Vivek Ramaswamy is getting a hard look by Republicans willing to entertain alternatives to Donald Trump, especially as Ron DeSantis continues to flounder. The 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur has surged into third place in several national polls, ahead of prominent Republicans like Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott. Ramaswamy is …
Read More »Trump Privately Called His Team's Election Lies 'Crazy.' The Special Counsel Has Questions
While Donald Trump was publicly whipping his supporters into a frenzy over claims that the 2020 election was “stolen,” he was privately mocking his own allies’ outlandish conspiracy theories as “crazy.” It’s a contradiction that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office would like to know all about. According to two sources …
Read More »Biden Allies Now Want to Run Against 'Collapsing' DeSantis Over Trump
Ron DeSantis has centered his presidential campaign around the idea that he, and not Donald Trump, is the Republican candidate who can beat Joe Biden. That’s why Democrats have “picked” Trump as their preferred candidate. Unfortunately for the Florida governor, Biden’s team is now saying the exact opposite. Some of …
Read More »Trump Struggles to Find Enough Lawyers to Handle His Many Indictments
Donald Trump could be days away from another indictment, but as a third set of criminal charges looms, he’s struggling to recruit lawyers to defend him, three sources familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone. In recent weeks, the Trump team has tried, with mixed results, to bring aboard new …
Read More »Fake-Ticket Champ in Connecticut Trooper Scandal, Revealed
In a damning audit of state police — which exposed 26,000 likely-fraudulent tickets that were logged into Connecticut’s racial profiling database — one state trooper stood out as a dubious high performer. The audit flagged a lone state policeman who submitted 1,350 “overreported” tickets from 2014 to 2017. (These are …
Read More »Police Say He Stabbed a Man to Death While Shouting the N-Word. He's Charged With Only 'Peace Disturbance'
Jon “Mike” Rone Jr. was killed on the 4th of July by repeated stab wounds to the chest. Sean W. Tonkin is the man police believe stabbed Rone — during a confrontation in which, police say, he repeatedly shouted the n-word at him. This occurred just after, a witness tells …
Read More »Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges
As the chair of Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama in 2018, Cole Wagner helped muscle into the Alabama Constitution a new amendment declaring the state recognized “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.” On Friday, the Alabama Political Reporter broke the news that Wagner had been …
Read More »Generals, Peaceniks, and Palestinian Fighters Agree: Bibi Must Be Stopped
O n a narrow hillside road crowded with stucco apartment buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, 22-year-old “Abu Nidal” sits in an open storefront decorated with posters of fallen fighters, clutching his M16. Voices and static blare from the radio stuck to his green tactical vest. Flanked by young men …
Read More »Special Counsel Probes Team Trump's Jan. 6 'War Room'
In the days and hours before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, diehard Donald Trump allies gathered at Washington’s Willard Hotel, hunkered down as the last-ditch efforts to overturn the 2020 election went forward. What exactly they were doing in those meetings was a subject of intense interest for Congress’ Jan. …
Read More »'I Have Never Been Anti-Vax,' Says Lead Anti-Vaxxer RFK Jr
Thursday Morning, fresh off controversy after claiming that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” towards certain races, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. testified before The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Earlier this week, more than 100 Democrats filed a letter to the Judiciary Committee calling for Kennedy …
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