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May 24 2024
Headline Roundup
Did President Biden Authorize 'Deadly Force' During the Mar-a-Lago Raid?
This week, former President Donald Trump claimed that the Biden administration authorized the use of deadly force during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
For Context: In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to confiscate classified documents taken when Trump left office.
The Claim: On Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social, “WOW! I just came out of the
Associated Press Fact Check Forbes Fox News DigitalMar 08 2020
Opinion
Capitalism’s Addiction Problem
An entire generation is losing faith in American capitalism. Widening inequality and declining mobility have led to an erosion of trust in the system. In a 2018 Gallup survey, only 45 percent of young adults said they supported capitalism. Fifty-one percent supported socialism.
These numbers are stark, and so are the failures that underlie them, but history suggests that the failures
The AtlanticJun 21 2018
News
Trump Torches Democrats On Immigration At Duluth Rally: They Put Illegal Aliens Before Americans
President Trump held a rally in Duluth, Minnesota last night. It was tremendous. I’m sorry. The man has a talent for this and he should keep on doing it. For hours, people waited to gain entry. Some were turned away at the Amsoil Arena. It was your run-of-the mill Trump event, but the president took aim at Democrats over their hysteria on immigration. The Left and their allies in the media
TownhallFeb 11 2015
News
North Carolina man charged in shooting death of 3 Muslim students
A man who portrayed himself as an avowed atheist on social media was in custody early Wednesday after allegedly gunning down three Muslim students in a condominium complex near the University of North Carolina hours earlier.
Fox News DigitalJun 19 2019
News
2 winners and 4 losers from Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign launch speech
Winners from Trump’s 2020 kickoff rally: Mitch McConnell, William Barr. Losers: Fake news and any sense of perspective.
President Donald Trump is, officially, off and running in pursuit of a second term in the White House.
Trump’s campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, Florida, featured a lot of talk about freedom, a lot of talk about Hillary Clinton, and hardline immigration
VoxJul 19 2019
News
Just say 'racist'
YESTERDAY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES “fanned the flames of a racial fire.” According to a panoply of major news outlets, Trump “starkly injected” “racially infused” and “racially charged” words into a morning tweetstorm; the language he used was “widely established as a racist trope” and “usually considered an ugly racist taunt.” The remarks were “called racist and xenophobic”; “
Columbia Journalism ReviewJul 19 2019
News
Donald Trump is not America's first racist president, but hopefully he'll be our last
It was amusing at the start of the great racist tweet controversy to hear the media asking, “Is President Donald Trump a racist?” We are well beyond such questions.
“I am the least racist person you have ever met,” he has said on numerous occasions. If you were living solo on a deserted island and he showed up, that might be true, but for everyone else, it’s just another one of his
Guest WriterApr 08 2020
Fact Check
Do 40 Percent of Americans Have Less Than $400 in the Bank?
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar claimed on Twitter Sunday that 40 percent of people in the United States have less than $400 in their bank accounts.
The claim also made recent appearances in comments by Sen. Bernie Sanders, an article published by Salon, and a National Interest article, among other media exploring the economic impact of coronavirus.
The 40 percent number
The Dispatch