Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suspended his 2024 presidential campaign, and according to a court filing in Pennsylvania on Friday will throw his weight behind former President Donald Trump. Multiple news outlets reported on Wednesday that independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. was planning to drop out of the race …
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One of the odder features of American journalism is that the columnists who hold themselves out as “fact checkers” and review claims made by politicians — calling balls, strikes, and “pinocchios” — are unusually terrible at it. Fact checkers offered up several botched reviews of content from the Democratic National …
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The numbers are in, and the viewership of the Democratic National Convention blew last month’s Republican National Convention out of the water. Early numbers by Nielsen Fast Nationals indicate that the final night of the DNC garnered 26.20 million viewers across 15 networks, compared to night four of the 2024 …
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Days after Donald Trump shared AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and her fans supporting him, the former president is claiming he doesn’t know “anything about” the images. When Fox Business asked him whether he was worried that Swift would sue him, Trump responded: “I don’t know anything about them other …
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He’s little-known and rarely-seen, but conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon is keeping Donald Trump‘s campaign afloat. He has donated $125 million this election cycle to Trump’s primary Super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc. Here’s how important those dollars are: It’s roughly half of what MAGA Inc. has raised — and …
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Not until its next campaign filing in October will we know how much Elon Musk has donated to America PAC, a Super PAC he launched along with other Silicon Valley elites with the aim of electing Donald Trump. But we do know how much the organization is spending — and, …
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Perhaps out of jealousy, or some weird attempt at spoof, or maybe just incapable of coming up with an original idea of his own, one of Donald Trump’s campaign spokespeople decided to use Beyoncé’s “Freedom” — a kind of unofficial Kamala Harris campaign track — in a recent social media …
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Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster in a new memoir describes the way Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced former President Donald Trump during his time in office. McMaster, who was national security adviser to Trump from 2017 to 2018, writes that Putin took advantage of Trump’s ego. The memoir, At War …
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Beyoncé has threatened to send a cease-and-desist to the Trump campaign after the former president posted a clip of her “Freedom” — Kamala Harris’ unofficial campaign song — in a video posted on social media, Rolling Stone has learned. A source close to Beyoncé tells Rolling Stone that the Trump …
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Fact checking columns have been around for some time but gained new popularity with the rise of Donald Trump as a way for news outlets to appear adversarial toward a politician whose rhetoric is consistently, thoroughly detached from reality, without doing the legwork. Nine years after he first started running …
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