Stephen Colbert Addresses ‘the Darkness’ in America After Trump Shooting: ‘Not Only Is Violence Evil, It Is Useless | Video
16 Jul
Politics

Stephen Colbert Addresses ‘the Darkness’ in America After Trump Shooting: ‘Not Only Is Violence Evil, It Is Useless | Video

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Politics tamfitronics Stephen Colbert opened Monday’s live episode of “The Late Show” with a pre-recorded message commenting on what he called “the darkness” in America following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend.Describing the shocking eventin which a lone shooter killed an attendee at a Trump rally and shot Trump himself in the ear, Colbert said that watching it all unfold he was relieved that Trump survived, but felt “frankly, grief for my beautiful country.” “How many times do we need to learn the lesson that violence has no role in our politics, that the entire objective of a democracy is to fight out our differences with as the saying goes, ballot, not a bullet?” Colbert said. “Now, right after the attack, a young friend of mine, he texted me, saying, ‘How is...
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Trump could still blow it, but assassination attempt surely helps him seal victory
16 Jul
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Trump could still blow it, but assassination attempt surely helps him seal victory

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Politics tamfitronics Saturday night marked a deeply sad moment for the United States.After years of increasing vitriol and partisan toxicity, the political conversation turned violent. And the US Secret Service will have to answer for the most catastrophic security failure in decades.Americans are demanding to know how a would-be assassin was able to crawl onto a rooftop vantage point, armed with a rifle, and let off eight shots toward the podium - all in an area that was supposed to have been cleared.The investigation into how this was allowed to happen is already under way and measures are already being put in place to expand the secure perimeter at the Republican National Convention that begins on Monday.The FBI, Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security will be examining every detail of this incident.The Secret...
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Trump’s attempted assassination becomes a potent political force in a single striking image
16 Jul
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Trump’s attempted assassination becomes a potent political force in a single striking image

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Politics tamfitronics Images taken from Evan Vucci's photograph of Donald Trump following his assassination attempt(Image credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / AP / Getty Images)By now you've almost certainly seen the picture: Donald Trump, his face bloodied in the wake of an attempted assassination, his fist raised to the sky, flanked by Secret Service agents as an American flag flutters in the background. As the country reels from its first major presidential assassination attempt in decades, photographs of Trump before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of suspected shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks' hail of gunfire have quickly become some of the most inescapable political imagery in modern memory."I just went into work mode, and I just started doing my job," said Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci to CNN. "It was scary as hell, in hindsight,"...
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Litman: Aileen Cannon’s ruling isn’t just legally flawed. It has nothing to do with the law
16 Jul
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Litman: Aileen Cannon’s ruling isn’t just legally flawed. It has nothing to do with the law

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Politics tamfitronics The initial impulse on reading Judge Aileen Cannon’s pseudo-scholarly 93-page dismissal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump is to list the legal errors and overreaches that demonstrate its brazenness and likelihood of being reversed. The opinion, which throws out the case on the dubious premise that special counsel Jack Smith was not properly appointed, could serve as target practice for any first-year law student who has learned about statutory construction and precedent, principles that Cannon mangles as she strains to make the case go away.But such conventional criticism isn’t really suited to Cannon’s unconventional and embarrassing work. To analyze the case in terms of the nuances of the special counsel law or Cannon’s disregard of United States vs. Nixon is to miss what’s in front of one’s face.It’s...
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