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    Popular Lawmaker Firmly Rejects Harris VP Nomination Speculation

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    He’s not interested…

    Over the weekend, Independent Sen. Joe Manchin (W.V.) shot down rumors he may join Kamala Harris on the campaign trail as her running mate.

    When asked on “CNN This Morning” if he would consider running as VP with Harris — whom Biden endorsed to replace him on the ticket — Manchin said, “No, I’m not.”

    “It’s a new generation, you don’t want a 76-year-old vice president right now,” he continued.

    CNN anchor Kasie Hunt then asked if the nation wants a 76-year-old president, following reports that Manchin is considering reregistering as a Democrat to run against Harris for the nomination.

    “Well, if he feels like he’s 50 maybe,” Manchin quipped.

    “I haven’t worked with Kamala at all,” he later added.

    Manchin, a longtime Democrat, switched to an independent in May and floated a primary bid against Biden, but he ultimately decided against it.

    “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote in a letter posted to social media.

    The president said he will address the nation later this week to discuss his decision to ultimately drop out.

    Hours before Biden’s announcement, Manchin became the fifth senator to call on Biden to leave the presidential race.

    “I came to the decision with a heavy heart that I think it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation,” Manchin told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

    “I want him [Biden] to be the president in the last five months … of his term, to do what he can do is unite our country, to calm down the rhetoric and be able to focus attention to peace in the world,” the senator added.

    Trump Labels Biden Withdrawl A ‘Coup’ – Insists On Invoking 25th Amendment

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    Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, blasted the Democratic party for leading a “coup” against President Joe Biden during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters.

    The interview was taped before news broke Sunday that Biden was withdrawing from the 2024 general election and endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris as the new presumptive nominee.

    Watters asked Trump if he’d investigate “the people that hid Joe Biden’s condition,” to which Trump agreed he would, citing White House doctors who “keep giving him this wonderful report.”

    Watters asked if Biden’s bowing out was a “coup against Joe Biden?” Trump responded with “sort of” before Vance gave his own opinion and proposed invoking the 25th amendment. “If Joe Biden can’t run for president, he can’t serve as president.”

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    Read a transcript of the interview below:

    TRUMP: Well, I think somebody has to look at it. Look, you had people that lied to the American public. And I tell you what. You ought to take a look at his doctors because his doctors keep giving him this wonderful report. I’m not a doctor, but I saw him the other day, was unable to get up the children stairs going into Air Force One.

    WATTERS: Is it a coup against Joe Biden?

    TRUMP: Sort of.

    VANCE: Yeah, I think it is. I mean, look, there’s a constitutional process, the 25th amendment. If Joe Biden can’t run for president, he can’t serve as president. And if they want to take him down because he’s mentally incapable of serving, invoke the 25th amendment. You don’t get to sort of do this in the most politically beneficial way for Democrats. If it’s an actual problem, they should take care of it the appropriate way.

    White House sources reportedly indicated that President Joe Biden’s hesitation to drop his re-election bid stemmed partly from concerns about Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in an election.

    Axios reporter Alex Thompson said that three of Biden’s aides familiar with private talks about his plans relayed to him the president’s concerns about Harris as a viable nominee this November in an article published just one day after Biden announced he was dropping out and endorsed his vice president.

    Former President Obama has refrained from endorsing Harris explicitly and remarked in a statement on Sunday: “We will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”

    Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race

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    President Joe Biden has officially withdrawn from the 2024 race in a stunning development.

    Biden, 81, announced Sunday he will no longer seek another four years in office after his physical and mental acuity were called into question following a primetime debate that broadcast to the world his repeated struggles to finish sentences, giving confused looks and fumbling through his answers.

    I AM DONALD TRUMP, AND I’M BEING SENTENCED ON JULY 11TH! IF YOU REMEMBER ONE THING, REMEMBER THIS: I’M THE ONLY THING STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA BY THE BIDEN REGIME. WILL YOU PLEASE DONATE ONE MORE TIME BEFORE DOOMSDAY?

    The Hill reports:

    “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote in a letter posted to social media.

    President Joe Biden delivers remarks in National Statuary Hall on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, January 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)

    The president said he would address the nation later in the week about his decision. He did not immediately endorse Vice President Harris or any other candidate to be the party’s nominee in November.

    “For now let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected,” Biden wrote. “I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.”

    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.


    Man Arrested For Alleged Death Threats Against Trump, Vance

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    Authorities have arrested a Florida man who threatened to kill former President Donald Trump his running mate J.D. Vance and their families.

    The Jupiter Police Department announced that 68-year-old Michael M. Wiseman was arrested on Friday for charges for written threats to kill.

    Fox News reports:

    Authorities alleged that Wiseman wrote threats against the Republican presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee on his Facebook account and also made to members of the Trump and Vance families.

    The police department said it was notified of the threats, including bodily harm, by multiple members of the community.

    “JPD coordinated the investigation with the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office,” the department said. “JPD officers took Wiseman into custody without incident.”

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    The threat came just days after Trump was shot at during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

    MAGA Congresswoman Nominates Herself For Cabinet Role

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    Now that Trump is the official presidential nominee Republicans are floating ideas for critical leadership positions.

    During an interview, Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R) floated herself as a potential candidate for U.S. Secretary of Interior.

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    Native Voice One, a radio network that says it serves to bring Native voices to the world, spoke to Boebert on the third day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee.

    While Native Voice One was holding a live show from inside the RNC, Boebert walked by the hosts. She was asked who she thought should be the interior secretary under the Trump administration.

    “I think Lauren Boebert needs to be the secretary of interior,” she said, followed by a laugh. “President Trump, I would like to be secretary of interior.”

    Boebert went on to express her feelings on the position.

    “I think this is actually one of the most important agencies within the federal government. Public lands are something that are very dear to me and I’ve spent a lot of time on our tribal lands with our chairman and our councilmembers with the Mountain Utes and the Southern Utes,” said Boebert.

    The Department of the Interior is responsible for the management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources.

    Trump Recounts Harrowing Shooting While Accepting GOP Nomination

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    On Thursday night, Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for President.

    During his speech, Trump addressed the recent assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, saying that he does not plan to discuss the horrific event again.

    “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” Trump emphasized as he addressed the thousands of delegates, party officials and activists packed into Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum and to the national audience of Americans watching the convention from home.

    “The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart,” the former president noted.

    “Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to the American people for your outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt at my rally on Saturday,” Trump said. “As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life.” 

    “You’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s too painful to tell,” he said. 

    Trump praised the “very brave Secret Service agents who rushed to the stage and pounced on top of me for protection.” 

    “There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe, because I had God on my side,” Trump said. “The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at the very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be with you tonight.” 

    “I am not supposed to be here tonight. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God. Many people say it was a providential moment,” Trump said. 

    But the crowd chanted: “Yes you are! Yes you are!” 

    And he acknowledged that “none of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us. But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and country we love.”

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    Lawmakers React To FBI’s Assassination Attempt Update

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    Despite the FBI conducting 200 interviews and combing through 14,000 images they still don’t have a clear motive behind the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally last Saturday in western Pennsylvania.

    Republicans are demanding answers.

    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) who’s on the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News Digital that he thinks it’s “bulls—” that federal investigators don’t have a motive yet. 

    “I’m not buying that they have nothing,” Burchett said Wednesday. “I don’t have faith in this administration. If they (the Secret Service) don’t want conspiracy theories, they have to move quickly and answer tough questions.”

    Burchett said they subpoenaed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who agreed to comply, according to the Oversight Committee’s post on X. A hearing is scheduled for July 22. 

    “Americans demand and deserve answers from Director Cheatle about the attempted assassination of President Trump and the Secret Service’s egregious failures,” the Oversight Committee said in its X post shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday. 

    Wray told Congress that Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, used his cellphone to search for images of President Biden and Trump as well as symptoms of depressive disorder before the shooting, according to CBS News. 

    Secret Service snipers “neutralized” Crooks, who set up on a roof overlooking the rally less than 150 yards from where Trump was speaking.

    How Crooks entered the building and fired off multiple shots remains under investigation and has led to finger-pointing between the Secret Service and local police.

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    Special Counsel Appeals Trump Classified Docs Dismissal

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    On Wednesday, Special Counsel Jack Smith formally appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of criminal charges against former President Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified information.

    Smith’s office filed a notice saying it would appeal Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling tossing out the 40 charges Trump faced to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

    The Hill has more:

    The Trump-appointed judge on Monday ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not have the authority to appoint a federal officer with the “kind of prosecutorial power wielded by Special Counsel Smith.”

    “The bottom line is this: The Appointments Clause is a critical constitutional restriction stemming from the separation of powers, and it gives to Congress a considered role in determining the propriety of vesting appointment power for inferior officers,” Cannon wrote in a 93-page ruling.  

    “The Special Counsel’s position effectively usurps that important legislative authority, transferring it to a Head of Department, and in the process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers.” 

    The ruling marked a major victory for Trump — the first time one of his four criminal cases has been dismissed entirely — and came on the heels of an attempted assassination of the former president. Trump said the dismissal should be seen as the “first step” toward “Uniting our Nation” following the failed effort to take his life, calling for his other cases to be dismissed.

    A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office said Monday that Cannon’s ruling “deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a Special Counsel.”

    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

    Trump Shares Details of Call With Biden After Shooting

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    A whirlwind experience…

    After surviving the attempt on his life, Donald Trump is sharing more details in the moments after the near-assassination.

    In a phone conversation with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, Trump described his state of mind after a bullet hit his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. He told Karl that it had an “impact” on him when asked if he’d “changed” since the incident.

    Mediaite reports:

    Trump also shared details about the call he received from President Joe Biden after the shooting, which had been described as “short and respectful” in the press. Both Biden and Trump revealed more about their conversation in interviews since, with Trump telling Karl that it was “very nice,” saying of Biden: “He couldn’t have been nicer.”

    In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday, Biden said of the exchange, “I told him how concerned I was and wanted to make sure I knew how he was actually doing. He sounded good. He said he was fine. And he thanked me for calling him. I told him he was literally in the prayers of [First Lady Dr. Jill Biden] and me, and I hoped his whole family was weathering this.”

    On Sunday night, Biden delivered an Oval Office address to the nation — only his third since taking office — about the attempted assassination attempt. 

    “Our politics must never be a literal battlefield, and God forbid, a killing field,” Biden said. “We stand for an America not of extremism and fury, but of decency and grace.”

    Speaking for the first time publicly since the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the violence against Trump on Wednesday.

    “As we all know, it was a heinous, horrible, cowardly act,” Harris said. “Thankfully, he was not seriously injured.”

    Harris added that her and her husband’s thoughts immediately went to Melania.

    “The bottom line is, no one should have to fear for the safety of a loved one because they serve in public office,” Harris continued.

    Harris also shared her condolences for Corey Comperatore, who was struck by gunfire and killed while protecting his family.

    “Our heart goes out to the family of Corey Comperatore a true hero who died protecting his family. And Doug and I, of course, are holding them close in our hearts. We are also wishing those who were critically injured that day a swift and full recovery. And we are thankful to the United States Secret Service, the first responders and local authorities.”

    Peter Navarro To Leave Prison Ahead Of RNC Appearance

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Sweet freedom…

    Former Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro is set to be released from prison Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. 

    After leaving prison Navarro is expected to take the stage at the Republican National Convention, according to an email from former President Trump’s campaign.  

    It’s unclear when Navarro will take the stage in Milwaukee, Wisc. where the GOP’s nominating event is taking place. The convention is scheduled to conclude Thursday evening, only one day after Navarro’s sentence ends. 

    Trump himself said in May he would “absolutely” rehire Navarro if reelected to the White House in November. Navarro has said he does not want a pardon from Trump if reelected or one from President Biden. 

    “I would absolutely have Peter back. This outrageous behavior by the Democrats should not have happened,” Trump said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.

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    Navarro was convicted last year of two counts of contempt of Congress — one for failing to produce documents related to the probe, and another for skipping his deposition before the House select committee that investigated the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. 

    “It’s crying out for the Supreme Court to do this,” Navarro said of his appeal the day he began his sentence. “But the tragedy here is, because I have not been released pending appeal, I will have already done my time before that is done. 

    “But that’s the price of living in Joe Biden’s America right now,” he added. “God bless you all. I’ll see you on the other side.” 

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