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Trump 'bombed' at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - but he stayed awake
President Donald Trump does not appear to be the entertainer he once was, reports CNN’s Brian Stelter. The president’s insult-laden speech drew mostly stunned silence from the audience as he attacked a bunch of journalists at the pared-down recap of...
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How Trump turned the presidency into a $5 billion grift
Estimates of U.S. President Donald Trump's net worth vary. According to Forbes, it reached $6.5 billion in March. Trump made the transition from millionaire to billionaire back in the late 1980s, focusing primarily on high-end real estate. And he has...
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Surprise: Bible-thumping rural areas less religious than cities
Apparently all those 50-foot crosses lining highways in the American South and rural areas are more of a claim than proof, reports the Daily Yonder. Rural residents are filled with President Donald Trump voters who take great pleasure in harping their...
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Inside the secret $100K tool giving traders Trump's news first | Opinion
Starting August 1, Trump Media and Technology Group will launch a new data feed aimed at highfrequency trading firms whose profits are made by making trades a fraction of a second faster than everyone else. It will provide “licensed, real-time access...
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Mysterious website tied to top Republican pushes major court change
William Allen White changed his mind very publicly. Once an ardent anti-populist - the equivalent of a conservative today - he eventually embraced the progressive cause - more or less a modern political liberal. What White didn’t do was obscure his...
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Trump 'blew it' by tanking perfect chance for US to win over the entire world
Huge international sporting events on the level of the FIFA World Cup are a prime opportunity for a country to make a good impression on the world, but as a new piece from MS NOW argued, President Donald Trump took the perfect chance for the U.S. to do...
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Testosterone won't fix Trump admin's peak stupidity | Opinion
Pete Hegseth may have terrible judgment, but his comic timing is vaudevillian. The former TV host who bills himself as America's "secretary of war" chose the perfect moment -- as his enraged presidential boss resumes the fruitless bombing of Iran -- to...
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'Peacemaker' president Trump has botched an awful lot of peace: conservative
How many times has President Donald Trump blundered a path for peace. Let conservative Dispatch writer Kevin D. Williamson count the ways. “Campaigning for the White House in 2024, retired game show host Donald Trump insisted that he would end the...
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Republican: 'Kids playing wizard in the park' have better grip on reality than Trump
After days of speculation among election officials and experts about what President Donald Trump might say in a heavily hyped primetime speech on elections, Trump on Thursday night delivered a mix of familiar claims, grievances, and assertions about...
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White evangelicals now regret the deal they made with the devil: report
Although U.S. President Donald Trump continues to suffer from weak approval ratings in poll after poll, one group that, on the whole, still holds him in high regard is white evangelical Christian fundamentalists - who view him as a staunch defender of...
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Inside Trump's secret network preparing for civilizational collapse
t recently emerged that tech billionaire Peter Thiel is running a secret society that brings together fellow CEOs and billionaires with political leaders. Members reportedly include figures like Nato supreme commander Alexus Grynkewich and son-in-law...
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DC insider: There's only one way to end 'a brainless egomaniac's' spiraling crisis
In his latest commentary, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich argues that the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran represents not a new war, but the continuation of an ongoing crisis-one that was virtually inevitable given the deeply...
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The reckoning coming when the MAGA sleeping giant awakens | Opinion
Democratic primary elections, in particular, are showing us America is both in the midst of a deep crisis and is on the verge of what could be transformational, positive, life-altering political and economic change comparable to FDR’s New Deal. It...
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Trump just robbed America of a sacred reckoning that may never come again | Opinion
House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee have released a report describing how the White House cheated the American public on its 250th birthday. It outlines interim findings that the Trump organization put together a shell company to...
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'I think he's dead': Mitch McConnell pulls a 'Franco'
The Guardian reports mystery is still surrounding the health of Sen Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as Congress prepares to return from recess next week. McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to a Washington hospital in June 14....
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New bombshell video shows Mitch McConnell loaded into ambulance on a stretcher
Video footage obtained and verified by CNN shows emergency responders loading what appears to be Senator Mitch McConnell onto a stretcher and into an ambulance outside his Washington, D.C., home on the morning of June 14, after the 84-year-old Kentucky...
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How the 'anti-American right' hijacked the GOP: conservative
When conservatives and libertarians speak of "classical liberalism," they don't mean "liberal" in a left-wing or progressive sense but rather, are usually referring to a libertarian form of old-school conservatism. The Liberal Party of Australia, for...
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'Really embarrassing': Gen Z's dislike of Trump also extends to his favorite team
President Donald Trump has made a point to make himself the center of the national conversation on countless topics. But it turns out the president’s insistence on inserting himself into sports may be spoiling the popularity of even that. “Young people...
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Trump’s late-night rants reveal a darker problem with the president: expert
President Donald Trump posted 67 times on social media on the night of July 5th-July 6th - and an expert says it is because he is increasingly insecure about his future. “I mean, that’s one way to look at it,” political analyst David Rothkopf told The...
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Inside Trump's secret weapon to remake the courts in his favor
Since returning to the White House 17 and one-half months ago, President Donald Trump has made a concerted effort to fill the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with MAGA loyalists. And according to the New York Times, Trump is determined to overhaul the...
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Robert Reich reveals July 4th plan for 'mourning' US ideals assaulted by Trump
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, the "ideals that this country began with" are under assault by President Donald Trump, prompting commentator and economic equality activist Robert Reich to plan a symbol "mourning" to mark this year's Fourth...
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Trump's effort to steal Taylor Swift's spotlight backfires bigtime
On Friday night, as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding drew attention to Madison Square Garden, the White House displayed a sign reading "Trump is your president" near the venue's "Just&T" announcement. The gesture comes amid a long history of...
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Conservative slams Dems for not riding Trump's corruption harder
A conservative writer scolded Democrats on Thursday for not focusing on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented corruption in the months leading up to the November mid-terms. “For all intents and purposes, nobody cares,” The Dispatch’s Nick Catoggio...
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Trump’s fans got 'trash' while Trump got rich: WSJ report
The Wall Street Journal reports that not only did President Donald Trump make a cool $1 billion off his connections to the White House, he managed to do it in a way that made his MAGA fans and supporters catch the short end of the grifting stick....
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Trump’s next Supreme Court pick will be a 'real psycho': conservative
A conservative commentator predicts that President Donald Trump, who has suffered several highprofile losses at the Supreme Court despite confirming three of the six Republican judges on the nine-jurist bench, is likely to pick a “real psycho” to avoid...
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Pro-Trump blogger targeted by far right for being Jewish
A conservative commentator reported on Monday that a prominent Jewish right-winger who actively supports President Donald Trump is being harassed by anti-Semitic far right elements - and embarrassed himself trying to fight back. After The Daily Wire...
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The bottom fell out: Trump's second term in freefall after 18 months
Although the United States' 2024 presidential election was quite close - Donald Trump won the national popular vote by roughly 1.5 percent - many right-wing media figures echoed Trump's claim that his victory was a "landslide" and described the...
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Inside Trump's most pernicious legacy | Opinion
Jimmy Carter’s campaign motto in 1976 was “Why Not the Best!” declaring everywhere he went: “I want to see us once again have a nation that’s as good and honest and decent and truthful and competent and compassionate and filled with love as are the...
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The Supreme Court may have set a trap for conservative Christians that could backfire
For more than two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a long series of wins for plaintiffs seeking to protect their religious practices. On June 23, 2026, though, the majority delivered an uncommon defeat in this contentious area. Landor v. Louisiana...
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Trump’s Pentagon firings creating 'national security' crisis: retired Navy admiral
Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, a former U.S. Army Europe commander, is warning that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth - by forcing seasoned military figures out of leadership roles - are promoting instability in the U.S. Armed...
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Pollster wrecks Trump’s most reality-defying rubbish: report
President Donald Trump is dragging down his fellow Republicans and heightening their risk of losing control of the Senate, the House of Representatives and/or both in the upcoming midterm elections. Despite the president claiming on Wednesday that his...
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Debunked: Newly revealed docs bust Trump's vandalism guff
President Donald Trump claims that his Reflecting Pool renovations failed because third-parties vandalized the institution - but a new story based on internal documents provides a different version of events. “President Trump says the peeling blue...
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'You'll be very happy': Inside Trump's quid pro quo machine
My family’s morning routine is usually pretty ordinary. We wake up early, drink some coffee and get our 1-year-old ready for daycare. But one Wednesday morning last month, I found myself uttering to my wife a sentence that sounded frankly surreal to...
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Ex-GOP strategist explains Trump’s latest baffling move
In the past, U.S. President Donald Trump wasn't shy about voicing his total disdain for Camp David - making it clear that he found the presidential retreat in Frederick County, Maryland extremely boring. But Trump headed to Camp David over the weekend,...
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'Delusional' Trump may be too far gone to see his own limits: Opinion
President Donald Trump’s arrogance and braggadocio appear to be without bounds, but does he really believe his own claims of supreme power? That was the subject of debate on CNN’s “The Arena” Saturday morning. The panel consensus, however, could not...
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Even notorious right-wing leaders are fleeing Trump’s 'fat orange clownery': Conservative
Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says President Donald Trump has plopped such a noxious odor on right-wing ideology that even ideological diehards are leaping out of windows to avoid him. “After 10 years of degrading bootlicking obeisance by the...
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Trump draws scathing rebuke in paper owned by billionaire GOP megadonor
U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran is drawing vehement criticism not only from Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, but also, from some of his supporters. Danny Zaken, an Israel-based journalist for Israel Hayom - which is owned...
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Trump blinked - and even conservatives are calling it a disaster | Opinion
Donald Trump claimed an Iran deal was coming-for literally the 40th time-on the weekend of his 80th birthday as he turned the White House lawn into a circus of rage and vulgarity all backed with ads for crypto companies and Trump coins. He hoped the...
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Trump-backed candidate goes down in flames in key swing state
An expensive slugfest between two Republican candidates for governor fighting for the party’s nomination came to an end Tuesday night. The Associated Press called the race for wealthy businessman Rick Jackson at around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. As of late...
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'A disgrace': Trump abandons these vital US allies - and insults them to boot
The United States and Iran are preparing to finalise a peace deal that would end their war - at least for the time being - as well as Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. Many key details remain to be negotiated, including the future of Iran’s nuclear program....
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Trump has made everything Jimmy Carter warned about catastrophically worse
President Donald Trump’s administration has vindicated a controversial 1979 speech delivered by one of his Democratic predecessors, Jimmy Carter. This is the assessment of Steve Schmidt, who like Trump is a Republican and advised a fellow GOP...
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Donald Trump's seven-word claim on Fed policy needs 'a reality check': expert
President Trump has repeatedly pressured the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, claiming in a recent NBC interview that "there's no reason to raise interest rates." However, according to a recent report from financial site The Motley Fool, economic...
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Trump's flawed intelligence finally catching up with him as strategy crumbles
The US and Iran stepped back from the brink of returning to all-out war on June 11. Hours after saying the US military would carry out strikes against Iran for a third consecutive night, Donald Trump postponed the attack. The Iranian military had said...
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Whistleblower warns a devastating bubble is about to pop Trump’s rotten economy
President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term - and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it. “We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars...
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This historian’s time-tested theory explains Trump: conservative
Thomas Carlyle, a Scotland-born historian who was 85 when he died in London in 1881, is remembered for the "great man theory." And according to conservative New York Times columnist David French, Carlyle's theory explains U.S. President Donald Trump's...
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Platner hurls expletive at Fetterman as he vows he's nothing like him
Oysterman Graham Platner, the ostensible Democratic frontrunner in this year’s Maine Senate race, used an expletive to describe a sitting Democratic senator that previously insulted him. “The Senate really is a place of - it’s a lot about...
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Trump's refusal to regulate tech puts us in a danger we often don't think about
President Donald Trump’s refusal to regulate AI could put Americans at risk of attacks from biological weapons. In an interview between CBS News contributor Chris Krebs and President Joe Biden’s former adviser Ben Buchanan (who now advises Anthropic),...
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Americans are fighting rapid technological change - with violence
The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence across society is causing a dangerous new form of extremism that is radicalizing individuals across the ideological spectrum, according to a new report from The Guardian. A pattern of alarming incidents...
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Inside the judicial revolt that exposed what Trump wanted buried | Opinion
Trump didn’t drop his $1.8 billion slush fund because of political backlash. Worshipped by the nation’s lowest IQ foot soldiers and propped up by tax-and-regulation-averse donors no matter his crimes, Trump doesn’t care about the midterms because he...
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The reason Trump keeps failing | Opinion
If you hadn’t noticed, Trump is failing. Iran is more dangerous today than it was when went to war on it, and energy prices are far higher. Trump’s brutal efforts to crackdown on undocumented people in the United States have generated a huge backlash,...
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Trump's cuts to this agency will cost families $500 a year: report
President Donald Trump’s changes to the Social Security program, implemented under the guidance of X CEO Elon Musk, will cost many families $500 a year. The new analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) projects that benefit...
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Republicans just gave Trump a 'shock defeat' in a GOP stronghold
U.S. President Donald Trump, in a recent series of GOP primaries, unseated one prominent Republican after another - including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rep. Thomas Massie (RKentucky) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), none of whom will be competing...
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Trump's world may be falling apart because of the one thing he can’t change
A prominent political analyst argued on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration is falling apart because of the one thing he cannot change - his aging body. “He’s 80!” political analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles on...
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Trump in 'distress' over midterms - despite faking 'indifference': NYT analysis
U.S. President Donald Trump caused a great deal of anxiety among GOP strategists and Republicans in Congress when, during a Cabinet meeting in late May, he declared, "I don't care about the midterms." But New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni...
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How Trump bullied a Dem governor into releasing a convicted criminal | Opinion
Colorado Governor Jared Polis popped up on a Colorado Democratic Party Zoom call this week with black tape plastered over his mouth. While Polis dodged reporters’ requests for comment on what the hell he was thinking, he appeared to be smarting from...
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Trump’s 'White Trash Nation' torn apart by conservative
Conservative Dispatch writer Kevin D. Williamson says he speaks with experience when he calls the sordid antics of President Donald Trump the trashy things that they are - because Williamson knows white trash when he sees it. Williamson lived the...
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'It’s his fault': Analyst says 'totally fair' that Trump is trapped in his rotten economy
President Donald Trump is screaming behind his own eyes, and his misery over the state of his economy and voter dissatisfaction appears to be manifesting in the shrillness of his social media rants. But one analyst with access to the numbers sees...
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Evidence mounts that Trump is both physically and mentally incapable | Opinion
I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn’t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn’t justify our lacking compassion for him. It’s also in the interest of America and the world that he be physically and mentally able to...
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Republicans send mixed signals after Trump topples another GOP veteran
Some Republicans fretting about the upcoming midterms on social media could not seem to squeeze into a comfortable position Tuesday night after incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) lost his seat to Republican challenger Ken Paxton. MAGA faithful...
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Trump's vendetta cases are imploding - and it all comes down to one thing
Since returning to the White House 16 months ago, President Donald Trump has used the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to target a long list of political foes. Some of them have been indicted on criminal charges by federal grand juries, including...
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The Democrats need to get over themselves | Opinion
Well, the much-ballyhooed autopsy on the 2024 election has arrived from Democratic National Committee’s headquarters, and it is a shame it didn’t stay buried in a trashcan in one of their offices deep inside the Beltway, and as far away from real...
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What created Trump's base is no reason to give his supporters a pass | Opinion
I keep hearing that one of America’s biggest problems is we’re “divided and polarized.” For example, New York Times columnist David French: “We’ve known for a long time that America is deeply polarized, and we’ve known the problem is only getting...
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Trump's catastrophic week exposes how out of touch he is with reality
Life finally man-handled President Donald Trump like it typically abuses Democratic presidents: with pushback and disappointment. But don’t expect to see this brand of ego acknowledge it, says Washington Post writer Luke Broadwater. “By pretty much any...
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Hypocrisy: Trump resorts to 'book cooking' Republicans accused Obama of doing
President Donald Trump is reportedly using the same “book cooking” to count immigrant deportations that he and Republicans denounced in his predecessor, President Barack Obama. “The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed...
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Trump's revenge tour will come back to bite him in the you-know-what | Opinion
Trump’s revenge tour continues. Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history (total cost was more than $32 million from combined campaign...
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Colbert didn't just entertain America - he redefined American patriotism
Stephen Colbert’s final episode as host of “The Late Show” on May 21, 2026, won’t mark the end of his career. But as a scholar of political satire, I think it offers a chance to reflect on the lasting impact of his comedy, which has spanned his work as...
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Ivanka Trump torn apart for not practicing what she preaches
In contrast to the snarky, combative attacks of her brother, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump often tries to put an intellectual spin on the MAGA movement. She will quote the Founding Fathers, or reference political philosophies in her social media...
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Follow the money: Trump stock purchases align perfectly with favors to drugmaker
President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company. On May 14, the federal government...
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Bill Cassidy takes a not so subtle dig at Trump following election defeat
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy incurred the wrath of pro-Trump Republicans in Louisiana who rejected his reelection bid in Saturday’s party primary election. Instead, voters lined up behind Congresswoman Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming, who...
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Fox News' fraud exposed: Inside the real-time con that's hollowing out America | Opinion
Whenever a new poll comes out showing Trump’s abysmal ratings, public reactions follow a pattern. Public comments don’t question Trump’s di__s__approval rating. Rather, millions of people question the flip side: how does 38% of the nation still support...
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MAGA outrage after Fox host corners Trump on key America First policy reversal
In three presidential elections in a row, Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of hardcore American First isolationism. One of his American First positions has been a vehement opposition to citizens of China buying U.S. farmland. But Trump has...
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Those with Trump in China have something in common - and it's not the interest of America |…
Trump calls the entourage of 12 CEOs accompanying him to China an “incredible gathering” of America’s “Greatest Businessmen/women.” Well, it may be an incredible gathering. But to characterize them as America’s greatest business leaders - who are...
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Trump forcing each taxpayer to put '$100' in his pocket - despite a judge's orders
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is discussing settling his $10 billion lawsuit, potentially costing each taxpayer roughly $100 - and doing so despite a judge’s attempt to protect the public interest. “The Justice Department is holding...
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Trump attacks 'lowlife' NYT reporter after $13M revelation
President Donald Trump attacked The New York Times in a lengthy overnight post on Truth Social after the newspaper reported that the real cost of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was significantly higher than he initially claimed. The...
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The truth about the debt Trump won't say out loud | Opinion
The U.S. national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II: It now exceeds 100 percent of America’s gross domestic product. As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27...
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A Mother's Day reckoning on violence and survival | Opinion
Subhed: Evergreen, because over 100 years later, the personal is somehow still political My mom died from Covid in 2020, just after Mother’s Day. I couldn’t write about it until I could be honest about who she was, a feat complicated by my then-pending...
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