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Just days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of the election. Others suggest it was the “deep state” or even foreign actors who organized it.Former US Navy Seal and founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, claims that “The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.” He went on to observe that, “unaccountable...

A computer simulation shows just how close Trump was to losing his life on Saturday. The computer model shows three bullets taking the exact same path which is unlikely – and Trump shot in the ear twice (only one bullet grazed his ear). Depiction of the first bullet grazing Trump’s ear shows just how close he was to being struck in his skull. WATCH:

Flying the unfriendly skies. Unless you’ve never been on an airplane, you have a story about a nightmare flight. Last month I was on a flight home. We landed on time, but the plane slowed and stopped within 200 feet of the terminal. There was no gate open so we waited. And waited. And waited. The pilot kept telling us “15 minutes,” but it ended up being an hour until a gate opened and we deboarded. I’ve had flights canceled and relayed for hours. Most of my flights have been uneventful. I’ve met and talked with a lot of nice...

Desperate to turn around his collapsing re-election effort, Joe Biden is hitting at the far-left highlights as we head into the thick of campaign season. On Tuesday, the president addressed the NAACP, or as he called it during his speech, the "NAAC." ALSO SEE: Biden in Michigan Forgets Names, Rambles Incoherently, and Gets HeckledThe moment I saw he was using a regular teleprompter and not his jumbotron, I knew there'd be issues. BIDEN: "NAAC" pic.twitter.com/5DUaos4EUH— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 16, 2024I just want to pull this guy aside and ask him why he's always shouting. In his recent interview with...

The US Secret Service did not put agents on the rooftop where an assassin shot at Donald Trump for health and safety reasons, the head of the agency has said. Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service director, said the “sloped roof” where Thomas Matthew Crooks was positioned on Saturday could have posed a risk to agents. “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she told ABC News on Tuesday. “And so,...

We were a movement defined by hedonism on a quest to leave religion behind and birth the counterculture. We chased sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll all through the 1960s and 1970s, only to come out of it wanting the American dream like everyone else. As we cut our hair, put on suits, bought homes, and became executives, we once again tried for the power of the presidency after the whole thing collapsed in 1980. Ronald Reagan rose because the Left and everything they stood for was nothing Americans wanted anymore, just like now. I came of age in the...

When I found my way to Trump’s rallies in the Summer of 2020, I felt like I had crawled out of a desert searching for signs of life. No one could know my discovery. I had to keep it a secret. If anyone found me out, I would be MAGA. I would be a Trump supporter, and that would be the end of my career and most of my relationships. Despite how often I’d become the target of the fanatical mobs that rule over social media and the Left writ large, I’d knew not to cross the Trump Line. That...

An well-run election is a regularly-scheduled revolution... without the bullets It has long been the ClashDaily position that elections are regularly scheduled revolutions where the fighting is conducted with ballots instead of bullets. But there’s a catch to that claim. The pressure-release valve that comes from the people believing their voice is being heard, even if they don’t all like the result in a given cycle only works if that voice is really being heard. Stuffing ballot boxes is only one of many ways that election results can be manipulated. Slick rules changes, bloated election rolls, security failures in election...

US Central Command reporting destruction of five drones in Yemen and the Red Sea off the coast. The Houthi forces in Yemen launched attacks... The Biden Administration deciding to grant Secret Service protection to Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.... Three Israelis wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers late tonight. They were wrongly identified... In Paris a French soldier guarding the upcoming Olympic games stabbed. A suspect arrested... Ohio US Senator JD Vance has been selected as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate... A Russian representative says Western nations seek to fabricate and allegation of chemical weapons use in Ukraine... Azerbaijan...

<p>That is the question that has dogged the 39-year-old senator from Ohio along his peculiar path to power, which began in 2016 with the publication of his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and culminated this week when former President Donald Trump selected him as a running mate for the 2024 election.</p>

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is set to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday night, but he is not yet scheduled to speak at the Democrat convention in August.For years, O'Brien has aligned with the Democrat Party, as labor unions tend to support Democrat candidates and policies. But it sounds like the Teamsters president O'Brien is a fan of former President Trump's vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance. O'Brien told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto:J.D. Vance, in the short time that we have worked together, has been great on Teamster issues. He co-sponsored an airline manufacturing bill that...

Free speech is an absolute right. Anyone should be able to say any opinion they hold regardless of how distasteful, offensive, scary, obscene, etc... However, you are also responsible for the speech. If were to say, "I hate redheads.", that may be offensive to some but it is my opinion and should be legal. Same thing if I was talking about blacks, jews, muslims, etc.... If I were to say, "I wish all redheads would die."... same scenario. If I were to say, "I wish someone would kill that particular redhead." That MAY still be legal. However, if someone were...

Popular YouTuber James Klüg posted a man-on-the-street video interview he filmed in the aftermath of Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump where one deranged leftist said he supports more Americans trying to take out the 45th President. Asked for his thoughts on the shooting, the random citizen said, “They missed. He should have died. He’s not good for this country and he never will be.” “So, you’re disappointed that the shooter missed Donald Trump?” Klüg asked. “Yeah, a hundred percent,” the man answered. When he was asked if the shooting was justified, the interviewee explained, “I’m sure in his eyes...

DOUG BURGUM TOLD HE IS NOT VICE PRESIDENT. THIS LEAVES JD VANCE, UNLESS THERE'S A SURPRISE. Stay Tuned...............

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Steven Crowder lays it on the line, clearly, and plainly.

right. Which is why I shouldn’t be in the Secret Service any more than they should. Kimberly Cheatle, head of the Secret Service, got the publicity she wanted for hiring a bunch of women. Now she’s got a bunch of questions to answer. How did this happen? How did a guy with a rifle access a rooftop that close to his target? Why didn’t agents listen to the attendees who spotted him first? Why was one female agent heard screaming, “What are we doing? Where are we going?” Why haven’t you cleaned out your desk yet? That last question is...

This has been just a terrible fortnight for the Corporate Media and it couldn't happen to a worse, more dishonest group of partisan hacks. First, their Wizard-of-Oz curtain got pulled back to reveal Joe Biden as a befuddled, confused, inarticulate old coot filled with anger and rage at his predecessor and very likely successor -- with Biden acting as his own little dog Toto. Nearly four years of deliberate concealment of evidence that the president of the United States is a barely functioning rutabaga went up in smoke on CNN, with a horrified White House press corps unable to stop...

Time to Revisit the Anti-Federalists We live in a time where the federal government’s reach seems to extend into every aspect of our lives. From the broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause to the extensive surveillance programs justified by national security, the concerns raised by the Anti-Federalists over 200 years ago appear more relevant than ever. Maybe it’s time we revisit what they had to say. What Were They Worried About? The Anti-Federalists were a group of early American thinkers and politicians who opposed the ratification of the Constitution as it was originally proposed. They worried that a strong central...

Europeans Aren’t As Crazy As We AreOr, to be more specific, their left isn’t as crazy as our left. One instance among many is the United Kingdom’s relatively sane reaction to the “trans” hysteria that gripped the world’s leftists a few years ago. In America, “trans” ideology remains rampant, but in Europe it has been reined in. Thus, for instance, Britain has shut down its notorious Tavistock “child gender identity clinic.”In the last days of the Conservatives’ majority, they enacted an emergency ban on prescription of puberty blockers for children, the heart of the “trans” regime. In the wake of...