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Ken Paxton's Primary Victory Shows How Trump's Grudges Undermine His Party's Interests

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The president's last-minute endorsement of Paxton was driven by his petty grievances against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who was clearly the safer bet to retain the seat.

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(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release

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(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release

President Trump on Wednesday responded to Joe Biden's attempt to hide his ghostwriter interviews from the public during his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, slamming the Democrats for nearly destroying the country. "I would like to see what he has to say because we can never allow what happened to this country to happen," Trump said when asked about the tapes by LindellTV's Cara Castronuova. The post (VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas

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Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after Paxton’s primary defeat of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Tuesday. In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, Thune said maintaining the Republican Senate majority is paramount, and that Paxton’s general election opponent, Democrat James Talarico, is a…

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Hochul, Trump Jr. trade jabs over New York Knicks knowledge

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Hochul, Trump Jr. trade jabs over New York Knicks knowledge

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Donald Trump Jr. traded barbs Wednesday after the former questioned President Trump’s allegiances to the NBA Finals-bound New York Knicks. When a reporter asked Hochul about the president’s Knicks fandom, she responded that she would “ask him to name the starting lineup of the 1993 championship team and…

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Trump teases attending NY Knicks NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden

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Trump teases attending NY Knicks NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden

President Trump on Wednesday teased taking a trip to New York to see the Knicks play in the NBA finals next week at Madison Square Garden. Trump told reporters at a Cabinet meeting at the White House that he was planning on going to a game this week, but then the team secured a championship…

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MAHA sees Paxton as ‘warrior’ for its cause: Gabrielle Etzel

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MAHA sees Paxton as ‘warrior’ for its cause: Gabrielle Etzel

Washington Examiner healthcare reporter Gabrielle Etzel said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has pursued efforts and investigations aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement, seeing him as a “warrior” for their cause in the U.S. Senate. “Members of the Make America Healthy Again movement really see Paxton as a warrior for their cause,” […]

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Trump could be liable for 'creative crimes' due to his IRS deal: law professor

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Trump could be liable for 'creative crimes' due to his IRS deal: law professor

A controversial agreement granting Donald Trump immunity from IRS audits may ultimately prove worthless, according to University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Kim Wehle, who argues in a new column that it may not stand up to legal scrutiny under what are called "creative crimes."As part of a settlement with Trump over a leaked tax return lawsuit, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed off on an addendum granting the president sweeping tax protections. The IRS agreed to drop all pending audits of Trump — potentially saving him an estimated $100 million in liability — and the one-page document declared the U.S. government is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization's tax filings.Writing for The Hill, Wehle's core argument is simple: Trump had no legal authority to grant himself this immunity in the first place. "The whole thing is bogus, so any attempt to use it as a valid legal defense is bogus, too," she wrote.Wehle pointed to Supreme Court precedent suggesting future courts may be willing to invalidate the deal. In July 2024, the Court granted Trump criminal immunity for official acts but explicitly stated that former presidents can still be prosecuted for crimes involving unofficial acts — a category that could theoretically include actions taken to minimize personal tax liability.While "Trump is operating as if he is above the law, there is room for future courts to find liability for 'creative crimes' he commits while in the White House," she elaborated.Even during Trump's first term, when he had a "friendly majority" on the Supreme Court, the justices refused to shield his personal accounting firm from turning over tax returns to congressional committees, the law professor wrote, noting that in 2022 the Court refused to block disclosure of Trump's tax returns and financial records to the House Ways and Means Committee.The critical question, according to Wehle, is not whether Trump currently possesses the constitutional authority to grant himself immunity — he doesn't she maintained — but whether future voters will elect an administration willing to challenge the addendum.If that happens, a future DOJ could argue that the agreement is legally void because Trump lacked authority to execute it. "The government would argue that the addendum should be given no weight because Trump had no legal authority to grant himself such immunity in the first place," Wehle explained.Trump's defense team would inevitably seek to invoke the addendum as a legal shield, but that defense would rest on a fundamentally flawed legal foundation. The deal represents Trump attempting to immunize himself unilaterally — an act that legal scholars argue exceeds presidential authority and could be dismantled by future courts or administrations, Wehle suggested.

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Trump ally's 'freak' slur earns epic Epstein putdown from Dem star

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Trump ally's 'freak' slur earns epic Epstein putdown from Dem star

Republicans have indicated they intend to portray Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as a "freak," but he pushed back strongly against his GOP rival in Texas, Ken Paxton.The Donald Trump-endorsed Texas attorney general Paxton slurred the state legislator as "Tala-freako" in his victory speech after beating Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a closely watched GOP runoff election.Talarico leveled an attack of his own after Paxton and other Republicans smeared him in thinly veiled homophobic language."If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles," Talarico told CBS News. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton's wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case. Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry."Paxton’s office took over the case about three years ago after the locally elected district attorney recused himself, and Hoffman was released from jail this week after serving just under half of a 60-day sentence handed down as part of a plea agreement last month.The 49-year-old Hoffman, a former attorney in Waco, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail, as part of an agreement offered by Paxton's office after his trial on first-degree sexual abuse of a young child charges ended in June 2025 in a mistrial.Hoffman had been facing life without parole until Paxton's office reduced the charges in exchange for his guilty pleas, despite a friend of the defendant's son testifying that Hoffman had sexually assaulted him repeatedly over a three-year period starting when the boy was in third grade. - YouTube www.youtube.com

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Trump REJECTS Iran's latest peace proposal with ominous joke that Pete Hegseth 'loves war': 'We are not satisfied'

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Trump REJECTS Iran's latest peace proposal with ominous joke that Pete Hegseth 'loves war': 'We are not satisfied'

President Donald Trump issued a chilling warning to Iran during a high-stakes Cabinet meeting today, rejecting Tehran's latest diplomatic overtures.

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