Year: 2024

EXCLUSIVE: A Coup in Progress – The Intelligence Community Briefs Their Work Against Foreign Election Interference in the 2024 Election and Creates More Questions Than Answers (VIDEO)

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) gave a briefing on their efforts to curtail foreign election interference on Monday, October 7, 2024.  Approximately 50 Journalists, including myself, attended and received a 20-minute brief and then were given about an hour to ask questions.

Citing Concerns About Drone and Missile Attacks, Trump Campaign Asks Biden Admin for Presidential Level of Protection in Final Weeks of Campaign, Including Military Aircraft: Reports

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Citing concerns about possible drone and missile attacks, the Trump campaign has asked the Biden administration for presidential level of protection in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, including military aircraft, according to a report by the New York Times and confirmed by the Washington Post published Friday.

INGRASSIA: The Art Of The Weave

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From Demosthenes to Donald: How President Trump’s Rhetorical Innovation Places Him In Good Company Among Great Western Orators Americans already have a good sense that Donald Trump is a maestro of political rhetoric.  When he burst onto the national stage in 2016, it was in large part owing to a salesmanesque rhetoric, which made it easy to communicate often complex problems and ideas, from the fledgling border crisis to the stupidity of our ruling class, to mass audiences in sound bites that were as informative as they were entertaining.   But that does not capture the entire picture of how Donald Trump has revolutionized political rhetoric, or the way we talk about political things, and how his mastery of oratory has evolved over the years to incorporate new innovations previously unseen in our national lexicon.