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In a blatant effort to buy his way into a Donald Trump administration and probably beyond, Elon Musk’s America PAC is now the most important force in Donald Trump’s Get Out The Vote operation. Probably so he could pocket more donors’ money, Trump and his campaign have outsourced the critical get out the vote operations.

Voting machine company Smartmatic and the laughable Newsmax "news" channel have reached a settlement, avoiding a defamation trial that would have begun Monday over allegations that Newsmax personalities and guests spread lies about the 2020 election and Smartmatic’s role in it. Via the Washington Post: Details of the “confidential” settlement were not released.

One of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s strengths is his down-to-earth, approachable personality, something only accentuated by how weird Ohio Sen. JD Vance repeatedly acts. On Tuesday, Walz posted a short video from a campaign stop last week at local eatery H&H Soul Food in Macon, Georgia. In the video, Walz notices a sign hanging up on the wall that reads “Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy.” The enjoyable back and forth ends with Walz taking photos under the sign with the entire staff.

Yep, Trump's doing it again. As we all know, there are some very consistent things about the Orange Puke Balloon, Donald Trump. None good. He's a career criminal, career abuser of women, career liar, career user & discarder of anyone he meets, career cheat and, yes, enough of a grifter to have had 2 careers at that.

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Former U. S. President Donald Trump's threat on Wednesday to blow Iran "to smithereens" if he returns to power was condemned by a leading Iranian American advocacy group as "genocidal." Trump—the 2024 Republican nominee—addressed a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday after he was reportedly briefed about alleged Iranian assassination threats against him. "If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country—in this case, Iran—that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens," he said to raucous applause.