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Eleven years ago, Donald Trump delivered an uncharacteristically short and all-but-forgotten speech before a decidedly unfriendly crowd.

But Trump's extemporaneous address to professional wresting luminaries and fans during the 2013 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony in New York City — Trump himself was an inductee — is a curiosity worth momentarily revisiting, if only for what Trump prophesied about a pair of presidential debates with Joe Biden, the first of which is scheduled for tonight, June 27.

Here are five notable foreshadowings:...

After becoming the first House Speaker in history to be voted out of the position by a vote of Congress, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave a farewell address to reporters on Tuesday.

And on his way out the door, McCarthy took a shot at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the far-right hardliner who called the motion to remove him in the first place.

"I don't think [the vote] says [anything] about the Republican Party; I think it says something about some people who are not a conservative," said McCarthy. "I mean, if you were conservative and you only had one entity making the battle and you vote against securing the border, you vote against cutting funding, this wasteful spending, and then you partner with all the Democrats — now you'll phrase it all the other different ways, that's not a conservative."...