The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee announced a bipartisan investigation Monday aimed at getting to the bottom of the "security failures" that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
As news of the attempted assassination of former President Trump spread over the weekend, there was little grace to be found in the liberal corners of the internet.
Former President Trump may select a relatively unknown governor as his running mate, casting aside more-publicized Republican choices, including two from the U.S. Senate.
After weeks of de facto auditions on cable news and test runs at campaign rallies around the country, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has emerged the victor of former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 vice presidential pick. It is true that Vance, 39, who has barely a year and a half in Congress under his belt, doesn’t […]
Does the Secret Service have ultimate responsibility for protecting presidential candidates? Yes. Did Thomas Crooks’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump constitute what the Secret Service refers to as a “near-lethal approach”? Yes. That means a protective failure of the second highest order. Yet, while some of the more specific criticisms the Secret Service […]
Politicians across the political spectrum have called for calming political rhetoric after the attempted assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. The problem is, though, treating political opponents as enemies isn’t just a rhetoric issue. Take Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and chairman of the Jan. 6 […]
Elon Musk and Bill Ackman endorsed former President Donald Trump on X following the failed assassination attempt that occurred on Saturday. The celebrity endorsements represent Trump’s ever-increasing popularity amid a long overdue cultural shift that has yielded sympathy for the former president. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X, simply wrote: “I fully […]
Let’s stop the blame game. And, from a longer perspective, let’s apply the same standards to all sides. Don’t blame the other side when it does things you already excused when your side did them. Such are the responsible reactions to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Right-wing media and social media for […]
There are plenty of negative reactions from certain Republicans to former President Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential candidate. And it is true that it is hard to think of a voter who was on the fence without Vance on the ticket who is suddenly now voting for Trump-Vance […]
Explosive firsthand evidence of Taliban members engaging in “gang rape and torture” of an Afghan woman activist while she was in jail for participating in a public protest was published by the Guardian on July 3. This is the “first direct evidence” of horrifying jailhouse rapes that journalists and the U.S. government have warned about for […]