Taxing the rich is no silver bullet for saving Social Security
“Putting a fair burden on the wealthy” is President Biden’s response When asked at last month’s presidential debate how he would deal with the threat of Social Security going bankrupt, he replied: Opposition If there is no benefit to making cuts of any kind, then it follows that Social Security’s finances should be stabilized by […]
Trump says he ‘took a bullet for democracy’ at massive battleground state rally alongside running mate Vance
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Former President Donald Trump declared on Saturday that he had “taken a bullet for democracy” as he egged on a crowd of voters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at his first rally since surviving an assassination attempt last week. More than 12,000 people gathered at Van Andel Arena, home of the Grand […]
Ex-ESPN star Keith Olbermann questions whether Trump was shot by a bullet after former doc’s update
Former ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann wrote a critical post about Donald Trump’s former doctor and the assassination attempt at one of Trump’s campaign rallies last week. Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as the president’s physician during the Trump administration, said in a statement Saturday that he examined the former president in Bedminster, New Jersey, last […]
‘I Took a Bullet for Democracy’
“Last week, I took a bullet for democracy,” former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, responding to leftists calling him a “threat to democracy.” “They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy,’ and I say, ‘What have I done to democracy?’ I took a bullet for democracy […]
‘I Took A Bullet For Democracy’: Trump, Vance Hold Swing-State Rally Just One Week After Assassination Attempt
Grand Rapids, Michigan — Former President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio held their first joint rally in Michigan on Saturday, as the two seek to flip the state to Republican support since President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. The rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was Trump’s first since surviving an assassin’s bullet […]
Trump says he ‘took a bullet for democracy’
Former President Trump said on Saturday that he “took a bullet for democracy” after being shot in the ear in an assassination attempt on his life last week. “They’re really extreme, but I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said of Project 2025 at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “I don’t want to know […]
Van Jones says ‘Democrats dodged a bullet’ after Trump’s RNC speech
CNN commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones quipped after former President Trump finished his lengthy acceptance speech on Thursday night that Democrats had “averted a crisis.” Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination on Saturday after surviving an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. His 92-minute speech at the Republican National Convention […]
How a would-be assassin’s bullet may have changed Trump, if not the race
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention was supposed to mark the transformation of Donald Trump from presumptive GOP nominee to official standard-bearer of the party. But it turned out the real transformation took place 48 hours before the convention began, in a field in rural Pennsylvania, when Trump narrowly escaped an assassin’s attempt to blow […]
Pair of MSNBC hosts agree if Biden beats COVID, it should ‘convey exactly the same thing’ as Trump beating assassin’s bullet
MSNBC hosts Joy Reid and Jen Psaki agreed that if Democratic President Joe Biden recovers from COVID-19, he should “send the exact same message” as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who survived Saturday’s assassination attempt and “will bounce back quickly and head straight to his party’s convention.” Reid and Psaki took the stage Wednesday night […]
A Bullet Couldn’t Stop Trump, a Virus Just Stopped Biden
Shortly after President Joe Biden announced he had COVID-19 on Wednesday, CNN political commentator Van Jones compared Biden’s illness to the situation former President Donald Trump faced following the assassination attempt. Jones told his colleagues that while a bullet wouldn’t stop the 45th president, a virus could stop his successor. He also pointed to the […]