Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Crenshaw: Trump Isn’t The Devil And He’s Not Jesus

“You’re not going to excommunicate a former president, right? And I refuse to — I refuse to go into the sort of black and white thinking about it’s either totally one thing or totally the other.  These are complex human relationships that involve millions of people Look, I do not think Trump is the devil, and I won’t say that. …

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Jailed Proud Boys Leader Rages: “Fuck You Trump”

USA Today reports: Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean lashed out at President Donald Trump, accusing him of misleading his supporters and then deserting them despite their unwavering loyalty. “We are now and always have been on our own. So glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and s— on us on the way …

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Biden Revokes Trump’s Order For “Garden Of Heroes”

First, a reminder of that particular idiocy: As one of his last acts in office, President Trump has ordered the building of a monument garden to include scores — upon scores — of statues of “American heroes.” Figures for the garden are far-reaching, ranging from Muhammad Ali and Annie Oakley to Jesse Owens and Rosa Parks to Walt Disney, and …

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Liz Cheney: Trump Will “Unravel Democracy” To Regain Power, It’s An Ongoing Threat, Silence Isn’t An Option

“For reasons that I don’t understand, leaders in my party have decided to embrace the former President who launched that attack. “And I think you’ve watched over the course of the last several months, the former President get more aggressive, more vocal, pushing the lie, and I think that’s a really important thing for people to understand. “This isn’t about …

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Florida Law Enforcement Has Plan If Trump’s Indicted

Politico Playbook reports: Law enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., have actively prepared for the possibility that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance could indict former President Donald Trump while he’s at Mar-a-Lago, according to two high-ranking county officials involved in planning sessions. Among the topics discussed in those meetings: how to handle the thorny extradition issues that could arise …

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Cheney: I’ll Do Everything I Can To Ensure The Former President Never Gets Anywhere Near The Oval Office

NPR reports: “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney told reporters after her ouster, which was done by a voice vote. “The nation needs a party that is based upon fundamental principles of conservatism, and I am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that’s how this …

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Liz Cheney Roasts Trump’s Lies In Fiery Floor Speech

The New York Times reports: Delivering the broadside from the House floor on Tuesday night, Ms. Cheney took a fiery last stand, warning that former President Donald J. Trump had created a threat that the nation had never seen before: a president who had “provoked a violent attack” on his own Capitol “in an effort to steal the election,” and …

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GOP Arkansas Governor: Trump Is “Dividing Our Party”

“Whenever we do not have the president in power from our party, you have divided leadership — you have many different voices. And former President Trump is dividing our party, and so it’s important that we not unite with someone who is dividing our party. “I believe that we need to concentrate on more things that bring us together than …

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Stats Show Trump’s New Blog Is Embarrassing Flop

NBC News reports: The ex-president’s blog has drawn a considerably smaller audience than his once-powerful social media accounts, according to engagement data compiled with BuzzSumo, a social media analytics company. The Desk of Donald J. Trump is limited — users can’t comment or engage with the actual posts beyond sharing them to other platforms, an action few people do, according …

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WaPo Does Deep Dive Into Origins Of “The Big Lie”

The Washington Post reports: Key elements of the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold everything from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream. At meetings beginning late in …

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Kinzinger: The GOP’s The Titanic And Trump Is Trying To “Find Women’s Clothing And Get On The First Lifeboat”

“Right now, it’s basically the Titanic. We’re like, you know, in this in the middle of this slow sink, we have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. “And meanwhile Donald Trump’s running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat. “I think there’s a few of us that are just saying ‘guys …

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Cohen On Giuliani: Trump Wouldn’t Pay Him Two Cents

Mediaite reports: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday that there is zero chance that Rudy Giuliani does not get stiffed by Donald Trump on his legal bills. “He’s going to get stiffed. All right?” Cohen said, highly skeptically talking about the idea Trump would be willing “to part with a single dollar.” Cohen said with a laugh, “He thought …

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Neighbors Lose Bid To Boot Trump From Mar-A-Lago

The Palm Beach Daily News reports: Turning aside arguments from neighbors who claim that Trump is not permitted to live at Mar-a-Lago based on a Declaration of Use agreement he signed with the town in 1993, Palm Beach Town Attorney John Randolph concluded that the agreement doesn’t specifically prohibit the ex-president from residing at the club, Town Manager Kirk Blouin …

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Trump DOJ Secretly Got WaPo Reporters’ Phone Records

The Washington Post reports: The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials. In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen …

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Trumps Left Overdue White House Security Upgrade To The Bidens Because Melania Didn’t Want The Disruption

CNN reports: The White House was in need of substantial upgrades to its future security apparatus, updates that would include digging deeply and extensively, from the upper main driveway to the lower, across acres of pristine green grass. Times had changed since the last substantial overhaul of systems, and with the country facing new, known and unknown security threats from …

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Politico: Trump Is “Hunting Down” GOP’s Top Families

Politico reports: In the civil war between Donald Trump and the GOP’s waning establishment, no Republican has crossed the former president and come out ahead. Yet as Rep. Liz Cheney’s likely ouster from House leadership lays bare, Trump has reserved a special fury for the scions of the GOP’s leading families in his attempt to exercise full dominion over the …

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FEC Drops 2016 Hush Money Investigation Into Trump

The New York Times reports: The Federal Election Commission said on Thursday that it had formally dropped a case looking into whether former President Donald J. Trump violated election law with a payment of $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to a pornographic-film actress by his personal lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen. The payment was never reported on …

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Geraldo Rivera Doesn’t Understand First Amendment

The New York Daily News reports: Fox News correspondent and law school graduate Geraldo Rivera is accusing Facebook of denying Donald Trump his constitutional rights. Twitter spoke freely about the mustached pundit’s understanding of the First Amendment. “Facebook is full of s–t,” Rivera tweeted after the social media platform decided to uphold its suspension of the 45th president’s account following …

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Trump Uses New Blog In Attempt To Evade Twitter Ban

The Hill reports: Social media interactions about Former President Donald Trump have gone down to 91 percent since January, according to data compiled by NewsWhip. The company found that from Jan 6 to May 3, social media interactions about the former president dropped dramatically after the end of his second impeachment trial. Trump still remained a heavy topic in the …

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Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban For Now

The Washington Post reports: Facebook’s Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social network’s decision to ban former president Trump four months after Capitol riot, but also gave Facebook six months to review the decision. The binding ruling by the 20-member Oversight Board, which is largely independent and funded by the social network, could set the stage for a new political …

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