Notice Anything Different About Trump’s Secret Service Detail?

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Former President Donald Trump walked out at the RNC convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday with a bandaged ear and an all-male Secret Service detail following his attempted assassination on Saturday in Pennsylvania.

The former president walked out surrounded by the “A-Team” of secret service who all happen to be males, presumably following the scrutiny that was put towards their fellow female agents, as seen in a tweet by the account DC Draino.

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Rudy Giuliani Appears to Trip, Fall on Convention Floor at RNC

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared to trip and fall into seats on the floor of the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday.

Video footage posted to X showed Giuliani walking in the aisle between the rows of chairs alongside several people when he tripped and fell into some chairs.

Several people nearby quickly rushed over to assist Giuliani and help him up off the ground.

Taylor Popielarz, a National Political Reporter for Spectrum News Washington D.C. wrote in a post that Giuliani “seemed to be OK” and had been “holding an Osmo camera and continued filming” after he was helped back to his feet.

“For the record: the seating floor is a few inches lower than the red carpeted walkways,” Tia Mitchell, a Washington Correspondent with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote in a post. “Everyone has been falling off. Now Giuliani was apparently walking in a straight line, so I get the questions. But just providing context as to why he fell completely down.”

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What Many on the Left (And Some on the Right) Are Warning About JD Vance

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The San Francisco Standard. [JD] Vance isn’t just a friend of Silicon Valley’s worst billionaires; he is their creation. Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor turned digital defense contractor, enabled his entire political career.

It was Thiel who, in 2017, hired Vance to work at his Mithril Capital firm (Mithril is a metal featured in “The Hobbit”) and later invested heavily in Vance’s fund Narya Capital (Narya is a ring in “The Lord of the Rings”). Thiel then donated more than $15 million to Vance’s Senate campaign and personally escorted Vance to Mar-a-Lago to patch over his former “Never Trump” stance.

Before Thiel announced that he was taking a break from democracy, he introduced Vance to David Sacks, his old PayPal Mafia colleague. Sacks promptly donated $1 million to a pro-Vance Super PAC and hosted a fundraiser for him. Sacks and Vance later worked together to organize Trump’s only San Francisco campaign fundraising event, aimed at nudging the candidate to further embrace and deregulate cryptocurrency. Thiel has reportedly made more than $1.8 billion from Bitcoin and other currencies.

Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time Thiel and his cronies have tried to buy an outsize role in Trump’s legislative agenda. After all, it was Thiel who rescued Trump’s 2016 campaign with a $1.25 million donation a week after the “Access Hollywood” tape, in the apparent hope of gaining influence in a future administration. . .

But [JD Vance] is perhaps best known today as co-founder of surveillance tech company Palantir (named after a crystal ball in—what else?—“The Lord of the Rings”). The company makes intelligence-gathering tools for the CIA and the NSA. Even more fun, it builds software that directs drones and artillery strikes to shorten the “kill chain” in war zones around the world.

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JD Vance Said Dinner With Elite CEOs Fueled His Political Evolution

By Business Insider. A month before former President Donald Trump tapped Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate, the Ohio Republican — and Trump-critic-turned-loyalist — cited a 2018 dinner meeting with CEOs as a turning point in his political evolution.

In an interview with The New York Times published in June, Vance explained a bit about how he came around to Trump and how his politics evolved.

Vance told the outlet that in 2018, he was invited to an event hosted by the Business Roundtable, a nonprofit lobbyist group made up of CEOs. It had been about two years since Vance entered the national stage when his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” — which offered an explanation for the embrace of Trump-like views among the white working class — shot to the top of The New York Times bestseller list.

Vance said he was seated next to a CEO of a major hotel chain at dinner whom he described as a “caricature of a business executive, complaining about how he was forced to pay his workers higher wages.” . . .

Vance told the Times the CEO then turned to him and said, “Well, you understand this as well as anybody. These people just need to get off their asses, come to work and do their job. And now, because we can’t hire immigrants, or as many immigrants, we’ve got to hire these people at higher wages.” (Read more from “JD Vance Said Dinner With Elite CEOs Fueled His Political Evolution” HERE)

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Why Did a Nursing Home Aide Try to Kill Trump? the Unanswered Questions From the Rally Shooting

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In the two days since Donald Trump’s right ear was grazed by a gunman’s bullet at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday, a complete picture of the 20-year-old suspect is yet to emerge publicly—and details of what led up to the stunning event remain unclear.

Thomas Matthew Crooks had no criminal record, no known history of mental illness, and “was not known to the FBI prior to this incident,” the bureau said. The nursing home dietary aide’s family is working with investigators, who say they have not discovered any evidence of Crooks’ involvement with a broader plot, but are still treating the unsuccessful assassination attempt as a potential case of domestic terrorism.

In an email on Monday to The Independent, administrator Marcie Grimm of the Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, said, “We are shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement as Thomas performed his job without concern and his background check was clean.”

Crooks, who was shot dead on a rooftop near the rally site by a Secret Service sniper, is a registered Republican who donated $15 to a Democratic voter-turnout group several years ago, public records show. His father, a licensed behavioral therapist, is a Libertarian. His mom, also a behavioral therapist, is a Democrat. Speaking to The Independent, Crooks’ uncle said he had “no idea” what might have inspired his nephew to take up arms against a major presidential candidate.

The FBI, which has primary jurisdiction over the case, has so far received more than 2,000 tips from members of the public, according to Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek of the bureau’s Pittsburgh Field Office, who said investigators continue to search for answers to the myriad questions that remain. (Read more from “Why Did a Nursing Home Aide Try to Kill Trump? the Unanswered Questions From the Rally Shooting” HERE)

Building Where Gunman Was Found Was Officer Staging Area

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The building where gunman Thomas Crooks scrambled onto the roof and opened fire was the staging area for the local police tactical team doing overwatch of the crowd, two law enforcement officials told ABC News.

Sources previously told ABC News that the building had been swept, but investigators are trying to determine whether roof access had been properly locked down.

The gunman gained roof access without a ladder, according to a source briefed on the preliminary findings. (Read more from “Building Where Gunman Was Found Was Officer Staging Area” HERE)

Treasury Secretary Quietly Admits Serious U.S. Dollar Collapse Fears as Trump Primes Bitcoin for a $4 Trillion Price Surge

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U.S. Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has warned countries around the world are moving away from the U.S. dollar—as the spiraling $34 trillion U.S. debt pile fuels fears of collapse—with bitcoin and crypto slowly chipping away at dollar dominance.

The bitcoin price has rocketed over the last year, climbing despite a “critical” Federal Reserve warning, and helped by bettors who are increasingly confident former U.S. president Donald Trump will retake the White House in November.

Now, as the radical Project 2025 policy plan puts bitcoin on a collision course with gold, Yellen has said she fears U.S. financial sanctions will reduce the role of the dollar around the world, as Russia encourages the use of bitcoin and crypto.

“We have very powerful sanctions that are available because of the important role of the dollar in international transactions,” Yellen told U.S. lawmakers on the House financial services committee this week.

“The more we have used sanctions, the more countries look for ways to engage in financial transactions that don’t involve the dollar.” (Read more from “Janet Yellen Quietly Admits Serious U.S. Dollar Collapse Fears as Trump Primes Bitcoin for a $4 Trillion Price Surge” HERE)

Model Amber Rose at RNC: ‘Media Has Lied to Us About Donald Trump’

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Democrats and left-wing media have lied to the American people about former President Donald Trump, model and actress Amber Rose proclaimed during her speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night.

Rose — known as a “Slutwalk” feminist activist (which she has since distanced herself from in a TMZ interview), pro-abortion advocate, and self-avowed atheist, who has had romantic relationships with various rap artists — shocked Hollywood and her followers when she endorsed Trump in May. Rose was subsequently tapped to speak at the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to provide her unique perspective in a shifting political landscape where many feel abandoned by the Democrat Party.

At the RNC, Rose spoke about her journey from defiant liberal to Trump supporter — a transition she credited to her father, who served over 20 years in the military and was in the audience supporting her.

“I’m no politician and I don’t wanna be, but I do care about the truth. And the truth is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump. I know this because for a long time I believed those lies. So I’m here to set the record straight,” Rose said. “The first person I knew who supported Donald Trump was my father. I was shocked. My entire family is racially diverse. And I believe the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist. My father said, ‘No, he’s not Amber. What are you talking about?’ And when I insisted, he said, ‘prove it.’ So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump.” (Read more from “Model Amber Rose at RNC: ‘Media Has Lied to Us About Donald Trump’” HERE)

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‘Extreme and Reckless’: China Trashes U.S. Political System After Failed Donald Trump Assassination

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China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday proclaimed that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump proved American politics have become “extreme and reckless,” with “less room for moderates.”

The Global Times took a moment to congratulate Chinese dictator Xi Jinping for sending his “sympathies” to Trump, as the Chinese Foreign Ministry reported. This report was curiously vague, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian adamantly refused to answer questions on Monday about exactly what Xi said or how he conveyed the message, but state media dutifully saluted their leader for his compassion.

With that done — and after a brief regurgitation of U.S. mainstream media reports about the details of Saturday evening’s attempt on Trump’s life — the Global Times launched into a lengthy tirade about “political violence” in America and how the shooting, once again, proved Chinese authoritarianism is a more stable and peaceable system.

Renmin University professor Diao Daming told the Global Times:

This indicates that political violence has been a persistent element in American history. On the other hand, the fact that such malicious incidents still occur at political rallies attended by former president, despite security measures, highlights the ongoing rampant gun violence issue in the U.S. and the seeming “intractability” of the problem.

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‘Morning Joe’ Pulled From Air Monday Over Trump Assassination Attempt

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Left-leaning MSNBC pulled talk show “Morning Joe” from the air on Monday following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend — fearing that one of its rabid anti-Trump guests may make an inappropriate comment, according to a report.

Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, staunch Joe Biden advocates, were expected to return to the anchor chairs Tuesday, despite the huge political news and Monday night’s start of the Republican National Convention.

MSNBC rolled out breaking news coverage Monday morning instead of risking one of its stable of talking heads uttering something that could paint the show and network in a bad light, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. . .

Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, made a joint decision to pull the show Monday morning with MSNBC president Rashida Jones, Scarborough and Brzezinski, the source told CNN. (Read more from “‘Morning Joe’ Pulled From Air Monday Over Trump Assassination Attempt” HERE)

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Biden Finally Grants Secret Service Protection to RFK Jr After Trump Demands It

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President Biden has dropped months of resistance and agreed to grant Secret Service protection to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the move at the regular White House press briefing Monday after Trump was grazed with a bullet at a Saturday rally.

“In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr,” Mayorkas said.

Hours earlier, former President Donald Trump demanded that Kennedy receive Secret Service protection, calling it the “right thing to do.”

“In light of what is going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection — immediately,” the 78-year-old former president wrote on Truth Social. (Read more from “Biden Finally Grants Secret Service Protection to RFK Jr After Trump Demands It” HERE)