GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump attempted to do crowd control at a Friday rally in Walker, Michigan. Well, he wasn't trying to control the crowd as much as he was trying to control any messaging about people leaving the event early. read more
Former President Donald Trump said he "hated" to pay his workers for overtime so much that he would hire "other people." The GOP nominee has recently proposed a blanket exemption from income tax for income earned from an individual's overtime work. Trump has also proposed more tax cuts including exemptions for income earned from tips and Social Security benefits. However, during a rally on Sunday in Pennslyvania, Trump revealed that he "hated" having to pay his workers overtime for the Trump organization. The former president went on to say he would "get other people in" and "wouldn't pay" the other employees for overtime. "And you know it's going to lead to great things a lot of people don't give. I know a lot about overtime. I hated to give overtime, I hated it. I'd get other people," Trump claimed.
The justice department has charged a Florida man for threatening to "call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to kill his political opponent, the Republican congressional representative Anna Paulina Luna, in 2021. The department unsealed an indictment against 41-year-old William Robert Braddock III of St Petersburg, Florida on Thursday, alleging that on 8 June 2021 he made multiple threats to hurt and kill Luna " identified as Victim 1 in the indictment " in a phone call with another individual, Victim 2. Braddock and Luna were candidates in the 2021 Republican primary election in Florida's 13th congressional district. Victim 2 was identified as a private citizen and acquaintance of Luna. In 2021, the Associated Press reported that Luna alleged in a Florida court that Braddock was stalking her and had threatened to hurt her.
On Thursday, American Muckrakers posted about emails it received detailing how the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports, which claims to be nonpartisan, shared polling results with Trump advisers and campaign officials like Dan Scavino, Susie Wiles, and John McLaughlin. read more
Satellite imagery showed that China's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a pier while under construction, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday. read more
Leave it to the bankruptcy-prone------------- to brag about scamming his employees out of overtime pay.