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Donald Trump Tweets For First Time Since Feds Took His Mugshot

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Former President Donald Trump tweeted Monday for the first time since his mugshot was taken in Fulton County on Aug. 24, 2023.

Trump posted a two-and-a-half-minute long campaign video on Twitter at 11:19 a.m., breaking his nearly year-long silence on the platform ahead of a scheduled interview with billionaire Elon Musk on Monday night.

“We can now project the winner of the presidential race. Donald Trump wins the presidency. What started off as unlikely, impossible is now reality,” a voice is heard saying as footage of Trump swamped by press flashes on screen in the video.

The video shows crowds of Trump supporters as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee can be heard saying, “I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never let you down.”

Approximately one hour later, Trump sent forth a blitz of posts on X including promotion of his interview with Musk and another campaign ad.

“Are you better off than you were when I was president?” Trump wrote. “Our economy is shattered. Our border has been erased. We’re a nation in decline.”

“Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again!” the GOP nominee continued.

Trump’s last post on X was of his mugshot with the words “ELECTION INTERFERENCE” and “NEVER SURRENDER!” in all capital letters. The image, posted on Aug. 24, 2023, also displayed text stating the date and a link to the GOP candidate’s website. 

Trump was banned on Twitter in January 2021 following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

Prior to posting his mugshot, Trump wrote on Jan. 8, 2021 that he would not attend President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Musk restored Trump’s account after taking over the platform and rebranding it as X.

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Julianna Frieman

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ROOKE: Latest Dem Plot To Take Trump Down Exposed As Just Another Hoax

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As President Biden continues to decline in the eyes of voters and the Democratic Party, his campaign’s desperation to handcuff his opponent, former President Donald Trump, rises exponentially.

Once again, regime media and Democrats have their facts wrong and are pushing another hoax in hopes it hurts Trump’s presidential campaign.

Whether through lawfare or dirty political tactics, Democrats forgo their plans to “Save Democracy” in favor of outright lies in a single pursuit — holding on to power. During the 2016 election and throughout Trump’s first term, they used the claim that he colluded with Russia to “steal” the presidency. Now, they say he is behind The Heritage Foundation, along with more than 110 conservative groups, attempting to “terminate the Constitution” through Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

Americans are being sold a false bill of goods regarding Project 2025 and the mandate for the next conservative president. Nowhere in the report does it advocate for a Trump presidency, only that the next conservative president, which will undoubtedly be a Republican because there is no chance a Democrat would heed the call, should advocate for these policy and personnel recommendations put forward.

Lies And Truths About Project 2025

Abortion

The left’s main campaign talking point is so-called women’s reproductive rights. They plan to paint Trump and conservatives as militantly against abortion and contraceptives. To do this, they claim that Project 2025 calls for a complete ban on abortion and contraceptives without exceptions. The truth is that the report does not mention banning or restricting contraception anywhere in the literature. As far as abortion, it simply states that the conservative president should comply with laws that prevent the federal government from funding it.

Conservatives are unabashedly pro-life, as they should be. However, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade and return it to the states to determine its legality, this policy is up to each state and cannot be determined at the Executive level.

Tax Breaks

Democrats love to pretend to be the party of the working class. However, after seeing the middle-class shrink and the greatest transfer of wealth to the top 1% under 8-years of former President Obama and four years of Biden’s presidency, it’s hard to continue to hold that moniker. To deflect their disastrous economic policies onto Trump, they claim that Project 2025 is pushing its own economic plan that would give higher taxes for the working class while handing out additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%.

In reality, the policy proposal calls for lowering taxes for all Americans. Project 2025 believes that “individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government” and, therefore, should have access to more of it than the federal government.

Unions And Worker Protections

Union jobs are still an important part of the U.S. economy. Democrats traditionally have a strong hold on union voters, which is why they are falsely claiming that Project 2025 wants to eliminate unions and worker protections. The literature is pretty clear that it has different ideas about conservative labor policy, including the need to wrangle bloated federal employee unions. These unions make it impossible to fire employees who are either not performing at their post or engaging in illegal behavior. Still, nowhere in Project 2025’s plan does it call to eliminate unions or worker protections.

Retirement, Social Security, And Health Care

Democrats claim that Trump will raise the retirement age, cut social security, end the Affordable Care Act, and increase prescription drug prices. Again, Trump is not connected to Project 2025 in any way. But even if he were, the mandate does not call for any of these social benefits to be cut. Nowhere in the literature does Project 2025 call for raising the retirement age or advocate for cutting social security or the Affordable Care Act. It does ask that the next conservative president work to reduce the abuses of the Affordable Care Act. It also offers proposals to lower the price of medications through competition and innovation, something Trump was successful at in his first term.

Department of Education

American parents are awake to the dangers of public education and the drivel being forced onto their children in the classrooms, which have become indoctrination factories for far-left ideologies. The left’s claim that Project 2025 wants to eliminate the Department of Education is absolutely true, and there is good reason. American children are not learning. Reading, Math and Science scores are circling the drain. There are entire graduating classes matriculating through the education system without the ability to read on grade level. Still, you can almost guarantee they are fluent in gender and race studies.

Project 2025 believes in elevating school choice so taxpayer money follows the child, not the school, and giving more control back to the state and local governments.

The Democrats also claim that the mandate calls for public schools to teach Christian beliefs, ban books about slavery and that they want to end free and discounted school lunch programs, which are all demonstrably false. Project 2025 intends to move the Food and Nutrition Service to be run not by the Department of Agriculture but rather by the Department of Health and Human Services.

It’s Biden who is threatening to take school funding away for programs like free and discounted lunch if schools don’t participate in his radical transgender policies.

Trump Attends NASCAR Race In Key Swing State

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Former President Donald Trump attended NASCAR’s Coca Cola 500 on Sunday in North Carolina.

Trump last attended a NASCAR event in 2020 and was the fourth sitting president to become the Grand Marshall of the Daytona 500, according to USA Today. Sunday marks the first time a former or sitting president has attended a race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, the outlet reported.

A video of the former president’s plane, dubbed Trump Force One, doing a flyover at the race garnered hundreds of thousands of views after being posted on Twitter. In another video posted by Charlotte Motor Speedway, a crowd erupts in “USA” chants when greeting Trump.

The former president is leading hypothetical matchups against President Joe Biden in key swing states such as North Carolina. According to the RealClearPolitics average, Trump is leading Biden in North Carolina by five points. The former president won the state in the 2020 election with 50.1% of the vote, USA Today reported.

Before attending the Sunday race, Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party Convention in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. At the convention, Trump promised the party a cabinet position if he is elected with the help of their vote.

The closing arguments of Trump’s Manhattan Court case, which has spanned since April 15, is set to begin Tuesday. Throughout the duration of the trial, which left Trump Wednesdays and weekends free, the former president has claimed it has interfered with his ability to campaign. 

“I’m supposed to be in Georgia, I’m supposed to be in New Hampshire, I’m supposed to be in Ohio and lots of other places, and they have me sitting here,” Trump said on April 30.

Since April 15, when Trump’s court case in Manhattan began, only allowing him Wednesdays and weekends free, the former president has held just three rallies as of May 18, according to a Daily Caller analysis. Trump conducted 28 rallies through the same time period in 2016.

More broadly, Trump’s campaigning has been less in 2024 than 2016, according to a Daily Caller analysis. Trump held 132 rallies across 43 states spanning from Jan. 1 to May 7, 2016. The former president has held just 24 rallies in 11 states in the same time period in 2024.

“When President Trump is not in court eight hours per day for the Biden Trial, he has been hosting rallies and fundraisers, doing local and national media interviews, and even hosting foreign leaders at Trump Tower who have asked to meet with him because they know he will soon return to the White House,” a campaign official told the Daily Caller in response to criticism that Trump wasn’t utilizing his free Wednesdays.

AUTHOR

REAGAN REESE

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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Biden Challenges Trump To Audience—Free Debates On His Friendliest Networks

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President Joe Biden proposed two dates to debate former President Donald Trump Wednesday morning, with a list of guardrails including no live audience, according to The New York Times.

Biden suggested that Trump and himself face off in two televised debates, one in June and one in September, though the president said he will not participate in an event put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates, according to the NYT. The president also said he did not want to debate in front of a live audience, rather his team wants the debates held in a television studio to avoid the reaction from in-person viewers.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal, I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in a Wednesday debate message.

“So let’s pick dates Donald, I hear you’re free Wednesdays,” the president continued, alluding to Trump’s court appearances.

Later Wednesday morning, Biden said that he “received and accepted” a debate invitation from CNN scheduled for June 27, before telling Trump, “anywhere, any time, any place.” Trump accepted the invitation as well, setting the stage for the first debate in the general election.

Biden then announced shortly before noon that he “received and accepted” a debate invitation from ABC scheduled for Sept. 10. Trump also accepted the ABC offer.

As a part of their debate dates proposal Biden also only wants networks that hosted the 2016 Republican primary debates and the 2020 Democratic primary debates in 2020, the NYT reported. Those networks include CNN, ABC News, Telemundo and CBS News.

“There should be firm time limits for answers, and alternate turns to speak — so that the time is evenly divided and we have an exchange of views, not a spectacle of mutual interruption,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden campaign chair, said in a letter obtained by the NYT.

“A candidate’s microphone should only be active when it is his turn to speak, to promote adherence to the rules and orderly proceedings,” she continued.

The Biden campaign also wrote that they wanted to keep the forum to two candidates, excluding independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, the NYT reported. If the debates were handled by the Commission on Presidential Debates, Kennedy has potential to reach the 15% polling threshold, the qualifying number to be on the stage. Kennedy did announce Wednesday evening that he “will meet the criteria” to participate in CNN’s debate before the deadline.

“I look forward to holding Presidents Biden and Trump accountable for their records in Atlanta on June 27 to give Americans the debate they deserve,” he said.

Trump responded to the proposal, agreeing to the time of the event, in a statement on Truth Social.

“I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds,” Trump wrote. “That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll get there. ‘Let’s get ready to Rumble!!’”

Outside of the forums proposed by Biden, the former president said in a social media post that he agreed to attend a debate on Fox News set for Oct. 2.

The Trump campaign had been calling on Biden to debate the former president after the president admitted in an interview with Howard Stern that he was interested in debating. 

“I don’t know if you’re gonna debate your opponent,” Stern said.

“I am, somewhere. I don’t know when, but I’m happy to debate him,” Biden replied.

Trump responded with a message of his own on May 9, telling Biden to set up a debate.

“Let’s set it up right now,” Trump said in a video message on Truth Social. “I’m ready to go anywhere that you are.”

The Biden campaign justified their decision to ditch the Commission on Presidential Debates, citing concerns about the original dates proposed, the Washington Post reported. The campaign also voiced concerns over the ability to get candidates to stay within the rules of the commission, the letter reportedly read.

“The Commission’s model of building huge spectacles with large audiences at great expense simply isn’t necessary or conducive to good debates,” Dillon wrote in a letter obtained by the Washington Post. “The debates should be conducted for the benefit of the American voters, watching on television and at home — not as entertainment for an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive partisans and donors, who consume valuable debate time with noisy spectacles of approval or jeering.”

AUTHOR

REAGAN REESE

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter,

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