Trump has literally 0 platform he's running on - other than hate, fear, and revenge. I don't think he's running necessarily just to beat Biden, though. He's running to stay out of jail, grift at the highest level again, and try to become a dictator.
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And the GOP led states are all in for 0 platform
Missouri Sec of State on national News today saying he gonna pull Biden from the ballot because the Texas Lt Gov alledged he engaged in insurrection ...not because he has any evidence or the state of Missouri conducted an investigation etc etc etc ..because the Lt Gov of Texas claimed he did
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) and CNN anchor Boris Sanchez on Monday got into a contentious back and forth over whether former President Trump can be kept off the ballot in 2024.
As Ashcroft joined CNN for an interview on Monday afternoon Sanchez cited a tweet from the Missouri attorney general calling a decision by local courts and state officials in Colorado and Maine “disgraceful” and asked the Republican why he disagreed with the decisions.
“The Constitution gives the criteria for individuals to run for president. The Maine constitution does not do that,” Ashcroft said.
“But Congress gives the states the ability to determine how their elections are run,” Sanchez shot back.
“But it does not give them the authority to add conditions to who may run for president,” Ashcroft responded. “What we saw happen in Maine was a total lack of due process, a total misunderstanding of the 14th Amendment and a decision that was made by someone that’s not even an attorney, much less a judge.”
Ashcroft then asked Sanchez if hearsay evidence was allowed in Trump’s case in Colorado, to which the anchor said he “hasn’t gone through all the evidence,” so he was “not in a position to say so,” but he noted Trump’s legal team had the opportunity to respond to the allegations against it in court and did not do so.
“The United States Constitution is supreme over state constitution I hope you at least understand that,” Ashcroft said taking a shot at Sanchez, to which he responded, “I do.”
Some Republican state officials have suggested barring President Biden from the ballot in response to the decisions in Colorado and Maine.
Sanchez pressed Ashcroft on this point, and asked him “how do you justify” keeping Biden off the ballot and pressed him by asking whether “he engaged in your mind some kind of insurrection?”
“There are some allegations that he has engaged in insurrection,” Ashcroft said before Sanchez quickly interrupted him, asking how and saying “you can’t say something like that without backing it up.”
“Are you scared of the truth,” Ashcroft said to Sanchez, now shouting.
“I am not petrified of the truth at all, it seems like you might be. Let’s hear what you have to say,” Sanchez responded.
Ashcroft gave no specific answer to how Biden had committed insurrection but cited “allegations” from officials in Texas and Florida before suggesting Trump was also merely the victim of “allegations” about his effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to take up whether Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot, over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
It was the second contentious back-and-forth Sanchez has had with a GOP official on “CNN News Central” in the last week. On Tuesday, he asked the chair of Maine’s Republican Party seven times why it was wrong to kick Trump off the ballot in his state.
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Wow...so she made these claims and then retracted them ???
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New Jeffrey Epstein document is worst one for Trump yet
The document released on Monday contains emails that were sent by an Epstein accuser.
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Wow...so she made these claims and then retracted them ???
View attachment 3135New Jeffrey Epstein document is worst one for Trump yet
The document released on Monday contains emails that were sent by an Epstein accuser.
She backtracked in 2019. But, now is stating she only did that because of threats against her family.
Epstein victim doubles down on Prince Andrew, Clinton and Branson 'sex tapes' claim
Sarah Ransome told ITV’s Good Morning Britain it was ‘no secret that everything was recorded’
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Iowa pastors denounce ‘God Made Trump’ video
A week ahead of the Iowa Republican caucuses, a new video depicting former president Donald Trump as a messianic figure caused a stir among the Iowa evangelical community.
The video, called “God Made Trump,” was shared by the former president on his Truth Social account Friday morning. In the video, a narrator paraphrases the Bible while describing Trump as “a man who cares for the flock” and “a shepherd to mankind who won’t ever leave nor forsake them.”
“I find it absolutely sickening, period,” said Michael Demastus, pastor of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ. “Trump is not the Messiah.”
The video begins as a parody of Paul Harvey’s famous “So God Made a Farmer” speech, opening with a shot of the earth. A narrator says, “And on June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump.” A similar video about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis circulated in 2022.
The Trump video includes repeated religious references and quotations from the Bible. A narrator describes Trump as one who “follow(s) the path and remain(s) strong in faith.” He paraphrases Psalm 140 to describe the “fake news media” — with “their tongues as sharp as a serpents” and “the poison of vipers ... on their lips” — and credits Trump with “finish(ing) a hard week’s work by attending church on Sunday.”
The video was created by Dilley Meme Team, a group of online content creators independent from the Trump campaign, though they work in close contact with it. The group — which calls itself Trump’s Online War Machine — has faced controversy for its vulgar and sexist content.
Demastus, who has called Trump “the most pro-life president we have ever had,” said he is not alone in his disgust of the new video. “Many other evangelical pastors find that video offensive,” he said.
Terry Amann, pastor of the Church of the Way in Des Moines, found the video distasteful. “Christians have no right to be offended by anything since Christ went to the cross totally innocent for us guilty sinners,” he said. “That being said, (the video) demeans Christianity, Trump and the people who made it. It says a lot about the people around Trump and their ‘worldly’ understanding of Christianity.”
Iowa Republicans officially kick off the 2024 election Monday, when they cast votes in the state party’s caucuses. Winning over evangelicals is a requirement for winning the Iowa caucuses; in 2016, the last time there was a competitive Republican primary, more than 60% of Republican caucus participants were evangelicals.
Among evangelical voters, Trump is widely seen as the favorite. He received massive support from white conservative evangelicals in 2016 and 2020, and a new Deseret News/HarrisX poll finds that a majority of Republicans see Trump as a “person of faith.”
Evangelicals credit Trump for securing a conservative-majority Supreme Court which ended federal protections for abortion by striking down Roe v. Wade. In the Deseret/HarrisX poll, respondents said Trump is a person of faith because he “defends people of faith in the U.S.” and he “supports policies that focus on families.”
Some in Trump’s personal orbit dispute that he is a person of faith. Several of his former aides said Trump mocks evangelical Christians and Latter-day Saints behind closed doors, according to The Atlantic. And during a comedic speech at the Alfalfa Club, Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice president, poked fun at his apparent religious illiteracy.
“I read that some of those classified documents they found in Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president’s Bible,” Pence joked. “Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”
Trump faces more than 90 criminal charges, including 34 related to a payment to a porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair.
But for many evangelical voters, it’s Trump’s record — not his personal life — that are key when selecting a president: “We’re not electing a pastor,” many say. Trump’s policies on social issues, like abortion and religious liberty, are appealing to many evangelicals. But after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, Trump has seemed to soften on his abortion stance, a shift that has enraged many of his conservative supporters.
Nonetheless, Trump maintains a comfortable lead in polling ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Trump sits near 50%, while his closest challengers — Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley — hover in the upper teens. Come caucus night, state party leadership expects record turnout, and it is likely a majority of participants will be evangelical Christians.
Amann and Demastus have expressed support for Trump in the past, but this election cycle, they are not endorsing any candidate. Both are part of Faith Wins, a nationwide cohort of pastors focused on training and encouraging Christians to participate in elections. While Faith Wins pastors will be active up to Caucus Day, leading “caucus training” sessions and encouraging their congregants to get out to vote, they are maintaining public neutrality toward the candidates.
“I haven’t endorsed a candidate,” Demastus said. “But the one thing I’m happy about is I don’t have to explain away the awful stuff a candidate is sharing.”
Conservative publication National Review begs GOP voters to turn on 'grotesquely selfish' Trump
The right-wing National Review published an editorial on Wednesday in which it all but begged conservatives to find someone besides former President Donald Trump to be the party's nominee.
The crux of the editorial attacks the common conceit among Trump supporters that the only thing he's done wrong has been to write "mean tweets," and the editors argue that his actions leading up to and during the January 6th Capitol riots are the main argument against his candidacy.
"Because he couldn’t bear to admit that he’d lost to Joe Biden in 2020 (after trailing him in every national poll), Trump insisted he’d won and did everything he could to overturn the result, including trying to bully his vice president into violating his oath and preventing and delaying the counting of the electoral vote," the editors contend. "When a mob, fervently believing Trump’s lies, fought its way into the U.S. Capitol to try to end the count, Trump did little or nothing to try to stop it."
The editors went on to describe these events as "infamous presidential acts" that "represented serious offenses against our constitutional order" and that cannot be justified.
They then urged their readers to choose either Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, as the editors said it's hard to imagine either one engaging in "such grotesquely selfish behavior injurious to our republic" as what Trump has done.
Read the full editorial here.
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Stone denies saying any such things. He says the audio of him is fake.
First he denied they had any evidence and said they couldn't produce the recording they said they had, and now they have and he is calling it fake
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Trump seems to think a lot of old people love him. But are the ones in good health going to be willing to risk their health and safety by getting out in the cold and snow to support him?
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