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President Trump ushered in America's 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically apolitical, unifying speeches past presidents have given to mark Independence Day.

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Sunday shows preview: After America 250, GOP shifts focus back to Trump’s agenda

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Sunday shows preview: After America 250, GOP shifts focus back to Trump’s agenda

Millions of Americans turned out to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence this weekend, even as sweltering heat gripped much of the country and forced the nation’s capital to scale back its festivities. A heat dome engulfed more than two dozen states and Washington, D.C., sending temperatures soaring into the triple digits in several major…

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Gavin Newsom goes on Trump-bashing tirade in tedious 4th of July address

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Gavin Newsom goes on Trump-bashing tirade in tedious 4th of July address

Newsom spent much of his eight minutes entirely focused on President Donald Trump.

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Trump’s assault on nation’s founding promise hands the left perfect opportunity: historian

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Trump’s assault on nation’s founding promise hands the left perfect opportunity: historian

Donald Trump's assault on the nation's founding democratic promise has handed the political left a perfect opportunity to reclaim its legacy, argued historian Harvey Kaye in an analysis published in Zeteo on Saturday.Kaye, professor emeritus of democracy and justice studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, wrote that the nation is marking its 250th anniversary even as "Donald Trump and his minions" pursue their "reactionary ambitions" – a timing he called "nothing less than ironic, as if history were playing a cruel joke on us."“Hardly the grounds for a grand celebration. And yet, the 250th comes at the perfect time for the Left,” Kaye wrote. “Indeed, rather than dismiss or scorn the occasion as we may be wont to, we progressives, populists, and democratic socialists should step up and embrace it. For are we not also finally seeing the beginnings of a real democratic surge – a surge that might actually lead to taking back the Democratic Party from the neoliberals and billionaires?”Kaye called on Americans to remember they are "heirs to the promise and project of the American Revolution," invoking Thomas Paine's declaration that "we have it in our power to begin the world over again."Kaye pointed to past national crises – the Civil War and the Great Depression – as models for how Americans previously responded to authoritarian threats, writing that each generation made the country "radically freer, more equal, and more democratic than ever before."“Reminding ourselves of all of that, and sensing the democratic possibilities that are emerging, let us toast the 250th with words from the man who first turned us into radicals,” Kaye wrote. “Angered by misrepresentations of the American Revolution in a history published in 1782 by the famed French writer, Abbe Raynal, Paine replied, ‘It is yet too soon to write the history of the Revolution.’”

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Severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of Washington, D.C.

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Severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of Washington, D.C.

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of the District of Columbia and surrounding areas in Maryland and Virginia on Saturday afternoon ahead of President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated speech to commemorate the United States’s 250th Independence Day. Amid a record-setting heat wave that began earlier in the week on the […]

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Trump wants to sabotage his own party to send a message about himself: biographer

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Trump wants to sabotage his own party to send a message about himself: biographer

A Trump biographer suggested that Trump is sabotaging his own party ahead of the midterms for a selfish reason.On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Michael Wolff said that he believes Trump's strategy is to lay the groundwork for the Republicans to take the blame for losing the midterms, and his goal is to prove that the party needs him."You can actually kind of get inside his head, and that's what he's doing. He is now undermining the Republicans," Wolff said, adding that it's to "blame it on them, to reinforce the fact that they can't do anything if he's not running."Wolff said that Trump's strategy when losing is "he just denies it [and blames] it on somebody else," and "it would seem now that he has gone down the path to do almost everything to undermine the Republicans."On that point, Wolff looks to the bipartisan housing bill that Trump refuses to sign as a sign of undermining the GOP, explaining, "This was actually a bipartisan win that might have helped them during the midterms."By refusing to sign the housing bill, "what he's stolen from the Republicans is the ability to show that they care, and this would have been very helpful" for them ahead of the midterms, which are now four months away.Co-host Joanna Coles agreed that Trump is prepared to blame the GOP ranks, predicting, "He's going to blame John Thune (R-SD)," the Senate majority leader, and "He's going to blame John Cornyn (R-TX)," the veteran senator who was "scooped out of the way" by the Trump-endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the primaries."He's good at blaming," Wolff said.

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“Liberty Has Prevailed” – President Trump Releases Beautiful Tribute to America on Its 250th Birthday Celebration – Video

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“Liberty Has Prevailed” – President Trump Releases Beautiful Tribute to America on Its 250th Birthday Celebration – Video

President Trump published a beautiful tribute to the United States on the nation's 250th Anniversary on Saturday evening. The post “Liberty Has Prevailed” – President Trump Releases Beautiful Tribute to America on Its 250th Birthday Celebration – Video appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Watch live: Donald Trump to give major speech as America celebrates 250th anniversary

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Watch live: Donald Trump to give major speech as America celebrates 250th anniversary

President Trump is expected to hold a “long” speech on the National Mall Saturday evening as the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, even as record heat threatens to upend the festivities. Military flyovers, events at the Great American State Fair and a massive fireworks show are also scheduled throughout the day. First lady Melania Trump…

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