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    Hunter Biden Lashes Out at ‘MAGA-Motivated’ Impeachment Investigation
    Hunter Biden derided the House impeachment inquiry as “MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father” in an opening statement Wednesday during his deposition before congressional investigators.  By contrast, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said his and two other committees were deposing the president’s son because he is a “key witness in our investigation of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies to Spy on Trump Campaign
    The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the deep state will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the…
    Robert Chernin
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    ‘Why Would You Speculate?’: Trump Attorney Grills Key Witness Over Text That Could Blow a Hole in Fani Willis’ Defense
    An attorney for former President Donald Trump grilled a key witness Tuesday on why he sent a defense attorney a text confirming the start date of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ relationship with Nathan Wade. Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner and divorce attorney, testified Tuesday that he was “speculating” when he told Ashleigh…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Letitia James, Judge Engoron Wanted to Get Trump, Justice Be Damned
    As a New Yorker, I wish Democratic state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron would treat shoplifters, graffiti vandals, and armed robbers with just a puff of the volcanic rage with which they “get Trump.” Former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud indictment, trial, and $354.9 million penalty are an abortion of justice. That massive sum likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment requirement…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump Condemns ‘Persecution’ of Christians Under Biden DOJ, Pledges Feds Will ‘Never Again’ Target Them
    NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Former President Donald Trump compared the criminal indictments he faces to the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians as he spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention Thursday night. “For all Americans, but especially for Christians, nothing is more important than to defeat this wicked system and to return to equal and impartial justice under…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Outrage’ That Once Fueled Democrat Voters Is Slowly Fading as Another Trump Election Looms
    Liberal voters are expressing a sense of fatigue in their ongoing resistance against former President Donald Trump as the 2024 election approaches, The New York Times reported on Monday. Fury propelled voters to cast ballots against Trump in the 2020 presidential election and Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections, according to Democrats the Times spoke to. However,…
    Jason Cohen
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    Fani Willis’ Father, Former Governor Take Stand in Trump Disqualification Case 
    The father of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand Friday, testifying that he backs up her story about storing cash at home, listens avidly to conservative talk radio, and knew about COVID-19 well before most other Americans.  Willis is defending herself from accusations that her affair with the man she hired…
    Fred Lucas
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    Psychiatrist Who Called Trump Presidency ‘Dangerous’ Unconcerned About Biden or Special Counsel’s Report
    The psychiatrist who led efforts in 2017 demanding a 25th Amendment ouster of then-President Donald Trump said she does not have the same concerns about President Joe Biden, despite a Justice Department report last week that said Biden has “diminished faculties.”  Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist who edited the 2017 book “The Dangerous Case…
    Roman Jankowski | Fred Lucas
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    Confrontational Willis Fends Off Disqualification From Trump Case in Georgia Hearing
    Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in the Georgia racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, testified Thursday that he was reimbursed with cash for vacations he took with his boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis—with whom he admitted having an affair.  “It was cash,” Wade said. “She didn’t give me any checks.” In a…
    Fred Lucas
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    PolitiFact Celebrates ‘Fact-Checking’ Trump 1,000 Times; Obama, Biden Not So Much
    Never call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” It is every bit as liberal and biased as its fans in the liberal media. Recently, it announced it had published its 1,000th “fact-check” of former President Donald Trump. “American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy,” it proclaimed. “Ever since he descended…
    Tim Graham
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    Leaker of Trump Tax Returns, and Thousands More, Gets a Slap on Wrist From Biden Admin
     “I made my decision with the full knowledge that I would likely end up in a courtroom,” former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn said. Littlejohn didn’t just leak years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. He also leaked the tax returns of thousands of…
    Zack Smith | Elizabeth Holland
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    All 9 Supreme Court Justices Question Activists’ Effort to Kick Trump Off Ballot
    In what may be one of the most consequential election cases ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, the nine justices listened Thursday to 80 minutes of lawyers’ oral arguments over the attempt by political activists to knock Donald Trump off the primary ballot in Colorado (and other states). Although all of the justices asked…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Would Trump Have to ‘Lose Bigly’ at SCOTUS to Be Kicked Off Ballot? 
    It would take a sweeping legal ruling for the Supreme Court to effectively kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere, say legal scholars who’ve analyzed the arguments set for Thursday in the case.  “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose bigly. Or is it big league? He…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘CRIME-RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT’: Trump Says Quiet Part Out Loud About DC
    Washington, D.C., is becoming an embarrassment to the nation. A horrific story that made national headlines illustrates what the city is becoming. A would-be carjacker shot a former Trump administration official in the head Jan. 29 at the beginning of an insane, violent romp through the city. Mike Gill, who served as the chief of…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘DIRECT RETALIATION’: SPLC Added Immigration Group to ‘Hate Map’ After It Reported SPLC’s Attacks on Trump to IRS
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A recent interview with the leader of an immigration reform organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has branded a “hate group” potentially shines new light on how the SPLC allegedly uses its “hate” accusations as a tactical political weapon. Throughout the 2016 presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Beltway Judge Hearing Trump Cases and Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Kavanaugh Husband
    Washington glitterati assembled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in October to celebrate federal employees making a difference in government. Hosted by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, the black-tie affair featured in-person appearances by top Biden White House officials, including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Secretary of Agriculture…
    Julie Kelly
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    The Potential Environmental Benefits of a Second Trump Presidency
    A second Trump administration would benefit the environment. There’s no better proof of that than Friday’s decision by the Biden administration to stop future exports of liquefied natural gas, pending a future study by the Department of Energy. As justification for the cutoff, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm described the importance of “protecting Americans against climate change and…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    SNL’s Latest Attempt to Mock Trump Is Actually a Massive Self-Own
    Have liberals been living under a rock? Sometimes, it really seems like they have. This weekend on “Saturday Night Live,” co-host Colin Jost thought it would be a great idea to mock former President Donald Trump, now the leading candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, over his use of a term that conservatives have…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Other Governors Back Texas on Border as Trump Calls on Them to Send ‘Guards’ There
    Former President Donald Trump is calling on state governors to help Texas “repel the invasion” of illegal immigrants along America’s southern border.   “We encourage all willing states to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the border,” Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social, his…
    Virginia Allen
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    Leniency on Tap for Anti-Trump Leaker of Thousands of Tax Returns
    Another apparent “sweetheart deal” negotiated by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in a politically charged case is drawing scrutiny. Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who stole and helped publicize the confidential tax records of Donald Trump and an estimated 7,500 other wealthy Americans, could face little or no jail time when he is sentenced…
    Paul Sperry
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