<p>Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) said that she lost connection during a remote interview over the weekend when asked about the criminal trial against President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden.</p>
<p>Whitmer was asked about the case by Dana Bash during CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday as the trial enters its second week in a Delaware federal court.</p>
<p>Hunter Biden is accused by federal prosecutors of committing three felonies related to his purchase of a firearm in 2018, including lying on the background check and being in possession of the firearm.</p>
<p>The charges stem from him not being allowed to own a firearm because of his addiction to crack cocaine, something that he has been very public about.</p>
<p>When Whitmer was asked about the charges, she responded: &#8220;Dana, are you there?&#8221;</p>
<p>CNN had to end the segment because Whitmer claimed that she could not hear Bash.</p>
<p>However, at the end of the show, Whitmer rejoined and was again asked about the charges to which she responded: &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t know how to weigh in on that, Dana.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the initial portion of her interview she had plenty to say about former President Donald Trump and the controversial trial and verdict — which many experts say is likely to be overturned on appeal — in Manhattan.</p>
<p>&#8220;Under this democracy, no one&#8217;s above the law. Everyone is held into account,&#8221; Whitmer said about Trump. &#8220;And this former president is now a convicted felon.&#8221;</p>
<p>She claimed that he &#8220;flouts the law and cheats and just got caught.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">D- acting from Biden campaign co-chair Gretchen Whitmer who claimed to have lost connection to CNN just as host Dana Bash asked her about Hunter Biden&#8217;s criminal trial. <a href="https://t.co/drR837sT5w">pic.twitter.com/drR837sT5w</a></p>
<p>— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1799830641133187332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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<p>Speaker Mike Johnson has President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature bill at the finish line.</p>
<p>During a marathon overnight session that at times appeared doomed, Republicans voted 219-213 at about 3:30 a.m. to send the bill to a final vote.</p>
<p>The late hour was not due to procedure, but rather indecision on the Republican side of the aisle. After five Republicans voted against the rule to proceed, coupled with a handful of Republicans who were holding out, Johnson had to scramble to not only find votes, but also get Republicans to switch theirs.</p>
<p>Just before midnight, Johnson said he would hold the vote open for as long as it needed, and started to whip votes, with a helping hand from Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;Largest Tax Cuts in History and a Booming Economy vs. Biggest Tax Increase in History, and a Failed Economy,&#8221; Trump posted as the legislation stalled. &#8220;What are Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eventually, Johnson got enough votes to the House floor — and convinced one of the opponents, Kentucky&#8217;s Thomas Massie — to vote in favor of the rule. Johnson told reporters that Trump was intimately involved with getting the vote across the finish line, following the play-by-play as he whipped votes.</p>
<p>The final hurdle is a speech by the House&#8217;s top Democrat, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who began speaking just after the rule passed and, hours later, is still going. Though some expected him to speak for roughly an hour, Jeffries said in his speech: &#8220;I&#8217;m planning to take my sweet time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jeffries is permitted to speak for as long as he wants, though all he can do is delay the vote, not stop a final vote from occurring. He&#8217;s filling his speech with testimonials from Americans on Medicaid and other social welfare programs that Democrats say would be imperiled by Trump&#8217;s spending legislation.</p>
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<p>Johnson had estimated that the final vote would take place at 8:30 a.m., but Jeffries was still going as the hour passed. Still, he appears set to meet Trump&#8217;s Independence Day deadline by a full day.</p>
<p>Passing the &#8220;One, Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; — which includes not only a major tax cut championed by Trump but also funds his biggest campaign promises — would be a major victory for the president. He had urged Republicans in Congress to put all of their priorities into one piece of legislation, and has been intimately involved in getting it through with narrow majorities in both chambers.</p>
<p>Trump says his legislation, which has been criticized by even some of his allies for not doing enough to reduce the deficit, will lead to unprecedented economic growth.</p>
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<p>“Nobody wants to talk about GROWTH, which will be the primary reason that the Big, Beautiful Bill will be one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever passed,” the president said on Wednesday. “THIS GROWTH has already begun at levels never seen before. Trillions of Dollars are now being invested into the USA, more than ever before.”</p>
<p>“Likewise,” he added, “hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs are filling up the coffers of Treasury. The Tariff money has already arrived and is setting new records! We are growing our way out of the Sleepy Joe Biden MESS that he and the Democrats left us, and it is happening much faster than anyone thought possible.”</p>
<p>As of 9:00 a.m., Jeffries was still talking on the House floor and again stated his intention to take his time. Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that Republicans who have been there overnight are falling further in line as they listen to his opposition.</p>
<p>&#8220;GOP Congressman just texted me: &#8216;I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes,'&#8221; Vance wrote.</p>
<p>Trump in a Thursday morning post indicated that he was pleased with the effort to get things to the finish line.</p>
<p>&#8220;What a great night it was,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;One of the most consequential bills ever.&#8221;</p>
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<p>President Donald Trump signaled on Friday that the United States has no choice but to acquire Greenland from Denmark for national security reasons.</p>
<p>The president doubled down on his push for the island nation while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office — just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Trump was dead serious about taking over the island.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need Greenland very importantly, for international security, we have to have Greenland,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of, &#8216;Do you think we can do without it?&#8217; We can&#8217;t. If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place, and we&#8217;re not going to be able to do that. We&#8217;re not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And we&#8217;re not talking about peace for the United States,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about world peace. We&#8217;re talking about international security. And right now, you look at it, you have warships all over the place going through right along Greenland. We&#8217;re not going to let that happen. We cannot let that happen, or if it&#8217;s going to happen, we have to be protective of our country.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president said that &#8220;modern day weaponry&#8221; made Greenland &#8220;very important&#8221; from a strategic defense standpoint.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you notice, also some of those, you could call them roadways, they&#8217;re water roadways, but some of those areas are opening up and they&#8217;re opening up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ice breakers out there, they&#8217;re opening them. And by just nature, they&#8217;re opening up and they&#8217;re headed right into China, right into Russia, and we have no choice.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump makes his case for the US acquiring Greenland:</p>
<p>“We need Greenland, very importantly, for national security. We have to have Greenland.” <a href="https://t.co/5MyPSvEvFC">pic.twitter.com/5MyPSvEvFC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1905676716221100215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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Trump Signals U.S. Has No Choice But To Acquire Greenland

<p>Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) was grilled during an interview on Friday for calling on Trump defense officials to resign over their use of a Signal chat group given that he never called for Biden defense officials to resign when they had major screwups.</p>
<p>Coons made the remarks on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; when pressed by co-host Joe Kernen over his calls for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to resign while he remained silent during the Biden years with regard to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.</p>
<p>&#8220;Did you call for Lloyd Austin&#8217;s resignation?&#8221; Kernen asked. &#8220;Not only did we lose 13 service members, we left $70 billion worth of equipment that fell into the hands of the Taliban. Couple of years later, he was out of pocket for two weeks and didn&#8217;t tell the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Did you ask for him to resign at this point?&#8221; he pressed. &#8220;Are you actually asking for Hegseth and Waltz to resign when you didn&#8217;t ask for Lloyd Austin?&#8221;</p>
<p>Coons claimed that Austin not do anything that put United States national security at risk by getting health care treatment despite not notifying anyone about his hospitalization and surgery for cancer.</p>
<p>&#8220;What about Afghanistan? What about Afghanistan?&#8221; Kernen pressed. &#8220;Did you guys forget that? Is the statute of limitations is over for 4 years?&#8221;</p>
<p>Coons ignored the question and instead continued to talk about Austin&#8217;s surgery for cancer.</p>
<p>Kernen continued to press Coons about Afghanistan, noting that in the past, he had referred to Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw as a success.</p>
<p>&#8220;Afghanistan was not a success,&#8221; Kernen said.</p>
<p>Coons continued to deflect by starting to talk about the Houthis.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not saying that the attack on the Houthis was not a success,&#8221; Coons said. &#8220;I am saying that he demonstrably violated a directive that was just shared in the Pentagon about don&#8217;t use Signal for classified information, it is not reliably secure. And one of the folks on that group chat was in Russia at the time that that information being &#8212; look, all of us use apps like WhatsApp and Signal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kernen called out Coons for deflecting: &#8220;You&#8217;re running out the clock on Afghanistan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Coons then proceeded to blame President Donald Trump for Biden&#8217;s disaster, even though he admitted that actions that were taken under Biden&#8217;s leadership were &#8220;badly handled.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked if he should have called for Austin to resign over the debacle, Coons responded: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether Lloyd Austin is the person who should have been held accountable for it, but there should have been accountability.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Kernen destroys Senator Chris Coons over the Signal hoax:</p>
<p>“Did you call for Lloyd Austin’s resignation? Not only did we lose 13 service members, we left $70B worth of equipment… He was [under anesthesia] and didn’t tell the White House. Did you ask for him to resign?” <a href="https://t.co/Gwb3NUh756">pic.twitter.com/Gwb3NUh756</a></p>
<p>&mdash; johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href="https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1905590858264571914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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<p>Liberal comedian Bill Maher said this week that he has accepted an invitation from President Donald Trump to have a private dinner at the White House because he believes it could help heal political divisions in the country.</p>
<p>Maher made the remarks during an interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo when asked about the response he has gotten since accepting the invite.</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe this is a beginning to heal America,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Now, I don’t have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America. I can’t. Okay, let’s get that clear. I’m not going to be healing America. But if two guys who’ve been at each other for so long — I mean, it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have the credentials,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There was nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about the fact that he wasn’t going to leave office voluntarily than I was. I feel like I have the credentials. But they also respect me because I’m honest about the woke train to crazy town. And I don’t shrink from that. And I’ve also lost a lot of fans for that. The woke people have left the building and I’m willing to make that sacrifice, but it does give you a certain credibility.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said that regardless of who the president is, it&#8217;s &#8220;an honor to be invited to the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And I’ve already had a couple of people who I said to them, you know, I’m just gonna take it as a backhanded compliment that you glide right past the idea that little Bill Maher from River Vale, New Jersey, just a humble kid from the suburbs was invited for a private dinner at the White House,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You glide right past that to how dare you talk to him and that you’re not impressed by it at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I’m impressed by it a lot,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’m impressed the f*** out of it. I get to go to the White House and, yes, that is the structure of this dinner is just, let’s talk. Let’s talk to each other face to face. Let’s not stop shouting from 3,000 miles away, you know? So if they expect me to be leaving in a MAGA hat, they’re gonna be very disappointed, but I know they don’t. And I think it’s gonna be, you know, look, it probably will accomplish very little, but you gotta try, man. You gotta try.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Liberal comedian Bill Maher ahead of his dinner with President Trump: &quot;I&#39;m honest about the woke train to crazy town and I don&#39;t shrink from that&#8230;. It&#39;s an honor to be invited to the White House.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/oo5wyHiScI">pic.twitter.com/oo5wyHiScI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1905641406204412068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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Bill Maher Reveals Why He Accepted Trump Invite For Private Dinner

<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) a seat back at the leadership table after the Trump administration withdrew her nomination for U.N. Ambassador over concerns about House Republicans&#8217; narrow majority in Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no doubt she would have served with distinction as our ambassador to the United Nations, but we are grateful for her willingness to sacrifice that position and remain in Congress to help us save the country,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I will invite her to return to the leadership table immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said that Stefanik agreeing to give up her nomination for the sake of helping the team showed that she was a &#8220;devoted patriot&#8221; and &#8220;deeply devoted to her country and fully committed to see President Trump’s agenda succeed in Congress.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is well known Republicans have a razor-thin House majority, and Elise’s agreement to withdraw her nomination will allow us to keep one of the toughest, most resolute members of our Conference in place to help drive forward President Trump’s America First policies,&#8221; he added.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Elise Stefanik is truly a great leader and a devoted patriot. Today’s selfless decision shows America what those of us who work with her already know. She is deeply devoted to her country and fully committed to see President Trump’s agenda succeed in Congress. It is well known…</p>
<p>— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1905330013244915791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pulls-stefanik-nomination-united-nations-ambassador?topStoryPosition=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier in the day that he withdrew Stefanik&#8217;s nomination because it was &#8220;essential that we maintain EVERY Republican Seat in Congress.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We must be unified to accomplish our Mission, and Elise Stefanik has been a vital part of our efforts from the very beginning,” Trump said. “I have asked Elise, as one of my biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver Historic Tax Cuts, GREAT Jobs, Record Economic Growth, a Secure Border, Energy Dominance, Peace Through Strength, and much more, so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”</p>
<p>Trump added: “With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat. The people love Elise and, with her, we have nothing to worry about come Election Day. There are others that can do a good job at the United Nations. Therefore, Elise will stay in Congress, rejoin the House Leadership Team, and continue to fight for our amazing American People. Speaker Johnson is thrilled! I look forward to the day when Elise is able to join my Administration in the future. She is absolutely FANTASTIC. Thank you Elise!”</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pulls-stefanik-nomination-united-nations-ambassador?topStoryPosition=undefined">Trump Pulls Stefanik Nomination To Become United Nations Ambassador</a></strong></p>

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Mike Johnson Welcomes Elise Stefanik Back Into House Leadership

<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he believes that President Donald Trump is very serious about expanding America&#8217;s territorial boundaries by acquiring Greenland.</p>
<p>Putin made the remarks during the 6th International Arctic Forum in Murmansk where he bemoaned Western nations increasingly competing in the Arctic region.</p>
<p>&#8220;The role and importance of the Arctic for Russia and for the entire world are obviously growing,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;Regrettably, the geopolitical competition and fighting for positions in this region are also escalating.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Suffice it to say about the plans of the United States to annex Greenland, as everyone is aware,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But you know, it can surprise someone only at first glance. It is a profound mistake to treat it as some preposterous talk by the new U.S. administration. Nothing of the sort.&#8221;</p>
<p>Putin noted that the idea has been talked about in the United States dating back well over a hundred years.</p>
<p>&#8220;In short, the United States has serious plans regarding Greenland,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These plans have long historical roots, as I have just mentioned, and it is obvious that the United States will continue to consistently advance its geo-strategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Putin: Trump’s plan to seize Greenland is serious, has deep historical roots, and it is evident that the U.S. will pursue it systematically. Adds that it’s a bilateral issue between the U.S. and Denmark and has no bearing on Russia. <a href="https://t.co/LMzWVzqR8d">pic.twitter.com/LMzWVzqR8d</a></p>
<p>— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) <a href="https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1905307078371278999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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