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Debating a liar: Why pundits fixate on President Biden’s performance over Trump’s political gaslighting

June 27 was the first debate between President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and by far the most striking thing about the debate was the overwhelming focus among pundits immediately afterward on President Biden’s appearance and soft, hoarse voice as he rattled off statistics and events. Virtually unmentioned was the fact that Trump lied and rambled incoherently, ignored questions to say whatever he wanted; refused to acknowledge the events of January 6, 2021; and refused to commit to accepting the result of the 2024 presidential election, finally saying he would accept it only if it...

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High stakes: Why the first Biden-Trump televised 2024 debate is crucial for both candidates and for CNN too

President Joe Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump will not be alone at the June 27 debate. Moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper of CNN will be on camera, too, and there is a lot on the line for their network as it fights for relevance in a changing media environment. CNN has hosted dozens of town halls and political forums through the years, but never a general election presidential debate, let alone one so early in a campaign. No network has. “This is a huge moment for CNN,” said former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, now a...

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Why Trump gives the Saudi and Putin incentives to sabotage President Biden’s re-election hopes

The bloodthirsty leader of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia loves his dictatorial soul-mate Donald Trump and is today setting the stage to intervene in November’s election in a big way, much like he did with a smaller test run during the fall of 2022 when he drove US gas prices up above $5, forcing President Biden to release oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. As Stanley Reed reported for the Business pages of The New York Times recently: “Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, said that it would extend [their one-million-barrels-a-day] cuts in oil...

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President Biden’s sweeping immigration plan would grant U.S. citizenship to spouses without legal status

President Joe Biden ordered expansive election-year action on June 18 to offer potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his recent aggressive crackdown on the southern border that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The president announced that his administration will, in the coming months, allow certain U.S. citizens’ spouses without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship without having to first depart the country. The action by President Biden, a Democrat, could affect upwards of half a million immigrants, according to senior administration officials. “The...

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President Biden calls for solidarity with Ukraine near the beaches of Normandy during D-Day ceremony

President Joe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 by pledging “we will not walk away” from Ukraine, drawing a direct line from the fight to liberate Europe from Nazi domination to today’s war against Russian aggression. “To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, is simply unthinkable,” he said during a ceremony at the American cemetery in Normandy. “If we were to do that, it means we’d be forgetting what happened here on these hallowed beaches.” D-Day was the largest amphibious assault in history, and President Biden called it a “powerful illustration of how...

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President Biden breaks silence on Trump’s criminal convictions to condemn his “dangerous” claims

President Joe Biden on condemned Donald Trump’s unfounded assertions of a biased legal system as “reckless” and “dangerous” on May 31. The unprecedented statements broke his long-held silence on the presumptive Republican nominee’s criminal woes, as Trump’s nearly three dozen felony convictions injected a new element of uncertainty into a volatile presidential campaign. President Biden’s sober denunciation of his predecessor and his defense of the U.S. legal system — delivered in just under two minutes from the White House — came after campaign aides made clear they would continue to focus on issues such as democracy, abortion rights and...

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