Former President Donald Trump took a victory lap during his first rally since departing office, saying of President Joe Biden, “I told you so.” Trump expressed vindication during his Saturday rally in Wellington, Ohio, held to support Max Miller, a Trump-endorsed candidate running a primary challenge to Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an incumbent Republican who voted in favor of impeaching Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection. “The media and the Democrats are now admitting that I was right… Source link
Read More »Trump joins video platform Rumble ahead of Ohio rally
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump joined video platform Rumble on Saturday, the same day he will take the stage at a campaign-style rally in Ohio, his first such event since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump lost his social media megaphone earlier this year when he was blocked by a slew of platforms after his supporters stormed the Capitol. He was permanently banned from Twitter and remains suspended by Facebook until at least 2023 and by… Source link
Read More »At the border, Harris defends timing of her trip ahead of Trump visit
Vice President Kamala Harris defended the timing of her trip to El Paso, Texas, on Friday amid accusations from Republicans that the Biden administration is ignoring what some view as a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. Friday’s visit to the border was Harris’s first since she was put in charge of the Biden administration’s efforts to stem the rising tide of migration in late March. Former President Donald Trump and a number of Republicans will visit the border next week. “It was… Source link
Read More »1 dead, 8 injured in Miami condo collapse a block from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s home, reports say
A section of Champlain Towers South, a Miami Beach condominium just one block from where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are leasing a home, crumbled in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Screengrab/Google Street View; Screengrab/Alex Hernandez via Twitter A person died with 8 more injured in a Florida building collapse early Thursday, local media said. A video posted on Twitter showed damage to Champlain Towers on 8777 Collins Avenue, Surfside. The building is one block from Ivanka Trump and… Source link
Read More »Trump endorses primary opponent of Republican Senator who voted to convict him
Former President Donald Trump endorsed the primary opponent of Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday, months after the Alaska moderate voted to convict him on a charge of incitement of insurrection. “Lisa Murkowski is bad for Alaska,” Trump said in a statement. He cited Murkowski’s vote to approve President Biden’s choice for interior secretary, Deb Haaland, who was later confirmed, as the reason for his decision, stating that Murkowski’s approval was tantamount to voting to kill… Source link
Read More »GOP Rep. Jim Jordan rips into Joe Biden for attending the same G-7, NATO summits with US allies that Trump went to multiple times
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Rep. Jim Jordan appeared to criticize Biden on Monday for attending diplomatic summits in Europe. “While Biden pals around with his buddies in Europe, the border crisis rages at home,” he tweeted. Conservatives have sought to make immigration at the US-Mexico border a rallying cry against Biden. Sign up for the 10 Things in Politics daily newsletter. GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on Monday appeared to criticize President Joe Biden for… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin leads cryptocurrency sell-off after Trump calls it a ‘scam’
Former US president Donald Trump said he doesn’t like bitcoin ‘because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.’ Photo: AP Cryptocurrencies continue a bout of volatility as they plunged on Tuesday morning, after former US president Donald Trump said bitcoin was a “scam”. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” he told Fox Business. “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar… I want the dollar to be the currency of the world. That’s what… Source link
Read More »Rare Trump appearance sparks odd conspiracy
Former president Donald Trump has made a rare public appearance with his first speech in months addressing US politics. However there was one curious detail that detracted from his address to a sold-out crowd of about 1,250 people on Sunday (local time). Trump told the crowd next year’s midterm elections would be a battle for the “survival of America” and lapped up applause from Republican supporters as he described the US as “being destroyed before our very own eyes” since he was voted out.
Read More »Trump hints at White House run ahead of Saturday rally
Former President Donald Trump implied he would be making another run for president as he prepares for his first major public event since leaving office. “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!” Trump said in a statement Friday afternoon after Facebook announced that he would remain banned from the platform for at least two more years. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (George… Source link
Read More »As Trump restarts rallies, GOP strategists hope against all odds that he won’t rehash 2020 election
The Republican Party finds itself in befuddling circumstances as former President Donald Trump prepares to hold political rallies again, beginning this weekend with an appearance in North Carolina. Trump was one of the only Republican candidates to lose a high-profile competitive race in 2020. GOP candidates won the majority of close races across the country, in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House and in state legislatures and gubernatorial races. Yet the party remains stuck with Trump as its… Source link
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