Trump News for Saturday, April 27, 2024
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Judge Merchan has a 'tool' to make Trump's lawyers 'rein in their client': ex-prosecutor
Raw Story
Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in New York over an alleged hush-money cover up scheme, is hanging something over the head of the former president's attorneys, a former prosecutor said on Saturday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti ...
Apr 27, 2024, 11:07 PM
Gaza protesters target White House dinner but Biden focuses on Trump
BreakingNews.ie
Chants of ‘shame on you’ were heard outside the annual correspondents’ dinner.
Apr 27, 2024, 11:00 PM
Nancy Pelosi dismisses Johnson and Truss’s claims world was ‘safer’ under Trump
BreakingNews.ie
Ms Pelosi suggested that Donald Trump’s time in office had instead improved the safety of those who ‘dislike people of colour and LGBTQ and women’
Apr 27, 2024, 11:00 PM
Jack Smith must now make 'strategic choice' on Trump case with 'major consequences'
Raw Story
During Thursday's oral arguments concerning former President Donald Trump's claim of total criminal immunity, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicated warmth toward Trump's position. One columnist recently wrote that if Department of Justice special coun...
Apr 27, 2024, 10:25 PM
A look at Trump's promise to flip Black and Latino voters
Chicago Tribune
Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities.
Apr 27, 2024, 10:17 PM
Steve Bannon Urges Donald Trump to 'Turn the Guns' on Joe Biden
Newsweek
Amid his criminal hush money trial, the former president has continued to take aim at Judge Juan Merchan and others involved in the case.
Apr 27, 2024, 9:47 PM
Trump rips Romney as ‘total loser’ while endorsing a potential replacement
The Hill
Former President Trump went after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R) and endorsed his possible replacement in a post on Truth Social Saturday. “Trent Staggs is 100% MAGA, and is running to fill The Mitt Romney, a Total Loser, Seat as the next Senator from the Great State of Utah!” Trump said in his Saturday post. …
Apr 27, 2024, 9:42 PM
Biden will give election-year roast at annual correspondents’ dinner as protests await over Gaza war
The Globe and Mail
In previous years, Biden, like most of his predecessors, has used the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to needle media coverage of his administration and jab at political rivals, notably Republican rival Donald Trump
Apr 27, 2024, 9:18 PM
Bill Barr didn't take Trump's "execution orders" too literally
Salon
Bill Barr didn't take Trump's "execution orders" too literally
Apr 27, 2024, 9:10 PM
Nixon lawyer explains what's keeping him 'on the edge of his seat' in hush money case
Raw Story
The general public already knows a lot about the prosecution's case against Donald Trump in the criminal hush money cover-up case, but there's one detail that is keeping former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean "on the edge of his seat." Dean, who recently highlighted a case that he sa...
Apr 27, 2024, 9:06 PM
White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza
Toronto Star
Biden opened his roast with a direct but joking focus on Trump, calling him “sleepy Don,” in reference to a nickname Trump had given the president previously.
Apr 27, 2024, 8:27 PM
Fani Willis Rival Warns Focus on Trump Leaves Many People 'Vulnerable'
Newsweek
Christian Wise Smith, a Democrat opposing Willis in this year's election, took aim at her ability to prosecute Trump and lead the district attorney's office.
Apr 27, 2024, 8:26 PM
Liz Cheney's Message to Supreme Court After Donald Trump Hearing
Newsweek
The former president previously called for the Wyoming Republican to be jailed.
Apr 27, 2024, 7:50 PM
Alvin Bragg's Evidence Against Donald Trump Is 'Truly Insane'-Legal Analyst
Newsweek
Jonathan Turley wrote on Saturday that the district attorney "decided to start with a witness to discuss an affair that is not part of the indictment."
Apr 27, 2024, 7:05 PM
How tabloid headlines, fake news and an Australian editor have become the story at Donald Trump's trial
ABC News
In a bleak Manhattan court, the evidence has centred on the National Enquirer — a gossip rag with a history of specialising in chequebook scoops, true crime, celebrity scuttlebutt and pumping up Donald Trump.
Apr 27, 2024, 6:44 PM
Chart beat: Spectre of US election and Trump 2.0 puts equities under a cloud
Livemint
Global stock markets are likely to remain jittery until the election, scheduled for the end of the year, is completed. In a recent survey, global fund managers said the US election was the third-biggest risk to their portfolios.
Apr 27, 2024, 6:30 PM
Joe Biden’s climate grand slam is undoing Trump’s foul play
The Hill
Biden has grounded effective action in what the science tells us about the climate disasters cascading before our eyes.
Apr 27, 2024, 6:00 PM
Bill Barr responds to Trump insults by vowing to vote for him over 'unfit' Biden
New York Post
Ex-AG Bill Barr responded to harsh criticism from former boss Donald Trump by doubling down on backing him over "unfit" President Biden on Friday — despite being an outspoken critic of the presumed 2024 GOP nominee since resigning.
Apr 27, 2024, 5:52 PM
Lawyer suggests Trump had Daniels' phone number due to "The Apprentice" casting
Salon
Lawyer suggests Donald Trump had Stormy Daniels' phone number due to 'The Apprentice' casting
Apr 27, 2024, 5:10 PM
From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
The Associated Press
The collision of so many cases within a five-day span underscores the challenges Trump will face as he campaigns again for the White House while his legal matters intensify.
Apr 27, 2024, 5:08 PM
'There you have it': Ex-prosecutor singles out pivotal confession in Trump trial
Raw Story
According to former prosecutor and current MSNBC host Katie Phang, a confession by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker under oath in Donald Trump's hush money trial made the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to prosecute the former president.Opening her show on Sa...
Apr 27, 2024, 4:51 PM
Bill Barr says people shouldn’t take what Trump says so literally
Washington Examiner
Former Attorney General Bill Barr continued to defend his former boss President Donald Trump from allegations he gave out orders to kill his political rivals.
Apr 27, 2024, 4:47 PM
Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care
Cable News Network
The Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations that nixed federal health protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Apr 27, 2024, 4:45 PM
Donald Trump Prosecutors Started Trial With 'Unexpected Bang'-Legal Analyst
Newsweek
David Pecker's testimony in Trump's hush money trial have prosecutors "feeling good," according to Joyce Vance.
Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM
Why is David Pecker still in Trump’s good graces?
The Hill
Donald Trump has many enemies – or so he says. But it seems that David Pecker, the ex-National Enquirer publisher and lead witness in the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president who has an immunity agreement with the very prosecutors targeting Trump, is not among them. “David’s been very nice,” the former president…
Apr 27, 2024, 4:00 PM