Donald Trump’s federal indictment has unleashed a wave of violent rhetoric from his supporters, creating a tinderbox atmosphere as the former president insists he is the victim of political persecution.
The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination will appear in a Miami court on Tuesday where he will be arraigned on 37 counts related to his handling of hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
University of Chicago research finds support for violence to achieve political goals and general distrust of democracy
Two and a half years after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, an estimated 12 million American adults, or 4.4% of the adult population, believe violence is justified to restore Donald Trump to the White House.
Though the number of adults who believe this has declined since the insurrection, recent survey data from the University of Chicago reveal alarming and dangerous levels of support for political violence and conspiracy theories across the United States.
UPDATE: Trump Campaign Statement
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.
Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her claim that trump, 76, defamed her when he branded her a liar when she spoke out about the assault.
I think he is sunk this time. Desantis it is.
Trump is both cause and symptom of the US crisis
In his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway describes a deaf old man who likes to sit in the terrace of his favourite cafe late into the evening drinking brandy, much to the frustration of a young waiter who just wants to go home. “He can buy a bottle and drink at home,” the waiter snaps to his colleague, refusing to give the old man a final top up. “It is not the same,” the older waiter replies. “This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well-lighted.”
Donald Trump denounced “The Biden regime’s weaponization of our system of justice” in Waco, Tex. Saturday with a defiant speech as his potential indictment by a Manhattan grand jury loomed.
“For seven years, you and I have been taking on the corrupt, rotten, sinister forces trying to destroy America,” Trump — in his usual blue suit but without his trademark red tie — told the crowd at the first public rally of his 2024 presidential campaign.
h/t DG
Despite shadow-banning and some outright censorship, the new music video “Trump Won” has skyrocketed to the top of the music world, joining former President Donald Trump’s tribute to Jan. 6 inmates on the Billboard and iTunes charts.
The new video from Natasha Owens hit No. 1 on iTunes when it debuted. It is now at No. 5 and ahead of Taylor Swift’s “All of the Girls You Loved Before” and just behind “Justice for All,” featuring Trump and the J6 Prison Choir.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether or not to hear a lawsuit that seeks to remove President Joe Biden from the White House and reinstate former President Donald Trump to office.
The Brunson v. Adams lawsuit claims that lawmakers violated their oaths of office by allegedly failing to investigate a foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential race which allegedly rigged the election against Trump.
h/t Mauser
This year, former President Donald Trump was proven right in his critiques of the globalist green agenda of the European Union and its reliance on Russian energy, which following the war in Ukraine have both been exposed as devastating failures of leadership.
The Washington Post is crediting President Donald Trump’s 2020 migration cuts for rising wages and improving workplace technology in 2022.
But the credit for raising wages is portrayed as blame for creating a “shortage of immigrants”
Why would a black guy befriend a white supremacist? Even if the two share the same Jew hatred, there is a titanic chasm between them.
It has been reported that Kanye West and Donald Trump had dinner together at Mar-a-Lago. Kanye was not the only guest. Although he was the only authorized guest, he did not arrive alone. He took the liberty of bringing along with him the infamous white supremacist, Nick Fuentes.
Trump claimed later that he had never met Fuentes and knew nothing about his background. But the headlines coming out of the meeting with the two antisemites, where one of whom was a white supremacist, may be very damaging to Trump’s ambition of emulating Grover Cleveland’s second, non-consecutive, successful run for the White House. As a result of the dinner’s reverberation, Trump may lose support among blacks, Hispanics, Jews and many independents who despise racism and bigotry, while providing fresh and broad exposure to Kanye, who would, later on, chew over the nature, the gist, and the back-and-forth between him and Trump.
UPDATE: After the publication of this article, Trump’s campaign provided Breitbart News with this statement from President Trump: “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
Still, a bad look.
America’s populist revolt must free itself from the mire of Trumpism.
It’s been more than seven years since Donald Trump first announced his candidacy for US president. Remember him waving, as he glided down that big gold escalator in Trump Tower? The prospect of a Trump presidency was essentially a joke back then. Among the journalists present, many of them were new on the job, given the assignment as a bit of a laugh. ‘I was thinking this will be something goofy and funny to cover’, one reporter who was there told Politico in 2019, in a piece looking back on that fateful day. Fast forward to 2022 and Trump has just launched his bid for re-election, following his ousting by Democrat Joe Biden at the 2020 election, to a crowd of adoring fans and hangers-on at his Florida resort.
I love Trump but DeSantis may be the stronger candidate. But never count The Donald out.
Yowza. At one time, Team Trump pushed the idea that Ivanka Trump could become the next generation of a political dynasty. She served a critical role in her father’s term as both a key advisor and to some extent a calm and moderating PR presence in a chaotic White House.
Love Trump but I never cared much for his daughter and son-in-law serving in the White House. That said Ivanka’s adios may be a sign that Trump should not pursue the 2024 nomination.
Previous backers are saying nyet: GOP megadonors ditch Donald Trump’s 2024 White House run
It is truly startling to review the extent to which conservative thinkers, writers, and commentators have joined in the vituperative Democrat and media campaign against their former president and benefactor. Blaming Trump causes evident glee in conservatism’s enemies, who have had Trump in their crosshairs for six years and more. Democrats report conservative disputes and backbiting with great satisfaction. We should not endorse such strategic machinations, which demoralize our side and give succor and aid to those who wish us permanently in the political wilderness — a wish, if things do not change, they may well realize.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump ended months of speculation and launched his bid to retake the White House in 2024 Tuesday, in an early attempt to clear the GOP primary field ahead of a potential rematch against Joe Biden.
“Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump, 76, told hundreds of cheering supporters who gathered in the ornate ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago resort for the official announcement.
