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Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was a nightmare. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general, dismantled civil rights and civil liberties protections, instituted heinously cruel border policies, and vociferously attacked the right to vote. William Barr, Sessions’ ignominious successor, then used his time at the DOJ’s helm to overtly weaponize the department against voters and Trump’s…
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Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who worked in the Trump administration, warned in a Tuesday interview that the public is not taking former President Trump’s threats of revenge seriously enough. “I don’t think enough people are,” Bolton said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour,” when asked whether people take the threats seriously…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA federal judge on Monday denied an effort to dismiss former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, but agreed to delete a paragraph in the federal superseding indictment against the former president.  While rejecting defendants’ efforts to dismiss the obstruction and false statement counts of the…
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Biden Takes on Guns in Second Amendment Showdown With Trump  U.S. News & World Reportsource

Supreme Court Could Play ‘Role’ in Possible Post-Election Violence—Attorney  Newsweeksource

Help keep Salon independentFormer President Donald Trump was allowed to attend his pre-sentencing interview Monday under “highly unusual” circumstances, appearing virtually from his residence in Mar-a-Lago with his counsel Todd Blanche present by his side, the Associated Press reported.Defendants such as Trump, who are out not jailed, are usually required to appear alone and in…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Hours after son Hunter was convicted of all three felony charges in his federal gun trial in Delaware, President Joe Biden addressed a gun control group in Washington, DC, touting his record on reducing firearm violence and declaring, ‘We need you!’President Joe Biden speaks to Everytown for Gun…
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Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown is hoping for a victory in Nevada’s Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, after former President Trump handed him a last-minute endorsement on Sunday night. Trump notably endorsed the former Army captain over two other Republicans who have closely aligned themselves with the former president: former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter,…
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States across the country have laws restricting felons from selling alcohol. What does that mean for Donald Trump, who does not drink but sells plenty of booze? Donald Trump tends bar.The State of New Jersey is reviewing whether Donald Trump’s recent convictions will impact his liquor licenses, according to a spokesperson for the state attorney…
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R) is looking to secure a win in Tuesday’s South Carolina primary as she faces backlash from some members of her party. Mace, who flipped her seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District back in 2020, is the front-runner heading into Tuesday’s primary against Catherine Templeton, a former agency official in the state government.…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s argument about the “weaponization” of the justice system just ran smack into a Delaware jury’s conviction of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. The result, according to some Republicans, is a major blow to one of Trump’s favorite talking…
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Fox News Host’s ‘Totally Real’ Description Of Donald Trump Has People Laughing  Yahoo Entertainmentsource

Alvin Bragg to testify to Congress as GOP works to undermine Trump verdict  Axiossource

Focusing on age and “mental health” kind of misses the point; Trump’s problem was judgment and stability. But the broader topic remains a bigger concern about Biden than it ever was with Trump.A Wall Street Journal article last week set off a new round of teeth-gnashing about coverage of President Biden’s age. And more than…
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Why the far-right surge in European elections could be an omen for Trump  CNNsource

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that “weird stuff from Donald Trump” is one of the sure things he can expect in his life. Ryan said last month that he would not be supporting former President Trump, who later ripped the former lawmaker as a “loser” and called for him to be removed…
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“This feels like the biggest problem that the fewest people understand about a potential second Trump administration,” one expert said.

The Senate minority leader once condemned Trump for the January 2021 insurrection. Now he’s cozying up to him.

He claims many foreign policy problems wouldn’t have happened if he were president. Oh, really? In 2016, Donald Trump promised to a build a wall. This year, he should promise to build a time machine to go back and fix all the world crises he claims would never have happened if only he hadn’t lost…
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Most would-be dictators run for office downplaying or sugarcoating their intentions, trying to lure voters with a vanilla appeal. But once elected, the autocratic elements take over, either immediately or gradually: The destruction of free elections, undermining the press, co-opting the judiciary, turning the military into instruments of the dictatorship, installing puppets in the bureaucracy,…
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Trump’s vows of ‘revenge’ against his opponents gain volume  Voice of America – VOA Newssource

I was thinking the other day about a satisfying feature of the old Gawker.com that I call the Gawker Appositive. Blogs on the site usually kicked off with a subject, followed by a pithy detail that revealed something informative and that reflected the writer’s sympathies. A good example might be something like: “Recently, Donald Trump…
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Manhattan DA to testify to House committee after Trump sentencing  Reuterssource

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told reporters Tuesday that he will attend a meeting with former President Trump and the Senate GOP conference that will be hosted at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) later this week. McConnell told reporters for CNN and NBC News Tuesday that he plans to attend the meeting despite…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timePARIS — Not once in his trip to France did President Joe Biden speak Donald Trump’s name.  Standing near the gravesites of American soldiers killed in two world wars, Biden shied from overt references to his Republican rival or the presidential campaign back home.Yet…
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