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Donald Trump's lawsuit against New York AG Letitia James sets him up for another loss
Dec 27, 2021 12:38The familiar maxim “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” that we pass along to our children encourages resilience and perseverance in the face of failure. We have reason to think someone encouraged former President Donald Trump to take the expression to heart, and, unfortunately, he did.
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Texas governor using millions in taxpayer funds for Trump-like border wall project
Dec 26, 2021 05:06The governor of Texas is using millions in taxpayer funds for projects pertaining to his desire to finish former President Donald Trump’s aborted wall along the US-Mexico border.
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Biden says a Trump candidacy would motivate second term run
Dec 23, 2021 10:17Though he isn't even a year into his first term, US President Joe Biden says one factor could help convince him to run again in 2024: a rematch against 2020 rival Donald Trump.
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Iran, Iraq issue statement on probe into the assassination of top commanders
Dec 23, 2021 10:14A senior Iranian Judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the “criminal and terrorist” assassination by the United States of top anti-terror commanders of the two countries in Baghdad early last year.
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US Republicans are shamelessly working to subvert democracy. Are Democrats paying attention?
Dec 23, 2021 07:04As former US President Donald Trump's loyalists lay siege to democracy with voting restrictions and attempts to take over the running of elections, there are fears that Democrats in Washington have not fully woken up to the threat.
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New York attorney general vows Trump investigation will proceed ‘undeterred’
Dec 23, 2021 06:53The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said on Monday (Dec. 20) her investigation of Donald Trump’s business affairs would continue “undeterred”, despite Trump suing to stop it on grounds of political bias, “because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name Trump”.
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Capitol attack panel will determine if Trump committed crime – Republican
Dec 23, 2021 00:51Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January Capitol attack incited by Donald Trump, said on Sunday (Dec. 19) he was not “yet” ready to declare the former president guilty of a crime – but that the panel was investigating the likelihood that he is.
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Surprise! There’s no voter fraud. Again.
Dec 20, 2021 12:27For those who spend their days operating within the constraints of empirical reality, the long-running voter-fraud scam peddled by right-wing con artists poses a dilemma: Respond to their claims and give them the veneer of legitimacy they crave. Ignore them, and risk letting transparent lies spread unchecked.
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Israel losing ‘absolute power over Congress,' Trump laments
Dec 18, 2021 04:18Former US President Donald Trump said that Israel's "absolute power over Congress" had declined under the administration of Barack Obama and has slid further under the administration of Joe Biden.
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Meadows was deeply involved in fighting election outcome, Jan. 6 panel says
Dec 15, 2021 07:02The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a report on Sunday (Dec. 12) that laid out its case for a contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows, the Chief of Staff to former President Donald J. Trump, presenting evidence of Meadows’s deep involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.