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Victor Davis Hanson: The Deadly ‘Get Trump’ Climate Continues
Just two months after the failed Trump assassination attempt by one Thomas Matthew Crooks, we witnessed Sunday yet another foiled one, by Ryan Wesley Routh—a would-be assassin and anti-Trump/radical pro-Ukraine War social media addict. Somehow he, too, once again got within relatively easy shooting range of former President Donald Trump. Is there a continued pattern… -
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‘Was He Tipped Off?’: Bongino Explains How He Predicted Second Assassination Attempt
Dan Bongino, the conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent who correctly predicted another assassination attempt would be made against former President Donald Trump, says he thinks Sunday’s shooter was connected to a larger network. “It’s really weird that he would come in here and know exactly that spot and have a good vibe that… -
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Second Assassination Attempt Forces New Reckoning for Trump, Secret Service
The second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump while he was golfing at one of his Florida courses on Sunday is forcing the United States Secret Service to further tighten security around the Republican presidential nominee and to reevaluate just how much Trump should be venturing out—whether he should continue to golf and participate… -
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Is Biden-Harris ‘Rhetoric’ to Blame for Second Assassination Attempt on Trump?
When the liberal media compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, is it really a surprise that someone would want to get rid of him? After the second assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday in Florida, the former president said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the arrested suspect in the shooting, Ryan Wesley Routh, “believed… -
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MSNBC Anchor: Trump Should Tone Down Rhetoric After Apparent 2nd Assassination Attempt
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned whether former President Donald Trump should consider “toning down” his rhetoric Sunday after what might have been another assassination attempt on the former president. Secret Service agents evacuated the former president from the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after Secret Service agents reportedly fired at a man carrying a… -
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BREAKING: Hawley Drops Whistleblower Report on Secret Service Failures in First Trump Assassination Attempt
A day after the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley released a whistleblower report on the Secret Service’s failures in the first assassination attempt on the 45th president, including failures that have not been reported on previously. For example, the Missouri Republican senator’s report found the Secret Service intelligence units… -
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News Flash: Bias in Media Isn’t New, Veteran Journalist Says
John Miller entered the field of journalism in Washington, D.C., in the early 1990s. There were only a handful of outlets with conservative commentary writers on their staffs at the time, and, even then, Miller says, he remembers being frustrated by the liberal bias in the media. “This notion that, you know, a generation ago… -
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‘The People Deserve the Truth’: DeSantis Says Florida Will Investigate Trump Assassination Attempt
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Sunday the Sunshine state would conduct its own investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club,” posted DeSantis, a Republican, on X. “The people deserve the truth about the… -
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‘TRULY HORRIFYING’: Questions Swirl After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
For the second time in just over two months, a gunman has attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump. “The FBI has responded to West Palm Beach, Florida, and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump,” the FBI announced in a statement Sunday afternoon. “Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president,… -
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Dan Bongino Predicts Another Security ‘Incident,’ Says Secret Service Is Worse Today Than Before Trump Assassination Attempt
Editor’s note: This article was originally published Aug. 26. Radio talk-show host and podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, predicted another “incident” with the Secret Service, claiming that the agency is worse off today than it was before the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. After… -
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Knocking on Victory’s Door in Pennsylvania
LEVITTOWN, Pa.—Hours before Donald Trump and Kamala Harris squared off for their presidential debate Tuesday night, about 50 activists gathered at a Bucks County hotel to organize for a day of door-knocking in this closely divided Philadelphia. Americans for Prosperity Action recruited the grassroots team as part of its effort to visit 1 million homes by… -
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Despite Harris Endorsement, Conservative ‘Swifties’ Still Do Exist. Here’s Why.
Anyone who has been following singer Taylor Swift since 2020 should not be remotely surprised by her endorsing Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday night. As much as some conservatives want to view Swift’s endorsement as an earth-shattering betrayal, they would do well not to look for validation in celebrity endorsements to begin with. … -
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Angel Moms to Texas Democrat: ‘Insulting’ to Say We’re Politically Exploited
THE CENTER SQUARE—A Texas congresswoman is under fire after saying Angel Moms who testified about how their children were brutally murdered by criminal illegal border crossers released into the U.S. are “being exploited for political purposes.” Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from El Paso, Texas, made the remarks Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing after mothers… -
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‘Fact-Checking’ Is Often Spin-Spoiling, Especially on Abortion
The debate debacle hosted by ABC News underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact-checkers.” Object to them, and the Left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as nonpartisan and devoid of opinion. “Fact-checking” is often an exercise in spin-spoiling…. -
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Kamala Harris, Pro-Crime Candidate for President
The negative effects of California’s Proposition 47 are well known—a surge in theft, chaos, and lawlessness. Prop 47, a ballot measure approved by voters in 2014, reclassified nonviolent larceny as a misdemeanor so long as the value of the goods stolen is less than $950. This results are seen in horrifying videos of criminals brazenly… -
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Postdebate Polling Flips Legacy Media Narrative on Its Head
Ahead of Tuesday night’s debate, most commentators and voters alike anticipated that former President Donald Trump’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ performances would do little to sway voters one way or the other, but a series of recent polls suggests otherwise. On Thursday, Trump released internal polling data targeting seven battleground states, showing an increase in support… -
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WATCH: Another Sugar High Doomed to Fail
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we take another shot of caffeinated, sugary soda from the Kamala Harris-obsessed media, with the same kind of awkward, increasingly diminished returns popular with a certain president. What happens when you predict a forecast of raining cats and dogs in Ohio, only to bring the television… -
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The Stunning Costs of Biden-Harris’ ‘America-Last’ Border Policies—Part 1: The BorderLine
To sum up the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies in a phrase, I’d say “America Last.” Over nearly four years, we have seen the results of an unprecedented experiment: What happens when a first world country abandons its legal limits and processes on immigration and allows nearly unlimited, unvetted migration? This is effectively what the Biden-Harris… -
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Reckless $15 Billion Budget Shortfalls Risk VA Benefits. These Low-Hanging Fruits Could Prioritize Veterans’ Well-Being.
The men and women who’ve defended our nation should not have the veterans benefits they earned threatened by fiscal mismanagement. That’s why Republican lawmakers introduced a supplemental appropriations bill to provide an additional $2.9 billion to cover shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ budget for fiscal year 2024. However, this supplemental spending bill… -
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The Political Chasm Between Taylor Swift and Michael Jordan
In 1990, in the midst of a heated—and racially charged—U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt, Chicago Bulls superstar guard Michael Jordan issued one of his most famous lines. Jordan, who grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and won a national championship in 1982 for the…