Jeffrey Clark and Michael Flynn were leading figures in Donald Trump’s efforts to carry out a coup d’etat in 2020 and 2021. The result was mob violence, deaths at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., an array of criminal investigations and lawsuits, and what one former senior Trump aide went on …
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CNN was utterly humiliated by Trump during Wednesday night’s town hall — but the network isn’t backing down from its decision to host the former president. Anderson Cooper stated during his Thursday broadcast that while he understood viewers’ anger over what amounted to a made-for-TV Trump rally, the many lies …
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When he was running for reelection to North Carolina’s House of Representatives this past October, Rep. Ted Davis gave an interview to the New Hanover County Republican Party. “What is your stance on abortion here in North Carolina — are you going to outlaw it completely?” his interviewer, Reuel Sample, …
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There’s a self-defeating argument I’ve often heard used to explain the state of gun violence in this country. It goes something like this: If we couldn’t change things after 20 first-graders were murdered at Sandy Hook, what hope is there now? I understand the impulse to give in to cynicism …
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Trump leveling a sexist attack against a woman who disagrees with him? Whomst among us could have seen it coming? Donald Trump employed his preferred moniker for women he doesn’t like against CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who hosted a town hall with the former president on Wednesday. When Collins attempted to …
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Donald Trump may have been found liable for sexual battery and defamation against author E. Jean Carroll, but that doesn’t mean he’s learned a lesson. During a CNN town hall on Wednesday, the former president responded to questions about this week’s $5 million ruling that he sexually assaulted and defamed …
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Attorneys for Donald Trump filed an appeal Thursday afternoon against a jury’s decision to find him liable for sexual battery and defamation against author E. Jean Carroll. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages in a civil trial brought by the author, who alleged that the former …
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House Republicans have been promising to expose President Joe Biden’s supposedly criminal business dealings with foreign entities for months. But the biggest takeaway from Oversight Committee Chair James Comer’s (R-Ky.) much-hyped press conference on Wednesday revealing the GOP’s “findings” was just the opposite — they don’t have the goods. What …
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Donald Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by a slew of women during his decades of prominence as a public figure. On Tuesday, for the first time, a jury ruled that the former president was liable for sexual battery against author E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of having …
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Donald Trump has no regrets about Jan. 6, 2021. During a aCNN town hallon Wednesday, moderator Kaitlan Collins asked the former president whether he had “any regrets about his actions that day.” In response, Trump boasted about the size of the crowd. “January 6th had to do with the fact …
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