Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) is claiming that “right-wing organizations” aligned with former President Donald J. Trump are preparing in secret to unleash violence on cities and towns across the country should he lose the 2024 presidential election. “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump]’s connected with how are training up in the hills somewhere,” Waters toldMSNBC on Sunday. She continued, baselessly claiming these groups are “targeting what communities they’re going to attack.”
Waters, who has a long history of spreading conspiracytheories and unfounded claims about Republican organizations and leaders, told MSNBC she intends to pressure the Biden government as to their plan to handle the groups she imagines are hiding in the hills. “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do,” Waters exclaimed on the left-wing cable network before continuing: “I’m going to ask the Justice Department, and I’m going to ask the President to tell us what they’re going to do to protect this country against violence if [Trump] loses.”
Despite Waters‘s assertion that there is a vast right-wing conspiracy of armed groups hiding “up in the hills somewhere,” there is no actual evidence the claim is true. Even the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center concedes there are only about 200 active militiagroups in the United States, down from their estimate of 858 groups in 1996. A 1999 Justice Department report acknowledged that most of the militia movement in the U.S. was not a proactive force and posed little to no publicthreat.
The National Pulse previously reported that former President DonaldTrump does not think there will be any violence around the 2024 presidential election, despite Waters’s baseless insistence otherwise. “I don’t think you’ll have political violence,” he said. During a January town hall event, Trump said that political violence was never acceptable.
Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters floats a completely unhinged conspiracy theory that "right-wing organizations" are "training up in the hills somewhere" pic.twitter.com/EIDQgoeA9h
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) is claiming that "right-wing organizations" aligned with former President Donald J. Trump are preparing in secret to unleash violence on cities and towns across the country should he lose the 2024 presidential election. "I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump]'s connected with how are training up in the hills somewhere," Waters toldMSNBC on Sunday. She continued, baselessly claiming these groups are "targeting what communities they're going to attack."
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One of the oft-discussed Vice Presidential nominee picks for President Donald Trump is failing to register in The National Pulse’s straw poll of readers. Senator Marcio Rubio, mooted by the media as a top Trump pick, is currently polling at 0.8 percent amongst the MAGA faithful. The poll shows Senator J.D. Vance in with a whopping lead of 31 percent, with his closest competitor, Vivek Ramaswamy, on 15 percent.
Hot on Vivek’s heels is former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, with 13.6 percent, followed by Florida Congressman Byron Donalds on 10.2 percent.
The list, below, is not a comprehensive list of everyone who has been floated for the position, and even excludes some National Pulse favorites in an attempt to reflect the currently 12 candidates being considered by President Trump and his operation.
Donald’s Dozen, as The National Pulse has named them, also reveals a skepticism over Senator Tom Cotton (0.6 percent) and Senator Katie Britt (0.1 percent).
Voting closes on Monday, May 6th.
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One of the oft-discussed Vice Presidential nominee picks for President Donald Trump is failing to register in The National Pulse's straw poll of readers. Senator Marcio Rubio, mooted by the media as a top Trump pick, is currently polling at 0.8 percent amongst the MAGA faithful. The poll shows Senator J.D. Vance in with a whopping lead of 31 percent, with his closest competitor, Vivek Ramaswamy, on 15 percent.
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Editor’s Notes
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Donald J. Trump‘s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are suing the Nevada Secretary of State to prevent counting mail-in ballots received after election day. Nevada election law allows ballots received up to four days after an election to be counted.
“Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline clearly violates federal law and undermines election integrity in the state,” RNC co-chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. He added: “[T]he RNC and our partners are suing to secure an honest election, support Nevada voters, and oppose unlawful schemes.”
“Congress has established a uniform, national day to elect members of Congress and to appoint presidential electors,” attorneys for the RNC and Trump campaign contend in their lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court of Nevada. “Nevada effectively extends Nevada’s federal election past the Election Day established by Congress,” the lawsuit argues.
“Nevada runs some of the most secure, transparent, and accessible elections in the country,” Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) said, defending the state’s mail-in voting policy. “The key for that accessibility is allowing working Nevadans to vote using the method that works best for them, including voting by mail,” Aguilar continued before adding: “Our office will not comment on ongoing litigation, but I hope the RNC is putting as much time and energy into educating voters on how to participate in elections as they put into suing the state of Nevada.”
The Nevada mail-in ballot law challenge is one of 83 election integritylawsuits the RNC has filed in 25 states ahead of November’s presidential election. Fewer than 34,000 votes separated former President Trump from JoeBiden in Nevada’s 2020 presidential election.
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Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are suing the Nevada Secretary of State to prevent counting mail-in ballots received after election day. Nevada election law allows ballots received up to four days after an election to be counted.
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Joe Biden’s re-election campaign continues to struggle among critical Democratic Party voter demographics. A new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent falling to just 61 percent support among Black voters. Meanwhile, only 70 percent of registered Democrats say they plan to cast a ballot for Biden in November’s presidential election.
The voter survey offers little positive news for Biden as he faces mounting criticism from voters over his muddled stance on Israel’s war against Hamas, the state of the American economy, and the ongoing border crisis. Among Hispanic voters, Biden trails former President DonaldTrump 41 to 33 percent.
In 2020, Biden won Black voters by a margin of 92 percent for former President Trump‘s 8 percent. The low level of support for Biden among Black Americans suggested by Rasmussen Reports would all but doom Biden’s chances in November. Former President Trump, meanwhile, registered 21 percent support among Black voters in the same poll.
Israel’s war in Gaza against the Hamas terrorist group also continues to pose a problem for the Biden campaign. Muslim and Arab American voters have turned on the Democrat incumbent over his perceived support for the Jewish state following Hamas’s barbaric October 7 terrorist attacks. This has especially become a problem for Biden in the critical swing state of Michigan, which has a large Arab American population.
The new data from Rasmussen Reports aligns with previous surveys showing low enthusiasm for Biden among minority and young voters. Polling continues to indicate the economy, jobs, illegalimmigration, crime, and inflation are the top issues for voters in the 2024 election — all areas where Biden struggles against former President Trump.
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Joe Biden's re-election campaign continues to struggle among critical Democratic Party voter demographics. A new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent falling to just 61 percent support among Black voters. Meanwhile, only 70 percent of registered Democrats say they plan to cast a ballot for Biden in November's presidential election.
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Former President Donald J. Trump‘s growing support among Latino and Hispanic voters is being driven by “racial baggage, [a] colonial mindset, and political traumas,” according to the far-left media. In an interview with Mother Jones, leftist journalist and author Paola Ramos argues that Latinos often “carry white supremacist tendencies—whether they’re racially coded as white or not.” Ramos contends assimilation into White American culture is driving Latino voters to back conservative political candidates.
“We can be minorities, but we too can perpetuate racism. Latinos, particularly the more generations are in this country, are not immune to nativism,” Ramos told Mother Jones. The MSNBC and Telemundo News contributor continued: “The more we assimilate, the more we conform to American principles and the idea of ‘otherizing’ is a real force, whether you’re Latino or whether you’re white.”
“Anti-immigrant sentiment is so powerful, pervasive, and infectious that even newly arrived immigrants can sort of lean into that,” Ramos added.
Addressing the 2024 presidential election, Ramos warned that Democrats shouldn’t “dismiss these rightward shifts as anomalies or outliers.” Recent polling has shown a sizable shift among Hispanic and Latino voters in favor of former President DonaldTrump. “Dismissing it can lead to results like we saw in 2020 when Trump did over 10 points better than he did in 2016,” continued Ramos.
Despite Ramos’s insistence that race and colonialism are what is driving Republican support among Latino and Hispanic voters, polling data tells a different story. Recent surveys show Latinos and Hispanic Americans are abandoning the Democratic Party over its support for open border policies, cheap illegal immigrant labor, and Joe Biden’s poor handling of the economy. A Marist poll in February found that nearly 60 percent of Hispanic voters disapproved of Biden’s handling of the U.S. border.
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Former President Donald J. Trump's growing support among Latino and Hispanic voters is being driven by "racial baggage, [a] colonial mindset, and political traumas," according to the far-left media. In an interview with Mother Jones, leftist journalist and author Paola Ramos argues that Latinos often "carry white supremacist tendencies—whether they’re racially coded as white or not." Ramos contends assimilation into White American culture is driving Latino voters to back conservative political candidates.
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Hope Hicks, a former aide to and campaign press secretary for former President Donald J. Trump, took the stand on day seven of Trump’s Manhattan-based ‘hush money’ trial. Former Biden Department of Justice attorney MatthewColangelo — who has a long history of engaging in partisan lawfare against conservatives — handled questioning for the prosecution.
Throughout the day, the prosecution probed Hicks on her relationship with various individuals in Trump‘s orbit, including business associates and campaign staff. Later, District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s team moved on to the Trump campaign’s response to the Access Hollywood tape before then addressing the alleged Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal affairs.
The prosecution spent most of the morning establishing Hicks’s relationship with the former President, his family, and other members of his inner circle. Colangelo’s questioning focused heavily on the former press secretary’s role in the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. The prosecutor was especially interested in Hicks’s knowledge of and interactions with Michael Cohen, David Pecker, Rhona Graff, and ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Hicks told Colangelo that former President Trump was “very involved” in the day-to-day of his 2016 presidential campaign. Colangelo next pressed her on Michael Cohen and Allen Weisselberg’s roles in the campaign and the Trump Organization. Regarding Cohen, Hicks said she wasn’t sure. “I know he was involved in a couple of the licenses deals for some of the hotel projects and maybe some of the entertainment pieces as well, like Miss Universe pageant,” the former Trump aide responded.
Colangelo next asked Hicks about Allen Weisselberg and what campaign role he played. According to Hicks, the former Trump Organization CFO mainly just assisted with the personal financial disclosure that Trump had to file ahead of the election. When asked about Trump’s relationship with Weisselberg, Hicks acknowledged, “He was a trusted person there.”
Hicks went on to testify that David Pecker and Donald Trump were indeed friends. She noted that she joined the former President for his phone calls with the tabloid newsman. When asked if she was present for the 2015 meeting between Trump and Pecker at Trump Tower, she said, “I don’t have a recollection of that.” Pecker testified last week that Hicks had been in and out of that meeting.
THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD TAPE.
Just before the lunch break, Colangelo moved on to Hicks’s role regarding the 2016 Trump campaign’s response to the Access Hollywood tape. The infamous video, in which the former President engages in “locker room talk,” appears to be part of the prosecution’s strategy to paint Trump as someone who participates in crude and lascivious behavior.
Hicks recalled the tape being very upsetting to Trump. “He said that didn’t sound like something he would say,” she testified, adding that the former President wanted to see the actual video. She continued, stating the campaign viewed the tape as “damaging” and a “crisis.”
Colangelo pressed Hicks further on Trump’s response after viewing the tape. She responded that the former President “didn’t want to offend anybody.” However, Hicks added, “I think he felt like it was pretty standard stuff for two guys chatting with each other.”
After the tape had become public, Hicks said there were rumors of another video “that would be problematic for the campaign.” Hicks told Colangelo that she asked Michael Cohen to look into the matter. “There was no such tape, regardless, but he chased that down for me,” she said.
THE STORMY DANIELS STORY.
Following lunch, Colangelo moved on to the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal affair accusations. At this stage, the prosecution hoped to elicit testimony suggesting Trump was concerned about how accusations would impact his campaign just days before the 2016 election. However, that is not what happened.
Hicks said the November 4, 2016, Wall Street Journal story was the first time she became aware of Karen McDougal. She acknowledged that she had heard Story Daniels’s name once before, stating that several security guards on Trump’s plane mentioned her name in 2015 while discussing attendees at a celebrity gold tournament.
After the story broke, Hicks said she reached out to Michael Cohen. “Michael sort of feigned like he didn’t know what I was talking about,” she said.
Addressing the campaign response to the Daniels and McDougal stories, Hicks said former President Trump “wanted to know the context, and he wanted to make sure that there was a denial of any kind of relationship.” She added that Trump wanted to make it “absolutely, unequivocally” clear that he never had a relationship with Daniels.
‘TRUMP MORE CONCERNED ABOUT MELANIA.’
In the most damning moment of the day for District Attorney Bragg‘s prosecution, Hicks unequivocally stated that Trump was solely concerned about how the Stormy Daniels story would impact his family — especially his wife, Melania. “He was concerned about the story. He was concerned about how it would be viewed by his wife, and he wanted me to make sure that the newspapers weren’t delivered to his residence that morning,” Hicks said.
Hicks’s statement directly undermines the prosecution’s assertion that the financial payments to Daniels and McDougal were meant to prevent negative press that would impact his campaign. However, she acknowledged that the story concerned those within the presidential campaign’s inner circle. “Everything we talked about in the context of this time period and this time frame was about whether or not there was an impact on the campaign,” Hicks told Colangelo.
Next, Trump‘s defense attorney, Emil Bove, began his cross-examination. He asked Hicks about the former President’s relationship with his wife. “President Trump really values Mrs. Trump’s opinion, and she doesn’t weigh in all the time, but when she does, it’s really meaningful to him and, you know, he really really respects what she has to say,” she responded. At this point, Hicks became very emotional and began to cry on the stand. Following a break, Bove briefly continued his cross-examination before the court adjourned for the day.
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Hope Hicks, a former aide to and campaign press secretary for former President Donald J. Trump, took the stand on day seven of Trump's Manhattan-based 'hush money' trial. Former Biden Department of Justice attorney MatthewColangelo — who has a long history of engaging in partisan lawfare against conservatives — handled questioning for the prosecution.
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Former President Donald J. Trump is asking U.S. District Court Judge AileenCannon to dismiss charges brought by Biden Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith alleging he illegally retained classified documents. In an unsealed motion filed late Thursday, the former President argued that Smith has engaged in a “selective and vindictive prosecution.”
“With one exception there is no record of the Department of Justice prosecuting a former president or vice president for mishandling classified documents from his own administration,” the motion states, before adding: “The exception is President Trump.”
The filing alleges the special counsel‘s investigation and indictment of former President Trump is politically motivated and meant to sideline Democrat incumbent JoeBiden‘s presidential election opponent. “The basis is his politics and status as President Biden’s chief political rival,” Trump’s attorneys argue in the motion. They continue: “Thus, this case reflects the type of selective and vindictive prosecution that cannot be tolerated.”
Bolstering their argument, the former President‘s defense team notes that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced no repercussions for retaining and destroying sensitive documents that she stored on a private server. “Hillary Clinton and her colleagues deleted 31,830 emails and destroyed data on numerous electronic devices, including after a congressional protective order,” note Trump’s attorneys.
The motion also details the unprosecuted mishandling of classified documents by James Comey, the former director of the FBI. “Comey hid from the FBI that he had used a private scanner and his personal email account to transmit at least two classified documents to his personal attorney,” the motion reads. Trump’s attorneys go on to note that former Vice President Mike Pence, former Clinton government national security adviser Sandy Berger, and even Joe Biden avoided prosecution for similar crimes of which Trump is accused.
BREAKING.🚨
President Trump has filed a motion for dismissal in the classified documents case based on "selective and vindictive prosecution."
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Former President Donald J. Trump is asking U.S. District Court Judge AileenCannon to dismiss charges brought by Biden Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith alleging he illegally retained classified documents. In an unsealed motion filed late Thursday, the former President argued that Smith has engaged in a "selective and vindictive prosecution."
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Manhattan advertising mogul Donny Deutsch claimed on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe‘ on Thursday that Donald Trump aims to exploit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to manipulate news coverage and will also unleash the military upon the American people, among other outlandish claims.
Deutsch, a regular show participant, suggested that if Trump wins the election, he will have the FCC report directly to him to manage news programs’ coverage. “He says what he’s going to do. What he’s going to do to your point, Joe, is have the FCC report to him so he will be able to control shows like this. He wants the FCC to report to him,” Deutsch said.
Pointing to a recent interview Trump gave to TIME magazine’s Eric Cortellesa, Deutsch also claimed, “He wants to bring the Insurrection Act back so he can turn military troops on his own people. He wants to weaponize, as you said, the Justice Department to go after his enemies,” Deutsch continued. He then bizarrely claimed that Trump “wants to put women on a registry in red states for abortion.”
WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY SAID.
In January, Trump lashed out at CNN and NBC for refusing to cover his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses. However, he never suggested using the FCC to control the media. “NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech. I think of it because they are crooked. They’re dishonest, and frankly, they should have their licenses or whatever they have. Take it away,” Trump said.
Deutsch’s allegations regarding Trump’s recent TIME interview are simply not true either. In the interview, Trump expressed his intention to use the military, mainly the National Guard, if possible, to go after and detain illegal aliens — not American citizens.
Writes Cortellessa: “For an operation of that scale, Trump says he would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. ‘If they weren’t able to, then I’d use [other parts of] the military,’ he says. When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act—an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians—Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute. ‘Well, these aren’t civilians,’ he says. ‘These are people that aren’t legally in our country.'”
Furthermore, while he expressed his belief that it would be acceptable for states with anti-abortion laws to prosecute women who violate them, he never once made mention of a registry, let alone wanting to put women on one.
“More than 20 states now have full or partial abortion bans, and Trump says those policies should be left to the states to do what they want, including monitoring women’s pregnancies,” Cortellessa writes. “’I think they might do that,’ he says. When I ask whether he would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions beyond the point the laws permit, he says, ‘It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions.'”
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Manhattan advertising mogul Donny Deutsch claimed on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Thursday that Donald Trump aims to exploit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to manipulate news coverage and will also unleash the military upon the American people, among other outlandish claims.
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Donald Trump’s New York election interference trial continues on Friday with evidence from Douglas Daus, the forensic analyst who found more than 39,000 contacts on the phone of Trump’s disgraced ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen. Among the findings were texts with Trump allies, including Hope Hicks, former White House communications director, and secret recordings from the time of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
George Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asserts that Trump conspired with Michael Cohen and David Pecker to suppress damaging stories that could impact Trump’s campaign. This alleged conspiracy led to Stormy Daniels being paid $130,000 not to go public with claims of a sexual encounter she supposedly had with Trump. Daniels publicly denied having an affair with the former president before reversing her position.
Douglas Daus, a forensic analyst for Bragg’s office, will be cross-examined on over 39,000 contacts, messages, and secret recordings extracted from a phone belonging to Cohen, a convicted perjurer. However, the recordings are not necessarily helpful to the prosecution. They suggest Cohen, the star witness against Trump, was the driving force behind the settlement, with Trump unclear on the details and unhappy that a deal was being made.
‘THE RIGHT THING TO DO.’
One of the recordings shows Cohen discussing the settlement with Hollywood entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson, who represented Daniels. Cohens tells the lawyer that Trump has complained many times about the settlement. “I can’t even tell you how many times he said to me, you know, ‘I hate the fact that we did it,’” and “my comment to him was ‘but every person you spoke to said it was the right thing to do,’” Cohen says.
Davidson, who has testified the settlement to Daniels was not “hush money,” was questioned on whether he was concerned his efforts to secure a settlement for Daniels ahead of the 2016 election could be regarded as an attempt at “extortion.”
Davidson denied the extortion accusation, though one of Cohen’s recordings shows him complaining that if Trump “loses this election… we all lose all f**king leverage.”
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Donald Trump's New York election interference trial continues on Friday with evidence from Douglas Daus, the forensic analyst who found more than 39,000 contacts on the phone of Trump's disgraced ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen. Among the findings were texts with Trump allies, including Hope Hicks, former White House communications director, and secret recordings from the time of Trump's 2016 campaign.
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Voter support for abortion access could be offering false hope for JoeBiden‘s 2024 presidential re-election campaign. Election analyst Harry Enten, during a recent appearance on CNN, noted that while Biden leads former President Donald J. Trump on the issue nationally, voters — for the most part — rank abortion low among issues of concern.
“In Arizona, 59 percent believe that abortion should be always or mostly legal. In Nevada, two-thirds, 66 percent,” Enten explained to host John Berman. He added that putting one’s self in the shoes of the Biden campaign, “Yeah, you love the fact that abortion is in the news because would Biden or Trump do a better job… Biden leads on this measure by 14 points. It’s by far his best issue.”
Despite his polling strength on the issue, however, the data isn’t all good news for Biden. Enten explained that a recent poll by CNN found that only 23 percent of Americans think the candidate they support should share their views on abortion. Meanwhile, the same poll found that former President Trump is running well ahead of Biden on issues ranked as more important among voters.
“The economy, Trump leads. Immigration, Trump leads, foreign conflicts, Trump leads,” Enten said, before adding: “And even on preserving democracy, which has obviously been a focal point of the Joe Biden campaign. He only leads on issue by this issue by four points.”
The National Pulse previously reported that despite an abortion referendum making the ballot in Florida, the issue appears to have had little impact on the dynamics of the 2024 presidential race in the state. Former President Trump holds a double-digit lead over Biden in Florida, according to polling taken after it was announced the abortion question would appear on the November ballot.
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Voter support for abortion access could be offering false hope for JoeBiden's 2024 presidential re-election campaign. Election analyst Harry Enten, during a recent appearance on CNN, noted that while Biden leads former President Donald J. Trump on the issue nationally, voters — for the most part — rank abortion low among issues of concern.
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