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Jump to Donald Trump asked a judge to postpone his trial to travel for his mother-in-law’s funeral but failed to mention that he was scheduled to attend a campaign rally, too.According to court documents reviewed by Business Insider, lawyers for Trump requested Friday that Judge Lewis Kaplan postpone the trial date for E. Jean Carroll’s…
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Help keep Salon independentI worked as a congressional staff member during the protracted, nerve-wracking run-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. Readers will recall a time of peak national hubris, with the White House, congressional Republicans and most of the press fairly bawling for war. It was then that I began to understand that Democrats…
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Former President Trump is set to hold a rally for Iowa voters via teleconference on Saturday evening, replacing two events the campaign canceled due to poor weather conditions in the Hawkeye State.A powerful blizzard has put a freeze on campaign events, as candidates look to make their final case to Iowans ahead of Monday’s caucuses. Trump,…
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) endorsed former President Trump for president on Sunday after dropping out of the presidential race last month. “But four years ago, I was speaking on behalf of President Trump at the Iowa caucuses in Sioux City, and today I’m here to do something that none of the other presidential…
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72% of Republican-aligned adults would be satisfied with Trump as the nominee.The 2024 primary season begins with Donald Trump well ahead of his Republican opponents on key measures of popularity, while Joe Biden's job approval rating has dropped to a low for any president in the past 15 years, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.With…
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Only one-third of U.S. adults say they approve of President Biden’s job performance — a record low for his presidency and for any president in the last 15 years. In an ABC News/Ipsos poll, conducted Jan. 4-8, only 33 percent of those surveyed said they approved of Biden, a drop from the previous poll in…
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Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inTrump arrived in Iowa on Saturday ahead of caucuses Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump calls New York fraud trial ‘terrible witch hunt’Donald Trump spent the…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has bet big on his veteran status as part of his Iowa-or-bust campaign strategy, touting his military service as a distinguishing factor in the steadily narrowing Republican field.  The only veteran in the GOP primary field, DeSantis has courted the vote of former service members via his Iowa veterans coalition,…
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By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley and D'Angelo GorePosted on January 12, 2024Former President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims in a brief press conference on Jan. 11 after the closing arguments in a New York civil fraud trial. The lawsuit, filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that Trump repeatedly inflated…
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Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis projected confidence one day ahead of the Iowa caucuses despite multiple polls showing they are falling behind former President Trump when it comes to the nation’s first nominating contest of the 2024 election. Both candidates made appearances on the Sunday morning political TV circuit where they made…
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Former Democratic Party chair Donna Brazile praised former President Trump on Sunday, eyeing his chances at an Iowa caucus victory on Monday. Trump has performed strongly in GOP primary polling in Iowa, where rivals Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley hope extreme weather can depress turnout for the former president. “The word…
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Donald Trump will not speak during the closing day of his civil fraud trial in New York.After speculation over whether the former US president would make a statement, the judge shared emails showing he had not agreed to limits on what he could say."Take it or leave it," the judge told Mr Trump's lawyers. "Now…
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For decades a low-intensity regional war in the Middle East has been ongoing, but it took Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 to bring this conflict into sharper focus.   For some time, a mostly shadowy “gray zone” contest for influence in Syria and Iraq has taken place. Occasionally, “tit-for-tat attacks” play out elsewhere in the…
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© Copyright 2024, Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.Donald Trump retains a commanding lead in the final Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll before Monday’s caucuses, with Nikki Haley sliding past Ron DeSantis into second place. The former president is the first choice of 48% of likely Republican caucusgoers, while former United Nations Ambassador Haley is…
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A strong majority of GOP voters would be satisfied with former President Trump as their party’s nominee, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday, underlining Trump’s backing as he hopes for a strong showing in Monday’s Iowa caucus. About 72 percent of poll respondents said they’d be satisfied with Trump, and about two-thirds…
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Legal Special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was recently accused of having a romantic relationship with DA Fani Willis, disobeyed a court order in his divorce proceeding. Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade speaks in court during a hearing in the Georgia election case on Dec. 1, 2023, in Atlanta. | John David Mercer/USA Today via…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday accused former President Trump of trying to convert the White House into a “moneymaking enterprise” in response to House Democrats finding Trump took nearly $8 million from foreign governments while president. “So Donald Trump did something nobody had ever done before. He tried to convert the presidency into a…
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday he would not support former President Trump despite having concerns about his own party’s leadership. “Constructive criticism. Let me let me make very clear: I love my country too much to vote for Donald Trump. I love my country too much and I think would be very detrimental to…
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AdvertisementThe Iowa Poll, one of the most closely watched political surveys in the country, showed Donald Trump with 48 percent, Nikki Haley at 20 percent and Ron DeSantis at 16 percent.By Shane GoldmacherDonald J. Trump has the backing of 48 percent of likely caucusgoers ahead of Monday’s election, a commanding lead for the former president,…
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On Jan. 6, 2021, former President Trump, the loser of the 2020 election, famously addressed a gathering of followers who then joined the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol. While rambling and incoherent, Trump’s speech nonetheless made a few things clear: Leftists had conspired to steal the election by fraud, and the mobs summoned to…
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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Sunday criticized former President Trump’s use of the term “hostages” to describe those imprisoned for actions they took on Jan. 6, 2021. Asked on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” whether Trump’s use of that language bothers her, Ernst said, “It does in this context because we do have American hostages…
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Three of Trump's four rallies were canceled Friday evening.As former President Donald Trump cancels all but one of his in-person rallies this weekend, he's expected to spend the final days ahead of the Iowa caucuses holding tele-rallies and meeting with voters at smaller campaign stops.Friday night, the Trump campaign canceled three out of the four…
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When Donald Trump got elected in 2016, I went to bed early, not needing to wait for the final results; and that night I had the most intense and prescient dreams of my life. Fiery helicopters spun out of control above a city engulfed in chaos as our government turned against us. A young woman…
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