May 15, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump’s political team commissioned a poll that showed Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene losing a potential race for Senate in Georgia by double-digits, and the president shared the results with Greene in a bid to discourage her from running in 2026. The poll was conducted by Tony Fabrizio, Trump’s longtime pollster, the people said. Trump’s …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump cultists
The Daily Beast reports: A Nashville restaurant owned by MAGA musician Kid Rock reportedly closed over the weekend to avoid the Trump administration’s ICE raids. Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Tennessee shuttered after employees unauthorized to work in the U.S. failed to show up for work on Saturday and those that had turned up …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Huffington Post reports: If you’re interested in finding Donald Trump’s precise words as he lied about his failed coup attempt in his Jan. 20 remarks at the U.S. Capitol soon after his inaugural speech, good luck with that. Same with his Feb. 12 thoughts in the Oval Office on how magnetism, in his view “a new theory,” doesn’t work …
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May 15, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Politico reports: A planned Friday vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the GOP megabill is increasingly in peril, with at least three hard-liners pledging to oppose the party-line legislation. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who sits on the Budget Committee, told reporters he will vote against the package of tax cuts and extensions, border security investments, energy policy and …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Costs are way down, groceries are way. They have a term – groceries. It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying: food. It is a pretty accurate term, but it’s an old-fashioned sound, but groceries are down. Costs are down, eggs are down.They were, first week they were hitting me with eggs were up 200% and now …
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May 15, 2025 Trump cultists, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: When President Donald Trump addressed U.S. and Qatari troops at a military base in Qatar on Thursday, he assured the rank and file that “we don’t care if you’re politically correct.” Anyone needing proof of that could have watched comedian Theo Von’s routine just a little earlier. Wearing a black T-shirt and backward baseball cap, the …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
NBC News reports: The FBI’s Washington Field Office is folding its federal public corruption squad, the same unit that aided Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation into President Donald Trump, three people familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The field office has three units that work on public corruption issues, but this one — known internally as “CR15” — was …
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May 15, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Axios reports: The GOP tax bill includes Republican packaging of what is more often a Democrat’s proposal – money for every baby in the country. The $4 trillion tax legislation would seed $1,000 for every American baby born over the next few years, the type of no-strings-attached cash infusion that Republicans often oppose. Dubbed the “MAGA Accounts Contribution Pilot Program,” …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
USA Today reports: The big military parade planned for June 14 will feature dozens of tanks rumbling through the city’s streets, warplanes buzzing overhead and 7,500 soldiers housed in government office buildings downtown, according to Army planning documents. Soldiers and their equipment will begin to arrive in the nation’s capital from across the country in the days leading up to …
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May 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Fox News reports: House Democrats are opening an investigation into President Donald Trump and his administration’s acceptance of a $400 million private jet from the Qatari government. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, led his fellow Democrats on the panel in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington …
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