A group of Republican senators confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, determined to get answers about how the agency failed to protect former President Donald Trump from an assassination attempt. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Barrasso (R-WY), James Lankford (R-OK), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) circled Cheatle in public […]
MILWAUKEE — Republican National Convention attendees stood up and chanted “USA! USA.!” for the Gold Star families who lost loved ones when an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked Kabul’s airport during President Joe Biden‘s Afghanistan withdrawal. Thirteen service members died when the bomb exploded near Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021. In […]
MILWAUKEE — Kai Trump, former President Donald Trump‘s eldest grandchild, made her Republican National Convention debut, humanizing her “normal grandpa” with personal insight and quips about their relationship. “To me, he’s just a normal grandpa — he gives us candy and soda when our parents aren’t looking,” Kai Trump, 17, told the crowd Wednesday after […]
MILWAUKEE — The GOP‘s shift toward populism and Trumpism has left some of its elder figures in the lurch. Not so with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, who engineered the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, entered the party’s convention stage 30 years later to cheers of “Newt! Newt! Newt!” One woman yelled “We love […]
Sen. J.D. Vance‘s (R-OH) bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has exploded in book sales, alongside the movie, which is based on his book, sitting atop streaming services’ trending lists following former President Donald Trump naming the senator as his 2024 running mate. Vance’s memoir, published by HarperCollins, shares his tough upbringing of living in poverty in […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), a border state leader who has unleashed an unprecedented effort to reinforce security at the Mexico boundary amid the Biden-era border crisis, said he sees “hope on the horizon” with the potential election of former President Donald Trump. “I see hope on the horizon because on Nov. 5, Joe Biden will […]
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is disputing a report that he intends to resign from Congress on Wednesday after he was convicted of federal corruption charges a day earlier. Menendez is pushing back against reporting from NBC News and the New York Times, which cited sources who said the New Jersey senator was telling allies he […]
MILWAUKEE — Not one but three convicted felons were featured on the third day of the Republican National Convention. The most famous, former President Donald Trump, is there accepting his party’s nomination as he looks to regain the White House. Former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort was spotted on the convention floor, and former Trump administration […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined the chorus of Republicans calling for a change in leadership at the Secret Service. McConnell said the nation “deserves answers” for the massive security breach that allowed a would-be assassin to open fire on Donald Trump, killing an attendee of the former president’s rally. “Last week’s near-assassination […]
President Joe Biden surprised his tens of millions of social media followers on Wednesday when he tweeted two words: “I’m sick.” The White House had reported just hours earlier that the president had been diagnosed with COVID-19, but the abruptness of Biden’s tweet from his campaign account surprised many. It became clear just three minutes […]
