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Former President Donald Trump is considering skipping at least some of the 2024 Republican primary debates, the New York Times reported, citing five people who have discussed the matter with Trump. Last month, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced the first two debates of the GOP presidential primary season. First will be a Fox News-hosted debate in August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, followed by a second debate in Southern California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan. That's according to conversations I had on Wednesday with nearly a dozen employees at The Post who expressed fury at the way Ryan announced in a town hall that the company would undergo layoffs in early 2023. Ryan said that the layoffs would only amount to a single-digit percentage of the workforce and that the overall size of the company would not shrink, given there would be reinvestments in other areas. But none of that quelled outrage from staffers. The staffers at The Post, who were already seeking answers...

President Joe Biden is facing bipartisan flack for his humiliating ‘fist bump’ with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MBS, during the course of his groveling to persuade the Middle Eastern nation to significanly increase its oil output. MBS smirked during bilateral talks on Friday in a knowing display of how embarrassing the U.S. president’s kow-towing was to the Saudis. “President Biden, is Saudi Arabia still a pariah?” a reporter shouted. The reporter was quickly ushered out of the room. Both President Biden and the Saudi crown prince ignored the question. Biden later dismissed a...

Congresswoman and January 6 committee Vice-Chair Liz Cheney earned sustained applause for a blistering chunk of her Reagan Library speech devoted to tearing former President Donald Trump to bits over the attack on the Capitol. On Wednesday night, Cheney delivered a speech entitled “A Time for Choosing with Liz Cheney” that was designed to celebrate the late former president who inspired that title, Ronald Reagan. As he introduced Cheney, who has been the public-facing ramrod of the January 6 hearings, The Reagan Institute’s Roger Zakheim warned “we received word that there may be folks here tonight who intend to disrupt...

Liz Cheney spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and condemned Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the GOP saying you can’t support Trump and the United States Constitution. Liz Cheney received a standing ovation from the Republican crowd.

The Washington Post's publisher accused the Biden DOJ of "unprecedented" assault on the media. Fred Ryan described an "escalation" in attacks on the First Amendment since Trump left office. The publisher of The Washington Post accused the US Department of Justice of an "unprecedented assault on American news organizations" under President Joe Biden. Fred Ryan said that government action against media outlets had worsened since President Donald Trump left office, despite Biden officials taking a much less combative approach to the news media in public. Ryan noted in an opinion article that Biden had criticized the Trump administration for using...

Washington — President Trump lashed out at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute and Fox News on Sunday after the presidential foundation requested his campaign and the Republican National Committee stop using former President Ronald Reagan's likeness to fundraise. "So the Washington Post is running the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Board of Fox, which has been terrible," Mr. Trump tweeted. "We will win anyway, even with the phony @FoxNews suppression polls (which have been seriously wrong for 5 years)!"