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Voting rights advocacy groups warned last week that a North Carolina House bill proposing extensive changes to state election laws is "harmful” to voting rights.Representatives from Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, Forward Justice, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, and North Carolina Black Alliance gathered outside...
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The Washington Post obtained over 25,000 memos and documents revealing former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's political actions were directed by Chris Butler of the Science of Identity Foundation.The documents show Butler provided directives on legislation, policy positions, and television conduct, with memos instructing what...
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Critics pounced on Vice President JD Vance Monday over what some alleged to be "operational security” failing captured on camera during the ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations in Switzerland.Vance was photographed Sunday working on a laptop while sitting beside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, who in the photograph...
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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) suggested on Monday that pardons issued by former President Joe Biden should be declared "null and void," prompting a wave of reactions online.The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee appeared on Fox Business to discuss pardons, including the preemptive pardon issued by Biden for Dr. Anthony Fauci. In an explosive new...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned the damage from President Trump's failed war in Iran — and his broader approach to governing — will outlast his presidency, leaving the U.S. diminished on the world stage for years to come.In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed...
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Sen. John Cornyn spent years voting as President Donald Trump's demanded, cheering the president's speeches, and trying to rename a Texas highway after him. He lost his Senate seat anyway. Now he's done toeing the line for Trump and the Republican Party.The four-term Texas Republican was ousted in May by Ken Paxton, whom President Donald Trump...
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Referring to the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented on X: "Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn't listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.” (Walz could have added: "blamed others...
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The Washington Post's bombshell report Sunday that revealed Tulsi Gabbard may have been guided throughout her political career by a "cult guru” cemented the Trump administration's legacy for the worse, argued Zeteo's Martin Pengelly, who noted how the revelation made clear that the federal government had transformed into a full...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) unloaded on trillionaire Elon Musk Monday morning over his tenure in the Trump administration – namely, his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the initiative's federal spending cuts that are projected to cause millions of preventable deaths.Khanna recently appeared on the progressive podcast...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to warn Americans against vandalizing his beautification projects in Washington, D.C., threatening those who "even attempt” to destroy "such things” with a decade behind bars."Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only one that was Vandalized was...
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A pair of President Donald Trump's appointees raised eyebrows by floating conspiracy theories about the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency.Pardon attorney Ed Martin marked the 54th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in that set in motion the chain of events that led up to Nixon's resignation two years later by...
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A majority of Americans – including Republicans – believe that President Donald Trump was desperate to end his war in Iran regardless of whether his goals were accomplished.The president signed a memorandum of understanding last week to negotiate an end to the war he launched Feb. 28, and CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that showed...
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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade lost it, calling for President Donald Trump to replace JD Vance as Iran negotiator — blasting his Israel criticism as "ridiculous."On Fox & Friends, Kilmeade unloaded on Vice President JD Vance after Vance warned Israeli cabinet members Thursday that Trump is "the only powerful ally" they have "anywhere left in the...
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President Donald Trump has spent the better part of a decade trying to outrun the ghost of Herbert Hoover — and last week, he brought him up twice in two days."I never want to be the late, great Herbert Hoover," Trump told Marc Caputo on "The Axios Show." Days earlier, at a G-7 press conference in France, he'd said almost the same thing: Of all...
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Amid the ongoing negotiations in Switzerland between Washington and Tehran, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani shared a photograph of himself and Vice President JD Vance on social media, and an odd detail in the image sparked a wave of speculation among onlookers.Posted Sunday night on X, the photograph shows a...
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As the internet spent the weekend trying to decode why Donald Trump posted a photo of a blonde stranger and called her his "great daughter," progressive host David Pakman walked through the leading theories on his show, including one he noted was "absolutely insane."In a segment posted Sunday titled "What we know so far about Trump's mystery 'great...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski expressed shock over a new report exposing the decades-long influence of Tulsi Gabbard's religious mentor over her political career.Gabbard recently stepped down as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence after serving as a Democratic congresswoman, but the Washington Post reported...
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A Republican political action committee (PAC) that "initially took great effort” to hide their identity came clean Monday after admitting to Punchbowl News they had "meddled” in Democratic primaries in several states."Republicans are leveling the playing field after over a decade of Democrats meddling in our primaries,” said Samantha Bullock,...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski cut into a live press conference to call out Vice President JD Vance's remarks in real time.The vice president spoke to reporters Monday morning in Switzerland, where he's been engaged in high-stakes talks with Iranian officials, and Vance was asked about President Donald Trump's threats to kill those...
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Vice President JD Vance and his team are holding out hope for one thing — that President Donald Trump can stay alive long enough for Vance to have a chance at a two-term presidency, according to an analyst.As midterms draw closer and MAGA starts to picture the future, Vance and Republicans have serious concerns over Trump's declining health, Mike...
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A new front has opened in the politics of artificial intelligence, and it's coming from inside President Donald Trump's own coalition.Amy Kremer, a former Tea Party leader who helped organize the rally preceding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, has emerged as one of the most prominent conservative voices pushing back against Silicon Valley's influence over...
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President Donald Trump is slated to attend the Senate GOP's Steering lunch event on Wednesday at the invitation of Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), an invite seen by other Republican lawmakers as "a slight” toward Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) amid the president's ongoing spat with the chamber, Punchbowl News reported Monday.Trump has sparked...
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Canadian trade officials have agreed to meet with U.S. and Mexico counterparts on July 1 to negotiate signing an extension of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the future of the trade agreement.
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Frustration between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans is now growing harder to mask.The 80-year-old president's relentless push to attach the SAVE America Act to various Senate bills has created mounting friction between the White House and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), with GOP lawmakers increasingly expressing frustration...
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President Donald Trump and his allies are barreling toward a historic "clash" with the Supreme Court – including with conservative justices he personally appointed – unlike anything seen in nearly 100 years, a legal expert told The Washington Post."It seems like almost 100 years since you've had a clash approaching this level between the...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted barely 10 days as Donald Trump's White House communications director before turning into one of his more persistent critics, says there is one thing about the president that his opponents keep getting wrong: they assume he does not understand the culture war he so often wins.In a post Sunday, Scaramucci offered an...
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The thing that's always stood out to me about Donald Trump, besides his cruelty and utter incompetence, is that he's just so sad and hostile. He comes across as a man who has never experienced a legitimately cheerful moment, aside from the schadenfreude he appears to derive from the misery he inflicts on others.Take his behavior at the G7 summit...
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Sir Keir Starmer is on the brink of resigning - the only question left is: when does the drama end? After a tense weekend, the prime minister remains under intense pressure from his cabinet to quit, with Downing Street braced for the end of another short-lived premiership. Meanwhile, fresh from his Makerfield by-election victory, Andy […]
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Die Rentenkommission legt morgen nach monatelanger Arbeit ihre Empfehlungen vor. Neben einer kapitalgedeckten Zusatzrente und der Einbeziehung von Selbstständigen und Abgeordneten soll das Eintrittsalter künftig mit der Lebenserwartung steigen. Gordon Opinski analysiert mit Rasmus Buchsteiner, wie schmerzhaft und wie schlüssig das Reform-Menü...
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A political analyst was astounded on Sunday as Republican criticism of President Donald Trump's war with Iran grew louder following the collapse of peace talks in Switzerland. David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show on YouTube," reacted to former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy's recent appearance on Fox News, where he sharply criticized the...
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President Trump is accusing vandals of sabotaging the $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. So far, five people have been arrested, including three-time olympian and cyclist David Hearn, who was taken into custody after touching the pool's detached liner.
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A long-time GOP operative warned on Sunday that his party is facing an existential crisis as the conservative parts of the party give way to President Donald Trump's extremist followers, and that could have massive implications for American society going forward. Mike Madrid, author of "The Great Transformation" on Substack, argued in a new essay...
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President Donald Trump's war with Iran put the global economy on the brink of collapse, and one economist warns that it could get worse if one sector of the economy begins to show signs of weakness. Liaquat Ahamed, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former World Bank investment chief, said during a recent episode of "The Court of History" podcast...
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President Donald Trump astonished onlookers on Sunday after he announced the findings from his recent inspection of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has come under significant scrutiny over the last week. Trump initially embarked on renovating the Reflecting Pool as part of his efforts to "restore" Washington, D.C., but the project...
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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., issued a wild threat to a prominent journalist during a recent interview on Fox News with Peter Doocy that was sharply mocked by political analysts and commentators. Doocy asked Pirro on "The Sunday Briefing" whether ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl would face criminal...
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A foreign-relations expert offered blunt advice to President Donald Trump as negotiations between his administration and the Iranian regime deteriorate. Joseph Cirincione, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, told MS NOW's Alex Witt on "Alex Witt Reports" that Trump appears to have a way to make a stronger deal with the Iranian regime, but...
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Political analysts and observers were shocked on Sunday by a new report revealing that former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's actions throughout her more than two decades in office appeared to have been "guided" by Chris Butler of the Science of Identity Foundation, which several ex-members have described as a "cult."The...
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The deal President Donald Trump's administration struck with the Iranian regime has become a joke in Washington, D.C., and it's left the president embarrassed and flailing for an answer, according to one analyst. Last week, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime agreed to a deal that would immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a...
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Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard may have been "guided” throughout her more than 24 years in politics by Chris Butler, the leader of a group countless ex-members have described as a "cult,” an extensive report from The Washington Post revealed Sunday.Gabbard began her career in politics as a Hawaii state House...
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A right-leaning national security commentator is openly questioning President Donald Trump's stability and motives after he threatened to resume strikes on Iran, even asking whether the president is "bipolar" on foreign policy or being pressured into it.The reaction followed a Truth Social post in which Trump demanded that Tehran rein in its allies...
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Sen. Chris Murphy says a single image from this week's G7 summit captures one of his deepest fears about the growing power of the tech industry: the chief executives of major artificial intelligence companies seated at the table alongside presidents and prime ministers, as if they were heads of state themselves."At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI...
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Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the threat to mail-in voting this fall does not stop at the White House. In her latest newsletter, the legal analyst argues that even as President Donald Trump pushes an executive order to restrict mail ballots, the Supreme Court may be preparing to throw the nation's election machinery...
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A senior Trump administration official made a stunning claim Sunday regarding the U.S. war against Iran, telling Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng that the conflict not only began without "real” direction, but that it may very well come back to bite the administration later this year."It was doomed from the very start,” the senior Trump official told...
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Mary Trump says the version of Donald Trump the world saw stumbling through the G7 summit is not an aberration but the trajectory, arguing in a new conversation that her uncle is in a steep psychological slide that he can no longer conceal.Speaking with writer and journalist Steven Beschloss on her newsletter, the clinical psychologist and niece of...
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Economist Peter Schiff is warning that the federal government's yawning budget gap will be papered over with a flood of newly printed money, and that ordinary Americans will pay for it through prices that could eventually double.The chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management laid out the math in a post on Saturday. In...
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After issuing a plethora of fresh threats Sunday morning, President Donald Trump was issued a warning of his own from Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who hours later warned Trump to "be careful” with his words amid the delicate ceasefire between the United States and Iran.As relayed by Fox News' Trey Yingst, Trump threatened...
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The ongoing peace talks in Switzerland between American and Iranian officials got off Sunday to a rocky start, according to one Emirati political analyst who went on to describe the spectacle as nothing short of "humiliation” for Vice President JD Vance, who's leading the U.S. delegation."This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made...
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President Donald Trump's account of a phone call he says he had with Iranian officials, in which he reportedly threatened to wipe out their country, take over the Strait of Hormuz, and more, has set off a wave of disbelief, ridicule, and alarm across the political spectrum.The threats were relayed by Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst, who said he...
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JD Vance's path to the presidency may run through Tehran, and not in a way that helps him. That is the striking implication of a new analysis by Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, who argues in The Atlantic that the vice president's political future now depends heavily on whether hardline Iranian officials decide to play along with Donald Trump's latest...
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President Donald Trump appeared to threaten Iranian peace negotiators with assassination Sunday in a "bonkers” phone call with Fox News' Trey Yingst, the details of which Yingst revealed on air just moments later.Last week, Trump officially agreed to a tentative peace deal with Iran, giving the two parties 60 days to finalize a more permanent...
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Authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat is predicting that President Donald Trump's praise for China's Xi Jinping will end the same way his Iran standoff did: with the president backing down to a strongman he admires.Her forecast came in response to an Axios clip in which Trump gushed about the Chinese leader on "The Axios Show." Asked about Xi,...
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President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of threats, promises and ideas Sunday in a phone call with Fox News' Trey Yingst, the details of which left one independent journalist in utter shock.The phone call occurred Sunday morning, just one day after Iranian military officials announced they would be closing the Strait of Hormuz again, citing...
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Donald Trump's habit of punishing Republicans who cross him may have just cost him the political cover he needs to sell his Iran deal, according to political analyst Sabrina Haake, who argues the president's domestic vendettas are actively undermining him abroad.In her latest newsletter, Haake makes the case that Trump's "personal thirst for...
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Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta stunned journalist John Harwood in an interview published Sunday after predicting how President Donald Trump's presidency may end – a prediction that included a potential early departure from the White House amid growing turmoil."Do you think there's a chance that Trump will resign before the end of his term?”...
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A face familiar to many on Parliament Hill is launching a bid to return — this time, as an MP. Claire Seaborn, a Bay street lawyer and former chief of staff to Trudeau-era minister Jonathan Wilkinson, intends to run for the Liberal nomination in Beaches-East York.
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A former senior Pentagon official sounded the alarm on Sunday over their belief that the Trump administration was likely to bury an internal investigation into an incident that coincided with the launch of the U.S. war against Iran, an incident one Democratic lawmaker described as "one of the most horrific episodes” of the "illegal Trump...
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A corner of the MAGA online world has found a new enemy, and it is not a liberal news organization. It is Reason, the libertarian magazine, which set off a wave of right-wing fury by criticizing outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat.The flashpoint was a Reason piece arguing that Gabbard, on her way out the...
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Joe Rogan thought he was making nervous small talk with the president of the United States about the possibility of a terrorist attack. Donald Trump, by Rogan's account, treated the prospect of their shared demise as no big deal.On a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcaster who endorsed Trump's campaign recounted a conversation...
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President Donald Trump threatened to resume the U.S. war against Iran on Sunday with a fiery ultimatum to Iranian officials, warning that if his demand was not met, the United States would "hit Iran very hard.”"Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth...
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U.S. and Iranian officials met in Switzerland Sunday ahead of negotiations to solidify the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran and bring about an end to the U.S. war against Iran, but according to one expert, President Donald Trump and his administration are ignoring a pressing issue that risks blowing up talks before they've even...
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Donald Trump asked the public to celebrate ICE as misunderstood heroes Saturday, and veteran White House correspondent Brian Karem answered with a single word: "LIE."The president had posted what he framed as a poll, declaring that "ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before." He called the agents "Great Patriots who...
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In one of his most astonishingly oblivious moments, President Donald Trump may have revealed more about himself — his honest, true beliefs regarding his "talents” and place in history — than at any point in his public life. During an interview with Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman for their forthcoming book, Trump proudly offered what he...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who vacated her seat after a failed bid for governor and will leave Congress early next year, recently revealed a new bill she intends on filing, the details of which left critics in disbelief.Labeled the "TRANS MICE Act,” Mace's new bill would prohibit federally funded research "aimed at altering an animal's biological...
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President Donald Trump's bizarre and ongoing spat with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sparked a chorus of laughter on CNN Sunday morning as panelists mocked the president's "childish” behavior and issued him a new nickname.The spat kicked off on Friday after Trump told a local Italian news outlet that he felt "sorry” for Meloni after she...
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Donald Trump's insistence that vandals carved up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps colliding with one stubborn problem his critics will not let go of: if it really happened, where is the footage?After the president announced on Truth Social that "many additional people have been arrested" over the "disgraceful Vandalism" of the pool,...
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President Donald Trump has engaged in something of a martial "arms race” with First Lady Melania Trump, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealed in their forthcoming book "Regime Change,” one that involves the president pillaging gold from the White House hallways in his effort to "have the better room,” The Times...
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James Carville has a survival strategy for anyone still working inside Donald Trump's White House, and it boils down to two words: start leaking.On the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast, the veteran Democratic strategist delivered a blunt appeal to administration staffers, urging them to protect their own reputations before the...
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Friends,To you fathers, and to those of you who have or have had fathers, Happy Father's Day.For the next 135 days, our first and most important goal is to end Republican control of Congress, thereby limiting Trump's reign of criminality, corruption, cruelty, and treachery.This is a moral imperative for every one of us who believes in a decent...
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Donald Trump posted a photograph of a blonde woman to Truth Social late on Saturday night, captioned "Great daughter. My Honor!!! President DJT," and set off an internet-wide guessing game over a simple problem: the woman in the picture does not appear to be any of his daughters.The post showed a woman with blonde hair in a black outfit, lounging...
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If you sat down and tried to invent the worst possible person to put in charge of negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran — and obviously Donald Trump doesn't count — you'd have no recourse but to choose JD Vance.If you didn't know, and he takes every single opportunity to tell you, he's the vice president of the United States. And your...
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