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    Haley Defeats Trump In DC Republican Primary

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    Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has secured her first victory in the Washington, D.C. Republican presidential primary contest

    Haley garnered 1,274 votes to formerย President Trumpโ€™sย 676 with all precincts reporting, according to Decision Desk HQ.

    The win for the former United Nations ambassador breaks a streak of more than a half dozen victories for Trump to start out the GOP contests for the nomination.ย 

    Despite trailing behind former President Trump throughout the race Haley has pledged to remain in the race at least until Super Tuesday when more than a dozen states will vote.

    the win in the winner-take-all D.C. primary will give her all of its 19 delegates. Voting in the District took place across three days from Friday to Sunday.ย 

    Candidates need at least 1,215 delegates to mathematically clinch the Republican nomination.ย 

    Trump Snaps Over DeSantis’ Endorsement of Colorado Senate Candidate

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    Has Florida Governor Ron DeSantis inadvertently sparked a feud with Donald Trump?

    DeSantis’ decision to endorse Colorado Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea has sparked Trump’s fury, calling the endorsement a “huge mistake.”

    โ€œHello this is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. America needs strong leadership and desperately,โ€ said DeSantis in a robocall. โ€œThatโ€™s why Iโ€™m endorsing Joe Oโ€™Dea for U.S. Senate. Colorado, please vote for Joe Oโ€™Dea.โ€

    Trump laterย sharedย The Washington Examinerย piece on his social media site TRUTH Social and wrote, โ€œA BIG MISTAKE!โ€

    Over the summer, Trump opted to support state Rep. Ron Hanks during the primary and since then has traded insults with the Republican candidate. O’Dea has publicly derided Trump as a “black eye” for the United States and has said he plans to actively campaign against him if he launches a presidential campaign in 2024.

    “Thereโ€™s this RINO character in the Great State of Colorado, Joe Oโ€™Dea, that is running against the incumbent Democrat for the United States Senate, who is having a good old time saying that he wants to โ€œdistanceโ€ himself from President Trump, and other slightly nasty things. He should look at the Economy, Inflation, Energy Independence, defeating ISIS, the Strongest EVER Border, Great Trade Deals, & much more, before he speaks. MAGA doesnโ€™t Vote for stupid people with big mouths. Good luck Joe!” Trump shared in a TRUTH Social message.

    ย “President Trump is entitled to his opinion, but I’m my own man and I’ll call it like I see it,” O’Dea responded. “Another Biden-Trump election will tear this country apart. DeSantis, Scott, Pompeo or Haley would be better choices. These elections should be focused on Joe Biden’s failures supercharged inflation, a broken border, rampant crime, a war on American energy, not a rehash of 2020.”

    Trump has all but confirmed his 2024 plans but has stopped of making any formal announcement that would tie him to specific campaign finance laws. DeSantis has also been named an early presidential contender but has maintained his only focus is winning his gubernatorial re-election.

    Trump Responds To Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comments

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    Donald Trump had a surprising reaction to Biden’s shocking “garbage” comments on Tuesday.

    The Republican nominee called on his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

    “Please forgive him for not knowing what he said,” Trump said. “These people are terrible, terrible, terrible to say a thing like that. But he really doesn’t know. He really honestly, he doesn’t. And I’m convinced that he likes me more than he likes Kamala. But that’s a terrible thing.”

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    Trump’s call for unity โ€“ and forgiveness โ€“ came after the president called Trump supporters’ garbage during a get-out-the-vote call for Voto Latino.

    In remarks from the White House, Biden had said earlier to Latino voters:

    And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a โ€œfloating island of garbage.โ€ Well, let me tell you something. I donโ€™tโ€“ Iโ€“ I donโ€™t know the Puerto Rican thatโ€“ that I knowโ€“ or a Puerto Rico, where Iโ€™m fromโ€“ in my home state of Delaware, theyโ€™re good, decent, honorable people.

    The only garbage I see floating out there is his supportersโ€“ hisโ€“ his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and itโ€™s un-American. Itโ€™s totally contrary to everything weโ€™ve done, everything weโ€™ve been.

    Biden’s comments came after Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

    White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that President Biden “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as โ€˜garbage.โ€™”

    “The president was referencing a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he likened Puerto Rico to an island of floating “garbage” in the middle of the ocean,” Bates said.

    Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity Tuesday that Hinchcliffe was not vetted by the campaign but that he saw the outcry as no โ€œbig deal.โ€

    Hannity asked, โ€œDo you wish [Hinchcliffe] wasnโ€™t there?โ€

    Trump responded, โ€œYeah, I donโ€™t know if itโ€™s a big deal or not, but I donโ€™t want anybody making nasty jokes or stupid jokes, and probably he shouldnโ€™t have been there.โ€

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    Stacey Abrams Claims Trump Will Turn US Into Autocracy

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    Failed gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams recently claimed President Trump is attempting to shift the United States from a democracy to an autocracy.

    Abrams appeared on โ€œJimmy Kimmel Live,โ€ where guest host Anthony Anderson asked her to explain the โ€œ10 steps to autocracy.โ€

    Abrams said her 10 steps apply to โ€œevery nation that has become an autocracy having been a democracy,โ€ specifically referencing Brazil India, Russia, and the Philippines.

    โ€œStart with winning an election,โ€ Abrams said. โ€œUsually the last one youโ€™ll get to have for real.โ€

    Office of U.S. House Speaker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Abramsโ€™ next steps included expanding executive power and weakening Congress and the judicial branch.

    โ€œLike, I donโ€™t know, the Supreme Court is giving you unfettered power and saying we donโ€™t have the ability to stop things,โ€ Abrams said, presumably referencing the recent Supreme Court ruling limiting nationwide injunctions.

    Abrams then conveniently avoided mentioning former President Joe Biden, who notably ignored the Supreme Courtโ€™s ruling striking down his student loan forgiveness plan.

    Abrams then said autocracies then โ€œgut the civil serviceโ€ to โ€œbreak democracyโ€ and put loyalists in the FBI โ€œso they go after your enemies.โ€

    She again failed to mention that under the Biden administration, Trump was charged in four criminal cases that were widely viewed as political prosecutions.

    Abrams said that Trump โ€œ[going] after DEIโ€ was evidence that he was looking for someone to blame, which she said was another hallmark of autocracies.

    She then suggested Trumpโ€™s mobilization of the National Guard and the U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was one step away from a full autocracy.

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    โ€œYou send the U.S. Marines into spaces where they should not be, you send the National Guard in, you kidnap people off of the streets and pretend thatโ€™s normal,โ€ Abrams said.

    โ€œOnce youโ€™ve done those nine steps, step 10 is easy,โ€ Abrams said. โ€œThatโ€™s when you decide there wonโ€™t be new elections because everyoneโ€™s either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.โ€

    Abrams has claimed dozens of times that the 2018 gubernatorial election was stolen from her. In 2019, she said, โ€œI didnโ€™t lose. I got the votes. But we wonโ€™t know exactly how many because of how they cheated.โ€

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    Trump Responds to Threats Against Federal Law Enforcement

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    Since the weekend, a number of officials and media personalities, including Fox News hosts, have called on former President Donald Trump to call for an “end to the violent rhetoric” expressed against the FBI. (RELATED: Gunman Killed After Trying to Enter FBI Building)

    On Monday morning’s episode of “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy said Trump, “a great supporter of law enforcement” should help tamp down on the rhetoric “against the FBI because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”

    Co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt called out the FBI, echoing the widely held belief about the Bureau’s current political biases, but they also condemned any violence and threats of violence with Earhardt saying “no one is for the violence of FBI agents.”

    Doocy in turn recommended that people frustrated by alleged hypocrisy between the treatment of Republicans and Democrats by federal law enforcement recognize that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was the man behind the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. (RELATED: Judge Unseals Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant โ€“ Trump Under Criminal Investigation)

    Hours after the “Fox & Friends” trio issued a call for cooler heads to prevail, former President Trump told Fox News’ Brooke Singman he “will do whatever” he can to “help the country” and bring the temperature down or “terrible things are going to happen.”

    The Daily Wire reports:

    โ€œPeople are so angry at what is taking place,โ€ Trump told Fox News Digital. โ€œWhatever we can do to helpโ€”because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isnโ€™t, terrible things are going to happen.โ€

    Trump referenced the โ€œyears of fake witch hunts and phony Russia, Russia, Russia schemes and scams,โ€ emphasizing that โ€œnothing happens to those people who perpetuate thatโ€”nothing happens with them.โ€

    He added: โ€œAnd then they break into a presidentโ€™s houseโ€”a sneak attack where it was totallyโ€”no one ever thought a thing like this would happen.โ€

    Trump also said he told the DOJ he would do whatever he could to help. It is not immediately clear what kind of help Trump offered the DOJ, and the former presidentโ€™s team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Before the DOJ’s warrant was unsealed, Trump used an intermediary to deliver a similar message to Attorney General Garland, saying according to a person with firsthand knowledge that “The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?”

    According to Business Insider, it’s unclear if the message ever reached Garland.

    The attempt to deliver the message preceded Garland’s Thursday press conference where he announced DOJ’s decision to unseal the search warrant. Trump had previously demanded the search warrant be released, even though he had a copy of it and the ability to do so himself.

    Around the same time as Garland’s speech, but hours before DOJ unsealed the records, Breitbart published a leaked version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant โ€” including the names of the FBI agents who signed their names on the property receipts.

    The version released by DOJ had all of the same information but redacted the agents’ names. The FBI is currently grappling with an “unprecedented” number of threats made against its agents.

    The identity of the leaker to Breitbart, a media outlet long managed by Steve Bannon, remains unknown. Breitbart was roundly criticized for its decision to doxx the agents.

    Hours later, Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, sent a push alert to its members with the article that included the unredacted search warrant.

    A day later, police killed a man armed with an AR-15 and a nail gun who attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati shortly after posting “Kill [the FBI] on sight” on Truth Social.

    The post has since been removed by moderators.

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    Trump VP Contender Calls Trump ‘The George Washington Of Our Moment’

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    Do you agree?

    Tech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential challenger Vivek Ramaswamy called former Presidentย Donald Trumpย โ€œtheย George Washingtonย of our momentโ€ and labeled the 2024 election a โ€œ1776 momentโ€ in history

    Ramaswamy, who made an unexpected appearance at the Tuesday rally in Wisconsin, urged Trump supporters to view the former president as a modern-day Founding Father.

    โ€œDig deep and ask yourself why it is that our founding fathers made the sacrifices they did 250 years ago,โ€ he told the crowd.

    He continued: โ€œFifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We donโ€™t often ask what became of them. Iโ€™m going to tell you what happened to them. Twelve of them had their homes ransacked by the British and burned down to the ground. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured until their deaths. Nine of them died in the Revolutionary War. Three more of them had their own kids die in the Revolutionary War. Many of them died bankrupt because they had their own private property seized before their deaths.

    Ramaswamy concluded: โ€œThey made those sacrifices in 1776, and I believe today itโ€™s a 1776 moment in 2024, and Donald Trump is the George Washington of our moment. That is what I believe.โ€

    In the rest of his speech the Republican predicted a shake-up in the Democratic lineup: โ€œIโ€™m not going to sit here railing againstย Joe Bidenย because chances are, letโ€™s be honest, he might not be the nominee that weโ€™re running against.โ€

    FBI Unit Who Raided Trump Same as One That Ran Trump-Russia Investigation

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    If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.That is how the old saying goes, and apparently it is the motto of a particular FBI unit.

    The FBI Unit that oversaw the Trump-Russia hoax investigation and is the focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the abuses of power by the Bureau during Trump’s tenure, is also the one that conducted the Mar-a-Lago raid, Real Clear Investigations reports.

    The counterintelligence division let the investigation into Russian “collusion” title “Crossfire Hurricane” which was led by disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok.

    Now the unit is leading the investigation into Trump, from Washington, not the field office in Miami.

    But one member of Crossfire Hurricane is still involved. Key member Brian Auten still works politically sensitive investigations including the probe into Hunter Biden’s laptop.

    RCI continues:

    Auten has been allowed to work on sensitive cases even though he has been under internal investigationย since 2019, when Justice Departmentย Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred him for disciplinary review for hisย role in vetting a Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier used by the FBI toย obtain a series of wiretap warrants to spyย on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz singledย outย Auten forย cutting a number of cornersย in the verification process and even allowing information he knew to beย incorrect slip into warrant affidavitsย and mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.

    In congressionalย testimonyย this month, Wray confirmed that “a number of” former Crossfire Hurricane team members are still employed at the bureau while undergoing disciplinary review. In the meantime, Wray has walled off the former Russiagate investigators only from participating in FISA wiretap applications, according to the sources.

    Auten could also be part of the team helping to determine whether the documents seized pose a national security risk, and whick ones fall outside of the scope of the investigation and need to be returned.

    The FBI has already made the massive mistake of violating the search warrant and stealing Trump’s passports, which are being returned due to them being unrelated documents.

    Another top counterintelligence official is a Democrat donor.

    Sources told RealClearInvestigations that Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in Justice’s national security division, who happens to be a Democratic National Committee donor, has been coordinating theย Mar-a-Lago investigation with Alan Kohler,ย who heads the FBI’s counterintelligence division.

    The connection between the Russia Hoax and the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago appear to go deeper with all of the agents under investigation still working for the bureau if they decided to stay.

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    Senator Menendez Faces 12 New Federal Charges

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    United States Senatorย Bob Menendezย (D-N.J.) is facing one dozen new criminal charges in his alleged yearslong scheme with the governments ofย Egyptย andย Qatar.

    Menendez and his wife, Nadine, face charges of obstruction of justice, among others.

    As CNN reports:

    The new charges come days after one of the New Jersey businessmen who was previously indicted alongside Menendez, his wife Nadine Menendez, and two others agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with the investigation.

    Among the new charges in the superseding indictment are conspiracy, obstruction of justice, public official acting as a foreign agent, bribery, extortion and honest services wire fraud.

    Menendez had faced four counts of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent.

    The new charges add the underlying so-called substantive crimes to the conspiracy charges.

    Menendez persists in his innocence and pledges to do whatever it takes to retain hisย Senateย seat.

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

    Federal Judge Resigns To Speak Out Against Trump’s ‘Assault On The Rule Of Law’

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    A federal judge appointed by former President Ronald Reagan has resigned his lifetime post to speak publicly against what he describes as a dangerous politicization of the justice system under Donald Trump. Mark L. Wolf, who served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts since 1985, announced his decision in an op-ed published in The Atlantic, saying he could no longer remain silent as he believes the former president uses the law to reward allies and target adversaries.

    Wolf, 78, said that stepping down would allow him to speak freely after decades of being constrained by judicial ethics rules.

    โ€œPresident Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment,โ€ he wrote. โ€œThis is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White Houseโ€™s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.โ€

    A Massachusetts native and Harvard Law graduate, Wolf began his public service career in the Department of Justice in 1974, joining just after the Watergate scandal. He served under Attorney General Edward Levi during President Gerald Fordโ€™s administrationโ€”a formative experience that, he said, shaped his views on nonpartisan justice and the importance of public trust in the legal system. He later became a top federal prosecutor in Boston before Reagan nominated him to the bench. Over nearly four decades as a judge, Wolf became known for handling high-profile corruption cases and for his work to strengthen judicial ethics and transparency.

    Wolf took senior status in 2013, meaning he already had a reduced caseload and his seat was filled the following year by Judge Indira Talwani. His resignation, therefore, does not create a new vacancy for any administration to fill. Instead, it marks his formal departure from a system he says is under siege from political manipulation.

    โ€œI decided all of my cases based on the facts and the law, without regard to politics, popularity, or my personal preferences,โ€ Wolf wrote. โ€œThat is how justice is supposed to be administeredโ€”equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now.โ€

    Speaking to The New York Times, Wolf said he hopes to serve as a voice for other judges who feel bound by the Code of Judicial Conduct from speaking candidly about growing public distrust in the courts. โ€œI hope to be a spokesperson for embattled judges who, consistent with the code of conduct, feel they cannot speak candidly to the American people,โ€ he said.

    The White House pushed back sharply on Wolfโ€™s remarks. Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital that judges โ€œwho want to inject their own personal agenda into the law have no place on the bench.โ€

    She added that Trumpโ€™s record of legal victories undermines Wolfโ€™s claim of politicization: โ€œWith over 20 Supreme Court victories, the Trump Administrationโ€™s policies have been consistently upheld by the Supreme Court as lawful despite an unprecedented number of legal challenges and unlawful lower court rulings. Any other radical judges that want to complain to the press should at least have the decency to resign before doing so.โ€

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    Nobel Laureate Praises Trumpโ€™s Tough Stance on Maduro

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    Nobel Peace Prize winner Marรญa Corina Machado, one of Venezuelaโ€™s most prominent pro-democracy leaders, is strongly backing President Donald Trumpโ€™s hard-line approach toward Nicolรกs Maduroโ€™s authoritarian regime. In a new interview that aired Sunday on CBSโ€™s Face the Nation, Machado said Trumpโ€™s strategy has given hope to millions of Venezuelans suffering under socialist rule.

    Asked whether she supports increased U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan officials and further U.S. seizures of illicit oil shipments, Machado was unequivocal.

    โ€œLook, I absolutely support President Trumpโ€™s strategy, and we, the Venezuelan people, are very grateful to him and to his administration, because I believe he is a champion of freedom in this hemisphere,โ€ Machado told host Margaret Brennan.

    Speaking from Oslo, where she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize after spending nearly a year in hiding, Machado noted that she had dedicated part of the award to Trump.

    โ€œI think that he finally has put Venezuela in where it should be, in terms of a priority for the United Statesโ€™ national security.โ€

    Machado argued that Maduroโ€™s regime is far more dangerous than a conventional dictatorship.

    โ€œThis is a very complex criminal structure that has turned Venezuela into a safe haven of international crime and terrorist activities, starting with Russia, Iran, Cuba, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Colombian guerrilla [groups], [and] the drug cartels operating freely and directed in partnership with Maduro and his regime.โ€

    Machado has long been one of Maduroโ€™s most effective opposition figures. After she overwhelmingly won the opposition primary in 2023, the regime barred her from running, then orchestrated an election that independent experts later declared โ€œmathematically and statistically impossible.โ€ Despite that, Maduro claimed victory and refused to relinquish power. Machado endorsed a stand-in candidate but remained the movementโ€™s central figureโ€”until she was forced into hiding for her safety.

    Now, speaking publicly for the first time in months, Machado is calling for increased international pressure.

    โ€œWe want every legal action through law enforcement โ€ฆ not only from the United States, also from other Caribbean, Latin American and European countries that further block the illegal activities of the regime.โ€

    Her argument is straightforward:

    โ€œWe need to increase the cost of staying in power by force. Once you arrive to that point in which the cost of staying in power is higher than the cost of leaving power, the regime will fall apart. And itโ€™s the moment where we advance into a negotiated transition.โ€

    Additional Context: Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize

    Machadoโ€™s praise comes as Trump has repeatedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, particularly for:

    • The Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nationsโ€”an achievement some foreign-policy experts called one of the most important diplomatic breakthroughs in decades.
    • His diplomatic efforts in reducing tensions with North Korea, which earned him multiple nominations from European lawmakers.
    • His support for democracy movements in Latin America, including Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
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