By Jack Phillips Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, said Monday that he would align the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) with the White House’s push to restrict gun ownership. “The president is a strong supporter of gun control and has been an advocate all his professional life on this question,” Garland said during […]
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Donald Trump ‘Probably’ Interested in 2024 Presidential Run: Lara Trump
By Isabel Van Brugen Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and former senior adviser Lara Trump indicated that he is “probably” interested in running for office in 2024. “He has told us to stay tuned and that this is not over for him, and he has indicated that he probably would be interested in running again in 2024,” she […]
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Trump to Talk About the Future of Republican Party at CPAC: Senior Adviser
By Janita Kan Former President Donald Trump will talk about the future of the Republican party and lessons learned in 2020 during his upcoming speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has said. CPAC Communications Director Ian Walters told The Epoch Times on Saturday that the former president will be a keynote speaker at […]
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Republican House Whip Scalise Meets With Donald Trump
By Zachary Stieber The No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives met with former President Donald Trump this week, his office confirmed to The Epoch Times. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) met with Trump as he traveled in Florida. “Rep. Scalise is in Florida this week on political travel and had meetings at Mar a Lago on […]
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Opinion: A Quieter, More Focused Donald Trump Will Defeat the Never Trumpers
By Conrad Black Commentary The battle lines were drawn within a couple of hours following the acquittal of former President Trump in his second impeachment case, between Trump and his followers and the recently returned ghost of the Never Trump movement. The ex-president’s Republican enemies are pale and malnourished after four years skulking in the […]
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Biden Calls on Congress to Restrict Gun Ownership
By Zachary Stieber President Joe Biden on Feb. 14 urged Congress to strengthen existing laws concerning gun ownership on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. “The Parkland students and so many other young people across the country who have experienced gun violence are carrying forward the history of the […]
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Impeachment Managers Admitted Trump Was Not Impeached for His Words: Sen. Rand Paul
By Samuel Allegri Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the House Democrats conducting the impeachment of former President Donald Trump were not able to prove that he incited the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Paul, in response to a Fox News interviewer asking him what he would recommend to Trump’s defense lawyers, said […]
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States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow
By Tom Ozimek States are moving with urgency in seeking to rein in alleged abuses by Big Tech companies, while the federal government is preoccupied with COVID-19 relief and former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Spurred by various motivations, like fighting censorship, shoring up data privacy protections of constituents, or looking to punish or raise revenue from cash-flush […]
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Trump Team Touts ‘Good and Cordial’ Meeting With Rep. McCarthy
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump held a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday in Florida, said Trump’s team in a statement, while including a photo of him and the GOP leader. The two had a “good and cordial” meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, said Trump’s Save America PAC. The pair discussed several […]
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California Officials Say the State’s Unemployment Benefits Fraud Could Top $11 Billion
By GQ Pan California may have sent out as much as $11 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits to fraudsters, officials said Monday. According to a press release (pdf), California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) has processed 19.5 million claims and paid out $114 billion in unemployment benefits since March 2020, when the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic hit the […]
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Trump Endorses Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Bid for Governor of Arkansas
By Isabel Van Brugen Former President Donald Trump on Monday night publicly endorsed Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her run for Arkansas governor, saying she will “always fight” for the state and “do what is right.” In a statement released late Monday, Trump said Sanders, who served as his press secretary until June 2019, is a “warrior who […]
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Trump Creates ‘Office of the Former President’ to Advance US Interests, Carry on Trump Admin Agenda
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Former President Donald Trump opened an “Office of the Former President” on Monday that seeks to advance the interests of the United States and carry on the agenda of his administration. A statement from the office in Palm Beach County, Florida, reads, “Today, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, […]
