4/24/2024

SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Former president Donald Trump qualified for a bonus worth $1.2bn after shares in his social media company remained above a certain value despite falling sharply.  Trump is poised to receive 36m additional shares in Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), owner of his Truth Social platform, under an ‘earn-out’ windfall which boosts […]

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4/24/2024

2020 ELECTION/MICHIGAN: “Former President Donald J. Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator on Wednesday in the investigation by the Michigan attorney general’s office into interference in the 2020 election. Charges have already been brought in Michigan against 15 Republicans who acted as fake electors for Mr. Trump after President Biden defeated him in the […]

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4/24/2024

ENDORSEMENT/UNION: “Joe Biden landed a major union endorsement Wednesday [April 24, 2024] from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it.  In making one of their earliest ever presidential endorsements, NABTU leaders are kickstarting an eight-figure organizing program to try to deliver their 250,000 […]

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4/24/2024

2024 ELECTION/GOP: “Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary [for the 2024 election] on Tuesday [April 23, 2024], as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee. The former president won the primary race in the key swing state with 83.5 percent of the vote, […]

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4/24/2024

2024 ELECTION/IMMUNITY/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “Against the backdrop of a divisive 2024 presidential campaign, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will take up the monumental question of whether a former president turned presumptive GOP nominee can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to stay in power after the last election… The outcome could determine whether Trump faces […]

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4/23/2024

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “I am being accused of Election Interference in a trial being presided over by a Corrupt D.A. and a ridiculously Conflicted Judge, representing people who Rigged and Stole the 2020 Presidential Election, and paid millions of dollars for the Fake and Fully Discredited Russia Dossier…..And they’re after me because a bookkeeper marked down […]

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4/22/2024

JOE BIDEN/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party. It’s called […]

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4/22/2024

IMMUNITY/SUPREME COURT: “A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR […]

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4/21/2024

LEGAL: “Four years ago I was a very successful and popular President of the United States and, in November, went into an Election where I received more votes, by far, than any sitting President in the history of our Country. Unfortunately, the Election was Rigged and Stolen, and our once great Country has quickly become […]

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4/20/2024

IMMUNITY: “IF IMMUNITY IS NOT GRANTED TO A PRESIDENT, EVERY PRESIDENT THAT LEAVES OFFICE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED BY THE OPPOSING PARTY. WITHOUT COMPLETE IMMUNITY, A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROPERLY FUNCTION!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 20, 2024 […]

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4/20/2024

IMMUNITY: “Without Presidential Immunity, the Presidency will lose its power and prestige, and under some Leaders, have no power at all. The Presidency will be consumed by the other Branches of Government. THAT IS NOT WHAT OUR FOUNDERS WANTED!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 20, 2024 […]

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4/18/2024

JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE: “Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America […]

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4/15/2024

LEGAL: “Former President Donald J. Trump seemed alternately irritated and exhausted Monday morning, as his lawyers and prosecutors hashed out pretrial motions before jury selection in his criminal case. Even as a judge was hearing arguments on last-minute issues in a criminal case that centers on salacious allegations and threatens to upend his bid for […]

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4/12/2024

SOCIAL MEDIA: “I am so proud of Truth Social, because I believe it represents the Make America Great Again Movement, and it shows the Spirit and Love of our Country. If people who believe in putting America First and want to Make America Great Again, support TRUTH, we will be your Voice like never before, […]

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4/12/2024

STOCK MARKET: “Donald Trump on Friday urged his followers to support his social media app Truth Social, as its parent company’s stock continues to sink lower… It was not clear whether Trump was urging his supporters to use the app or buy shares in Trump Media, which started publicly trading on the Nasdaq last month. […]

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4/12/2024

CONGRESS: “Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists. Republican senators are warning that the nation’s […]

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4/12/2024

LEGAL: “If former President Donald Trump is convicted on all counts in his New York criminal hush money trial that begins April 15, he could theoretically face more than a decade in prison. But most legal experts who spoke to USA TODAY said such a dramatic outcome is unlikely. Instead, he would likely be sentenced […]

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4/12/2024

LEGAL: “A New York judge on Friday tossed one of former President Trump’s final remaining pathways to avoid his imminent hush money trial, rejecting his bid to delay the proceedings over ‘prejudicial’ pretrial media coverage. Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump’s trial will go forward Monday with jury selection, rejecting defense arguments that the barrage […]

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4/11/2024

JOE BIDEN: “Crooked Joe Biden and his crew of Hacks and Thugs, led by Merrick Garland and Deranged Jack Smith, are working overtime to try to illegally intimidate and harass respected Federal Judge Aileen Cannon. They are calling her terrible names, wrongfully threatening her with Impeachment, and disrespecting her, all because they want her to […]

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4/3/2024

LEGAL: “After weeks of uncertainty, former President Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case Monday with the help of little-known California billionaire Don Hankey. Hankey’s Knight Specialty Insurance Co. underwrote Trump’s bond, allowing the former president to move forward with his appeal of the case and preventing New York […]

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4/3/2024

APPRENTICE/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media, claiming they should lose their shares of the company for mismanaging his social media site. The men, Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, had already filed a suit against Mr Trump in February to prevent him from reducing their 8.6% stake in the firm. They […]

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4/3/2024

IMMUNITY/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A judge on Wednesday [April 3, 2024] rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial indefinitely. Several […]

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4/2/2024

JOE BIDEN: “Thank you to professor Jonathan Turley for exposing the horrendous decision made by a corrupt New York State Judge, Arthur Engoron, on the ‘I will get Trump’ worst in the Nation A.G., Letitia James, unfair case against me. I just posted a $175,000,000 Bond just for the right to Appeal this travesty of […]

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4/2/2024

DOJ/JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: “Please remember, ALL of these Lawsuits, Charges, and Indictments that have been brought against me have been orchestrated and coordinated by Crooked Joe Biden, the White House, and the DOJ, as an ATTACK ON CROOKED’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. This has never happened before in our Country. MAGA2024!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 2, […]

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4/2/2024

BORDER/JOE BIDEN: “UNDER CROOKED JOE BIDEN WE HAVE BECOME A THIRD WORLD NATION. OUR BORDERS ARE GONE, OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS WEAPONIZED, OUR ELECTIONS ARE CORRUPT. IT DOESN’T GET ANY WORSE THAN THAT!!! MAGA2024” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 2, 2024 […]

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4/2/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “I had to pay New York State in order to appeal a corrupt decision by a biased, crooked and highly overturned judge. It’s supposed to be the other way around – you appeal before you pay. Is a crooked New York Judge allowed to make you pay for the ‘privilege’ of appealing a […]

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4/2/2024

VOTING: “Who are all those voters registering without a Photo ID in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona??? What is going on??? DJT” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 2, 2024 […]

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3/31/2024

HOLIDAY/LEGAL: “HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE ‘DERANGED’ JACK SMITH, WHO […]

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3/27/2024

JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/LEGAL: “Judge Juan Merchan, who is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (whose daughter represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, and other Radical Liberals, has just posted a picture of me behind bars, her obvious goal, and makes it completely impossible for me to get a fair […]

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3/27/2024

LEGAL: “Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday [March 27, 2024] at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, suggesting without evidence that the veteran jurist was kowtowing to his daughter’s interests as a Democratic political consultant. The former president objected in particular to what […]

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3/26/2024

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “I’m not running to terminate the ACA, AS CROOKED JOE BUDEN DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME, I’m running to CLOSE THE BORDER, STOP INFLATION, MAKE OUR ECONOMY GREAT, STRENGTHEN OUR MILITARY, AND MAKE THE ACA, or OBAMACARE, AS IT IS KNOWN, MUCH BETTER, STRONGER, AND FAR LESS EXPENSIVE. IN OTHER WORDS, […]

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3/26/2024

MEDIA: “What boss or executive would allow a man or woman, in this case Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd, who was fired for dismal performance coupled with horrendous television ratings, to publicly SCOLD them as to their weakness & stupidity in hiring Ronna McDaniel. Actually, they should be scolded for hiring ‘Sleepy’ for Meet the Fake […]

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3/26/2024

SOCIAL MEDIA/STOCK MARKET/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Buoyed by legions of avid supporters, Donald Trump made a bubbly debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange Tuesday. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group soared like helium from the opening bell and maintained most of those gains until late in the trading day when a selloff brought Trump’s namesake social […]

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3/25/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “Judge Engoron has refused to obey the decision of the Appellate Division relative to the Statute of Limitations. This is a confrontation between a Judge and those that rule above him – A very bad situation in which to place New York State and the Rule of Law! Engoron has disrespected the Appellate […]

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3/25/2024

ISRAEL: “Former President Donald Trump appeared to blame Israel for antisemitism, saying Israel made a ‘big mistake’ in its response to Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 and is ‘losing a lot of support’ from around the world. But he also noted that he would have responded ‘very much the same’ as Israel did against such […]

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3/23/2024

JOE BIDEN: “At what point are the actions of a sitting President, using LAWFARE against his opponent for purposes of Election Interference, considered ILLEGAL? I believe, as do various highly respected legal scholars, that Crooked Joe Biden has long since crossed over that very sacred threshold!!!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 23, 2024 […]

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3/22/2024

LEGAL: “Arthur Engoron is a Rogue Judge who was intimidated by the big, nasty, and ugly mouth of Leticia James, considered by many to be the WORST Attorney General in the U.S. She is a Low IQ individual who campaigned for Governor, using my name, and got TROUNCED. She and her PUPPET Engoron, who valued […]

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3/20/2024

2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a judge on Tuesday evening [March 19, 2024] to stay proceedings in various civil cases that seek to hold the former president liable for damages stemming from the Jan. 6 riot, once again seeking to starve off the legal consequences of his actions in the aftermath of […]

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3/20/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday urged an appeals court not to believe Donald Trump’s recent assertion that he is unable to secure a bond for more than $450 million to satisfy the civil business-fraud judgment against him… If Trump does not post a bond as he appeals the civil judgment […]

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3/20/2024

DEMS/RELIGION/SEBASTIAN GORKA: “This week, former U.S. President Donald Trump said that Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate their religion’ and “everything about Israel” during a podcast appearance with his former adviser, Sebastian Gorka.” -Emily Tamkin, “What to Really Take From Trump’s Latest Comments About Jews,” slate.com, March 20, 2024 […]

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3/19/2024

LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued ABC, ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos, claiming comments made by Stephanopoulos during a recent interview were defamatory. In the interview, Stephanopoulos asked Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, about the two juries that awarded the writer E. Jean Carroll a combined $88.3 million in damages […]

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3/19/2024

IMMUNITY/SUPREME COURT: “Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] issued a blistering declaration to the Supreme Court about Trump’s controversial assertion of sweeping immunity to criminal prosecution. In particular, Trump’s legal team claimed that if the high court were to find that former presidents do not hold ‘absolute immunity for criminal prosecution […]

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3/19/2024

OHIO/RALLY: “Republican Donald Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but positioning the violent siege and its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. At a weekend rally in Ohio, his […]

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3/19/2024

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress last year, is set to surrender Tuesday at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami to begin serving his four-month sentence… Navarro, who was closely involved in Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss in the lead-up […]

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3/19/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case. The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond to avoid having assets seized. If he is unable to do so […]

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3/5/2024

CRIME/LEGAL: “The share of Americans who say that Mr. Trump committed serious federal crimes, steadily on the rise since the fall of 2022, has declined since December, the latest New York Times/Siena College poll found. Voters across the political spectrum are now less likely to say that Mr. Trump acted criminally. Democrats are 7 percentage […]

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3/5/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “Former President Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday [March 5, 2024] he doesn’t ‘worry about money,’ after he was asked how close he is to securing the roughly $454 million he owes to the state of New York for civil fraud… Forbes currently estimates Trump has about $413 million in cash and […]

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3/4/2024

IMMUNITY/JOE BIDEN/NEW YORK: “The widespread, radical attack against me, my family, and my supporters has now devolved to new, un-American depths, at the hands of a DERANGED New York State Judge, doing the bidding of a completely biased and corrupt “Prosecutor,” Letitia James, who ran for office based on a ‘GET TRUMP’ platform, before even […]

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3/4/2024

JOE BIDEN: “GOOD MORNING North Dakota! Today, you are going to send a big signal to the entire world that THIS IS TRUMP COUNTRY—and you are going to send a message straight to Crooked Joe Biden that we are coming like a freight train this November. I would truly be honored to have your vote. […]

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3/4/2024

LEGAL: “Donald Trump’s lawyers warned Monday [March 4, 2024] that a gag order sought by New York prosecutors ahead of his March 25 hush-money criminal trial would amount to unconstitutional and unlawful prior restraint on the former president’s free speech rights. Trump’s lawyers urged Judge Juan Manuel Merchan to reject the request, which prosecutors said […]

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3/4/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court ruled Monday [March 4, 2024] that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the ‘insurrectionist clause’ included in the 14th Amendment.” -CNN Staff, “READ: Supreme Court’s opinion keeping […]

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3/3/2024

IMMUNITY/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court will address the historic question of Presidential Immunity. Without Presidential Immunity, the President cannot function, as his Political Opponents will blackmail and extort him with the threat of wrongful prosecution at every turn. I look forward to presenting my case to the Supreme Court.” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 3, […]

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3/3/2024

DOJ: “We’re in the middle of an Election. We have Super Tuesday coming up very shortly. According to Justice Department guidelines, they shouldn’t be prosecuting me: ‘Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the […]

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3/1/2024

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “Crooked New York State Judge Arthur Engoron, at the demand of an even more Crooked Attorney General, Letitia James, despite GREAT AND VERY CONSERVATIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (WITH A FULL DISCLAIMER CLAUSE THAT ENGORON REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE!), RULED THAT I SHOULD PAY AN EXORBITANT FINE DESPITE DOING NOTHING WRONG. THE ONLY FRAUD WAS ENGORON’S […]

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3/1/2024

JOE BIDEN: “REMEMBER, these are not legitimate Indictments of me, these are Crooked Joe Biden Indictments of ME, his Political Opponent! It is merely a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 3, 2024 […]

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2/16/2024

ABORTION/JOE BIDEN: “President Joe Biden’s campaign and abortion rights advocates ripped into former President Donald Trump on abortion Friday following a report that he has given private signals in favor of a national ban on abortions after 16 weeks of pregnancy that would include exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the woman’s life […]

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2/15/2024

MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “US regulators have finally given the green light to a controversial merger between Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group and a blank-check company. The blessing from the Securities and Exchange Commission removes the last major obstacle holding back the deal. The merger, if approved by shareholders, would pave the way for […]

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2/8/2024

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Special counsel Robert Hur noted the differences between investigations into President Joe Biden’s and former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents in a section of his report on Thursday… ‘Most notably, after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite,’ the report […]

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2/8/2024

2024 ELECTION/NANCY PELOSI/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday pertaining to whether states can throw Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballots if they determine he violated the 14th Amendment… Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell rejected the notion that the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, qualified as an insurrection. […]

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2/6/2024

2024 ELECTION/IVANKA/PAC/TRUMP FAMILY: “A political fundraising group controlled by Donald Trump has spent millions of dollars on law firms representing his adult children for their personal legal problems. The group, called Save America PAC, spent a combined $2.3 million in 2023 for two law firms that represented Ivanka Trump, his eldest daughter, according to a […]

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2/6/2024

2020 ELECTION/IMMUNITY: “Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity and can be prosecuted on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, a US court has ruled. Mr Trump had claimed in the landmark legal case that he was immune from criminal charges for acts he said fell within his duties as president. But Tuesday’s […]

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2/4/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “On Thursday, the nation’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where the state’s Supreme Court ruled that he violated Section 3. It’s the first time in history that the nation’s highest court has heard a case on Section 3, which was […]

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1/26/2024

LAWSUIT: “A Manhattan federal jury said Friday that Donald Trump has to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll. The breakdown of the award is $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages. This was Carroll’s second trial against the former president, after a jury last year found him civilly liable […]

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1/23/2024

2024 ELECTION/NATIONAL SECURITY: “After breezing through his usual lines about wanting to build a border wall and to ‘drill baby, drill’ for oil, former President Donald Trump has been adding a new refrain to his speeches — a promise to build something like Israel’s Iron Dome, but better and over the entire U.S. ‘We’ll build […]

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1/23/2024

2024 ELECTION/NEW HAMPSHIRE/NIKKI HALEY: “Donald Trump extended his commanding lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination by winning the New Hampshire primary, but failed to knock rival Nikki Haley out of the White House contest.  Trump had just over 53 per cent of the votes counted at 9:30pm Eastern Standard Time, while Haley […]

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1/23/2024

2024 ELECTION/NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary, likely cementing his place as the Republican presidential nominee. The win over Nikki Haley, who had briefly threatened to rein in the former president, suggests there will be a smooth path to the GOP nomination for Trump, who also won easily in the Iowa […]

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1/22/2024

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY: “As the last major challenger in Donald Trump‘s way to the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley is hoping New Hampshire voters feel so strongly about keeping the former president away from the White House that they turn out to support her in large numbers. ‘America does not do coronations,’ Haley said at a […]

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1/19/2024

2024 ELECTION/NEW HAMPSHIRE/NIKKI HALEY: “A few days away from next week’s critical New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley is intensifying her criticism of former President Donald Trump and drawing a contrast between their approaches to governing.  The former ambassador to the United Nations is characterizing the nomination contest as a two-person race, and she and her […]

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1/19/2024

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY: “Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina endorsed Donald Trump Friday ahead of next week’s New Hampshire primary, the latest sign the Republican party is rallying around the former president’s candidacy after his historic Iowa win. The decision marks a major blow to Scott’s fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador […]

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1/18/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO: “Former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to reverse a decision from Colorado’s top court that found he is disqualified from holding the presidency under a Civil War-era provision of the Constitution, calling on the justices to ‘put a swift and decisive end’ to efforts to keep him off the […]

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1/16/2024

2024 ELECTION: “Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed former President Donald Trump after finishing a distant fourth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. Ramaswamy said he made the decision after determining there was no path forward for him in the race, ‘absent things that we don’t […]

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1/16/2024

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “Former President Donald Trump scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his rivals languishing far behind, a victory that affirmed his grip on the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In what was the lowest-turnout caucus in a quarter-century, participants endured life-threatening cold and dangerous driving conditions to meet in hundreds […]

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1/16/2024

LEGAL: “Donald Trump shook his head in disgust Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial told would-be jurors that an earlier jury had already decided the former president sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Trump left court before opening statements, jetting to a New Hampshire political rally as Carroll’s […]

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1/15/2024

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “In some ways, Iowa’s Republican caucuses were practically over before they began, with Donald Trump cultivating a deep network of support over three presidential runs.  About 7 in 10 Iowans who caucused for Trump on Monday night said they have known all along that they would support a man who has remade the […]

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1/14/2024

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “Former President Donald Trump made a final plea for supporters Sunday afternoon to show up in the frigid cold to caucus for him, revisiting familiar lines of attack against his political opponents while tempering expectations of his predicted margin of victory. ‘You can’t sit home,’ Trump said. ‘If you’re sick as a dog […]

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1/12/2024

2024 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: “Weather continues to impact the schedule of presidential candidates heading into the Iowa caucuses as former President Donald Trump has now canceled three out of his four in-person commit to caucus rallies. Instead, Trump will hold a series of telerallies and is still expected to go forward with his in-person appearance at his […]

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1/11/2024

LEGAL: “Donald Trump returned to Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday for the last day of his fraud trial, lashing out at the judge and the attorney general who brought the case. A judge has already determined that Trump family members and executives fraudulently inflated assets to secure favourable loans. But the trial will determine damages. […]

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1/11/2024

LEGAL: “Barred from giving a formal closing argument, Donald Trump wrested an opportunity to speak in court at the conclusion of his New York civil fraud trial Thursday, unleashing a barrage of attacks in a six-minute diatribe before being cut off by the judge. In an extraordinary move for any defendant, Trump not only sought […]

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1/10/2024

LEGAL: “The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud case will not allow the former president to speak during closing arguments in the trial on Thursday after Trump refused to say that he’d stick to the facts of the case and not engage in any attacks. Trump had requested to deliver part of the arguments himself, […]

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1/9/2024

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “President Biden’s reelection campaign bashed former President Trump on Tuesday after he said he hoped the U.S. economy would crash in the next 12 months, arguing he doesn’t care about people. ‘Donald Trump should just say he doesn’t give a damn about people, because that’s exactly what he’s telling the American people […]

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1/9/2024

LEGAL: “A federal appeals court panel strongly suggested Tuesday that it would reject Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 election. With Trump looking on, the three judges expressed deep skepticism of his contention that a president could not be prosecuted — even for assassinating a […]

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1/8/2024

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that if he is re-elected he would have President Joe Biden indicted, a day before an appeals court hears arguments on his claim that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution for his role in the Jan. 6 attack. In a post to his Truth Social […]

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1/7/2024

2024 ELECTION/ILLINOIS/JANUARY 6/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden’s 2024 election campaign has lambasted former president and most likely Republican opponent Donald Trump for failing to sign a loyalty oath in the state of Illinois, in which candidates pledge against advocating an overthrow of the government. The Biden campaign was responding to an investigation by the Illinois news […]

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1/7/2024

LEGAL: “A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a […]

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1/6/2024

WAR: “Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday at a campaign event here that the U.S. Civil War ‘could have been negotiated,’ a remark that drew criticism from historians as well as political opponents. ‘The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,’ Trump said. ‘So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/WYOMING: “A Wyoming district court judge dismissed a lawsuit aiming to remove former President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis from [2024] election ballots, sparking celebration from Wyoming Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray… Retired lawyer Tim Newcomb filed a lawsuit in November, Newcomb v. Chuck Gray, with the Albany County District Court […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a politically explosive decision from Colorado’s top court that found former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency and would leave him off the state’s primary ballot, stepping into a high-stakes legal showdown that could have major ramifications for the 2024 presidential election… At […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters Friday evening not to be complacent in the face of a commanding polling lead as he kicked off the sprint to the Iowa caucuses with his first events of the election year. ‘Ten days from now, the people of this state are going to cast the […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “The value Americans place on democracy is the ‘most urgent question of our time,’ President Joe Biden said during a speech kicking off his 2024 campaign in Pennsylvania on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol – launching an impassioned political attack on his […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/JANUARY 6TH/JOE BIDEN: “President Joe Biden will place the defense of democracy at the center of his reelection bid on Friday in what will resemble an unofficial campaign kickoff. Using the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection to frame the stakes of the 2024 campaign, the president will draw upon the history of the […]

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1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon […]

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1/5/2024

2020 ELECTION/JANUARY 6TH/LEGAL: “Donald Trump and his legal team are attempting an ‘overreach’ in their latest legal filings trying to have Special Counsel Jack Smith held in contempt ahead of the federal election trial, according to an attorney.   Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst, was reacting to the former president’s lawyers […]

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1/4/2024

CORRUPTION/FOREIGN AFFAIRS: “Former President Donald Trump unconstitutionally profited from the presidency during his tenure in the White House, reaping millions of dollars for his business empire from foreign governments, House Democrats allege in an extensive report. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 156-page report Thursday morning accusing Trump of exploiting the presidency to […]

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1/4/2024

2024 ELECTION/ILLINOIS: “A group of Illinois voters wants former President Donald J. Trump removed from the Illinois Primary election in March. CBS 2’s Andrew Ramos reports a petition filed this week asks for a hearing with the Illinois State Board of Elections to keep the former president off the ballot on March 19. The group […]

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1/3/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/MAINE: “Former President Donald Trump sued Maine’s secretary of state Tuesday for disqualifying him from the state’s [2024 election] primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, opening another legal front in the saga over whether voters in some states will be barred from selecting the […]

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