Trump decries Columbia agitators, calls Charlottesville 'peanuts' compared to campus anti-Israel unrest Former President Trump blasted the antisemitic protests taking place at Columbia University on Tuesday, while describing the violent 2017 Charlottesville rally as “peanuts" compared to the unrest on ... 04/30/2024 - 3:48 am | View Link
Trump's White House lawyer shocked at ex-President's ‘Charlottesville reference’, calls it a political suicide Schultz, who was an associate White House counsel at the time of the rally, described Trump's mention of Charlottesville as a "big mistake" and politically damaging. He told CNN's ... 04/25/2024 - 9:12 pm | View Link
White House calls Trump’s Charlottesville ‘peanut’ comments ‘repugnant and divisive’ The White House on Thursday blasted former President Trump after he twice minimized the deadly 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., downplaying its severity compared to ongoing campus ... 04/25/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally as a ‘peanut’ compared to Israel-Gaza protests Trump’s comments are his latest attempt to minimize the Charlottesville incident ... Minouche Shafik to resign if she cannot bring order to the campus. His calls were amid the growing unrest on these ... 04/25/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.