I n the final moments of Brandon Bernard’s life, before he was executed by lethal injection at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Dec. 10, 2020, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to entertain a final plea for mercy on Bernard’s behalf. The call was not with …
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Republican lawmakers have rushed to the defense of far-right TV network Newsmax after the channel was dropped by AT&T’s DirecTV. According to the satellite television provider, the split stemmed from a carriage fee dispute that would have resulted in “significantly higher costs” and increased customer fees. The channel claims they …
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Donald Trump is primed to get his Facebook and Instagram accounts back, as parent company Meta has decided that the ex-president who used social media to incite an insurrection should get another crack at posting to its platforms. A Meta spokesperson directed Rolling Stone to the company’s posted statement, which …
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When the election-deniers faceplanted in the 2022 midterms, it wasn’t just humiliating for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It had a sudden, devastating impact on how the former president and his aides had planned to wage their 2024 campaign to retake the White House. And now, Trump’s allies are …
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Former president Donald Trump is planning a party in South Carolina on Saturday, but he’s having trouble convincing state lawmakers to attend. So far only Sen. Lindsey Graham and S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster are expected to show their support at his upcoming rally. The Washington Post reports that Trump’s team …
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It’s totally cool with Rep. Michael McCaul that conspiracy peddler Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been placed on the Homeland Security Committee. “She’s matured,” McCaul said when confronted with the fact that Greene spouted 9/11 conspiracy theories as recently as 2018, when she was 44 years old. “I want to …
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A collective eyebrow was raised when the 2023 Sundance Film Festival announced a last-minute addition to the lineup: Justice, a documentary probing the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That the film marked the first documentary directed by Doug Liman, the man behind Swingers and The …
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A federal judge sanctioned former President Donald Trump and one of his top lawyers to pay nearly a million dollars for filing a bogus lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonand more than a dozen of Trump’s perceived political enemies, Bloomberg reports. U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of …
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Hugh Brown has just ducked off the showroom floor at the March for Life Expo inside in a downtown D.C. Marriott. The executive vice president of the American Life League has been glad-handing all day — his feet hurt, but he’s upbeat. “It seems very busy,” he says. “It’s good …
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Former President Donald Trump confused author E. Jean Carroll with his second wife Marla Maples during a deposition for the sexual assault case Carroll brought against Trump. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump, who has long insisted Carroll is not his “type,” mistook his accuser for his …
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