump will be found guilty in the hush-money criminal case involving adult film star Stormy Daniels.That’s Michael Cohen’s prediction, anyway.“I can tell you from everything I know about it, he’s going to be found guilty,” Cohen, the former Trump lawyer, said during The New Republic’s Stop Trump Summit on Wednesday.Trump pleaded not guilty in…
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Ex-president claims magazine, citing $600m loss, worked with prosecutor who sued him and assigned writers to ‘hit him hard’Donald Trump “demanded” an apology from Forbes magazine after it dropped him from its list of the 400 wealthiest people in the US for the second time in three years.“I hereby demand a full apology from the…
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Fulton County DA rebuffs Jim Jordan’s request for information on her investigation of Trump  CNNsource

Prosecutors warned Trump’s knowledge of Twitter search warrant could ‘precipitate violence’, court filings show – as it happened  The Guardian USsource

Critics of Joe Biden are furious that in his denunciations of the terror attacks on Israel he has not once mentioned Iran.   They don’t get it. If Biden blames Tehran for masterminding and funding the horrific killings of Israeli citizens, he will have to take the next step, which is to punish Iran’s leaders…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures after speaking Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm…
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Former President Donald Trump in a new interview suggested Rep. Steve Scalise should focus on his health as the Louisiana Republican vies for the Speaker’s gavel within the House GOP conference while also getting treated for blood cancer. Trump, who publicly endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to serve as Speaker, told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on…
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Donald Trump’s campaign defended the former president’s remarks calling the militant group Hezbollah “smart” during a rally, arguing “smart does not equal good.”  Trump has faced backlash from several political figures for comments made during a speech with supporters Wednesday in Florida, in which he criticized Israel’s lack of preparedness for the widespread attacks from…
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A majority of Americans continue to have a negative view of the job performance of most government agencies, making 2023 the third year in a row with “relatively low readings,” according to a new poll. The Gallup survey, released Thursday, found 12 of the 16 federal government agencies and departments included in the poll received…
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Israel’s communications minister said recent comments by former President Trump criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and complimenting the Hezbollah militant group “wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens.” Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told Israel’s Channel 13 it is “shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things…
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After Donald Trump labelled Florida's six-week abortion ban a "terrible mistake", he opened himself to attack from powerful conservative activists who want to ban the procedure nationwide. But his comments also revealed the challenges for Republican messaging on one of the country's most polarising issues. On Monday afternoon, the president of Students for Life sent…
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ATLANTA – Attorneys for pro-Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, co-defendants in the Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump, argued again Wednesday to dismiss RICO charges against their clients. They insist the state law was misapplied. But prosecutors brought "the godfather" of Georgia RICO — the state's version of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt…
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WEST PALM BEACH — Former President Donald Trump issued a not-so-veiled threat to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Wednesday night: “I can never forget.”And for good measure, he warned DeSantis, whose campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is flailing in the polls, not to plan on seeking the White House in 2028.“I think he blew…
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