Tag: Donald Trump

CLIVE, Iowa—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said May 30 in the first formal stump speech of his 2024 presidential campaign in Iowa that former President Donald Trump has “moved left” on federal spending, abortion, and crime, gives only lip service to the “America First” policies that he failed to implement when in office, and cannot win a general election. “There are ...

Former President Donald Trump is vowing to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants if he is reelected to a second term, echoing statements he made in 2018 about ending the longstanding policy. “As part of my plan to secure the border on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal ...

Former President Trump wished a happy Memorial Day to Americans but warned that the United States is in great “peril” due to individuals he said are working from within the government to destroy the country. Trump said via his social media platform, Truth Social, that the country “has never been in greater peril than it is right now” and called ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called IRS a “corrupt organization” and said he would welcome a bill abolishing the agency if elected president in 2024. DeSantis made the comments during an interview with conservative radio host Dana Loesch on May 25, a day after the governor announced his White House bid on Twitter. “If Congress defunded the IRS and sent such ...

American evangelist and missionary Franklin Graham (L) and Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Orlando, Fla., on May 22, 2023. (Courtesy of the Florida Governor's Office) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed a formal notification with the Federal Election Commission that he is running for president, his spokesman Bryan Griffin told The Epoch Times. He filed ...

CNN’s on-air personalities are defending the network’s decision to host a town hall-style interview with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night. While many Republicans and conservatives cheered on Trump’s performance on the stage, numerous Democrat politicians criticized the cable news network for giving him such a platform. For instance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted that “CNN should be ashamed of ...

The urban riots with images of buildings and cars set ablaze in 2020 proved how dangerous America’s city streets can be for anyone stuck in traffic during incidents of civil unrest. With little warning, your vehicle could be up against an angry, fist-pounding mob bent on causing harm and destruction. It’s an urban motorist’s worst nightmare, says James Jamila, North ...

President Joe Biden has shrugged off concerns about his age for re-election and said he’s still “effective.” “I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people. And I’m more experienced than anybody that’s ever run for the office. And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as ...

After gaining some ground in the polls, Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is receiving encouragement from an unlikely source—his competition. In a CBS YouGov poll (pdf) published May 1, Ramaswamy—regarded by many as an underdog—pulled in 5 percent of the vote, tying for third place with former Vice President Mike Pence. And although there was a wide margin between the entrepreneur ...

On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive David Zaslav spoke in defense of CNN’s upcoming town hall interview with Donald Trump, saying that the former president deserves airtime on the news network. “He’s a frontrunner. He has to be on our network,” Zaslav said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program in a segment posted to Twitter, speaking of the Trump town ...