Donald Trump has demanded compensation for funds spent campaigning against Joe Biden after the US president pulled out of the race for the White House. Republicans should be “reimbursed for fraud”, Trump said, as the vice-president Kamala Harris emerged as the frontrunner to be the Democrat candidate. Mr Biden withdrew on Sunday after weeks of […]
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Biden Bows Out; Endorses Kamala Harris
In a stunning move, President Biden on Sunday dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris to be his successor. In doing so, the president brought to a close a 50-year political career and broke the presidential race wide open a little more than 100 days before voters head to the polls […]
Secret Service Director Will Testify To Congress
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is set to tell House lawmakers Monday that her agency “failed” when it came to security at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, where an assassination attempt unfolded. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed,” Cheatle is expected to say, according to […]
Secret Service now admits it denied Trump security requests
The Secret Service has acknowledged it denied some requests by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign for increased security at his events in the years before the assassination attempt on him at a recent rally. In the immediate aftermath of the July 13 attack, the law enforcement agency had denied rejecting such requests. But the […]
Republicans get ready to stomp on Kamala
Republicans gathered for their party’s national convention this week were hedging their bets on their November opponent as drama engulfs the Democratic Party. Speakers levied criticisms at not just President Biden, but the “Biden-Harris” administration. They labeled Vice President Harris the “border czar,” a reference to the assignment she was given to address the root […]
Nancy Pelosi throws Joe under the bus
When Nancy Pelosi rang Joe Biden to warn him of dire opinion polling, suggesting he could not win the next election to Donald Trump, the president insisted he had data saying the opposite. The 84-year-old ex-speaker did something few others would have dared: she demanded to speak to the advisers telling him so and implied […]
History’s biggest tech disruption nearly fixed
Transport providers, businesses and governments on Saturday are rushing to get all their systems back online after long disruptions following a widespread technology outage. The biggest continuing effect has been on air travel. Carriers canceled thousands of flights on Friday and now have many of their planes and crews in the wrong place, while airports […]
Biden asks, “what the hell was Trump talking about?’
President Biden took to social media Friday evening to blast former President Trump over the speech he gave while accepting the GOP presidential nomination at the final night of the Republican National Convention (RNC). “I’m stuck at home with COVID, so I had the distinct misfortune of watching Donald Trump’s speech to the RNC,” Biden […]
Biden to Democrats; ‘Back off; I’m running’
US President Joe Biden is looking forward to “getting back on the campaign trail next week”, fortifying his commitment to stick in the race as more Democrats on Friday called for him to step aside as the party nominee.“The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” he said.His statement appeared […]
Trump accepts GOP nomination with long speech
Former President Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for president for the third time in a row on Thursday, closing out the Republican National Convention with his first speech since he was shot in a failed assassination attempt just days earlier. Speaking for more than an hour and a half in what was the longest […]
Secret Service in hot water over assassination attempt
Phone calls this week between lawmakers and the heads of the Secret Service and FBI have done little to quell a growing litany of questions as to what actions law enforcement officers did and didn’t take to allow an assassination attempt on former President Trump. New admissions that the Secret Service had flagged gunman Thomas […]
Are these Joe Biden’s last days as a candidate?
President Joe Biden could quit the presidential race within days as those close to him have privately voiced their concerns about his candidacy, according to reports. Biden is isolating as he battles a COVID infection at his home in Delaware. The pressure for him to drop out of the 2024 race is continuing to mount […]