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Former President Donald Trump warned on Friday that China has “many thousands of spies working in the United States” in various industries amid a revelation that a Chinese spy balloon is flying over the continental United States. “It’s rarely even mentioned that China has many thousands of spies working in the United States in business, finance, academia, technology, media and likely, even government, very sadly,” Trump declared . Trump then called out President Joe Biden for ending Trump’s Department of Justice initiative that focused on combatting Chinese espionage within the country. Trump said: As President, I established a special initiative at the Department of Justice tasked with the sole mission of targeting Chinese espionage in the United States. Joe Biden terminated that program right away, suggesting that it was somehow racist. According to published reports. Trump noted that Biden’s move to end the special initiative came after 160 University of Pennsylvania … [Read more...] about Donald Trump Warns of Chinese Spies Everywhere in America

Is his 2024 strength fake? Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images One of Donald Trump ’s more notorious habits is to hype public-opinion findings he likes while demonizing those he doesn’t like . Maggie Haberman of the New York Times put her finger on the phenomenon on the eve of the 2020 presidential election: When President Trump talks about polling, his focus is very much on survey-takers that he thinks are good for him . Polls that show him trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. — virtually all national polls — are simply “fake news.” The president’s blinkered view has created something of an alternate universe, one not governed by polling averages or independent analysis but by declarative statements that, at times, feel as if they are coming out of nowhere. As it happens, the polling averages did underestimate Trump’s 2020 performance — but only by degree, not in their overall prediction that Biden would win. This simply reinforced … [Read more...] about Trump’s Lead in 2024 Polls May Be Thinner Than We Thought

Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images At a campaign stop in South Carolina last weekend, his first since announcing his 2024 presidential run, Donald Trump claimed we’re at the brink of another world war — and he alone can fix it . “The 2024 election is our one shot to save our country,” Trump said . “Through weakness and incompetence, Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of World War III. We’re at the brink of World War III, just in case anybody doesn’t know it. As president, I will bring back peace through strength.” Pretty terrifying! But maybe this is one of those times when we’re supposed to take Trump seriously, but not literally . “World War III” is just a (horrifying) metaphor; he just means that if reelected, his generally chill demeanor and superior diplomatic skills would help reduce international tensions. Or maybe we should take him literally. In an interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network’s Brian Glenn posted Thursday, Trump revealed that he … [Read more...] about Trump Could End the Ukraine War ‘Immediately,’ But It’s a Secret

As they prepared to potentially indict Donald Trump for relentlessly lying to banks about his wealth, Manhattan prosecutors were forced to consider whether the former American president was a criminal mastermind or had just lost his mind, according to a new tell-all memoir by a member of that team. In his book about how that investigation fell apart, former special assistant district attorney Mark Pomerantz explained the kind of hurdles his team had to overcome to build a historic criminal case against the Teflon Don. “To rebut the claim that Trump believed his own ‘hype’... we would have to show, and stress, that Donald Trump was not legally insane,” Pomerantz wrote. “Was Donald Trump suffering from some sort of mental condition that made it impossible for him to distinguish between fact and fiction?” he asked, noting that a group of high-powered lawyers advising the DA’s office “discussed whether Trump had been spewing bullshit for so many years about so many things that he … [Read more...] about NYC Prosecutors Had to Prove ‘Trump Was Not Legally Insane’

SAN ANTONIO — The immigration court judge stared at his long docket list on Thursday morning and told the officer he was ready to hear the next case. No one inside the small courtroom made a move. All the action was happening up front on a large flat-screen television. On the screen, an officer could be seen escorting a woman to a seat at a long, bare folding table in a spacious, white-walled room. The woman, a migrant from Cuba named Lorena, had been bused from Mexico to a temporary facility on the South Texas border in Laredo. The judge was 160 miles northeast, in a courtroom in downtown San Antonio. Lorena’s case was part of the Trump administration’s latest experiment on the southwestern border — tent court. Federal officials this week began operating tent-style facilities in Laredo and a handful of other border cities to ease the strain on immigration courts, part of a sweeping set of moves intended to slow the flow of migrant families across the border. The tent … [Read more...] about The Trump Administration’s Latest Experiment on the Border: Tent Courts

MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough said Friday that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham “was right” about former President Donald Trump’s dominance in the party. Scarborough quoted Graham’s 2016 claim that “if the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump, they will destroy themselves and they will deserve it.” The “Morning Joe” host agreed with Graham’s position that Trump has a stranglehold on the party and cannot be defeated by a large pool of potential candidates. “Lindsey Graham was right then, Lindsey Graham is right now,” Scarborough said. Graham ran for president in 2016 but suspended his campaign after failing to gather significant support. On Tuesday, he endorsed Trump’s 2024 campaign during an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.” “I don’t right now see anybody in the field that can beat Donald Trump one on one if Donald Trump decides to run. [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis certainly can’t do that if a Florida high school association is going around following his lead … [Read more...] about Scarborough Says Sen. Lindsey Graham ‘Was Right’ About Trump