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
Top Democrats say Biden may decide to end his campaign as soon as this weekend Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Paul Pelosi in 2019 ( Getty Images) Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) privately told President Joe Biden last week that she fears his reelection campaign will hurt the Democratic Party as a whole
Leaked messages show that President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month has thrown California’s Democratic delegates into disarray and caused significant division within the Democratic Party, Politico reported on Thursday. “I’m in tears,” Renay Grace Rodriguez, delegate to the Democratic National Committee and president of the Stonewall Democratic Club, wrote in an invite-only Facebook group
U.S. president Joe Biden on Thursday canceled another $1.2 billion in student debt for 35,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.76 million. The beneficiaries qualified under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which enables public sector employees to have federal student loans canceled after a decade. While the program