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The recent video of CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo losing his cool and cursing at the man who referred to him as Fredo Corleone, got President Trump’s attention and may have scratched at a childhood wound Cuomo might have about his older brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
America has always had guns, but the mass shootings that have occurred over the past decade or so, have put an immense emphasis on the results of illicit gun use, creating a deep divide among the gun rights and gun violence lobbies.
The Trump administration’s plan to minimize the number of immigrants entering the country by penalizing those immigrants who receive government aid is facing strong opposition by the pro-immigration lobby, who is making the issue about race, rather than solely immigration.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) is calling for justice against “those who denied” Epstein’s victims “day in court,” and must be “held to account.”
After the El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio mass shootings that claimed the lives of 32 innocent people, and injured or maimed dozens more, Congressional Democrats have ramped up their rhetoric and efforts to ban “assault weapons.”
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York City jail cell of an apparent suicide, and now both federal and state officials want to know why and how he died. U.S. Attorney General William Barr was infuriated with the news that Epstein took the easy way out instead of facing his accusers, […]
The efforts of U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R) and Rick Scott (R) urging President Donald Trump to recertify Colombia’s efforts to eradicate its drug trade have paid off.
“The Second Amendment is a fundamental right in our Constitution… and it absolutely has to be protected."
In a Twitter spat with former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan, a defensive Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) forgot which Americans she represented in her response to the beauty queen’s opinion that the congresswoman did not represent her or “millions of Muslims in the Middle East.”
Rubio would vote on "Red Flag" gun bill during August recess
Rep. Donna Shalala has decided to tone down their criticism of the president, and is urging President Trump to “continue targeted sanctions and prioritizing humanitarian assistance.”
Never at a loss for words or afraid to express her opinion, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) did not hold back blaming President Donald Trump for creating the climate that she believes led to the recent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, including giving "white supremacists" the permission go out and shoot people.
"The United States continues to stand with the people of Venezuela in their fight to restore democratic order and the rule of law.”
After the tragic mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, President Donald Trump is calling for “red flag” laws to be enacted to prevent future shootings like the ones that occurred this past weekend.
“all property and interests in the property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States... are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.”
The days of the “Cocaine Cowboys” are long gone, Harrison Ford is not fighting drug lords with the CIA, Colombia is no longer considered to be the epicenter of the illicit drug trade (it still is), and the Pablo Escobars of the world have been replaced by organized Marxist guerrilla groups.
After being turned back on several occasions by the Department of Homeland Security for trying to gain access to the Homestead Children’s detention center, and after pressuring the Trump administration to close down the facility, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) can now take a bow for her efforts to have the facility shut down.
With Donald Trump being elected President of the United States of America, Republican members of the U.S. Congress have all-but fallen in line with the president’s vision for America.
