DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Following President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, several leaders from countries around the world offered their responses—some more congratulatory in nature than others. Trump made a historic comeback from his loss in 2020 and swept the electoral vote by at least a 277-224 Electoral College margin—with several states…
President Donald Trump will make good on his promise to take action to secure the border on Day One of his administration with a slew of executive orders. “President Trump’s executive orders will certainly send a clear message: we are entering a new era of strength and pure grit,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told…
When Donald Trump is inaugurated as president in January, he has the authority to dramatically reshape immigration policy by himself. While Trump would need Congress to appropriate money to fund his biggest campaign promise—building a wall across the southern border—he can act alone in other areas, just like President Barack Obama has, in deciding how…
Donald Trump will square off Tuesday night against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia in what could be the only debate between the two major parties’ presidential nominees. The stakes of the Harris-Trump debate couldn’t be higher. For Harris, the current vice president, it could be her best chance to put the Trump era in the rearview…
House prosecutors claimed Wednesday that President Donald Trump is trying to “cheat” to win the 2020 election, as opening arguments from each side commenced in the Senate impeachment trial of the president. The seven House Democrats who are impeachment managers, acting as prosecutors, made their case against Trump. They include House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff…
Who’s in charge of the Trump administration’s policy on Ukraine and the president’s focus on the business dealings there of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son were main topics of two veteran foreign service officers’ testimony Wednesday before the House committee pursuing impeachment. Offering sworn testimony as lead-off witnesses in House Democrats’ first public hearings on…
COLEBROOK, N.H.—His left foot in a walking boot after surgery, Rick Samson, an independent-minded county commissioner in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, is behind the wheel of his pickup truck, describing how this region—“North Country” to locals—is used to going it alone. “I run as a Republican, however I consider myself neither a Republican…
The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt threatened by President…
God may have allowed Donald Trump to survive two assassination attempts so that he could be president again, the former president said in an X Space interview on Monday night. “There’s something going on,” said Trump, the Republican nominee for president. “I mean, perhaps it’s God wanting me to be president, to save this country. Nobody…
The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges against the former president and other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ partisan prosecution. But on Friday, two days before Sunday’s second shocking attempt to kill Trump, another dismissal occurred….
Two career foreign policy officials testified Thursday that President Donald Trump altered U.S. policy toward Ukraine for a political agenda of going after former Vice President Joe Biden. Fiona Hill, a former official with the National Security Council who was Trump’s adviser on Russia, and David Holmes, political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s…
Editor's note: Border security and the president's power to declare a national emergency to address it—as he did Friday—remain priorities for The Daily Signal's audience. This week's selection of comments reflects that. Write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As a counselor in a prison, I could not count the number of inmates I've…
WASHINGTON—Citing the federal arrests of pro-life activists, former President Donald Trump vowed to establish a task force to investigate anti-Christian bias if he is elected to another term. “Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to viciously prosecute pro-life activists,” Trump said of the current president on Saturday during remarks at the Faith and Freedom…
House Democrats prosecuting former President Donald Trump released a memorandum Tuesday laying out key points against Trump, the first president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate after leaving office. The House impeached Trump for the second time seven days before the end of his four-year term, accusing him of “incitement to insurrection” before…
A great many Americans claim that they cannot vote for former President Donald Trump because they loathe him. That was also their argument in 2016 and 2020. That argument was childish in 2016 and 2020, and it remains childish in 2024. I say “childish” because mature people don't vote on the basis of whom they…
A group of former Trump administration officials have formed America First Legal to stop the Biden administration’s executive actions and counter the radical left’s plans to transform our country. Led by Stephen Miller, former White House senior adviser and director of speechwriting, America First Legal promises to turn the tables on the left, which used…
Special counsel John Durham’s long-awaited report was, as one would expect, as meticulous as it was damning in its findings of fact. He concluded that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme…
President Joe Biden didn’t respond Saturday night for over an hour after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but many other politicians—from both parties—were quick to comment on social media. “They try to jail him. They try to kill him. It will not work. He is…
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…
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that the U.S. military will not accept openly transgender individuals, reversing an Obama administration policy directive. Earlier this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis had said he would delay new admissions of openly transgender Americans into the military until Jan. 1, on the advice of military brass. But Trump’s announcement…