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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2021 4:34:59 GMT
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and vowed to back primary opponents who support Trump’s agenda. The fiery statement, which describes McConnell as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,” comes after the Senate GOP leader accused Trump of bearing responsibility for the deadly Capitol riot. Trump, whose once-prolific online presence has been muzzled by multiple social media companies, claimed in a statement from his political action committee that McConnell’s “dedication to business as usual” will lead to further Republican losses. “He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country,” Trump said of McConnell. “Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First.” The statement, which came three days after Trump was acquitted in an unprecedented second impeachment trial, highlights a widening rift in the GOP over what role the former president ought to play in the party. Trump, who maintains high approval among Republicans, had previously signaled he would remain active in politics. Seven Republican senators voted to convict Trump on one article of inciting the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, making it the most bipartisan impeachment trial vote ever. But the votes for conviction fell below two-thirds of the chamber, resulting in acquittal. While McConnell voted “not guilty” in the impeachment trial, he has denounced Trump’s conduct leading up to the Capitol riot. Minutes after the trial concluded, McConnell said on the Senate floor that Trump “is practically and morally responsible for provoking” the attack.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2021 5:06:52 GMT
Former President Donald Trump fears he may face lawsuits for the rest of his life from a barrage of plaintiffs seeking justice for the impact his conspiracy theories had over the last four years and on the 2020 election, according to a new report.
MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough has previously indicated in public comments he was considering filing a lawsuit against the former president after Mr Trump suggested without evidence he “got away with murder” while referring to the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, a former congressional aide who had an undiagnosed heart condition at the time of her passing, and whose death was ruled an accident by the medical examiner.
After his relationship with the former Republican congressman and media personality frayed in 2016, Mr Trump began repeatedly promoting the baseless conspiracy theory that Mr Scarborough killed the staffer — comments that sparked swift backlash from lawmakers, as well as Ms Klausutis’ husband, who called on Twitter to remove the president’s tweets and said he was using his wife’s death “for perceived political gain.”
On Thursday, the Daily Beast reported Mr Scarborough was still considering moving forward with the lawsuit after making his public comments about suing the former president in January, just two days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, and had been in contact with a prominent attorney in Washington.
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2021 3:45:12 GMT
SCOOP: NIKKI HALEY reached out to former President DONALD TRUMP on Wednesday to request a sit-down at Mar-a-Lago, but a source familiar tells Playbook that he turned her down. The two haven’t spoken since the insurrection on Jan. 6, when Haley blasted Trump for inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol. The snub comes on the heels of Tim Alberta’s deep dive in POLITICO Magazine last week on Haley’s presidential ambitions and how she’s trying to have it both ways with Trump.
Channeling George Costanza in mid-December, Haley refused to confront Trump over his election lies because he believed they were true. “I understand the president. I understand that genuinely, to his core, he believes he was wronged,” Haley told Alberta. “This is not him making it up.”
After Jan. 6, Haley changed her tune.
“I think he’s going to find himself further and further isolated,” Haley said of the defeated president. “I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have. I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving.”
And: “I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture,” she said, matter-of-factly. “I don’t think he can. He’s fallen so far.”
Haley tried to recover Thursday with a damage-control op-ed in the WSJ wrapped in blame-the-media rhetoric. But Trump, apparently, isn’t having it.
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2021 20:52:03 GMT
Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday.
A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46 percent of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27 percent said they would stay with the GOP, with the remainder indicating they would be undecided.
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee told the newspaper. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2021 5:42:20 GMT
A man was captured on camera defiantly waving a “TRUMP 2024” flag while skating on the Trump-run ice rink in Central Park Saturday — after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he’d shutter the rink early to put the freeze on the former president.
The President Donald Trump-booster was seen unfurling the massive red-and-blue flag in Woolman Rink on Saturday — a day before Hizzoner was set to close it along with the park’s popular Lasker Rink, footage shows.
“You know this is really a good finale for it to close tomorrow,” a teenager who shot footage of the flag-waver can be heard saying — as another onlooker shouts “whooo!”
The apparent protester’s name wasn’t immediately clear on Sunday.
But skaters at Central Park’s two rinks said this weekend they were devastated that their time on the ice was cut short this year — after The Post reported de Blasio would shut down the rinks six weeks ahead of their typical April closing dates.
Last month, Hizzoner said he would scrap city contracts with the Trump Organization, accusing then-President Trump of encouraging rioters to storm the Capitol.
Trump’s business group, run by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, has run the rinks for more than three decades.
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