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YouTube channels and fake news websites are pumping out dozens of false stories about Sassa grants and jobs every month. These hoaxes prey on vulnerable recipients, spreading confusion, false hope or panic. Many are clearly fake, Andrew Thompson writes, but they have still managed to infiltrate public discourse and be widely shared. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/DLIAMlg via sinceretalk

One Washington Post columnist predicted in 2024 that should he win election to a second term, Trump would launch an unprecedented attack on his political opponents and democracy itself. Now, he's chastising Americans for not doing more when they had the chance. In a Friday essay , the Post's Colbert I. King wrote that "Trump's own record, his musings on the campaign trail and the words of his inner circle" should have been all Americans needed in order to forecast everything the 47th president of the United States would do during his first months back in the White House. King recalled his July 3, 2024 column , in which he warned that a term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government. "Prosecutions will warp into persecutions. Political foes, real and imagined, in the press and online and in the politicians’ suites, will be subjected to Trump’s whims and power," he wr...

California – the largest U.S. state by population and the world's fourth-largest economy by itself — is the largest payer of federal taxes of all the states. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is now entertaining the idea of depriving President Donald Trump's administration of that revenue. Politico reported Friday that Newsom tweeted the suggestion in response to Trump floating the idea of terminating all federal. grants to California's state universities. The two-term Democrat pointed out that his state pays roughly $83 billion more in federal taxes than it gets back, according to a Rockefeller Institute analysis . "Californians pay the bills for the federal government," Newsom said. "Maybe it’s time to cut that off." READ MORE: Nicolle Wallace reveals 'political stink bomb' Trump may set off with his military parade Should Newsom follow through on that threat, it would cut off approximately 12.3% of the $4.67 trillion federal tax reve...

President Donald Trump's planned military parade is just a week away, and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is pointing out that there's still not much information about whether one particular group of veterans will be featured. On the Friday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace interviewed Iraq War veteran Paul Rieckhoff about the parade, who viewed the entire concept as "an attack on our values" and "un-American." He pointed out that military parades are typically seen in totalitarian countries like North Korea, and opined that Trump was inappropriately making U.S. troops take part in a "political stunt." "He's continuing to thrust our veterans and our military into the most divisive issues of our time. Whether it's the parade, it's the border, it's gay rights," he said. "But there are actually troops involved. So 19 and 20 year-olds are going to have to march in this thing on his birthday, y...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) launched a fundraising campaign Thursday centered around Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), coinciding with escalating tensions between President Donald Trump and the tech billionaire. The campaign, distributed via text and email by DeSantis’ political committee, Restore Our Nation, urged supporters to back “real conservatives who will finish the job," according to Politico. Praising the former DOGE head's work for the administration, the email said he “stood tall and took the hits.” READ MORE: 'Who is running the show?': Trump's sudden disappearance from public view sparks questions The fundraising message has sparked concern among some Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters and Republicans, with critics interpreting it as a sign of partiality. While DeSantis did not directly mention Trump in his appeal, his praise for Musk's resilience led to speculation about his allegiances...

President Donald Trump's intensifying public split with Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has some conservatives wondering about the future of the legislation that started it. But former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele says the fight shows Republicans may have more to worry about. During a Thursday segment on MSNBC , Steele said that the Musk-Trump feud was illuminating for both CEOs hoping to get into Trump's orbit, as well as for elected Republicans in Congress. He opined that for most corporate executives, the most alarming consequences of the spat was Tesla losing roughly $150 billion in value in one day due to its CEO falling out with the president of the United States. "I think that that that is a fool's errand for them to think that somehow they're going to roll up on trump the way Elon Musk was," Steele said. "I think the lesson learned is not so much for them, but for Trump: That access port is going to be closed or ver...