Donald Trump—who has fretted privately that Republicans are “getting killed” electorally on abortion — is now running ads touting his pro-life record in Iowa, the first state to vote in the GOP primary. In the ads, paid for by Trump’s campaign and first reported by Kyle Tharp in his newsletter …
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Former president Donald Trump lashed out against U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan hours after being issued a gag order in the federal 2020 election interference trial. During a campaign event in Adel, Iowa, on Monday,the former president aired his grievances to the crowd of his supporters, claiming that it was …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed former President Donald Trump‘s recent comments about the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, as well as the recent indictments of New York Rep. George Santos and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Trump, in a speech to supporters Wednesday in Florida, praised Hezbollah as “very smart” …
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In HBO’s The Insurrectionist Next Door Alexandra Pelosi comes across as a charming and sympathetic bull in a china shop, eager to understand, find common ground with or at least provide a platform for people with whom she agrees on very little. That would be nearly everyone she talks to …
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Sen. Lindsay Graham, a longtime ally of the former president, denounced Donald Trump‘s comments calling Iran-backed political party and military group Hezbollah “very smart.” “You know, Hezbollah is very smart,” Trump told a group of supporters during a speech in Florida last week. “They’re all very smart.” “That was a …
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Donald Trump has used the Israel-Hamas conflict — which has claimed hundreds of lives on both sides — to push his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him. While delivering a speech to his supporters at a club event Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump claimed …
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Donald Trump has been absolutely furious with Benjamin Netanyahu since the Israeli prime minister declined to publicly back his conspiracy-fueled effort to overturn the 2020 election. The Israel-Hamas war that erupted over the weekend has only stoked the former president’s animus toward Netanyahu, and he’s now trying to use the …
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Lunchtime, early 2003: Donald Trump was one year away from starring in The Apprentice and fourteen years away from being sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States. He owned a share of the Miss Universe beauty pageant, some Atlantic City casinos on the verge of bankruptcy, and …
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Between the bongo drums and saxophone, the guy hawking buttons featuring a shirtless Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“Fit to Be President!”), the men darting around in dark suits and sunglasses (stand-ins for the Secret Service detail Kennedy has still not received), the throngs of jubilant supporters, and the giant tour …
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan “impose reasonable boundaries […] of prohibiting public identification of potential or selected jurors,” in Donald Trump’s 2024 election interference trial. In a Tuesday filing to D.C.’s District Court, Smith wrote that “in light of the public attention that is expected …
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