From invocation of God to diatribes against illegal immigrants, Republican Donald Trump ranged the full spectrum of American dreams and grievances in the longest presidential nomination acceptance speech in history. Ad libbing and speaking from a prepared script, he spoke for 93 minutes, surpassing the previous longest, 74-minute oration he delivered when he accepted the […]
President Joe Biden, in isolation at his vacation home in Reheboth Beach, Delaware, after being diagnosed with Covid on Wednesday (July 17), is under increasing pressure to end his run for re-election. Former House leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate majority leader Charles Schumer and House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries privately told him over the last week […]
Political commentators speculated on why Donald Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate. The answer was there for all to see who tuned into the Republican convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when Vance took the stage on Wednesday (July 17). A boy from a poor working class family who served as a Marine in Iraq, […]
Just as he demanded the Europeans spend more on defence when he was president, Republican Donald Trump is hard-headed about Taiwan, too. Taiwan should pay the United States for its defence, he says. “I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100 per cent of our chip business. I think, […]
The chips were down with the Biden administration getting tough and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talking tough. Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML, Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter US export restrictions and Trump’s comments fuelling geopolitical tensions. ASML’s Netherlands-listed shares were down 11%, while Tokyo Electron shares in Japan […]
Some Republicans claimed Donald Trump had won the presidential election as soon he raised a fist and mouthed “Fight, fight!” after a gunman’s bullet grazed his right ear at a rally at Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. “President Trump survives this attack — he just won the election,” said Representative Derrick Van Orden (Republican-Wisconsin). But […]
Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, met his wife, Usha, at Yale Law School. Their backgrounds were different. Vance, 39, is, by his own admission, a Catholic Scots-Irish hillbilly from a working-class family in Middletown, Ohio, who served as a Marine before attending law school. Usha Chilukuri Vance, 36, is a Hindu, the daughter of […]
JD Vance has done it again. Born into a poor working class family, he served with the Marines in Iraq and went on to be a successful Yale Law School graduate, chronicling his transformation in the bestselling Hillbilly Elegy. Now, in a second metamorphosis, he has changed from Trump critic to Trump running mate. The […]
The apparent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on Saturday “outraged, electrified and emboldened Republicans, who hailed Trump’s clenched fist in the wake of gunshots, while it sobered Democrats who were already nervous about the threat of political violence and their diminished prospects this fall”, reports Politico. Within minutes of the gunshots at Trump’s […]
