Washington Examiner,
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Timothy P.Carney
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There’s a lot of money and some activist passion on the Left behind prosecutors who value mercy over vengeance, but most of the energy on that side these days is behind locking up the “bad people.”
Alvin Bragg ran for district attorney on the promise of prosecuting former President Donald Trump — and won. Think about that for a moment. A Democratic politician campaigned on the promise of locking up the chief rival to the president of the United States. Then he brought an extremely thin case based on an unproven legal theory.
It’s banana republic stuff, but it’s also part of a broader trend: the prosecutorial fervor on the Left today.
Daily Caller,
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Will Kessler
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5/30/2024 3:50:25 PM
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The Biden administration has set in motion a wave of new regulations that have already cost the U.S. more than $1 trillion, which equates to thousands of dollars per family, according to a new report from the Job Creators Network.
There have been $1.6 trillion in costs imposed from a total of 923 new federal regulations that have been finalized under President Joe Biden, with $1.2 trillion of those being put in place in just the past few months, according to the JCN. In just the first two years of the Biden administration, new regulations are estimated to have led to an average of almost $10,000 in added future and present
Real Clear Politics,
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Peder Zane
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5/30/2024 2:43:27 PM
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Robert De Niro is such a great actor, he made me laugh and cry at the same time on Tuesday when he warned that Donald Trump "will never leave" office if he is elected this November.
Channeling his unhinged malcontent from “Taxi Driver,” De Niro went full Travis Bickle outside Trump’s New York City trial, asserting that the former president would rule as dictator even as the former president’s political opponents work to jail him on politically motivated charges.
De Niro’s fearmongering was so cartoonish that it seemed like a brilliant send-up of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He’s joking, right? Only he wasn’t, of course. His performance echoed President Biden’s dystopian commencement speech
USA Today,
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Ingrid Jacques
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In case you needed another example of how President Joe Biden is in full desperation mode, look no further than what happened Tuesday outside the Manhattan courtroom where jurors heard closing arguments in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump.
The Biden campaign held a bizarre news conference featuring none other than actor Robert De Niro, who railed against Trump and his purported existential threat to democracy. I’ve always been a fan of De Niro’s movies, but I don’t care at all what he thinks about politics.
I doubt many other Americans do, either.
And it’s somewhat humorous that Biden
Washington Examiner,
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Staff
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Whatever the jury decides in former President Donald Trump’s New York City felony bookkeeping trial, any pretense that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution was not entirely political died Tuesday when President Joe Biden’s campaign held an event on the courthouse steps.
“First of all, let me say this,” Biden spokesman Michael Tyler shouted over Trump supporters taunting the Biden campaign. “First and foremost, we are not here today because of what is going on over there,” Tyler continued, motioning toward the courthouse. “We are here today because you all are here,” he said, motioning to the assembled press.
The Hill,
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Derek Hunter
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5/30/2024 1:38:09 AM
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When I first came to Washington to work for the Heritage Foundation, there were a few think tanks that made the nerd in me stand a little bit in awe. First, of course, was Heritage, but the second was the Cato Institute.
Heritage was conservative and Cato libertarian, but both seem roughly on the same side. They differed as to how far things should go, but they were both always in opposition to the left. Conservatives wanted constitutionally limited government; libertarians wanted as close to no government as possible.
American Spectator,
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J. T. Young
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5/29/2024 8:30:36 PM
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The 2024 presidential battleground is growing and tilting decidedly toward former President Donald Trump. It is not just that the states that decided 2020’s outcome are increasingly leaning toward Trump — although they are. There are also strong indications that more states could play a potentially determinant role in 2024’s outcome and that these, too, are moving closer toward Trump. Five months out, President Joe Biden is playing defense on over 100 crucial electoral votes but has less than 20 that he could plausibly take from Trump.
The Hill,
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Jonathan Turley
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5/29/2024 8:27:00 PM
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Today the jury began its deliberations in the trial of former president Donald Trump. Before jurors left, however, Judge Juan Merchan framed their deliberations in a way that seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt.
For many of us, the Trump trial has seemed otherworldly, a vaguely familiar proceeding where common elements of a trial seem to have been flipped. Even before the jury instructions, the trial was controversial for both liberal and conservative commentators. At the start of closing arguments, most honest observers were still wondering what the prosecutors were alleging as to the crime that Trump was allegedly concealing with the falsification of business records.
New York Post,
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Michael Goodwin
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5/29/2024 8:22:29 PM
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Ever since Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign, Democrats have argued that he is too weird in too many ways to be president.
They let their Hollywood wing paint him as Crazy Orange Man and the Washington wing stoke fear about threats to democracy and the smashing of political norms.
These two wings merged Tuesday in the bizarre appearance of Robert De Niro. Once a great actor, De Niro has become an unhinged Trump hater and his denunciation of the former president alternately as a “clown” and a “tyrant” amounted to little more than a pip squeaking.
Except for one fact: De Niro didn’t show up on his own accord outside
Fox News,
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Emma Colton
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5/29/2024 8:17:25 PM
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Judge Juan Merchan can "save his reputation" if he dismisses the NY v. Trump case, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday in remarks outside the Manhattan courtroom. "The confusion is nobody knows what the crime is because there's no crime. Nobody knows what the crime is. The D.A. didn't name the crime of the moment. They don't know what the crime is. That's what the problem is. It's a disgrace. This thing ought to be ended immediately. The judge ought to end it and save his reputation," Trump said Wednesday evening.
American Conservative,
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Ryan Girdusky
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5/29/2024 11:06:26 AM
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In 2013, I began working on a city council campaign in Queens, New York and we desperately needed more people to man the phones. We put out an ad on a local job website and a young Hispanic man from Northern Queens walked in our office a few days later. After describing the job to him, he asked what political party this was for; when I replied Republican he looked stunned. “I’ve never actually met a Republican before,” he replied.
He probably wasn’t lying. The Republican Party was basically non-existent in large swaths of the nation’s largest city, including big parts of Queens and Brooklyn and almost the entire borough of
Fox News,
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Brandon Gillespie
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A former Trump campaign official has won a tight primary fight and will now serve as the representative of a deep-red Texas House district.
Republican Katrina Pierson, who served as the spokesperson for former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, defeated incumbent state Rep. Justin Holland in Tuesday's primary runoff for Texas' 33rd House District, and is the presumptive winner of November's general election since no Democrat candidate is standing in the race.
Pierson had the backing of Republican Texas Gov. Gregg Abott, who sought to oust incumbent Republicans opposed to some of his policy objectives.