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    Trump Was ‘a Gust of Wind Away’ From Being Assassinated. Security Expert Analyzes Shooting.

    MILWAUKEE—Security expert Brian Cavanaugh says former President Donald Trump was “a gust of wind away” from being assassinated on July 13th.  “To have a round pierce your ear, which is attached to your head, we’re talking less than two millimeters away,” says Cavanaugh, a senior vice president at American Global Strategies.  For a bullet to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Top Secret Service Officials Reportedly Denied Trump Security’s Repeated Requests For Additional Resources

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secret Service officials repeatedly denied requests for additional resources made by former President Donald Trump’s detail prior to the July 13 assassination attempt, the Washington Post reported. Trump was slightly wounded in the right ear on July 13 when a gunman fired multiple shots during the attempted assassination at the Butler County, Pennsylvania,…
    Harold Hutchison
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    ‘Not Fit to Serve’: Donald Trump Reacts to Joe Biden Dropping Out of 2024 Race

    Former President Donald Trump reacted Sunday to news that President Joe Biden will not seek reelection in 2024, promising to “remedy the damage” that he said Biden has done to the United States. “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve—And never was!” Trump said in…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘I Took A Bullet For Democracy’: Trump, Vance Hold Swing State Rally Just One Week After Assassination Attempt

    The Daily Caller News Foundation—Former President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio held their first joint rally together in Michigan on Saturday, a state that the pair is seeking to turn red after President Joe Biden won it in 2020. The event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the first rally since Trump survived…
    Ryan Meilstrup
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    Texas Church Led by Pro-Trump Pastor Catches Fire After Assassination Attempt, Republican Convention

    UPDATED 10:05 p.m. Central—The historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Dallas, the church led by Pastor Robert Jeffress, caught fire on Friday night. The cause remains unknown, though the fire comes less than one week after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, of whom Jeffress has long been an impassioned supporter. “Dallas…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Biden-Trump Rematch Echoes Campaign of 1920

    For those of a certain age, or with more than a woke education, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump brings back echoes of history. Not exactly the history of the abysmal political year of 1968, which saw the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., 39, and Robert F. Kennedy, 42, riots in major…
    Michael Barone
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    ‘GOD SAVED HIS LIFE’: Enes Kanter Freedom Opens Up About Speaking With Trump’s Family After Shooting

    MILWAUKEE—Former National Basketball Association star Enes Kanter Freedom spoke with former President Donald Trump’s family after a 20-year-old man attempted to assassinate the former president. “About the photo, first of all, that’s probably one of the most iconic photos I’ve ever seen in my life,” Freedom, a former basketball and wrestling pro, told The Daily…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    At RNC, 98-Year-Old WWII Vet Says He ‘Would Reenlist’ Under Trump

    A 98-year-old veteran of World War II says if former President Donald Trump were the commander in chief again, he “would reenlist today.” “I would storm whatever beach my country … needs me to,” long-retired Sgt. William Pekrul declared in his speech on the third night of the quadrennial Republican National Convention. Pekrul introduced himself…
    Olivia Pero
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    Are Trump Scandals Just Endless Hours of Noise?

    On July 15, the opening day of the Republican convention, federal judge Aileen Cannon dismissed special counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of former President Donald Trump for misuse of classified documents. Legal arguments aside, it cast a shadow over all the breathless media hype that came before it. Year after year, partisan “legacy media” outlets have…
    Tim Graham
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    ‘Really, Really Difficult’: Bureaucrats Worry Behind Closed Doors They’ll Be Sent Packing Under Trump

    Government workers are reportedly in a state of panic over the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning another term in office, according to E&E News. Bureaucrats up and down the federal hierarchy are concerned that a second Trump administration could cost them their jobs and put an end to liberal programs they worked to…
    Robert Schmad
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    Trump Accepts GOP Nomination With Speech Focused on National Unity

    Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination for the third time Thursday night, less than a week after the attempt on his life.  “We rise together or we fall apart. I am running to be president for all America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,”…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Saving American Democracy, Tucker Carlson Tells GOP Convention

    Donald Trump is the key to returning democracy to America, political commentator and veteran talk-show host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.  “The entire point—from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today—for Donald Trump’s public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a…
    Fred Lucas
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    Here’s the Chart on Illegal Immigration That Trump Was Talking About When Shot: The BorderLine

    Everyone my parents’ age remembers where they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot. Their parents remember where they were when imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Last Saturday, July 13, shortly after 6 p.m., I was sitting by the pool reading the news on my phone. I bet you remember where you were, too….
    Simon Hankinson
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    DHS Could Be at Fault in Trump Shooting, Former Secret Service Agent Says

    The investigation into the U.S. Secret Service’s failure to secure the Pennsylvania campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was shot late Saturday afternoon should focus on whether the agency followed preventive protocols, a former member of the Secret Service told The Daily Signal. “If they followed the methodology that the Secret Service uses, that…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘LA LA LAND’: Former Dem Presidential Candidate Slams Democrats for Calling Trump Shooting ‘Staged’

    MILWAUKEE—An influential Democrat who ran against President Joe Biden in the 2024 primary condemned his fellow compatriots on the Left for indulging in conspiracy theories that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was “staged,” and he praised Trump’s bravery in the shooting’s aftermath. “I’ve seen so many people, whether it’s the mainstream media…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    More Black Celebrities, Former Democrats Express Support for Trump

    THE CENTER SQUARE—After the failed assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, support has poured in from now former Democrats and former Democratic donors and celebrities. Black television personality Amber Rose, who used to think Trump was a racist, endorsed him at the Republican National Convention. When explaining her change of heart, she said, “The…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Why Former Obama Fundraiser Now Backs Trump

    Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump.  Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007.  “It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH the ‘Problematic Women’ Podcast: Trump, Vance, and BIG Moments From RNC

    The Daily Signal’s “Problematic Women” podcast is on-site in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention.  On this week’s edition, we discuss the biggest moments so far from the RNC, the implications of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, and why Trump chose Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate. 
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Rewrites Republican Convention Speech to Focus on Unity, Not Biden

    Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the attempt to kill him and will call Thursday night for a new effort at national unity at the Republican National Convention. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner a day after his right ear was grazed by a sniper’s bullet Saturday evening,…
    Salena Zito
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    4 Senators Confront Secret Service Director at GOP Convention About Trump Shooting

    MILWAUKEE—Republican senators confronted the embattled head of the Secret Service on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention here.  “You owe President Trump answers,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., shouted after Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the RNC.  While Cheatle walked through the Fiserv Forum convention center, Blackburn, along with Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming, James…
    Virginia Allen
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