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'Horrific' attack on congressional candidate sends shockwaves: 'There are no words'A Democratic congressional candidate's harrowing account of an attack on the campaign trail drew horrified reactions online from journalists and politicians. Bernadette Greene-Placentia , who is challenging Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, told the Phoenix New Times in a story published Wednesday that she was struck…
Trump civil rights chief’s ‘best and brightest’ boast crumbles hire by hire: legal expertA former prosecutor ripped apart the Trump Justice Department's claim that its new civil rights lawyers rank among the nation's finest. Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, a former Miami-Dade prosecutor, picked through the records of new hires in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division on Wednesday's episode of "The Katie Phang Show," drawing on a New York Times…
MAGA's 'tone-deaf' wagon-circling around Trump pals floors Jen Psaki: 'Not a great look'MS NOW's Jen Psaki was stupefied at new reporting that Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita went overseas to back a pro-Russia party in the Balkans — but even more so at the excuse Trump's super PAC gave to justify it all. "Where were they this weekend?" said Psaki. "With just a month left until the midterms, where were they? They were thousands…
Outrage after 'MAGA thug' assaults Trump protester at Texas rally: 'Bunch of snowflakes'Critics erupted online Wednesday after an older MAGA rallygoer yanked a protester's hair during President Donald Trump's San Antonio rally . Trump came to San Antonio to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton and Carlos De La Cruz, who's running to represent Texas' 35th Congressional District. He was speaking at Freeman Coliseum when multiple…
MAGA fan assaults Trump protester on his way out the door at Texas rallyA member of the audience at President Donald Trump's rally in San Antonio on Wednesday pounced on a protester and pulled his hair, per videos. Multiple protesters appeared to heckle Trump during his speech. While one of the protesters, a young man, appeared to head for the exit, an older man wearing a MAGA hat ran up behind him, grabbed him and started…
Susan Collins' disastrous debate gaffe revealed she was 'in on the lie': ex-GOP operativeSen. Susan Collins (R-ME) insists Brett Kavanaugh never lied to her about Roe v. Wade, and an ex-GOP strategist thinks he knows why. Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt seized on the exchange in a Wednesday episode of "The Warning," a day after Collins faced Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a debate . The moderator asked Collins whether…
DHS sends undercover agents to probe nonprofits in sweeping hunt with dark 'objective'The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by Homeland Security Investigations, a…
MAGA candidate's scandal-plagued staff linked to former Klan leader: reportTwo county-level organizers for Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins have ties to a far-right group started by a former Ku Klux Klan leader, according to a Daily Beast exclusive , adding to the controversies around the Trump-endorsed Republican. The group, American Patriots USA, was founded by Chester Doles, who once ranked second in the Maryland Klan…
Trump 'out of control' as rampage 'coming back to haunt him': biographerPresident Donald Trump's longtime biographer says the president is now "out of control" as the reckless moves in his second term backfire. Michael Wolff, who has written four books on Trump, made the remarks in a Tuesday episode of The Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast after he and co-host Joanna Coles played a clip of Trump at a Nebraska rally…
Trump stalling Jack Smith report hearing by hiding behind midterm schedule: ex-prosecutorPresident Donald Trump is using his midterm schedule to stall a hearing on Jack Smith's classified documents report, a former U.S. attorney says. Joyce Vance, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, laid out the maneuver Tuesday in an article for her Substack newsletter Civil Discourse, arguing the president's latest bid for a…
Debate goes off the rails as MAGA candidate fights with moderator: 'We need to move on'The debate in the Iowa gubernatorial race at St. Ambrose University on Tuesday went off the rails as GOP candidate Zach Lahn began fighting with the moderators during a questioning segment that was supposed to be about agriculture policy. Lahn, a businessman, took offense at repeated jabs from his opponent, Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand, over him…
Florida man arrested after dressing up as ICE agent at polls to 'see people's reactions'A Miami-area man was arrested after allegedly turning up at a polling place in a full Immigration and Customs Enforcement getup, rattling voters for the sake of what he called curiosity, The New Republic reported . Danilo Alves Silva, 46, was taken into custody Sunday at Miami-Dade College's Kendall Campus, where Brazilian expats were voting in their…
Outrage after Susan Collins tries to 'feel' her way out of Kavanaugh question: 'Pathetic'Onlookers were outraged Tuesday after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) gave an underwhelming answer to a key question during the state's Senate debate. Collins faced off in a debate with Democratic challenger Troy Jackson, where Collins was asked to defend her record supporting Trump's policies. At one time, the moderator asked Collins point-blank if Supreme…
Trump's niece spots telltale sign he's become 'detached' in his latest dark threatAt a Nebraska rally this week, President Donald Trump told supporters that losing a major American city to Iran would be "a very small price to pay" in the war he started. His niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, says the remark reveals a disturbing detachment from human life. In a Substack post , Mary Trump zeroed in on a passage from Trump's Grand…
CNN smacks Susan Collins with brutal flashback ahead of debate: 'Life comes at you fast'CNN hit Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) with a brutal reminder of her past vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just hours before she was set to face her Democratic opponent in their first debate. “Life comes at you fast,” CNN’s Kasie Hunt said Tuesday after airing a 2018 interview in which Dana Bash pressed Collins about Kavanaugh and Roe V. Wade.…
Trump hit with 'most embarrassing hack' of the year: 'We have no team to handle this'A phone company launched by President Donald Trump's sons was hacked, and the hackers say they released customer data because the company told them it had "no team to handle this." A new criminal group called BYOD posted the records of 3,615 Trump Mobile customers on its dark web leak site last week, Straight Arrow News reported Monday. The files include…