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2024 election: Polls show Trump remains popular with Republicans as he faces 91 felony charges

2024 election: Polls show Trump remains popular with Republicans as he faces 91 felony charges

Posted by | Aug 22, 2023

After every new indictment, Donald Trump has boasted that his standing among Republicans only improves, and he has a point. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans, 63%, say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That is up slightly from the 55% who said the same in April when Trump began facing a series of criminal charges. Seven in 10 Republicans now have a favorable opinion of Trump, an uptick from the 60% who said so two months ago. But in a crucial warning sign for the...

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Channel of Lies: Why rightwing media outlets continue to push deceptions by Trump for their own profit

Channel of Lies: Why rightwing media outlets continue to push deceptions by Trump for their own profit

Posted by | Aug 22, 2023

Dear Trump-loving Friends, Donald Trump and the fascist-supporting, billionaire-funded rightwing have been lying to you about these indictments, particularly the federal one that charges Trump with trying to overturn the 2020 election in defiance of the Constitution and federal law. His lawyer has been all over TV telling anybody who will listen that Joe Biden ordered this prosecution and that it’s all about “denying Trump’s free speech right to question an election.” Both are lies, being spun to try to justify a criminal conspiracy of shocking proportions that nearly ended the American Experiment after 247 years. First off, Joe...

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Red Scare tactics: Why Republicans label all who oppose their agenda as Communists

Red Scare tactics: Why Republicans label all who oppose their agenda as Communists

Posted by | Aug 19, 2023

In June of 1954, Robert Oppenheimer lost his security clearance because his ex-wife had been a member of the Communist Party and he had described himself as a “New Deal Democrat,” which, to his inquisitors, meant “communist.” The Soviet Union had brought down the iron curtain on their people, after all, and millions of Russians lived behind it. The USSR also had the world’s second-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and Americans lived in fear of nuclear war: I still remember the “duck and cover” drills from elementary school in the 1950s. Now the GOP is reprising their infamous McCarthyite...

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Fani Willis: How the most sprawling criminal case was built against Donald Trump in Georgia

Fani Willis: How the most sprawling criminal case was built against Donald Trump in Georgia

Posted by | Aug 18, 2023

Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former president, Fani Willis was at work. Just one month after Trump’s infamous January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of state could overturn his election loss, the Fulton County district attorney announced she was looking into possible illegal “attempts to influence” the results in what has become one of America’s premier political battlegrounds. As she built her case, Willis called a parade of high-profile witnesses before a special grand jury, presiding over an...

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Fani Willis: Why the Black female prosecutor faces an unequal burden of both racist and sexist attacks

Fani Willis: Why the Black female prosecutor faces an unequal burden of both racist and sexist attacks

Posted by | Aug 18, 2023

By Bev-Freda Jackson, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of Public Affairs On the day he was indicted on financial fraud charges in a New York City courtroom, former U.S. President Donald Trump launched an attack against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. One of the handful of Black female prosecutors in the country, Willis has led a criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged campaign interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. “In the wings, they’ve got a local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta who is doing everything in her power to indict me over an absolutely perfect...

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Election indictments in Georgia highlight efforts by Republicans to illegally access voting equipment

Election indictments in Georgia highlight efforts by Republicans to illegally access voting equipment

Posted by | Aug 18, 2023

A day after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the country was still reeling from the violent attempt to halt the transfer of presidential power, a local Republican Party official greeted a group of computer experts outside the election office in a rural county in south Georgia, where they were given access to voting equipment. Their intent was to copy software and data from the election systems in an attempt to prove claims by President Donald Trump and his allies that voting machines had been rigged to flip the 2020 election to his challenger, Democrat...

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