Donald Trump’s presidential crusade has just gone through lightning as his new recruit turns out to be causing disorder on his current team, according to a Puck News report published Thursday.
Corey Lewandowski, who was one of Trump’s campaign managers in 2016, joined Team Trump earlier this week, bringing with him a history of alleged misconduct and his “Let Trump be Trump” attitude. Lewandowski will serve as a senior adviser, reportedly above deputy campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles.
The decision to officially bring Lewandowski back into the fold, after serving as an informal adviser, came from Trump, according to Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri. The move sparked speculation that Trump intended for Lewandowski’s return to lead to the ouster of LaCivita and Wiles.
“Susie is a survivor; she’s not going anywhere. But then there are LaCivita and Corey Lewandowski, two alpha men,” a source close to Lewandowski told Palameri. “It’s like Trump just needs others to be killed and one of them to win. They don’t have to fire anyone. “
While Trump’s team has struggled to find an effective line of attack against his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, the crusade has been forced to protect LaCivita and Wiles for their long-suffering efforts.
There’s also a great explanation for why LaCivita is more vulnerable than its counterpart: its exorbitant fees. LaCivita’s Advanced Strategies raises $50,000 each month from the Republican National Committee, contributing to a whopping $1. 7 million it has already billed in 2024 alone, temporarily exceeding $1. 65 million. dollars he had collected the previous year, according to Puck.
Obviously, Trump is looking to recreate the behind-the-scenes magic that allowed him to get elected in the first place. But unfortunately for his team, this meant a significant loss at the end of the campaign. The former president fired Lewandowski from his crusade in June 2016 and promoted Paul Manafort.
For his part, Lewandowski appeared to deny rumors that he would criticize LaCivita for his emerging bills. “I never told anyone that I would conduct a forensic audit of the campaign, and I did not allude to or perceive the amount of cash that Chris LaCivita may or may not have loaded into this campaign,” Lewandowski told Palameri, adding that rumors that he was there to kick someone out was “fake news. “
Lewandowski’s arrival comes with a list of other aides beyond Trump’s campaigns, and more are sure to follow. “There are things and other people going around Lewandowski, and if you bring him back, they will come with him,” a source close to Lewandowski told Palameri. “It’s a mini tornado. He does things and puts them into orbit.
Lewandowski’s hiring speaks to Trump’s preference to be surrounded by those who agree with him and who likely wouldn’t try to replace him, as many of the former president’s allies have begun urging him to do. quite the opposite of your favorite strategy of private attacks.
The 2025 Project, the conservative manifesto developed through the Heritage Foundation, is beginning to worry Republicans, adding Donald Trump, who see it as a political liability.
These Republicans are desperate to figure out how to deal with the negative attention the bill has generated, which Democrats have seized on to launch effective attacks on Trump and the GOP.
“At some point, other people realized, ‘Oh, you would have possibly done anything that would jeopardize Heritage’s influence in the next administration,'” a source close to the conservative organization told NOTUS.
When Democrats started to attack Project 2025, Heritage staff saw it as “fun” initially, but that was short-lived after Trump, fed up with the negative association with his presidential campaign, disavowed the project.
“People are legitimately worried,” the source said.
The foundation tried to downplay the project, but found that it did not do so in the face of Democratic attacks, which continued unabated. One Democratic organization has even begun to target certain House Republicans in particular by linking them to the manifesto.
The fallout from Trump’s frustration at being tied to the appropriation led to the resignation of Project 2025 director Paul Dans, who some conservatives believe was taken down by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Roberts publicized the plan far more than the basis of his appropriations would.
As more and more revelations are made about the project, Democrats have more tactics to attack it, especially since Roberts continues to protect it and even brags about his associations with Trump. A photo revealed that the two even took a combined personal flight in 2022. And Trump’s vehement denial of anything to do with the manifesto has angered some of his biggest supporters. Whatever they do, conservatives are stagnant.
Donald Trump angered veterans by saying the Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to one of his billionaire donors was “far better” than the country’s highest military honor.
The Republican presidential candidate, who has avoided involvement in the Vietnam War thanks to a timely diagnosis of bone spurs, disparaged the value of the Medal of Honor at a military event in New Jersey Thursday afternoon by claiming that the civilian variant of the the praise is “much better. ” According to Trump, this is because recipients of the Military Medal, who earn the honor for bravery in combat, are usually “in very bad condition,” having been “hit so many times” by bullets.
“This is the biggest difference you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but in a civilian edition,” Trump said, incorrectly referring to the honor awarded for bravery in combat. “But the civilian edition is much greater because everyone who receives the Congressional Medal of Honor is a soldier. Either they are in very bad condition because they have been hit several times by bullets, or they are dead.
Trump discussed the award after receiving it through one of his top backers, Miriam Adelson, an authoritarian Republican donor who became the world’s richest Israeli after the death of her spouse, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, in 2021. The couple won Trump’s favor after pumping $25 million into Trump’s super PACs in 2016 and donated $5 million to his inauguration. That earned them a spot on the dais, a few rows behind Jared Kushner, as Trump was sworn in. In 2018, her contributions earned Ms. Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2019, led Trump to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan. Heights, a part of southwestern Syria occupied by Israel and captured by the religious state in 1967.
Four years later, the Adelsons eclipsed their previous spending on pro-Israel policies with a $90 million donation and donated $300 million to Republican-focused Senate and Congressional leadership funds, surpassing the next three donors. combined, to Intelligencer.
“They gave it to her, and she’s a beautiful, healthy woman, and they’re the same, but she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and they gave it to her for. . . and that’s through committees and everything else,” Trump said, referring to Adelson. Array: “I saw Sheldon sitting very proudly in the White House when we presented Miriam with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “
Trump: When we presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. . . It is the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor; it is much higher because all those who receive the Congressional Medal are soldiers. Or they are in very bad condition because they were beaten a lot. . . pic. twitter. com/a766KxAC2e
Those comments angered veterans, who connected Trump’s disrespectful rhetoric to a 2020 Atlantic report in which the former president referred to fallen infantrymen as “fools and losers. “
Veterans for Responsible Leadership, a bipartisan super PAC, pointed to the clip of Thursday’s event and wrote in X that Trump feels the Medal of Honor is “secondary to the medal he holds for his billionaire sponsors. “
“He does care about our army or their sacrifices,” they added.
Travis Akers, a retired Navy intelligence officer and veterans advocate, felt the same way, posting Friday that Trump’s comments were “like a fever dream. “In his post, Akers said Trump’s comments were “disgusting” and “offensive on many levels. “
“I’m still watching how rude and despicable Donald Trump insulted the Medal of Honor winners last night,” Akers said.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer opened an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, his investigation into opposition to Donald Trump in less than a week.
Comer alleged that Walz has “a warm and long-standing relationship with China” and has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to a press release issued through the committee on Friday.
“Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, has been a member of a Chinese establishment unwavering in the CCP, and has spoken alongside the president of a Chinese organization that the State Department has denounced as an attempt by the CCP to influence and co-opt the local leaders,” Comer said. “FBI spokespersons recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force is investigating CCP activities affecting China’s engagement with Governor Walz. The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relations with China run.
In a letter to FBI Chief Christopher Wray, Comer wrote that he was investigating Walz as part of a government-wide investigation into the “CCP’s political warfare operations against the United States. ” Comer stated that Walz had “a problematic engagement with the relevant entities and individuals. “
But Comer cited one: Consul General Zhao Jian, a Chinese diplomat and deputy ambassador, who works in nine Midwestern states, and added Minnesota. Comer said that Zhao and Walz met once.
Comer asked the FBI to turn over all of its documents regarding “any Chinese entities or individuals with whom Mr. Walz may have possibly been involved or related,” as well as any guidance the FBI may have possibly given to Walz regarding his dealings with the FBI. Porcelain.
Walz reportedly traveled to China about 30 times and set up a program to bring top scholars to education there in the 1990s and 2000s.
As a member of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, Walz was able to use his first-hand knowledge of China to formulate informed criticism of the Chinese government and its human rights abuses, according to the New York Times.
Walz was also identified as one of the only Democrats under the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which required the United States to punish officials who committed human rights abuses in Hong Kong, keeping it in place until it was passed regardless.
This is rarely the first time this week that Comer has attacked one of Trump’s opponents. Comer on Monday launched an investigation into Vice President Kamala Harris’ involvement in paintings on the United States’ southern border. In the past, he has tried a similar strategy by leading an investigation into the Biden family, which collapsed after failing to present evidence of alleged wrongdoing by the president or his family.
The right wing is spreading conspiracies about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: He lies by saying he likes “white men’s tacos. “
Kamala Harris and her running mate released a promotional video Thursday talking about food, in which Walz talked about her Midwestern palette.
“I have white tacos,” Walz said.
“What does that mean?Harris replied jokingly.
“Almost ground beef and cheese,” Walz said. “They told him to be careful and they let him know. This black pepper is the hot spot in Minnesota.
Look, I’m just a big fan of especias. pic. twitter. com/u9yadJBMh2
This irreproachability led to the general republican collapse.
“Why is Kamala the taco expert?” Fox co-host Will Cain asked.
Conservative provocateur Mike Cernovich went further, accusing Walz of lying about skipping the seasoning. “Tim Walz is a compulsive liar and such a compulsive military deployment evader that I have to see if he lied about not seasoning his food. “
Cernovich pointed to a 2016 Minnesota governor’s award-winning recipe for the “Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish,” which included paprika spices, chili powder, onion powder and garlic powder. “Tim Walz is a compulsive liar and resists displays, so he wanted to see if he had lied about not seasoning his food. “
Even Senator Ted Cruz got carried away with the drama, writing, “Hispanics are not tacos. “We don’t know what he meant there.
It turns out that Republicans will find anything disappointing coming from Harris and Walz; maybe they’ll eventually publish an investigation into what’s happening with “white guy tacos. “
Right-wing influencers Candace Owens and Andrew Tate claim that Donald Trump has been compromised through the so-called “deep state. “
Tate did the impression on Owens’ YouTube show, Candace, and Owens brought up the concept that Trump had replaced since his first presidential campaign, and that it was for money.
“This doesn’t look like the same Trump of 2015 to me,” Owens said in the episode released Thursday. “And obviously, he’s the most productive candidate. I want Trump to win too, but it turns out that now they accept the money and he cannot be as intransigent on certain issues and problems as he was in 2015, when he had no chance of winning.
“Now I feel like, I don’t know, they gave them something, I don’t need to say it broke it, but there are definitely a lot of experts out there,” Owens continued, a term that refers to physical or sexual punishment. attacking a slave in front of other slaves to humiliate him.
Tate agreed, saying he was also “a Trump fan” and developed the theory that Trump tried to explain why his time as president conflicted with his parties.
“I think there was a component of his brain that was like, ‘You know what?I’m going to go back to management and teach those guys a lesson,’ and then I think anything happened,” Tate said.
“Someone came here at one point and I think maybe this deal was made, they said, ‘You may not go to jail, Trump Tower will still stand, your kids will be in America, everything will be fine, but you’ “I’m going through having to take a look at those few things,” Tate added.
Tate elaborated on his conspiracy theory, stating that while praying for a Trump victory, he believed the former president and convicted felon had made some sort of deal with the deep state to protect himself and his family.
“I just feel like at some point something was agreed upon to save you the post-presidency or the post-death of your empire and your children,” Tate said. “It turns out that there is some kind of agreement somewhere. . . I don’t know. ” I’m not even going to say I blame the guy for taking it. But some kind of agreement has been reached.
The idea that Trump has managed to dominate his cycle of crusades this time is baffling. Are Tate and Owens referring to their attempts to disavow the Project 2025 manifesto, or to their reduced travel schedule after the attempt on their lives last month?Because it is evident that Trump does not seek to lower the tone of his rhetoric. And they’re not alone: Trump has also lost the help of white nationalists like Nick Fuentes. Perhaps, despite everything, everyone is noticing Trump’s obvious cognitive decline.
Six months ago, and under the pressure of around $1 billion in legal fees, Donald Trump embarked on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to raise capital. They included a line of NFTs featuring cartoonish photographs of himself dressed as superhero characters; a line of gold high-tops that retail for $399 each; and, ly, his own Bible series.
Trump presented his God Bless the USA Bible with singer Lee Greenwood, the man who popularized the song that bears his name. The promotional point boiled down to a reminder from the Trump campaign: “We want to make United States pray again. “
“Yes, this is the only Bible approved by President Trump!” he announced.
And while it’s unclear whether the $60 religious text approved by Trump allowed more people to pray, it actually helped fill the wallets of convicted felons. According to Trump’s most recent monetary disclosures, this wild concept generated $300,000 in royalties. These numbers may have been bolstered through an even more expensive signed version, which retails for $1,000.
This is the only e-book Trump has made money from. His e-book Letters to Trump, which contained a letter from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown questioning Trump’s claim that the two men shared a near-death experience in a helicopter together, reported $4. 5 million. One of his most recent books, A MAGA Journey, grossed between $50 and $5,763, while Trump’s bestseller, The Art of the Deal, managed to raise between $50,000 and $100,000 in royalties.
But Trump’s other monetary flows have also helped generate quick money. The disclosure said $7. 15 million from a source titled NFT INT. , likely referring to his NFT series. And, even though he called cryptocurrencies a scam in the past, the former president notably maintained an inventory of money in new wave coins, with a disclosure directory of around $5 million in cryptocurrencies.
Trump has valued his social media platform, Truth Social, at more than $50 million. Trump owns about 65% of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media.
Still, the disclosure may offset Trump’s legal reality: It lists more than $100 million in liabilities similar to three of his New York legal suits.
What’s in a name? Well, stick around, because Rep. Nancy Mace doesn’t care. The South Carolina Republican, who is inching closer and closer to the MAGA fold, made a disastrous appearance on CNN Thursday night.
“In Kamala, in Ka-mala, uh. . . Mace stumbled.
“You were right, they almost gave it to you!” ” rebuked Keith Boykin, Clinton’s former White House aide, smiling.
Mace again, still mispronouncing Harris’s call. “I’ll say the Kama-la call whatever I want,” Mace said defensively.
Boykin and panelist Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University, erupted in protests against mispronouncing Harris’ name, but Mace brazenly doubled down on his mistakes.
“I just did it. I just did it and I’ll do it again,” Mace scoffed. Unable to admit his televised mistake, Mace tried to make it clear that he mispronounced Harris’ call because he didn’t care about that sort of thing. .
This kind of immature habit is unexpected from Mace, who once made a fool of herself by wearing a red “A” in Congress, desperate to stand out among her colleagues.
The panel descended into chaos and the panelists talked among themselves. “If I mispronounced his name, it wouldn’t be appropriate,” Boykin said.
Mace: I’ll say your call I need pic. twitter. com/TXplittzBR
Dyson later called out Mace for his stubborn response.
“Let me say this, because this MP is a glorious human being,” Dyson said quietly. “But when you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying ‘you can call her whatever you want,’ I know that’s not what you mean for her to be. ” in that way; It is the history and legacy of white disdain for black humanity.
“Oh, now you’re calling me a racist,” Mace replied.
“I didn’t say that, I just said you’re racist,” Dyson said. “No, you don’t have to intend to be racist to realize racism. “
But Mace couldn’t accept any constructive criticism. ” No, no, no, you mean I’m racist,” Mace replied. She called his comment “offensive” and “disgusting,” as the panel fell back into crosstalk.
The panel members were getting tired of Mace’s nonsense. Even after Dyson begged Mace to “say her call kindly,” the MP refused to do it herself.
“We’ll call you Nancy Ma-chy,” Dyson said. “You’re a white woman disrespecting a black woman. “
Wow, this is the screen ending pic. twitter. com/KRoIgjyddY
Mace obviously thought he’d done something with it, turning to X to show him what he hoped would give him trouble in the culture war.
“The left would communicate more about pronouns and pronunciation than about politics,” Mace wrote in an article on X in the early hours of Friday morning. In total, he posted about the interview six times, perhaps fearing that no one would see his humiliating display.
“These guys were very excited,” he wrote.
“The left has to stand up to this because they can’t protect Kamala’s politics,” Mace said, but the congresswoman didn’t talk about Harris’s true politics. Instead, she complained about a policy invented by Trump by refusing to stay true to the script. her time in office. Press convention on Thursday.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has published an economic plan with proposals.
The vice president, who will speak in North Carolina on Friday, has several policy proposals, including getting rid of the medical debt of millions of Americans, banning the value of food and groceries, limiting the value of insulin and other prescriptions and applying a $6,000 tax. Newborn loans for their first year.
Since President Biden withdrew from the 2024 election last month and Harris accepted the Democratic nomination, Harris’s crusade has been based on express policies. This is one of the first, if ever the first, detailed plans published during the crusade. Not only does Biden’s economic intervention policy continue, but it goes much further than many of his proposals.
For example, Harris’ plan also includes up to $25,000 in aid for first-time homebuyers, and banning price gouging would be a punitive measure against retail grocery establishments whose price increases are deemed excessive. Parts of Harris’ plan have already drawn complaints from some Democrats.
“The situation at best is that the value increase is a message, not an authenticity, and the worst-case scenario is that it’s a genuine proposition,” said economist Jason Furman, who worked in the Obama administration. You’ll end up with more shortages, less supply, and ultimately threaten higher prices and worse outcomes for consumers if you genuinely try to enforce this, which I don’t know if they would or would. that. “
In the past, Harris has come under pressure from executives and business leaders who hoped to replace antitrust policies and oust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan. Even if antitrust policy is not a component of Harris’s proposed economic policies, her willingness to propose transformative measures that may dramatically involve the lives of many Americans simply imply that she is willing to take on business to the same extent as Biden, and perhaps even more.
After all, his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, famous in Minnesota for instituting one of the most generous child tax credit schemes in the country, free school lunches and paid family are gone. Harris’s plan is sure to gain a lot from the left, at least on economic issues. Perhaps the next step is to revisit Biden’s disastrous policy toward Israel, which continues to provoke a humanitarian crisis by supporting the brutal war in Gaza.
Trump’s speech Thursday on a scattered collection of unrelated topics. Despite his campaign’s attempts to rein in Trump and focus his attention on attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies through a tightly tailored mini rally, Trump launched into an hour-long tirade, at most without script. In the end, ItArray shows a who’s who of his favorite talking points, adding Harris’s supposed “stupidity,” the war in Afghanistan, Covid-19 and immigration crime, with a slight mention of inflation or race . she stopped symbolically inches from him, for whom the entire occasion was organized.
Trump’s new format also attracted a variety of attendees. While press meetings typically only draw the press, Trump’s Thursday set-up featured several curious attendees, plus reporters who were content to ask softball questions of the Republican presidential candidate, and some other people’s set-up. who Trump referred to as “fanatics” and who appeared extremely happy during some of the darkest moments of Trump’s rambling speech.
Responding to a reporter’s question about why “God saved your life” in the assassination attempt, Trump said “God had something to do with it. “But the end of his answer about what he thought God had kept him for became a little strange. .
“And we do, we need to save the world,” Trump continued. This world is falling apart. This world is collapsing.
This, for some reason, provoked a roar from a nearby crowd.
Trump: And God has something to do with it. And we do, we need to save the world. This world is falling apart. This world is collapsing. Crowd: *applause* pic. twitter. com/NiZ87HZez7
“But I do. I do that. My kids are very smart shooters,” Trump explained, saying his sons Eric and Don Jr. were perfect shooters and that the 130-yard distance between Trump and his would-be shooter was akin to a “foot strike. “He told his father that “a bad shooter would hit the target almost a hundred percent of the time. “