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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Trump Says He Might ‘Encourage’ Russia To Attack NATO Allies — “You gotta pay your bills,” said the former president notorious for not paying his own bills. — LOADING — Former President Donald Trump delivered an alarming message to U.S. allies during a Saturday rally where he outlined …
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Trump asks about whereabouts of Haley's husband, who's serving overseas — Michael Haley deployed with the South Carolina National Guard last year. — CONWAY, South Carolina — Former President Donald Trump made a fresh jab at his GOP opponent Nikki Haley's husband during a rally Saturday afternoon …
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Ron Filipkowski / MeidasTouch:
Trump Says He Will Refuse to Honor NATO Treaty — Said enemies can “do whatever the hell they want” — At every rally, Trump loves to tell the story that references the only thing he knows about global security - the transactional relationship we have with our NATO allies.
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NBC News and Associated Press
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He'd Urge Russian Aggression — Speaking in Conway, S.C., Donald J. Trump said as president he'd told NATO allies that he would urge Russian aggression against countries that owed the military alliance money.
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Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members — At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills. — Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the presumptive Republican nominee …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says He'd Encourage Russia to Attack NATO Allies Who Don't Pay … Donald Trump has despised NATO since the 1980s, and when he was president, his aides believed he wanted to pull the United States out of the alliance completely. At a rally this weekend, Trump went even further …
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New York Times and The Hill
Shamim Adam / Bloomberg:
White House Rebukes Trump for Remark On Urging Russia to Attack Allies — The White House pushed back against Donald Trump's claim that he told NATO leaders while president that he would encourage Russia to invade members of the alliance who didn't meet their defense commitments.
CNN:
Trump attacks Haley for absence of her husband, who is deployed
Trump attacks Haley for absence of her husband, who is deployed
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Haley to troll Trump in South Carolina with mobile billboard highlighting his age
Haley to troll Trump in South Carolina with mobile billboard highlighting his age
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Just Security:
The Real “Robert Hur Report” (Versus What You Read in the News) — How the Special Counsel report has been misinterpreted — The Special Counsel Robert Hur report has been grossly mischaracterized by the press. The report finds that the evidence of a knowing, willful violation of the criminal laws is wanting.
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Washington Post, Fox News and PolitiFact
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Jonathan Alter / OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter:
Surviving Biden's Brain Freezes — As regular readers know, I've spent the last two years arguing here and in The New York Times that President Biden should not run for reelection. Doing so is selfish, short-sighted in terms of securing his legacy, and wrong-headed, as he has admitted …
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump — Both Donald J. Trump and President Biden are elderly men. But voters are much less likely to worry that Mr. Trump is too old to serve. — Donald J. Trump has praised Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, for his leadership of Turkey …
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Washington Examiner, nationalinterest.org, USA Today and Raw Story
Josh Meyer / USA Today:
Did special counsel cross the line in bashing Biden's memory? Even some Republicans think so
Did special counsel cross the line in bashing Biden's memory? Even some Republicans think so
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Hill, New Republic, Politico, IJR and Washington Examiner
Axios:
Inside the White House's fight to defend Biden's fitness
Inside the White House's fight to defend Biden's fitness
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports ‘nauseating’
Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports ‘nauseating’
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Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
It's time for a serious talk about Veep Kamala Harris . . .
It's time for a serious talk about Veep Kamala Harris . . .
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Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Verbal gaffe or sign of trouble? Mixing up names like Biden and Trump have done is pretty common
Verbal gaffe or sign of trouble? Mixing up names like Biden and Trump have done is pretty common
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
February 9, 2024 — Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland …
February 9, 2024 — Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland …
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Washington Examiner and Associated Press
Slate:
A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court — The Hawaii Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Wednesday declaring that its state constitution grants individuals absolutely no right to keep and bear arms outside the context of military service.
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Louder With Crowder
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Wisconsin Rep. Gallagher will not seek reelection — Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection this fall after four terms in office. — Gallagher, the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, released a statement via social media …
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Mike Gallagher Won't Seek Reelection After Refusal To Impeach Homeland Security Chief
Mike Gallagher Won't Seek Reelection After Refusal To Impeach Homeland Security Chief
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Daniel Han / Politico:
Andy Kim sinks first lady Tammy Murphy in NJ Senate race's first Democratic convention — His victory shows he can get support of the rank-and-file Democrats he'll need to overcome Tammy Murphy's advantages. — LONG BRANCH, New Jersey — Rep. Andy Kim on Saturday won by a wide margin …
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Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida — A bookshop in left-leaning Asheville is now sending children's books back to the Sunshine State — ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call …
Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
Shocking Opposition Victory Throws Pakistan Into Chaos — The party of Imran Khan, the jailed former prime minister, took the most seats, humiliating the country's military rulers and creating a political crisis. — The party of the imprisoned former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Kahn …
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