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    Garland Blames Trump for Stalled Hunter Biden Probe
    Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to blame the Trump administration Wednesday for allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on potential tax charges against first son Hunter Biden.  But when Garland said so during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was having none of it.  At several points during the hearing,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Promises to Pardon Pro-Life Advocates Jailed by Biden
    Former President Donald Trump has promised he will pardon or commute the sentences of sidewalk counselors, pro-life advocates, and “every political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration” on the first day he returns to office, he told the 2023 Pray Vote Stand Summit on Friday. Trump also vowed he would prohibit transgender procedures for…
    Ben Johnson
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    Top Pro-Life Leaders Slam Trump for Calling Heartbeat Protections for Unborn ‘Terrible’ 
    Former President Donald Trump is drawing fire from pro-life leaders for describing Florida’s heartbeat protections for the unborn as “terrible.” “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,” Trump told NBC’s new “Meet the Press” host, Kristen Welker, in an interview that aired Sunday. The former president was referring to…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Donald Trump Pledges to Champion Homeschool Families
    Former President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to champion American homeschoolers if he should again become president in 2025. “As president, it was my honor to support America’s homeschool families—and to protect the God-given right of every parent to be the steward of their children’s education,” Trump said in a new Agenda47 video released on social…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Isn’t Disqualified From Holding Office Under the 14th Amendment
    Recently some people have started making the argument that former President Donald Trump is barred from running for president by the 14th Amendment, one of the Reconstruction Amendments ratified in 1868 three years after the end of the Civil War. These Trump critics rely on the first sentence of Section 3 of that amendment, which…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘We Will Not Comply,’ Trump Says of COVID-19 Lockdowns, Mandates
    In a video released Wednesday, former President Donald Trump denounced the left’s push to “restart the COVID hysteria” and pledged that the United States would not return to lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates. “To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words: We will not comply, so don’t even…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Georgia Officials Didn’t Follow Ethical, Legal Rules in Trump Indictment
    A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, failed to properly follow the precedent set by the state Supreme Court in allowing the county’s top prosecutor to go forward with a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump after disquaifying the prosecutor from part of the probe for misbehavior. In a legal analysis Aug. 15 in…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘Coordinated Effort’: House Judiciary Seeks White House, DOJ Communications on Trump Prosecution
    The House Judiciary Committee is pressing both the White House and Justice Department to provide information about meetings between special counsel Jack Smith’s team and White House aides in the weeks leading to the indictment of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case.  House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote letters to Attorney…
    Fred Lucas
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    Fulton County DA’s Anti-Trump ‘Smoking Gun’ Is a Toy Pistol
    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be drooling. In a dark day for America, Democrats made President Joe Biden’s chief political rival fly to their stronghold of Atlanta, surrender to law-enforcement officials, and get photographed and fingerprinted like a common criminal. Consequently, Willis and her fellow Democrats now boast a mugshot of former President…
    Deroy Murdock
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    ‘Travesty of Justice’: Arraigned in Georgia, Trump Pleads Not Guilty to RICO Charges
    Former President Donald Trump called the Georgia charges against him a “travesty of justice” and "election interference" after getting his mug shot taken Thursday evening at an Atlanta-area jail, where he and allies face charges of conspiracy in trying to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.  Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators were named…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Names 2 Democrats He Suggests Should Get Indicted on the Charges He Faces
    Former President Donald Trump suggested that under the standard by which he faces racketeering charges in Fulton County, Georgia, for contesting the 2020 presidential election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams should also be indicted for contesting elections they lost. “Hillary called me up and conceded,” Trump told Tucker…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Sean Spicer Explains Why Donald Trump Is Skipping GOP Debate
    Tonight is the first Republican presidential debate, where eight candidates will square off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Who has the most to gain and most to lose? And what topics will dominate the debate? Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, host of “The Sean Spicer Show,” spoke to The Daily Signal about what he’ll be…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    ‘IDENTICAL TO JOE BIDEN’: Mike Pence Slams Trump on Key Economic Issue
    ATLANTA— Former Vice President Mike Pence warned that President Joe Biden, and some of Pence’s Republican competitors in the 2024 GOP nomination race, have failed to address a central issue contributing to inflation and America’s weakness on the world stage. “We have a debt today the size of our nation’s economy,” Pence declared Friday at…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Georgia Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Prosecutor Who Indicted Trump
    The Georgia Legislature could investigate and possibly impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who this week secured a grand jury’s racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump and allies who helped Trump challenge the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia.  State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican, said Willis engaged in “political persecution” of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Liberal Media Would Have You Think Trump’s Prosecutors Are Nonpartisans. They Aren’t.
    Here we go again. The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The No. 1 media bias complaint on this trend—other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama—is that reporters typically fail to identify…
    Tim Graham
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    Trump Takes 47-Point Lead Over Republican Field as Ramaswamy Surges to Second
    Former President Donald Trump is widening his lead over the field of Republican rivals, according to a new poll shared with The Daily Signal. With support from 60% of Republican primary voters, Trump commands a 47-point advantage over his nearest competitor in Scott Rasmussen’s latest national survey. The poll from RMG Research Inc. was in…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Hillary Clinton Laughs at News of Trump’s Indictment Over 2020 Election
    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who famously lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, laughed at news of the latest indictment against her former campaign opponent on Monday night. “All over the country right now, people are wondering what Hillary Rodham Clinton is thinking, watching things unfold in Georgia,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Federal Indictment of Donald Trump Is Weaponization of American Political System
    The indictment of former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith—with the full approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland—is an attack on the American political system and fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment to freely discuss, debate, and contest serious election and political issues. It represents the ultimate weaponization of the Justice Department,…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Says Supreme Court ‘Must Intercede’ in His Case
    Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the Supreme Court “must intercede” in special counsel Jack Smith’s case against him. Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday in Washington, D.C., to four charges relating to his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election. He said Friday in a post on Truth Social that the indictments against him are “election interference” that…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Trump Indictments Are an Attack on Political Speech
    If recklessly lying to voters were a crime, most everyone in Washington, D.C., would be serving life in solitary confinement at Supermax. But in a liberal democracy, as frustrating as it often is, political misconduct is settled by voters and elections, not partisan prosecutors or rioters. Feel free to campaign and vote against Donald Trump…
    David Harsanyi
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