President Trump last week refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election. Mike Pence is right there with him. “If Vice President Biden is declared the winner and President Trump refuses to accept a peaceful transfer of power, what would be your role and …
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President Trump has announced his nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Who it is doesn’t really matter — at least not in terms of the nominee’s legitimacy of the appointment. The GOP made clear on the night of Ginsburg’s death that they planned to rush a …
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A package addressed to President Donald Trump containing the poison ricin was intercepted by federal authorities earlier this week, according to several reports on Saturday. Both the AP and CNN say the letter was intercepted at an offsite government facility where White House mail is sorted and screened. The FBI, …
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Throughout his presidency, Trump has made it abundantly clear what is most important to him: money and how he is perceived. And during his final recorded phone call with Bob Woodward, true to form, the president reaffirmed that notion. Trump expressed concern about how he’d be portrayed in the journalist’s …
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PORTLAND — A “Trump 2020 Cruise Rally,” comprised of hundreds of flag-waving pro-Trump pickup truck drivers, detoured into downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night, setting off clashes between right- and left-wing protesters. Events turned deadly when a supporter of the far-right-wing group Patriot Prayer was shot and killed. Police have …
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As President Trump and Vice President Pence insist on hosting rallies as usual during the worst global pandemic in a century, they not only risk exposing their supporters to the virus but also the Secret Service agents assigned to protect them. According to a report in the Washington Post, “dozens” …
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President Trump took some time before golfing on Saturday morning to tweet an easily provable falsity, lying about the Democrats and God. In a tweet that as of this writing has not been deleted, the president spread a falsehood to his millions of followers that claims Democrats removed the words …
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The president told the meager audience who attended his rally in Tulsa on Saturday night that he gave an order to slow testing for coronavirus. Ever since, his staff have downplayed Trump’s claim by calling it a joke. But on Monday, the president himself refused to back down from the …
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UPDATE: Attorney General Bill Barr released a statement on Saturday saying that because federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman will not voluntarily step down, he has been fired. According to the New York Times, the statement says that Berman had “chosen public spectacle over public service.” Barr’s statement continued, “Because you have …
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In a live address on Friday, presidential candidate Joe Biden said the killing of George Floyd was “an act of brutality” that “denied him of his very humanity.” Related:Global Protests Begin After Police Killing of George Floyd Biden’s emotional speech came before the arrest of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, …
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