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    Trump Reacts to Biden’s State of the Union Address
    Former President Donald Trump shared his live, play-by-play reactions to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Truth Social Thursday night.   When Biden and his Cabinet arrived at the House of Representatives chamber approximately 20 minutes after the speech’s scheduled start, the former president posted, “THEY ARE REALLY LATE, VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Liberals Explore Other Ways to Disqualify Trump After Supreme Court Shoots Down Colorado’s Ballot Ban
    The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision Monday shut down state efforts to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot but left a few options open for Democrats seeking to disqualify him, which some began exploring soon after the ruling dropped. Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin already said he is working on a bill that would create a…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    With Trump Ruling, Supreme Court Restores Voting Rights of Millions of Americans
    In a much anticipated, historic opinion Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed Colorado’s highest court and restored former President Donald Trump to the ballot for the state’s presidential primary Tuesday.  By doing so, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the Colorado Supreme Court’s unconstitutional disenfranchisement of 4.5 million registered voters in Colorado, restoring their right…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Cully Stimson
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    Trump’s Fainthearted SCOTUS Picks Could Doom Him in DC Election Case
    One of the more underappreciated recent trends in American law and politics, obscured by a few high-profile conservative victories at the Supreme Court and thus noticed by few other than dyed-in-the-wool legal conservatives, is that former President Donald Trump’s three picks for the high court are soft and undependable. The truth is that none of…
    Josh Hammer
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    ‘The Supreme Court Has Betrayed Democracy’: Liberals Melt Down After Justices Rule Trump Can Remain on Ballot
    Liberals on Monday bemoaned the Supreme Court overturning a state supreme court’s ruling tossing former President Donald Trump off the state’s ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court said that Congress alone had the power to enforce the “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment in a 9-0 ruling that was unsigned. The Colorado Supreme Court had decided that Trump was disqualified under the…
    Harold Hutchison
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    BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Trump Can’t Be Removed From Colorado Ballot
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that former President Donald Trump may not be removed from the 2024 primary ballot Tuesday in Colorado. The case revolved around whether Trump could be removed from the ballot by the state, as the Colorado Supreme Court decided, under the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Claims Biden Is ‘Destroying Our Country’ During Southern Border Visit
    Former President Donald Trump labeled the situation at the southern border “a Joe Biden invasion” while speaking to the media in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday.   “I call him ‘Crooked Joe’ because he’s crooked,” Trump said. “He’s a terrible president. The worst president our country has ever had, and probably the most incompetent president…
    Virginia Allen
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    Hunter Biden Lashes Out at ‘MAGA-Motivated’ Impeachment Investigation
    Hunter Biden derided the House impeachment inquiry as “MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father” in an opening statement Wednesday during his deposition before congressional investigators.  By contrast, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said his and two other committees were deposing the president’s son because he is a “key witness in our investigation of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies to Spy on Trump Campaign
    The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the deep state will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the…
    Robert Chernin
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    ‘Why Would You Speculate?’: Trump Attorney Grills Key Witness Over Text That Could Blow a Hole in Fani Willis’ Defense
    An attorney for former President Donald Trump grilled a key witness Tuesday on why he sent a defense attorney a text confirming the start date of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ relationship with Nathan Wade. Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner and divorce attorney, testified Tuesday that he was “speculating” when he told Ashleigh…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Letitia James, Judge Engoron Wanted to Get Trump, Justice Be Damned
    As a New Yorker, I wish Democratic state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron would treat shoplifters, graffiti vandals, and armed robbers with just a puff of the volcanic rage with which they “get Trump.” Former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud indictment, trial, and $354.9 million penalty are an abortion of justice. That massive sum likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment requirement…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump Condemns ‘Persecution’ of Christians Under Biden DOJ, Pledges Feds Will ‘Never Again’ Target Them
    NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Former President Donald Trump compared the criminal indictments he faces to the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians as he spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention Thursday night. “For all Americans, but especially for Christians, nothing is more important than to defeat this wicked system and to return to equal and impartial justice under…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Outrage’ That Once Fueled Democrat Voters Is Slowly Fading as Another Trump Election Looms
    Liberal voters are expressing a sense of fatigue in their ongoing resistance against former President Donald Trump as the 2024 election approaches, The New York Times reported on Monday. Fury propelled voters to cast ballots against Trump in the 2020 presidential election and Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections, according to Democrats the Times spoke to. However,…
    Jason Cohen
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    Fani Willis’ Father, Former Governor Take Stand in Trump Disqualification Case 
    The father of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand Friday, testifying that he backs up her story about storing cash at home, listens avidly to conservative talk radio, and knew about COVID-19 well before most other Americans.  Willis is defending herself from accusations that her affair with the man she hired…
    Fred Lucas
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    Psychiatrist Who Called Trump Presidency ‘Dangerous’ Unconcerned About Biden or Special Counsel’s Report
    The psychiatrist who led efforts in 2017 demanding a 25th Amendment ouster of then-President Donald Trump said she does not have the same concerns about President Joe Biden, despite a Justice Department report last week that said Biden has “diminished faculties.”  Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist who edited the 2017 book “The Dangerous Case…
    Roman Jankowski | Fred Lucas
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    Confrontational Willis Fends Off Disqualification From Trump Case in Georgia Hearing
    Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in the Georgia racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, testified Thursday that he was reimbursed with cash for vacations he took with his boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis—with whom he admitted having an affair.  “It was cash,” Wade said. “She didn’t give me any checks.” In a…
    Fred Lucas
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    PolitiFact Celebrates ‘Fact-Checking’ Trump 1,000 Times; Obama, Biden Not So Much
    Never call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” It is every bit as liberal and biased as its fans in the liberal media. Recently, it announced it had published its 1,000th “fact-check” of former President Donald Trump. “American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy,” it proclaimed. “Ever since he descended…
    Tim Graham
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    Leaker of Trump Tax Returns, and Thousands More, Gets a Slap on Wrist From Biden Admin
     “I made my decision with the full knowledge that I would likely end up in a courtroom,” former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn said. Littlejohn didn’t just leak years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. He also leaked the tax returns of thousands of…
    Zack Smith | Elizabeth Holland
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    All 9 Supreme Court Justices Question Activists’ Effort to Kick Trump Off Ballot
    In what may be one of the most consequential election cases ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, the nine justices listened Thursday to 80 minutes of lawyers’ oral arguments over the attempt by political activists to knock Donald Trump off the primary ballot in Colorado (and other states). Although all of the justices asked…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Would Trump Have to ‘Lose Bigly’ at SCOTUS to Be Kicked Off Ballot? 
    It would take a sweeping legal ruling for the Supreme Court to effectively kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere, say legal scholars who’ve analyzed the arguments set for Thursday in the case.  “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose bigly. Or is it big league? He…
    Fred Lucas
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