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Secret Service rejects accusations that security was diverted from Trump to Jill Biden’s rally
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Secret Service rejects accusations that security was diverted from Trump to Jill Biden’s rally

By Washington Examiner Much has been said of the Secret Service detail after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Many are seeking answers as to how the shooter could position himself on a roof so close to a former president and current presumptive Republican presidential nominee. One theory suggested that some Secret Service members were relocated from Trump’s rally in Butler to a Sunday campaign event for first lady Jill Biden in Pittsburgh. The Secret Service rejected this claim. On Sunday, a social media post from a White House correspondent from RealClearPolitics advanced the idea of personnel being diverted to the first lady’s campaign event.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Day One: What to expect as Republicans descend on Milwaukee
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Day One: What to expect as Republicans descend on Milwaukee

By Haisten Willis | Washington Examiner Former President Donald Trump‘s nomination becomes official this week as tens of thousands of Republicans gather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with festivities beginning just two days after Trump miraculously survived an assassination attempt that left his right ear slashed and a supporter dead from gunshot wounds. The 2024 Republican National Convention lasts from Monday through Thursday, with each day focusing on a particular theme. Monday’s theme is “Make America Wealthy Once Again,” as the economy has been one of Trump’s most significant messaging points this year. “On day one, we will throw out Bidenomics and replace it with a thing called MAGAnomics.,” Trump said at a recent rally in Miami. “We will quickly build the greatest econ...
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Lake: It’s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics
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Lake: It’s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics

By Eli Lake | Commentary, The Free Press For months now, the parallels between 2024 and 1968 have seemed eerie. The Democratic convention is once again in Chicago this August, as it was 56 years ago. The Democratic incumbent, once again, is despised by his left-wing base and seems out of touch with voters. College campuses are once again aflame over a foreign war. And yet despite these echoes, anyone familiar with the horrors of 1968 would have thought things were much worse in that year of street battles and riots than today. Until Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. Yesterday evening, an assassin’s bullet came a hair’s breadth away from killing the Republican nominee and front-runner in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump. Instead, the bullet grazed his ear, set...
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Poll: Colorado’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention are still backing Joe Biden
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Poll: Colorado’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention are still backing Joe Biden

By Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun They’re still ridin’ with Biden. For now.  The Colorado Sun on Thursday polled nearly 20 of the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month, and none said they planned on not backing Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for president.  However, some said they didn’t think Biden is the best option amid questions about his mental fitness and ability to beat Donald Trump, while others declined to comment. Colorado will have 87 delegates to the Aug. 19-22 convention, including the state’s two U.S. senators and five U.S. House members. And while they are instructed to vote in “good conscience” to back Biden since he won the Democratic presidential primaries this year in a landslide, t...
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Federal judge dismisses Trump documents case, says Jack Smith unlawfully appointed
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Federal judge dismisses Trump documents case, says Jack Smith unlawfully appointed

By Catherine Yang | The Epoch Times U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case on July 15, finding that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause. “The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution,” the order reads. The 93-page opinion and order was issued after days of oral arguments over the special counsel’s appointment and the statutory authority the Justice Department argued Attorney General Merrick Garland used to appoint Mr. Smith. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE EPOCH TIMES
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Trump: ‘I’m not supposed to be here’
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Trump: ‘I’m not supposed to be here’

By Byron York | Washington Examiner Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during his speech in Pennsylvania Saturday evening. Trump was standing at the podium and began to refer to a large screen, hanging to his right, that showed statistics about immigration. To better see the screen, Trump turned his head to the right and a little up, and at the millisecond in which his head was at just the right angle for the bullet to graze his ear but not enter his skull — at that moment, the bullet whizzed by. Trump suffered a bloody wound to his ear, but no other injuries. It seemed like a miracle. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Shoes, fist-pumps, open-air venue, 150-yard building, more were security concerns, former Secret Service agents say
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Shoes, fist-pumps, open-air venue, 150-yard building, more were security concerns, former Secret Service agents say

By Russ Jones | The Epoch Times As gunshots rang out during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Secret Service agents quickly formed a protective circle around the former president and escorted him off the platform to a waiting vehicle. The shooter, who was killed immediately after the attack, was a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles south of the rally site in Butler. He had positioned himself on a factory rooftop approximately 130 yards from the Butler Showgrounds and fired a number shots at President Trump, with one bullet grazing Trump’s right ear. A former fire chief who was attending the rally with his family was killed in the shooting. Two other rally attendees were also critically ...
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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’
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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’

By SARAH FERRIS | Politico President Joe Biden gave a forceful and defensive response to centrist Democrats who raised concerns about his reelection campaign in a Saturday meeting, and in one tense exchange dismissed one lawmaker’s concerns as “crap.” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a respected centrist in the Democratic caucus, told Biden that people want a strong leader so they can feel safe on national security. “I don’t want to hear that crap,” Biden said in response to Crow’s suggestion that voters did not have confidence in his national security credentials, raising his voice in a forceful defense of his foreign policy record, including the rebuilding of NATO, according to three people familiar with the remarks granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting. READ THE FULL ST...
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Trump calls for supporters, America to ‘fear not’ and ‘stand united’
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Trump calls for supporters, America to ‘fear not’ and ‘stand united’

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Former President Donald J. Trump called upon America to "stand united" in an early-morning Truth Social post Sunday, following an assassination attempt on his life Saturday. Mr. Trump had begun only brief remarks Saturday afternoon in Butler, Penn., when shots from an assassin's rifle, interrupting a campaign rally in rural, western Pennsylvania, could be heard on TV broadcasts. "We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our faith and defiant in the face of wickedness," Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform. "Our love goes out to the other victims and their families. We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed." As Mr. Trump asked the crowd i...
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In Denver, winning UFC fighter: ‘They just tried to whack my boy Trump… long live Trump’
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In Denver, winning UFC fighter: ‘They just tried to whack my boy Trump… long live Trump’

By Ryan Morik  | Fox News The show went on in Denver on Saturday night after the shooting at Donald Trump's rally. UFC Fight Night was underway shortly after what is widely believed to be an assassination attempt on the former president. The company's president, Dana White, has long been friendly with Trump, speaking at several of his rallies in the past. White is also reportedly slated to speak right before Trump at the Republican National Convention this week. Evan Elder, apparently, is a supporter as well. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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