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One Trump Nominee Has Mastered the Art of Pretending It’s All OK
55 years ago

One Trump Nominee Has Mastered the Art of Pretending It’s All OK

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Their almost uncanny toolbox of denial techniques—Hegseth’s “anonymous smears” and Bondi’s “wait, Trump said what now?”—reveals the game here: Treat everything Donald Trump has said about what he plans to do with the Justice Department, the FBI, the military, …

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Senate Votes Against Biden's Labor Nominee In Setback For Unions
1 month ago

Senate Votes Against Biden's Labor Nominee In Setback For Unions

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden and his pro-union agenda suffered a major setback Wednesday when the Senate narrowly voted against advancing his nominee to the National Labor Relations Board. “This NLRB seat should be filled by President Trump and the new incoming Senate,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, ranking Republican on the Senate’s labor committee, said in a statement. McFerran’s nomination …

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'Parade of skeletons': Analyst claims nominee fiasco halted Trump's plan to tout agenda
1 month ago

'Parade of skeletons': Analyst claims nominee fiasco halted Trump's plan to tout agenda

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump tried to ram through a bunch of "flagrantly unqualified" loyalists without serious scrutiny — and it ended up blowing up in his face, wrote Doyle McManus for the Los Angeles Times on Monday. One of the big problems, wrote McManus, was when Trump resisted allowing the traditional FBI background checks on nominees, "because he hoped to do …

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Ex-Trump aide says president-elect's defense nominee may be vulnerable to 'blackmail'
1 month, 1 week ago

Ex-Trump aide says president-elect's defense nominee may be vulnerable to 'blackmail'

Raw Story  

A former White House aide said that Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary was vulnerable to blackmail due to his past behavior. Pete Hegseth's attorney threatened legal action against a woman who accused the former Fox News host and Pentagon nominee of sexual assault, saying she had violated a nondisclosure agreement after accepting a settlement over her allegations, but former …

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Pete Hegseth: Trump Defense Secretary nominee was involved in investigation into 2017 sexual assault allegation
2 months ago

Pete Hegseth: Trump Defense Secretary nominee was involved in investigation into 2017 sexual assault allegation

CNN  

Monterey, California CNN — Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, was involved in a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault in 2017, local officials in California confirmed Thursday night. In a statement, a spokesperson for the city government of Monterey, California, said its police department had investigated “an alleged sexual assault” involving Hegseth, a Fox News …

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'Worst on television': Trump throws tantrum after Fox News host panned his performance
4 months ago

'Worst on television': Trump throws tantrum after Fox News host panned his performance

Raw Story  

Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at a prominent Fox News anchor who said the former president and Republican nominee "decisively lost" his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump took to Truth Social to lambast Neil Cavuto and throw jabs at two liberal-leaning cable news channels, one of them MSNBC, less than a day after his performance at the Philadelphia …

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9/11 attacks: 23rd anniversary brings Biden, Harris, Trump together to ground zero | In photos
4 months ago

9/11 attacks: 23rd anniversary brings Biden, Harris, Trump together to ground zero | In photos

Hindustan Times  

9/11 attacks: 23rd anniversary brings Biden, Harris, Trump together to ground zero | In photos September 11 marks the 23rd anniversary of the tragic fall of the Twin Towers of World Trade Centre in New York in terror strikes that killed 2,996 people.. 1 / 8 View Photos in a new improved layout President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee …

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Trump says Elon Musk won't have time to be in his cabinet, but could 'consult'
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump says Elon Musk won't have time to be in his cabinet, but could 'consult'

India Today  

What if tech mogul Elon Musk went to Washington to serve in Donald Trump's hypothetical cabinet in the White House? In an interview with formal Navy Seal Shawn Ryan, Trump said that Musk wants to be "involved"; however, "he’s running big businesses and all that, so he can’t, really, I don’t think he could be in cabinet," CNBC reported. Reiterating …

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US voters say they’re ready for a woman president, but sexist attitudes still go along with opposition to Harris
4 months, 4 weeks ago

US voters say they’re ready for a woman president, but sexist attitudes still go along with opposition to Harris

New Indian Express  

Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst; Jesse Rhodes, UMass Amherst, and Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst Since President Joe Biden exited the presidential race on July 21, 2024, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris’ campaign has generated widespread enthusiasm and attention. Yes, the scars of the 2016 campaign – in which sexism played a key role in …

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'Phony moron': Donald Trump Jr. fumes at Harris after he accuses Dems of 'projection'
5 months, 1 week ago

'Phony moron': Donald Trump Jr. fumes at Harris after he accuses Dems of 'projection'

Raw Story  

Donald Trump Jr. slammed Vice President Kamala Harris as a "phony moron" after his father backed out of an ABC News debate that he had previously agreed to attend. "It's been 14 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party and she still hasn't sat for a single interview with the media," Vance wrote on Sunday. …

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With Biden bowing out, Trump has instantly become the oldest presidential nominee in US history. The contest has been reframed
5 months, 3 weeks ago

With Biden bowing out, Trump has instantly become the oldest presidential nominee in US history. The contest has been reframed

ABC  

Thomas Jefferson was 33 when he became the principal penman behind the Declaration of Independence, America's founding document. Biden's decline has become plain and painful On the Republican side, Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, is in his early 80s, and exhibiting clear signs of cognitive decline. Then in 2020, promising younger candidates, such as the then-30-something former …

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All The Ways The Right Is Melting Down Over Kamala Harris
5 months, 3 weeks ago

All The Ways The Right Is Melting Down Over Kamala Harris

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the 24 hours since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place at the top of the ticket, the right has struggled to mount a unified response ― whipsawing between different strains of messaging that have veered from angry to conspiratorial to downright racist. Former …

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Donald Trump calls Kamala Harris as an ‘insurance policy’ for Joe Biden
6 months ago

Donald Trump calls Kamala Harris as an ‘insurance policy’ for Joe Biden

The Hindu  

Donald Trump, the former U.S. president and presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party, has attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, raising questions on her competence and describing her as an "insurance policy" for incumbent President Joe Biden. Maybe the best insurance policy I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Trump, 78, told his supporters in Florida. Mr. Trump said as Vice President, Ms. …

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Libertarian Party names presidential nominee – as RFK Jr crashes out of race and Trump fails to qualify
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Libertarian Party names presidential nominee – as RFK Jr crashes out of race and Trump fails to qualify

The Independent  

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Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee
1 year, 3 months ago

Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days. Ryan, who left office in 2019 and had a sometimes contentious relationship with Trump, said he hoped that another Republican nominee would …

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Pence won’t say whether he’d support Trump as 2024 nominee
1 year, 10 months ago

Pence won’t say whether he’d support Trump as 2024 nominee

Associated Press  

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former Vice President Mike Pence declined to say Thursday whether he would back Donald Trump if his former boss were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. “I’m persuaded that no one could have defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 except Donald Trump, but I think we live in a different time and it calls for …

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Notable opinions by high court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
2 years, 10 months ago

Notable opinions by high court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be nominated for the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on Friday, worked for seven years as a judge on the federal trial court in Washington, D.C., before Biden appointed her to the appeals court that meets in the same courthouse. Jackson rejected the argument in a 120-page opinion in November 2019 …

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Some Senate Democrats Rule Out Meeting With Trump Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett
4 years, 3 months ago

Some Senate Democrats Rule Out Meeting With Trump Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Trump announced his intent to nominate Barrett, a 48-year-old judge on the 7th U.S. Republicans notoriously refused to meet with Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, and blocked him from filling the seat that came open upon Scalia’s death in early 2016. “Senate Republicans have gone back on their word about confirming …

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AP Explains: What’s next with the Supreme Court vacancy?
4 years, 3 months ago

AP Explains: What’s next with the Supreme Court vacancy?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Republican efforts to fill Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat after her death are likely to move swiftly this week, with President Donald Trump possibly nominating a replacement within days and GOP senators hoping to jump-start the confirmation process. McConnell, R-Ky., has vowed that Trump’s nominee “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States …

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Donald Trump to nominate a woman for US Supreme Court as Ginsburg replacement
4 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump to nominate a woman for US Supreme Court as Ginsburg replacement

India TV News  

President Donald Trump is likely to nominate a female candidate to the US Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. If somebody were to ask me now I would say that a woman would be in first place,” Trump told supporters at an election rally in North Carolina on Saturday. Ginsburg, a …

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As the nation mourns an icon, Democrats and Republicans fight over Supreme Court vacancy
4 years, 3 months ago

As the nation mourns an icon, Democrats and Republicans fight over Supreme Court vacancy

CNN  

CNN — Mourners of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gathered quietly at the Supreme Court Saturday, laying rows of flowers and writing chalk messages to honor the gender equality icon. Trump said Saturday he will have a nominee “very soon” to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court and thinks he’ll make his choice next week, adding that …

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Mitt Romney Slams Donald Trump's Commutation For Roger Stone: 'Historic Corruption'
4 years, 6 months ago

Mitt Romney Slams Donald Trump's Commutation For Roger Stone: 'Historic Corruption'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday morning pulled no punches with his response to President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his longtime adviser and confidant Roger Stone. Romney described Trump’s controversial move — which has garnered widespread criticism — as “unprecedented, historic corruption.” Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person …

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Former Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden
4 years, 8 months ago

Former Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden

NPR  

Former Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden Enlarge this image toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images Updated at 3:40 p.m. ET Hillary Clinton has officially thrown her support behind Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race against President Trump, who defeated Clinton in 2016. Sponsor Message Biden's campaign hopes …

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Senator consulted with Clarence Thomas about controversial Trump nominee
5 years, 10 months ago

Senator consulted with Clarence Thomas about controversial Trump nominee

CNN  

Washington CNN — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that he spoke with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas about controversial Trump judicial nominee Neomi Rao. A source familiar with Hawley’s thinking told CNN that he is mainly concerned with Rao’s judicial philosophy and the lack of a record on substantive due process. On Wednesday before his meeting …

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