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    Is This Unelected Panel Targeting Trump-Appointed Inspectors General?
    In the past month, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s office has issued reports citing problems with the Biden administration’s assessments for allowing high-risk individuals into the country, and another report calling for improved vetting of the claims of asylum-seekers. But while working as the top oversight official of DHS, Cuffari contends, he…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Vows to Combat Agencies Weaponized Against Christians
    WASHINGTON—Citing the federal arrests of pro-life activists, former President Donald Trump vowed to establish a task force to investigate anti-Christian bias if he is elected to another term.  “Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to viciously prosecute pro-life activists,” Trump said of the current president on Saturday during remarks at the Faith and Freedom…
    Fred Lucas
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    Virginia GOP Primary Race Between Trump Endorsee and House Conservative Too Close to Call
    It’s still to close to call the winner in a Republican primary contest in Virginia that garnered national attention, featuring a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump running against an incumbent congressman and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus At 11 p.m. Tuesday, McGuire held a lead of 50.3% of the vote to Good’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Right: Trash the Tip Tax
    Rallying Las Vegas voters on June 9, former President Donald Trump said, “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips.” Amid 100-degree temperatures, he added, “You do a great job of service. You take care…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Maddow and Stelter Concoct Crazy Theories on Trump’s Revenge
    Forever earnest Brian Stelter tweeted out his late-night appearance on CNN with Abby Phillip. “MSNBC’s [Rachel] Maddow is right to be thinking aloud about the possible repercussions of a second Trump term,” he typed. “Other media types and political veterans are doing the same thing. What might “retribution” look like? What are the pressure points…
    Tim Graham
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    Voters Trust Trump on 4 Most Important Issues
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former President Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden on the four most important issues facing Americans today, according to new polling from Scott Rasmussen. The RMG Research survey asked registered voters to rank the most important issues and then pick the candidate they trust more: Biden or…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    House GOP Signals Tough Line for UN If Trump Wins in November
    When Congress and the White House enact a spending bill for foreign operations, will it contain the sharp cuts in funding for the United Nations and related entities found in the version a House subcommittee passed last week? Highly unlikely. Yet that didn’t stop critics from voicing howls of anguish and warnings of peril. However, the House bill needs…
    Brett Schaefer
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    FBI Suspends Employee’s Clearance After Probing Trump Support, COVID-19 Views
    The FBI revoked the security clearance of an employee after asking colleagues questions–under threat of discipline–about his support for former President Donald Trump and views on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a complaint to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog.  The employee attended the rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington before it turned into a…
    Fred Lucas | Tyler O’Neil
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    How Will Trump Verdict Affect His Election Prospects? New Poll Offers First Clue
    For months, Democrats have predicted that a guilty verdict in the controversial New York hush money trial would doom former President Donald Trump’s reelection hopes. Instead, new polling data from Scott Rasmussen suggests there is “no measurable impact.” Rasmussen’s polling firm, RMG Research, had both Trump and President Joe Biden tied at 42% in its…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Social Media Message Could Doom Trump NYC Verdict—If It’s True (And That’s a BIG IF)
    Another Friday afternoon, another potential bombshell in the Trump “hush money” trial in New York City. The judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s trial notified the parties that on May 29, a user named “Michael Anderson” (if that is his real name) posted on the New York Unified Court System’s public Facebook page…
    Zack Smith
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    The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do With the Prosecutions of Trump
    The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Time Magazine Betrays Its Tilt in Biden, Trump Interviews
    Does Time magazine really matter anymore? It still has a circulation of more than 1 million, but that is one-third of what it was in 2012. Does anything it reports still resonate, or is it like a tree that collapses unheard in the solitude of the woods? Time just secured an interview with President Joe…
    Tim Graham
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    Beware When Leftist Journalists Use Founders to Attack Trump
    When the elected Democrat district attorney of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business accounting, you could count on leftist journalists to try to make it the Most Historic Event Ever. We’re not even sure it won’t all be reversed on appeal. But “historic”…
    Tim Graham
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    Sens. Daines, Paul Join Republican Effort to Stop Democrat Agenda Post-Trump Verdict
    Two more Republican senators are joining the effort to stop the Senate Democrats’ agenda Wednesday in response to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial. Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., are signing on to a Senate Republican letter vowing to oppose Democratic legislative priorities, a spokeswoman told The Daily…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Verdict Makes NYC ‘Venezuela on the Hudson’
    It’s hard to adequately describe what happened to Donald Trump in Venezuela-on-the-Hudson. Outrageous? A travesty of justice? A devasting blow to the sanctity of our justice system and its reputation for fairness and nonpartisanship? An American repetition of the Soviet show trials of the 1930s? It’s all of those things. And you don’t have to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Convicted: So What Happens Now?
    Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts when the jury rendered its verdict Thursday, the first time a former president (also the presumptive Republican presidential nominee) has been convicted of a crime. The Rubicon has been crossed, and many people have weighed in with reactions, including The Heritage Foundation.  Trump will appeal,…
    John G. Malcolm
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    How Republicans Plan to Stymie Democrats After Controversial Trump Verdict
    Democrats might control the Senate, but they’ll have a hard time getting things done if 10 of their Republican counterparts have anything to say about it. Following a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump—and President Joe Biden’s subsequent cheerleading of the decision—10 Republican senators vowed to oppose Democrats’ legislative priorities and…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Vows to Fight On Despite Conviction
    Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making the upcoming election a referendum, he now hopes, not just on his record against Joe Biden’s but the entire political system. Republicans call it…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Can Trump Be Elected President From a Prison Cell?
    A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on 34 counts related to falsifying business records supposedly to cover up “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Now, Trump could face prison time. Judge Juan Merchan will issue Trump’s sentence on July 11. So, what happens between now and the sentencing? And…
    Virginia Allen
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    Did Judge in Trump Case Violate Constitution With His Jury Instructions? These Attorneys Think So
    Defense attorney Randy Zelin and former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore said on Friday that Judge Juan Merchan violated the U.S. Constitution with his instructions to the jury in former President Donald Trump’s trial. Merchan instructed the jury that it is not a requirement for them to be in unanimous agreement about what “other crime” Trump committed, instead…
    Jason Cohen
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