Month: July 2024

Trump Ad Attacks Harris, and Protests Erupt in Venezuela  The New York Timessource

Former President Trump criticized Facebook and Google on Tuesday for allegedly restricting content related to his assassination attempt.  “Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump ‘attempted assassination photo,’ and got caught. Same thing for Google,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything…
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Trump attorney Alina Habba chokes up while discussing ‘friend’ ex-prez in heartfelt RNC speech  New York Post source

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Trump hush money trial: Trump found guilty on all counts in historic case  ABC Newssource

Trump defends JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment in Fox News interview  The Guardian USsource

Donald Trump Could Regret Any Potential Move To Replace JD Vance  Newsweeksource

Vice President Harris is narrowing the gap with former President Trump after President Biden’s historic exit from the 2024 White House race, new polling shows. The latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll puts Trump ahead of Harris by just 3 points, down from the 7-point lead he held over Biden in June. The Republican snagged 48 percent,…
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In his address to the nation last Wednesday night, President Biden declared that America was at an “inflection point,” at which people would have “to choose between moving forward or backward, between hope and hate, between unity and division.”  He might have added that the entire Western world stands at the same “rare moment in history.”   Biden…
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Harris Trolls Trump: I’ll Go to Debate Even if You Don’t  The Daily Beastsource

Donald Trump to attend Chicago’s National Association of Black Journalists Convention this week  WLS-TVsource

Why Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird’  ABC Newssource

Johnson and Jeffries announce members of Trump shooting task force  The Hillsource

With Dueling Ads, Harris and Trump Both Try to Define Her as a Candidate  The New York Timessource

The Trump campaign on Tuesday debuted a new ad targeting Vice President Harris over immigration and tagging her the Biden administration’s “border czar,” a reference to her work addressing root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle region. “This is America’s border czar. And she’s failed us,” the narrator states in the ad, which displays…
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Trump would ‘absolutely’ scrap Biden’s Air Force One colors, adviser says  POLITICOsource

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, privately told donors that the emergence of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign was a “political sucker punch,” breaking from former President Trump’s previous messaging. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said Saturday about President Biden suspending his campaign,…
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Donald Trump’s pitch to the crypto crowd lacks logic  Financial Timessource

Google responds to Elon Musk’s Trump ‘search ban’ claims: ‘We’re working on improvements’ to auto-complete results  Fortunesource

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig said Monday that he supports President Biden’s proposal for a constitutional amendment to counteract the recent Supreme Court decision giving former presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken while in office. The amendment would partially overturn the landmark immunity ruling by making clear former presidents do not…
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Harris Puts Abortion, a Weakness for Trump, at Center of Campaign  The Wall Street Journalsource

Mark Meadows asks Supreme Court to intervene in Fulton County case, citing Trump immunity decision  ABC Newssource

With war over Taiwan becoming more likely, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump need to state clearly their positions on the volatile issue — Harris because she is a new presidential candidate with relatively unknown views, and Trump because he is an old candidate with incoherent views   President Biden has said on…
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Sofia Nelson, a former friend of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) from law school, said the vice presidential nominee has changed his opinion on “every imaginable issue.” Nelson joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday to discuss why she recently shared years-old texts and emails from Vance. She said the Vance who was named former President Trump’s…
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony Tuesday from acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate as part of their investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. Rowe assumed the top position at the agency, which provides security for…
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