There’s never been a political speech like Donald Trump’s address to the 2024 Republican National Convention. The former president’s narration of the attempt on his life was gripping television. When he kissed the fireman’s helmet of Corey Comperatore, the husband and father who was killed during the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, last weekend, he created
MILWAUKEE—House speaker Mike Johnson vowed on Thursday to arrest any anti-Israel congressional officials who disrupt or get “out of hand” during Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming floor speech to a joint session of Congress. Johnson’s comments come as hundreds of left-leaning congressional staffers, and some Democratic lawmakers, vowed to protest or boycott Netanyahu’s address
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D., N.Y) rebuked party leaders’ calls for unity following Saturday’s assassination attempt and vowed to continue calling former president Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee, Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio), “threats to democracy.” “I won’t be gaslit into not calling Trump and Vance threats to democracy,” Jones wrote Thursday. “Trump
A conspiracy theory has run unabated in Democratic circles following the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump on Saturday. It posits that Trump staged the shooting for a photo op, that the wound on his ear was caused by something other than an assassin’s bullet, and that he was never in mortal danger. It’s
Failed campaign strategist describes Republican National Convention as fascist ‘Bund gathering’ Steve Schmidt (YouTube) Scripps News contributor and three-time failed presidential campaign strategist Steve Schmidt on Tuesday published a meandering response to the first night of programming at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, in which the Lincoln Project cofounder repeatedly likened the proceedings to
There is “widespread” anger within the Democratic Party, MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said, at Joe Biden’s campaign leaders for keeping the president “in a bubble” as his reelection campaign flounders and his party divides. “The anger that I hear is not at Joe Biden. The anger I hear [is] at the people that
Boot’s wife, former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry, is accused of secretly working for South Korean intelligence Max Boot (Wikimedia Commons) During the Trump administration, Washington Post columnist Max Boot called for “ramp[ed] up enforcement” of foreign agent laws to curb “foreign influence” in American politics. The federal government has indeed beefed up enforcement of those