Opinion: It won't be long before extremists in the GOP make Trump look tame
CNN
It seems a new generation of Republicans has emerged to take on the former president and his allies, writes Julian Zelizer. The story is certainly a twist, but it is not surprising. The phenomenon has shaped the conservative movement since the 1970s.
Thus far, his endorsements have had mixed results. His biggest victory took place in Ohio, where J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," shed any hopes of reinventing the Republican establishment of yore and went all in with Trumpism. He defeated Josh Mandel in the GOP primary and emerged as a shining example of what team Mar-a-Lago can deliver. In West Virginia, Trump's pick Rep. Alex Mooney won the primary while in Nebraska, Charles Herbster, his favorite in the gubernatorial race, lost to Jim Pillen.
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.