Key takeaways from Trump’s first rally speech after November election win United States President-elect Donald Trump has been greeted by thousands of supporters at his first rally speech in Arizona since winning the November election. Trump employed his usual aggressiveness ... 12/22/2024 - 11:08 pm | View Link
Trump’s Cabinet And Key Jobs: Billionaire Tilman Fertitta And ‘The Apprentice’ Producer Mark Burnett Among Latest Nominees Trump named Mark Burnett as his pick for special envoy to the U.K., noting Burnett’s career as a producer for shows like “Survivor,” “Shark Tank,” “The Voice” and Trump’s “The Apprentice” in ... 12/22/2024 - 3:44 am | View Link
When does Trump take office? What to know about Donald Trump’s first day President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Inauguration Day after a series of congressional events, including the transfer of power. 12/19/2024 - 11:13 pm | View Link
A hurricane map, a black Sharpie, and what should have been learned about Trump’s authoritarian need to manipulate the truth With Trump's total disregard for facts, and especially the expertise of those smarter than him, he’s positioning himself as an omnipotent arbiter of truth. 12/19/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
Why most of Trump's Cabinet picks will get confirmed by the Senate In the wake of his November victory, President-elect Donald Trump has already had a fairly messy rollout of his Cabinet nominees. His first choice for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, ... 12/19/2024 - 5:50 am | View Link
Elaine Godfrey: “The normal rules of public disgrace may no longer apply to Donald Trump. But at least some expectation of good behavior remains, it seems, for a politician in Trump’s orbit…”
“A man who reportedly dreams of being Florida governor is now facing the blunt reality of his own political irrelevance.”
(WASHINGTON) — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress, as lawmakers released the conclusions of a nearly four-year investigation that helped sink his nomination for attorney general.
The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Gaetz, now 42, took part in from 2017 to 2020 while representing Florida’s western panhandle.
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Congressional investigators concluded that Gaetz violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office, though not federal sex trafficking laws.
New York Times: “Heading into the 2024 election, the conservative group Turning Point Action made a risky and expensive bet as it tried to fix Republicans’ early-voting problem: It zeroed in on infrequent voters who seemed to lean to the right.”
“Calling its effort ‘Chase the Vote,’ the group focused heavily on Arizona, where it is based and says it spent tens of millions of dollars to help elect Donald Trump.
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland.
The President-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U. S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he’s picking fights even before taking office on Jan.
Ron Brownstein: “This time, Trump’s fate will be much more in his own hands. If he can deliver greater economic stability for working families, while avoiding too many firefights on militant MAGA priorities, strategists in both parties agree that he will be in a strong position to consolidate the gains he’s made among traditionally Democratic constituencies, such as Black, Latino, and younger white men.”
“But if an unbound Trump veers in directions that too many voters don’t want to follow—including vaccine skepticism, politicizing the criminal-justice system against his opponents, and the separation of undocumented parents from their U.
The cruelty of the illegal-alien crime and the depraved indifference of authorities and subway riders to a woman on fire keeps getting more disturbing.