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Backstage after the debate, the eight rivals and their teams were frantically pitching their version of why they had won the night and were on course to claim the Republican nomination.

But the huddles of listeners were thinning out and a notably bigger media scrum was forming just outside the “spin room”, around a man representing a candidate who had not bothered to turn up at all.

Trump lands in Atlanta to surrender for historic fourth arrest: live updates

Former President Donald Trump told interviewer Tucker Carlson he skipped the first Republican presidential debate so he wouldn’t get ‘harassed’ by rivals he said didn’t deserve to run.

He made the comment at the top of a 46 minute interview where he said he skipped the forum to avoid giving other Republicans the chance to swing at him, acknowledging it was a defensive move to sit on his lead.

‘But you see, the polls have come out and I’m leading by 50 and 60 points. And you know, some of them are at one and zero and two. And I’m saying, “do I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it’s going to be and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president. Should I be doing that?’ Trump told Carlson.

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 24, 2023

Middle-class Americans just want their country back.

Donald Trump had hardly made it down the escalator in 2015 by the time political commentators had begun to search for ways to explain away his appeal to the public. Eight years later, the search continues — and the stubborn persistence of What’s The Matter With Kansas? reduxes suggests that most of it has been in vain. For most of the people who prognosticate about politics for a living, Trump is every bit as much of an enigma today as he was when he first announced his candidacy.

The United States (and therefore the West) is about to enter a period of even more weirdness, and more instability. In fact, we probably ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Why? Look at the result of The New York Times poll released on Monday. With six months to go before the first Republican primary votes are cast, the poll reveals that Donald Trump has an overwhelming lead among all his primary opponents, commanding a stunning 54% of likely GOP primary voters. The second place candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a whopping 37 points behind.

WHATEVER one’s view of Donald Trump’s 2017-2021 presidency, the fact cannot be denied that through his appointments to the US Supreme Court he has saved American business owners from compelled speech.

The 1939 classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” evokes a comparison between its protagonist and the former president.

Is Donald Trump the new Jimmy Stewart?

In the wake of the latest battle between the Outsider former President Donald Trump and the corrupt Insider Washington political Establishment, the thought occurs to recall the 1939 movie classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart.

Donald Trump’s federal indictment has unleashed a wave of violent rhetoric from his supporters, creating a tinderbox atmosphere as the former president insists he is the victim of political persecution.

The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination will appear in a Miami court on Tuesday where he will be arraigned on 37 counts related to his handling of hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

University of Chicago research finds support for violence to achieve political goals and general distrust of democracy

Two and a half years after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, an estimated 12 million American adults, or 4.4% of the adult population, believe violence is justified to restore Donald Trump to the White House.

Though the number of adults who believe this has declined since the insurrection, recent survey data from the University of Chicago reveal alarming and dangerous levels of support for political violence and conspiracy theories across the United States.

UPDATE: Trump Campaign Statement

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.

Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her claim that trump, 76, defamed her when he branded her a liar when she spoke out about the assault.

I think he is sunk this time. Desantis it is.

Trump is both cause and symptom of the US crisis

In his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway describes a deaf old man who likes to sit in the terrace of his favourite cafe late into the evening drinking brandy, much to the frustration of a young waiter who just wants to go home. “He can buy a bottle and drink at home,” the waiter snaps to his colleague, refusing to give the old man a final top up. “It is not the same,” the older waiter replies. “This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well-lighted.”

Donald Trump denounced “The Biden regime’s weaponization of our system of justice” in Waco, Tex. Saturday with a defiant speech as his potential indictment by a Manhattan grand jury loomed.

“For seven years, you and I have been taking on the corrupt, rotten, sinister forces trying to destroy America,” Trump — in his usual blue suit but without his trademark red tie — told the crowd at the first public rally of his 2024 presidential campaign.

h/t DG

Despite shadow-banning and some outright censorship, the new music video “Trump Won” has skyrocketed to the top of the music world, joining former President Donald Trump’s tribute to Jan. 6 inmates on the Billboard and iTunes charts.

The new video from Natasha Owens hit No. 1 on iTunes when it debuted. It is now at No. 5 and ahead of Taylor Swift’s “All of the Girls You Loved Before” and just behind “Justice for All,” featuring Trump and the J6 Prison Choir.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether or not to hear a lawsuit that seeks to remove President Joe Biden from the White House and reinstate former President Donald Trump to office.

The Brunson v. Adams lawsuit claims that lawmakers violated their oaths of office by allegedly failing to investigate a foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential race which allegedly rigged the election against Trump.

h/t Mauser