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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump “remains a clear and present danger to the American people.” Raskin said, “I believe in Donald Trump’s mind he absolutely is the future, and he’s going to try to maintain that kind of authoritarian relationship with people in the Republican Party.”

For President Biden, rebuilding U.S. ties with Europe damaged by four years of Donald Trump's contentious leadership is a top priority. "Let me erase any lingering doubt,” Biden said during a virtual appearance at the Munich Security Conference, “the United States will work closely with our European Union partners to meet the shared challenges we face. We continue to support the goal of a Europe whole and free and at peace.” For European leaders dismayed by Trump’s “America First” cold shoulder, Biden’s election has come as a relief. He has rejoined the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization,...

House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (Wyo.) on Tuesday rejected the “America First” foreign policy that was the centerpiece of former President Trump’s global agenda. Speaking during a virtual event with the Reagan Institute, the No. 3 House Republican warned against policies of isolationism and said the U.S. must take a leading role on the world stage as part of efforts to push back against China's and Russia's ambitions. “These ideas are just as dangerous today as they were in 1940, when isolationists launched the America First movement to appease Hitler and prevent America from aiding Britain in the fight...

This week, Trump met with his former campaign manager Brad Parscale to discuss online fundraising components and how he can leverage social media despite Twitter’s “Orwellian-like” censorship tactics. According to reports, Trump also met again with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and his eldest son, Don Jr. “We are in the process of putting together a more formal schedule for candidates who want to come get his endorsement,” senior Trump adviser Jason Miller said, noting Trump’s meetings so far have been limited to golf friends, Mar-a-Lago members, and “folks with the ability to contact him themselves.” Sen. Lindsey Graham...

Former President Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement attacking U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY) on Tuesday: The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $30 million in funding to Australia’s Lynas Corp to build a rare earth processing plant in Texas, as the nation continues to seek to break its reliance on Chinese imports of the critical minerals. The facility will be able to process light rare earth elements (LREE), which are not only widely used in consumer goods such as cellphones and electric car motors, but also critical to the production of next-generation fighter jets and precision-guided missiles. It’s not the first time Lynas, one of the few major non-Chinese rare earth miners, received federal funding...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in a statement first shared with The Hill. “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.” Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to McConnell.

The 1776 Commission was removed from the White House website about an hour after President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday afternoon. Biden had already prepared to reverse key policies of the Trump administration through executive orders on his first day in the White House. One of those policies to be reversed was the 1776 Commission, according to a report by CNN. The 1776 Commission had released its final report on Monday, fulfilling Trump’s request to reaffirm the importance of America’s founding principles in the daily life and education of its citizens. Now, a search for “1776 report”...

Last year, I was on campus at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh to attend a men's soccer game. Arriving early to find a parking space, I walked to the student union, known as the Tally Center, a marvelous four-story building with every amenity you can imagine. After touring the building, I left and walked toward the soccer field. Thereupon I encountered a group of perhaps 15 to 20 young Asians, led by an adult Caucasian heading towards the Tally Center. Presuming that they hailed from an area high school, I asked one of the students as he passed...

...while the narrow Dem majorities will naturally reverse some Trump policies, there’s a serious argument for pausing to consider what their predecessors got right. Such as economic equity. The macroeconomy during the first three Trump years grew robustly, with real median household income rising 9 percent after near-zero growth from 1999 to 2016. Even more striking, gains in the Trump years were greatest at the low-income levels, rather than high-income levels: 4.7 percent wage growth among the lowest quarter of earners in 2019, with the bottom 90 percent increasing their share of overall earnings for the first time in a...

Senator Mitch McConnell blocked an attempt by Democrats on Tuesday to hold an immediate vote on increasing stimulus checks to $2,000 from $600, leaving the fate of the measure unclear as President Trump continued to demand the larger payouts and more Republicans publicly endorsed the idea. Instead, Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, provided vague assurances that the Senate would “begin the process” of discussing $2,000 checks and two other issues that Mr. Trump has demanded lawmakers address: election security and removing legal protections for social media platforms. Mr. McConnell would not say whether he planned separate...

President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday evening Read President Trump’s entire statement below: As President of the United States, it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus. I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work. Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act...

If ever you wanted proof that many if not most of our elites don’t care about everyday Americans, watch what Melinda Gates said in response to CNN host Poppy Harlow yesterday when discussing President Trump’s executive order giving her fellow Americans (the ones paying the taxes that supported research and are paying for them) priority in access to Covid vaccines. Via The Daily Wire: “The president just signed an executive order to try to put Americans at the front of the line when it comes to vaccines,” CNN host Poppy Harlow said, adding, “I wonder if that’s what you were...

In the first two decades of the century, Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a potential Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed. What establishment Democrats like Biden and Blinken helped to do in previous administrations, they will likely now have to undo. Who effected this sea change in national thinking? Donald Trump. Much that was said and believed before he came down the escalator in 2015 is...

In an online column denouncing President Trump's "America First" policy that includes measures regarding Beijing, ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis did not disclose his affiliation with an organization that fosters international business deals with communist China. As coauthor with three other writers in a Nov. 23 Foreign Affairs column, Mattis did not mention that he works for the The Cohen Group consulting firm. Nor did he challenge China's tough talk against U.S. policies regarding Taiwan, nor the strict economic retaliation Beijing levied against Australia. Instead, Mattis criticized Trump administration policies toward Beijing. Such policies, touted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...

(h/t to FReeQ) Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the...

Why U.S. Security Depends on Alliances—Now More Than Ever. By Kori Schake, Jim Mattis, Jim Ellis, and Joe Felter

In 1988, President Reagan delivered his final State of the Union speech where he famously described America as a “shining city on a hill.” During his two terms in office, he presided over eight years of economic prosperity and started the process of dismantling communism around the world. Under his leadership, America became a beacon to the rest of the world, serving as a model of what they could become. Newly democratic countries copied their constitutions after ours, and so many people wanted to move to the U.S. that Reagan agreed to implement a guestworker program to accommodate more of them. ...

You see him night after night, in state after state, giving speeches to crowds in the tens of thousands. As a long-time professional speaker, I personally have been in and around other speakers all of my adult life. I have delivered more than 1060 presentations myself and I have witnessed at least that number live and in-person. Donald Trump, however, stands out like no one else. When you watch the rallies (peaceful protests), what is most incredible about the president is his ability to stand in front of a crowd – sometimes two and three crowds on the same day...

As the last four years have made it clear: If you love America, there’s only one option on November 3, 2020. This election is not about the left versus the right or Republicans versus Democrats. The 2020 presidential race is between a man, President Trump, who unapologetically loves America and believes she is good--and an empty shell of a man, Joe Biden, controlled by a movement that believes America is bad. As Thomas Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute alluded to in an excellent speech posted to YouTube, which inspired this column, the Democratic Party exists today in name only;...