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911 Dispatch Call Reveals Lindsey Graham’s Final Moments

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Medics were called to Senator Lindsey Graham’s Washington, DC, home over reports of an individual suffering from chest pains, and then a reported heart attack, shortly before his sudden death on Saturday night. In audio of an emergency medical response dispatch obtained by The Post, a call is made around 8:30 p.m. for a person...

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John Oliver returns with searing quip: 'Graham died and Mitch McConnell...maybe didn't?'

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John Oliver returns with searing quip: 'Graham died and Mitch McConnell...maybe didn't?'

John Oliver returned from a weeks-long vacation Sunday night and opened his show with a brutal bit questioning whether Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is still alive.The "Last Week Tonight" host used the cold open to run through headlines he'd missed, sliding the Kentucky senator's monthlong hospitalization in between a parasitic outbreak and the death of a Senate colleague."We are back, and we missed a lot over the last few weeks. A parasitic infection has caused explosive diarrhea across the country. Lindsey Graham died, and Mitch McConnell...maybe didn't," Oliver quipped, displaying a hospital-room photo of the 84-year-old senator seated next to his wife, Elaine Chao.The dig comes after McConnell collapsed at his Washington, D.C. home on June 14, and an EMS dispatch recording that later became public showed responders had been called there for "cardiac arrest" and performed CPR before transporting him. His office withheld key details on the episode for weeks. On July 12, staffers finally released the hospital photograph alongside a written statement in which McConnell conspicuously ruled out a laundry list of diagnoses."I didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital," McConnell wrote. "While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I've also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."A McConnell spokesperson later told The Washington Post that the senator "continues to improve in rehab."Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has said even he can't get information out of the senator's team. "I haven't heard a thing. Not an email, not a letter, not a call, not a video... absolutely nothing," the Democratic governor told SiriusXM earlier this month, adding that he'd received two calls from separate agencies suggesting McConnell had died.Beshear urged the senator's office to "call into a news station for 5 minutes or put out a short video" to end what he called concerning speculation.The stonewalling is being managed by McConnell's longtime chief of staff, Terry Carmack, whose taxpayer-funded salary rose to $226,849.94 in fiscal year 2026. Graham's funeral is scheduled for Tuesday at Washington National Cathedral. McConnell's office has not said whether he will attend.

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'Disaster scenario' revealed in which Mike Johnson overturns election results

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'Disaster scenario' revealed in which Mike Johnson overturns election results

A compliant House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could do what President Donald Trump is struggling to do: make sure the GOP comes out on top in November.According to a New York Times column from legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-NY) is raising the alarm over what he calls a "disaster scenario" where Johnson fires the clerk of the House who schedules new members to be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2027.The mechanism for election overturning is deceptively simple, Toobin wrote. Democrats could win the House in November, but Trump could simply declare the election fraudulent and refuse to acknowledge Democratic victories. Then, at Trump's direction, Speaker Johnson could fire current House Clerk Kevin McCumber — a nonpartisan official who has served under both Republican and Democratic leadership and is generally regarded as scrupulously fair.Johnson could replace McCumber with a partisan GOP operative willing to manipulate the roll of incoming members. This Republican loyalist could then certify Republican victories in races Democrats actually won."While the speaker does have the unilateral power to remove the clerk, his choice for a permanent replacement would have to be approved by a vote of House members," Toobin elaborated. "Mr. Morelle said that in that case, Speaker Johnson might not be able to persuade his slim Republican majority to replace Mr. McCumber.""You'd have a number of members who are retiring, who I think would no longer be beholden to Johnson or the president, who I think would take a very, very dim view of efforts to overturn the election," Morelle added as a caveat.But the real nightmare involves timing, the legal analyst explained. Unlike the Senate, a continuing body that operates seamlessly between Congresses, the House ceases to exist at noon on Jan. 3 following each election. No member remains in office unless they're sworn in again."This is why any delay tactics, like those conceived by President Trump’s lawyers in the 2020 election, could have a particularly bad outcome for the House," Toobin warned.

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Ryan Clark called out by LeSean McCoy over crying ‘for clicks’ after ESPN firing

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Ryan Clark called out by LeSean McCoy over crying ‘for clicks’ after ESPN firing

Ryan Clark’s firing by ESPN last week took the sports media world by storm. Clark was fired in the middle of “NFL Live” last Monday, and he later grew emotional addressing his departure on his “The Pivot” podcast.

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JUST IN: Trump Calls Out John Thune, Says Dems “Can’t Believe How Lucky They Got With This Senate Leadership”

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JUST IN: Trump Calls Out John Thune, Says Dems “Can’t Believe How Lucky They Got With This Senate Leadership”

President Trump on Monday called out Senate Majority Leader John Thune, demanding that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act and terminate the filibuster, and saying the Democrats got "lucky" for Thune's failed leadership. Trump lit up the Senate and Leader John Thune during a rally in Georgia last week, demanding, “Everybody call John Thune at the Senate. The post JUST IN: Trump Calls Out John Thune, Says Dems “Can’t Believe How Lucky They Got With This Senate Leadership” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump may have finally broken the White House correspondents’ dinner

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Trump may have finally broken the White House correspondents’ dinner

Hurt feelings devolved to fearmongering as a reporter known for anti-Trump coverage invoked the First Amendment in a push to “rethink” the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. […]

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Trump Poll Collapse Hits New Milestone as Leaks Reveal Fresh GOP Panic

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Trump Poll Collapse Hits New Milestone as Leaks Reveal Fresh GOP Panic

Donald Trump has hit a trifecta, throwing away the traditional GOP edge on the economy, immigration, and national security. The latest polls show Democrats are leading Republicans on the economy by a comfortable nine points, have hit near-parity with the GOP on immigration, and lead on foreign policy, even as Trump has sunk into the 20s on the Iran war, all shockers. These polls show it’s all driven by Trump’s collapsing approval on all three. Yet Trump just unleashed a huge new wave of tariffs. His GOP allies are leaking their deep dismay to Politico: One suggests this worsens the affordability problem and cannot be spun favorably by GOP candidates. Another says this is a “bad conversation for Republicans.” We talked to Democratic strategist Andrew Bates. He explains what all this looks like on the ground in difficult House races, what obstacles still remain, and why it remains hard for Democrats to win rural voters who are unhappy with Trump. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

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Netanyahu and Zelenskyy to arrive in Washington for Graham funeral – with hopes of winning Trump’s ear

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Netanyahu and Zelenskyy to arrive in Washington for Graham funeral – with hopes of winning Trump’s ear

Both men scheduled to meet Trump at time where US policy towards wars in Iran and Ukraine in state of fluxBenjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to arrive in Washington simultaneously with the goal of winning the ear of Donald Trump at pivotal moments in wars affecting their respective countries.Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, will attend Tuesday’s funeral of Lindsey Graham, the former Republican senator for South Carolina, who died suddenly on 11 July and was a close ally of both leaders. Continue reading...

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