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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse

    The president’s messianic rhetoric has soared since the assassination attempt. Illustration by Marco Ventura for POLITICO Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. “I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said, the day after he got shot at his rally last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I’m not supposed to be here,” he said four days after that. “But something very special happened. Let’s face it.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Michael Kruse

    Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over court rulingTrump’s attack came after the U.S. Court of International Trade struck down his tariffs, a blow to the primary pillar of his economic agenda. President Donald Trump leveled unusually pointed criticism of a prominent conservative legal activist and organization Thursday as he railed against a ruling …

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse

    “I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said, the day after he got shot at his rally last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I’m not supposed to be here,” he said four days after that. “But something very special happened. Let’s face it. Something happened,” he said two days after that. “It’s … an act of God,” he said the month after that. “God spared my life for a reason,” he said in his victory speech at Mar-a-Lago in November.

  • 4 weeks ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

    It’s been said an American has never been chosen pope because the United States already holds such sway over the world politically, culturally and economically, that it would be too much to give an American immense religious power as well. No doubt, Leo’s global influence will be measured constantly by the church’s more than 1 billion adherents.

  • 4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

    Seventeen popes have presided over the Catholic Church since the founding of the United States. None of those men was from America. That changed Thursday when Robert Francis Prevost, son of Chicago’s South Side, emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and spoke, in Italian, the words: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Peace be with you all.

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Michael Kruse
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse
15 May 25

Ran 14 years ago today. https://t.co/B1oNG95iiQ

Michael Kruse
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse
15 May 25

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Michael Kruse
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse
15 May 25

“Nearly one in three Democrats is now a college-educated woman — the priorities that they have are quite different. And it’s not that young men don’t care about these issues at all, but they’re just simply much lower priorities,” says @dcoxpolls. https://t.co/JgvNVe50T3