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    Trump Challenges Harris to 3 Network Debates

    Former President Donald Trump announced three network debate dates that he agreed to, but said he’s still waiting for a response from Vice President Kamala Harris.  Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago press conference Thursday that he’s agreed to debate Harris on Fox News on Sept. 4, on NBC on Sept. 10, and on ABC on…
    Fred Lucas
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    Hawley Calls for Suspension of ‘Inexperienced, Ineffective’ Lead Agent at July 13 Trump Rally

    Sen. Josh Hawley is urging the Secret Service to suspend the agent in charge of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot. The agent was “inexperienced, ineffective, and not up to the job,” a whistleblower told the Missouri Republican lawmaker. Though the Secret Service agent “failed to implement basic security protocols,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Google Launches ‘Campaign Against Trump,’ Senator Says

    Sen. Roger Marshall says he will launch an investigation into Google after the search engine suppressed content related to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.  Google is “no longer functioning as a search engine that just assimilates” information, says Marshall, R-Kan., “but now they’re using algorithms to campaign against President Trump.”  Initiating a…
    Virginia Allen
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    These Fortune 500 Companies Remained Silent Over Trump Assassination Attempt, But Condemned J6

    A number of Fortune 500 companies that publicly condemned the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have remained silent following the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. An analysis conducted by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found that eight Fortune 500 companies issued statements condemning the January 2021 Capitol riot, but stayed silent over…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Acting Secret Service Chief Said to Have Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump

    Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including countersnipers, to former President Donald Trump’s rallies and events—despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making….
    Susan Crabtree
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    The Ineffectiveness of Proposed New Gun Controls After Attempt to Kill Trump

    Almost immediately after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump as he spoke July 13 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, gun control zealots twisted the assassination attempt into an opportunity to blame the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners. They, as they so often do in the aftermath of any national news story…
    Amy Swearer
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    6 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt

    Top FBI and Secret Service officials testified Tuesday about security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump 17 days earlier.  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a rare joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee that featured testimony from the Secret Service’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe….
    Fred Lucas
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    Comer Anticipates Proposals for Secret Service Reforms From Task Force on Trump Shooting

    The bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump likely will lead to significant legislation, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says.  Comer’s oversight committee has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, which is under scrutiny for what some call catastrophic security failures at the former president’s July 13…
    Fred Lucas
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    Democrat Scrambles Amid Calls to Boot Him From Committee Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt

    A Mississippi congressman proposed a bill that would revoke Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail. Now that Republicans are calling for his removal from the committee investigating the assassination attempt, the Democrat is downplaying how the bill would threaten the former president’s safety. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    House Passes Bipartisan Resolution Establishing Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House passed a resolution to form a bipartisan task force on Wednesday to investigate the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13. HR 1367, which was spearheaded by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., passed the House in a unanimous vote. The task force…
    Rebeka Zeljko
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    Harris Campaign Admits to Misleading Voters on Trump, Project 2025

    A campaign official for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris acknowledged Wednesday that the vice president is deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025. CNN first reported the stunning admission as part of a fact-check article accusing Harris of making false claims about Project 2025 and former President Donald Trump’s stance on Social Security. CNN’s Daniel Dale…
    Rob Bluey
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    FBI Director Testifies Before Congress About Trump Assassination Attempt

    FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, offering scant new information on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Wray sat down before the House lawmakers and, in his opening remarks, described the “complex threat environment” that the FBI is facing. He also emphasized the need for the agency…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘A $91.5 Million Heist’: Trump Campaign Files FEC Complaint Against Biden-Harris Funds Transfer

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a Federal Election Commission complaint Tuesday alleging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are in violation of campaign finance laws after transferring $91.5 million to Harris’ presidential campaign. The complaint, which was first reported by The New York Times, was filed by Trump’s campaign’s general counsel, David Warrington,…
    Hailey Gomez
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    Why Second Amendment More Crucial Than Ever After Attempt to Kill Trump

    A 20-year-old man with a rifle, perched atop a nearby roof, fired several rounds July 13 at Donald Trump as the former president spoke at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and wounding at least two others. As we know now, one round nicked Trump’s right ear and he avoided a serious…
    Amy Swearer
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    Kamala Harris Is the Opponent Donald Trump Wants

    By rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats are setting themselves up for a replay of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat—and they’re OK with that. As humiliating as Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump was, she didn’t drag down congressional Democrats, who gained six seats in the House and two in the Senate that year. Former House…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Trump Was ‘a Gust of Wind Away’ From Being Assassinated. Security Expert Analyzes Shooting.

    MILWAUKEE—Security expert Brian Cavanaugh says former President Donald Trump was “a gust of wind away” from being assassinated on July 13th.  “To have a round pierce your ear, which is attached to your head, we’re talking less than two millimeters away,” says Cavanaugh, a senior vice president at American Global Strategies.  For a bullet to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Top Secret Service Officials Reportedly Denied Trump Security’s Repeated Requests For Additional Resources

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secret Service officials repeatedly denied requests for additional resources made by former President Donald Trump’s detail prior to the July 13 assassination attempt, the Washington Post reported. Trump was slightly wounded in the right ear on July 13 when a gunman fired multiple shots during the attempted assassination at the Butler County, Pennsylvania,…
    Harold Hutchison
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    ‘Not Fit to Serve’: Donald Trump Reacts to Joe Biden Dropping Out of 2024 Race

    Former President Donald Trump reacted Sunday to news that President Joe Biden will not seek reelection in 2024, promising to “remedy the damage” that he said Biden has done to the United States. “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve—And never was!” Trump said in…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    How Biden-Trump Rematch Echoes Campaign of 1920

    For those of a certain age, or with more than a woke education, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump brings back echoes of history. Not exactly the history of the abysmal political year of 1968, which saw the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., 39, and Robert F. Kennedy, 42, riots in major…
    Michael Barone
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    ‘GOD SAVED HIS LIFE’: Enes Kanter Freedom Opens Up About Speaking With Trump’s Family After Shooting

    MILWAUKEE—Former National Basketball Association star Enes Kanter Freedom spoke with former President Donald Trump’s family after a 20-year-old man attempted to assassinate the former president. “About the photo, first of all, that’s probably one of the most iconic photos I’ve ever seen in my life,” Freedom, a former basketball and wrestling pro, told The Daily…
    Tyler O’Neil
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