President Trump

‘Not a single person has been disciplined, has even been suspended pending the investigation. They’re out still doing security today’

A member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee is sounding the alarm about more assassination plots against Donald Trump, as the former president continues his quest for the White House this November.

“The plots are ongoing … Trump is still out there,” said U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.

h/t XC

For most of 2024, Americans had the unusual experience of living through a two-incumbent election. The year began with the first presidential repeat since 1956. It was the first time the major parties were set to nominate a current and past president since 1892. The presence of two incumbents introduced all sorts of peculiarities into the race. Both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump were well known. Both men were unpopular. And both had records that could be easily contrasted.

It is unsettling to realize that the shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump less than four weeks ago seems to have already faded into the distant past.

This shooting of a former President and current presidential candidate is an historic incident that should have sparked serious, bipartisan, national self-examination, and a demand for answers not only about the would-be assassin but about the jaw-dropping security lapses that facilitated the shooting. Instead, the mainstream media has managed to shift the focus of the news cycle to the ginning up of enthusiasm for the Democrat candidate, a hopelessly inept and disliked far-Left radical installed as candidate via an internal coup directed against the sitting President.

I’ve said it out loud. I’m sure you’ve said it out loud. But it’s one thing for a private citizen like you or me to say it — and it’s quite another for a former and probably future president of the United States to say it out loud.

Elon Musk once said he preferred to “stay out of politics”. As with many things, it appears he has changed his mind.

This week, Sir Keir Starmer was added to the lengthy list of people who have sparred with the billionaire over remarks he has made on X, the social media platform he owns. On Monday, Musk remarked on the rioting that has swept Britain in the wake of the Southport stabbings, warning that “civil war is inevitable,” drawing a rebuke from the Prime Minister’s spokesperson. Yesterday, in an escalation of the row, he called Starmer “two-tier Keir” – a pointed critique of the way the unrest has been policed.

The Good News

The good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lifelong California hard leftist at a time when the state is emblematic of progressive nihilism. Her extremist advocacies as a San Francisco county and city attorney, state Attorney General, and senator are on record. And they are consistent with what has virtually destroyed the state.

Harris was also a driving force as vice president for Joe Biden’s unpopular and unworkable progressive policies—whether open borders, massive illegal immigration, hyperinflation, fanning woke divisiveness, arguing for lax criminal prosecution, or defunding the police. She was far closer to the mindset of the unhinged Squad than Joe Biden himself.

Donald Trump’s comments at a black journalists’ gathering have been swiftly condemned—but progressives seem unaware of how they are overplaying their hand.

Given the relentless pace of political news these days, you may have already forgotten the furor over Donald Trump’s comments at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last week. So here’s a quick reminder. “She was Indian all the way,” he said of Kamala Harris, “and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a black person.”

The audience greeted Trump, who obviously knew he was kicking a hornet’s nest, with “gasps and jeers.” A little later at the White House, Biden administration press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the comments “repulsive” and “insulting.” The New York Times went with “shocking.” On the MSNBC website, two professors huffed that Trump was demonstrating his “ignorance,” since race, as every college grad knows, is “socially constructed.” The verdict, from Democrats as well as many Republicans, was that the encounter was a disaster for the Trump campaign.

Former President Trump announced Friday night that he has agreed to Fox News’ proposal for a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump said the debate would be held on Sept. 4 in Pennsylvania, although the location of the event has not yet been determined.

The former president also noted that an ABC News debate previously scheduled against President Biden before he suspended his re-election campaign had been canceled, citing his lawsuit against that network and one of its hosts, George Stephanopoulos.

I come to praise Donald Trump, not to disparage him. So be it if I burn a few bridges of the very few I seem to have left. Nor will this defence of former President Trump be directed at those who would vote for an embalmed mummy (or worse, Joe Biden, or worse again, Kamala Harris) before they voted for Donald Trump. Such voters see a world very different to the one I see and nothing I or anyone else says will make a whit of difference to how they vote.

Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport admitted Wednesday that he had been wrong about President Donald Trump.

Rapaport, who has been outspoken in his defense of Israel since October 7, spoke to Sage Steele on her podcast.

For the past decade, the basic lines of conflict in American public life seemed clear. Donald Trump was pitted against the establishment, the “basket of deplorables” who supported him against the elites. The reality was more complicated. Yes, plenty of rich and powerful Americans supported Trump and plenty of poorer Americans on the fringes of society were against him. But in a certain section of society the disdain for Trump was unequivocal. Among the country’s elite — at Harvard and Stanford, at Google and Goldman, near the beaches of the Hamptons and the mountains around Aspen — anyone who defied the anti-Trump consensus could expect swift consequences for their social standing.