A Texas man charged with invading the Capitol and threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday that he was effectively following then-President Donald Trump’s orders when he joined a mob that stormed Congress on Jan. 6. Garret Miller also apologized to Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for writing “Assassinate AOC” in a Twitter post. He said he would be willing to […] Read more
President Donald Trump signed a massive coronavirus relief and government funding package into law Sunday, five days he sent Washington into a panic by suggesting he could veto the bill that he considered was a “disgrace.” He refused to approve the legislation for days after receiving it, blowing past a Saturday deadline to prevent an estimated 14 […] Read more
Republican election officials in Georgia on Sunday continued to rebut Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, as the outgoing president tries to pressure the governor to help overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state “The president’s statements are false, they’re misinformation,” Gabriel Sterling, voting system implementation manager for Georgia, told NBC’s “Meet the […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory to be overturned, and spread unproven claims of voter fraud while falsely insisting he won a series of key swing states that went to Biden. Facing defeat after a string of court losses, Trump made a surprise call-in appearance at a Republican state legislature hearing in Gettysburg, […] Read more
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden had their first chance to challenge each other face to face. They did — a lot. Hardly a minute went by in the 90-minute brawl without one of the candidates angrily interrupting the other, whether on the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court, the economy or anything […] Read more
Joe Biden embraced his blue-collar roots and his political centrism during a town hall hosted by CNN in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. On question after question Thursday night, Biden replied with answers aimed directly at potential “Trump-Biden voters,” whose defection from the Democratic Party in 2016 helped deliver narrow victories to Donald Trump in […] Read more
22:15 ET – Trump: ‘They’re Democrat-run cities. It is what it is.’ At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump blamed Congressional Democrats for wanting “a bailout of Democrat-run states” for the stalemate over a coronavirus relief bill. ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the moderator of the town hall, pressed Trump on why he keeps […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s fawning relati0nship with U.S. oil and gas companies has taken a momentary pause, following Trump’s decision to extend an offshore drilling moratorium in the southern United States for ten more years. With the coastlines of Florida, South Carolina and Georgia now off-limits, the oil sector has found itself in rare moment of […] Read more
The 2016 election clearly left an impression on Pennsylvania voters — and right now, they’re apparently downright skittish. © Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images A new Monmouth poll shows presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a 13-point lead in Pennsylvania, making it yet another swing state with good polling news for the former VP. But it also seems that […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his most direct attacks to date on the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Trump, seizing on a quote by a man who runs a fringe Black Lives Matter knock-off group, and a chant that is not popular with protesters, suggested in tweets that the loosely organized […] Read more
