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- Trump Says Graham Platner Allegations Come Down To Whether You ‘Believe The Wo...
“It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman,” Trump said. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Platner Just Made Things Harder for Democrats
The Nazi tattoo wasn’t bad enough to force Graham Platner to abandon his Senate bid, his defenders argued earlier this year. Any young Marine, under the powerful influence of alcohol and immaturity, might see a skull and crossbones and think: Badass. The now-deleted Reddit posts mocking rural white people, insulting cops, and making light of assault? Well, chalk that up to the same. Extramarital sexting is not ideal, of course, but then there was Platner’s wife assuring us that the couple had healed. And never mind the allegations of volatile behavior from a couple of past girlfriends; one of them is a Republican activist.But when Politico reported on Monday that a woman had accused Platner of rape, even his most steadfast supporters began to call for his exit. And tonight, the oysterman finally gave in: “For the movement to continue, it can’t be me. For that reason, we are suspending campaign operations,” he said in a video posted to social media. But Platner added to the problems facing Democrats as he exited the race. He fervently denied the sexual-assault allegations—and seemed to imply that the party establishment was somehow responsible. “We did it the right way. We did it the way that we were told we are supposed to make change,” he said. “And now they are not going to let us have it.”Democrats were never going to win easily in Maine, where for nearly 30 years the electorally sturdy Susan Collins has hung on to her Senate seat. But pile up all of Platner’s baggage, and defeating her might have been an especially difficult project. Now Democrats have a chance to replace Platner with a new candidate—someone who is, perhaps, less encumbered—and redouble their efforts to flip Collins’s seat.But each silver lining has its corresponding cumulonimbus, and in this case, it’s that Platner has assembled a powerful grassroots coalition in Maine that may or may not be transferable. It depends on whom the party replaces him with—and how. “They may get a mulligan,” the political analyst Charlie Cook, who lives in Maine, told us. “That doesn’t mean they’ll hit it well.”The implosion of Platner’s candidacy—first bit by bit and then all at once—has Democrats nationwide throwing up their hands in exasperation. The party must flip at least four GOP-held Senate seats in November to capture the majority, and this particular seat has long been considered the party’s most important,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Graham Platner Drops Out Of Maine Senate Race After Sexual Assault AllegationsPlatner’s decision to withdraw from the race comes after a campaign riddled with controversy. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- Another Fatal ICE ShootingLorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction contractor and father of three, was a “man of routine,” according to his sons. He woke up at 5 a.m. every day, ate a big breakfast prepared by his wife, and left home at sunrise to build houses in the Houston area. Salgado Araujo came across the border from Mexico as a teenager and had been working without legal status for 35 years. Yesterday he left in his work van to pick up his brother and two other men en route to a job. A team of ICE officers, traveling in two unmarked SUVs, was looking for one of the men. Exactly what happened next is unclear.As the officers attempted to stop the van, according to the Department of Homeland Security, Salgado Araujo ignored their commands and smashed into their vehicles. An officer drew his weapon and shot Salgado Araujo in the stomach. A video posted to social media showed a man face down in the street and moaning in pain, with his hands behind his back and two officers over him. Salgado Araujo died at a Houston hospital hours later.DHS, in a brief statement, said that Salgado Araujo “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.”The killing was the first fatal shooting by ICE officers since the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7. (Another protester, Alex Pretti, was killed by border agents two weeks later.) This time, Trump-administration officials did not rush to blame the dead for acts of “domestic terrorism,” as they did following the Good and Pretti shootings. They have announced an internal DHS investigation into the ICE officer’s actions, as well as an FBI probe to determine whether Salgado Araujo committed assault before he was shot.Senior ICE officials I spoke with said they have received few details about what happened. The ICE officer who shot Salgado Araujo was a veteran with more than two decades’ experience, a senior ICE official told me. DHS did not respond to questions about the officer’s identity.Immigration advocates and Democratic officials in Houston said today that they don’t believe DHS’s claims, and some groups are offering a cash reward for video footage. “Remember Minneapolis? Remember Renee Good? Has ICE learned nothing from that experience?”… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- Elaine Chao Addresses Mitch McConnell’s Health, Her Decision To Travel Ami..."The Senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the US,” a spokesperson told local media. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Communists
When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a circle until he’s bored and moves on to the next thing. He has fixated on Greenland and ruminated on his reflecting pool. Right now, though, his focus is The Communists. And as a new Reuters analysis reveals, he’s really into it: Over the past two weeks, Trump has brought up communism a full 81 times. Communism is an old rhetorical obsession for Trump—who was in first grade when Joseph Stalin died—and his allies. In 2025, he introduced a “National Anti-Communism Week.” He blamed communists for his 2023 criminal indictments. During his 2020 campaign, he accused his opponents of (you guessed it) communism. It may be a product of his deep relationship with Roy Cohn, a lackey of Red Scare architect Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Trump’s longtime mentor and personal lawyer. But over the past week, the president appears to have hit overdrive, sermonizing against communism at fever pitch. And like his Red Scare predecessors, Trump is also using the label to go after immigrants, decrying a “resurgent communist menace” from “newcomers to our country” in a July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore—designed by an anti-immigrant crusader and Ku Klux Klan associate—that also characterized communism as “a mortal threat to American liberty” and “the greatest threat” to the United States, surpassing Pearl Harbor, both World Wars, the September 11 attacks, et cetera. Then Trump really got going: “You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America,” he continued. “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions…They don’t want good. They don’t love God, and they don’t want God. They don’t love religion, and they don’t want religion, and they won’t have it, but we will not let them win.” The actual communists of the Communist Party USA have spent the past week sending strident press releases to clarify that they are not, in fact, the Democratic Socialists of America. Maybe Trump’s handwringing over so-called communists isn’t entirely misguided. After all, capitalism hasn’t been looking too good lately. A recent Gallup poll showed that less than half of young Americans feel positively toward our economic system. The libertarian Cato Institute found last week that a majority of… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
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