Donald Trump’s New York hush-money-to-a-porn-star trial has barely begun, and already, his MAGA backers are trying to rig the outcome. On Monday, conservative media personality Clay Travis sent the following tweet to his one million-plus Twitter (X) followers: “If you’re a Trump supporter in New York City who is a part of the jury pool, do everything you can to …
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Trump’s Hardest Fight May Be Staying Awake in Court – silbop
It may turn out that the one thing Donald Trump cannot get away with is sleeping in court. As a young prosecutor, I was part of a legal team on a case presided over by a judge who kept falling asleep during the trial. The judge would often shout for all the lawyers to “Get up here!”—meaning we were to …
Read More »Donald Trump Endorses ‘Genocide Joe’ Rally Chant After Attack on Israel – silbop
Former U.S. president Donald Trump said that the unfolding Iranian attacks on Israel are the result of the Biden administration exhibiting “weakness” on the world stage at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday night. “Before going any further, I wanna say: God bless the people of Israel. They’re under attack right now, because we show great weakness,” Trump said. The remarks come …
Read More »GOP Star Recruit Tim Sheehy Brags About “Rural” Upbringing That Wasn’t – silbop
As he works to connect with voters in the very rural state he has adopted as his home, Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy is touting what he claims is his own countryside upbringing in Minnesota. “I grew up in rural Minnesota,” Sheehy told the Working Ranch Radio Podcast in October 2023. “And although we were not farmers, I grew up …
Read More »Biden’s 3 Most Politically Incompetent Mistakes as President – silbop
For those of us who see Donald Trump as a cross between a tyrant and a clown, the notion that Joe Biden isn’t mopping the floor with him continues to feel insane. We are left scratching our heads and wondering why Biden isn’t a) winning big, or b) getting credit for his accomplishments. What did he do that rendered him …
Read More »Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Axes Staffer Rita Palma, Who Said Her Goal Was to Spoil a Biden Win – silbop
The campaign for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed Thursday it’d cut ties with Rita Palma, a campaign staffer who last week urged GOP voters in New York to back Kennedy as a way to siphon away electoral votes from their “mutual enemy” Joe Biden—whose loss in November she claimed was her “number one priority.” A spokesperson for the campaign told …
Read More »Trump Punts on Abortion in Announcement Sure to Anger Conservatives – silbop
Former President Donald Trump, whose position on abortion has been unclear for the better part of his campaign, said Monday that abortion access should be decided on a state-to-state basis and punted on what he believes the cutoff should be. In a much-anticipated video posted to Truth Social on Monday morning, Trump boasted about getting Roe v. Wade overturned and …
Read More »Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Tells Fox News He Regrets Endorsing Biden in 2020 – silbop
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson won’t publicly back a candidate in this year’s presidential election, a notable departure from his vocal pro-Biden position four years ago. In an interview with Fox News star Will Cain, The Rock said he regretted his 2020 public endorsement of the Biden-Harris campaign and now prefers to keep his politics private. “The endorsement that I made …
Read More »RFK Jr. Campaign Says Email Calling Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Activists’ Was an ‘Error’ – silbop
The campaign of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has walked back a fundraising email describing Jan. 6 rioters as “activists,” reports say. The communication, which was retracted within hours, was signed by “Team Kennedy,” according to NBC News. “This is the reality that every American Citizen faces—from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in …
Read More »RFK Jr. Isn’t Just an Anti-Vaxxer, He’s a Gaslighting Fraud – silbop
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gearing up to gaslight his way through the 2024 presidential race. This week, CNN’s Erin Burnett pressed Kennedy on Americans’ concerns that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, to which he replied, “I could make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy.” He went on to claim Biden is …
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