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President-elect Donald Trump had a 95 percent chance of defeating President Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race in July, the president’s pollsters estimated, the New York Times reported Friday.
Biden said two weeks ago he believed he could have defeated Trump if he had stayed in the race.
The comment caused Vice President Kamala Harris to reportedly say she was “disappointed” in Biden’s comment after she the president against allegations of his deteriorating mental acuity, never disclosing any information that team Biden did not want aired publicly.
The pollster’s forecast was published in a Times article about Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) July 13, 2024, 45-minute meeting with Biden
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has introduced legislation to authorize the president to suspend all aid to Honduras in response to its threat to shut down the U.S.’s military base in the country if President-elect Donald Trump enforces mass deportations of illegal Honduran migrants.
The U.S. military has maintained a “temporary but indefinite” presence at Soto Cano Air Base near the city of Comayagua since the early 1980s, when it was designated as the headquarters for Joint Task Force 11 (now called Joint Task Force-Bravo, or JTF-Bravo), according to a 1989 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Today, the base houses more than 500 U.S. military personnel
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, when a polar vortex is forecast to grip the nation’s capital. The president-elect announced the change of plans in a noontime Truth Social post Friday, writing in part: “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way. It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th (In any event, if you decide to come, dress warmly!).
In the final weeks of any presidential administration, the assessments of their time in office - and their political legacy - pick up apace, with everyone wanting to give their opinions on where they went wrong and where they went right, how they stack up against past presidents, etc.
That has certainly been true not just for Joe Biden, but for members of his administrative team as well including Cabinet members like impeached Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who conservatives believe should not be remembered fondly due to his repeated failures to secure the southern border, as well as his obscene gaslighting when called to testify
The swearing-in ceremony for President-elect Trump's inauguration will be moved inside because of cold temperatures forecast for Washington, D.C., Fox News has learned.
Trump announced Friday that he had ordered that his inaugural address and other ceremonial prayers and speeches be held in the United States Capitol Rotunda due to expected winter conditions.
"The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows," Trump posted on Truth Social, addressing the expected cold.
We're just one weekend away from the swearing-in of President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States.
On Friday, the Trump Inaugural Committee revealed which bibles he will use for the historic occasion. "President-elect Trump will use his Bible, which was given to him by his mother, and the Lincoln Bible. In 1955, he received this Bible to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church, in Jamaica, New York. The Bible is a 1953 revised standard version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York and is embossed with his name on the lower portion of the front cover. The inside cover
Joe Biden on Friday unilaterally declared a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has not been ratified.
The ERA states: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
There are currently 27 Amendments to the US Constitution, not 28.
Biden delivered remarks at a Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony on Friday where he went on a screaming tyrannical rant about declaring a 28th Amendment.
MALIBU, California — A team of Israeli firefighters arrived Thursday in Southern California to assist local firefighters in fighting the Palisades Fire, as well as to share insights and learn from the state’s experience in battling the blaze.
The delegation, including wildfire expert Shay Levy, included experts from a variety of fields, including an expert in hydraulics and an officer from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who specializes in the use of artificial intelligence for search and rescue.
The delegation landed and immediately proceeded to the fire zone, where they drove through Pacific Palisades to study the damage caused by the devastating fire.
Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, is said to be exploring options to resolve a lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump in response to the network's interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, sources revealed to The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
The move comes as the company seems keen to make concessions in an effort to gain approval from the Trump administration for its proposed merger with Skydance Media, insiders noted.
In November, Trump sued CBS News, seeking $10 billion in damages over its "60 minutes" interview with the vice president. The lawsuit alleges that the network engaged in "partisan and unlawful acts
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump on Thursday and thanked him for his assistance in brokering the peace agreement and hostage release with the Hamas terrorists.
As reported earlier, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Scott Witkoff was the deciding factor in securing a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, but President Joe Biden nevertheless took a victory lap anyway.
According to Arab officials, Witkoff did more to move Netanyahu toward a ceasefire in a single meeting than Joe Biden did the entire previous year.
On Thursday Prime Minister Netanyahu called President Trump and thanked him.
Dem Rep. Jim Clyburn Says Biden is One
of the Greatest Presidents in American
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Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn believes Joe Biden will go down as one of the greatest presidents in American history.
In an interview on MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports, the South Carolina congressman said that history will judge Biden kindly.
“Given everything that was in place when he took office, Covid the economic challenges, do you think that this was in some ways inevitable?” Jansing asked.
”And how do you think history will judge this presidency?”
Clyburn responded:
I think that he will go down as one of the greatest presidents we ever had.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, a positive trend is emerging, which is an uptick in self-deportations among illegal immigrants.
“Self-deportation helps Trump to achieve his goals without the government having to spend or do anything,” the Associated Press reported.
Among them was Michel Bérrios, a former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, who left the United States just days before the New Year began.
Proving why she doesn’t deserve to stay here on the taxpayers’ dime, Bérrios trashed the U.S. before departing, saying Americans are cold-hearted.
What Jack Smith Left Out
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One week before the presidential inauguration, Jack Smith issued a “Final Report” concerning the January 6th prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
Presumably, the report is supposed to convince the public that Trump is guilty as charged. Instead, it provides evidence of Smith’s incompetence and bias.
Trump’s attorneys, John Lauro and Todd Blanche, issued a strong rebuttal (Addendum to Final Report) that excoriates this “out-of-control private citizen” for spending more than $20 million to violate “fundamental norms regarding the presumption of innocence
In this episode of "The Lady Geniuses of 'The View'"...
With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration just three days away as I write, the ladies of ABC's "The View," the most ridiculous talk show on the planet, remain crestfallen that the Devil's spawn will succeed the most miserably failed president in U.S. history, with the cognitively vacant Biden riding off into the sunset — or to a memory care facility, whichever comes first. Either way, the ladies are still crushed.
And bitter.
Did I mention that Joy Behar also blamed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for world hunger? Yeah.
Kristi Noem's Confirmation Hearing Shows
Just How Much Change She'll Bring to DHS
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Just How Much Change She'll Bring to DHS
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had her confirmation hearing on Friday as nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS oversees many agencies/departments, including FEMA, the TSA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Secret Service, as well as all the immigration departments, including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Senate Homeland Security Chair Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the DHS mission had been "deeply distorted" and had "lost its way," and he hoped Noem would be able to bring change. The ranking member, Gary Peters (D-MI), raised concerns about terrorism and cyberattacks
Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But learned disgust can be overcome — if the conditions are right. After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects.said Nai Nai. Nai Nai and Grace squatted in a corner soaking the cocoons in steaming hot water. Grace always liked to stir the paddle, loosening any stray dirt or leaf debris off the floating swaddled worms. It was Nai Nai’s role to take the washed cocoons, and with sharp knife, pluck out the plump meat inside. Clean and quick.
SpaceX Did Amazing Things Again During
7th Starship Launch, but Then There Was
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7th Starship Launch, but Then There Was
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Elon Musk has done some astonishing things with SpaceX, including being able to bring back a booster and catch it, in a pretty incredible feat.
He managed that again in a stunning display during the seventh flight test of the Starship unmanned mega-rocket from Starbase in South Texas, showing the first time wasn't a fluke. It had a successful lift-off, then separation of the upper and lower stage, with the lower stage making it back to Starbase to be caught by the tower. [Tweet, video]
They refer to it as the "Chopsticks" catch. [Tweet, video]
That was the lower stage.
On Friday, the Senate voted to clear another hurdle when it comes to passing the Laken Riley Act. By a vote of 61-35, with 60 votes needed, the chamber voted to end debate on the bill. All 51 Republicans who voted did so to advance the bill, with 10 Democrats joining. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) did not vote, although he is a cosponsor of the bill and in strong support.
Democrats voting to advance the bill included Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jon Ossoff of Arizona, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada,
It’s been a case that’s been ongoing for months, though it’s been buried in a host of other matters, not least the 2024 election, the war in the Middle East, and many other issues that for sure suffocated a lawsuit that seemed poised to gut CNN to its core. ABC News isn’t the only network that got in trouble recently. (Snip) After a lengthy discovery process and a days’ long trial, the network has been found liable and must award Young punitive, emotional, and economic damages. The damage so far is $5 million. The punitive damages are to be determined.
President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the FBI preserve all records from its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office, which has reportedly closed.
Trump took to Truth Social to call for the preservation of records. “We demand that the FBI preserve and retain all records, documents, and information on the now closing DEI Office—Never should have been opened and, if it was, should have closed long ago,” Trump wrote.
“Why is it that they’re closing one day before the Inauguration of a new Administration? The reason is, CORRUPTION!” he added.
Trump linked this to a Mediate story, citing Fox News, detailing that the FBI had shuttered its DEI office.
Vivek Ramaswamy will announce a run for governor for Ohio, according to the Washington Post and The Hill.
RINO Governor Mike DeWine’s term ends in 2026.
In November President Trump announced Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency.
“I am pleased to announced that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy,
A former migrant shelter director in Massachusetts described the chaos he saw under the state's right-to-shelter laws, saying that the influx of illegal immigrants has clogged the state's infrastructure and that there is virtually no vetting for the surge of border crossers.
Massachusetts spent nearly $1.1 billion of taxpayers' money this fiscal year to house and feed migrants streaming into the state, often in hotels that have been converted to shelters. However, taxpayers have at times found themselves boxed out of shelters as immigrants have crowded the system and taken priority, said Jon Fetherston, who acted as a migrant shelter director at the Marlborough Holiday Inn
It's Time to Excise the Cancer
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"It will take time to feel the full impact of all that my Administration has done," Presidentish Joe Biden claimed in Wednesday night's farewell address to the nation. "The seeds we planted will grow and bloom for decades to come."
I'm afraid he's right, for once.
"Cancer. He's describing cancer," Dan Franck quipped on X in response — and it's already begun to metastasize. Biden came into office promising — and then delivering — a spending and regulatory spree that made Barack "Mr. Stimulus and Obamacare" Obama look as parsimonious as John Adams. Well, according to the latest figures, Biden's chickens are coming home
President-elect Trump confirmed Friday that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping days before Trump will be inaugurated into office.
"I just spoke to Chairman Xi Jinping of China. The call was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A.," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"It is my expectation that we will solve many problems together, and starting immediately. We discussed balancing Trade, Fentanyl, TikTok, and many other subjects. President Xi and I will do everything possible to make the World more peaceful and safe!"