Trump delivers longest-ever convention acceptance speech: From the Politics Desk
20 Jul
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Trump delivers longest-ever convention acceptance speech: From the Politics Desk

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Politics tamfitronics Welcome to the a special editionFrom the Politics Deskbringing you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.Tonight, senior national politics reporter Matt Dixon wraps up former President Donald Trump's lengthy GOP convention speech, his first since the shooting at his Pennsylvania campaign rally. Plus, we fact-check Trump's claims on taxes, crime and foreign policy.Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.Trump savors convention crowd in lengthy acceptance speechBy Matt DixonMILWAUKEE — Donald Trump on Thursday night formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in a speech heavy with references to the shooting he survived last week and elongated by ad-libbed applause lines and riffs — capping a long-anticipated moment that came only after a winding and dramatic campaign.Trump, now the...
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Why Is Donald Trump So Fixated on Hannibal Lecter?
19 Jul
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Why Is Donald Trump So Fixated on Hannibal Lecter?

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Politics tamfitronics For a moment, Donald Trump seemed — despite everything — to be a whole new man.We’d been told by speakers throughout the final night of the Republican National Convention that the attempt on his life had changed the 45th president’s outlook and his approach to politics. The experience had made him a unifier.“He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot,” Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, said in his speech Thursday night, hours before Trump took the stage. “In the moment, he did his best to bring the country together.”And then, somewhat deep into Trump’s stem-winder of a speech, he started talking about Hannibal Lecter.Popular on Variety“The press is always on me, because I say this,” he began, in an aside. He knew it...
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“Trump is able to turn bullets into gold”: Experts on MAGA’s “mythology of Trump the superman”
17 Jul
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“Trump is able to turn bullets into gold”: Experts on MAGA’s “mythology of Trump the superman”

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Politics tamfitronics For more than nine years, I have been chronicling and warning about the Age of Trump and the harm it has and will continue to do to American democracy and society. But these last three weeks, the surreal nature of the Age of Trump and its never-ending story—one where the next chapter begins with Donald Trump and the Republican fascists winning the 2024 election and then ending multiracial pluralistic democracy— had twists and turns that are (almost) unbelievable even by the standards of the Trump era.Donald Trump destroyed President Biden in their first debate. Trump’s victory was so total and complete that senior leaders in the Democratic Party are now convinced that Biden will not be able to win the 2024 election and must be replaced.The right-wing extremist justices on the Supreme Court...
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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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