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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
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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…
    Rob 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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    WATCH: Harris Spurns Trump’s Debate Offers

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we cover the latest news from the biggest election in decades with the Harris-Walz campaign’s refusing to do multiple debates with former President Donald Trump, the economy’s shaky footing, and a new round of election data that no one is covering. With both sides blustering over…
    Tony Kinnett
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    ‘Odds Are Against’ Trump in Lawsuit Vs. DOJ Over Mar-a-Lago Raid, Law Professor Turley Says

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that former President Donald Trump would find it “difficult to prevail” in his potential $100 million suit against the Justice Department over a raid for classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump’s attorneys filed an administrative claim with the…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Leftist Slant of NPR Exposed Again by Trump Speech ‘Fact-Check’

    How do voters know the prestige press is hopelessly partisan? For three weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been refusing all requests for interviews or press conferences, and that goes unpunished. Former President Donald Trump held a press conference, and he was absolutely punished. Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio demonstrated its ultraliberal tilt for the millionth…
    Tim Graham
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    7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘Conversation’ With Elon Musk

    Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk had a long “conversation” Monday night with Donald Trump on his social media platform X, offering at one point to help the former president rein in federal spending should he be elected to a second term. In an exchange with Musk that stretched to two hours, Trump addressed illegal immigration and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Glimpse Into Work of Task Force Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt

    THE CENTER SQUARE—The chairman of a congressional task force assembled last month to probe former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt gave a glimpse into its work during an interview with a local radio station Wednesday. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., told The Daily Focus the bipartisan 13-member panel wants to know why the federal agents chose…
    Christen Smith
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    OLIVE BRANCH: Georgia’s Kemp Aims to Mend Rift With Trump to Defeat Democrats

    ATLANTA—Republicans need to set aside past grievances and unite to win the presidential election in November because America cannot withstand four more years with radical Democrats in the White House, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday. Kemp spoke at radio talk-show host Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference on Friday morning in Atlanta, days after former…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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