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Establishment Republican donors once hopeful of elevating a candidate other than Donald Trump are growing increasingly resigned to Trump’s dominance. Many are hesitant to give financial contributions, with only 66 individual donors contributing $250,000 or more to GOP presidential primary super PACs through the end of June – a 24 percent drop compared to this time in 2016.“Trump’s like 50 points ahead,” said one New York-based donor. “Who wants to get involved and waste money?”Trump, who is running a small-dollar fundraising campaign, has received grassroots donations of $23.7 million through June, which is more than twice the combined grassroots donations...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, known for his close ties to US President Joe Biden, published an op-ed on Saturday following Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York this past week. Friedman asserted that, while appearing friendly toward Netanyahu, the President had "privately slip[ped] a homework assignment into Bibi's pocket." This assignment, according to Friedman, was for Netanyahu to decide whether to dismantle his coalition, or miss out on the chance to achieve normalization with Saudi Arabia. “It was a master class in how a US president puts a fateful decision to an Israeli leader —...

VIDEO AT LINK.............. Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Tourists on the Australian island of K'gari captured video of a dingo that swam out to their boat while it was anchored offshore and stole items including a purse. Sarah Isobel said in a Facebook post that the boat was not occupied when the dingo identified it as a prime target for burglary off the coast of the Queensland island. "This clever dingo managed to make 3 trips to the boat and back while we were running back from the Sunset Bar to stop him," Isobel wrote in the description of her video....

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., suggested Monday that he will not resign from his Senate seat amid federal corruption charges and predicted he would be cleared of wrongdoing. “I firmly believe that when all the facts are presented, not only will I be exonerated, but I still will be New Jersey’s senior senator.” Menendez told reporters at a press conference in Union City, N.J., where he once served as mayor. They were his first public remarks since the charges against him were unsealed Friday. Menendez also offered an explanation for the $480,000 in cash prosecutors said was found in his...

British women’s soccer star Maddy Cusack has tragically died suddenly at just 27 years old, her team has revealed. Cusack played as a midfielder for England’s Sheffield United. Cusack played for the team since 2019. She became the first player to reach 100 appearances for the women’s team last season. She also worked as a marketing executive at the Women’s Championship club. The club issued a statement saying the team is “devastated.” “This is heartbreaking news for everyone at Bramall Lane,” said Sheffield United chief executive officer Stephen Bettis. “Maddy had a unique position of being part of a number...

While in New York City to give a speech at the United Nations, President Biden declined to meet with Mayor Eric Adams. "I was hoping to get some support from my Party's president to help us afford the billions of dollars in extra expenses the flood of migrants is costing us," Adams said. "Without some sort of a federal bailout we're going to have to cut city services across-the-board. That will hurt the poorest of our residents, most of which are American citizens." Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre chastised Adams "for dumping his local problems on the President. President Biden...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted that “climate crisis” prophecies of doom are a hoax. In a major U-turn, climate alarmist Gates backtracked and confessed that “global warming” does not have apocalyptic consequences. Gates reportedly told a group of his fellow globalist green agenda advocates that the “climate doom” narrative has now become so exaggerated that the public now sees right through the charade. The admission from Gates is a major shift for the billionaire who has been a leading proponent of the “climate emergency” narrative. For years, Gates has been championing the “Net Zero” goals of the unelected bureaucratic...

For just over two and a half years, Joe Biden and/or his puppet masters (see Barack Obama, Susan Price, Klaus Schwab, etc.) have been successfully driving the United States to destruction. The plan took a four-year detour when President Trump was at the helm. Now, thanks to what many believe was a stolen election, the plan to enslave our comfy pants-clad bottoms is back on. The commies began the operation decades ago. As Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov warned, the college professors and civil rights leaders indoctrinated — or as Bezmenov calls it, demoralized — generations of Americans and convinced them...

The trip to Canada by Ukrainian President Zelensky was meant to divert from his lackluster United Nations and US Congress appearances, and give Kiev some semblance of a victorious Foreign Relations moment.To do that, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau had his guest come to a special Parliament session, in which ‘he was interrupted by standing ovations seven times’ – as the MSM lore goes.However, Zelensky and Trudeau have unwittingly detonated a PR bomb that is hurting both of their reputations, and exposed the horrible reality of the Nazi ties of the Ukrainian ‘banderite’ regime.The unforced error was to bring 98-year-old Ukrainian...

Not a day goes by when I don't thank God and the then-majority in the Senate for keeping someone with Garland's character off the Supreme Court. I have never aspired to serve in the US Congress, except in those moments when engaging in insider trading seemed financially rewarding; illegal for us ordinary Americans (ask Martha Stewart), but not for Congress. After watching the latest clown show that was Merrick Garland's appearance before Congress, I know how I would have addressed him had I been on that committee: Mr. Garland. We have been subjected to many of your appearances before this...

A “60 Minutes” segment broadcast on Sunday caused an uproar after the show reported that American taxpayers are “subsidizing” Ukraine’s economy and paying for all of Ukraine’s first responders.The news comes as a recent Fox News poll found that 56% of Republicans say the U.S. should be sending less support to Ukraine. A recent CNN poll found that 55% of Americans say Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine.“American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government’s buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine’s first responders – all...

Shocking doorbell video captures a white teen repeatedly pounding on the door of a black woman and her daughter — spewing racial slurs and threatening to rape and murder the Oregon women while making stabbing motions with a knife. Nubrittany Smith told KOIN that she and her mom, Tasha, started getting the terrifying visits soon after they moved into their new apartment in Gresham, a city in the suburbs of Portland, in June. Smith shared videos from her Ring camera of the man, identified as 19-year-old neighbor Dominic Austin, repeatedly walking up to her door while shirtless — and swinging...

Long-awaited approval for DPICM rockets with ranges to just over 100 miles, Rice told Newsweek on Monday, appears imminent, as the White House edges closer to finally lifting its block on supplying the long-range MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System—known as the ATACMS—to Kyiv... "Getting approval this week for HIMARS DPICM will be a game changer," Rice said. "And with no training and change needed, it will likely be on the battlefield next week, making a huge difference. When those rockets launch, they break the sound barrier. To me, that's the sound of freedom."... Rice has been working with U.S. lawmakers...

President Biden cheered on a tentative deal reached between striking Hollywood writers and big studios that was first reported on Sunday night. “I applaud the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for reaching a tentative agreement that will allow writers to return to the important work of telling the stories of our nation, our world – and of all of us,” Biden said in a statement released Monday morning. Writers with the WGA had been striking over access to profits in the form of royalties and residuals for products distributed over online and...

After working with him in the Clinton White House, if there is one Democrat I know inside out, it is my former colleague George Stephanopoulos. The recent ABC/Washington Post poll showing Trump 9 points ahead of Biden bears all of his fingerprints. After years of seeing polls deliberately skewed against Trump to discourage people from backing or donating to him, we new have the spectacle of a poll biased for Trump, likely designed to force Biden out of the race. Democrats had hoped that the Trump indictments would hobble the GOP front-runner. But, instead, they have energized his base, essentially...

An electric car exploded into a massive fire ball while sitting on the driveway of a family home, which also caught fire, according to reports. Emergency fire services were called to a home in Bromborough, Wirral, UK, at around 10 pm after receiving reports that a car was on fire. The blaze from the electric car was so big the family’s home also caught fire. According to a report from The Liverpool Echo, the fire blackened the two-story family home. A man told the outlet that after speaking to the owners of the electric car, they said they believed...

I apologize for being gross, but it's necessary. You have to be shocked into recognizing the moral horror of what a part of the nation's largest teacher's union is doing. It is unspeakable, but we have to speak about it. The most effective work that the irreplaceable Christopher Rufo does is simply to get documents from institutions, and post them in full to the web, so ordinary people can see what kind of corrupt, racist or otherwise depraved people run these institutions. His latest is from the LGBTQ+ caucus of the National Education Association (NEA), the country's largest teachers union,...

See these illegals in the picture above? They are going to neutralize your vote. Recently Karine Jean-Pierre, the muppet who takes questions from the press and either lies or deflects, said"This is a president that has taken historic action!" In a way, she's right. Joe Biden has taken historic action. He has obliterated the borders of this nation. RNC Research: For 30 straight months, illegal border crossings have been higher than *even the highest month* of the previous administrationBill MeluginIt’s a total free for all in Eagle Pass right now. Mass illegal crossing taking place for over an hour and...

A married Pennsylvania State Police trooper is facing false imprisonment charges after he allegedly violently detained his ex-girlfriend and committed her to a mental health treatment program under bogus claims.Ronald Davis, 37, was arrested Thursday on accusations he abused his authority to carry out the twisted takedown that left his former girlfriend improperly stuck in a medical facility for multiple days, the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office said.Davis reportedly told her: “I know you’re not crazy, I’ll paint you as crazy” leading up to the forced medical treatment, the victim claimed, according to court documents released by the district attorney’s...

A top Democrat in the House has detailed how her caucus is prepared to help Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy keep his job in exchange for ending the impeachment inquiry he launched into President Joe Biden’s actions just weeks ago. Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA), the minority whip, promised she could marshal the votes to help McCarthy avoid an attempt by conservative Republicans to vacate the speaker’s chair which would require near-unanimous support from Democrats as well. Rep. Clark told POLITICO that she also intends to force McCarthy into a corner on aid to Ukraine and his ongoing negotiations with the White...