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A WWII veteran who was there on D-Day named William Pekrul spoke at the Republican National Convention tonight and got a lot of love from the crowd.
Pekrul received numerous rounds of applause during his speech as he described being there to witness the horror of the Nazi death camps and how he kissed the ground when he came home to America.
At one point, he suggested that if Donald Trump was commander in chief again, that he would reenlist. The crowd went absolutely wild.
Joe Biden had his Nevada trip cut short by a COVID diagnosis that came when the president announced he would exit the race if a medical emergency forced him out. Biden is now on his way back to Delaware, where he’ll be kept from the spotlight as large swaths of the Democratic Party are putting the screws on him to exit the race. What a remarkable coincidence on both fronts. The rushed virtual roll call before the Democratic National Convention that would have made Biden’s nomination official has been delayed.
As President Joe Biden flies back to Delaware from Las Vegas on Wednesday night, cutting his trip short after testing positive for Covid-19, he faces one of the most momentous decisions of his long political life: Should he heed the rising calls from his fellow Democrats to extinguish his bid for reelection?
For Biden, is it a new moment?
Even though anger and panic have been steadily rising inside the Democratic Party for nearly three weeks, after the president’s alarming debate performance in Atlanta, the White House and the Biden campaign are in a new place, multiple Democratic officials told CNN.
“The private conversations with the Hill are continuing,
Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan asked the most devastating question in presidential-campaign politics. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" he asked in reference to the Jimmy Carter presidency, an utter disaster economically and on foreign policy. That question crystallized an American electorate tired of being told to get used to decline, and it touched off an economic and military revival that eventually ended the Cold War.
Tonight, the theme for the Republican national convention is "Make America Strong Again," a slogan that got a broad sweep in the speeches from the stage. Border security dominated the earlier speeches, but Medal of Honor
The Secret Service was warned about Thomas Matthew Crooks and designated him as a “threat” 10 minutes before former President Donald Trump took the stage, but allowed him to go on anyway, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The agency was also warned that there was a “character of suspicion” on the grounds more than an hour before Saturday’s deadly shooting at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sources said.
Fox News first reported the new details, which emerged during a stunning Senate briefing by the Secret Service on Wednesday.
FOX News host Jesse Watters addresses the inconsistencies in the Secret Service's version of events of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
JESSE WATTERS: His first since dodging an assassin's bullet, or as he's calling it, the greatest earache he's ever had. And as the details keep dripping out, we have more questions. Tonight, we're learning that the gunman was on law enforcement's radar for three hours, and the Secret Service designated Crooks a threat 10 minutes before Trump took the stage. And the Secret Service never said, Mr. President, don't go out there. They let Trump take the stage anyway. And eight minutes later, he was shot.
Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan led directly to the deaths of 13 American service members, yet he has never acknowledged tham by name.
Tonight at the Republican National Convention, the parents of one soldier decided to do just that. They said the names of each service member who was killed and called out the Biden administration for forgetting these men and women.
This was an amazing moment.
Greg Price wrote on Twitter/X: Incredibly powerful moment as the families of the 13 American service members who died at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan take the stage at the RNC.
They do something that Joe Biden has never done since his incompetence
When the Founding Fathers mutually pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to each other, they did so “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence.” [SNIP] Divine providence was also the only thing standing between Donald Trump and death Saturday evening. Had the would-be assassin’s bullet been a fraction of an inch to the right, we would be having a much different conversation right now. If the attempted murder of Donald Trump “is evidence of the reality of evil in the world,” as Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, said, Trump’s survival is evidence of divine providence.
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Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the families of service members who were killed during Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan delivered devastating remarks about the current president, his actions during and after the withdrawal, and his refusal to even acknowledge their fallen loved ones.
Multiple members spoke during the segment, but all of the remarks were so powerful that multiple media outlets and pundits referred to the moment as "powerful" and "devastating" for Joe Biden. The speech was part of the RNC's Wednesday night theme, which was centered around safety. It was indeed a powerful moment for the Republican nominee and a brutal one for Biden.
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden nationally and taking a ten-point lead among independents, a HarrisX/Forbes survey found.
The survey showed Trump leading Biden by three points nationally, garnering 45 percent support to Biden’s 42 percent support. Another 13 percent remain undecided.
Trump’s lead expands in a crowded field with third-party candidates garnering 43 percent support — four points more than Biden’s 39 percent support.
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows with 13 percent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Cornel West see two percent support each.
The calls for President Biden to pass the torch had stopped following the former president and current GOP nominee for president, Donald Trump's assassination attempt, but the Democrats have ramped up those calls in the past couple of days. As reported earlier, top House Democrat and lead voice of the Russia collusion hoax, Adam Schiff, asked Biden to withdraw from the race.
Vice President Harris called GOP VP nominee and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to congratulate him. She then challenged Vance to a debate, and agreed to debate on either July 23 or August 13, to be aired on CBS.
Joy Reid of MSNBC is either incredibly desperate or completely insane. Maybe both.
Today, Reid suggested that if Biden survives his current case of COVID, that it’s just like Trump surviving an assassination attempt where someone nearly blew his brains out with a gun.
Are the people who run MSNBC capable of feeling shame or embarrassment?
NewsBusters has details: Reid swerved into a conspiracy theory territory when she seemed to hint that the shooting was staged because of the so-called “photo-op” on stage. “
Your expectations are too high if you thought that getting more details would reveal less blundering by former President Trump's security detail leading to his shooting on Saturday.
U.S. Senators, in a phone briefing by FBI Director Chris Wray and Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle, found that Trump's would-be killer, who murdered a man and critically wounded two others, had been under watch by security personnel for more than an hour before he took the lethal shots from a roof outside the hard security perimeter.
A reporter for Punchbowl News also reported that senators told him the assassin had been spotted and in the scopes of snipers
The third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will formally introduce the nation to former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
Vance is scheduled to speak last tonight, and the Rust Belt populist will be introduced by his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, who met the Ohio senator and Marine veteran when they both were students at Yale Law School. Chilukuri Vance, a trial lawyer and native of San Diego, California, was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The question which many Democrats had hoped would be swept under the rug following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, has emerged: Are we sure we want President Joe Biden? Following a positive COVID test and an announcement canceling part of his campaign tour, Biden was back in the spotlight, and Van Jones, liberal political commentator for CNN, finally summed up the plight of the Democratic party. On a CNN panel, made of both conservatives and Democrats, one attitude rang true, that people weren't happy about the Democratic ticket. This was said perfectly by Jones, the optics of Trump surviving
A photo of an unmasked President Joe Biden in front of reporters after news broke of his COVID-19 diagnosis went viral on social media on Wednesday evening. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday evening that earlier today, Biden tested positive for COVID-19 after a campaign event in Las Vegas. Minutes after Jean-Pierre's statement was released, CNN White House and politics reporter DJ Judd shared a photo of Biden on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote: "An unmasked President Joe Biden flashes a thumbs up to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One moments after the
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has reportedly told allies that he will resign from Congress since he was convicted on all counts in his federal corruption trial.
An NBC News report said that the New Jersey Democrat, who has, so far, been defiant and refused to resign in the face of demands from dozens of Senate Democrats, has said that he will soon step down.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) have called on the New Jersey Democrat to resign.
A group in New Delhi known as Hindu Sena (“Hindu Army”) prayed for the safety of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday, describing him as the only “global leader” who “has the courage to speak against radical Islam and its followers.”
Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, so Hindu Sena hung a poster of Trump next to an idol of Baglamukhi — the Hindu goddess of protection — dabbed a vermilion holy mark on Trump’s forehead, and made burnt offerings to pray for the former — and possibly future — president’s life.
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Days after an assassin’s bullet came within an estimated centimeter from killing former (and future) President Donald Trump, let’s revisit a “fact check” from USA Today from earlier this year.
Alex Soros, son of billionaire Marxist Trump hater George Soros tweeted out a picture of a bullet hole and a hand holding $47 in cash, a not so subtle intimation that Trump, the 45th and would be 47th president, should be shot, a post that given this past weekend’s event should give pause. (X) An article in The Gateway Pundit at the time suggested, and common sense would dictate, that the tweet was a threat against Trump.
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters stated on Tuesday that he plans to revoke an Ardmore City School instructor’s teaching certificate over her comments praising the individual who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Walters made the announcement that he plans to remove Alison Scott’s teaching certificate in response to a Facebook comment made by the teacher agreeing with another user who also praised the shooter. After seeing the comment, Walters announced on X that the state was performing an investigation on Scott, calling it “unacceptable.”
The director of the Secret Service said the agency is responsible for the security plan at the Pennsylvania rally where a shooter fired upon former President Donald Trump.
“At that particular site, we divided up areas of responsibility, but the Secret Service is totally responsible for the design and implementation and the execution of the site,” Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told CNN on Tuesday night.
Her comments were made amid questions surrounding the agency’s performance in securing the rally site on Saturday as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from a rooftop
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday and canceled a speech to a Latino advocacy group in Sin City.
UnidosUS president Janet Murguía announced the diagnosis on stage as attendees began to wonder why Biden, 81, was running 90 minutes late to speak.
Biden taped a radio interview with Univision — set to air Thursday — shortly before the positive test was disclosed.
We have entered the Twilight Zone.
Under no circumstances would I have imagined that the Secret Service, of all organizations, could fail this badly.
And by fail, I don't mean that somebody got through a security perimeter. Even the best organizations can't prevent every conceivable scenario. Stuff happens.
No, I mean something much, much worse: the Secret Service failed to do even a minimally competent job. The Washington Post reports that the agency had been informed that local law enforcement did not have sufficient resources to secure the building from which the shooter took his murderous shots. Yet, nothing was done to ensure that the most obvious vantage point
At this point, we must ask the question: Has the global popcorn industry adequately prepared its supply chains for the next few weeks? Or will the avalanche of demand for passing the popcorn during the Democrat Party Meltdown Theater tip us over into hyper-inflation?
Again?
Joe Biden has steadfastly refused to withdraw from the Democrat presidential nomination, insisting that only he can defeat Donald Trump. The DNC had plans to rush the delegates into a confirming first-ballot vote based on primary results. Biden lined up the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) behind his nomination and had pandered relentlessly the last three weeks to rad-progressives to shore up his left flank.
An irate city councilwoman allegedly bit a deputy NYPD chief during a scream-filled clash with cops at a protest against a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, according to officials and video of the incident.
Councilwoman Susan Zhuang (D-43rd Dist.) was arrested on charges of second-degree and third-degree assault and resisting arrest Wednesday morning at a demonstration with “Residents Against Homeless Shelters” in Gravesend, police confirmed.
Zhuang, 38, allegedly tried to prevent officers from arresting another woman at the protest grabbing and pushing police barricades into cops — then bit Deputy Chief of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South Frank DiGiacomo on the arm when he attempted to pull the councilwoman
It keeps getting worse. As the Secret Service stonewalls the media and elected lawmakers regarding the glaring security breaches at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Fox News is reporting that federal agents knew there was a threat to the former president’s life ten minutes before he took the stage. They still allowed him to proceed with the rally and had identified the shooter an hour before the attack because he was spotted with a rangefinder by authorities. Former President Donald Trump barely escaped an assassination attempt on July 13, where a bullet grazed his right ear, missing a fatal headshot by millimeters.
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The local police officer who was hoisted up to the edge of the roof and spotted former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin is not to blame for the carnage that unfolded, Butler Township Commissioner Edward Natali said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, explaining that the mainstream media are not accurately telling the story of what actually happened.
The news has been inundated with stories of an unnamed local police officer who encountered the Thomas Crooks prior to the shooting, largely placing blame on that officer. But Natali said that is not fair, nor is the story accurate.
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Former President Donald Trump will reportedly attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter, husband, and father who was tragically killed during the assassination attempt on the former president at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
When asked if Trump would attend Comperatore’s funeral, a source described as close to Trump told thCorey’s wife Helen said on social media that Trump called her on Tuesday. She said Trump told her he planned to call her in the near future as well.e New York Post, “of course he is.” “He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead,” she wrote.
He just can’t help himself.
After two disastrous speeches, Joe Biden made an unscheduled stop at Mario’s Westside Market in Las Vegas, Nevada Tuesday evening.“How you doin? Good to see you!” Biden said as he went in for a sniff.
“Thank you, Riley! How old are you? 5?” Biden asked the child after he took a picture with her.
Biden delivered remarks during the 115th NAACP National Convention and then participated in an economic summit with Rep. Steven Horsford earlier Tuesday.
81-year-old Biden walked into Mario’s Westside Market and immediately went in for a sniff. The child’s mother chimes in, “Say 3! I’m 3!”
Rick and Karen Foerster, a couple in their 50s who live in neighboring Beaver County, arrived at the Trump Rally in Butler County, Pa., at 9 a.m. on Saturday and waited in the 90-degree heat for the gates to open at 1 p.m. As the program began, Karen was overcome by the heat and became unwell. She was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital, which was only 11 miles from the site.
While the Foersters were still in the Emergency Dept., the news broke that Donald Trump had just been shot in the head. Others in the waiting room had also been at the rally or had friends there,
The father of would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was reportedly profiled by the former president’s 2016 campaign — as one neighbor claims the family had MAGA decor in their yard until recently.
Matthew Brian Crooks, 53, who legally purchased the AR-15 rifle used in his son’s attack in Butler, Pa., over the weekend, was identified by the Trump campaign as a crucial swing-state voter who was likely to respond favorably to pro-gun messaging, according to data obtained by the UK’s Channel 4 News.
The campaign’s private database analyzed 6.7 million people in the Keystone State — about half of the state’s population — to determine which voters could be targeted
Bloomberg News made no mention of its founder’s relentless ESG-tied pressure campaign as it lamented DEI defeats at John Deere and Tractor Supply.
In a July 16 article, Bloomberg News reporters Simone Foxman and Michael Hirtzer responded to a John Deere decision to abandon some of the radical DEI policies exposed by podcast host Robby Starbuck. The article completely neglected to mention that their boss has slapped ESG scores on thousands of companies in a massive push to shame them into compliance.
The Bloomberg reporters lamented that John Deere is “pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative criticism, the second
MILWAUKEE — Oh, they’re friends again.
It was reconciliation night Tuesday, day two of the Republican National Convention. Many of the GOP rivals that former President Donald Trump has mercilessly beaten in two Republican Party primaries took to the convention stage to tell American voters why they now love Trump. Or at least can plug their nostrils long enough to vote for the GOP nominee — in the case of Trump’s former United Nations Ambassador and defense industry darling Nikki Haley.
MILWAUKEE, WI - The Republican National Convention is teaming with delegates, politicians and a few fury friends too.
During his speech in the Fiserv Forum arena Tuesday night, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice stole the show when he brought his dog, "Babydog," on stage. The crowd went wild. (X Videos) Babydog's appearance was previewed on her Twitter page. (X) But Babydog isn't the only one who made an appearance at the convention. A delegate from Wisconsin also got a lot of attention.
Tech giant Microsoft has disbanded an internal team dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), due to “changing business needs.” Ditching DEI has sparked criticism from within the woke company about its commitment to these initiatives.
Business Insider reports that Microsoft has eliminated an internal team focused on DEI. The decision, which took effect this month, was communicated to thousands of employees via an email from a team leader, obtained by Business Insider.
The email cites “changing business needs” as the reason for the team’s dissolution, reflecting a broader trend in the tech industry of scaling back DEI programs. The exact number of employees affected by this decision remains undisclosed.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office praised former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his record of achievements in protecting Israel and promoting peace between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
“Israelis and the prime minister remember very, very well the incredible support which President Trump, while he was in office, gave to this country,” said Israeli government spokesman David Mencer.
Mencer was reacting to news that Trump had reposted Netanyahu’s message of support following the attempted assassination on the former U.S. president on Saturday.
In a leaked Zoom call with moderate House Democrats on Sunday, President Joesph Biden once again used his dead son, Beau Biden, this time, to insult and denigrate the military and combat service of Colorado Congressman Jason Crow (D). Biden was unhinged as he told Crow to "tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son!" President Biden was attempting to convey the message that he was fit and able to continue on with his campaign and snapped at Crow when he politely expressed his concerns to the president.
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – One day after Donald Trump announced his running mate would be Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Ohio Republicans started considering who could be his replacement in the Senate in conversations with the Daily Caller.
Contingent on a Trump-Vance win in November, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine would be left to pick a replacement for the seat. Following the announcement, one-time presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told the Caller he would “strongly consider” taking the seat if it were offered to him, while other reports indicated that DeWine was leaning toward choosing State Sen. Matt Dolan, who earlier this year lost a primary to Bernie Moreno for Ohio’s other Senate seat.
Anne Funder, whose son died from fentanyl, is angry at top Democrats, including President Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. But she expressed a particular disdain for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“The Border czar — what a joke,” Ms. Funder said Tuesday night on the stage of the Republican National Convention.
She wasn’t the only one. Michael Morin, whose sister Rachel was killed in a horrific attack blamed on an illegal immigrant, called out both Ms. Harris and President Biden for not having called to express condolences to the family. “They never apologized,” he said.
House Oversight Chair James Comer issued a subpoena Wednesday for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify before his panel next week about the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
“Despite allowing you to speak with the media, both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secret Service have failed to provide assurances regarding your appearance at the Oversight Committee’s scheduled hearing, thereby necessitating the attached subpoena,” Comer (R-Ky.) wrote in a letter attached to the subpoena.
The subpoena comes after Comer invited Cheatle to testify voluntarily. An Oversight Committee spokesperson told POLITICO earlier this week that while the Secret Service “confirmed” the director is “expected to appear”
Representative Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race on Wednesday, citing “serious concerns” about the president’s electoral viability.
Biden “has been one of the most consequential presidents in our nation’s history, and his lifetime of service as a Senator, a Vice President, and now as President has made our country better,” Schiff told the Los Angeles Times. “But our nation is at a crossroads. A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November.”
Schiff joins a growing faction
A potentially explosive new development in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday has been revealed. Fox News reports that the parents of 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks were "looking for him" and called law enforcement to alert them that he was missing. Thomas Matthew Crooks’ parents were looking for him on Saturday in the hours leading up to the Trump rally shooting and eventually called law enforcement to indicate that he was missing and they were worried, Fox News has learned.
It’s unclear what his parents told authorities
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele floated a debunked conspiracy theory that a shard of glass injured former President Donald Trump’s ear during Saturday's assassination attempt rather than a bullet. Speaking on MSNBC, Steele said no medical reports have been released and questioned the extent the ear was injured. Despite left-leaning fact checkers such as Snopes giving a false rating to claims that glass from a teleprompter hit Trump’s ear, the commentator floated the theory anyway.
President Biden said in a new interview that he would consider dropping out if he was diagnosed with a “medical condition” by doctors — giving the clearest indication yet that he may be faltering in his vow to seek a second term. The 81-year-old president made the remark in a BET interview taped Tuesday when asked what it would take to prompt him to reconsider his candidacy.
“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” Biden said in an excerpt released Wednesday.
Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.
The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in an AP-NORC poll in February.
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Many of you have been following our coverage of Hurricane Beryl and the subsequent flooding and blackouts that followed when it came ashore in Texas. If you have, you may already be aware that one of our writing staff here at Hot Air, Karen Townsend, lived in the Houston area and we lost contact with her shortly after the power went out. The blackout went on for far too long, with more than a week passing with no word from Karen. Yesterday we learned the tragic news that Karen was discovered deceased during a wellness check. A cause of death was not initially released.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general opened an investigation on Wednesday into the Secret Service’s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at Saturday’s Pennsylvania rally.
The objective of the probe is to “Evaluate the United States Secret Service’s (Secret Service) process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024 campaign event,” according to a short notice posted to the inspector general’s website. No specific date was given for when the investigation was launched.
The newly launched investigation comes after President Joe Biden had directed the Secret Service to conduct an independent review
John Deere announced Tuesday that it will cut all DEI activities not required by law and return to that novel but outdated concept of a workforce based on performance.
In an announcement released Tuesday morning, the company bowed to the public pressure generated by Robby Starbuck only a week ago, which started with this video.
In it, he revealed the degree to which DEI had eaten away at the core of a quintessentially American brand.
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The Israeli army said it has eliminated half of Hamas’s military leaders, with around 14,000 terrorists killed or captured.
In a public statement on July 16, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had taken out six Hamas brigade commanders, more than 20 battalion commanders, and approximately 150 company commanders in the 263 days of operation in the Gaza Strip.
It added that it had struck about 37,000 targets from the air within the Gaza Strip and more than 25,000 terrorist infrastructure and launch sites.
President Biden held a “tense” Zoom call with dozens of moderate Democrats that was “even worse than the debate” — less than an hour before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, a new report says.
The 81-year-old president repeatedly lost his train of thought on the call and was dismissive of the Democrats’ concerns about his 2024 re-election campaign following his train-wreck debate performance last month, Puck reported Wednesday, citing multiple sources.
“The call was even worse than the debate. He was rambling; he’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer.
A California mother who lost her 15-year-old son to fentanyl elicited repeated standing ovations and tears from the audience at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, saying that she held President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and every other Democrat who supports open borders responsible.
Anne Fundner lost her son Weston to fentanyl poisoning in February 2022.
“My name is Anne Fundner, and I am the wife and mother of four children,” Fundner began. “I’m standing here today to share the tragic reality of open borders.
Desperate to turn around his collapsing re-election effort, Joe Biden is hitting at the far-left highlights as we head into the thick of campaign season. On Tuesday, the president addressed the NAACP, or as he called it during his speech, the "NAAC." The moment I saw he was using a regular teleprompter and not his jumbotron, I knew
I just want to pull this guy aside and ask him why he's always shouting. In his recent interview with Lester Holt, Biden was also angry in his pronouncements.(X Video) I just want to pull this guy aside and ask him why he's always shouting. In his recent interview with Lester Holt,
As the Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, Google is continuing to bury former President Donald Trump’s campaign website while propping up his opponents.
MRC researchers searched Google using a “clean environment” (without the influence of prior search history and tracking cookies) and found that the search giant completely eliminated Donald Trump’s website from the top 100 search results, while pushing President Joe Biden’s campaign website up to the number one spot.
Researchers conducted three separate searches for the top three candidate’s names along with the words “presidential race 2024.” While the results
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says an “unimpeachable source” told him there was supposed to be someone on the roof from where gunman Thomas Crooks shot at Trump but that they “didn’t show up.”
Bongino made the comments during an appearance on a podcast with Tucker Carlson at the RNC.
“So I was just showing Tucker some material from an unimpeachable source let’s just say on the matter,” said Bongino.
“That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post, there was supposed to be someone there,” he added.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has clapped back at Musk on X after the tech billionaire announced that he will move SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas over Newsom's new gender identity laws.
Newsom on Tuesday wrote on the social media platform: 'You bent the knee', along with a screenshot of a 2022 Tweet by Donald Trump criticizing Musk.
This was in response to 52-year-old Musk's decision to move the X and SpaceX headquarters to Texas after he said that Newsom's signing of a law that bans California school districts from notifying parents if their child is transgender was 'the final straw'.
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was released from federal prison on Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. Navarro, 75, reported to prison in March. On X, his team wrote that he was going to be released.
“The best is yet to come!” they wrote. (X) Reportedly, Navarro, who served as a top trade adviser to Trump, will speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC), which has been happening this week.
As Leah covered in January, Navarro was handed a four-month prison sentence Thursday for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
Last September, he was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress
A former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks says the 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle. (snip) "He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, 'I'm better than you,' in a type of way," he said.
He also pushed back on reporting that Crooks was a complete loner. He had a friend group, he said, although it was both small and concerning.
The far-left fascists at Variety have at long last figured out how Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance outsmarted the left’s media and Hollywood elite.
This is something I’ve enjoyed watching since Vance ran for the U.S. Senate as a Trump Republican two years ago. Since then, I’ve been waiting and waiting for someone in Hollywood to say something about it, unsure if they ever would because doing so is an admission of just how badly this “hillbilly” outfoxed a bunch of elites who see themselves as sophisticates.But here it finally is, a confession we should all rejoice in:
Unlike so many of the books published
Members of the far-left joined with their entertainment elite compatriots on social media to mock former President Trump’s ear bandage just days after he survived an assassination attempt which also took the life of one man. Sneering far-left Star Wars actor Mark Hamill happily showed the way.
According to Ronny Jackson, the former White House doctor who became a Texas congressman, Trump lost “a little bit” of his ear when the bullet grazed him on Saturday. “I checked his ear out,” Jackson said. “I went up and dressed his ear this morning.”
The debate around whether President Biden should withdraw from the presidential race was put on pause in the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination on former President Trump.
Democrats have quieted the public pressure on Biden, resigned to the fact that the president will be the nominee, with close to 100 days remaining before Election Day. Still, while the party remains at odds about Biden continuing in the race, many felt like blowing up the ticket at this late stage of the campaign would be a risky bet and wouldn’t necessarily help the Democratic Party prevail in November.
Republicans always seem to come home. Some sooner than others.
Vivek Ramaswamy never really ran against him. Ron DeSantis threw his weight behind him within an hour of dropping out of the primary. But Nikki Haley, the last woman standing, she took her time. The endorsement took three full months to arrive. Donald Trump didn’t mind.
The former president did not need her support to lock down a third consecutive nomination. He may not need it to return to the White House either. But as Haley walked onstage at the Republican National Convention Tuesday, Trump beamed. He listened with a bandaged ear from a box overlooking the arena
Here we are, the Monday immediately following the attempt on the life of Donald Trump, but for those who were hoping to begin their day with the sane and sober reflections on this event from the capable crew on “Morning Joe”, they were met with dismay. “Morning Joe” was not on the air! We were not treated to the calm and introspective wisdom from Mr. Scarborough, the balanced and thoughtful reflections from his paramour Mika Brzezinski, and the fulfilling commentary from the wizened panel and rotating slate of Algonquin-level thinkers.
Last week, I had the unenviable task of explaining who the “Hawk Tuah” girl is to my curious Boomer mother.
This week, it will be Amber Rose, thanks to her primetime speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night.
Yes, that Amber Rose.
The former stripper-turned-video vixen who truly arrived as a pop-culture figure on the arm of Kanye West, whom she dated from 2008 to 2010. The mixed-race mother of two was married to rapper Wiz Khalifa and hosts “SlutWalks,” which are feminist events to promote sex positivity and protest gender inequality.
She’s flashy and wears clothing so tight, it could be painted on.
That Iran can, through hostage-taking and extortion, force countries such as the United States, Belgium and Sweden to hand over a convicted criminal who has clearly violated international law shows that gangster methods, used by the Iranian mullahs and others, evidently carry more weight than international law.
This blackmail essentially teaches rogue states that through violence and extortion they can get Western states to make concessions, massive payments, and to de-prioritize and deviate from international law.
While many disagree, a majority of Americans believe that illegal immigrant voting will be “common” around the nation in the 2024 presidential election and will likely affect the vote’s outcome, according to the most recent I&I/TIPP Poll.
The 1,244 Americans polled for the national online I&I/TIPP survey of voter opinion were asked: “How common do you think illegal immigrant voting will be in the November presidential elections?”
Of those responding, 52% said that they believed voting by those who immigrated to the U.S. illegally would be “common,” while just 38% thought such voting would either be “rare” (23%) or “none at all” (15%). Of the remaining, 11% said they “not sure.”t
A newly leaked Zoom call is presenting fresh headaches for the embattled Biden campaign. In it, the president can be heard delivering a shockingly disturbing rant in which he mocks the service of a combat veteran.
The setup was a meeting between Joe Biden and "moderate" House Democrats on Saturday. According to those who participated, the president's performance "was even worse than the debate," with him not being able to finish sentences. He was "rambling" and would "lose his train of thought." Puck News, a typically left-leaning outlet, obtained the video and confirmed what occurred.
Right before the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a group of moderate Hill Democrats held a “tense”
I’m having trouble believing the constructed narrative around President Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. First, I’m not talking about the ridiculously sketchy events that day. I’m also not talking about the hours, days and weeks leading up to the shooting and the background of what he would be doing in those timeframes. I’m talking about the actual personage of Thomas Mattew Crooks, the description of him, his identity, who he is. According to what little data footprint is available and shared by media, Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20, DOB: 09-20-2003, had no social media presence. Let that sink in for a moment.
Donald Trump’s announcement that Ohio Sen. JD Vance is his vice-presidential pick was music to my ears.
I’ve known Vance for more than a decade and can attest to his smarts, his seriousness and his undying devotion to America and its working class.
He is an ideal pick for Trump and one that presages the transformation of the Republican Party into a true, multi-ethnic working-class coalition. I met JD at a political seminar in 2015. We quickly bonded over our shared interest in using public policy to help the country’s struggling working-class voters. In this pre-Trump age, that was not a popular position within the GOP.
But that didn’t matter to
MILWAUKEE — Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) selection as former President Trump’s running mate could have major implications for the GOP’s potential succession fight, putting him in early pole position to become the party’s standard-bearer in a post-Trump era.
Trump’s vice presidential selection decision was always going to have major ramifications, but those are magnified further as he is limited to a single term, setting up a potential primary battle in 2028 to carry on the ex-president’s mantle.
Joe Biden entered the Senate in 1973, at the tender age of 30. He looked like a president, he felt like a president, and he fully expected to rise to the top. His formula for success was that of every ambitious politician deprived by nature of directing principles or opinions: find the meandering mainstream of his party’s establishment, where the big fish swim, then wade in and drift. Biden was in turn strongly against and stridently for abortion, a righteous Vietnam dove and then a stern Iraq hawk, a friend of racist Democratic senators before becoming a promoter of compensatory quotas for racial minorities.
President Joe Biden has been holding a series of calls with the various factions in the House Democratic Caucus, and they’ve not gone well. The call with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus devolved into total mayhem last week. On top of being late to the call, Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) called on Biden to step aside directly, leading to the call's abruptly ending. No one could ask the president questions. It was very much the controlled, guard-railed, and staged antics that have marked this presidency. It’s all a show, with no real action or governing.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave one of the final prime-time speeches during the second day of the Republican National Convention. She gave a heartfelt speech and blasted President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and even took a jab at First Lady Jill Biden. As expected, Sanders' jab at the first lady has been a hit on social media. Here is what she said: It was good to laugh after listening to many serious speeches about real-life instances that have driven families to the brink due to the Biden-Harris administration's policies.
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American model Amber Rose fired back at MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday after the host criticized her address in support of former President Trump, dismissing her as "racially ambiguous." Rose spoke in front of a packed room at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee Monday night, recalling her own political conversion and how she went from thinking Trump was a "racist," to supporting his movement.
Reid wasted little time tearing into the model on MSNBC, cautioning Black voters from embracing the message that Rose, a person of color with mainstream fame, had delivered on stage.
It was odd on that first night when Joe Biden announced the FBI would be investigating the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, only a few hours after the failed shooting. How did the people around Biden immediately know something went wrong?
Then things got even more sketchy when police reported the assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was spotted and photographed acting suspiciously 30 minutes before the attempted assassination. Unfortunately, they “lost track” of him.
To the commonsense observer, Crooks had to be wandering around the venue for quite a while. I mean, the scheduled start time for the speech was originally 5:00pm,
BALTIMORE - If it weren't for the speedy No. 12, the Baltimore Ravens may not have won their latest Super Bowl championship.
Jacoby Jones, who died suddenly on Sunday at his home in New Orleans, was a star in the postseason during the 2012 season, which ended with a win in Super Bowl XLVII.
Stunned former teammates, current and former NFL players and Maryland leaders are mourning the news that Jones had died just days after his 40th birthday.
My brother, you will truly be missed. They can't take the memories and the hard work you put in on and off the football field. You always gave back
Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. JD Vance as his 2024 running mate is seen as a potential windfall for Silicon Valley — and major tech VCs are going public with their support.
While best known as author of the hit memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed the plights and concerns of Rust Belt voters, the Ohio Republican also has close ties to the tech industry.
Prior to entering politics, he worked as a venture capitalist alongside the likes of billionaire Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund.
Fans of Tenacious D are "devastated" the band has cancelled the rest of their Australian tour in the wake of a controversial onstage joke about the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump.
Ben Parsons and his family travelled more than four hours from Armidale to Newcastle to see Jack Black's comedy rock duo in concert on Tuesday night.
They found out through social media the event had been cancelled.
"We were devastated but my kids were devastated as well," Mr Parsons told ABC NewsRadio.
"[I've] been a fan of Jack Black for a long time, was looking forward to it. [I'm] definitely out of pocket a lot now."
No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won’t try to spin it into some kind of success. Because no Democrat will ever admit failure, there’s never any accountability when things go unimaginably bad.
Witness the spectacle of Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing a growing chorus of calls to resign, and declaring he has “100 percent” confidence in her and her agency in the wake of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in western Pennsylvania.
Dozens of House Democrats are organizing a plan to speak out against their own party’s effort to seal President Joe Biden’s nomination sooner than originally planned, which they argue stifles the intense ongoing debate about his candidacy, according to a lawmaker involved in the effort.
A drafted letter, circulated by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and obtained by POLITICO, offers the first public signal from Democrats since the weekend’s attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump that scores of their own members remain deeply unsettled about the future of Biden’s candidacy.
President Joe Biden has been holding a series of calls with the various factions in the House Democratic Caucus, and they’ve not gone well. The call with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus devolved into total mayhem last week. On top of being late to the call, Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) called on Biden to step aside directly, leading to the call's abruptly ending. No one could ask the president questions. It was very much the controlled, guard-railed, and staged antics that have marked this presidency. It’s all a show, with no real action or governing.
A call with the Congressional Progressive Caucus had this awkward moment.
Despite the graphic photographic evidence from different angles showing former President Trump was missing chunks of his right ear after being shot in the head during a failed assassination attempt over the weekend, MSNBC host Michael Steele wasted oxygen during the network’s coverage of Night Two of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday to spew debunked fringe conspiracy theories claiming Trump wasn’t actually hit by a bullet.
“Where I am at this point, it's been three days, going on four…and yet, we have not received a medical report from the hospital nor have we received a medical report from the campaign or from the Trump organization about
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On July 13, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. It led to an iconic image of the former president, who had just escaped death from a would-be assassin, perched less than 200 yards from the stage, raising his fist in defiance, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s become a viral sensation. It’s also made some media photographers and editors queasy because—get this—it could hurt Biden and give “free PR” to Trump. You can’t make this up. They’re afraid to do their jobs because it could hurt the Democrats. This is precisely what’s wrong with the industry and what the late Andrew Breitbart referred to as
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski may be more like former President Donald Trump than they’d like to admit.
“They have a flare for the dramatic,” a network insider told Page Six. And they know how to turn it on for the camera, according to insiders.
The MSNBC couple returned to “Morning Joe” on Tuesday after the network pulled their show for special coverage of Saturday’s shocking assassination attempt on Trump’s life.
Scarborough and Brzezinski — and anchor Willie Geist — addressed the issue at the top of the hour with Scarborough explaining, “We were told, in no uncertain terms, on a Sunday evening that there was going to be one news feed
Dr. Ben Carson, who served as Trump’s HUD Secretary during the first Trump administration, spoke at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night and was given a standing ovation during his passionate speech.
Much of Carson’s speech focused on the assassination attempt on Trump over the weekend. Carson quoted scripture and talked about his own personal reaction to the horror. It was a very reassuring moment.
Carson is a gentle man of such integrity. He is an inspiration.
Last week, CNN’s Harry Enten argued that while Biden had been through "arguably two of the worst weeks for a president running for reelection" that he could recall, "he’s still within earshot of former President Donald Trump."
However, on Tuesday, CNN’s John King reviewed the latest 2024 presidential race polling, and it’s everything that Democrats have feared, as it shows that Trump could potentially win in a decisive landslide.
“The state of the race on night two of the Republican convention is Donald Trump is leading in this race,” he began. "Significantly, if you look deep into the polling, he has a chance to build on it.”
One of the interesting themes coming out of a portion of the mainstream (and some left-wing) media is the surprise they express that Republicans are not filled with dark rage, even after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
It is as if they had never met or talked to a real Republican, which, to be honest, is likely the case. They have no idea who we are. I noticed this first in some of the MSM TV coverage--not MSNBC, of course, but it was really striking to see an article in Slate by Aymann Ismail about the mood at the Republican Convention. He went expecting an undercurrent of rage,
Two of my favorites among Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 nomination spoke back-to-back in favor of the former (and future) president at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley spoke first, speaking of uniting Republicans behind Trump even if they don’t always agree with him.
Haley was a tough act to follow, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) rose to the occasion. Leading with “let’s send Joe Biden back to his basement, and let’s send Donald Trump back to the White House,” he gave a fiery speech that didn’t spare the Biden administration or the left in general.
The mother of a military veteran who was stabbed to death was cheered to the rafters as she slammed Democrats and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
It came after Donald Trump received a massive reception as he arrived for the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Earlier, police arrested a man in a ski mask carrying an AK-47 pistol just blocks from the venue. Trump rises to feet for barnstorming speech by mother of stabbed veteran
Madeline Brame got some of the biggest cheers on the second night of the convention.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made her highly anticipated appearance at the Republican Convention, taking the stage to a mixture of cheers and boos from those in attendance. Haley, who was former President Donald Trump’s fiercest primary rival, gave the former president her "strong endorsement" during the appearance in Milwaukee, ending months of speculation on if she would throw her weight behind her former rival.
But the initial reaction to Haley’s arrival stood in stark contrast to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s chief primary rival during the 2016 campaign, who received a standing ovation from those in the crowd, including Trump themselves.