Fox News’s Martha McCallum threw Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a softball question on how he could turn his floundering campaign around. His reply? “We’re happy with what we’ve seen so far.”
McCallum first queried: “You’re at 19 percent, which I think is a little bit lower than you were prior to this… are you frustrated by the polling you’ve seen so far?”
DeSantis initially tries to not answer the question, immediately pivoting to “defeating Biden” as well as his “story and philosophy.”
McCallum pushed back, asking: “What do you think is the catalyst that moves these numbers?”
DeSantis, again, attempted to pivot, before concluding, “We’re happy with what we’ve seen so far.”
So far, however, DeSantis is down in almost every poll since his campaign announcement, with his staff mired in controversies, and his most vocal online supporters becoming subjects of intrigue themselves.
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Fox News's Martha McCallum threw Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a softball question on how he could turn his floundering campaign around. His reply? "We're happy with what we've seen so far."
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Ok seriously who is advising this guy? The easy answer here (not that I believe it, by the way) is: “Well Donald Trump was an extremely popular man show more
Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker turned Fox News executive, says he will “never again” support Donald Trump, despite admitting the former president could win back the White House.
“[L]ook, it’s a disaster if we nominate Trump, you know I think that, I’ve been saying this for a long time,” he told CNBC on Wednesday. “But Liz [Cheney] is right: he could win.”
Ryan’s interview, below, is likely to add fuel to the dumpster fire at Fox News, which has cratered in viewership since unceremoniously turfing our prime time host Tucker Carlson, as well as turning its back on Donald Trump.
“I’m for anybody not named Trump,” Ryan said – correcting himself, when pressed, to say he meant any Republican not named Trump. “I think we lose with him,” the former Speaker continued. “We haven’t won anything with him since he first won in 2016. We lost the House in ’18, the presidency in ’20, the Senate in ’20, and we could have won the Senate in 2022 but for him,” he added – failing to mention that Republicans won back the House that same year.
Asked if he thought the Republicans could win without America First conservatives brought aboard by Trump, Ryan admitted that as a “Never Again Trumper,” a large portion of U.S. conservatives now despise him.
Speaking on Tuesday in New Hampshire, Trump blasted the D.C. uniparty, and asserted that the Republican Party is “never going back to the days of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”
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"It's a disaster if we nominate Trump…but he could win," says Fmr. House Speaker @SpeakerRyan. "I support any Republican not named Trump. We beat Biden for sure if we nominate a Republican not named Trump. Biden and Trump have a symbiotic relationship." pic.twitter.com/NLgRh0cm8l
Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker turned Fox News executive, says he will "never again" support Donald Trump, despite admitting the former president could win back the White House.
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Former President Donald Trump is suing his accuser E Jean Carroll for defamation after a civil jury found that the former President did not rape her at Bergdorf Goodman, a New York department store, in the 1990s.
Trump’s legal team filed the counterclaim on Tuesday evening in a Manhattan federal court, seeking a retraction of the allegations as well as compensatory and punitive damages.
The new lawsuit appertains statements made by Carroll after the jury’s decision. Despite the court clearing Trump of rape, she insisted that it happened, telling CNN: “Oh yes he did, oh yes he did.”
The court filing states, “[Donald Trump] has been the subject of significant harm to his reputation, which, in turn, has yielded an inordinate amount of damages sustained as a result.”
The former President is currently appealing last month’s court decision, which found him “liable” for sexual assault rather than “guilty.” The court demanded that he pay Carroll $5 million in compensation.
Trump’s lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing legal battle between the two. After the initial court verdict, Carroll quickly filed further legal proceedings, demanding another $10 million for defamation. The trial is set to take place in January 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump is suing his accuser E Jean Carroll for defamation after a civil jury found that the former President did not rape her at Bergdorf Goodman, a New York department store, in the 1990s.
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Ron DeSantis is in free fall in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, with support for the Florida Governor tumbling from 29 percent in March to just 19 percent in June. Support for his leading rival, Donald Trump, has risen from 42 percent to 47 percent. The Floridian has had a bad week in the Granite State, with his team recently branded “just stupid” for picking a fight with its leading conservative women’s group.
The data comes from a Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll based on surveys of 1,065 New Hampshire registered voters between June 21st and 23rd, 2023, with a margin of error of three percent.
DeSantis has been trying to up his campaigning in New Hampshire, which will be one of the first states to declare its pick for the Republican presidential nomination. But he is losing rather than gaining ground on frontrunner Donald Trump, despite the former president’s legal woes, and recently blundered into a spat with the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women after scheduling an event on the same day as their annual fundraising luncheon – which Trump will headline.
In addition to DeSantis’s 10-point drop, the Saint Anselm survey threw up other interesting findings. For example, an overwhelming 70 percent of voters are concerned about Biden’s age (80), while only 34 percent are concerned about Trump’s age (77). It also found that 88 percent of registered Republicans think the investigations into Trump are politically motivated.
Both men appeared in the state today, with Trump focusing his message on finishing the job he started, while DeSantis focused his fire on Trump, claiming he didn’t do a good enough job in his first four years in office, despite DeSantis previously admitting he would need eight years to do the same task.
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Ron DeSantis is in free fall in New Hampshire's Republican primary, with support for the Florida Governor tumbling from 29 percent in March to just 19 percent in June. Support for his leading rival, Donald Trump, has risen from 42 percent to 47 percent. The Floridian has had a bad week in the Granite State, with his team recently branded "just stupid" for picking a fight with its leading conservative women's group.
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Trump staffer turned critic Mick Mulvaney thinks Donald Trump lost over 200,000 votes in Georgia due to mean tweets criticizing the likes of Governor Brian Kemp and the late John McCain.
“Trump has a knack for subtracting [voters],” the former South Carolina congressman asserted, despite the fact that his former boss added at least 10.1 million voters in 2020, landing the highest number of votes of any sitting president ever. In fact, Trump added 18 percent in Georgia alone, where Mulvaney – a former Tex Mex restaurant manager – claims he lost voters due to issues like “his flogging of McCain’s corpse”.
“The former president is really good at subtraction and division – and really, really lousy at addition,” Mulvaney quipped, claiming he personally warned Trump that there was no upside to “his flogging of McCain’s corpse” and that is could hurt him “say, in Arizona, a state that Trump won by just 90,000 votes in 2016 and then lost by 10,000 in 2020.”
“That is Trump subtraction,” Mulvaney suggested – though in fact, Trump won 1.2 million votes in Arizona in 2016 and almost 1.7 million in 2020. Similarly, Mulvaney suggested, “Trump beat Hillary Clinton by more than 200,000 votes in Georgia in 2016 [and] lost by the now infamous 11,779 votes [in 2020]…. Subtraction.” Here, too, Trump won near 2.1 million votes in 2016 and near 2.5 million votes in 2020 – almost 400,000 additional votes, rather than a “subtraction” of voters.
Trump has long contended the true cause of his defeat in the Peach State was poor election integrity. Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have refused to address major, documented issues with Georgia’s voting processes, with Raffensperger’s spokesman recently going as far as telling PhD scientists who raised concerns “tough noogies”.
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Trump staffer turned critic Mick Mulvaney thinks Donald Trump lost over 200,000 votes in Georgia due to mean tweets criticizing the likes of Governor Brian Kemp and the late John McCain.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks in New Hampshire today, in a primary state where his main opponent Ron DeSantis is losing ground, and embroiled in spats with local party activists. Trump, speaking at the historic ‘Lilac Luncheon’ for the Republican Women of New Hampshire, will today declare his “mission to liberate our nation from a corrupt Washington Swamp that’s destroying America,” in planned remarks seen by The National Pulse.
Speaking of his looming election battle, Trump will argue: “Right now, the lobbyists and special interests are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into futile attempts to stop our movement—because they know that I am the ONLY candidate in this race who they will NEVER own and they will NEVER control.”
“All of us here today are on a mission to liberate our nation from a corrupt Washington Swamp that’s destroying America for their own power, profit, and personal gain. There is no better example than the most corrupt president in the history of our country, Crooked Joe Biden.”
– Donald J. Trump, New Hampshire, June 27th 2023
Trump is also expected to take aim at the “uniparty” or “RINOs” in the Republican midst, blasting Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and DeSantis himself, who Trump says has sided with the Chinese Communist Party over tariffs and trade. DeSantis recently hinted he would not pursue a trade war with China to restore American jobs, calling Trump’s measures “ineffective.”
“I promise you this: If you put me back in the White House, their reign will be OVER, and America will be a FREE NATION once again,” Trump will say, before turning to detailed policy proposals such as the restoration of the Impoundment Control Act which allows the President to unilaterally stop wasteful spending.
“Today, I am proposing another new policy that will help us Drain the Swamp. To stop Biden’s wasteful spending and crippling inflation, I will fight to restore the president’s historic IMPOUNDMENT power. For 200 years, the president had the right to block unneeded spending and return the funds to the Treasury.”
In closing, Trump is expected to point to the historic nature of the moment: “This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country, we will rout the fake news media, we will defeat Joe Biden, and we will Drain the Swamp ONCE AND FOR ALL.”
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Former President Donald Trump speaks in New Hampshire today, in a primary state where his main opponent Ron DeSantis is losing ground, and embroiled in spats with local party activists. Trump, speaking at the historic 'Lilac Luncheon' for the Republican Women of New Hampshire, will today declare his "mission to liberate our nation from a corrupt Washington Swamp that's destroying America," in planned remarks seen by The National Pulse.
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It’s a small club, and you ain’t in it. And neither is Donald J. Trump. But every other living President of the United States is. The club in question? Being a former President and a direct descendent of slave owners. That includes Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama through his mother’s side of the family.
A total of 28 percent of Republicans and eight percent of Democrats in the last sitting of Congress have slavers in their ancestries, too. “The preponderance of Republicans reflects the party’s strength in the South, where slavery was concentrated,” Reuters claims.
Some of the more notable non-presidential figures include Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, and Tammy Duckworth, who described the revelations as “gut-wrenching.”
Former President Donald Trump is one of the only significant political figures in American politics not to be tied to “America’s original sin,” as Reuters describes it. Trump’s grandfather on his father’s side emigrated to the United States from Germany after the American Civil War, and his mother was born in Scotland, explaining the absence of slave owners in his family.
The news is unlikely to sit well with the same mainstream media that regularly lambasts Trump’s “long history of racism.” But it does perhaps go some way to explaining why they protest too much. And why they want to keep him out, again.
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It's a small club, and you ain't in it. And neither is Donald J. Trump. But every other living President of the United States is. The club in question? Being a former President and a direct descendent of slave owners. That includes Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama through his mother's side of the family.
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A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley’s eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to “secret information” at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence.
The 45th president can be heard referring to “secret information” as the papers are discussed, with a staffer joking that Hillary Clinton would print such information out regularly. “[S]he’d send it to Anthony Weiner, the pervert,” Trump responds, prompting laughter.
The entire clip appears to be jocular in nature – a fact left out by CNN in its previous characterizations of the audio – which could only have been leaked to the network by the U.S. government itself, namely the Justice Department (DOJ) or Obama-linked prosecutor Jack Smith directly. Last week, a judge ordered that while Biden’s weaponized DOJ had leaked against Trump, that Trump was not allowed to leak to the press in return.
In the audio (below), Trump can be heard discussing with staff something referred to in or on one of the documents, stating: “[A]s president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
But it is still not clear whether Trump is talking about the documents themselves, in the audio, or something the documents may be referring to. As a result, a statement from the former President on Tuesday morning called the audio leak “an exoneration”:
The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and “spun” a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe. This continuing Witch Hunt is another ELECTION INTERFERENCE Scam. They are cheaters and thugs!
– Donald J. Trump, TruthSocial, June 26th.
The case is ongoing, as America draws closer to an election, with an unprecedented campaign from the government against one of its political opponents.
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A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley's eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to "secret information" at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence.
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis announced on Monday what was touted as a “big” new policy: Build The Wall.
It’s a moment observers are already lampooning as a direct rip-off of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, with other Trump White House-era policies thrown in for good measure: “stop the invasion”, “hold the cartels accountable”, and the vague insistence that DeSantis will “work with states to enforce the law”.
The DeSantis border plan adds “no excuses” to the end of a tepid policy announcement video, with a pledge to go “beyond Trump.”
But many of the proposals appear to be either carbon copies of Trump policies, including, the top bullet points on “end[ing] catch-and-release” and “reimpos[ing] Remain in Mexico.” The details are so similar that they could’ve been lifted directly from the Trump campaign website, which opens by stating that the former president will “again end catch-and-release [and] restore Remain in Mexico”.
Other details also appear to be plagiarized from the 45th President.
DeSantis pledges he will “declare the Mexican drug cartels to be Transnational Criminal Organizations” and “authorize sanctions” on them, while Trump has pledged to “designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “impose a total naval embargo on cartels [and] order the Department of Defense to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations” to take them down “just as [the Trump administration] took down ISIS”.
“DeSantis is copying and pasting President Trump’s Agenda47 policy plan because he doesn’t have an original idea of his own,” Trump’s team scoffed on social media. The announcements were made in Eagle Pass, Texas, as the Florida Governor scrambles to breathe life into his faltering campaign.
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis announced on Monday what was touted as a "big" new policy: Build The Wall.
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are set to introduce a resolution expunging Donald Trump’s impeachments, The National Pulse has learned. The move relies in part on conversations detailed by the now infamous FD-1023 form which detailed “conversations an FBI informant had about allegations that an executive at Ukrainian gas company Burisma offered bribes to then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.”
“President Trump was impeached over a perfect phone call asking questions about a Ukrainian prosecutor who was fired at the direction of [then-Vice President Joe Biden]. All while the FBI had information that Joe Biden and his son were paid $5 million to get [a Ukrainian] prosecutor fired in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme,” said Greene, referring to the first impeachment and FD-1023.
Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, backed a resolution to expunge Trump’s second impeachment, led by Rep. Markwayne Mullin in May 2022, when the Democrats still controlled the House. While his first impeachment concerned Ukraine, the second alleged he incited an insurrection on January 6th.
In January 2023, as the Republicans took control of the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would “look at” expunging the impeachments, but not as a priority. Both impeachments ended with Trump being acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are set to introduce a resolution expunging Donald Trump's impeachments, The National Pulse has learned. The move relies in part on conversations detailed by the now infamous FD-1023 form which detailed "conversations an FBI informant had about allegations that an executive at Ukrainian gas company Burisma offered bribes to then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter."
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