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    How Biden Tried to ‘Trump-Proof’ Government With Federal Telework
    As taxpayers have spent billions to pay for mostly vacant federal office space, President Joe Biden’s administration worked with federal employee unions to lock in telework levels to help “Trump-proof” agencies, according to a congressional investigation.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released a report Wednesday morning ahead of a hearing titled, “The Stay-at-Home Federal…
    Fred Lucas
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    3 Republican Senators Respond to Poll Showing Nearly Half of DC Federal Bureaucrats Aim to Oppose Trump
    Republican senators highlighted a growing deep state opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, citing a revealing new poll on the federal bureaucracy and urging Trump to be vigilant as he enters office next week. The poll, which the firm RMG Research conducted on behalf of the Napolitan Institute and released Monday, revealed that 42% of what…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Why Jack Smith Passed on Charging Trump With Incitement
    Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report asserted federal prosecutors lacked grounds to charge President-elect Donald Trump with incitement for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, while it also said there was not a significant enough amount of fraud that it altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The Smith report’s concession on incitement…
    Fred Lucas
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    Shunning Cancel Culture, Carrie Underwood to Perform at Trump Inauguration
    Country music superstar and “American Idol” alumna Carrie Underwood is set to perform at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C., adding to the ranks of A-list entertainers rejecting the pressures of cancel culture. The news of Underwood’s performance went viral when a photo of a program for Trump’s inauguration…
    Elise McCue
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    DEEP STATE GEARING UP: Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds
    A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump. Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump's administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Return of Trump and End of Social Media Censorship Spark Global Backlash from Leftist Elites
    Sometimes, ostensibly discrete global events come into focus and form a unified pattern. When that happens, the world suddenly starts making sense. Here are some examples of “disparate” occurrences: The governments of Europe’s three most powerful countries suddenly complain that Elon Musk’s X is allowing conservatives to communicate and unite on a global basis, Facebook…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    THE STENCH IS GONE: Trump Responds to Lawfare Prosecutor’s Surprise Resignation
    President-elect Donald Trump celebrated the resignation of Jack Smith, the special counsel who oversaw two legal cases against Trump and whom a judge had ruled was improperly appointed. "The Stench of Deranged Jack Smith and his thugs is GONE," Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. "They were sent packing after spending over $100,000,000, destroying the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Takes the World Stage. Embrace the Chaos.
    Embrace the chaos—that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in the international community, Tuesday you got your wake-up call. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump explained how he plans…
    Debra Saunders
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    Trump Faces Starting Term Without a Cabinet
    With less than 10 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Republicans worry that government bureaucracy will prevent the new president from starting his term with a fully confirmed Cabinet. Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominees traditionally face extensive paperwork obligations, including FBI background checks and financial disclosures, but Republicans are now suggesting that this bureaucratic process has…
    Jacob Adams
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    Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah
    President-elect Donald Trump’s second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay. He defeated Democratic nominee Kamala…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Americans Are More Optimistic About the Economy After Trump’s Reelection, Survey Shows
    Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they were before Donald Trump’s reelection, a newly released survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan News Service shows. A survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early January reports 24% of Americans say their financial situation is improving and 33% say it’s getting worse. The Napolitan Institute press…
    George Caldwell
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    5-4: Two Republican-Appointed Supreme Court Justices Agree With Democrat Appointees in Allowing Trump Sentencing to Proceed
    The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a New York court from sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the "hush money" case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of fraud in relation to the case last spring in a prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. New York…
    Fred Lucas
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    Selective Force, Strategic Restraint: Unpacking Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Have you noticed recently that Donald Trump has both issued threats to our existential enemies abroad and that he’s called for peace as well? In other…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    What Merrick Garland Wants to Release on Trump Before the Inauguration
    Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report alleging President-elect Donald Trump committed crimes in challenging the 2020 election—but he’s withholding the volume on Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the presidency in 2021.  This comes one day after U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left Launches Multi-Front ‘Trump-Proofing’ Effort at Federal, State Levels
    Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.  Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Bringing Back the Monroe Doctrine
    Donald Trump hasn’t even retaken the office of the presidency yet, and he’s already drastically reshaping American foreign policy. At a Tuesday press conference, which covered a wide range of topics, President-elect Trump announced that his administration would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” The once and future president also doubled…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Coercion as He Eyes Panama Canal, Greenland
    President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using economic and military coercion to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland during a press conference Tuesday after devoting much of his impromptu speech to outlining his strategic goals in the Western Hemisphere. In the first question of his post-speech press conference at Trump’s West Palm…
    George Caldwell
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    Donald Trump’s Worldwide Election
    Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning—the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe. From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America. It’s almost as if Trump himself were on the…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Why 2024 Was the Year of Donald Trump
    The year 2024 will be remembered for three marvels: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump. He is Time magazine's Person of the Year. Even Harry Houdini would be jealous. The facts speak for themselves: President-elect Trump outfoxed and steamrollered four felony prosecutions in New York City; Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and Florida. The New York…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Why Do Conservative Black Voters Not Support Donald Trump?
    Leftist pundits have spent the weeks since November’s election claiming that “whiteness” and racial grievance explain why Donald Trump is headed back to the White House—a hard sell when the president-elect assembled the most multiracial coalition in Republican history, but it doesn’t stop committed partisans from trying. Trump’s victory does offer valuable lessons about the role race played in the…
    Delano Squires
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