Trump News for Friday, May 19, 2023

The winner of a contest that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell created for people to try to disprove his election fraud claims has asked a federal court to make Lindell pay him the money after the ally of former President Trump has refused.  Lindell promised to pay $5 million to anyone who could disprove his data…

Ex-Trump Organization financial chief already served 100 days in Rikers. Now he may be charged with perjury.

Former President Trump leads President Biden by a 7-point margin in a new survey shared Friday with The Hill from Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll. Separately, the poll found Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) deadlocked in a tie when those surveyed were asked who they preferred in a head-to-head matchup. The results coupled together point…

The town hall was as surreal and cynical as it gets.

In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that sentences can't be enhanced on facts outside of an indictment. Trump's team is likely to bring that defense in Manhattan.

So why isn't he running to be the party's standard-bearer?

The Atlanta prosecutor leading the probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results is expected to announce in August whether criminal charges will be brought.

Canadians’ opinions have soured on China in recent years, and softened on the U.S. since Trump’s exit. But some European powers are getting more favourable responses than either

Former President Trump on Friday urged Republican lawmakers to dig in on debt ceiling talks just as negotiations with the White House were paused over disagreements. “Republicans should not make a deal on the debt ceiling unless they get everything they want (Including the ‘kitchen sink’),” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “That’s the way the…

Here is a list of declared candidates and other potential 2024 hopefuls in both the Democratic and Republican parties. TIM SCOTT The only Black Republican U.S. senator has low name recognition outside his home state of South Carolina, but his optimism and focus on unifying his divided party have helped him draw a contrast with the more aggressive approach by Trump and DeSantis.

Florida governor, expected to announce run soon, tells fundraising event Trump does not have ‘serious chance’ of being elected

Donald Trump now leads Ron DeSantis by 69 points with Republican voters in the race to be the party's 2024 presidential candidate.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) asked judges in the county not to schedule trials and in-person hearings in roughly the first half of August, a signal she may bring charges against former President Trump during that time. Willis also indicated about 70 percent of her staff will work remotely on various days in…

John Durham's report cements the new GOP line of attack on democracy: Rejecting the legitimacy of jury trials

Republican Florida governor reportedly dismissed Donald Trump’s chances as he gears up to announce his candidacy on Wednesday

The country needs a break from the chaos of Biden and Trump's incompetence.

In their quest for a scalp, any scalp, in the debt ceiling fight, House Republicans have fallen back on an old hobbyhorse from the pre-Trump GOP.

What did the more-than-300-page Durham report conclude after investigators conducted more than 480 interviews, served more than 190 subpoenas and reviewed...

Letters to the editor submitted to the Daily Southtown.

The Atlanta prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke the law while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia seems to be suggesting that any grand jury indictments in the case would likely come in August.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, announced remote workdays for her staff in August and asked judges to refrain from in-person hearings for parts of that month, according to a letter obtained by CNN.

Trump’s depiction of the war as a conflict in a ‘faraway land’ was music to the ears of Republican isolationists

Every four years, Americans think they are voting in a national presidential election. But pragmatically speaking, the vast majority are sideline voters, watching a battleground-state presidential election from the fringes. This opinion is quantified by 2020 campaign data indicating that the Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris tickets spent $883 million of television ads across just six states…

Tim Scott arrives as an underdog to the Republican primary field that former President Donald Trump has so far led.

The Florida governor is expected to formally declare his presidential candidacy on May 25, setting up a face-off with the former president in the GOP primary.