Trump News for Saturday, May 25, 2024
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Trump accused of making 'mob boss threat' against Jack Smith in documents case
Raw Story
Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out against Special Counsel Jack Smith, saying the prosecutor's recent moves in the criminal Espionage Act case in Florida will "backfire."Smith recently moved to amend Trump's pre-trial terms in the case over stashed classified documents, saying Trump should be limit...
May 25, 2024, 11:55 PM
Chaos at Trump event as crowd member yells that ex-president 'should have taken a bullet'
Raw Story
Donald Trump is in hostile territory on Saturday, as someone in the crowd yelled that the former president "should have taken a bullet" before the speech even began. Trump is soon scheduled to come on stage at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. Raw Story reported that Libert...
May 25, 2024, 11:17 PM
Donald Trump confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech
BreakingNews.ie
It was a rare moment of Mr Trump coming face-to-face with open detractors.
May 25, 2024, 11:00 PM
Libertarian Party's delegates 'keep booing Donald Trump' ahead of ex-president's address
Raw Story
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak Saturday night before the Libertarian National Convention, but he's in hostile waters, according to boos heard prior to the former president's arrival.On Friday, the Libertarian Party's meeting reportedly erupted with fights, personal attacks, and obscenities. This...
May 25, 2024, 9:58 PM
Judge Cannon put on notice that her 'disqualification cup runneth over' in Trump case
Raw Story
Judge Aileen Cannon's "disqualification cup runneth over" in Donald Trump's criminal document-handling and Espionage Act case, a former federal prosecutor said.Ex-prosecutor Glenn Kirschner went on MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked if Cannon is "the reason that Trump may not face trial before" t...
May 25, 2024, 9:12 PM
Trump is courting Libertarian activists and trying to ensure they’re not drawn to RFK Jr.’s campaign
The Globe and Mail
Polls have shown for months that most voters, even a majority of Democrats, do not want a 2020 rematch between Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden
May 25, 2024, 8:59 PM
After the ICC prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel's leaders, Biden pulled a page from Trump's playbook
ABC News
One of America's presidential candidates is notorious for attacking prosecutors and courts, undermining their decisions and disrespecting their independence. But this week, Joe Biden adopted a quintessential Donald Trump move and hit out at a prosecutor for doing his job, while presenting no evidence to back his criticism.
May 25, 2024, 8:29 PM
Latest 'bad financial news for Trump' could cause ex-president 'tremendous damage'
Raw Story
If Donald Trump ends up on the losing end of a recently reported tax scandal, the former president could be on the hook for $100 million, which would reportedly be financially devastating for the Republican presidential candidate.Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump's taxes and...
May 25, 2024, 8:26 PM
Trump says Joe Biden wants cryptocurrency 'to die a slow and painful death'
Raw Story
Once a critic of cryptocurrencies, Donald Trump now says he is "very positive and open minded to cryptocurrency companies."The former president once said cryptocurrencies were a “disaster waiting to happen," but over the weekend he took to Truth Social, his own social media network, to praise crypto...
May 25, 2024, 8:07 PM
20 days of hush money trail testimony explained
New York Daily News
The Manhattan district attorney’s office presented 20 witnesses in their monthlong case against Trump, laying out an illicit “catch and kill” scheme that included falsifying business records to pay back his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for silencing porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
May 25, 2024, 8:00 PM
Trump's biographer says Truth Social investors will be 'wiped out' if they don't sell
Raw Story
Investors in Truth Social, if they don't sell now, will eventually be "wiped out," according to Donald Trump's own biographer. Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump's taxes and financial matters for years, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked about recent news i...
May 25, 2024, 7:41 PM
‘Donald Trump should have taken a bullet!’ Loud boos and jeers for ex-US President at Libertarian convention
Livemint
Donald Trump faces hostile reception at Libertarian National Convention, booed and heckled by audience. Libertarians blame him for COVID-19 vaccine rush and public health restrictions.
May 25, 2024, 6:30 PM
Billionaire GOP donor Stephen Schwarzman backs Trump in ‘vote for change’
Cable News Network
Billionaire businessman and lifelong Republican Stephen Schwarzman says he will support the candidacy of Donald Trump with a “vote for change” after years of declining to back a particular GOP presidential candidate.
May 25, 2024, 4:58 PM
President warns new army officers to be ‘guardians of American democracy’
The Guardian
President entreats graduates at commencement to ‘hold fast’ to oath to US constitution in veiled reference to Trump’s threat to democracy
May 25, 2024, 4:50 PM
Stuck in Manhattan for his hush money trial, Donald Trump turns New York City into a campaign set
New York Daily News
The presumptive Republican nominee, forced to maintain a tight radius around his hush money trial at 100 Centre Street, where he’s been confronted with a series of characters from his sleazy past, Donald Trump did what Donald Trump does: He put on a show.
May 25, 2024, 4:01 PM
The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
The Intercept
Donald Trump tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?
May 25, 2024, 3:40 PM
Judge in Mar-a-Lago case asked to curb Trump’s speech after false FBI claim
The Guardian
Prosecutors make request of Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, saying ex-president’s claims pose threat to law enforcement
May 25, 2024, 2:38 PM
Trump courts Libertarians amid mounting concern over third-party candidates
Cable News Network
Donald Trump will address the Libertarian Party’s convention Saturday, a move illustrative of his campaign’s intensifying concern over third-party candidates.
May 25, 2024, 2:30 PM
Internet Goes Gaga Over Donald Trump's New Truth Social Video, Calls it 'Completely Unreal'
The Inquisitr
The promotional video debuted on Trump's Truth Social right before his successful political rally in the South Bronx, New York.
May 25, 2024, 1:45 PM
Prosecutors ask judge in classified documents case to block Trump from statements endangering law enforcement
CNBC
The request comes after the former president falsely claimed the Biden administration authorized the FBI to use deadly force against him during the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago.
May 25, 2024, 1:29 PM
Trump 'facing a hostile crowd' in address to Libertarian National Convention: report
Raw Story
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak during Saturday's Libertarian National Convention, and he may encounter a particularly cold reception, according to a new report.NBC News reported that "if Friday night's program is any indication, [Trump] could be facing a hostile crowd" in his Sa...
May 25, 2024, 12:59 PM
RFK Jr. accuses Trump, Biden of crackdown on U.S. liberties
Raw Story
Independent White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of trampling on the US constitution as he launched a trenchant defense of Americans' civil liberties.In a guest speech in front of a small crowd at the Libertarian Party's national convention in Washin...
May 25, 2024, 12:05 PM
Analysis shows Trump's escalated talk of a 'rigged' 2024 election
Raw Story
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has cast doubt on the fairness of the 2024 presidential election result significantly more than he had by this time in 2016 or 2020, according to an analysis published Friday in The New York Times.The Times found more than 500 instances of Trump falsely ac...
May 25, 2024, 12:02 PM
How I got a lesson in Donald Trump’s world I won’t forget
Toronto Star
This is U.S. presidential politics in 2024, and it’s a spectacle to behold.
May 25, 2024, 12:00 PM