American presidents have dealt with myriad health issues while serving in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt contended with polio. Woodrow Wilson was partially paralyzed after a stroke. Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered both a stroke and a heart attack. But no medical condition may be more dangerous to the stability of the …
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Over the weekend, Donald Trump crystalized his authoritarian vision for the nation when he suggested siccing the military on his political opponents and American citizens to destroy the “enemy from within.” Despite the former president’s direct appeal to full-blown fascism, Republicans are lining up to defend and downplay his comments. …
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Donald Trump continued his preelection economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess. Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump, and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception …
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Donald Trump took time to praise former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the lawman who ran a self-described “concentration camp,” during his appearance Sunday at Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Trump’s rally followed his Saturday appearance in Coachella, California, where he threatened to withhold wildfire aid to the state if …
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Recovery efforts in areas of North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene are being disrupted by reports of militia activity targeting FEMA workers. According to a Sunday report from The Washington Post, federal emergency response personnel paused work in an area of Rutherford County, N.C., and relocated personnel after receiving reports …
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Republicans spent the better part of September falsely smearing migrants as sadistic pet torturers in their bid to stoke fear about immigration. Yet for a party seemingly concerned with the welfare of animals, they raise few objections when cruelty takes place within their own ranks. According to a Monday report …
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A “Trump Boat Parade” in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday was joined by neo-Nazis waving swastika flags, shouting “White Power,” “Heil Trump,” and “Make America White Again!” The showboating of yachts and wake boats on behalf of Trump’s candidacy is a revival of the “Trump Armada” trend from 2020, when MAGAdonians …
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, increasingly prone to temper tantrums and outbursts of violent rhetoric as the election nears, railed against his former stomping grounds, Fox News, after the network announced that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, had agreed to an interview. While Trump himself has been ducking out …
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Elon Musk, the unhinged billionaire who many believe ruined Twitter, has a place in a potential future Trump Administration: secretary of cost-cutting. When Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked former president Donald Trump about how he would trim “fat in government,” Trump said that he would defer to Musk. “What …
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Sen. J.D. Vance accused This Week host Martha Raddatz of “nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said” when she called out his running mate’s lies about migrants in Aurora, Colorado. “Trump said the city [of Aurora] had been invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of the city …
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