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Aug 18 2022
Analysis
Poll: Majority of Americans Approve of Search on Mar-a-Lago for Files Trump Took
Anew poll shows that a majority of voters in the U.S. approve of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last week, in which the agency was seeking documents improperly taken by the former president after his term expired.
A recent Economist/YouGov poll surveyed Americans about the issue from August 13-16, after portions of the search warrant
TruthOutNov 02 2022
Analysis
Threats to Democracy: Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud
Voting is a major issue on the right and the left. Both sides want free and fair elections, but they have different ideas of what the problem is with our current election model, with one side more likely to be worried about voter fraud and the other, voter suppression.
Politicians and partisan media often try to motivate their base to subscribe, donate, engage and turn out to vote by
AllSidesSep 13 2022
News
The only special master candidate Trump and the DOJ can agree on: a 78-year-old judge appointed by Reagan
The Department of Justice has signed off on one of former President Donald Trump's candidates to serve as special master and sift through the thousands of White House documents Trump stored at Mar-a-Lago.
The DOJ said in court filings that it would allow Raymond Dearie, 78, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to act as special
Business InsiderNov 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
Which Midterm Election Issues Are Searched More in Your State?
Election Day is upon us, and there are many issues that are top-of-mind for voters: inflation, abortion, and crime to name a few.
According to Google Trends, here are some of the top issues and their relative search term popularity compared to the total number of Google searches performed on that topic.
Note that the highest search interest in each map is “100,” and “50” is
Andrew WeinzierlApr 22 2022
Data
Biden's Proposed Budget and American Public Opinion
President Joe Biden has released the proposed Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2023. The budget document is 148 pages long. It presents a very lengthy list of proposed government spending initiatives, along with a discussion of the virtues and benefits of each. The total proposed spending for 2023 is $5.8 trillion.
As is usual in a proposed budget, Biden's document has many of
GallupAug 16 2022
News
Trump proves his passports were taken in FBI raid after CBS anchor O’Donnell reports otherwise
The Justice Department admitted late Monday that former President Donald Trump’s passports were taken by FBI agents who searched his Florida home last week — hours after “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell tweeted that she had been told otherwise.
Late Monday, Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich tweeted a screenshot of an email from a member of the Justice Department’s National
New York Post (News)Aug 16 2022
News
DOJ urges judge to keep Trump search warrant affidavit sealed to protect national security investigation
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump asked a judge Monday not to unseal a key document related to the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, saying it contains “highly sensitive information” that could compromise the national security probe.
The government’s request came three days after the federal judge made public the search warrant and other materials
CNBCOct 14 2022
News
Top Fed Official Under Investigation For Violating Insider Trading Rules
Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is under investigation by the Federal Reserve Board’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for violations of ethics guidelines designed to prevent insider trading, the Atlanta Fed announced Friday.
The Atlanta Fed’s ethics department found multiple inaccuracies in Bostic’s financial disclosures, most prominently a series
The Daily CallerApr 02 2022
Analysis
Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company
The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China. But on Aug. 2, 2017, signatures were quickly affixed, one from Hunter Biden, the other from a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.
Within days, a new Cathay Bank account was created. Within a week, millions of dollars started to change hands.
Within a year, it
Washington PostOct 18 2016
Headline Roundup
Quid Pro Quo Attempt
According to documents made public by the FBI, there was an attempt at a deal between the State Department and the Bureau whereby classified emails on her unsecured bathroom server would have their status altered in her favor in exchange for more favorable treatment of FBI officials in overseas postings at embassies.
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