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    Trump Should Condemn Cuba’s Illegitimate Transfer of Power at Summit of the Americas
    Over the weekend, the Castro regime held yet another unfree and unfair election. Only Communist Party officials were allowed to run, international observers were banned, and new dissidents were imprisoned. It has been the same process for over half a century. Unique to these elections, though, is the upcoming retirement of Gen. Raul Castro from…
    Ana Quintana
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    Trump Pushes Death Penalty for Drug Dealers and Cut in Prescription Costs
    When campaigning in 2016, President Donald Trump often noted how America was trailing other countries, and vowed to reverse that. On Monday, the president highlighted two specific issues: criminal punishment for drug dealers and the price of prescription medicines. “Every day, 116 Americans die from an opioid-related overdose,” @POTUS says. “This scourge of drug addiction…
    Fred Lucas
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    Actor Jim Carrey Appears to Target Sanders, Trump With Ugly Portraits
    Jim Carrey revealed his new portrait that resembles President Donald Trump in a tweet Monday. Carrey, the star of “Ace Ventura” and “Dumb and Dumber,” took to Twitter to show off his latest artwork, the Daily Mail reported. The comedian referred to the portrait as “the Wicked Witch of the West Wing and Putin’s flying monkeys”…
    Gabrielle Okun
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    Majority of Voters in Blue States Like Trump Tax Cuts, Survey Finds
    More than half of registered voters in blue or battleground states that Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election, each of which has a Democrat senator up for re-election, say the economy is better than it was a year ago, according to a new survey.   The survey, conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey, polled…
    Kyle Perisic
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    We Hear You: Don’t Prejudge the Worth of Trump’s Presidency 
    Editor's note: Many in The Daily Signal's audience are fed up with the continuing malice toward, and underestimation of, President Donald Trump. Today we begin with a sampling of related thoughts. Write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As Jarrett Stepman's commentary suggests, evaluating a president's foreign policy and national security legacy takes at least…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Industry Leaders Defend Violent Video Games in Meeting With Trump
    President Donald Trump met Thursday with representatives of the video game industry to discuss the impact of violent games as he advocates ways to make schools safer. “For a warped mind that is either evil or troubled, we have to ask ourselves, what kind of impact does that have?” @BrentBozell says. Among the president’s guests…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump to Latinos: ‘Push’ Democrats on DACA Fix
    President Donald Trump asked a gathering of Latino business owners to “push” Democratic members of Congress on his proposal to grant legal status to a subgroup of illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. “This is our time. This is our moment. Go get DACA,” Trump said in his remarks Wednesday to the Latino…
    Fred Lucas
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    Democrat Obstruction Leads to More Court Vacancies Than When Trump Took Office
    President Donald Trump had a successful year in seating appeals court judges, but it is lower-level federal courts that have blocked much of his policy agenda, including withholding funds from sanctuary cities and restricting travel from some nations. “Despite Senate Democrats’ use of petty political tactics to delay his nominees, the president will continue nominating…
    Fred Lucas
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    Where Trump Amnesty Proposal Could Repeat Reagan’s Mistakes
    A Republican president offers legal status to some 2 million illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. However, in part because of chain migration, more than 1 million more gained amnesty than initially estimated. That’s what happened after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration reform bill in 1986. And some border hawks fear that…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Considers Raising Age for Buying AR-15, Touts Tougher Background Checks
    President Donald Trump pushed for expanding background checks and floated the idea of raising the age to buy semi-automatic rifles, as he called for a “comprehensive” and “beautiful” bill to address guns and school safety. Trump met Wednesday with a bipartisan group of members of Congress, two weeks after a gunman used an AR-15-style rifle…
    Fred Lucas
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    Podcast: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Explains How Agency Has Changed Under Trump
    The weaponization of the Environmental Protection Agency is over, says Administrator Scott Pruitt in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. Plus: President Donald Trump’s new remarks on Parkland, and the Supreme Court decides not to hear a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals case.
    Katrina Trinko | Daniel Davis
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    Podcast: President Trump Addresses CPAC
    The Daily Signal continued to cover the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, where attendees heard from President Donald Trump. He spoke about the Second Amendment, tax cuts, immigration, and more. He strongly cautioned conservatives to avoid becoming complacent. The Daily Signal also sat down with David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, and Ken Klukowski, with…
    Robert B. Bluey | Ginny Montalbano
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    5 Things Trump Talked About While Wowing CPAC
    A loudly supportive crowd greeted President Donald Trump as he delivered a wide-ranging speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that lasted nearly 90 minutes. Here are five of the president’s key topics at the nation’s largest annual convergence of conservatives. 1. Proof of His Conservatism At the 2016 CPAC, Trump didn’t speak. But…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Cabinet More Conservative Than Reagan’s, CPAC Panelist Says
    President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is more conservative than President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet was in the 1980s, a top official with the American Conservative Union declared during a Thursday panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Addressing fellow panelists and hundreds of conservative activists gathered at the annual conference, Dan Schneider, executive director of the…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Congressional Investigators Struggle to Find Source for Anti-Trump Dossier
    Congressional investigators are struggling to track down a source that allegedly provided some of the most salacious claims made in an anti-Trump dossier cited by federal officials as reason to begin spying on one or more of the president's associates. House and Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the presidential campaign have tried for months…
    Chuck Ross
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    New Trump Health Policy Would Make Coverage Options More Affordable
    The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to deliver affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule that would expand the availability of short-term, limited duration plans to one year. The rule comes as a result of the president’s executive order calling on federal agencies to take the necessary measures to scale back Obamacare’s…
    Whitney Jones | Doug Badger
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    Survey of ‘Politics Experts’ Ranks Trump the Worst President in History. Here’s Why That’s Absurd.
    Over Presidents Day weekend, what more appropriately should be a celebration of George Washington’s birthday, The New York Times published the results of a survey of “politics experts” who ranked American presidents from greatest to worst. The poll relied on “170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section.” Their list…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Sessions Says FBI’s Handling of Anti-Trump Dossier ‘Will Be Investigated’
    Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a "dossier" damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser. “That will be investigated and looked at," Sessions said in an interview Sunday. Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox’s…
    Chuck Ross | Chris White
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    History Has a Way of Vindicating Great Presidents. So Don’t Prejudge Trump.
    A recent event in Washington featured accomplished academics and government officials, some of whom had worked for either the George W. Bush or Obama administrations, discussing the first year of the Trump administration. The moderator for one panel mentioned how a former president had been unfairly maligned during his time, and how a significant percentage of…
    Richard Lim
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    An Interview With Armstrong Williams on Trump’s Authenticity, Ben Carson’s Calming Effect, and Black Achievement
    Armstrong Williams is a political commentator, entrepreneur, nationally syndicated columnist, and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show.” He’s also a passionate supporter of President Donald Trump and close friend to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. We spoke to him about his work in the media business, Black History Month, and Trump’s relationship with…
    Robert B. Bluey | Ginny Montalbano
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