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CHICAGO — In ballrooms, barrooms and backrooms this week, the business of big business is getting done with Democrats out of public view.

Yes, Bernie Sanders on Tuesday railed before Democratic National Convention delegates about how “millionaires and billionaires” should “not be able to buy elections.” And sure, curtailing “the corrupting influence of money in politics” is a plank in the 2024 Democratic Party platform.

But most Democrats in Chicago are ignoring the socialist senator and stepping over and around that party plank while pursuing cash that corporations and moneyed special interests are all too keen to contribute....

CHICAGO — As the Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday, Republican nominee Donald Trump — not Democratic nominee Kamala Harris — arguably has the most permanent and grandiose billboard in town.

It’s not a traditional billboard suspended alongside the highway, although there are plenty of those surrounding the city with decidedly convention-focused messages.

Rather, it’s the massive letters spelling out TRUMP across the 98-story reflective skyscraper, Trump International Hotel and Tower....

The self-styled “secretary of retribution” for Donald Trump, who created a “Deep State target list” a prominent congressman describes as a “vigilante death warrant for hundreds of Americans,” received an audience earlier this month with the very people he’s sought to attract: law enforcement officers.

Ivan Raiklin, a retired Army lieutenant colonel with designs on conducting “live-streamed swatting raids” against the more than 350 politicians, federal employees, journalists and others on the list, detailed his plans to about two dozen police officials gathered earlier this month for a sheriffs’ association conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Raiklin’s 20-minute presentation to the Texas law enforcement officials took place in a private meeting room on July 22 in a restaurant in Fort Worth, according to a video reviewed by Raw Story....

MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump and a fraternity of fellow felons played starring roles at this week’s Republican National Convention.

There was former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, fresh out of federal prison, delivering a prime-time speech.

There was former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, prowling the Fiserv Forum convention floor with official credentials....

Former President Donald Trump's niece assailed him and the media's apparent acceptance of a new-and-improved rebrand at the Republican National Convention, which she called a "grotesque spectacle."

Mary Trump wrote Friday in her newsletter, "The Good In Us" that her uncle, the man accused of inciting a violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, did so because he "couldn’t handle losing an election does not actually give a damn about unity."

"Donald Trump is no more capable of unifying this country than he was of being presidential. And yet, far too many people in the corporate media keep waiting for it to happen. Indeed, they cynically keep assuring us it’s going to happen," she wrote....

A former GOP strategist rebuked the anything-but-normal Republican National Convention on Friday and revealed what he felt emerged as the party's greatest "weakness" — J.D. Vance.

Rick Wilson, a Republican media strategist, took to The Lincoln Project podcast to remark upon what he called the "coronation" of former President Donald Trump. He launched into his podcast blasting the normalization of the MAGA gathering.

"This idea that this was a normal Republican convention could have been dismissed at the very first milliseconds of it," he said. "This was the most bizarre transitional moment in American politics. And I don't think people have fully appreciated it yet." ...