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The verification plan was going to be delayed until after the elections.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said he’s “absolutely” considering bringing back Vine. The comment came in response to a user’s suggestion to rethink the platform’s character limits. Earlier, Musk had vowed to restore accounts of former US President Donald Trump and others, who were previously banned from the platform. Musk has also said he’ll restrict…
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The GOP blame game spread after the results of the elections.
The Senate Leadership Fund has poured millions of dollars into key Senate races across the country in a bid to bail out candidates effectively crowned as party nominees by US President Donald Trump. The super PAC, affiliated with the minority leader, has spent tens of millions of dollars in key races including Ohio and Georgia.
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Six states will be watched for the upcoming midterms.
Republicans are trying to take back Arizona after Democrats made inroads in the swing state in 2020 when Joe Biden won the state and Mark Kelly flipped a Senate seat for Democrats. GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Republican senatorial nominee Blake Masters were both endorsed by President Donald Trump. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hobbs Hobbs…
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Changes might be coming in the election results.
Former US President Donald Trump ignored the mid-term elections, a Republican candidate for Texas governor said. “Not in Ted Cruz’s state of Texas. Pennsylvania could take days,” Doug Mastriano told a right-wing audience. He added that it could take days for vote counts in Pennsylvania to be complete, after the acting elections chief said last…
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The opening statements of the Oath Keepers trial were dramatic.
US President Donald Trump’s former personal aide Kellye SoRelle, who is testifying in the trial of five members of Oath Keepers, has told the jury that she told them todelete text messages and other materials about their activities after the attack on the US Capitol. SoRelle said she acted on her own when she told…
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Donald Trump would run against Ron DeSantis.
Donald Trump on Sunday took a dig at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a rally, referring to him as “Ron deSanctimonious”. DeSantis did not seek Trump’s endorsement for his 2022 reelection bid and the two men held dueling rallies over the weekend. At his rally on Sunday, Trump did not mention DeSantis.
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Kevin McCarthy outlines the Republicans’ agenda.
US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that the first thing he would ask President Donald Trump to do is not to call “half the nation idiots” and say “things about them because they have a difference of opinion”. “I’ll ask the president to not to call half the nation idiots or say things…
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This election is likely to go on for a while.
US President Donald Trump has said that he is hopeful that the early election results for the 2020 state Senate elections, in which he is seeking a third term, “will be announced in a few hours”. The results are expected to show mail ballots that were cast early and come from Democrats who are more…
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CNN is one thing.
Voters who voted for US President Donald Trump in 2020 presidential elections are planning to support Mehmet Oz, a doctor and Republican candidate for US Senate. A Pew Research survey found that most voters in these four states, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, do not think ex-President Joe Biden had won the election, despite false…
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Biden said that the midterms had a choice between different visions of America.
Former US Vice President Joe Biden said that “the way to chaos” in America is if Republicans win the US elections. “It’ll lead to the destruction of this democracy,” he added. Biden’s comments come amid reports that Donald Trump’s campaign has been trying to recruit poll watchers and intimidating voters in the run-up to the…
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The committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump.
The US House Select Committee has granted ex-President Donald Trump more time to turn over documents sought by the panel probing the January 6 terror attack on the US Capitol. The House panel on Thursday closed its hearing and voted to subpoena Trump to testify before them. The committee had sent a subpoena to Trump…
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There is a single minded goal of the Republicans.
The FBI should not be criticised for the actions of 2020 elections and Mar-a-Lago congressional committee on investigation of ex-President Donald Trump’s case, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. “I don’t know if I want to say it but I don’t think we should be criticised,” he added. The FBI had asked the White House to…
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The Democrats should not underestimate the threat Trump poses.
Former US President Donald Trump is considering a 2024 presidential campaign, media reports said on Monday. Trump is expected to formally declare his interest in the presidential elections on Tuesday, reports further said. Trump had recently criticised US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his leadership style and said Democrats want Republicans “dead”.
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Stewart Rhodes is a leader of the Oath Keepers.
A member of the Oath Keepers, a group of anti-government militia members, testified at the trial of the six people accused of plotting the Capitol riots in January that they had gathered in September for a campaign rally for former US President Donald Trump. Oath Keepers were planning to “stack” the Capitol in protest against…
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Disinformation become more intractable.
US President Donald Trump’s anti-Semitic tweet on ‘Truth Social’ was shared over 11,000 times and received thousands of comments, according to the data from social media analysis firm Graphiq. Trump’s tweet claimed that he won the 2020 presidential vote in Wisconsin despite all evidence to the contrary. In May, Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued that…
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DOJ calls for six-month sentence for a Trump ally.
The US House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack on Thursday voted to subpoena ex-President Donald Trump to appear before it. The committee had asked Trump to provide documents and testify about his interactions with the Capitol assailants. Earlier, ex-adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for violating a…
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Trump sued the Attorney General of New York.
The US Justice Department said former President Donald Trump’s legal team did not provide certain details about his executive privilege claims in the Special Master review. In a court filing this week, the department said Trump’s team indicated that data hosting companies didn’t want to work with the former President. Earlier, Trump had filed a…
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A judge rejects part of the special master’s plan, so Trump will not have to back up his claims about the FBI planting evidence.
Former US President Donald Trump’s legal team can not provide certain information about his executive privilege claims to a special master reviewing the FBI’s search of his Florida mansion, a US judge said. The Justice Department has argued that Trump’s claims are weak because the materials were seized by the executive branch for an executive…
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6 experts offer help to Americans dealing with inflation.
Amid rising costs for everything from food to health care, US President Donald Trump has vowed to boost the minimum wage to $15 (around 10.50) per hour by 2023 if elected. However, it doesn’t make much of a difference to inflation as the current minimum wage is around $7.25 per hour, according to the National…
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Ahead of the polls, Biden warned that democracy is no longer taken for granted.
US President Joe Biden on Friday said Donald Trump “made the Big Lie an article of faith in the MAGA Republican Party”. “There are candidates running for every level of office…[who] won’t commit to accepting the results of…elections,” he added. Biden further said, “Trump’s made the Big Lie an article of faith in the MAGA…
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Georgia Senate race went downhill but the Pennsylvania debate didn’t hurt us too much.
Republican Don Bolduc, who is running for New Hampshire Senator, had earlier said that US President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying Trump won…and damn it, I stand by [it],” Bolduc had said at a debate in August. Bolduc is a retired Army…
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Trump won’t have to back up his claims that the FBI planted evidence in court.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld US President Donald Trump’s claims of high-judicial-discovery in the Doj-Inventory seized during FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort. The court also ruled that the Special Master appointed to review the seized items can’t be required to specify whether Trump thought disclosure within the executive branch was barred…
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Supreme Court has ruled that Lindsey Graham must testify in the inquiry.
A House committee has said former US President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign adviser Michael Herschmann met Trump and attorney Sidney Powell on December 18, 2020, for a meeting that focused on topics including ” invoking martial law, seizing voting machines and appointing Powell as special counsel to investigate 2020 election”. She added she also met with…
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The company that is now called TWo is the one that was founded by Musk.
Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who left the company in 2018 after being banned from the social media platform, said on Twitter that he agreed with Elon Musk that there shouldn’t be permanent bans of politicians. Dorsey’s comment came after Musk said that Twitter should have not permanently banned US President Donald Trump. He had agreed…
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The attack on Pelosi is a serious threat to US democracy.
US Vice President Mike Pence has said that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric “could incite political violence and extremists often view his words as marching orders.” Pence added that Trump “knows full well that extremists often view his words as marching orders.” He further said that Trump knew he had the right to overturn the election.