Trump blasts Pence for calling him ‘wrong,’ for suggesting VP could overturn election
said that Trump was “wrong” in claiming he had the ability as vice president to overturn the 2020 election, calling the notion of one man electing the president “un-American.” In a fiery statement Friday night, Trump criticized Pence and his “unwitting advisors,” calling the former vice president “an automatic conveyor belt” for Senate Majority Leader […]
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New York Times sues State Department over FOIA requests about Hunter Biden: report
Politico reported. The FOIA requests, first sent last June, also seek information on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. When the Times asked the State Department for an ETA for the documents in December, they were told April 15, 2023. The Times appears to be investigating whether foreign embassy officials did any personal favors for connected […]
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MSNBC Sends Stephanie Ruhle to Brian Williams’ Slot As ‘Morning Joe’ Expands
MSNBC is sending a morning anchor to late night in order to expand its biggest A.M. franchise. The NBCUniversal-backed cable news outlet intends to shift Stephanie Ruhle from her mid-morning role to its late-night program, “The 11th Hour” as part of a bid to expand one of its key programs, ‘Morning Joe,” according to three […]
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President Biden stresses party unity at DNC event
President Joe Biden said the Democratic Party was intact despite a rift between two senators that blocked sweeping voting-rights legislation a day earlier.AP “We’re gonna keep pushing,” the president added. “We’re not gonna give up. The DNC’s gonna keep pushing on voter education, on voter engagement, voter protection in states while we continue to push […]
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U.S. lawmaker wants Russia designated state sponsor of terrorism
A new draft of United States sanctions proposed by Republican Jim Banks seek to declare Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and “Russian-backed” forces in Donbas as terrorists. The draft bill obtained by the Washington Post reads “the designation of the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism and designation of the Russian-supported […]
Read Full StoryThe left politicized COVID from the start
threatened to indict the Chinese Communist government for nearly destroying the world economy and killing millions. Western elites, in response, feared that their own lucrative investments in China would be jeopardized by such disclosures — and so acted accordingly in defending Beijing. Nonetheless, one scenario that remains intriguing is that the escaped virus was birthed […]
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Rep. Clyburn says Dems’ voting reform bills on ‘life support’ — but not dead
the Democrats’ voting reform bills are on “life support” but vowed that he and his colleagues will “win this battle.” “They may be on life support, but, you know, John Lewis and others did not give up after the ’64 Civil Rights Act. That’s why he got the ’65 Voting Rights Act,” Clyburn (D-SC) said on CNN’s […]
Read Full StoryDonald Trump Abruptly Ends NPR Interview After Being Challenged Over Election Lies
Donald Trump gave his first interview to NPR in six years, but the conversation was abruptly ended after the former president hung up on reporter Steve Inskeep after being challenged over his election fraud lies. Trump was asked about Republican candidates being forced to back his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. […]
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Biden calls Capitol riot ‘coup’ in gaffe-filled Ga. speech promoting filibuster reform
President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation. AP / Patrick Semansky Biden raised eyebrows during a speech in Atlanta, calling the January 6 riots a “coup.”AP / John Minchillo It’s unclear if Biden has ever before used the term “coup” to describe the riot […]
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NY man threatened to kill Donald Trump in calls to Secret Service: prosecutors
Thomas Welnicki reportedly told US Capitol Police that “if [Individual-1] loses the 2020 election and refused to step down,” he would “take him down.”NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Then again on Nov. 8, Welnicki allegedly called the security agency calling Trump “Hitler” and saying “I will do everything I can to make sure [Individual-1] […]
Read Full StoryJesse Watters Will Take Over Fox News’ 7 PM Hour
Jesse Watters, the longtime Fox News Channel personality will take over the network’s 7 p.m. hour, extending a lineup of conservative opinion hosts that now starts at 7 p.m. and lasts until midnight. Watters will continue to serve as a co-anchor of “The Five,” the early-evening program that has recently enjoyed a viewership surge. But […]
Read Full StoryMSNBC Taps Democratic Strategist Symone Sanders for Weekend, Streaming Shows
Symone D. Sanders spent a good portion of the past two years of her life touting the accomplishments of the Biden campaign and administration to TV-news personalities. Come Spring, she will be one of those pundits. MSNBC has hired Sanders, who at age 32 has already worked as a media strategist in two different presidential […]
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Lawmakers reflect on one year anniversary of Capitol riot
deadly siege when pro-Trump rioters stormed the building in an attempt to derail the certification of the 2020 election. But members acknowledged the animosity that remains, noting that divisions are apparent, with many of the bipartisan friendships having dissolved following the events, at times made it harder to legislate. The divisions were evident on Thursday, […]
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Psaki slams GOP ‘lemmings’ for Trump support
slamming his predecessor on the anniversary of the Capitol riot. Psaki specifically lashed out at members of the GOP who she said had not repudiated Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. Kristen Welker of NBC News noted to Psaki at a White House briefing that “most of the people who attended […]
Read Full StoryTrump claims Biden trying to hide ‘incompetent job’ with Jan. 6 remembrance
Former President Donald Trump accused his successor Thursday of trying to “deflect the incompetent job he is doing” by focusing America’s attention on the anniversary of the riot at the US Capitol and claimed once again that he was denied a second term by election fraud. “Biden is working hard to try and deflect the […]
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Jan. 6 House panel chair wants Mike Pence to speak voluntarily with committee
former Vice President Mike Pence to speak with the panel voluntarily. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said that while the committee has not formally requested Pence to appear, he hoped the former veep “would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee.” “His life was at risk,” Thompson told CNN on Tuesday. “There were people […]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Permanently Banned by Twitter
Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of far-right politician Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for repeated violations of the social network’s policy prohibiting COVID misinformation. Greene’s @mtgreenee account on Twitter has been permanently suspended; she still has access her official congressional account, @RepMTG. Before Twitter banned the @mtgreenee account, it had 465,000 followers. The account’s […]
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Ex-NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik turns over documents to Jan. 6 committee
Bernard Kerik turned over a slew of documents to the House of Representatives’ Jan. 6 Select Committee on Friday. Kerik was slapped with a subpoena in November related to his work with former President Donald Trump’s legal team attempting to find fraud in the 2020 presidential election. However, an attorney for the former NYPD leader […]
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DirecTV Plans to Drop Right-Wing Cable’s One America News
One of the nation’s biggest satellite broadcasters, DirecTV, plans to drop carriage of the fringe right-wing cable outlet One America News, several months after a Reuters report revealed that AT&T, one of DirecTV’s owners, was responsible for a large part of the media outlet’s overall revenue. OAN is owned by Herring Networks, founded by the […]
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