2024 Elections

'Own version of events': Activist spars with GOP strategist over reported Trump phone call

Democratic strategist Nomiki Konst unleashed on Thursday in discussing Donald Trump's recently reported phone call and his tariff threats.

Trump recently claimed his call with Mexico's leader resulted in her agreeing to effectively close down the border, purportedly as a result of his planned tariffs.


Her version of events was slightly different, according to CNN.

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'A wrinkle': Trump said to be potentially 'running afoul of' presidential transition rules

Donald Trump's ethics and transparency promises may be a violation of the Presential Transition Act, a report suggests.

The former and incoming president raised eyebrows by missing a key deadline for signing transition agreements with the White House. He ultimately signed most of the needed documents, but failed to sign one allowing the FBI to perform background checks on his administration's nominees, according to analysts.

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Ex-prosecutor offers 'one point of light amid the darkness' in Trump criminal case

Donald Trump winning the presidency eliminated almost all of his criminal legal concerns, but there is "one point of light amid the darkness," according to a legal expert.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner recently lamented that special counsel Jack Smith dropped all federal charges against the former and incoming president.

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'Who's going to pay? We are': Fox News host admits Trump tariffs are bad for Americans

Fox News host Julie Banderas warned viewers that they should be prepared to pay more for goods if president-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to place tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

While speaking to small business "expert" Gene Marks on Thursday, Banderas noted that Trump had vowed to make tariffs "so high, so horrible, so obnoxious" to force businesses to move to the United States.

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'Keep it in your pants': Matt Gaetz mocked for saying he'll 'never love another president'

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) faced ridicule after revealing he would "never love another president again" after Donald Trump.

In a Thanksgiving Day message posted to social media, Trump wished a happy holiday to everyone, "including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country."

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'Preposterous': Judge refuses to postpone Jan. 6 trials based on Trump pardon promise

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth declined this week to postpone the trials of Richard Slaughter and Caden Paul Gottfried in light of president-elect Donald Trump's vow to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

Gottfried and Slaughter, his stepfather, were observed engaging law enforcement in an area known as "the tunnel" on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Newsmax pundit slams Trump for picking 'personal friend' for every nomination

Newsmax pundit Theryn Bond criticized president-elect Donald Trump for nominating personal friends instead of the best-qualified people to head his new administration.

During a Thanksgiving panel discussion on Thursday, host Sharla McBride asked Bond to comment on Trump's nominations.

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Trump border czar reacts to death threats: 'If you want some, come get some'

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, responded to death threats by vowing to follow through with mass deportations.

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Homan said that he might start taking death threats seriously after they were received by multiple Trump nominees Tuesday night.

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DOJ steps in as RNC fights North Carolina election board over absentee ballots

The Justice Department is getting involved in a lawsuit brought by the Republican Party against the North Carolina Board of Elections.

According to Democracy Docket, the RNC is disputing the board's guidance about absentee ballots that are not in a sealed return envelope.

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Trump's tariff plan may be halted by clause in the Constitution: report

Donald Trump is pledging to impose hefty taxes on everything entering the U.S. from Mexico, Canada, and China — but a report Wednesday suggested it might not be so straightforward.

In 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally ushered in taxes on all steel and aluminum imports by signing an executive order claiming that the charge was required for American national security and, in 2019, Trump threatened Mexico with a 5% tax if they didn't stop illegal immigration.

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'Guilty': Fox News pundit blames Oprah Winfrey and Democrats for anti-Trump bomb threats

Fox News pundit David Webb asserted Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey were "guilty" after several of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees were targeted with bomb threats.

During Wednesday's Outnumbered program, Emily Compagno noted that at least five of Trump's nominees had faced threats.

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'Just say it!' CNN's Jim Acosta dares GOP guest to claim voter fraud

CNN host Jim Acosta got into a testy exchange with former Trump White House Associate Counsel May Mailman on Friday when she seemed to imply that there was something suspicious going on in a California election in which a Democrat just this week overtook a Republican incumbent three weeks after the election took place.

Referencing the current race between Democrat Adam Gray and Rep. John Durate (R-CA), Mailman complained that California was still counting ballots in late November when most other races across the country have been called.

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D.C. 'bracing for Trump's wrath' over what he could do 'with the stroke of a pen': report

Washington, D.C. officials and residents are concerned about what the future holds under Donald Trump for the area that doesn't have the full rights that 50 states enjoy.

"Forget statehood. District of Columbia officials are just hoping to protect what little self-government they already have in Trump's second term," NBC News warned on Wednesday.

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