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    ‘Woefully Unprepared’: Whistleblower Alerts Hawley That Security Agents at Trump Rally Lacked Proper Training
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A whistleblower told Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri in a letter released on Tuesday that the Homeland Security Investigations agents assigned to former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were “egregiously under-prepared.” The whistleblower told Hawley that the HSI agents were taken off child exploitation cases and reassigned in partnership…
    Rebeka Zeljko
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    How RFK Jr. Can Be an Asset in a Future Trump Administration
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump is a marvel to behold. It’s astonishing that such a prominent member of America’s quintessential Democratic family embraced the most conservative Republican nominee since President Ronald Reagan. If a majority of Kennedy’s roughly 6% of likely voters support Trump on Nov. 5, they could compose…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Elon Musk Leads Parade of Tech Titans Boosting Trump as the True ‘Freedom Candidate’
    A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is betting big bucks on a Republican. Last month former President Donald Trump gave a thumbs up to the notion of teaming up with billionaire innovator Elon Musk if he wins in November. Hours later, Musk…
    Betsy McCaughey
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    How Trump Can Win on Energy: Zero Energy Poverty
    Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Tim Walz, will impoverish America. That’s the best way to understand one of their most important—yet least-known—policy pipe dreams. As vice president, Harris has backed so-called net zero, which means offsetting every iota of manmade greenhouse gases. Walz, as governor, has pushed one of the most aggressive net-zero policies in…
    Chris Wright
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    The Entire Manufactured Controversy Over Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit
    Taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio shouldn’t be a starting place for aggressively biased coverage against either Democrats or Republicans. But you can ask Clarence Thomas how the machine works. On Aug. 27, NPR veterans affairs reporter Quil Lawrence lit into former President Donald Trump for bringing cameras to a section of Arlington National Cemetery with some…
    Tim Graham
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    Why Special Counsel Jack Smith Filed a New Trump Indictment
    Special counsel Jack Smith has had a busy week. He filed his brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit asking that court to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of his indictment in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Cannon dismissed that indictment because she found that Smith had…
    John G. Malcolm | Zack Smith
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    New Jack Smith Indictment Against Trump Much Like the Old One
    In an attempt to salvage his prosecution against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith secured a reindictment Tuesday against the 45th president on four felony charges in his Washington, D.C., election interference case.  The case revolves around Trump’s various challenges to the 2020 election outcome, most notably his effort to prevent Congress from certifying Joe…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden-Harris Admin Rapidly ‘Trump-Proofing’ Justice Department as Election Looms
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration has deployed a little-known hiring mechanism to staff key divisions of the Department of Justice ahead of the 2024 election, according to documents provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by Protect the Public’s Trust. Hundreds of people, primarily lawyers and judges, have been appointed to the Environmental and…
    Robert Schmad
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    What Is Secret Service Hiding About Trump Assassination Attempt?
    It’s been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely remain unanswered. Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump vs. Kamala on Inflation
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How would Donald Trump and Kamala Harris do inflation differently? With her brain-dead price controls, Kamala is finally fleshing out an economic plan. So far it’s pretty bad: more spending, taxes, mandates, amnesty, subsidies for the rich, and…
    Peter St. Onge
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    WATCH: Gabbard, RFK Jr. Declare ‘All Hands on Deck’ for Trump
    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the fallout from the the Democratic National Convention and the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Every pollster has his or her own take—and, as usual, no one is using their common sense. With former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Anti-Trump PAC Continues to Shuffle Millions of Donor Dollars to Firms Owned by Insiders
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Roughly one-third of the funds spent by The Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by former Republican political consultants with the aim of stopping former President Donald Trump, this election cycle has gone to firms controlled by its senior operatives, Federal Election Commission records show. The Lincoln Project has spent $12.8…
    Robert Schmad
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    Harris Breaks Silence on Deaths of Service Members in Afghanistan as Trump Visits Arlington National Cemetery
    Vice President Kamala Harris broke her silence on the deaths of 13 U.S. service members in Kabul on the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. She released a statement as her opponent in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, honored the 13 in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. “Three years…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    BREAKING: RFK Suspends His Campaign, Endorses Trump
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. He announced that while he will remain on the ballot in “safe” states where Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump are likely to prevail, he will remove his name from 10 “battleground” states and he urged…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | Tyler O’Neil
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    Secret Service Agents Reportedly Put on Leave After Trump Assassination Attempt
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Several members of the U.S. Secret Service were placed on administrative leave after the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Fox News reported. At least five Secret Service members, including one from Trump’s personal protective team and four from the Pittsburgh Field Office, were put…
    Rebeka Zeljko
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    Trump Pledges to ‘Stop the Invasion,’ Calls Harris a ‘Marxist’ at Southern Border
    With completed border wall to his right and unused construction materials to his left, former President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday in Arizona that if he wins the Nov. 5 election and returns to office in January, he will impose the death penalty on sex traffickers.  “We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Will Promise to Ban Trans Surgeries on Minors Without Parental Consent
    Editor’s note: Former President Donald Trump did not ultimately include these remarks in his Tuesday comments, but plans to discuss the topic more formally after the Democratic National Convention, a campaign spokesman told The Daily Signal. Former President Donald Trump plans to promise to punish doctors who perform attempted sex-change surgeries on children without parental…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Donald Trump Needs a Course Correction
    It’s been a slog for the Trump campaign the past few weeks. Let’s face it: President Joe Biden was former President Donald Trump’s clearest path to victory. And the gift that kept on giving has laid its last golden egg. Biden is gone. It’s incredible how poor a candidate he was. And it took his…
    Armstrong Williams
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    ‘IF HE WANTS TO WIN…’ Victor Davis Hanson’s Advice for Trump
    In the summer of 1988, Democrat presidential candidate Michael Dukakis held a 17-point lead over Republican George H.W. Bush, according to a Gallup poll. By the November election, however, it was a different story. Vice President Bush had erased Dukakis’ double-digit advantage, winning by 8 percentage points nationally and capturing 41 states. Renowned historian Victor…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Comer Panel Scrutinizing Claims of Google, Facebook Censoring of Trump Shooting
    CENTER SQUARE—U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer launched an investigation Wednesday into allegations that Google and Meta, parent company of Facebook, censored or misrepresented content about former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Comer, R-Ky., sent letters to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday over the alleged censorship,…
    Casey Harper
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