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Donald Trump’s campaign has reportedly given more than $3 million to a mystery company this year, raising questions about the purpose of the money and the identities of those receiving it.The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is set to face the incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, and has stepped up his fundraising and campaigning capabilities.As first reported by NBC News on Monday, citing campaign finance records, two committees associated with the former president’s political campaign—the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee and Save America—have paid $3.1 million to Launchpad Strategies LLC, a company that was incorporated in…
Senate Republican leaders are throwing their support behind Sen. Blaise Ingoglia’s re-election, saying he helped lead a “Conservative Revolution” in Florida. Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, Senate President-designate Ben Albritton, are endorsing Ingoglia, as are Sens. Jim Boyd and Jay Trumbull. Boyd and Trumbull are next in line after Albritton to lead the Senate. The endorsement came through the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (FRSCC), the political committee that serves as a fundraising arm for Senate Republicans. The Senators released a prepared statement about their support, citing Ingoglia’s leadership. “Blaise Ingoglia has been on the forefront of the Conservative Revolution that’s…
This photo illustration shows an image of former President Donald Trump reflected in a phone screen that is displaying the Truth Social app, in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022.Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesA sell-off of Trump Media picked up speed Thursday, with shares of former President Donald Trump’s company falling about 12% shortly after the opening bell.The company behind the conservative social media app Truth Social, which trades on the Nasdaq as DJT, was hovering around $27 per share at the market’s open.That price is more than 40% lower than it stood at the start of June,…
Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative who served as an adviser to Donald Trump, was secretly recorded at Mar-a-Lago spilling the beans on the former president’s strategy to challenge the results of the 2024 election should he lose again. The self-described “dirty trickster” of right-wing politics unknowingly divulged the plan to liberal reporters Lauren Windsor and Ally Sammarco, who posed as Trump fans and covertly videotaped him at a “Catholics Prayer for Trump” event on March 19. The recordings were first reported by Rolling Stone. The remarkably candid conversation is just the latest released by Windsor and her left-leaning sting…
BLM Director Grilled by Senate Republicans Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning testified at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing. She was pressed by Republicans on the committee on topics like renewable energy, conservation, and mining. The committee Republicans accused Stone-Manning of advancing President Biden’s agenda without listening to people directly impacted by the agency’s work. It was the first appearance by the BLM director since she was confirmed to her post on a party-line vote in 2021. Stone-Manning said she was committed to helping the nation achieve the president’s goals of eliminating carbon emissions from the power…
CNN — Being Donald Trump’s vice president didn’t end well for Mike Pence — but there’s no sign his painful split from the ex-president over his anti-constitutional demands is scaring off any of the hopefuls keen to slip into his shoes. The presumptive GOP nominee’s search for a new number two is expected to culminate with a dramatic unveiling at the Republican National Convention in a month, likely choreographed to engineer a TV ratings bump. At various points, the list of possible contenders has included Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, South Carolina…
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailA secret recording has revealed the plan of Trump political consultant Roger Stone to help the former president challenge the 2024 election results. Liberal journalist Lauren Windsor provided Rolling Stone magazine with a recording in which the self-described “dirty trickster” says Donald Trump and his allies are on an “offensive footing” and that they’re better prepared than they were during 2020. “At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge — his…
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) may not be pursuing another term as the top Republican in the upper chamber of Congress, but he’s encouraging his next successor to not weaken the position.Punchbowl News reported this week that during a meeting with Senate Republicans, McConnell particularly warned his colleagues against imposing term limits for a Senate Republican leader, saying that ceding power to the caucus could result in the same kind of chaos currently plaguing the House of Representatives’ Republican majority. Andrew Desiderio, who covers Congress for Punchbowl, tweeted that McConnell called the proposed abolition of term limits “totally…
The Russian media is shouting it from the rooftops. Not only did former President Donald Trump publicly meet with two of the country’s toughest men, pro-Kremlin outlets report he pledged to help Russia end the war in Ukraine.The claim emerged from Trump’s unexpected meeting with notorious Russian UFC stars—and “Putin’s friends”—Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev. The controversial MMA fighters took the opportunity to talk international diplomacy with the once and—possibly—future leader of the free world.Trump “promised Nurmagomedov to stop the war in Ukraine,” according to news reports trumpeted by major Russian news agencies and television channels.President Vladimir Putin outlined the…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was, among other things, one of the most impressive displays of branding on a large scale, in a short time, ever. There were hats. There were flags. And above all, there were slogans.“Make America Great Again.” “Build the wall.” “Lock her up.” And later, “Drain the swamp,” which Trump conceded on the stump that he’d initially hated. No matter: Crowds loved it, which was good enough for Trump to decide that he did, too.One peculiarity of Trump’s 2024 campaign is the absence of…