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With plane crash, Trump makes himself the news – by blaming DEI

With plane crash, Trump makes himself the news – by blaming DEI
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Hardly a choir boy: This J6 revisionist is Trump's pick for FBI head

Hardly a choir boy: This J6 revisionist is Trump's pick for FBI head
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Trump's crypto token is his latest way of cashing in on presidency

Trump's crypto token is his latest way of cashing in on presidency
26.01.2025 3

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Trump is creating the 'weaponized' government he claims Biden had

Trump is creating the 'weaponized' government he claims Biden had
22.01.2025 30

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Trump is already walking back campaign promises. Here's a list.

Trump is already walking back campaign promises. Here's a list.
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Trump's 'one bill' requires GOP unity amid endless dysfunction

Trump's 'one bill' requires GOP unity amid endless dysfunction
12.01.2025 10

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Trump and Republicans want us to forget Jan. 6. We can't.

Donald Trump was a president on his way out of office four years ago Tuesday, on Jan. 7, 2021, as Washington, D.C., was grappling with the...

07.01.2025 6

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The GOP drama in the House isn't over. It's just getting started.

President-elect Donald Trump spent the eight weeks since his November victory talking as if he is at the wheel of a Republican steamroller, with...

04.01.2025 20

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Chris Brennan 

Trump lied about terrorism in New Orleans. Just like before.

It was a gruesome and ghastly act perpetrated to terrorize Americans gathered in a festive mood to enjoy together the city around them. Then,...

03.01.2025 2

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Trump calls for a shutdown, then says it's Biden's fault. Sure it is.

Did you forget what Donald Trump's first term as president was like? This week we get a reminder – governing is for losers. Burning things down so...

20.12.2024 50

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Trump said he'd end the war in Ukraine. Now? Not so much.

President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of promises on the campaign trail this year. One stood out as his most audacious vow – he would swiftly...

17.12.2024 5

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Kari Lake is the liar Trump wants. Too bad it's not his call.

President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America was heavy with his usual bombastic nonsense...

14.12.2024 20

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Chris Brennan 

Assad? Putin? Tulsi Gabbard needs to explain her friends.

Here's a remarkable split-screen moment in American politics, fraught with terrible timing. Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a one-time...

11.12.2024 2

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Chris Brennan 

Elon Musk spent $20.5 million to lie to voters about Trump and RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's daughter and granddaughter had just settled into their seats Thursday evening for a revival performance of "Gypsy," the still...

08.12.2024 20

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Chris Brennan 

Democrats are afraid of power. Biden has it – now use it.

There's an age-old concept – in crisis, opportunity – that should be deployed as President Joe Biden winds down his administration by signing off...

06.12.2024 5

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Chris Brennan 

Congress might have to pay for Trump's expensive mass deportation plan

Donald Trump, during his run to regain the presidency, repeatedly vowed to end "forever wars" abroad. Now we know why Trump wants to bring...

24.11.2024 20

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Chris Brennan 

Trump is still dodging accountability in courts. He should pay for it.

Donald Trump, now the president-elect, has spent 35 years demonizing five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were wrongfully convicted for a...

22.11.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: You know what Trump doesn't want? An AG who does the job.

Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate who sounded shocked by President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Matt Gaetz for attorney general must...

15.11.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Louisiana's push for Ten Commandments in schools isn't over

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry had a remarkably frivolous and flip response earlier this year to parents suing to stop his state's mandate that every...

13.11.2024 20

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Opinion: If Trump's criminal cases must die, let his new AG kill them

Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to hold him accountable...

10.11.2024 20

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Your vote was safe this election. But disinformation persists.

The good news coming out of Tuesday's election is clear: No matter which presidential candidate you supported, our free and fair system of...

07.11.2024 8

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Nervous? Trump ends campaign doubling down on lawsuits, lies.

Presidential campaigns typically spend plenty of time strategizing and staging a closing message, the final bid for support and an ending appeal...

05.11.2024 2

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Opinion: They're lying. Trump and RBG didn't agree on abortion.

I'll wager that most American voters, no matter who wins the presidency next week, will feel a measure of relief when the political ads on...

01.11.2024 10

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Opinion: Harris disappointed voters on Gaza. Is Trump worth the risk?

Arab American activists are keenly aware of both their leverage and the dangers in deploying it. They demanded on Tuesday that Vice President...

31.10.2024 2

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Opinion: Election disinformation is rampant – and helping Trump

The videos have been viewed millions of times on X, that stinkhole of disinformation previously known as Twitter, and are still posted there...

27.10.2024 30

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Musk makes $1 million play to buy Trump's favor – your vote

Elon Musk has finally found his place in American politics as the overeager face of the closing argument for Donald Trump's presidential bid. Musk...

23.10.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Trump keeps lying about 'Central Park Five.' So they sued.

Donald Trump’s notorious inability to acknowledge a mistake – even when everyone else can clearly see how wrong he is – will now probably cost...

22.10.2024 20

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: This election will be close. And Trump will lie about it.

Early voting is under way in several states and mail ballots are already arriving in others for America's latest too-close-to-call presidential...

20.10.2024 5

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Opinion: Trump's doing all he can to send Harris GOP voters she needs

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Pennsylvania, the center of the universe for the presidential election, is a statistical dead heat in polling right now...

17.10.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Trump's alarmist campaign is focused on the wrong voters

OAKS, Pa. — Donald Trump’s “town hall” rally in this Philadelphia suburb Monday night careened from worrisome to deeply weird, even for a...

15.10.2024 30

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Republicans play political games as disasters ravage us

Let's start by acknowledging that almost any national event that dominates a news cycle during a presidential election now inevitably also becomes...

13.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Can Trump win Michigan? Why Harris is 'in trouble' there.

The most likely path to the White House for Vice President Kamala Harris runs through the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and...

09.10.2024 4

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Opinion: How 'Haley Voters for Harris' could help her win key states

The presidential election is 30 days away, and voters are starting to hear plenty of forceful sentiments from Republicans about Donald Trump. It's...

06.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Why are Trump and Vance so annoyed by facts?

The most conspicuous fault line in 2024's very peculiar presidential election has to be the histrionics Donald Trump and JD Vance have shown us...

03.10.2024 40

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Opinion: Helene's damage tests election officials. Trump isn't helping.

With the scale of deadly devastation from Hurricane Helene now coming into focus, the easy path here would be to center attention on the...

02.10.2024 4

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Chris Brennan 

Opinion: Does Harris want to end the filibuster? I asked her campaign.

The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in...

28.09.2024 30

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OPINION: Election officials are hard at work. So are election liars.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from six swing states gathered here Thursday for an all-day briefing with journalists to discuss their...

22.09.2024 3

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OPINION: Dead people and noncitizens aren't voting. That's the truth.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The general election is still 46 days away, but some results are already in: Dead people are not casting ballots, and...

20.09.2024 3

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Chris Brennan 

Trump distances himself from Project 2025. Voters aren't buying it.

Donald Trump insisting that he has no connection to Project 2025 sounds like your angry old uncle showing up hungry for Thanksgiving dinner while...

15.09.2024 10

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Why did Trump promote a lie about Haitian immigrants? He was losing.

The presidential debate Tuesday had a hinge moment when Vice President Kamala Harris knocked former President Donald Trump completely off his game...

12.09.2024 3

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Speaker Johnson is willing to shut down the government for Trump

Politicians returned to the Congress in Washington, D.C., this week from their August break, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was eager to get back...

11.09.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Right-wing hosts have been connected to Russian propaganda. Surprised?

Former President Donald Trump sat down in late May for an interview with Tim Pool, a right-wing "influencer," where they commiserated about the...

06.09.2024 20

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Trump want us to forget he loves the Jan. 6 rioters. I asked why.

Rewriting history can be challenging, especially for something as notorious as the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It requires...

05.09.2024 40

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Kamala Harris shouldn't need Tim Walz at her CNN interview

Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of questions in the more than five weeks since she became a presidential candidate about when she...

29.08.2024 40

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Chris Brennan 

GOP leaders claim 'they' tried to kill Trump. You'll never guess who.

Being the running mate on Donald Trump's presidential ticket has always required a certain flexibility with truth and accuracy. But U.S. Sen. JD...

29.08.2024 20

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Do you fear a migrant crime wave? If not, here are some Trump lies.

Donald Trump launched his political career in June 2015 with a brazen and bogus appeal to American fear, based on a distortion that immigrants to...

26.08.2024 30

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Chris Brennan 

Trump is really hoping you believe his lies about crime in America

Former President Donald Trump, in his weeklong attempt to counterprogram the Democratic National Convention, visited Michigan on Tuesday to accuse...

22.08.2024 40

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Vance doesn't believe in polls? Nobody tell him Trump lives by them.

PHILADELPHIA — JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio chosen as a running mate five weeks ago by former President Donald Trump, came to this...

20.08.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Will Trump supporters stall election results? They're already trying.

Donald Trump, to the chagrin of many campaign advisers, just cannot stop lying about how the 2020 presidential election was "rigged" in favor of...

19.08.2024 10

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Chris Brennan 

Trump can't handle Harris – or Walz. Vance's speech makes that clear.

PHILADELPHIA — This so very odd race for the presidency, with November's election just 13 weeks away, finally settled all its players into place...

07.08.2024 20

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