Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Leaning into culture war flashpoints, Hegseth says he has transformed U.S. military : NPR

"No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors," Hegseth said on Wednesday. "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5986304/hegseth-troops-address


 

Friday, August 14, 2026

‘We will always respect the role of the judiciary’: Blanche flips the script in DOJ address - POLITICO

There were no strident attacks on the Biden administration’s stewardship of the department, no denunciations of “activist” federal judges and no calls to end the weaponization of law enforcement — all topics that have featured prominently in some of Blanche’s public remarks as a senior department official over the past year and a half...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/13/todd-blanche-justice-department-remarks-01036328


Saturday, July 18, 2026

Five claims the president made in primetime address not backed up by evidence

…The Department of Homeland Security did not reveal its methodology for identifying the noncitizens and how confident they were in their assessment. The tool the Department of Homeland Security uses to flag noncitizens on the voter rolls is known to be inaccurate. 

Letters from the Department of Homeland Security sent on Thursday to Nevada and Pennsylvania obtained by the Guardian also suggest that the government is much less certain that the people identified are actually noncitizens. The Nevada letter says the department identified as many as 15,903 noncitizens who were registered to vote, including 8,576 whose name, date of birth, address and social security number matched that of a noncitizen in its files. It did not say how it flagged the remaining potential noncitizens. .

“These numbers are wildly speculative at best and the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t shared anything that backs it up,” Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic Nevada secretary of state, said in a statement…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-claims-primetime-address


 

How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system

US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/trump-address-us-elections


Trump doesn't realize how much he just embarrassed himself

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZTFBQFSO8

Trump makes unverified claims of China ‘election meddling’ as critics fear ploy to challenge midterm results

Opponents say president’s address about 2020 election loss is attempt to sow confusion ahead of midterms that could deliver big losses for Republicans…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/trump-tv-address-thursday


 

INSTANT REACTION: Breaking down the truth about Trump's election speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0QvocD3oqQ

 

Former intelligence officer weighs in on Trump's election manipulation claims

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udq8BqhK0t4

 

Election experts, including one hired by Trump, challenge Trump's claims

Two election experts push back on Trump's claims of widespread election fraud. One of them, Ken Block, was hired by Donald Trump to investigate voter fraud following the 2020 election.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brlzWCSaLss

Friday, July 17, 2026

Live fact-check: President Donald Trump's expected address on election security - PolitiFact

 https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/jul/16/president-trump-address-nation-speech-election/


 

How Trump might try to relitigate 2020 — and the facts he’s up against - POLITICO

Many of the specific claims Trump might make in his primetime speech have been evaluated before...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/trump-speech-2020-election


Trump's address may focus on the 2020 election. Here's what to know about foreign interference, voting security | PBS News

In 2016, Russian agents used hacking and disinformation campaigns in an attempt to tilt the election in Trump's favor, government reports have shown. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with investigating it, found no criminal coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign. 

There are multiple safeguards protecting elections from foreign interference, including regularly audited paper records for 98% of votes cast in almost every state, Norden said. 

The Trump administration has cut back on election security efforts launched during his first term, such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In a 2020 post-election tweet, Trump fired the head of CISA, Chris Krebs, after the agency released a statement that affirmed the election's security...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-address-may-focus-on-the-2020-election-heres-what-to-know-about-foreign-interference-voting-security 









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