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President Donald Trump is finally admitting what the Constitution has said all along: He can’t run for a third term. “If you read it, it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea, the final stop on his three-country tour of Asia. It’s a rare moment of acknowledgment from a man who’s spent months flirting with the idea of a third term—something the 22nd Amendment explicitly forbids. Trumpstore.com has been selling “Trump 2028” hats for $50 a pop. Still, Trump being Trump, even his… [...]
It has been more than a month since she was elected to fill her father’s 7th Congressional District seat. By Gary Grado for Votebeat Callers to the Tucson office of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District hear a familiar voice on the automated greeting. “Hello, this is Raúl Grijalva, thank you for calling the congressional office.” The voice tells the callers that someone from his congressional office will return the call promptly. That won’t happen. The congressman died in March. His daughter, Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat like her father, won a special election on Sept. 23 to fill his seat, and became… [...]
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President Donald Trump’s project of rewriting the history of his Jan. 6 insurrection continues to chug along nicely. There were the mass pardons of the rioters and then the mass purges of prosecutors who worked on those cases. Now, it appears it isn’t even permissible to mention a criminal defendant’s past participation on Jan. 6. So, two federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, are on leave for having referenced Taylor Taranto’s violent participation in Jan. 6 in a sentencing memo for an entirely different case. Related | GOP grapples with Trump's release of violent criminals amid… [...]
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Musk pushes wild conspiracy to defend his Wikipedia knockoff Because taking responsibility is never an option. Looks like the lawyers got the Trump third-term talking points When it comes to Trump, sucking up will always be in style. White House hands another win to the Confederacy Nothing says ‘Merica like tributes to slavery. Cartoon: Can't live without it! The future sure looks complicated. So much for Trump's 'historic' Middle East peace deal It seems the media may have heaped… [...]