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    DeSantis Vows Florida Won’t Help Extradite Trump
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a tweet that the Sunshine State will not help extradite former President Donald Trump, who was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday night. Trump spends significant time at Mar-a-Lago, a Florida resort he owns. “Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Anti-Trump ‘Hush Money’ Case Has More Holes Than His Doral Golf Course
    If filed, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s highly anticipated “hush money” indictment against former President Donald Trump will be unprecedented. No sitting or former president of the United States has ever been indicted. The U.S. House impeached Trump twice—and Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, once each. The Senate failed to convict any of them after their respective House…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Arrest That Man (Donald Trump). Crime to Follow.
    Former President Donald Trump, citing “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, posted the following on social media: ” … WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED…
    Larry Elder
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    Americans Have a Lot at Stake If Trump Indicted, Heritage Foundation President Says
    Americans should be concerned about Donald Trump’s potential arrest and indictment regardless of their personal opinions of the former president, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in an interview Tuesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show." “If I encounter someone who isn't as grateful for [Trump] as you and I and your audience are, I say it doesn't matter because…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border in 1 Year of Biden Than Entire Trump Presidency
    “Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.” So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Will Trump Be Arrested? Legal Expert Weighs In
    Former President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he expects to be arrested by New York authorities in the Stormy Daniels case. “WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK,” Trump wrote Saturday morning on his social media platform Truth Social, adding: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Trump’s comments come as Manhattan District Attorney…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Says He ‘WILL BE ARRESTED’ Next Week
    Former President Donald Trump predicted Saturday morning that on Tuesday, authorities will arrest him in connection to the Manhattan district attorney's investigation. "NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE…
    Mary Margaret Olohan | Tyler O’Neil
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    Former Trump Adviser Launches PAC Calling on Ron DeSantis to Run for President
    A senior adviser in former President Donald Trump's administration launched a political action committee Thursday calling on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to run for president in the 2024 election. Ken Cuccinelli served as the acting deputy secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration as well as Virginia attorney general and a Virginia…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Energy Department Report on Lab Leak Is ‘I-Told-You-So to Nth Degree,’ Ex-Trump Communications Staffer Says
    OXON HILL, Md.—A former White House communications staffer said the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab represents an “I-told-you-so to the nth degree” after the legacy media and Big Tech cracked down on then-President Donald Trump and others for suggesting it. “Much…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
    OXON HILL, Md.—Former President Donald Trump spoke about his accomplishments in the White House and his future plans in a speech Saturday to conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside the nation’s capital. “We are going to complete the mission,” Trump said in the closing speech at CPAC. “We are…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Child Abuse’: Trump Presents Plan to Stop ‘Mutilation of Our Youth’ in the Name of Transgender Identity 
    In the buildup to the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump has begun laying out his campaign platform.  On Wednesday, the former president released a video condemning the radical Left’s gender ideology and plans to protect children from experimental transgender surgeries and procedures.   “The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an…
    Michael Ippolito
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    Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoon Finally Goes After a Biden—but With Kid Gloves
    Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not even mentioned Biden, much less ridiculed or lampooned anything about his administration. That was despite the president’s numerous lies and innumerable speaking gaffes, and in spite of…
    Peter Parisi
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    The Real Differences Between Biden and Trump Document Troves
    Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden. First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Archives Silent on Biden Docs After Public Complaints of ‘Torn-Up’ Trump Docs and ‘False’ Reports on Obama-era Docs
    The federal agency responsible for making government records available to the public has gone dark with both Congress and the media when it comes to the classified documents stored at the Penn Biden Center, and at the homes of President Joe Biden.  The National Archives and Records Administration declined to answer whether anyone told the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Here’s Why Merrick Garland Tapped a Trump Appointee to Investigate the Joe Biden Documents
    Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate classified documents dating to Joe Biden’s vice presidency discovered two months ago at a pro-Biden think tank, according to news reports. A senior legal expert at The Heritage Foundation explained the move to The Daily Signal. Garland tapped John Lausch, U.S. attorney for…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘They Knew I Did Nothing Wrong’: Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena of Trump
    The Jan. 6 committee dropped its subpoena of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorney, CNN reported. “Therefore, through this letter,…
    Diana Glebova
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  • opinion

    Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
    Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected president (1884) to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later in 1892. Yet Trump seems determined instead…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Returning to Pre-Trump ‘Dead Consensus’ GOP Would Be Big Mistake
    In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, Right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things manifesto called the American Right’s “dead consensus” think they see blood in the water. Indeed, the “dead consensus” Praetorian Guard has apparently decided that now is the time for a…
    Josh Hammer
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    Tech News You Need to Know: Trump Freed From Twitter Jail; FTX’s Bizarre Business Practices
    Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been restored to him. The former president’s Twitter account is one of several high-profile ones to be resurrected following entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. “I think [with] Musk getting in and seeing what was happening behind the scenes, he realized pretty quickly that the content moderation…
    Virginia Allen
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    Donald Trump Announces He Will Run for President Again
    Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will again attempt to become president of the United States. “Together we will be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable,” Trump said Tuesday evening. “Our country is in a horrible state. We’re in grave trouble.” The 76-year-old former president made the announcement from his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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