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Connor Grant | February 3, 2021
Trump’s new legal team filed its pre-trial brief on Tuesday in response to the House's Article of Impeachment and ahead of the former president’s trial next week in the U.S. Senate. In the brief, Trump's attorneys called on the Senate to acquit Trump because they believe the article is in “violation” of the constitution, adding that the former president denies allegations that he helped incite…
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Connor Grant | February 3, 2021
John Kerry, President Joe Biden's "Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, now says that the terms of the Paris Agreement are "insufficient" to combat the threat of climate change. Just days after Biden re-committed the United States into the global accord, Kerry told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that the Paris Climate Agreement's “goals thus far have been inadequate.”  When asked if he…
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Connor Grant | February 2, 2021
The animal rights organization "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," better known simply as "PETA," took to Twitter last week to denounce the use of animal names as insults or slurs. In a tweet containing  a graphic with examples of these slurs, PETA claimed that, “Calling someone an animal as an insult reinforces the myth that humans are superior to other animals & justified in…
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Connor Grant | February 1, 2021
At Least 12 people were arrested on Sunday following a protest in which members of an Antifa-linked anarchist group, Oly Housing Now (OHN), refused to leave a hotel in a protest for permanent housing for the homeless. The protest took place in Olympia, Washington which has been a hotspot for liberal activist groups for months now.  In a social media post on Sunday, OHN demanded that “Thurston…
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Connor Grant | January 29, 2021
On Thursday, Politico reported from a source who is “familiar with the preparation of the RNC” that former President Trump will be invited to speak at their upcoming spring donors meeting.  If he accepts his invitation, Trump would join other potential presidential candidates and GOP leaders in April for the 3-day event. The event is expected to be held in Palm Beach Florida, but not Mar-a-lago…
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Connor Grant | January 29, 2021
With political turmoil at an all-time high in Washington, it seems some lawmakers are neglecting to acknowledge how American’s actually feel about their current actions. A Rasmussen Poll conducted on Jan.25-26 found that nearly 57% of Americans believe that former-President Trump’s impeachment trial will further divide the nation. The poll was conducted following the 232-197 House vote last…
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Connor Grant | January 28, 2021
At a press briefing on Wednesday the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, caught the ire of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Kerry defended the Biden Administration's plan to combat climate change and answered questions regarding the administration's attitude towards fossil fuels.   Kerry told reporters:  “With respect to those workers, no two people…
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Connor Grant | January 28, 2021
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Wednesday that he and his Democrat colleagues are exploring the possibility of censuring Trump rather than holding an impeachment trial for the former president's alleged incitement of insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. In a recent vote, 45 Republican senators voted that Trump's impeachment was unconstitutional, which all but ensures that Senate Democrats will fall…
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Connor Grant | January 27, 2021
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, (D-HI), took to twitter on Tuesday to release a video in which she denounced democrats such as Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-CA), and former CIA director John Brennan and their current calls for the surveillance and monitoring of Americans. In the video, Gabbard, a former democratic candidate for president, refers to Schiff, Brennan, and the oligarchs in Big Tech as “domestic…
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Connor Grant | January 26, 2021
Since his inauguration less than one week ago, President Biden has signed a record high 33 “executive orders, actions, proclamations, memoranda and agency directives,” according to CNN. According to the White House, 21 of these have been executive orders.  Typically, a new president signs no more than a handful of executive orders in their first week. In 2017, Trump signed four in his first week…