Trump News for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Pelosi says she ‘would never recommend’ Biden debate Trump
The Hill
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a Wednesday interview that she “would never recommend” President Biden share the debate stage with former President Trump, shortly after the two agreed to two debates before November’s election. “I myself would never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump,” Pelosi told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “But…
May 15, 2024, 11:48 PM

Biden and Trump agree to presidential debates on June 27 and Sept. 10
CBS News
President Biden and former President Donald Trump will go head-to-head in presidential debates on June 27 and Sept. 10, their campaigns said Wednesday.
May 15, 2024, 11:42 PM

Trump, allies are laying the groundwork to contest potential election loss
BreakingNews.ie
Donald Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss in November
May 15, 2024, 11:00 PM

‘Trump Force One’ clipped a parked plane at Florida airport
The Hill
Former President Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped a parked plane while taxiing at a Florida airport Sunday morning. Trump landed in Cincinnati on Wednesday, his day off from his hush money trial, for an intimate, high-dollar fundraiser, but he arrived in Ohio without his jet nicknamed “Trump Force One.” According to an accident and incident notice from the…
May 15, 2024, 10:35 PM
Hudson Bay, Morgan Stanley took positions in Trump social media firm in Q1
Yahoo Canada Finance
Hudson Bay Capital Management, Geode Capital Management and Morgan Stanley were among the large institutional investors that took positions in Donald Trump's Trump Media & Technology Group in the first quarter, securities filings showed on Wednesday. The former president, who is running as the Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 presidential election, holds a majority stake in the company.
May 15, 2024, 10:32 PM

Jim Jordan accuses New York hush money prosecutor of Trump 'obsession'
NBC News
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding documents from the New York attorney general related to the hiring of a lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
May 15, 2024, 10:30 PM
How 18-year-old Barron Trump could follow in his father’s footsteps
The Australian Financial Review
The youngest of Donald Trump’s children graduates high school this week, which makes him a target for the press.
May 15, 2024, 10:27 PM

Romney says he would have pardoned Trump after indictments
The Hill
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden’s position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to…
May 15, 2024, 10:12 PM

What we know, and don't know, about the presidential debates
NBC10 Boston
After months of questions about whether general election debates would happen, President Joe Biden and Republican nominee Donald Trump have agreed to...
May 15, 2024, 10:06 PM

Biden and Trump deal knockout to debate commission
The Hill
Joe Biden Donald Trump Commission on Presidential Debates Mitt Romney Marco Rubio John Thune CNN ABC
May 15, 2024, 9:55 PM

Mike Johnson Told He's 'Pathetic' on House Floor
Newsweek
Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern called Johnson's visit to former President Donald Trump's criminal trial "pathetic."
May 15, 2024, 9:54 PM

Scott Morrison defends Donald Trump as the pair meet to discuss AUKUS
PerthNow
Australians have slammed former prime minister Scott Morrison’s ‘embarrassing’ Donald Trump post after meeting with the ex-US president.
May 15, 2024, 9:47 PM

Democrat rips Johnson over Trump trial ‘stunt’ on House floor: ‘It is pathetic’
The Hill
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) sharply criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the House floor Wednesday after Johnson made an appearance at former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial in Manhattan. “Look at the cover of today’s New York Times, Mr. Speaker. This is unbelievable. Here’s a picture of the Speaker of this House of Representatives,…
May 15, 2024, 9:46 PM
Michael Cohen Has Undoubtedly Changed. To Whose Benefit?
Yahoo Singapore News
Donald Trump's former personal attorney took the stand in New York to explain what he'd done for his boss and why he ultimately turned on him.
May 15, 2024, 9:40 PM

Politics Briefing: Canada to look beyond White House to defend interests as Ottawa gears up for a possible second Trump presidency, Blair says
The Globe and Mail
Also: As wildfire approaches Fort McMurray, Alberta officials hope cooler temps, winds could push blaze away
May 15, 2024, 9:31 PM

Romney knocks Biden for 'enormous error' in not pardoning Trump
New York Post
Fierce Trump critic Sen. Mitt Romney revealed that he would've pardoned the 45th president as soon as the federal indictments came down and voiced bewilderment at why President Biden hasn't.
May 15, 2024, 9:12 PM

How Biden came around to debating Trump: From the Politics Desk
NBC News
How President Joe Biden came around to challenging Donald Trump to two general elections debates, with the first on June 27 in Atlanta hosted by CNN.
May 15, 2024, 9:10 PM

Romney takes swipe at Biden-Trump debates: ‘Like the two old guys on ‘The Muppets”
The Hill
Sen. Mitt Romney is taking a puppet-inspired swipe at President Biden and former President Trump agreeing to a pair of presidential debates, likening the two to a famed, grouchy “Muppets” duo. “It’ll be entertaining, informative,” the Utah Republican said Wednesday of the debates between Biden and Trump, according to multiple reports. “Like the two old guys on…
May 15, 2024, 9:09 PM

Biden and Trump Announce Two Nights of Dread This Campaign Season
Slate
But there are still plenty of ways for them to weasel out of this.
May 15, 2024, 9:08 PM

Biden, Trump agree to 2 presidential debates
Boston.com
The debate is so unusually early on the political calendar that neither Biden nor Trump will have formally accepted his party's nomination.
May 15, 2024, 9:06 PM

Biden and Trump agree to debate in June and September
PerthNow
The US presidential campaigns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump have signalled their agreement to debate on June 27 and September 10.
May 15, 2024, 9:02 PM

Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on two head-to-head television debates
Sky News
Mr Biden's team insisted the debates are held without a live audience, a move the Trump team are understood to have agreed to.
May 15, 2024, 8:57 PM

Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says
The Guardian
Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
May 15, 2024, 8:56 PM

Biden, Trump set to spar next month in first of two upcoming presidential debates
CBC.ca
U.S. President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks.
May 15, 2024, 8:55 PM