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When you are the GOP POTUS Candidate and you lose Putin, then you have lost the election…

Trump says Putin will free jailed US reporter Gershkovich for him

"Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY," Trump said. "Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!"

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May 24, 2024


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Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in historic multi-country prisoner swap

The two men were on their way back to the U.S., officials said.

By Shannon K. Kingston, Mary Bruce, Molly Nagle and Karen Travers
August 1, 2024


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$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.

By Aaron C. Davis and Carol D. Leonnig
August 2, 2024


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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, right, in New York on Sept. 19, 2016, less than two months before that year's election.
 

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Anthony Scaramucci Says Trump Could Drop His Presidential Bid Against Kamala Harris If This Happens: 'I Know How This Man Thinks'

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Aug 2, 2024


Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday weighed in on the changing electoral landscape in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris entering the fray.

Media Backing: The cycle is moving quickly and the chess pieces are changed now, said Scaramucci in the latest episode of the Rest Is Politics US podcast he co-hosts with British journalist Katty Kay. The Democratic Party now has a candidate who is backed by most media outlets, barring some rightwing-leaning websites, he said. “They are building up the candidate and they’re building a persona and a profile of the candidate as a savior of not democracy alone....the new buzzword is freedom and future,” he said.

Scaramucci, the founder of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, noted that Harris was an improbable candidate as she got one percent of votes in the primaries and was selected during the George Floyd crisis in the U.S. She is an accidental candidate and accidental nominee, he said.

Trump’s Nightmarish Week: Referring to the National Association of Black Journalists national convention which Trump attended this week and received a lot of backlash for, Scaramucci said it was not a win for the former president and he lost something there.

The ex-White House aide referred to a Pennsylvania event where Trump appeared alongside David McCormick, who is running for the Senate. “He [Trump] was so flustered and he had teleprompters in front of him. He said ‘you’re great strong, great courageous leader who’s running for governor. Do you want to come up on the stage,'” Scaramucci said.

Trump made five or six major gaffes like that and they are not typical Trump gaffes, where he mispronounces a word, he added.

On the flight to Pennsylvania, Trump was off the hook upset about how it went for him at the NABJ, Scaramucci said, adding that the former president went to the convention with the intent of blowing up Harris’ spot about she being Black. Also, he wanted to leave there, scarring the Democrats, as he thought the African-American Community loved him and that they were going to embrace him.

Scaramucci said Trump was forgetting about the 20.2 million baby boomers who have died and about 33 million racially mixed people who are entering the voting age.

The ex-Trump official also noted that when the Republican nominee realized that Project 2025 was not polling well and that people thought of it as a “fascist, racist movement,” he disowned the 85 people he had put into the project.

Will Trump Drop Out: Scaramucci discussed the possibility of Trump quitting the race. Citing party insiders, including senators whom he is in touch with, he said they signaled that they tolerated Trump because they wanted to stay in power. They apparently feel Trump is not their cup of tea because of the way he handles himself.

“Some of these people have suggested to me, particularly political insiders, he does not want to go to jail,” Scaramucci said, adding that the number one reason for him to run is to get the Supreme Court to give him broader immunity against his court cases.

if he drops in the poll number, he could figure out a way to cut a deal, said Scaramucci. The businessman doesn’t think his former boss will receive a pardon but thinks he could go to the governors of New York and Georgia and ask that his sentence be commuted.

Scaramucci said Trump could cite health issues as the reason and designate someone like Nikki Haley or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

“There’s a pass for him if he drops in the polls and the predictive markets shoot up and he starts to panic. There’s a pass for him to get out of the race, blame it on a health issue, cut a deal and avoid jail,” he said.

“I know how this man thinks,” he said, adding that this deduction was not sourced. This is based on an analysis of Trump’s personality, having known him, he added.

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Biden ‘not confident at all’ in peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses race​

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Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transfer of power after the November presidential election.
“If Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all. I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all,” the president said in an interview with CBS News that is due to air in full this Sunday.
It is the US president’s first media interview since he dropped out of his re-election campaign last month and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the Democratic ticket. Harris is now the presumptive party nominee for president, with Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, as her running mate. They will face Donald Trump, the Republicans’ nominee, and his running mate, JD Vance, the Ohio Senator, in November.
Biden added, of Trump: “He means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’ … [and] ‘stolen election’, you can’t love your country only when you win.”
The TV network posted the excerpt from the interview on Twitter/X.


Donald Trump, who is the Republican nominee for president, said in March: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
In the CBS interview, Biden further said of Trump and the Republicans: “Look what they’re trying to do now, in the local election districts where people count the votes.” It was unclear from the brief clip whether Biden meant that Republicans send operatives to challenge the counting of votes or that they intimidate election workers, or both.
At a rally in Ohio in March, Trump also said: “I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country, if we don’t win this election … certainly not an election that’s meaningful.” At the time his comments prompted a statement from Biden’s re-election campaign that said “this is who Donald Trump is”.
Before withdrawing, Biden focused heavily in his re-election campaign on Trump as a threat to US democracy. Harris and Walz have taken up several other themes but have also criticized Trump and Vance for, among other things, being close to Project 2025, the hard-right framework drawn up by a team at the Heritage Foundation as a playbook for a second Trump presidency.
The blueprint recommends dismantling features of the government it believes conflict with conservative ideology, while installing extreme, conservative policies.
Harris said: “Can you believe they put that thing in writing?”
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Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.

For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.

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August 12, 2024


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CNN anchor presses Vance on Trump’s military deferment after attacking Walz

“Donald Trump didn’t serve in the military. He received a medical draft deferment for bone spurs to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, reportedly as a favor to his father,” she asked Vance. “Do you find that shameful, too?” “I think that Donald Trump didn’t serve in the military, but he didn’t lie about it,” Vance said. “Dana, I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. You don’t think he honors, or you think he had been for my service?”

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Trump Tells Elon Musk All About His Plan to Flee if He Loses Election

Hello, probation officer?

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August 13, 2024


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UAW hits Musk, Trump with federal labor charges over union-busting comments

Under federal law, it is illegal to fire workers who threaten to strike.
Trump has been vying for the labor vote in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris, though the UAW has already endorsed the vice president.


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August 13, 2024


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As Trump flails and invites conspiracies, allies plea for him to stay on message

Appearing dazed and flustered by an unfamiliar and fast-changing political landscape, Trump in response has unleashed a torrent of mean-spirited missives, race-baiting insults and conspiratorial broadsides that even close allies and donors acknowledge as unproductive. Some have privately expressed serious concerns that the former president’s recent inability to stay on message has wasted an early opportunity to blunt the momentum of his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

By Kristen Holmes and Steve Contorno, CNN
August 13, 2024

 

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Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Kyung Lah, CNN
August 15, 2024


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Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on “religious liberty” instead of “Christian nation-ism.”

But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.

The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s been floated as a possible White House chief of staff.

Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.”

“Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said. “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”

In discussing Trump’s plan to carry out the largest deportation in US history – which the former president has called for publicly – Vought said the expulsion of millions of undocumented immigrants could help “save the country.”

Once deportations begin, “you’re really going to be winning a debate along the way about what that looks like,” Vought said. “And so that’s going to cause us to get us off of multiculturalism, just to be able to sustain and defend the deportation, right?”

The video is the latest example of secret recordings exposing political figures’ private comments. The tactics used by the Centre – which created fake websites and a fake LinkedIn profile to deceive Vought – are typically rejected by mainstream American news outlets.

But using hidden cameras and deceptive practices in reporting is more common in the UK, where the Centre is based, and it’s been on the rise on the fringe of the US media as well. The conservative group Project Veritas has long conducted sting operations and published selectively edited videos, and earlier this year, a liberal activist released audio recordings of conversations she had with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.

In an email, Lawrence Carter, the Centre’s co-founder and director, defended the group’s tactics, saying that there was a public interest in revealing Vought’s private comments about his relationship with Trump and work on Project 2025.

“We broadly follow the UK’s press regulator guidelines on this, which say that it is justified if it is in the public interest and not obtainable via other means,” Carter said. “We therefore weigh the subject’s reasonable expectation of privacy with the public interest.”

The Centre posted clips of its secretly recorded conversation with Vought online. It provided CNN what it said was a complete, unedited version of its video on the condition that CNN blurred footage showing its employees’ faces, in order to protect their ability to go undercover in the future.

In a statement Thursday, Vought’s nonprofit downplayed the video, saying it did not reveal any new comments from him.

“It would have been easier to just do a google search to ‘uncover’ what is already on our website and said in countless national media interviews,” said Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for the Center for Renewing America. “But thank you for airing our perfect conversation emphasizing our policy work is totally separate from the Trump campaign, as we have been saying.”

A Trump spokesperson declined to comment on the video, but his campaign has stressed that he sets his own agenda and that Project 2025 and other outside conservative groups don’t speak for him.

“President Trump’s campaign made it clear that only President Trump and the campaign, and NOT any other organization or former staff, represent policies for the second term,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior advisor to the campaign, said in a statement. “President Trump personally led the effort to establish 20 promises made to the forgotten men and women across our nation, as well as RNC Platform – these are the only policies endorsed by President Trump for a second term.”

An elaborate ruse

Vought served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, where he made a name for himself as a policy wonk committed to the MAGA movement. In public, Trump repeatedly praised Vought for doing an “incredible” and “fantastic” job at OMB.

After Trump left office, Vought started the Center for Renewing America, a nonprofit that describes itself as the “tip of the America First spear.” CRA was one of many right-leaning groups that partnered on Project 2025, a more than 900-page blueprint for Trump’s second term that was led by the Heritage Foundation. Vought personally authored the project’s chapter on the executive office of the president, and his group contributed to several other chapters of the plan as well.

Vought also served as the policy director of the Republican National Convention committee that rewrote the GOP’s official platform this year – a sign of how central he is to Republicans’ policy goals.

Last month, Vought’s team was approached by employees with the Centre for Climate Reporting, which has previously published investigations into climate negotiations and Saudi Arabia’s energy policy.

The Centre spun an elaborate fiction, with a journalist and a paid actor posing as the brother and son-in-law of a reclusive New Mexico investor. The nonexistent patriarch had watched Vought’s appearances on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show while recuperating from an illness – and wanted to make a seven-figure contribution to CRA after previously focusing his philanthropy on classical music, they claimed.

The meeting took place on July 24, the week after the Republican convention, at the presidential suite of the Rosewood hotel in DC, where the Centre had placed several hidden cameras and microphones, Carter said. After the Centre’s employees suggested starting the meeting with a prayer, they peppered Vought with questions about his work and views, the video shows.

Sitting on a couch in the hotel suite, Vought seemed relaxed and comfortable discussing a wide range of topics, from the history of the conservative movement to European politics to his relationship with the former president.

Vought said he was unfazed by Trump’s repeated denials of any connection with Project 2025, dismissing such public statements as politics.

“I see what he’s doing is just very, very conscious distancing himself from a brand,” Vought said. “It’s interesting, he’s in fact not even opposing himself to a particular policy.”

About a week after the conversation, the director of Project 2025 stepped down, and Trump’s campaign managers said in a statement that “reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed.”

Vought said he had personally talked to Trump in recent months and received at least one personal “assignment” from him after he left office. He noted that the former president has “been at our organization, he’s raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it … he’s very supportive of what we do.”

That wasn’t just bluster to try to land a big check, according to others in the MAGA movement. Trump and Vought have spoken at various times since leaving office, and the former president has adopted some of Vought’s ideas, two sources familiar with their relationship told CNN.

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President Donald Trump listens as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought speaks during a White House event in October 2019.

Inside the ‘second phase’ of Project 2025

In preparation for Trump’s potential return to the White House, Vought said in the meeting that he had a team of staffers working to draft regulations and executive orders that would translate Trump’s campaign speeches into government policy.

“We’ve got about 350 different documents that are regulations and things of that nature that are, we’re planning for the next administration,” he said.

For example, “you may say, ‘OK, all right, DHS, we want to have the largest deportation,’” Vought said. “What are your actual memos that a secretary sends out to do it? Like, there’s an executive order, regulations, secretarial memos. Those are the types of things that need to be thought through so you’re not, you’re not having to scramble or do that later on.”

Those plans will not be made public, Vought said, but instead will be “very, very close hold.”

A Centre for Climate Reporting journalist, under the guise of the fake donor’s relative, also secretly recorded a separate conversation with one of Vought’s aides, who went into more detail about the process. Micah Meadowcroft, the research director for CRA, said the drafts the group was preparing would be provided to an incoming Trump administration in a way that would protect them from ever being publicly disclosed.

“It’s a big, fat stack of papers that will be distributed during the transition period,” Meadowcroft said in the video – while noting that “you don’t actually, like, send them to their work emails,” in order to avoid disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

He described Vought’s work preparing executive orders and policy playbooks as “the second phase” of Project 2025.

The work of drafting policies is happening months ahead of the election in part because “President Trump will want to spend literally zero amount of time thinking or contemplating what a transition will look like,” Vought said. “It’s not how he thinks.”

Vought’s guiding principle, he said, was simple: What would Donald do?

“We were always going off of, if Donald Trump was head of this agency, what would he do with it?” Vought said.

The Washington Post and Associated Press previously reported that Vought was drafting a playbook for the first 180 days of a new Trump administration.

More broadly, during Trump’s first term in office, Vought said, “we had people, appointees, that were not on board with the president’s viewpoint – leaking, destabilizing the policy process.”

“I don’t think that will be the occurrence again,” Vought said. “I think he will find people that share his political views are bought in, and that will be a much more healthy White House process as a result.”

Some have speculated that Vought himself could be one of those people, with others in the MAGA movement floating him as a potential White House chief of staff. Asked if he had been offered a job in a second Trump administration, Vought said no, but added, “I think there’s an expectation that I would go in.”

“I don’t know what that would be,” he said. “I don’t know what the President would want me to do.”

Religion and race

Elsewhere in the conversation, Vought outlined views on religion and race that seem more extreme than those Trump has publicly articulated – including criticism of the right for what he described as an excessive focus on religious freedom.

In the conservative movement, “we’ve been too focused on religious liberty, which we all support, but we’ve lacked the ability to argue we are a Christian nation,” Vought argued – an idea he’s also talked about publicly. “Our laws are built on the Judeo-Christian worldview value system.”

He said that conservatives should push to have debates over whether to allow mosques to be built in America’s downtowns, and whether Christian immigrants should be prioritized over those of other faiths – ideas that run contrary to First Amendment protections.

“I want to make sure that we can say we are a Christian nation,” Vought added later. “And my viewpoint is mostly that I would probably be Christian nation-ism. That’s pretty close to Christian nationalism because I also believe in nationalism.”

Vought argued that it was important to pursue some of the culturally conservative policy goals listed in the Project 2025 blueprint – including abortion restrictions and making pornography illegal – while taking into account political realities.

Instead of an unpopular new law banning all pornography, for example, Vought said that his group would propose “doing it from the back door” by making pornography websites legally liable if minors use them. That could lead pornography companies to stop doing business in states with those kind of laws, he suggested.

And in discussing the protests and riots around the US in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Vought said that the president had the ability to use the military to restore order. He argued that the commander-in-chief wasn’t limited by the Posse Comitatus Act, a nearly 150-year-old law that prevents federal troops from conducting civilian law enforcement except when authorized by law.

“The President has, you know, the ability both along the border and elsewhere to maintain law and order with the military,” Vought said. “And that’s something that, you know, it’s going to be important for, for him to remember and his lawyers to affirm.”

Trump wanted to deploy thousands of active duty troops on the streets of major cities to quell protesters in 2020, but defense officials pushed back, a senior official told CNN at the time.

Vought added that the unrest following Floyd’s death “obviously was not about race.”

“It was about destabilizing the Trump administration,” he claimed.

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One of the tactics Trump used is drop hinting dirt for a person that is vocally opposing him. He wants to mute you. I frequently do this to people rather than destroying them.

It is the same thing that foreign intelligence services do to people when they got black mail on you. You are now helping them rather than working against their interests.

Many of these Democrats double down and try to discredit him which is the wrong move. It is a fight or flight response they run out talking about Trump is a convicted felon.

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I believe Epstein wasn't a pedophile, but a foreign intelligence operation to blackmail politicians and entrap them into compromising positions. Just like a undercover officer has to engage in drugs or prostitution to convince people that he is legitimate, the same thing with Epstein. Here you can see the same pattern of behavior with a criminal conviction to discredit you if you were to come out and some type of assassination attempt.

If Trump was doing the same thing, then he also went through a criminal conviction and eventually an assassination attempt.
 
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The American Vice President
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The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence. Focusing on the fraught period between 1963 and 1974, when a grief-stricken and then scandal-plagued America was forced to clarify the role of the vice president, the film examines the passage and first uses of the 25th Amendment and offers a fresh and surprising perspective on succession in the executive branch.

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GOP VP Candidate J.D. Vance On Childcare
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If Biden answered a question like this, they would be dragging him out of the White House right now.
 

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Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns when he rolled back Obama regulation

In 2017, Trump quietly rolled back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns.

By Corky Siemaszko
Aug. 5, 2019


President Donald Trump responded to the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings by insisting Monday that “mental illness pulls the trigger not the gun,” but shortly after taking office he quietly rolled back an Obama-era regulation that would have made it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns.

Trump did so without any fanfare. In fact, the news that Trump had signed the bill was at the bottom of a White House email that alerted the media to other legislation signed by the president.

And it came after the House and Senate, both of which were Republican-controlled at the time, passed a bill, H.J. Res 40, which revoked the Obama-era regulation. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson, a Texas Republican who retired at the end of 2018.

Pressed by NBC News why Trump nullified the rule, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Tuesday: “This was a wide-ranging regulation promulgated in the 11th hour of the previous administration that included all kinds of people with disabilities who are more than capable of owning a firearm. The rule went too far.”

The latest mass shootings left at least 30 dead and horrified the nation.

In a statement, the National Rifle Association said it "welcomes the President's call to address the root causes of the horrific acts of violence that have occurred in our country."

"It has been the NRA’s long-standing position that those who have been adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others should not have access to firearms and should be admitted for treatment," it said.

But two years ago, the NRA insisted the Obama rule infringed on Second Amendment rights to buy guns, even though the regulation specifically targeted people who were diagnosed with mental illness.

The NRA “applauded” Trump’s action at the time and then-executive director Chris Cox said the move “marks a new era for law-abiding gun owners, as we now have a president who respects and supports our arms.”

The Obama rule that Trump nullified had added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their financial affairs to the national background check database.

Had that rule taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added 75,000 names to the national background check database.

Obama had recommended the regulation after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 first-graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a leading gun control advocate in Congress, denounced Trump in 2017 for getting rid of the Obama restrictions and blasted the GOP.

"Republicans always say we don’t need new gun laws, we just need to enforce the laws already on the books,” he said in a statement. “But the bill signed into law today undermines enforcement of existing laws that Congress passed to make sure the background check system had complete information.”

Groups like the National Alliance of Mental Illness have accused the Trump Administration of rolling back other Obama-era policies designed to help the mentally ill.

"In the U.S., it is easier to get a gun than it is to get mental health," said Angela Kimball, NAMI's acting CEO. "We need to flip the script. It should be easy — not hard — for people to get the mental health care they need."

Meanwhile, mental health experts accused Trump of focusing on mental illness to avoid taking politically risky steps like banning high-powered weapons like the ones that were used in the El Paso and Dayton massacres.

“These events are tragic, but are not predictable because many people have the propensity to perpetrate mayhem,” said Linda Teplin, a professor of psychiatry at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “They must have the weapons, not only the inclination. We are complicit because we make rifles with high capacity magazines available to all.”

The Newtown Action Alliance said the president's comments are an attempt to deflect from real change.

"If the president truly believed that those with mental illness should not have access to weapons of war, he would not have reversed Obama's executive order to remove social security recipients with mental illness from the NICS background system," Po Murray, Chairwoman, Newtown Action Alliance said in a statement. "But the fact is that only 4 percent of violent crimes are committed by those with mental illness. Donald Trump continues to push the NRA rhetoric that scapegoats mental illness in an effort to deflect from the real issue ... the dire lack of common-sense legislation that could end the epidemic of gun violence in our country."
 

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GOP V. POTUS Candidate J.D. Vance laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ in the US as he calls for more security

“I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets, and we have got to bolster security at our schools,” Vance said at a campaign event in Phoenix in response to a question from CNN on what specific policies he supports to end school shootings.

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Lindsey Graham vents about Trump’s debate performance: ‘A missed opportunity’

One of Donald Trump’s most prominent allies panned his debate performance as “a missed opportunity” and said it was crucial that the former president better defend his own administration if there’s another debate.

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Even Republicans describe Trump’s debate showing as a ‘disaster’

“The road just got very narrow,” one House Republican said after seeing Donald Trump’s debate performance. “This is not good.”

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September 11, 2024


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Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’

Nathan Clark calls Republicans ‘hate-spewing’ for falsely claiming Aiden Clark was murdered by Haitian immigrant

Maya Yang
11 Sep 2024


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JD Vance responds to Taylor Swift, flunks test of self-awareness

We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music, are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”

By Steve Benen
September 12, 2024


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As soon as folks start calling him a Big Chicken scared to debate a Black Woman….he will change his mind and debate her.

Trump says he won’t participate in any more presidential debates with Harris

Trump has claimed the moderators from ABC were unfair in the debate on Tuesday, and was initially noncommittal about participating in another one.

By Alexandra Marquez
September 12, 2024


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Trump rips Neil Cavuto after Fox host said he ‘decisively lost’ debate

“Neil Cavuto, Fox’s Lowest Rated Anchor, is one of the WORST on Television. I actually prefer the losers at CNN and MSDNC,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Wednesday.

BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO
09/12/24


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Neil Cavuto


Republican pollster predicts Donald Trump loses the election after Tuesday's debate

Kinsey Crowley
USA TODAY
September 12, 2024


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Frank Luntz


Brit Hume on debate: ‘Trump had a bad night’

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said former President Trump had a rough outing during the ABC News debate versus Vice President Harris, saying he fell for some of the vice president’s traps and aired “old grievances” that are not advantageous politically.

BY FILIP TIMOTIJA
09/11/24


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Brit Hume


Karl Rove: Trump called Harris ‘dumb as a rock.’ What does that make him?

“Mr. Trump had to know the vice president would try to get him to lose his cool. She did. She went after him on his multiple indictments. She called him ‘weak’ and belittled him as a six-time bankrupt, spoiled inheritor of wealth. She said his former national security adviser thought him, in her words, ‘dangerous and unfit’ for the Oval Office,” Rove wrote.

By Lauren Sforza
September 12, 2024


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Dreamers blast Nicky Jam for endorsing Trump after he sought to end DACA as president

The reggaeton singer had previously expressed his support for DACA recipients, and he condemned Trump's actions in 2018.

By Nicole Acevedo
September 16, 2024



Donald Trump misgenders reggaeton star Nicky Jam at rally: 'She's hot'

"Latin music superstar Nicky Jam. Do you know Nicky? She’s hot," Trump said during the Friday event at The Expo at World Market Center.

Melissa Ruggieri
USA TODAY
September 15, 2024



Reggaeton star scrubs endorsement after Trump misgenders him as 'hot' woman: report

"Jam initially made light of the gaffe in an Instagram post — its caption referred to himself, in Spanish, as a 'hot woman,' accompanied by no fewer than 22 crying-laughing emojis. But, as of Sunday night, the post had been deleted. The comment section on his most recent post before it, which was unrelated to Trump, was also deactivated," reported Liam Archacki.

Matthew Chapman
September 16, 2024


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Donald Trump accused of proposing The Purge in real life during wild campaign speech: 'One really violent day'

Social media erupted with claims that Trump's recent comments at an rally sounded eerily reminiscent of the plot of "The Purge" franchise.

By Joey Nolfi
September 30, 2024


…"Crime is at a level like we've never seen, it's rampant. It's rising," Trump said, later adding, "We have to let the police do their job, and if they have to be extraordinarily rough," before trailing off into another thought. Trump said that the "liberal left won't let" police respond appropriately to imagined scenarios of criminal conduct he said happened at the hands of migrants.

"The liberal left wants to destroy [the police] and they want to destroy our country. You know, if you had one day, one real rough, nasty day with the drugstores, as an example," he said, later doubling down on asking the crowd what they think would happen "if you had one really violent day." He then proposed putting someone like Republican Congressman Mike Kelly in charge of such an endeavor, which he again described as "one rough hour, and I mean real rough," and speculated that such a measure "would end immediately" all crime...

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