2024 Elections

'Sad old man' Trump bashed by former communications director for latest ugly Haley smear

Donald Trump's ugly attack on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's husband at a rally on Saturday was hammered by one of his former White House communications directors.

Speaking to the crowd, the former president took aim at his last remaining opponent for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination opponent and then brought up her husband Major Michael Haley, a member of the South Carolina National Guard.

"Then she comes over to see me at Mar-a-Lago. ‘Sir, I will never run against you.’ She brought her husband. Where’s your husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone! He knew. He knew,” Trump told the cheering crowd.

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As NBC News reported, Michael Haley "left for a yearlong deployment in Africa with the South Carolina National Guard last June, something Nikki Haley mentions at every campaign event during her stump speech."

With Nikki Haley responding, "Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about. Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief,” former Trump official Alyssa Farah Griffin also joined the pushback, taking to X to call Trump a "sad old man."

"Nikki Haley’s husband is currently deployed abroad serving our country in uniform — Something Donald Trump never did. What a sad old man," she wrote.

Trump says if elected he would not protect NATO deadbeats

NATO partners who don't fulfil their financial obligations would not get protection from Russia if Donald Trump were to re-take the White House in November, statements from Trump showed. Trump, campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the GOP primary on February 24, said he had told NATO members that they needed to pay up. “I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.” And, he said, he would "encourge them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay." Trump claimed...

'I am concerned': Trump's former defense secretary predicts what he would do in a new term

Former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he is "concerned" about international relations under a second term for his ex-boss, and then predicted what it might look like.

Esper appeared on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, where the two discussed everything from Trump's recent attacks on a deployed service member to the former president's story about denying NATO allies assistance when they're attacked by Russia, unless they put up cash.

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Trump's latest 'breathtaking' rally comment has experts sounding the alarm

Donald Trump just made the most "important" and "dangerous" statement of the election cycle, according to one democracy expert.

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Super PAC backing Miami Mayor Suarez’s presidential bid reported super high fundraising costs

MIAMI — A political action committee supporting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s failed presidential campaign paid its top fundraising consultant more money than the super PAC raised in new donations last year, according to an analysis of the committee’s latest report filed last week.

The pro-Suarez super PAC paid nearly $2.2 million to Virginia-based consulting firm Starboard LLC, while raising just $1.5 million, the report showed.

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'Sick individual': Conservatives bury Trump for attacks on deployed service member

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The former president made the comments at a South Carolina rally. CNN pointed out the hypocrisy of the comments, considering Melania Trump doesn't campaign by his side.

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'Music to Putin's ears': Experts fact check Trump's rally lies and missteps

Donald Trump had a rally in South Carolina on Saturday at which he purportedly lied, misspoke, and promised dangerous policies favoring Russia.

The former president in one instance at the rally said, "One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said... No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want."

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CNN reporter uses Melania to highlight hypocrisy of Trump's latest attack line

Donald Trump on Saturday launched an attack on Nikki Haley's husband, criticizing him for not standing by Haley's side as she campaigns, but a CNN host and reporter were quick to point out the multiple reasons the attack is hypocritical.

Trump at his South Carolina rally said, "Where's her husband? He's away. He's away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He's gone."

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Another House Republican just announced he's not running for re-election

Yet another House Republican representative announced on Saturday that he is not running for re-election in this cycle.

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'Is he gone?' Trump stunned after protester disrupts his rally

Donald Trump was speaking at a South Carolina rally on Saturday, when it appeared a protester disrupted the ex-president's speech.

The former president was headlining a "Get Out the Vote Rally" at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, the home state of his only remaining GOP challenger for the presidential nomination, Nikki Haley.

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Neurologists pour cold water on GOP attacks on Biden's memory

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have spilled a lot of ink attacking President Joe Biden for purported memory lapses, but neurologists are reportedly saying not so fast.

Special Counsel Hur's report on Biden's classified document handling included a line about how the president is a well-meaning but forgetful man, and the conversation since that time has drifted toward whether that means he can't be president.

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Florida GOP formally endorses Donald Trump’s bid for Republican presidential nod

MIAMI — Florida Republicans voted on Saturday to endorse Donald Trump for the GOP’s presidential nod – an unusual step for the party given that the former president still faces a primary challenge, but one that reflects the widely held belief that Trump has already run away with the nomination.

The endorsement came amid a flurry of votes by members of Florida’s Republican Party during their annual meeting in Wesley Chapel.