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    ‘ALL OF THIS IS INTENTIONAL’: Trump Surrogate Blames Secret Service for Enabling Assassination Attempt
    MILWAUKEE—A lawyer, media consultant, and surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign blamed the Secret Service for “intentional” decisions that she said enabled the shooter to wound Trump and kill at least one other person. “I think the intentional decision was that we didn’t have enough Secret Service,” Mehek Cooke told “The Daily Signal…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Rubio Pays Tribute to ‘Hero’ Slain by Sniper at Trump Rally
    Sen. Marco Rubio paid tribute to the former fire chief killed Saturday afternoon in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in remarks Tuesday at the Republican National Convention.   Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief in Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania, was killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was attending the rally…
    Fred Lucas
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    Daughter-in-Law Shares Familial Impact of Attempt on Trump’s Life
    Lara Trump told delegates and others in the audience at the Republican National Convention that she initially had prepared a “very different speech” than the one she delivered Tuesday night. The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chairman of the Republican National Committee shared the shock of the assassination attempt on husband Eric Trump’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Carson: Trump ‘Alive and Well’ Despite Democrat Lawfare, Assassination Attempt
    Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referenced the Old Testament book of Isaiah when speaking about both Democratic lawfare and an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.  “It says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’” Carson, a world-renowned former neurosurgeon, said Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Let me…
    Fred Lucas
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    BREAKING: Nikki Haley Endorses Trump at RNC in Name of Unity
    MILWAUKEE—Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump’s foremost rival in the 2024 GOP primary, appeared at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night with a surprise announcement. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” she said. “It was a gracious invitation,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Speaker Vows ‘Thorough Investigation’ of Trump Assassination Attempt
    House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged Tuesday night that the House of Representatives would conduct an “immediate and thorough investigation” into security failures by the Secret Service prior to the assassination attempt Saturday evening on former President Donald Trump. “We are united today as Americans in the wake of the assassination attempt on the life of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bongino Open to Serving as FBI Director If Trump Wins and Asks Him
    MILWAUKEE—Radio talk-show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t keen to head back into federal government service, but if former President Donald Trump were to win a second term and asked him to, he said he would consider it. Bongino sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘Do You Just Not Say Anything?’: Biden Blames Trump for ‘Rhetoric’ After Admitting ‘Bullseye’ Comment Was a ‘Mistake’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” after a recent assassination attempt while admitting that his “bullseye” comment was a “mistake” in an exclusive interview with NBC News Monday. Within a first clip released of Biden’s interview on “NBC Nightly News,” the president was pressed on his language around Trump and…
    Hailey Gomez
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    How Gen Z Responds to Attempt to Kill Trump
    THE WASHINGTON STAND—They say “hindsight is 20/20,” and really, only time will tell just how Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump stirred (or hardened) the hearts of the American people. It would seem the immediate reactions to the shooting Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania are a mixed bag. In the…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Jack Smith’s Other Big Trump Case Could Go Down in Flames After Judge Finds His Appointment ‘Unconstitutional’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A judge’s ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was “unconstitutional” almost inevitably will end up before the Supreme Court, potentially dooming Smith’s Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump along with the classified documents case that the judge tossed. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported ‘1 at a Time’ Under Trump, Former Border Official Says
    MILWAUKEE—If elected to a second term as president, Donald Trump vows, he will deport the illegal aliens who entered the country during the four years of the Biden administration. How? “One at a time,” Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration, said Monday at a press conference at…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘The President Called Me’: Tuberville Opens Up About Trump Call 37 Hours After Shooting
    MILWAUKEE—Former President Donald Trump called Sen. Tommy Tuberville at 7 a.m. Monday, briefing the Alabama Republican about the aftermath of the assassination attempt Saturday evening and his selection of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate. “I talked to him this morning, he called me about 7 o’clock, and he said, ‘Well, how…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Did Assassin Hear the Left’s Relentless Chant, ‘Trump Equals Hitler’?
    MILWAUKEE—America came within a quarter inch of a national funeral on Saturday. If assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet had not grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s right ear but instead struck a pencil’s width nearer his skull, this week’s Republican National Convention here would be a four-day memorial, if that. Rather than working on his acceptance speech right…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump and I Have Proved Conservative Policies Work, Virginia’s Governor Says
    Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said both he and former President Donald Trump have shown that “commonsense conservative leadership works.” Youngkin, a onetime businessman elected in 2021, said Monday night at the Republican National Convention that under President Joe Biden’s administration, Americans are facing 7.5% mortgage rates, while their raises can’t keep up with 30% increases…
    Fred Lucas
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    Federal Judge’s Dismissal of Trump Classified Documents Case Appears to Be on Solid Constitutional Ground
    In a major setback for President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, the federal judge overseeing the criminal case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump for willful and unlawful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice threw out the superseding indictment and dismissed all of…
    Cully Stimson | John G. Malcolm
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    Why Biden Will Have Trouble Keeping the Political Heat Down After Attempt on Trump’s Life
    REAL CLEAR POLITICS—President Joe Biden addressed the nation Sunday night from the Oval Office in the wake of an assassination attempt on his predecessor and political rival, Donald Trump, urging Americans to “unite” and collectively “lower the temperature in our politics.” It was a speech about fundamentals. “Disagreement,” the president said, was “inevitable,” not just…
    Philip Wegmann
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    BREAKING: Trump Picks JD Vance as His Running Mate
    MILWAUKEE—Former President Donald Trump selected Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican, as his running mate in the Nov. 5 presidential election. Trump made the announcement Monday on Truth Social. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘MANIPULATION’: Sen. Mike Lee Dismisses Biden’s Calls for Unity After Trump Shot 
    President Joe Biden’s “unity” rhetoric after the attempted assassination Saturday of former President Donald Trump is “manipulation,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Monday.  Biden had a “missed opportunity” Sunday night to truly unite the country, Lee said during a panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Lee’s…
    Hudson Crozier
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    Ramaswamy Says US Could Have Had ‘Civil War’ If Trump Killed, Seriously Wounded
    MILWAUKEE—Vivek Ramaswamy believes the United States may have fallen into a “civil war” if former President Donald Trump had been more seriously wounded or died. Speaking to the press after his speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention on Monday, the former Republican presidential candidate discussed the Saturday shooting at…
    Katrina Trinko
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    UPDATED: Trump Documents Case Dismissed
    UPDATED 7 p.m. Eastern—A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, saying the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith as a prosecutor for the case violated the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution. Smith’s office announced it would appeal the ruling. Trump faced charges of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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