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Rubio Pays Tribute to ‘Hero’ Slain by Sniper at Trump Rally
Sen. Marco Rubio paid tribute to the former fire chief killed Saturday afternoon in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in remarks Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief in Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania, was killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was attending the rally… -
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Daughter-in-Law Shares Familial Impact of Attempt on Trump’s Life
Lara Trump told delegates and others in the audience at the Republican National Convention that she initially had prepared a “very different speech” than the one she delivered Tuesday night. The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chairman of the Republican National Committee shared the shock of the assassination attempt on husband Eric Trump’s… -
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Carson: Trump ‘Alive and Well’ Despite Democrat Lawfare, Assassination Attempt
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referenced the Old Testament book of Isaiah when speaking about both Democratic lawfare and an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. “It says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’” Carson, a world-renowned former neurosurgeon, said Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Let me… -
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‘STRONG ENDORSEMENT’: Nikki Haley Touts Trump’s National Security Record
Despite finishing a distant second in the Republican presidential primaries, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told the crowd at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night: “Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.” “I had a front row seat to his national security policies. We sure could use those again,” said Haley, also a… -
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Vivek Ramaswamy Has Pointed Message for Black Americans, Youths
MILWAUKEE—Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke directly to groups of Americans often considered liberal and Democratic: blacks, immigrants, millennials, and Gen Z. Speaking to the Republican National Convention at the Fiserve Forum in Milwaukee, he said he wanted to deliver a message the media didn’t want these Americans to hear. “Our message to black… -
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BREAKING: Nikki Haley Endorses Trump at RNC in Name of Unity
MILWAUKEE—Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump’s foremost rival in the 2024 GOP primary, appeared at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night with a surprise announcement. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” she said. “It was a gracious invitation,… -
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Impending Japanese Sale of US Dollars Could Trigger Major US Economic Turmoil
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Japan is on the verge of a fire sale of hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. debt that could crash Treasury markets already teetering on the edge. Just another exciting day for de-dollarization as Japan’s collapse… -
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Touts Power of GOP Governors in Biden Era
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders stirred the Milwaukee audience of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, as she touted GOP governors nationally and asserted that former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by divine providence. “Not even an assassin’s bullet could stop him. God almighty intervened because America is one nation under God,… -
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House Speaker Vows ‘Thorough Investigation’ of Trump Assassination Attempt
House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged Tuesday night that the House of Representatives would conduct an “immediate and thorough investigation” into security failures by the Secret Service prior to the assassination attempt Saturday evening on former President Donald Trump. “We are united today as Americans in the wake of the assassination attempt on the life of… -
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Recalling His Own Shooting, Scalise Hails Trump’s Courage and Compassion
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise recalled his own brush with death seven years ago in remarks at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, just thee days after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On June 14, 2017, while practicing in Alexandria, Va., for the annual congressional softball game, a gunman shot Scalise,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino Slams Secret Service for Ignoring Threats to Trump’s Life
MILWAUKEE—Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino tore into his former employer on Tuesday for security failures at the Pennsylvania campaign rally where an attempted assassin shot former President Donald Trump late Saturday afternoon. Bongino, now a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in… -
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Bongino Open to Serving as FBI Director If Trump Wins and Asks Him
MILWAUKEE—Radio talk-show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t keen to head back into federal government service, but if former President Donald Trump were to win a second term and asked him to, he said he would consider it. Bongino sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where… -
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‘Do You Just Not Say Anything?’: Biden Blames Trump for ‘Rhetoric’ After Admitting ‘Bullseye’ Comment Was a ‘Mistake’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” after a recent assassination attempt while admitting that his “bullseye” comment was a “mistake” in an exclusive interview with NBC News Monday. Within a first clip released of Biden’s interview on “NBC Nightly News,” the president was pressed on his language around Trump and… -
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How Gen Z Responds to Attempt to Kill Trump
THE WASHINGTON STAND—They say “hindsight is 20/20,” and really, only time will tell just how Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump stirred (or hardened) the hearts of the American people. It would seem the immediate reactions to the shooting Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania are a mixed bag. In the… -
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Owner of Home Remodeling Business Tells GOP Delegates About Economic Hardships
The owner of a home remodeling business described the financial stress that the economy has put on Americans, including himself, in remarks Monday night at the Republican National Convention. “During the Trump boom, we were thriving. Under Biden, we are surviving,” declared Benjamin Josephn told a convention hall audience in Milwaukee that included former President… -
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‘Feels Like I’m Back in Latin America,’ Peruvian Immigrant Tells GOP Convention Delegates
It’s not just members of Congress and other politicians or TV personalities speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. So-called everyday Americans are taking the big stage in the speaker lineup too. Peruvian immigrant Vanessa Faura told former President Donald Trump and delegates gathered in the convention hall Monday night about her experience as… -
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Jack Smith’s Other Big Trump Case Could Go Down in Flames After Judge Finds His Appointment ‘Unconstitutional’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A judge’s ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was “unconstitutional” almost inevitably will end up before the Supreme Court, potentially dooming Smith’s Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump along with the classified documents case that the judge tossed. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Insurance Company Hosts ‘Drag Queen Bingo’ for Employees
A billion-dollar insurance company in Texas threw a “Drag Queen Bingo” event for up to 300 employees during Pride Month, and it featured a drag queen who performs for corporate giants Google and Amazon. Skyward Specialty Insurance invited employees to attend a virtual bingo game at 11 a.m. on a work day, led by a… -
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Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted in Federal Bribery Trial
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday of federal corruption and bribery charges, Fox News reported. Menendez, who was indicted March 5, was convicted by a jury on all counts over his involvement in a bribery and corruption scheme with three New Jersey businessmen and the Egyptian government. The indictment was brought following an investigation and search of… -
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An Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable
There are consequences to virtually every mainstream media, office-holding Democrat, and left-wing academic labeling former President Donald Trump a Nazi, a fascist, a white supremacist, and a mortal threat to American democracy. One consequence is that more than a few people will want Trump dead—killed, if necessary; who would not want such an individual dead? Here is…