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Post by Admin on May 21, 2021 20:36:00 GMT
Former President Trump has been sued by a civil rights group for calling COVID-19 the “China virus” last year.
The federal complaint by the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CARC) alleges that Trump’s use of that phrase and similar terms harmed the Chinese American community.
The lawsuit was first reported by TMZ.
Trump’s “extreme and outrageous conduct was carried out throughout the pandemic with reckless disregard of whether such conduct would cause Chinese Americans to suffer emotional distress,” the suit states.
Jason Miller, senior adviser for Trump, told The Hill in a statement, "This is an insane and idiotic lawsuit that is specious at best, and it will be dismissed if it ever sees a courtroom."
"It’s a complete joke, and if I was the lawyer that brought it I’d be worried about getting sanctioned," he said.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a worrying and well-documented increase in violence against Asian Americans that activists have blamed in part on rhetoric like Trump's.
Trump and his allies repeatedly used the term “Chinese virus” and other derogatory phrases since COVID-19 was initially detected in Wuhan, China.
A study from the University of California, San Francisco published in March found that Trump calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” in a tweet in March 2020 led to an increase in the use of anti-Asian hashtags on the platform.
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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2021 22:09:37 GMT
Trump's preferred candidate in a special House election in Texas lost on Tuesday to another Republican who was likely boosted by some protest votes against the former president. And on Wednesday, 17 Senate Republicans voted to advance a bipartisan infrastructure deal that Trump spent weeks railing against.
While Trump remains a towering figure in the GOP, the back-to-back blows have led some to question whether his influence may have started to wane since he left office.
“Trump has not had a big win in quite a while,” Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said. “I think without wins, his political capital is depleted.”
“Donald Trump does not have a post-presidential strategy,” he added. “He is overexposed at the same time that he’s not getting enough attention. He’s giving lots of speeches and traveling the country, but other than his narrow base no one’s really paying attention and I think that limits his influence.”
Trump received a blow to his endorsing power this week when Susan Wright, his candidate of choice in a runoff election for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, lost to fellow Republican Jake Ellzey.
One former Trump adviser dismissed the idea that Wright’s loss on Tuesday and the Senate’s infrastructure vote had dealt a blow to the former president’s influence over the GOP, blaming the upsets on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and the conservative Club for Growth, which had encouraged Trump to endorse Wright.
“It’s absurd to think that you can take anything away from the Texas race or the Senate vote,” the adviser said. “There are a million issues at play here and it’s got nothing to do with President Trump.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 19:51:07 GMT
Former President Trump’s various political committees brought in a combined $82 million in fundraising during the first six months of 2021.
And Trump has spent very little of the money he’s hauled in, with his committees entering the month of July with $102 million cash on hand, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission that the former president made public on Saturday evening.
The fundraising figures, along with the former president’s continued strong standing among Republican voters in public opinion polling, are signs of Trump’s continued popularity and sway within the GOP six months removed from the White House and come even without access to his once powerful pages on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
The fundraising figures release comes as Trump remains intent on continuing to play a kingmaker’s role in party politics while he flirts repeatedly with another presidential run in 2024. Trump is sailing through unchartered waters as he continues to haul in big bucks – as he’s the first former president to raise such large sums of money after departing the White House.
Trump out-raised the GOP House and Senate reelection committees during the first six months of the year, and came close to matching the $85 million hauled in from January through June by the Republican National Committee, which was first reported by Fox News last month.
Trump’s team touted that the fundraising haul came from 3.2 million contributions, which the federal filing showed were divided among Save America – which at $62 million took in the bulk of the fundraising - the Make America Great Again PAC, as well as a separate joint fundraising committee.
Former President Trump’s various political committees brought in a combined $82 million in fundraising during the first six months of 2021.
And Trump has spent very little of the money he’s hauled in, with his committees entering the month of July with $102 million cash on hand, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission that the former president made public on Saturday evening.
The fundraising figures, along with the former president’s continued strong standing among Republican voters in public opinion polling, are signs of Trump’s continued popularity and sway within the GOP six months removed from the White House and come even without access to his once powerful pages on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
The fundraising figures release comes as Trump remains intent on continuing to play a kingmaker’s role in party politics while he flirts repeatedly with another presidential run in 2024. Trump is sailing through unchartered waters as he continues to haul in big bucks – as he’s the first former president to raise such large sums of money after departing the White House.
Trump out-raised the GOP House and Senate reelection committees during the first six months of the year, and came close to matching the $85 million hauled in from January through June by the Republican National Committee, which was first reported by Fox News last month.
Trump’s team touted that the fundraising haul came from 3.2 million contributions, which the federal filing showed were divided among Save America – which at $62 million took in the bulk of the fundraising - the Make America Great Again PAC, as well as a separate joint fundraising committee.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2021 3:21:42 GMT
Trump joins Dan Bongino on Fox News
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2021 19:12:21 GMT
According to a report from the Religion News Service, the launch of Donald Trump's new National Faith Advisory Board got off to a rocky on Thursday after he complained to religious leaders about Jewish voters not appreciating what he did for them during his four years in office.
According to the report, the official launch on the board took place this week with Trump and longtime Trump advisor Paula White speaking to members on a conference call --with the suggestion the one-term president may make another run in 2024 with the hope he can round up enough people of faith to support him.
According to the report from Jack Jenkins, "Trump referenced hypothetical future scenarios 'if we're able to get back in,' while repeating the widely discredited claim the 2020 election was 'stolen' from him. In discussing the Catholic vote, he acknowledged he had lost ground with the bloc in his four years in office."
"I'm a little bit surprised that we didn't do better with the Catholic vote," Trump told those listening in. "I think now they would give us a vote. I think we got about 50% of the vote. And yet, we did a lot for the Catholic vote. So we'll have to talk to them. We're gonna have to meet with the Catholics."
Jenkins notes that Trump was hit hard by Catholic defections in the hard-hit Rust Belt states, pointing out, "Trump's margin dropped from 64% to 57% between 2016 and 2020, whereas Biden won 42% — an 11% improvement over Clinton in 2016."
The former president was less pleased with Jewish voters, complaining that "Israel has never had a better friend."
"The former president expressed frustration with the lack of support from Jewish voters, despite his administration's support of Israel," Jenkins wrote, quoting Trump declaring, "Look what I did with the embassy in Jerusalem and what I did with so many other things … Israel has never had a better friend, and yet I got 25% of the vote. I think they have to get together. There has to be a little bit more unity with the religious groups all represented on this call."
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