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James Comer will 'absolutely' continue pursuing Hunter Biden probe despite Trump's victory

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said he would "absolutely" continue to pursue an investigation into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, despite Donald Trump's re-election.

During a Thursday interview on Newsmax, host Shaun Kraisman noted that the federal cases against Trump were expected to be dropped after he won the election.

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'Friction': Trump's win sparks 'Monday morning quarterbacking' with Biden and Harris aides

Recriminations are going on behind the scenes between aides to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as they try to work out whether there is blame to be assigned for Donald Trump's victory on Tuesday night, CNN White House correspondent Kayla Tausche told Anderson Cooper.

In particular, she said, there are arguments over whether it was really the best move to force Biden out of the race in the summer, or whether it was in fact his unpopularity casting a shadow over the whole race to begin with.

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'I need you to stand up': Simone Biles asks Biden to 'make some things shake' before 2025

President Joe Biden is getting some encouragement from legendary gymnast Simone Biles to use his last days in the White House wisely.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday afternoon, the seven-time Olympic gold medalist asked Biden to make the most of his lame-duck period, though she notably didn't give him any specific instructions.

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'Thank you George Clooney': Trump win spurs scorn for movie star who demanded Biden quit

Democratic voters would like a quick word with movie star George Clooney.

Clooney, the movie star whose New York Times editorial heralded the ouster of President Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential race, was the subject of some frustration after former President Donald Trump secured the nation's highest office.

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Trump already 'set to repeat Biden's mistake': conservative economist

Conservative economist Brian Riedl thinks that President Joe Biden's biggest mistake was the first major piece of legislation that he signed into law: The American Rescue Plan.

Writing on Twitter, Riedl acknowledges that inflation was likely to have spiked regardless of what Biden did when he came into office given pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, but he adds that $1.9 trillion stimulus program poured "gasoline on the inflationary fire."

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Joe Biden blamed for Donald Trump's re-election win

Joe Biden is ultimately to blame for Donald Trump's election win, according to an analysis.

The president who defeated Trump in 2020 should have stepped down after one term, according to Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Daly, rather than attempt to run for re-election at 81 years old.

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'Guys you'd like to smack': Biden tries to out-macho Trump by recalling childhood scrap

Joe Biden tried to out-macho Donald Trump Saturday, telling a crowd in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania that the Republican is somebody he’d like to “smack in the a–.”

Talking to an audience of union carpenters, he told a tale of getting into scraps when he was a kid.

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'Pleaded with him': Insiders describe begging Trump not to hit Biden with shocking slur

Shocked Trump staffers “pleaded” with Donald Trump to abandon plans to use an offensive slur as a new nickname for President Joe Biden, a report claimed Saturday.

Tim Alberta based his revelation, made in The Atlantic, on conversations with several Trump camp insiders in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.

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'Peace through strength!' Trump Diwali greeting finds darkness in festival of lights

As Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists across the globe celebrated Diwali, the festival championing the victory of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, former President Donald Trump had a message to deliver.

It was this: Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden should be held responsible for recent looting and mobs in Bangladesh.

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'I shudder to imagine': Expert sees surprise way Trump return could doom Americans

Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025 could doom American citizens to an early death for a surprising reason revealed by a Washington Post contributor Thursday.

Health columnist and emergency physician Dr. Leana S. Wen expressed concern that Trump would task anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy with choosing health agency chiefs who could face a major viral threat hovering on the horizon.

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'I have no cognitive': NPR analysis reveals litany of alarming Trump gaffes

Former President Donald Trump's most recent campaign speeches are not nearly as succinct or energetic as they once were, and riddled with gaffes, according to a new National Public Radio review.

The 78-year-old Trump's speeches are marked by "lower energy" and also a tendency to go off on "nonsensical tangents," NPR reported Tuesday. What's more, Trump seems to at times have difficulty recalling very basic vocabulary.

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'Consistently exaggerating': CNN fact checker drops the hammer on J.D. Vance

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Friday whacked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for falsely claiming that the Biden administration is forcing American car companies to only manufacture electric cars, which Vance said would cost thousands of autoworker jobs.

"The Biden-Harris administration has not forced and is not forcing Americans to buy electric vehicles," Dale said. "And Vice President Harris isn't proposing forcing people to buy electric vehicles. Nobody's taking away your gas-powered car."

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'Alarmingly bad at math': 78-year-old Trump slammed for saying he's 'not that close' to 80

Donald Trump, 78, on Sunday was criticized after saying at a town hall event that he is "not that close" to being 80 years old.

Trump over the weekend held a town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he delivered remarks while sitting.

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