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If anything, Mr. Trump’s rivals now see a moment of peak power for him that they hope will dissipate. “Trump just got a big old shot in the arm with people who don’t like where we are and don’t trust the government,” said Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the …

If House Republicans follow through on their threat to expel three Democratic lawmakers, those lawmakers can run in the special elections, and if they win, they can’t be expelled again. The Tennessean reported: Tennessee’s Republican supermajority is poised to take the unprecedented move of expelling three Democrats as punishment for …

Mike Pence has dropped his appeal, and he will testify in the 1/6 investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Politico reported: Mike Pence has decided against appealing a court order requiring him to testify before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election. “Vice President …

By Philip Wegmann for RealClearWire The fever dream finally broke when former President Trump was arrested Tuesday evening. Minus handcuffs, his New York arraignment happened almost exactly like “the Resistance” long hoped and dreamed. And then, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago; all but called the Manhattan district attorney, as well as …

Representative Thomas Massie, the libertarian Republican from Kentucky, is calling on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to be disbarred and removed from office following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, low-level felonies in New York …

Donald Trump had no mugshot taken when he was arrested, so his presidential campaign created a fake one and is selling it to his supporters. The fake mugshot email: Trump is already fundraising off his (fake) mugshot pic.twitter.com/6YAuSL0UT9 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 4, 2023 Trump also has fake mugshot …

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin voters on Tuesday chose to upend the political direction of their state by electing a liberal candidate to the State Supreme Court, flipping majority control from conservatives, according to The Associated Press. The result means that in the next year, the court is likely to reverse the …

Donald Trump’s remarks at Mar-a-Lago were so unhinged and deranged that some networks cut him off as the former president came apart on national television. Trump began by claiming that his only crime is defending America: Trump comes right out of the gate with, “The only crime that I have …

The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has been good news for Truth Social, the social media website he founded. Traffic has surged on the site since the indictment was announced, according to estimates from Similar Web, a web traffic monitoring company. Mr. Trump has frequently used Truth Social …

The Political Insider’s Brett Smith recently sat down with historian and bestselling author Larry Schweikart to discuss the many factors that have turned former President Donald Trump and yet-to-be-announced candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis into such bitter rivals after spending years supporting each other. Specifically, Schweikart explained the usage of political …