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    ‘Crackhead’: Trump Slams Special Counsel as Aide Pleads Not Guilty in Document Case

    A personal aide to Donald Trump in the White House and after his presidency pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Miami, in a delayed development in Trump’s classified documents case.  A lawyer for Walt Nauta, Trump’s personal aide, told a judge that his client “takes very seriously the charges.”  The same day, Trump…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Promises to Swing Hammer of Executive Orders on Behalf of Parents

    PHILADELPHIA—Former President Donald Trump promised to issue executive orders and ask Congress to pass laws that protect parental rights in a speech Friday evening at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. Trump began by praising Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group that stands up to school boards across America, in the face…
    Tony Kinnett
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    The Dangerous Trump Indictment Precedent

    This week, a Rubicon was crossed: The former president of the United States and current Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, was indicted on 37 federal felony charges relating to mishandling classified information and obstruction of justice. Needless to say, this has never happened before—and the precedent is horrifying. Trump himself campaigned in…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ‘Fake and Fabricated Charges’: Trump Denounces Federal Indictment in Primetime Address

    Former President Donald Trump denounced the federal case against him as “the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country” during a primetime speech from his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.  Trump called it a “sham indictment put forward by the Biden administration.” “This day will go…
    Fred Lucas
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    Watchdog: Trump Indictment Puts Pressure on Special Counsel Investigating Biden Classified Documents

    The special counsel investigating the classified documents kept by President Joe Biden could face pressure to act after last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to a government watchdog group.  Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January amid revelations that…
    Fred Lucas
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    Unprecedented Indictment of Trump Likely to Deepen Political Divisions

    For the first time in our nation’s history, a former president has been indicted by the federal government. And not just a former president, but the current front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.    A federal grand jury in South Florida has returned a combined 38-count indictment against former President Donald Trump…
    John G. Malcolm
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    New Trump Indictment Harms America in 2 Ways, Sen. Marco Rubio Says

    The second indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time related to classified documents he took from the White House, will do great “harm” to America, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Friday. For one thing, Rubio noted, President Joe Biden reportedly retained classified documents from his eight years as vice president without securing them as…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Indicted on Charges Related to Classified Documents

    Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that a federal court in Miami has indicted him. The indictment is currently sealed. However, Trump connected the charges to documents he held after leaving the White House. Trump released a statement about the charges that he posted on Truth Social: The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    EXCLUSIVE: Pro-DeSantis Ad Accuses Trump of Splitting From Pro-Life Movement

    FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL: A super PAC supporting 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is launching an ad campaign Thursday accusing former President Donald Trump of splitting from the pro-life movement on abortion. Never Back Down's campaign ad, which draws on Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' support for her state's heartbeat law, will target Trump as the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Pledges to End Birthright Citizenship ‘on Day One’

    The children born to illegal aliens living in America may no longer automatically become U.S. citizens if former President Donald Trump wins reelection in 2024.   “As part of my plan to Secure the Border, on day one of my new term in office — I will sign an Executive Order ending automatic citizenship for the…
    Virginia Allen
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    DeSantis Slams Trump for Failing to Position on Heartbeat Abortion Ban

    In response to Donald Trump’s suggestion that pro-life Americans think Florida’s new heartbeat abortion ban is “too harsh,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the former president on Tuesday for failing to definitively specify whether he supports banning abortion after a baby has a heartbeat. “He signed six weeks, and many people within the pro-life…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Special Counsel Finds FBI, DOJ Abandoned ‘Strict Fidelity to Law’ in Trump Probe

    Special counsel John Durham, in a report released Monday, condemned the conduct of the Justice Department and FBI in investigating Donald Trump for alleged collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election. “Based on the review of [FBI operation] Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the [Justice] Department and the FBI failed to…
    Fred Lucas
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    Why Trump, or Next Conservative President, Needs Project 2025 to Curb the Deep State

    A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government’s bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high performing, and accountable to Americans. If that project had existed in 2016, Donald Trump would have achieved more faster as president, a leader in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump’s Triumphs, From A to Z, vs. Biden’s Botches

    America is sinking among the waves of incompetence, impotence, and fiscal incontinence of democratic socialist President Joe Biden. It is jarring to recall how much brighter things looked just 27 months ago, after four years of President Donald Trump’s triumphs, and before Biden arrived and wrecked everything. From A to Z, here are 26 things…
    Deroy Murdock
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    ‘Freedom Over Fauci-ism’: DeSantis Turns the Tables on Trump’s COVID-19 Attack

    OXON HILL, Md.—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touted his anti-lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic as the key to Florida’s post-pandemic economic success, slamming the ideology of former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci as “Fauci-ism.” Speaking Friday at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit, DeSantis also subtly criticized former President…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Even Trump-Hating Liberal Lawyers Are Trashing Alvin Bragg’s Feeble Indictment Attempt

    Conservative legal experts have convinced a lot of folks that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was deeply flawed and that he’s unlikely to win a conviction on the merits. Numerous potential liberal prosecutors looked at the case but turned it down on the grounds that it couldn’t be won,…
    Allan Ryskind
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    EXCLUSIVE: The 4-Point Game Plan for a Conservative President to Dismantle the Deep State That Undermined Trump

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government's bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high-performing, and accountable to the people.  "The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Indictment of Trump Loosed an Imprudent Political Genie That Can’t Be Put Back in Bottle

    The Roman historian Suetonius described Julius Caesar as timid and noncommittal as he initially approached the Rubicon River—a shallow and narrow waterway that, at the time, demarcated the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper—in January of 49 B.C. In fact, the historian ultimately attributed Caesar’s decision to cross the waterway, precipitating a four-year civil…
    Josh Hammer
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    Trump Indictment Shows Bragg’s Idea of ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ Is a Farce

    It’s official: America is a Third World country. Don’t let the industrial prowess and atomic weapons fool you. Haiti and Honduras have nothing on the U.S. regarding a legal system that the ruling party hurls like a harpoon at its opponents and holsters on behalf of its friends. Masons should chisel quotation marks around the…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump Isn’t Only One Facing Double Standards of Justice 

    It’s not just Donald Trump who is experiencing two standards of justice in America these days.  In a monologue last week, Tucker Carlson highlighted other examples of a judicial double standard. He referred to the case of Douglass Mackey, who posted a satirical meme about voting by text message and is now facing up to…
    Katrina Trinko
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