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Former Fox News host and right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson's recent apology might signal more than just regret — it could mean he's considering a presidential run in 2028, an analyst suggested on Tuesday. The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi described how Carlson's admitting he was "tormented" by his decision to support President Donald Trump could...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization, has asked a federal court to silence acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after he allegedly made false statements on Fox News.Last week, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama secured an indictment against the SPLC, alleging that the organization paid the...
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President Donald Trump quickly used Saturday's failed assassination attempt to justify his long-desired White House ballroom, but a conservative commentator knocked down his plans as a "bad idea."A gunman attempted to charge into a hotel ballroom during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and the 79-year-old president argued...
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Vice President JD Vance, who has been under increasing scrutiny for not toeing the Donald Trump administration line on the Iran war, made what appeared to be an attempt to get back in line by applauding an ICE operation underway in Minneapolis.That led a former US Attorney to advise the vice president to butt out.Early Tuesday morning, Bill Melugin...
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With just over seven months to go until the midterm elections, the US-Israeli war on Iran pushing gas prices past $4 per gallon, and the rising cost of living bringing consumer confidence to an all-time low, political observers marveled on Monday at Republican senators' decision to center President Donald Trump's demand for a new $400 million,...
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The Department of Homeland Security said it had partnered with the FBI to raid more than 20 locations in Minneapolis, MN, as part of an investigation into "rampant fraud."The Department of Justice confirmed to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that the two agencies were working together and "currently raiding 20+ locations... in relation to...
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On Sept. 24, 2003, James Detwiler, a Certified Industrial Hygienist, conducted what he anticipated would be a standard visual inspection of a residence in New York City for potential mold contamination. What he didn't realize at the time was that he would be recounting that inspection in meticulous detail decades later.The residence was 9 East 71st...
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With conspiracy theories and rumors swirling around the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty — who was there when everything went down — expressed sympathy for those speculating that the horror was "staged" — because his first reaction was "it's a stunt."But, he wrote, he's now certain the...
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First Lady Melania Trump's air of indifference, as exemplified by her wearing a coat emblazoned with "I really don't care, do you?" during a trip to a migrant child detention center in 2018, is reportedly cracking as she now embraces her husband's confrontational style in public.According to one Republican insider, that has always been her true...
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Ein Schulbesuch wird zur außenpolitischen Debatte: Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz sorgt mit offenen Aussagen über Donald Trump, den Iran-Krieg und mögliche Zugeständnisse der Ukraine für internationale Reaktionen. Was als innenpolitischer Termin beginnt, entwickelt sich zur Frage nach Deutschlands diplomatischem Kurs. Im Gespräch mit...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion in court late Monday asking a judge to allow construction on the White House ballroom project to resume, but critics were quick to notice the filing's striking similarities to one of President Donald Trump's own social media posts, leaving onlookers dumbfounded."Trump's DOJ just filed what may be the...
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Friends,As much as he'd love to be, Trump is not king of America. Which makes Charles III's visit here a bit odd. It's billed as a state visit but Charles isn't a head of state; his function is purely symbolic.Most Americans disapprove of Trump but there's something special about the relationship between the Brits and their Royal Family. For it is...
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An expert compared President Donald Trump's legal strategy to a classic arcade game, and she said U.S. consumers were the loser.The 79-year-old president rolled out temporary import taxes to replace his tariffs after the U.S. Supreme Court struck them down in February, and attorney and activist Rachel Cohen told the "Legal AF" podcast that the...
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My first thought after I found out there had been gunshots at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday was quite possibly the same as yours and can be summed up in a single word: staged.The fact that enough information about the shooting suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, has emerged to mostly tamp down the suspicion of it being bogus doesn't in...
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Vice President JD Vance's religious faith and his political future are being publicly tested by the Iran war – a conflict he spent years warning against.The 41-year-old vice president's predicament crystallized during a recent University of Georgia speech when a heckler shouted, "Jesus Christ does not support genocide," highlighting the tension...
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Republicans' electoral prospects for the impending midterm elections have grown so grim that even one of the party's chief proponents and former torchbearers is predicting disaster for the GOP at the ballot box."If the election were in May, Republicans would lose,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a prominent Republican leader whose...
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Donald Trump's fresh attack on late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about the age disparity between the 79-year-old president and his 56-year-old wife Melania did not get a sympathetic ear on "Morning Joe.”During a roast last Thursday, Kimmel joked about the first lady, calling her an "expectant widow,” which the White House has...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confronted with a "multifront picture of chaos” Tuesday after House Republicans failed to advance a key priority during what Punchbowl News has described as an "absolutely brutal week.”"This week is already unraveling for House Republicans. And it's only Tuesday,” the outlet wrote Tuesday in its morning...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's attempt to gain membership to one of the Beltway's most elite private clubs is reportedly meeting a wave of resistance from more than a few members.According to Politico's Daniel Lippman, at least six members have written to the Metropolitan Club's board of directors to object to Blanche's joining, saying he's...
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"There's a day of reckoning coming.”That is the opinion of a prominent oil industry executive who is predicting a major surge in prices at the gas pump as Donald Trump's war on Iran, and the accompanying closure of the Strait of Hormuz, drags on.As oil prices surge and supply dwindles globally, energy experts predict a catastrophic price shock...
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A prominent advocate for the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative expressed outrage Tuesday over what they called the president's "enormous political misstep,” an executive order that they warned "might cost the midterms for the Republican Party.”"This was an enormous political misstep in terms of what the...
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are locked in an escalating dispute over a stalled Homeland Security funding bill, with Saturday's assassination attempt against President Trump at the Washington Hilton adding new pressure to resolve the impasse.GOP senators are urging the House to immediately pass a bill the Senate...
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A dozen voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 expressed disillusionment with his second term as part of a focus group convened by the New York Times.The 79-year-old president still enjoys 80 percent approval among Republicans, but his standing with independents has cratered, and many of his own voters – like those who spoke to the...
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The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night shouldn't surprise us. Not only does America have the world's most active small-arms industry that essentially controls the GOP (the reporters got a taste of what American — and only American — schoolkids experience every few months from their...
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Today on the pod, we're talking money, money, money. An important vote on the EU's next long-term budget is happening in the European Parliament. Zoya and Nick discuss how lawmakers are pushing for a bigger cash pot … which will likely cause a stir with some countries. We unpack the battle lines already starting to form. […]
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Die Amtszeit von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier endet im kommenden Jahr, am 30. Januar 2027 wählt die Bundesversammlung seinen Nachfolger oder seine Nachfolgerin. Markus Söder hat den Startschuss in die Debatte gegeben, Friedrich Merz pfeift zurück, alle anderen positionieren sich. Gordon Repinski mit einem Plädoyer für eine...
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A political columnist warned President Donald Trump on Monday that his administration's ghosts will soon come back to haunt him after the "momentary grace" following the White House Correspondents' Dinner fades. David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that...
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Political analysts and observers roasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday after he announced he took a "joyride" with MAGA music star Kid Rock. "Joined my friend @KidRock — and some of our great @USArmy Apache pilots — for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!)" Hegseth wrote in a post on X. "Kid Rock is a patriot and huge...
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CNN's Abby Phillip brutally fact-checked a MAGA pundit during Monday's broadcast of her show "NewsNight" over the White House's claim that left-wing rhetoric inspired the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. Ben Ferguson, who co-hosts the "Verdict" podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined the panel to discuss the...
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Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was brutally mocked on Monday after she made a strange claim about her husband during a Fox News interview. Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, said during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham that her husband took some heroic...
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A pair of debates aimed at informing voters ahead of the May primary election was mostly tense and sometimes personal as frontrunners in both the Republican and Democratic primaries in the race for governor took the opportunity to sling attacks previously reserved for the airwaves.Candidates from both parties honed in on promises aimed to address...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats during Monday's press conference for the failed assassination attempt at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner, reading from a prepared list of Democratic criticisms and accusing members of the party of inciting violence.MS NOW reporter Laura Barrón-López pushed back,...
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On Monday, the Trump White House appeared to float a trial balloon to rebrand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the acronym so that instead of "ICE," it would be "NICE.""ICE - NICE AGENTS. 'National Immigration and Customs Enforcement.' DO IT!" said the official White House X account, posting an AI-generated image of an agent...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt drew widespread ridicule Monday after praising President Donald Trump's composure during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, calling him "fearless" and "willing to put his own life on the line." Leavitt blamed Democrats and media members for the incident involving alleged shooter Cole Allen....
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The Washington Post editorial board joined the Wall Street Journal on Monday evening in condemning President Donald Trump's plan to effectively nationalize Spirit Airlines with a $500 billion bailout in exchange for an up to 90 percent equity stake — and warned that this flirtation with "socialism" could lead to many other airlines coming for a...
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An appeals court has ruled that the Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge's decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times.
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A legal expert was stunned on Monday by the Supreme Court's latest "truly unusual" order in relation to the Texas legislature's effort to redraw the state's election map.Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, wrote in a new essay for his Substack, "One First," about the Supreme Court's order on Monday to "resolve the merits" of...
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In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the president and some of his closest Senate allies are seizing on the moment to try to do something the polls have foreclosed until now: approve taxpayer funding for the president's White House ballroom project, under the guise it...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to revamp America's election system was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers on Monday. In a short Truth Social tirade, Trump demanded that the Republican Party shift its focus to passing the SAVE Act, which would implement several large-scale changes to how the U.S. conducts elections. For...
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U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, is one of at least three members of Congress who responded to the shooting at the White House Press Correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, calling on lawmakers to approve plans for a ballroom at the White House.President Donald J. Trump, a Republican, tore down the East Wing of the...
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed Monday that Israel may have been involved in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to influence American foreign policy regarding Iran. Jones questioned the official narrative, speculating the incident could be "staged" while avoiding definitive claims without evidence. He...
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Two days after allegedly attempting to charge into the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a gun on Saturday night, Cole Allen was in a federal courtroom Monday facing formal Department of Justice charges of the attempted assassination of a president. Matt Gutman reports.
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Even as the Justice Department gathers evidence, some corners of the internet are brewing with conspiracies about the attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. In her interview Sunday with President Trump, "60 Minutes" contributing correspondent Norah O'Donnell asked the president about those theories.
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In the wake of Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Trump administration has ordered a review of security procedures. Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for rhetoric leading up to the attack. Ed O'Keefe reports.
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U.S. District Judge Alan Albright abruptly announced his resignation this month, leaving his colleagues with a huge stack of unresolved casework — and it may be because he was simply miserable in his role as a judge, Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law reported on Monday.Albright, who was appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump in 2018, will...
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President Donald Trump revealed a new "sign of weakness" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to a former administration insider. Trump claimed during an interview on the CBS News show "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he did not fall while Secret Service agents were trying to escort him out of the...
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President Donald Trump showed the world that his mental and physical decline has become "impossible to ignore" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to one analyst. In an interview following the shooting, during which no one was killed, Trump said that he "didn't make it easy" on Secret Service...
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A state judge in Colorado rejected far-right former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters' motion to have him recuse himself from the sentencing process.Peters' argued that District Court Judge Matthew Barrett, who had previously sentenced her, was biased against her — an assertion Barrett rejected."In sum, accepting Defendant's factual assertions...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Monday the United States is being "humiliated" by Iran and risks becoming trapped in a prolonged conflict similar to Afghanistan and Iraq. Merz criticized the lack of a convincing American negotiating strategy, noting Iran is negotiating skillfully while the U.S. has no clear exit plan. Adding, Iran's...
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A former prosecutor and civil rights attorney shredded President Donald Trump's Department of Justice's crusade against a prominent nonprofit during a new podcast episode on Monday. Melba Pearson, host of "The Breakdown" on Legal AF, said during a new episode that the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire and bank fraud was...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how far the government must go to protect Americans' privacy.Some of the justices appeared to be searching for a middle ground during oral arguments in a...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is planning to modify the Senate-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill before it can be brought to a vote — caving to hardliners in the GOP caucus, and creating another obstacle to getting the agency properly funded and open again.According to Politico congressional reporter Meredith Lee Hill,...
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A long-time GOP analyst and former White House insider issued a dark warning on Monday about President Donald Trump's response to the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.Bill Kristol, the editor at large for The Bulwark and a former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, argued during a new episode of "The Bulwark...
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MAGA slammed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Monday over his remarks after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding standoff in Congress. GOP leaders were under pressure to end the ongoing stalemate as DHS employees, including Secret Service members who protected...
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FBI Director Kash Patel was questioned on Fox News Monday morning regarding the security failures that allowed alleged gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, to reach an entrance area at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, despite a prior alert with his description. Patel stated the FBI and partners were examining the incident, noting the Behavioral...
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Real America's Voice anchor Eric Bolling expressed outrage after a so-called mentalist performing for President Donald Trump failed to predict a gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.As the alleged gunman was storming a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, Oz Pearlman was performing tricks for Trump and his...
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New details out of Lawfare reveal that Joseph diGenova, the far-right crony President Donald Trump put in charge of his so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation, has made several claims about Trump that could jeopardize any potential charges out of that investigation.Specifically, diGenova has made a number of politically-charged claims,...
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The internet erupted on Monday after news spread that Gov. Ron DeSantis was employing a three-pronged legal strategy to evade Florida's constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering and redrawing the Sunshine State's election map.DeSantis quietly orchestrated a special legislative session to approve new congressional maps designed to create more...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has announced he is set to make a "complete" recovery from the mystery illness that has kept him absent from Congress for more than a month, reported the New Jersey Globe on Monday.However, Kean and his staff still did not elaborate on exactly what illness he is recovering from or the exact time frame for his recovery and...
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Journalist Ken Klippenstein reported new details about Cole Allen, the California resident accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.In his Substack, Klippenstein described Allen's, 31, background as "unsettling in its ordinariness."In his reporting, Klippenstein obtained Allen's resume...
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CNN's Jake Tapper scorched Kari Lake, who serves as President Donald Trump's senior advisor for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, during his show on Monday for her actions following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. An alleged gunman fired multiple rounds at the Washington Hilton while the press dinner was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodríguez revealed that Bradbury Stamm, a major U.S. government-linked contractor specializing in military and industrial construction, appears to have built Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. In her 3,000-word investigation posted on Substack, Valdes-Rodríguez described the revelation as "terrifying,"...
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Friends,You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime.You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job.You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as...
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A former MAGA loyalist claimed there was a coordinated strategy among Republicans to fast-track President Donald Trump's ballroom after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, according to an analyst on Monday. Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described how in the wake of the shooting, the right immediately pivoted to repeating...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
President Donald Trump became defensive during a CBS News interview with Norah O'Donnell on Sunday, one day after alleged shooter Cole Allen opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. O'Donnell referenced Allen's manifesto, in which he described Trump as "a pedophile, rapist, and traitor," and asked Trump to respond. Trump lashed out at...
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President Donald Trump has created an environment in which his own base is incapable of weighing facts rationally and listening to the media, MS NOW's Katy Tur argued on Monday — and this has come back to haunt him now that he wants his base to stop going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes about the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking case...
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A former police officer who was hired and trained by ICE — and was later turned away from the job in an email saying he was "too old" — has revealed that ICE's hiring surge under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has prompted more than 10,000 equal opportunity legal claims. A new investigation from PunchUp, a Substack launched by...
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