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Jenna Piwowarczyk, a student at Concordia College, started a group called “Swifites for Trump,” to encourage Taylor Swift fans to vote for former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.On Sunday, the former president reposted content on his social media plaftorm Truth Social about the “Swifties for Trump” group and even reposted an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photo of Swift telling people to vote for him. In his caption, Trump wrote: “I accept!”Piwowarczyk, 19, celebrated Trump acknowledging the group and said in a video posted to YouTube that she met Trump at a Wisconsin rally in June while wearing her…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and undermine faith in democratic institutions.Although the Trump campaign and private-sector cybersecurity investigators had previously said Iran was behind the hacking attempts, it was the first time the U.S. government had assigned blame for the attack. The joint statement from the FBI and other federal agencies also indicated that Iran was responsible for attempts to hack Vice President…
John Oliver on Sunday said the Democrats’ “weird” label targeting former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio also extends to a selection of Republican Senate candidates from last week’s primaries in Minnesota, Virginia, and Wisconsin. “You know it’s getting to him,” the “Last Week Tonight” host said after showing a clip of Trump rejecting that he had every been called “weird.” “You tried to buy Greenland. You stared at the sun during a solar eclipse. And you did this,” Oliver said, showing a photo of Trump hugging and kissing the American flag. “That’s not something a…
Former President Donald Trump shared AI-generated images of women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts to his Truth Social account on Sunday, including a satirical post that claimed Taylor Swift fans were turning to Trump after security concerns forced the cancellation of her Vienna concerts earlier this month. Trump captioned the post “I accept!” and shared screenshots of four X posts that show women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts, as well as a fabricated image of Taylor Swift that reads, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.” Swift has not endorsed a presidential candidate in this election but endorsed President Joe Biden…
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America will continue as Senate Republicans strive to prevent Democrats from passing even the most popular measures under Biden’s presidency. While prices skyrocket across the country and our rights are put in jeopardy, Americans like you continue to fight for representation and push back against the rise of fascism. Despite the challenges facing the journalism industry these days, we’ve been fortunate to have a loyal reader base and to be able…
Donald Trump doubled down on his comments about how the Presidential Medal of Freedom is superior to the military Medal of Honor because the former involves no sacrifice. “The Presidential Medal of Freedom, to my knowledge, I don’t think anybody suffered,” Trump said in an interview after his rally on Saturday, attempting to clarify comments made on Thursday. “People [who] get the Congressional Medal of Honor, which I’ve given to many, are often horribly wounded or dead. They’re often dead, they get it posthumously. And when you get the Congressional Medal of Honor, I always consider that to be the…
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The Ivy League has a glass ceiling, Paetongtarn Shinawatra will be Thailand’s youngest prime minister, and Kamala Harris reveals her economic agenda. Have a productive Monday!– Talking economics. Kamala Harris unveiled her economic plan on Friday, a month into her campaign as the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. It was her first major policy speech before her party convenes at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. The plan positions Harris as a candidate focused on the economic well-being of middle-class voters. In a speech in Raleigh, N.C., she called her vision the “opportunity economy,” which…
BOSTON – The three Republicans competing for the right to take on Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a fight for Massachusetts’s U.S. Senate seat debated which of them was a “real” Republican rather than a “RINO” – Republican In Name Only. The GOP candidates met in their only TV debate at the WBZ-TV studios.Will the candidates support Donald Trump?Each candidate was asked if they will support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as he aims to return to the White House.”The big differentiating litmus test is whether someone supports the head of the ticket, which is why I’m wearing this hat,” said…
Congressional Republicans have accused Joe Biden of “egregious” conduct for which he should be impeached – despite providing no evidence that the US president committed a crime – in a 291-page report whose impact has been significantly blunted by his withdrawal from the presidential race.In what was supposed to be a central theme of the GOP’s drive to derail Biden’s re-election effort, the report alleges that he was the architect and beneficiary of a lucrative influence-peddling scheme fronted by his son, Hunter, and brother, James.The culmination of a months-long impeachment inquiry conducted by three Republican-led House of Representatives committees –…
ShareHarris’ ancestral village in India cheers for ‘daughter of this land’ If they could vote for her, they would. The people of Thulasendrapuram, a village in southern India that calls Kamala Harris its own, knew little about her until she became the U.S. vice president. Now they display banners of Harris, whose maternal grandparents were born in the village, and are planning celebrations for if and when the Democratic nominee wins the presidential election.Read the full story here.ShareBiden is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention Monday night after dropping out of the presidential race back in July. His speech is expected to be…