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“When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, business leaders flocked to meet with him, hoping to tone down his trade policies and populist rhetoric while encouraging his business-friendly tax and deregulation agenda,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “They are flocking to meet him again. Since Trump vanquished his last major GOP primary foe, more big names from the world of finance have lined up behind him.

New York Times: “There will be no opening statements. President Biden and former President Donald Trump will each have two minutes to answer questions — followed by one-minute rebuttals and responses to the rebuttals. Red lights visible to the candidates will flash when they have five seconds left, and turn solid red when time has expired.

Wall Street Journal: “The ruling Conservative Party—which ran on a slogan to ‘Get Brexit Done’ during the last election in 2019—doesn’t want to dwell on its former flagship policy given that about three-quarters of the country thinks it botched the terms of its divorce from the EU, according to a poll by YouGov.

Air Mail: “The traditional approach of stigmatizing far-right parties by invoking their authoritarian roots is having little effect on generations for whom Auschwitz, Vichy, and D-day are obscure references in a history book—one they may not have cracked open.” “Another lesson is that responding judiciously to voter concerns about migration, rather than labeling them ‘racist’ or the product of ‘misinformation,’ can strengthen support for the political mainstream.”

Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) has a new concern regarding the investigation into the January 6 insurrection. He is worried that the FBI is doing SWAT raids on "grandmas and grandpas" who just happened to be near the Capitol: The lawmaker appeared on Fox Business fuming over federal authorities prowling for January 6 rioters — claiming "grandmas and grandmas" are enduring SWAT treatment. "We've had this massive dragnet, this massive manhunt for grandmas and grandpas that show up on January 6, never enter the Capitol, just happened to be in Washington, D.

Fox's Laura Ingraham fantasizes about 50 years of MAGA rule following Felon45's return to the Capitol this Thursday. Here's Ingraham saying the quiet part out loud during a portion of her opening: INGRAHAM: So it's time for everyone now in the GOP to acknowledge that Trump was right. He was right about the economy.