February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Forbes reports: Vice President JD Vance suggested Sunday courts “aren’t allowed” to overrule President Donald Trump and his executive orders after judges across the country have issued orders blocking Trump policies. Vance also shared a post from legal scholar Adrian Vermeule, who claimed, “Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a …
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February 9, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
“I think the Canadian people, many of them, would love to join the United States with no tariffs, with lower taxes. I have all kinds of neighbors down in Florida who are Canadians who are escaping the liberal policies and are moving in. “What you’re seeing is a reassertion of American leadership in the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic all …
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February 9, 2025 Extremists, Nazis
The Associated Press reports: The far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is in second place in recent polls and has prompted widespread protests across the country before voters cast their ballots on Feb. 23. The protest at Munich’s Theresienwiese — where Oktoberfest takes place each year — brought a significantly larger crowd than expected, according to the German dpa …
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February 9, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Politico reports: “I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” Noem said Sunday. “We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California, but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how …
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February 9, 2025 Democrats, Trump Corruption
“In a few weeks, the Republicans are going to try to figure out how they move forward, and they have, for the last two years, needed Democratic votes for every single continuing resolution, and they should not count on that this time. They are simply trying to dismantle the government. So yes, look, if we have to take steps to …
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February 9, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
Mediaite reports: Elon Musk sounded off on a federal judge for blocking access to the Treasury Department’s data systems to Musk and his DOGE team. Musk was not pleased by the ruling, to say the least. He kicked off what has been a day-long social media screed by pushing a claim from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that Engelmayer’s decision even …
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February 9, 2025 News, Politics
Alex Isenstadt writes for Axios: Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. My upcoming book, “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” reveals the depth …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: Trump has spent 20 days in office, and on nearly every one of them, he has signed executive orders — often several. Trump issued Day 1 orders to pardon most members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and keep TikTok functioning. He hasn’t …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Post reports: President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists. Trump said his new top target is ex-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Bad guy. Take away his passes,” he said of Blinken. “This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings.” …
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