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Today, on July Fourth, we celebrate America. The only nation built on an idea.
Our nation waged a war based on the revolutionary idea that everyday people ought to govern themselves.
That we will swear fealty to no king.
That each of us is equal under the law.
A few days ago, our Supreme Court overruled our founding principle. Now, while ordinary folks are expected to follow the law, conservatives on the Court have decided presidents are free to break it. That's not hyperbole.
I fear the Supreme Court's decision will embolden Donald Trump to sow even more chaos and destruction.
He has already promised to be a dictator on "Day One." To purge dedicated public servants across our government. To enact a brutal campaign of revenge and retribution that echoes the likes of Nazi Germany.
But, I give you my word as a Biden: As long as I'm president, we're not walking away from our ideals, our alliances, or our democracy.
We're still a nation where hate has no safe harbor.
We're still a nation that is a beacon of hope to the world.
We're still a nation in which the law is meant to be followed -- not defied.
As long as you are with me, I will not let Donald Trump destroy what America stands for.
We just have to remember who we are. We are the United States of America, and there is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
God bless you all, and Happy Fourth of July.
Joe
Joe Biden
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BIDEN BACK Baby Let's go Joe
In it to Win it AGAIN!!!!!Comment
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Another one duped by Trump
Jan. 6 defendant dubbed 'Conan O'Riot' gets prison time for role in Capitol attackComment
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Yep Project 2025 The Republicans plan to destroy AmericaComment
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Well, radical democrats appear to get what they wanted. A possible assassination attempt on President Trump. Probably some left wing loon that's heard him compared to Hitler and that he'll end democracy.
Possible gunfire breaks out at Trump rally in Pennsylvania
Trump was quickly surrounded and escorted off stage by Secret Service personnel
The defiant warrior:
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Crooks was a registered Republican
Fact matter BullyComment
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Let the wacko Conspiracy plots beginComment
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US consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, drawing Fed closer to cutting interest rates
Joe Biden says in statement that falling prices and rising wages are ‘thanks to my economic plan’
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I want to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks.
Trump promised the NRA that he’d do nothing about guns.
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Not since Abraham Lincoln has a president been more vilified by the opposition than President Trump. They've compared him to Hitler. Called him a fascist. Said that he's a threat to democracy. And worse.
When democrats call him Hitler, democrats are telling their supporters that it's their obligation to kill Trump. I wish some German would have killed Hitler. It would have prevented WWII and the Holocaust.
With that being said, when a bloodied Trump got up off the ground and pumped his fist in the air, it will go down as one of the most historic images in American History.
Amid the Mayhem, Trump Pumped His Fist and Revealed His Instincts
Donald J. Trump was back on his feet. He had just been shot at, his white shirt was undone and his red hat was no longer on his head. Blood streaked across his face as riflemen patrolled the perimeter of the stage. A pack of Secret Service agents pressed their bodies against his. “We’ve got to move, we’ve got to move,” one pleaded.
“Wait, wait, wait, wait,” the former president instructed, his voice a harried — but startlingly clear — command. Reluctantly, they halted. He peered out into the crowd.
And then his arm reached toward the sky, and he began punching the air.
The crowd started to chant — “U-S-A! U-S-A!” — as the agents inched Mr. Trump toward the stairs. When they reached the top step, they paused once more, so Mr. Trump could lift his arm a little higher, and pump his fist a little faster. The crowd roared a little louder.
It’s difficult to imagine a moment that more fully epitomizes Mr. Trump’s visceral connection with his supporters, and his mastery of the modern media age.
r. Trump would not leave the stage without signaling to his fans that he was OK — even as some were still wailing in fear. And he did not just wave or nod, he raised his fist in defiance above his bloodied face — making an image history will not forget.
He has always been highly conscious of how he looks in big moments, practicing his Clint Eastwood squint and preparing for his mean mug-shot grimace. But there was no time to prepare for this.
This was instinct.
As the agents coaxed him onto his feet, he stammered, “Let me get my shoes on, let me get my shoes on.”
“I got you, sir, I got you, sir,” an agent replied. Mr. Trump rose, his voice uneven at first, still repeating himself: “Let me get my shoes on.”
“Hold that on your head,” an agent told him, “it’s bloody.”
“Sir, we’ve got to move to the cars,” another said.
“Let me get my shoes on,” Mr. Trump said again.
Fierce one moment, he looked drained and stricken the next.
After the agents managed to hustle him off the stage, they led him toward an idling Chevrolet Suburban. He began to clamber inside, but before the door could close, he turned back toward the crowd again. His head appeared more blood-soaked than before. He raised his fist one more time.
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Bennie Thompson, Top Dem on Pelosi’s J6 Committee, Called to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the leader of then-Speaker Pelosi’s (D-CA) now-defunct January 6 Select Committee, introduced legislation in April 2024 targeting former President Donald Trump that would take away his Secret Service protection upon a conviction.
Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt during a Pennsylvania rally Saturday. After shooting began, Secret Service agents jumped on the president within seconds.
The shooter and one bystander are reportedly dead.
“Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee—even a former President,” Thompson said in an official statement when introducing the legislation. “It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality. Therefore, it is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law,” he continued, “so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment—and that those who are sentenced to prison will indeed serve the time required of them.”
Thompson is the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, the body tasked with protecting the safety of the American people.
As Breitbart reported at the time:
The Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act says that protection will “terminate for any person upon sentencing following conviction for a Federal or State offense that is punishable for a term of imprisonment of at least one year.”
Thompson argues in a fact sheet for the DISGRACED Former Protectees Act, that the bill “would remove the potential for conflicting lines of authority within prisons and allow judges to weigh the sentencing of individuals without having to factor in the logistical concerns of convicts with Secret Service protection.”
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