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    Maddow and Stelter Concoct Crazy Theories on Trump’s Revenge

    Forever earnest Brian Stelter tweeted out his late-night appearance on CNN with Abby Phillip. “MSNBC’s [Rachel] Maddow is right to be thinking aloud about the possible repercussions of a second Trump term,” he typed. “Other media types and political veterans are doing the same thing. What might “retribution” look like? What are the pressure points…
    Tim Graham
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    Voters Trust Trump on 4 Most Important Issues

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former President Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden on the four most important issues facing Americans today, according to new polling from Scott Rasmussen. The RMG Research survey asked registered voters to rank the most important issues and then pick the candidate they trust more: Biden or…
    Rob Bluey
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    House GOP Signals Tough Line for UN If Trump Wins in November

    When Congress and the White House enact a spending bill for foreign operations, will it contain the sharp cuts in funding for the United Nations and related entities found in the version a House subcommittee passed last week? Highly unlikely. Yet that didn’t stop critics from voicing howls of anguish and warnings of peril. However, the House bill needs…
    Brett Schaefer
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    FBI Suspends Employee’s Clearance After Probing Trump Support, COVID-19 Views

    The FBI revoked the security clearance of an employee after asking colleagues questions–under threat of discipline–about his support for former President Donald Trump and views on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a complaint to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog.  The employee attended the rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington before it turned into a…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Will Trump Verdict Affect His Election Prospects? New Poll Offers First Clue

    For months, Democrats have predicted that a guilty verdict in the controversial New York hush money trial would doom former President Donald Trump’s reelection hopes. Instead, new polling data from Scott Rasmussen suggests there is “no measurable impact.” Rasmussen’s polling firm, RMG Research, had both Trump and President Joe Biden tied at 42% in its…
    Rob Bluey
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    Social Media Message Could Doom Trump NYC Verdict—If It’s True (And That’s a BIG IF)

    Another Friday afternoon, another potential bombshell in the Trump “hush money” trial in New York City. The judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s trial notified the parties that on May 29, a user named “Michael Anderson” (if that is his real name) posted on the New York Unified Court System’s public Facebook page…
    Zack Smith
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    The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do With the Prosecutions of Trump

    The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Time Magazine Betrays Its Tilt in Biden, Trump Interviews

    Does Time magazine really matter anymore? It still has a circulation of more than 1 million, but that is one-third of what it was in 2012. Does anything it reports still resonate, or is it like a tree that collapses unheard in the solitude of the woods? Time just secured an interview with President Joe…
    Tim Graham
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    Sens. Daines, Paul Join Republican Effort to Stop Democrat Agenda Post-Trump Verdict

    Two more Republican senators are joining the effort to stop the Senate Democrats’ agenda Wednesday in response to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial. Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., are signing on to a Senate Republican letter vowing to oppose Democratic legislative priorities, a spokeswoman told The Daily…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Verdict Makes NYC ‘Venezuela on the Hudson’

    It’s hard to adequately describe what happened to Donald Trump in Venezuela-on-the-Hudson. Outrageous? A travesty of justice? A devasting blow to the sanctity of our justice system and its reputation for fairness and nonpartisanship? An American repetition of the Soviet show trials of the 1930s? It’s all of those things. And you don’t have to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Convicted: So What Happens Now?

    Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts when the jury rendered its verdict Thursday, the first time a former president (also the presumptive Republican presidential nominee) has been convicted of a crime. The Rubicon has been crossed, and many people have weighed in with reactions, including The Heritage Foundation.  Trump will appeal,…
    John G. Malcolm
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    How Republicans Plan to Stymie Democrats After Controversial Trump Verdict

    Democrats might control the Senate, but they’ll have a hard time getting things done if 10 of their Republican counterparts have anything to say about it. Following a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump—and President Joe Biden’s subsequent cheerleading of the decision—10 Republican senators vowed to oppose Democrats’ legislative priorities and…
    Rob Bluey
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    Trump Vows to Fight On Despite Conviction

    Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making the upcoming election a referendum, he now hopes, not just on his record against Joe Biden’s but the entire political system. Republicans call it…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Can Trump Be Elected President From a Prison Cell?

    A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on 34 counts related to falsifying business records supposedly to cover up “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Now, Trump could face prison time. Judge Juan Merchan will issue Trump’s sentence on July 11. So, what happens between now and the sentencing? And…
    Virginia Allen
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    Did Judge in Trump Case Violate Constitution With His Jury Instructions? These Attorneys Think So

    Defense attorney Randy Zelin and former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore said on Friday that Judge Juan Merchan violated the U.S. Constitution with his instructions to the jury in former President Donald Trump’s trial. Merchan instructed the jury that it is not a requirement for them to be in unanimous agreement about what “other crime” Trump committed, instead…
    Jason Cohen
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    Trump Campaign Gets Immediate Avalanche of Cash After Guilty Verdict

    Former President Donald Trump’s campaign donation page crashed Thursday within minutes of the jury returning a guilty verdict. Shortly after the verdict, the page displayed a 500 error stating “something went wrong.” Trump also received massive influxes of cash from major donors after the verdict, including $300,000 from Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire. “The timing isn’t a coincidence,” Maguire…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Political World Erupts After Jury Declares Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts

    A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide “hush money” payments in 2016 to former pornographic movie actress Stormy Daniels. Upon leaving the courthouse, Trump called the trial a disgrace and said, “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    • Opinion

    Former Prosecutor Weighs in on Jury Deliberations in Trump’s Criminal Case

    The jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan began deliberations Wednesday after closing arguments. The 12-member jury is tasked with determining whether to convict or acquit Trump on the 34 charges he faces. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to an…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Vows: I Will Rip Up, Throw Away WHO Pandemic Agreement

    Former President Donald Trump has put the issue of world government at the forefront of the 2024 presidential race, vowing to “protect American sovereignty” and the U.S. Constitution from the designs of unelected global bureaucrats. Trump took aim at global governance institutions in general, and the World Health Organization specifically, on Saturday, promising to shred…
    Ben Johnson
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    Trump, Biden, and CNN: What to Know About the First Presidential Debate

    President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to debate on June 27, but the debate will be unlike those held between presidential candidates in the recent past.  Trump told Biden he would debate him “Anytime. Anywhere. Anyplace,” and Biden accepted, but with stipulations. The Biden campaign said it would only agree to…
    Virginia Allen
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