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Donald Trump‘s takeover of the Republican National Committee is now official. The RNC voted on Friday to elect Michael Whatley — an election denier — as its new leader, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law and campaign surrogate, as co-chair. The move comes after chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stepped down from the job following a MAGA pressure campaign. The RNC officially elects Michael Whatley as its new chairman, elevating the North Carolina GOP chair who has made a name for himself promoting…

The former president owes a lot of money in Manhattan Civil Court, and he has to prove he can pay it in order to appeal the rulings against him Donald Trump owes a lot of money in New York — including the state itself — after being found liable in multiple civil trials in Manhattan Court. He really, really, really, doesn’t want to pay up. On Friday, the former president posted a $91.6 million bond in order to appeal the ruling against him in a civil defamation case brought against him by author E.…

Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a flurry of posts late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. The platform, it should be noted, experienced a widespread outage as the former president attempted to live-tweet President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme Machine“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook,…

The possibility of a second Donald Trump administration has raised concerns over the revival of the anti-immigration agenda in the US, even as the tech industry is already ringing alarm bells about the H-1B visa fee hikes. The unprecedented fee hikes are likely to be implemented from 2025.Next year, the H-1B visa registration fees are to increase 2,050% from $10 to $215, while the application fee will increase 70% from $460 to $780. Initial registrations for the fiscal 2025 H-1B cap began March 6 and will continue till…

Donald Trump didn’t write Katie Porter’s requiem post on social media. But throw in a few misspellings and capitalized letters, and he very well could have.“Because of you, we had the establishment running scared,” she told supporters of her unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid in a statement Wednesday night on X. This, Porter continued, despite her being massively outspent on TV and facing an “onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”That word — rig — suggesting there was something illicit, fishy or not…

Stormy Daniels goes into new detail in a documentary about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with former President Trump, saying she was cornered by him in his hotel room the night they met and that she blames herself for not stopping him.The adult filmmaker makes the revelation in “Stormy,” a nearly two-hour documentary premiering March 18 on Peacock. It was directed by Sarah Gibson and produced by Erin Lee Carr and features interviews with Seth Rogen, Jimmy Kimmel, Daniels’ family and friends, and several journalists,…

TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan bill gaining momentum in Congress this week which could ban TikTok altogether.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme Machine“Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok,” said the push notification to TikTok users, seen by Gizmodo. “Speak up now – before your government strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional…

The film is set to arrive on Peacock later this month Stormy Daniels is out of fucks to give and ready to discuss it all — Donald Trump, Michael Avenatti, the media, and much more — in the new trailer for Stormy, a documentary premiering March 18 on Peacock.  Directed by Sarah Gibson, the film will examine Daniels’ personal and public life as she aims to reinvent herself after five years of chaos. Daniels famously became a central figure in American politics after it came out that Donald Trump…

For all of California’s ills and hardships, nothing animated the state’s left-leaning electorate in this year’s Senate race more than the specter of former President Trump returning to the White House.The omnipresence of Trump’s legal travails and his dominance in the Republican presidential primary ensure his shadow over the 2024 election will remain through November, and only increase Rep. Adam B. Schiff ‘s already heady chances of becoming California’s newest U.S. senator. As the lead prosecutor in the first…

Donald Trump is only a few hundred delegates away from securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and after a dominating performance on Super Tuesday and the withdrawal of his last GOP opponent, Nikki Haley, Trump really, really, wants to debate President Joe Biden — or so he claims.  “It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!” Trump wrote…