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Trump Floats 2 Reasons Why Trump Ditched His New York Trial The former president departed New York after leaving court in the middle of the third day's proceedings.Mary Mary Trump suggested embarrassment is at the root of Donald Trump's abrupt departure from his civil fraud trial. “He showed up in New York voluntarily because he knew how important this fraud trial is not only to his reputation but to the core of his own beliefs about who he is,” the former president's niece, a psychologist and author, said in her Substack newsletter on Thursday. “He left because he knew nothing he did—the pouting, the angry stares, the media hits—was working.” “That plus the humiliation of falling off the Forbes 400 were too much for him to take,” she added. Forbes magazine announced on Tuesday that Trump had fallen off its annual ranking of the nation’s 400 wealthiest people. The blow came a day after Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, attended the fir...

Biden Says Border Walls Don't Work While Waiving 26 Laws To Build More Wall President Joe Biden said he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration's decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of additional border wall, saying he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the. barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico. Asked if he thought such walls work, he said flatly, “No.” The new construction was announced in June, but the funds were appropriated in 2019 before the Democratic president took office. Biden said he tried to get lawmakers to redirect the money but Congress refused, and the law requires the funding to be used as approved and the construction to be completed in 2023. “The money was appropriated for the border wall,” Biden said. “I can't stop that.” ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Scolds Joe Biden For Allowing Construction Of Border Wall The progressive Democrat tore down the president's excuses for waiving dozens of federal laws to add about 20 miles of wall in South Texas. The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday denounced the Biden Administration’s move to allow more construction of the Mexican border wall, calling it “cruel.” “A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement she shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy.” The progressive lawmaker also took issue with President Joe Biden’s claim that the funds for resuming construction were already appropriated for the wall in the Trump administration and that ...

GOP Senator Claims Matt Gaetz Had 1 NSFW Label For This Trump-Loving Governor Sen. Markwayne Mullin continued to accuse Gaetz of X-rated conduct following his efforts to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) claimed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) once cooked up a foul phrase to describe South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) in her latest round of accusations toward the Florida Republican. “The first time I ever met this guy, he walked up to me and [then-Rep.] Kristi Noem at the time was at the podium... he said, 'Man, she's a fine,' and you can put the B-word in place there,” Mullin told Newsmax just one day after he accused Gaetz of openly detailing his sexual experiences to fellow lawmakers. “And I looked at him and said, ‘Really?’ because Kristi is a very close friend of mine, and he turned around and walked away,” Mullin added. Mullin ― who formerly served in the House ― said that Gaetz approached him and apologized after the remark...

Police Throw Cold Water On Ramaswamy's Car Crash Story A Ramaswamy spokesperson said she was "confident of what happened" despite the police account of the Iowa crash differing from the campaign's story. Thomas Beaumont and Margery A. Beck — Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign says at least two protesters upset about the Republican presidential candidate’s remarks in opposition to aid for Ukraine purposefully rammed his car in Iowa in retaliation on Thursday, but police say there is no evidence to support the claim that the crash was intentional. The police account of the crash in the central Iowa city of Grinnell sharply diverged from the story told earlier by Ramaswamy's campaign, which contended that protesters yelled and swore at the candidate before at least one of them jumped into a vehicle, rammed his empty campaign car. and speed off. The campaign said that no one was injured and that it had filed a police report. Police say they were dispatched to a coffe...