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Oro Valley Republican Mark Finchem has been publicly tight-lipped about his whereabouts on Jan. 6 and his connections to #StopTheSteal organizer Ali Alexander, but his testimony to the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection gives new insight into a man who has been instrumen...
Former President Donald Trump hosted a New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday, where he briefly spoke to the media.According to the Palm Beach Post, the former president said he hoped that the Russia-Ukraine war would " get straightened out very quickly." He also claimed that he h...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) spent New Year's Eve vibing at ex-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Palm Beach, Florida. At 10:16 p.m., Giuliani – whose pro bono role as Trump's defense counsel on television and in dozens of failed court cases challenging the outcome of...
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" early Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne said special counsel Jack Smith has his work cut out for him when it comes to a Donald Trump criminal indictment over the Jan. 6 riot.As for the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents investi...
CNN reported on Monday that some classified documents were recently discovered in President Joe Biden's items in a storage office, which is drawing comparisons to former President Donald Trump's document scandal that has been referred to a special counsel in the Justice Department. However, there ar...
Former President Donald Trump was not pleased to hear Fox News analyst Karl Rove's take on the classified document reports involving President Joe Biden.While the former president saw the incident as an opportunity to divert attention from his own pending investigation, Rove appears to argue otherwi...
Donald Trump deserves the ultimate blame for the Jan. 6 insurrection, but the House select committee's investigation found a cascading series of failures that nearly allowed the attack to succeed.Multiple investigations by lawmakers, inspectors general and others have examined the failures by law en...
Donald Trump was up bright and early on Saturday morning ranting about the Department of Justice's investigation into the sensitive documents he took to his Mar-a-Lago resort and refused to give back which eventually led to the FBI serving him with a warrant and searching the premises.Using the docu...
Former President Donald Trump lashed out for the second day in a row about the classified documents that were found inside President Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.The latest revelation arrived over the weekend that five additional pages were discovered by Biden's personal lawyer and immediat...
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is under fire after a local news anchor from Florida accused the organization of sending out a fundraising email that appeared to be from Governor Ron DeSantis. But the Trump campaign says the email is fake.“It’s a slick fundraising email,” tweeted Spectrum News ...
John McEntee, the former presidential body turned top Trump White House aide in charge of personnel, was subpoenaed in the special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump’s actions related to the January 6 insurrection, and testified before a grand jury Friday, CNN reports.McEntee began his career...
Donald Trump's inability to stop talking about his legal problems, and his penchant for floating possible defenses on his social media accounts, will likely come back to haunt him, explained one legal expert.During an appearance on MSNBC early Sunday morning, former Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner w...
Donald Trump's lawyers released a statement on Monday claiming that it's clear their client is innocent of anything involved in the Georgia voter fraud investigation as evidenced by the fact that he wasn't called to testify before the special grand jury. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporters Bill R...
Former US president Donald Trump launches his campaign at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, on November 15, 2022 -- but he hasn't held any public events sinceWashington (AFP) - Donald Trump hits the campaign trail Saturday for the first time in a stuttering third bid for the US presidency overshadowed...
For a man who's not formally said he's seeking reelection, President Joe Biden is doing an excellent impression this week of a man seeking reelection.Donald Trump is already at it: the default Republican frontrunner declared in typically bombastic fashion this weekend that 2024 was the "one shot to ...
Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen went to prison for making the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, but National Enquirer chief David Pecker never had any consequences for his hush-money payments to other affairs Trump was trying to cover up. The New York Times revealed tod...
Donald Trump laid the groundwork early in the 2020 election for his possible defeat by attacking voting by mail and ballot drop boxes, insisting they should be illegal while making clear if he lost the White House those proven safe and effective means of voting would be to blame.But now, with a flai...
Manhattan prosecutors are putting new legal pressure on Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who is currently serving a sentence in jail for tax fraud.The district attorney's office has warned that Weisselberg could face new fraud charges as prosecutors begin presenting evid...
Donald Trump's battle with the Department of Justice over sensitive government documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago continued last month with the former president receiving an unreported subpoena seeking a folder that was not previously turned over.According to a report from the Guardian's Hugo ...
On July 26, 2017, out of the blue, President Donald Trump in a series of tweets falsely claiming he had consulted with his generals, announced all transgender service members would be kicked out of the U.S. Armed Forces. There was no legitimate basis for the Commander-in-Chief's decision, no scienti...
Former Trump Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, took a shot at Ron DeSantis while targeting LGBTQ people, saying the Florida GOP governor's "Don't Say Gay" law doesn't go far enough.In a rambling, fast-talking speech the first Republican to cha...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Republicans elected Christian Ziegler as their new party chair in Orlando Saturday. Ziegler will oversee what could be a tense few years for the state GOP, with Gov. Ron DeSantis widely expected to challenge former president and current Florida man Donald Trump for the party’...
Hours after the forewoman in Fulton County, Georgia Fani Willis' special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election revealed that "multiple" indictments are likely imminent, Trump took to his Truth Social app to again falsely declare that he won a...
The leader of one the nation’s largest religious-freedom groups warns “America cannot stay America” without a renewed commitment to fighting back against extremists emboldened by former President Donald Trump.In a wide-ranging interview with Raw Story, Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans Un...
LINCOLN — Much of the $710,000 that a national school choice group sent to Nebraska to spend on legislative races in 2022 came from the family of former President Donald Trump’s Education secretary and the owner of the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns. Former Secretary Betsy DeVos, t...
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen spoke to the New York District Attorney in Manhattan for the 19th time on Tuesday. Returning from answering questions, he said that he's been very critical of Alvin Bragg after two main prosecutors resigned due to Bragg allegedly refusing to bring this case...
Donald Trump, the one-term ex-president who is running for the Republican nomination for president once again, on Monday advocated for yet another coup against the United States.Trump is currently under at least four criminal investigations: his unlawful retention and refusal to return classified an...
Michael Cohen had a message for people trying to destroy his credibility as a witness in the hush money case against his old boss, former President Donald Trump."It's like what I had said to Jim Jordan, ... I know what you are doing," he said, speaking to detractors through MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace W...
Nancy Pelosi in 2019 warned that impeaching Donald Trump could lead to unintended consequences.“Don’t tell anybody I told you this,” the former House Speaker and current Democratic congresswoman said at the 2019 event held by Cornell University’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs.“Trump — I u...
Former President Donald Trump's spokesman released a statement on Thursday evening attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid reports that he is likely to indict the former president soon."President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he did nothing wrong, and even the biggest, most ...
Officer Harry Dunn was one of the Capitol Police officers that led Jan. 6 attackers away from the doors where lawmakers were hiding. It has been 800 days since then and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace wants to know why the Justice Department hasn't moved against Donald Trump or his close allies.Speaking ...
Evan Corcoran’s testimony is sought in connection with a phone call prosecutors allege he had with Trump as investigators were seeking evidence over possible obstruction of the government’s efforts to secure classified documents the former president took with him when he left the White House, sources told ABC News.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) testified under oath and admitted how farfetched former President Donald Trump's voter fraud claims really were.In fact, the Republican lawmaker likened Trump's outlandish conspiracy theories to aliens coming down and stealing the former president's ballots.During a rece...
Former Vice President Mike Pence, in Des Moines on Saturday, said “no one is above the law,” but he also characterized a potential indictment against former President Donald Trump as “politically motivated” and “troubling.” “Well, here we go again. Another politically charged prosecution of the...
Minutes before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron was to gavel in late Tuesday morning, a bomb threat was called in to 911, delaying a pre-trial hearing in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump and his adult children, but only for ...
There is no serious dispute about it: Former President Donald Trump while still in office engaged in insurrection when he impelled a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. Also not in dispute: A clause in the 14th Amendment bars any office holder who engaged in insurrection from again holding office. ...
Texts that were sent in 2021 by two men hired by Donald Trump's legal team reveal that not only did Trump's allies consider using voting data to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also to keep Republican control of the U.S. Senate, CNN reported on Friday. The texts were sent...
Sean Feucht, a proud MAGA preacher, expressed his bold and controversial Christian nationalist views during an appearance earlier this week at a church led by former President Donald Trump supporter, Jackson Lahmeyer, Rolling Stone reports.Per Rolling Stone, Lahmeyer is not only the pastor of Sherid...
WASHINGTON — A top Republican election lawyer recently caused a stir when she told GOP donors that the party should work to make it harder for college students to vote in key states. But the comments from Cleta Mitchell, who worked closely with then-President Donald Trump to try to overturn t...
The U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a subpoena to the second company the Trump campaign hired to investigate claims of voter fraud.“There was no fraud,” Ken Block, the founder of Simpatico Software Systems told ABC News in a report published Friday.“There were just crazy cl...
Washington lawyer George Conway spoke to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday about a number of problems that Donald Trump is facing. At the end of the week, it was revealed that former Vice President Mike Pence testified before the special counsel's grand jury on Thursday after an appeals court struck down T...
Any plans Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) might have had of boosting his faltering drive toward announcing a 2024 Republican Party presidential bid with a visit to the key primary state Iowa may have been squashed by Donald Trump.DeSantis, who has seen massive slippage in the polls, had previously schedule...
According to longtime conservative political observer Andrew McCarthy, Donald Trump's attempt to bait the judge overseeing the E. Jean Carroll rape and defamation trial fell flat which led to the former president's attorney being put on the spot.Writing for the National Review, McCarthy -- who recen...
Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account in the wee hours of Saturday morning to lash out at special counsel Jack Smith as reports grow that he is closing in on witnesses at Mar-a-Lago over the stolen documents recovered by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.The former president had a bad week as the E. Jea...
The US border with Mexico will not be thrown open when Donald Trump-era restrictions change next week, the Biden administration said Friday.During a visit to the Texas frontier town of Brownsville, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said safeguards were in place to prevent a tide of migr...
Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Donald Trump's attempt to set up the judge in the E. Jean Carroll trial for attacks should the jury rule against the former president blew up in his face.Speaking with fill-in host Michael Steele, Vance said U.S. District ...
Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Jim Trusty implied Wednesday night that his client is not obligated to comply with subpoenas.Trusty spoke with CNN's Sara Sidner about the former president's refusal to comply with a subpoena in DOJ special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the classified...
You’ve probably never heard of Anthony Comstock, a Civil War Union soldier and New York Postmaster, who died in 1915. You need to learn about him and his legacy, however, as his long fingers are about to reach up out of the grave and wrap themselves around the necks of every American woman of childb...
As much as Donald Trump's critics mock him for harping on trivial, unimportant things, the president's adolescent-like name-calling can be effective with his MAGA base. Trump's names for political opponents are designed to diminish them — for example, "Sleepy Joe" for President Joe Biden, "Crooked H...
A decision by CNN's parent company could reportedly be a bad omen for the company's CEO, who staked his reputation on the recent Donald Trump town hall event.Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced the hiring of CNN’s new chief operating officer, David Leavy, and a new report from The Atlantic has...
Donald Trump is a "grifter," and a worse one than disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, according to former White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci was on NBC to discuss his connections with Bankman-Fried, who was friends with Scaramucci before Bankman-Fried was arr...
According to an MSNBC political analyst, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been the source of a great deal of the legal problems Donald Trump is now facing — many of which could lead to indictments and possible jail time.While Trump is responsible for his misdeeds, Meadows has inad...
Considering the news of day, Donald Trump probably has bigger worries, but the former president flunked a fact check over allegations that Joe Biden mishandled classified documents, CNN reports.Trump during last month’s CNN town hall argued that he shouldn’t be prosecuted over his handling of classi...
Ivanka Trump is reportedly attempting to distance herself from her father after he was hit with a federal indictment for his alleged mishandling of classified documents in Florida.Melania Trump is reportedly standing by her husband as he faces an unprecedented indictment, but Ivanka has been distanc...
Donald Trump on Thursday asked on his Truth Social platform when "deranged Jack Smith" and others will drop the federal indictment against him and apologize.In an all-caps rant, Trump insists that the Presidential Records Act and "the Clinton Socks case" have "totally exonerated" him from the "conti...
Legal eagle Andrew Weissmann attacked his former employer, the U.S. Justice Department, for what he called going above and beyond to accommodate Donald Trump."The road to Hell is paved with good intentions," Weissmann explained, speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday. "I think if you go dow...
Hillary Clinton said during a recent presentation that Donald Trump’s followers won’t abandon him no matter how many criminal indictments are brought against him. The former Democratic presidential candidate added, “that it’s more of a cult than a political party at this point and they’re going to s...
Former FBI deputy director Andy McCabe and legal expert Dr. Allison Gill, Ph.D. discussed on episode 31 of the "Jack" podcast, that it had been two weeks since Donald Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, appeared in court and was told to get a Florida lawyer to vouch for his out-of-state lawyer that Trump is ...
CNN anchor Phil Mattingly on Monday found himself stunned at what he described as an "unequivocal lie" told by a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump.The lie in question came after the Washington Post contacted the Trump campaign for comment on its report that Trump had placed pressure on ...
Special counsel Jack Smith "made a smart strategic play" by requesting a December trial date for Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to a legal expert.The government has 70 days from the date of arraignment to try the former president under the Speedy Trial Act, which...
Donald Trump must reportedly sit for a deposition in a lawsuit brought by former FBI agents alleging the former president violated their privacy and retaliated against them.Legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who recently said Trump's lawyers have become "the most crucial witnesses," posted on Twitter that th...
Pre-Trump Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to dramatically change how America elects its leaders – or rather, who is allowed to elect its leaders.In a fiery interview with CNN, Ramaswamy, himself the product of two immigrant parents, said people who are born in the United Stat...
US federal prosecutors have questioned Donald Trump's son-in-law and ex-advisor Jared Kushner as part of their probe into the former US president in the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to media reports. Kushner has testified before a grand jury, the New York Times and US broadcaster CNN re...
Ron DeSantis wants his party to think it faces a choice between Donald Trump and Not-Donald Trump (meaning him). “No matter how much the media and DC elites try to destroy Ron DeSantis,” his spokesman said, “they can’t change the fact that this is a two-man race for the nomination.”But that’s not wh...
WASHINGTON — The federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election includes detailed accusations of Trump and his alleged co-conspirators’ pressure on individual state officials. The central plot to overturn the election, as described i...
Former President Donald Trump was "desperate" to cling to his power in the election subversion scheme for which he was indicted this week, attorney Barry Berke said on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Wednesday — and he knows now that he's been caught dead to rights.For all his team's potential maneu...
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Friday announced he is calling on Congress to investigate U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and will file a resolution to "censure and condemn" the jurist who is presiding over the Washington, D.C. federal trial of Donald Trump on charges related to his alleged attempt...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp doubts that Donald Trump will face trial in his state before the 2024 election.The former president and 18 of his allies were indicted this week on racketeering and other charges related to their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, but Kemp disputed Fulto...
Former Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, now polling in third place for the Republican presidential nomination, is claiming that "the left" is supporting "the beheadings" of Israeli children and the "1200" Israelis slaughtered by Hamas terrorists.No elected Democrat has endorsed the terror attack on ...
The final day of a weeklong trial in a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to seek office again began with a protracted dispute over how much expertise an expert witness called by Trump’s legal team really had.Robert Delahunty, a retired law professor and legal co...
Donald Trump's extensive list of potential witnesses in his New York civil fraud trial is more than 100 people long, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin revealed Tuesday.According to Rubin, Trump's lawyers filed a list of 127 potential witnesses they might ask to take the stand in the $250 million ...
Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, went after New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Tuesday because he ruled that her client was liable for damages before his civil fraud trial. During an interview with right-wing host Charlie Kirk, Habba recalled that the judge had scolded he...
"The Good Liars," comedians who interview Donald Trump's supporters, confronted the MAGA fans at a recent event using the ex-president's own words to ask about him. The issue was whether Trump's fans would admit that Trump lied. In one case, for example, Trump talked about his work as president on R...
Special counsel Jack Smith accused former President Donald Trump's legal team of misleading him in a ruse to have cameras broadcast his election subversion trial. In a filing on Sunday, Smith called out Trump after he "reversed course" on whether cameras should be in the courtroom. But just days...
Donald Trump Jr. is slated to take the witness stand on Monday as the defense team launches their case in the fraud trial against former President Donald Trump. Trump’s eldest son will be called to testify in Manhattan Supreme Court after the Trump legal team last week made a long-shot bid at shutti...
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade was mocked by network contributor Leslie Marshall after he claimed Donald Trump can't remember who is president because he still thinks Barack Obama is in charge of the country. During a Sunday Fox News discussion about President Joe Biden's age, Marshall pointed to ...
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy took at shot at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for spending time at a UFC fight instead of trying to convince GOP voters who didn't turn out for Tuesday's election.During a Sunday discussion on Fox & Friends, co-host Will Cain said he had attended a ...
Former President Donald Trump and his two adult sons seem to have little strategy at their civil fraud trial in New York beyond making Judge Arthur Engoron sick listening to their false claims.That's the view of Trump's former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, who also gave testimony in the trial a...
An attorney who tearfully accepted a plea deal in the Georgia election fraud case against Donald Trump says she was told the former president “was not going to leave” the White House after losing the 2020 election, according to a new report.Jenna Ellis detailed to investigators from Fulton County Di...
A Republican member of Congress "close to Donald Trump" relayed a story to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl for his new book Tired of Winning in which Trump was compared to Adolf Hitler by the German chancellor — and took it as a point of pride. Reading the clip of the story, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace ...
Donald Trump actively wants his fans to enact violence on his behalf, a writer revealed in a new book.ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's new book Tired of Winning will be released at midnight, and among the bombshells is a conversation he reveals about Trump's supporters — and the effect the former p...
British TV host Piers Morgan has long been a vocal admirer of Donald Trump and his presidency, but that doesn't appear to extend to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who spoke on his show Tuesday evening in the UK. The debate began with Morgan bringing up accusations against Greene that she purpor...
One legal analyst predicts that Donald Trump will continue to use his lawyers to push the envelope in court to make more money from his supporters. Trump's lawyers in the New York fraud case submitted their motion for a mistrial Wednesday, attacking Judge Arthur Engoron and his law clerk. The accusa...
One of the co-defendants in the racketeering case that includes Donald Trump out of Fulton County, may have his bail revoked. According to a motion filed by District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday, Harrison Floyd should have his bail revoked because he gave interviews to conservative outlets disc...
During a recent rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump said something he’s been saying for some time. He said the indictments against him are reason enough to bring indictments of his own against his enemies once he regains the presidency. “This is third-world-country stuff, ‘arrest your opponent,’” h...
Former President Donald Trump should toe the line and avoid attacking court staff in the New York civil fraud trial, even though the gag order imposed on him — which he was already fined twice for violating — has temporarily been suspended by a state appellate judge.That's the view of former federal...
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was quick to call out Judge Aileen Cannon in response to a decision she handed down in special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case on Thursday.The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reported that Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, has denied Smith's "request…...
Judge Aileen Cannon again ruled against the Justice Department on setting the court schedule for in the Trump classified documents trial — and her latest decision has onlookers alarmed.The judge ruled Thursday against the Department of Justice's attempt to set some key deadlines ahead of Donald Trum...
A vocal critic of the former president hopes Donald Trump gets exactly what he says he wants at his election interference trial next year — sunlight.“Trump claims he wants cameras in the courtroom for his federal trial, but he has to know it would backfire,” Salon writer Amanda Marcotte wrote Thursd...
Confidential 2020 election records subpoenaed by a co-defendant in Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case cannot be publicly disclosed, a judge ruled Friday. Fulton County District Court Judge Scott McAfee's order came in response to Harrison Floyd’s request, made at a Nov. 3 hearing, cou...
As part of their Project 2025 agenda, Donald Trump's MAGA allies have — according to reports in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Axios — been thinking long and hard about the type of MAGA Republicans they would like to include in a second Trump Administration. Its idea is to give the Unit...
The Federal Election Commission sent Donald Trump’s presidential campaign committee an 88-page list of contributions that it says appear to exceed federal limits.The FEC letter to Donald J. Trump For President 2024, Inc., flags contributions from 72 individuals. As in the past with Trump, several pe...
The Colorado judge who handed Donald Trump a win by keeping him on the state's ballot may have set things in motion for the Supreme Court to help the plaintiffs, a former prosecutor said on Saturday. Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman appeared on MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian Reports, where he ...
Jack Smith could make a strategic move that would place the Trump-appointed Judge Cannon on higher scrutiny in connection with her rulings in the ex-president's criminal prosecution over sensitive documents allegedly hoarded away at Mar-a-Lago, a former prosecutor said on Saturday.Charles Coleman, a...
Ruby Freeman's lawyer clashed in court with the attorney for Harrison Floyd as a hearing on potential bond violations by the Trump co-defendant unfolded in Fulton County, Georgia, Tuesday. At issue is whether Floyd harassed people on social media. The conditions of his release pending trial include ...
Trump's own "narcissism" could be his downfall, a for White House lawyer who served during the ex-president's administration warns.Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers have been slamming Judge Tanya Chutkan's limited gag order in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case as an...
A document from The Mazars exposed in Donald Trump's fraud trial for his Trump Organization has a damning message at the top reading "DJT to get final review." The document in question was a financial statement from 2014 that declared Trump was worth $3.4 billion in assets and cash. According to...
Former President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump explained in her Substack Wednesday why a five-word "note from hell"written by the Trump Organization's top accountant could cost her uncle everything in the civil fraud trial in New York."A scribbled note said to have been written by former Trump Org...
Teenager Quinn Mitchell has shaken up New Hampshire with his tough questions to 2024 Republican presidential candidates. The latest target of the 15-year-old was Nikki Haley, whose staff shoved him along as he asked about Trump, NBC News' Emma Barnett captured in a video.Approaching the candidate at...
The U.S. Supreme Court will next week hear arguments in SEC v. Jarkesy, a case expected to have major implications on Trump's ambition to fill government agencies with staffers loyal to him.In 2022, appeal judges ruled that the system the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been using to pro...
Of all the 2024 GOP presidential primary candidates competing with frontrunner Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is by far the most aggressive in his attacks. Most of the criticism of Trump during the primary has been mild or tepid, but Christie has been downright scathing at times...
When Democratic strategists appear on MSNBC or CNN, they often lay out a long list of reasons for reelecting President Joe Biden in 2024. But veteran actor/director and liberal activist Rob Reiner didn't recite a list of Biden policies during his November 21 appearance on MSNBC's "The Beat." Inste...
Donald Trump's lawyers dismissed threats targeting New York Judge Arthur Engoron and his chief clerk, including many that propose violence or even death, as "audience reactions."The former president's defense team responded to a motion filed Thanksgiving Day by special counsel Jack Smith's office th...
There are numerous ways in which Donald Trump could throw a wrench into the Republican primary leading up to the 2024 election, and one of them is to not survive.The former president, who is currently 77 and turns 78 in June, recently mourned the loss of his older sister. He also used that event to ...
Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who currently serves as CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group behind Truth Social, got a rude reception from MAGA fans for using the struggling platform to sell $75 bottles of "Patriot" wine from his vineyard.During the Thanksgiving weekend the former lawmaker pos...
A Donald Trump ally on Friday accused the ex-president's former staffer about lying in a lawsuit alleging she was raped by Trump aide Jason Miller.The staffer, Arlene "A.J." Delgado, is known to have had Miller's child years ago. She now claims that the involvement wasn't consensual — but Laura Loom...
The heirs to Donald Trump's fortune have been forced to take out hefty loans to buy their Florida properties, the DailyMail reported Sunday. After leaving the White House, Trump and his three eldest adult children all moved to Florida, a state where their properties cannot be seized due to a homeste...
Donald Trump on Saturday heard boos when he arrived at the South Carolina "Palmetto Bowl." He also reportedly saw billboards telling him that he lost.Trump attended the bowl at least in part to show up his GOP rival Nikki Haley at her alma mater, but it appears things didn't go exactly as planned fo...
Donald Trump is inching closer and closer to a point where he will cost himself his own freedom, a former Republican congressman said on Saturday.Trump, who has gone on the offensive even more since appeals courts have stayed the gag orders placed on him in criminal and civil cases, recently used hi...
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi is seriously concerned about the recent reporting that Donald Trump's White House was not vetting some people they were pardoning or commuting sentences for in the administration's final months. A New York Times report by Michael Schmidt and others revealed that o...
A new report about Mike Pence's internal struggle over certifying the 2020 election is raising new questions about whether the former vice president will help bring down Donald Trump in the federal investigation. According to the ABC News report, as late as Christmas Eve 2020, Pence was saying he wo...
Donald Trump's own niece, Mary Trump, wants to make sure the masses don't forget that out of her uncle's $250 million civil fraud trial came an underreported nugget: Trump tapped his kids' accounts to juice his bottom line. In her latest episode of "The Good In Us," Mary holds a magnifying glass ove...
Overnight, amid a flurry of social media posts, Donald Trump demanded President Joe Biden weaponize the federal government to "come down hard" on a news media outlet to benefit the indicted ex-president's 2024 political campaign. While attacking the press is part of Trump's regular tactics, this tim...
Lawyers for Donald Trump's co-defendants argued Friday that the state has no power to bring charges against them for being fake electors, USA Today reported.According to the legal team, the fake electors cannot be tried by the state because such a matter, according to the Constitution, should be res...
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, ex-senior adviser to Melania Trump, discussed her relationship with the former first lady in her 2020 book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady." Now, she is speaking out about another Trump family-related matter — a lawsuit involving a f...
An appeals court ruled Friday that former President Donald Trump can be sued for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.In a short release announcing the decision, Judges Sri Srinivasan, Greg Katsas, and Judith Rogers affirmed the order of a lower district court that denied a ...
Donald Trump might get the Supreme Court to weigh in on his "presidential immunity" argument as it relates to the criminal case he faces for alleged election subversion in D.C., but he isn't likely to win that fight, a legal expert said Saturday.Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu appeared on CNN News...
Fox News host Arthel Neville interrupted a speech by former President Donald Trump to point out his "many untruths" about the 2020 election. As Trump gave a campaign speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, Neville cut the former president off mid-sentence. ALSO READ: Here's why taxpayers just...
Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, in a Sunday interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, insisted the Republican Party, as she has known it, no longer exists."Governor, in this Washington Post op-ed, [Robert Kagan] writes this," Capehart said. "'As perilous as it is for Republ...
According to recent 2024 presidential polls, Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden, meaning the former president could indeed become the president of the United States once again. If that thought terrifies you, you are not alone. So, the question is, what can we do to stop the nation from racing toward ...
The New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division is expected to hear arguments on Monday afternoon after Donald Trump asked to appeal a gag order in his $250 million civil fraud trial.Earlier on Monday, attorneys for Trump requested permission to file for appeal after a lower appeals court reinstated...
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case on Monday ordered the unsealing of documents filed by special counsel Jack Smith, who had asked they be kept under wraps because they could unveil some of the government's plans in the trial.Judge Aileen Cannon said she was “mindful of th...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others in the Republican leadership, like Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who are all being controlled by Donald Trump and an extension of his campaign for the presidency. Speaking to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday, Garcia explained ...
Reporter Molly Jong-Fast warned that the media can't stop allowing Donald Trump to operate unchallenged. Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on Sunday, Jong-Fast explained that journalists are so concerned about appearing biased that they ultimately end up downplaying the seriousness of Trump's pledge t...
If you cross The Don, he's done with you. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance published her latest edition of her Substack newsletter "Civil Discourse" discussed the consequences of going against the 45th president and how many in the GOP appear to be blinded by his star power as he remains the frontru...
Prosecutors slammed Hunter Biden’s demand to see Donald Trump’s diaries, personal messages and correspondence the former president sent about the current president’s son, according to court records and reports. Federal prosecutors in Delaware filed a lengthy opposition to Biden’s subpoena request fo...
Donald Trump on Tuesday demanded that fraud trial Judge Arthur Engoron be "thrown off the bench" after he ruled that the former president's Monday testimony must go forward. "We have totally proven our Case," Trump insisted in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon. Trump lashed out at Mi...
In the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, supporters of Donald Trump were using their power to demand others fall in line. In former Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) new book, "Oath and Honor," she describes Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) as seriously concerned about the safety and security...
Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at the New York Supreme Court after Justice Arthur Engoron slapped his family with a gag order in a $250 million fraud trial. During a Thursday interview with right-wing podcast host Charlie Kirk, Trump accused the United States of being a communist country because of...
The attorney for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign who was a leading architect of the plan to organize fake presidential electors in Arizona and other battleground states that the twice-impeached president lost is set to meet with prosecutors in the Grand Canyon State on Monday. Attorney General Kris Ma...
Donald Trump has used his name and likeness to sell items including steaks, vodka, menswear, mattresses and even a “university.”More recently, he’s profited from Trump-themed nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, that take the form of digital trading cards.Now someone is taking a decidedly AI-centric approac...
Trump's undefeated in fending off state cases trying to nix him from the 2024 presidential ballot. But that winning streak in court could backfire. For one, there's no guarantee he will be running by next November. In fact, a Washington state district court judge dismissed a lawsuit trying to remove...
Pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro was charged as one of the former president's co-defendants for allegedly drafting a secret memo outlining how to steal the 2020 presidential election.But he wasn't always that way, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin — who once studied with Chesebro in law school — told MS...
Donald Trump invoked his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in his Sunday rant on social media, and the Trump foe is hitting back.In his all-caps post, Trump claimed that as a "star" witness, the "sleazebag and disbarred former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted in court to repeatedly lying under oath. It was...
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell suggested that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has put Donald Trump on notice that he can expect no plea deals or mercy and that she fully intends to see that he goes to jail.Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Pha...
Imagine it’s April 4, 2025, and Donald Trump is not in prison. Trump is in the White House. You wake up before dawn, and a wave of dread washes over you as you check your news app to see what’s going on. Trump has declared it’s Ivanka Trump Day, and his Cabinet secretaries are approaching her one by...
As House Republicans race to cobble together legislation to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Democrats are pointing to ex-President Donald Trump — who appears to have engaged in the same activity the GOP is accusing the current president of.Republicans, who are pushing to ...
Last year Donald Trump dined with two anti-Semites, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, at his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence, drawing massive outrage while revealing to many Americans for the first time who Fuentes is: a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, anti-LGBTQ, authoritarian extremist who su...
Donald Trump admitted Tuesday he dodged testifying in own fraud trial because of a gag order banning him from commenting on court staff in his $250 million fraud trial.Trump took to Truth Social Monday to decry both Justice Arthur Engoron — who has said he has received credible death threats during ...
An attorney representing former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday blamed his client's age for his seemingly self-destructive decision to continue lobbing smears against defamed Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, U.S. District Court Chief Jud...
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Love means never having to say you’re sorry you helped conspire to overturn a presidential election. But then again, there probably isn’t much love lost between Donald Trump’s plea-copping attorneys and the Fulton County District Attorney, who forced the pair to write apology letters to the peo...
Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was back in court on Thursday for his ongoing case U.S. vs. Cohen, in which the ex-fixer argues that his case against former Attorney General Bill Barr, and the Trump government should be able to move forward. Among the issues cited is that Cohen was told by ...
Former President Donald Trump was likely hoping to blockade the 2020 federal election interference case with his "presidential immunity" appeal, forcing Judge Tanya Chutkan to kick the can until after the 2024 election can be held. But his strategy could be about to blow up in his face, wrote legal ...
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office is asking for transcripts from the disbarment trial of the former Donald Trump attorney John Eastman, Politico reported. According to Politico's Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, the request shows that prosecutors still have their eye on Eastman, who played a signifi...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is calling the attempt to impeach President Joe Biden outright "bulls--t."Thompson, who served as the chairman for the House Select Committee investigating 2020 and Jan. 6, told Raw Story at the Capitol on Thursday that the Trump impeachment was for an actual...
Liz Cheney might be positioning herself as the Republican hero who stood up to Donald Trump, but she can't erase history, a New York Times columnist wrote Thursday.While Cheney has said over and over in her well-publicized book, "Oath and Honor," that it’s up to Republicans who have seen through Tru...
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In a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley dodged a question about Donald Trump's claims of "presidential immunity." ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Haley if she agreed Trump was immune from Jan. 6 prosecutions because he was president at the time he allegedly incited a mob ...
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - An expert witness paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial "lost all credibility" by "doggedly" justifying the former U.S. president's business records, the judge overseeing the case said on Monday. Eli Bartov, a New York U...
Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani faces a $148 million judgment for pushing lies and conspiracy theories about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after their lives and reputations were completely derailed by threats and harassment.But Giuliani could be just the beg...
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance sounded the alarm Monday over a daunting obstacle that threatens to run Georgia election racketeering case off track: jury selection.In her substack Civil Discourse, Vance raised concerns about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' tight schedule for find...
Donald Trump’s New York criminal case involving accusations of hush money paid to an adult film star who claimed she had an affair with him before he became president has largely been overshadowed by Jack Smith's investigations — but it should not be overlooked, according to a new legal analysis.Jo...
Ron DeSantis, performing poorly in the polls, on Monday insisted his main opponent for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump, is not a danger to democracy despite the ex-president’s fascistic remarks over the weekend.“No,” DeSantis told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski when the “Morning Joe” co-host ...
During a campaign rally in New Hampshire, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" and praised authoritarian figures like Russian President Vladimir Putin and "highly respected" Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbá...
Trump quoting Adolf Hitler apparently isn't helping combat the country's immigration issues. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is challenging the 45th president for the GOP presidential nomination, appeared on Christian Broadcasting Network with David Brody to subtly jab at his former POTUS pal after b...
A report from The New York Times suggests that Democrats are using the 14th Amendment as the "cure-all" to stop Donald Trump. Washington Post political columnist Greg Sargent is calling the report a lazy assessment. "For as long as Donald J. Trump has dominated Republican politics, many Democrats ha...
Donald Trump on Friday celebrated the fact that the Supreme Court shut down Special Counsel Jack Smith's request to skip over an appellate court when it comes to deciding if Trump is immune from prosecution over his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election.The Supreme Court rejected Smith's requ...
A pro-Trump influencer who recently interviewed Tucker Carlson celebrated on Saturday that the former president got the "nod" from Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, but the video dates back to at least 2018, according to various news reports.Tim Pool, who recently got Carlson to say t...
Donald Trump's presidential campaign could be two weeks from being over, a political strategist argues.The former president was hit with some bad election news recently when the Colorado Supreme Court took the unprecedented move of striking him from the state's GOP primary ballot because he "engaged...
Jenna Ellis, the Donald Trump attorney who tearfully pleaded guilty to 2020 election interference crimes, has been feuding on social media with Jeff Clark, an ex-Trump official and a fellow Trump co-defendant. It appears to have started with a post by Ellis, who recently condemned Christian national...
CBS correspondent Robert Costa said his sources revealed that special counsel Jack Smith has a more "sprawling" case against Donald Trump than previously thought. Costa reacted to news that the Supreme Court had given Trump a minor win by refusing Smith's petition to decide on the former preside...
According to the author of the book Mar-A-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace, former first lady Melania Trump is rarely seen, if at all, at the Mar-a-Lago resort she and her husband Donald Trump now call home.In an interview with the Telegraph, author and Palm Beac...
Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last week trying to clean up his language after adopting some of Adolf Hitler's ideology about blood purity. According to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the ex-president knew exactly what he was doing. Republicans struggled to try and dismiss the com...
Donald Trump spent Christmas Eve ranting on his personal social media site, but his engagement seemed low as normal people spent the evening with family, friends or caroling in church. Instead, Trump posted one rambling rant, spraying conspiracy theories like Aqua Net across his hair. "Crooked Joe B...
Information Raw Story obtained through a South Dakota Sunshine Law request illuminate some trouble for the potential VP candidate.
Donald Trump on Wednesday was forced to deny that he "bullied" his way into a cameo in Home Alone 2, saying instead the director was "begging" for him to play a part.The former president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to respond to a statement saying that he bullied his way into th...
Special counsel Jack Smith submitted a filing Wednesday that indicated he has testimony from members of Congress that he intends to use in Donald Trump's 2020 election trial. Smith requested that, when trial witnesses are cross-examined, Trump's lawyers be barred from asking questions that would for...
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Recently, I was telling you about a pet theory of mine – that most people, most of the time, are not currently prepared to believe that Donald Trump is going to be the GOP’s presidential nominee. The thought of a second term is too dreadful to think about. So a lot of people have decided not to! Any...
George Conway, a conservative attorney, and Donald Trump's former lawyer, Ty Cobb, threw their support behind Special Counsel Jack Smith Friday with a new filing slamming the former president's immunity defense, court records show.Conway, a vocal critic of the former president, and Cobb are among 16...
As part of his plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme. According to CNN, a newly released batch of leaked recordings...
How would you react if one day you were sitting at home and the phone rang and when you picked it up you heard a man shout:“Kill yourself now so we can save ammo!”Moments later, an email arrives that says:“I hope the Federal government hangs you and your daughter from the Capitol dome, you treasonou...
New audio recordings released by CNN revealed that ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro had lots of grievances with the ex-president's campaign, but it also points to potentially new defendants, according to an ex-prosecutor.Joyce Vance did an in-depth dive on the new evidence from CNN, which put togeth...
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner made a point of making Justice Neal Gorsuch the center of a discussion on whether the Supreme Court will rule that Donald Trump is eligible to be on the ballot in 2024 based uppon what the 14th Amendment to the Consti...
Special Counsel Jack Smith has the upper hand in his race to the courtroom against former President Donald Trump, a legal expert said Monday. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen argues that Smith's powerful filing Saturday was a strong move against Trump's leading delay tactic, his argument that presidenti...
Ronald Reagan famously joked that his "11th Commandment" was "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” But Donald Trump, in contrast, has never been one to cut his political foes any slack just because they're conservative. Many of the people Trump now rails against are conservative Republic...
Although special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are both prosecuting election interference cases against former President Donald Trump, their criminal indictments differ in some important ways. Willis, unlike Smith, is using RICO laws to prosecute Trump. And W...
Amid expectations that the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider legal arguments that former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from 2024 Republican primary ballots, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on Sunday called for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from...
Republican supporters of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's presidential campaign are pushing her as the best alternative to 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Billionaire Charles Koch, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and other conservatives who have endorsed Haley clearly don't want Trump to ...
A federal judge blasted former President Donald Trump for an "utterly frivolous" motion in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him.U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled against Trump's motion to exclude a deposition he gave after Carroll said he raped her. Trump has claimed that Carroll...
The House Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats published a nearly 200-page report Thursday detailing what they uncovered in an over two-year investigation into cash Donald Trump brought into his businesses while president — but they said their efforts were stymied by the committee chair."The lim...
With Donald Trump's multiple court battles dominating the US Republican presidential primary, the bombastic front-runner isn't so much raining on his rivals' hopes of equal coverage as drowning them out completely.A percolating scandal that would have finished off most candidates long ago, the ex-pr...
If not for the seriousness of the matter, the former president's effort would be laughable.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was unsure how to react on Monday after learning that former President Donald Trump had been named in a tranche of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein."I was given, during breaks, big national news that Trump's been implicated," Jones said. "Okay. And I can't speak to...
President Joe Biden seemed to rebuke Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Monday after she failed to cite slavery as the cause of the U.S. Civil War. He also slammed Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.While speaking at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charles...
In his election interference case against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith is trying to show how the former president responded when the U.S. Capitol Building was under attack on January 6, 2021. Smith, according to ABC News, has uncovered new details about that response — details that ABC N...
After appearing in court on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump took to his social media site to claim that if there is no such thing as absolute presidential immunity, then Joe Biden can be prosecuted for anything Trump wants if he wins. "Just finished a very productive Federal Appeals Court Hearing, in ...
Donald Trump's grievance "grift" to flush funds into his campaign coffers has already begun its whimpering end, legal experts said on MSNBC Wednesday night. Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves to discuss an email exchange between Trump's attorney Chris Kise and Justice Arthur Engoron, the civil court ...
Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out on his Truth Social platform against New York state Justice Arthur Engoron, who purportedly refused the former president's attorneys' request for a fourth extended deadline to accept the terms under which Trump would give closing statements at his own civil fraud...
Former President Donald Trump's attorneys were shredded by former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner in an MSNBC column for an "absurd" attempt to "rewrite the Constitution" to give him immunity from criminal prosecution.This comes after a controversial oral argument before a three-judge panel of th...
New York Attorney General Letitia James delivered a succinct, if weary, address to the media outside the civil court room where she concluded her $370 million fraud case against former President Donald Trump on Thursday. "No matter how powerful you are, no matter how rich you are...no one is above t...
Whether or not Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis' hired her beau — the proof in the election interference case lodged against Trump and 18 others has already been laid bare. That's the central takeaway from former federal prosecutors Norman Eisen and Joyce Vance along with former White House lawyer Ric...
There's something worse than being forced to sell off assets to pay a fine. Longtime investigative reporter Susanne Craig noticed a key moment in the final arguments in the New York fraud trial against Donald Trump. Trump's lack of liquidity was cited as a possible motive for his grossly inflating h...
As Donald Trump's civil fraud trial was wrapping up in New York, the former president gave a politically angled press conference attacking the whole thing as a sham. But one of his claims stood out: that Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney and fixer who turned state's witness after a stint i...
Georgia GOP Sen. Shawn Still, who was accused of being one of Donald Trump's "fake" electors and is one of the former president's co-defendants in the Georgia state election subversion criminal case, was granted a three-month stay this Thursday, The Messenger reported. From The Messenger: "The proce...
Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York entered closing arguments this week, with the former president himself giving a short statement despite state Justice Arthur Engoron previously having ruled he could not do so. But the closing statement from Trump's attorneys wasn't convincing at all, arg...
Donald Trump on Saturday continued with a familiar pattern of insulting and demeaning writer E. Jean Carroll, who previously won millions of dollars after a court found that she was defamed and sexually assaulted by the former president.Trump, who earlier in the day lashed out at the judge in Carrol...
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Donald Trump was asked about the bomb threat on Judge Arthur Engoron on the final day of his fraud trial in New York. Trump popped into a Casey's gas station where he grabbed a few boxes of pizza when CNN's Kate Sullivan asked Trump if he had any reaction to police responding to the threat on the da...
Fewer than two rows of people were left in Ankeny, Iowa on Monday when Donald Trump Jr. was more than two hours late for his own event. Forbes reporter Sarah Müller posted a photo of the empty rows of chairs, explaining that at 2 p.m. the room was packed with people. Iowa caucus voters evidently did...
Former Trump Administration official Jeffrey Clark is facing disbarment — but not if former President Donald Trump has anything to say about it, reported Politico on Tuesday.Specifically, Trump plans to use executive privilege claims to try to bar various officials from testifying in the proceedings...
As writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation trial against former President Donald Trump continued in the courtroom on Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan warned Trump attorney Alina Habba off her attempted line of questioning about Carroll's firearm ownership, reported Inner City Press' Matthew Russell L...
Former President Donald Trump's longtime strategist Steve Bannon raged against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after the House voted to temporarily avert a government shutdown on Thursday."I mean, it's disgusting," said Bannon on his "War Room" show. "Johnson ... suspended, you know, the two third...
Conservative columnist Charlie Sykes isn't a lawyer, he told MSNBC on Thursday, but even he can see that the Donald Trump strategy in court isn't working. While Trump wasn't on hand in the E. Jean Carroll damages trial on Thursday, his presence was, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.The witnes...
‘She's not a real candidate,' Greene said of Nikki Haley.
Former President Donald Trump filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in his attempt to prevent being disqualified from the presidential election. In it, the 45th president's attorneys say he believes he is immune from prosecution and that the 14th Amendment "insurrection clause" doesn't involve t...
Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba got into a fight with New York Judge Lewis Kaplan when he refused to grant the former president a continuance in the E. Jean Carroll trial to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, saying, "My client and I would like to reiterate that [Carroll] ...
While leaving his mother-in-law's funeral, former President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were seen taking separate cars. This prompted relentless speculation on social media as to why the ex-president wasn't riding with his grieving wife.Liberal activist Ron Filipowski tweeted a short video o...
Reacting to video clips of Donald Trump's deposition in his $370 million civil fraud trial that were released Friday, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin suggested E. Jean Carroll's lead attorney might have been handed a gift before the former president is expected to return to Judge Lewis Kaplan's court...
One New Hampshire voter is so disgusted with former President Donald Trump she'd prefer a cartoon character. Speaking to MSNBC over the weekend from Nashua, Independent voter Dixy Scott said that she's not wild about her options, but one causes a more visceral reaction. "If it came down to Trump and...
Donald Trump had another senior moment when speaking to a reporter from the Fox network Monday in New Hampshire. The latest cautionary advice by the 45th president was about gas prices as well as some other confused thoughts. "Gasoline was under $2," he said. "Now, it's very high. Coming down becaus...
Republicans moving to vote in the New Hampshire primary, where former President Donald Trump is hoping to knock off his remaining competition in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, have strikingly moderate policy positions, according to exit polls — and it left a CNN panel stunned.In particular,...
The Washington Post's opinion editor responded to new polling data from New Hampshire Republican voters, revealing the actual winner of the primary in the state was "the big lie" that Donald Trump won in 2020. Speaking on MSNBC Wednesday, host Alicia Menendez explained that 64 percent of Iowa voters...
An insider trading investigation involving a merger between a Miami-based company Digital World Acquisition Corporation (DWAC) group and Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG) has exposed the nearly $23 million windfall pocketed by Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, according to Th...
Former President Donald Trump will not be able to surround himself with qualified people to advise him if he is elected to another term, warned former National Security Adviser John Bolton in a radio interview reported on by Newsweek.Bolton, who clashed with Trump while in the White House, has becom...
Former President Donald Trump doesn't want Republican leaders to bend over backward to hand him the nomination.Officials for the Republican National Committee have reportedly been considering a plan that would declare Trump to be the "presumptive" nominee for 2024, following his victories in Iowa an...
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pushed back against his party's increasing line that a weeks-long, delicate bipartisan Senate deal being crafted on foreign defense aid to Ukraine and border security should be rejected purely for the sake of waiting until they can put former President Donald Trump back in o...
After Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba's request to have writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him dismissed Thursday, former U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) insisted that the MAGA hopeful "miscalculated" the potential impact the trial could have on his 2024 campaign...
Friday's $83.3 million judgment against former President Donald Trump in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit is proof that the former president can and will be convicted in criminal court, according to a veteran federal prosecutor.In a Saturday thread posted to X (formerly Twitter), Glenn Ki...
Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba's abrasive behavior and her decision to defend the former president in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial with an eye on pleasing him, and not trying to convince a jury, in the end cost her client tens of millions of dollars..That is the opinion of former Republi...
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The Supreme Court risks making a fool out of itself by ruling on the Donald Trump insurrectionist ballot challenge, a Yale historian said on Friday.Renowned Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder, who previously said Putin wants Trump to win because the former president shows our "system is rotten," spoke out ab...
Trump may need to put his money where his mouth is. David Johnston, the author who penned the biography "The Making Of Donald Trump," suspects the $83.3 million a nine-member jury verdict in the second defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump will force him to prov...
Michael Roman, an indicted criminal co-defendant in Trump’s Georgia election interference case, has a new mission.He’s filed a 127-page motion to dismiss and disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis, her outside counsel Nathan Wade — and the entire Fulton County prosecutors’ office. He wants them rem...
The newly-elected Arizona Republican Party chair, Gina Swoboda, proudly told longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon on his "war room" show that the former president personally urged her to run for the position, reported KPNX's Brahm Resnik — and vowed to continue pushing lawsuits on his behalf to r...
Rep. Cory Mills schooled fellow Floridian Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz Monday over former President Donald Trump's Middle East policy. During an episode of his Firebrand podcast, Gaetz told Mills that Trump had kept Iran in check by assassinating Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Gaetz said that Trump's ...
Rapper Snoop Dogg‘s bark is apparently bigger than his bite when it comes to Donald Trump. The hip hop superstar has openly expressed his affection for the former U.S. president after a fiery war of words years ago.“Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” he revealed to The Sunday Times. “...
A closed-door meeting between Judge Aileen Cannon and special counsel Jack Smith raises serious questions about the Donald Trump-appointed justice's bias in the former president’s classified documents case, legal analyst Joyce Vance said Monday.Vance shared her concerns on her Substack about an “odd...
Former President Donald Trump's determination to eradicate abortion could threaten all Americans' access to fresh air and clean water, a legal expert said Tuesday. Georgetown Law Professor Michelle Goodwin appeared on MSNBC to warn of the havoc Trump could wreak if he steamrolled various governm...
Former President Donald Trump is going to get "clobbered" in the impending civil fraud judgment sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman predicted on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Tuesday.This comes shortly after Trump was already ordered to fork ov...
The country is awaiting a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court about whether Donald Trump can appear on a general election ballot after a finding that he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. According to the lead investigator on the House Select Committee for the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 atta...
The U.S. economy is booming — and even former Trump White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow thinks it's time to celebrate it.Economists expected some degree of slowdown at the end of the year, but instead the jobs report smashed all expectations, with 353,000 new jobs added, unemployment holding s...
Trump's ambition to return to D.C. while rowing through a legal gauntlet isn't playing a large role in many Americans' daily lives, nor is it dictating how they will vote come November 5, according to recent polling. But who's to blame?"It seems very safe to assume this lack of familiarity derives f...
A new filing from a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s election racketeering case has one expert concerned the trial will devolve into a wine-throwing, table-flipping, manicured finger-pointing free-for-all. Alarm bells rang for Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis Friday whe...
The prosecutor handling Donald Trump's criminal case in Georgia has been accused of a number of improprieties, but legal experts say some of those may have been cleared up with responses from the prosecutors themselves.Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis is accused of corruption in connection with ...
Judge Chutkan is reportedly signaling a flexibility that would allow her to easily reschedule Donald Trump's D.C. elections trial, which has fallen off the court's calendar as parties await an appeals court ruling on the former president's claimed absolute immunity.Chutkan hasn't said much publicly ...
Donald Trump may appear to be sitting pretty financially for now, but the world is about to crash in on him, according to a former official in the ex-president's administration. Former White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports on Saturday, where he...
In his most recent filing, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith included a particularly stunning detail alluding to the lackadaisical attitude former President Donald Trump had toward securing sensitive government secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate.According to Smith, Trump exhibited "unpr...
One is a best-selling self-help writer, the other a US congressman -- and both are applying their rhetorical talents to pitch themselves to Democrats as better bets than President Joe Biden to beat Donald Trump in November.Short of a major upset, Americans are unlikely ever to find out.Biden is expe...
The start date for former US president Donald Trump's trial for attempted election fraud has been pushed back. The court in the capital Washington announced on Friday that the start of the trial, originally scheduled for March 4, would be postponed due to unresolved legal issues in the case. A new d...
Charleston (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden faces his first test of support among Black voters in the South Carolina Democratic primary Saturday as he seeks to build momentum against Donald Trump for November's presidential election. Incumbent Biden is almost certain to win the first o...
When a document surfaced over late summer foreshadowing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' GOP primary debate strategy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, its origin had been anonymous.The document told DeSantis “to take a sledgehammer” to rival Vivek Ramaswamy and make sure to "defend Donald Trump" when he's cut down...
Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen spotted at Manhattan District Attorney's office amid legal action and speculation over Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being "conspiracy theorists" in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday.This...
A NASA satellite that will look at the tiniest parts of the air and ocean is set for an overnight launch from the Space Coast after a years-long path to the launch pad that staved off repeated attempts by the Trump administration to cancel the mission. The Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PA...
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Board of Elections on Tuesday granted former President Donald Trump a spot on the state’s GOP presidential primary ballot, allowing him access two days before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a mammoth case determining his ballot eligibility nationwide. The tw...
Former FBI general counsel and assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Weissmann thinks Donald Trump's case over the 2020 election and Jan. 6 could unfold in late May or early June if the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case. Speaking about the recent ruling from the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appea...
Donald Trump-supporting former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner is on the receiving end of a barrage of anti-transgender outrage from the right, after she dared to agree with the former president that a certain culture war should end, reported The Daily Beast.Bud Light, along with its parent company A...
Donald Trump's team has railed against diversity measures championed by progressives, but is using that same logic to pick his potential vice president, a former Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday.Former GOP representative Adam Kinzinger said that, by his count, there are approximately 15 individ...
If Trump continues doing business in New York, he could be criminally prosecuted, according to a Newsweek report. Syracuse University College of Law professor Gregory Germain told the outlet that former President Donald Trump would be committing a crime should the appeals court uphold Manhattan Supr...
Senate Republicans have shot down the bipartisan border security bill after days of walkbacks and rejection prompted by former President Donald Trump's opposition to the deal. But that may not be the end of the story.According to Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio, there is a growing sense in the GOP ...
During oral argument before the Supreme Court, former President Donald Trump's attorney said something that could end up blowing up in Trump's face, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Thursday.The Supreme Court was reviewing the decision by Colorado to remov...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley was about to take the stage for her Jan. 24 rally in North Charleston, former President Donald Trump’s campaign looked to make a statement about his popularity in the Palmetto State. About quarter past 7 p.m., a news release rolled out the latest se...
They don’t want to do it; don’t want to disrupt. They fear if they do it all hell will erupt.Their fears are quite rational, practical too;Keeping Trump off the ballot would cause a to-do!Their challenge, of course, what they don’t like to hear ...Amendment 14, Section 3 is quite clear.Having sworn ...
The bipartisan border deal the Senate spent months working on appears to be all but dead after former President Donald Trump whipped Republicans against it, fearful he would lose one of his most potent campaign issues. This leaves Senate Republicans in the position of trying to come up with reasons ...
The judge in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case has taken a step that puts former President Donald Trump on a timer to post bond for the damages, reported MSNBC legal commentator Lisa Rubin on Thursday.Carroll sued former President Donald Trump after he called her allegation he raped her in a Manha...
ST. LOUIS — Anheuser-Busch InBev stock prices are inching closer to what they were last year before sales tanked, thanks at least in part to a recent endorsement by former President Donald Trump. Trump praised the company on social media on Tuesday, helping push Anheuser-Busch stock prices up about ...
Joe Biden and Donald Trump face one of the longest presidential campaigns in US history, raising questions about the endurance of the oldest ever pair of nominees -- and of weary voters.Concerns about whether two men born in the 1940s are ready for a lengthy duel in 2024 were thrust back in the spot...
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators are doing something rare this weekend: Actually working. Well, at least, some senators are. On Friday night only 83 of the Senate’s 100 members showed up for a late night vote, which is only compounding the tangible frustration at the Capitol as lawmakers have seen their s...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden slammed as "appalling and dangerous" comments by Donald Trump downplaying his commitment to NATO, warning Sunday that the former president intends to give Russian leader Vladimir Putin "a greenlight for more war and violence." Biden spoke after Trump said in a speech...
One of Donald Trump's biographers, Bloomberg editorial editor Tim O'Brien, explained that there is a noticeable difference in the ex-president since he last ran for office. Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, host Alex Witt questioned the "gaffes" Trump keeps making on the campaign trail. O'Brien explained...
The New York Times has been criticized over the past several months for its constant coverage of President Joe Biden and his age without giving Donald Trump the same treatment despite what other reports categorize as mental decline. But over the weekend, it got considerably worse when the Times did ...
Former President Donald Trump’s request that the Supreme Court consider his presidential immunity claim managed to hit a “bizarre” and “incredibly inappropriate” tone by the end of its first sentence, former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Monday. Weissmann was shocked that a...
Former President Donald Trump will make his first Michigan campaign stop of the 2024 election year in Oakland County on Saturday. Trump's campaign announced the visit Monday. The Republican candidate will hold a "get out the vote" rally at 7 p.m. at a venue at the Oakland County International Airpor...
Following U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's statements on NATO support, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reaffirmed the alliance's common defense. "NATO'S promise of protection applies unreservedly. All for one. One for all," Scholz said on Monday in Berlin at a meeting with the new, pro-E...
Conservative Charlie Sykes quipped that he expected nepotism to extend beyond the Republican National Committee and to the office of the vice president. Chatting on MSNBC Tuesday, the panel of Dr. Jason Johnson, Ph.D., and Sykes weren't shocked to see Trump talk about appointing daughter-in-law Lara...
A far-right Republican state senator explaining his opposition to a bill that would grant an abortion exception for rape or incest told his fellow lawmakers, a “1-year-old could get an abortion under this.”Senator Bill Eigel, a pro-Trump Republican who is also running to become Missouri's next gover...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Raw Story that the biggest mistake the Republican Party made was not choosing a candidate firmly behind former President Donald Trump to run in the New York Third District special election. Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) was exp...
Special counsel Jack Smith has responded to the Supreme Court with a filing that urges them to allow the federal election interference trial against former President Donald Trump to move forward — and warns against any additional delays."Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrat...
The game of Trump's legal musical chairs may head to trial and determine his innocence or guilt. Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner's latest YouTube episode of "Justice Matters" anticipates that the former President Donald Trump will try to deploy more delay tactics. But he believes they won't work i...
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that Donald Trump's excuse that he has absolute immunity as a president isn't quite the legal defense he seems to think it is. Trump has spent the better part of the past month claiming that if immunity is eliminated for him, then no president will be able to...
Legal onlookers were stupefied on Friday as the ongoing ethics hearing into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the prosecutor bringing the election racketeering case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia, was sidelined by a sexual assault allegation.Specifically, Terrence Bradle...
Donald Trump on Saturday was reportedly booed off stage while promoting his new golden sneakers at "Sneaker Con," an event in Philadelphia. The former president was ridiculed mercilessly by political experts and internet users for the controversial fundraising attempt, with President Joe Biden's ...
Donald Trump's loyal fans have stood by him through thick and thin, but this latest legal judgment may spell the beginning of the end to that, according to a Republican pollster. Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who previously confronted an election denier, appeared Saturday on CNN Newsroom Wi...
Trump lawyer Alina Habba, who recently represented the ex-president in the fraud case in which he was ultimately ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, has an ongoing obsession with prosecutor Letitia James drinking Starbucks in court.Habba raised the issue during the trial before Justice E...
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge said Friday she will decide late next week the fate of a legal challenge seeking to strike former President Donald Trump’s name from Illinois’ March 19 Republican primary ballot. Judge Tracie Porter announced her plans after a near four-hour Daley Center hearing that fe...
Donald Trump's spin machine might be broken if he's convicted in the so-called "hush money" criminal trial he's facing next month.The former president has so far been able to turn his criminal and civil cases into cash from his followers, and has also benefited from a boost in the polls from ultra...
Evangelical Christians are not going to be convinced by the left to reject Donald Trump, but there's still hope it may happen anyway, according to one former pastor.Nathaniel Manderson, who was educated at a conservative seminary and has been a pastor, a career counselor, and a high school teacher, ...
If Joe Biden loses against Donald Trump in 2024, it will be the fault of Democrats who started eating their own, according to a former GOP lawmaker.Former Republican representative David Jolly (FL) appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports on Sunday, and was asked about the recent actions of Rep. Rash...
Fox News host Arthel Neville grilled conservative pundit Gianno Caldwell after he suggested Donald Trump should re-elected because of his experience. During an interview on Sunday, Neville asked Caldwell why Trump was leading Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley in her home state of Sou...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — If former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is going to win, or at least beat expectations against former President Donald Trump in the Feb. 24 First in the South presidential primary, she’ll need independents to show up and possibly Democratic voters to cross over. And with less than...
Hosts on Fox News on Monday made several misleading claims about the American elections system, COVID, the rule of law, and Friday’s $355 million civil judgment against Donald Trump.“I think that these people clearly hate Trump more than they love America,” declared Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe....
A legal analyst is concerned that the damages Donald Trump was hit with in the fraud trial only compounds his financial problems — and presents a major security threat.On Monday, Allison Gill of "Mueller, She Wrote" joined with co-host Dana Goldberg on "The Daily Beans" and called the fraud trial fi...
Now that there a firm court date has been set for Donald Trump's criminal case centered on hush-money payments made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels, the ex-president has all four of his criminal cases moving in earnest — and he has some key deadlines coming up this week.The first comes on Tuesday...
It will be months before buyers might receive Donald Trump's exclusive line of sneakers. According to the fine print on the Trump Sneakers website, it could take up to five months for customers to receive their purchases. Some products could take even longer. "Trump Sneakers are expected to st...
Donald Trump made no mention of Russian President Vladimir Putin in his first acknowledgment of Friday's death of Alexei Navalny, but the ex-U.S. president likened the political prisoner's fate to his own legal challenges, and to America itself.Trump has been under fire for not even mentioning the d...
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling “BS” on Senate Republicans – and calling them out by name – over their continued failure to pass the Senate’s massive border and military funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan bill that he helped craft.Sen. Murphy’s first target: top Trump MAGA surrogate...
If Donald Trump refuses to pay his fine to New York after losing his fraud trial, it means his properties could be seized, experts said on MSNBC Wednesday.They discussed Judge Arthur Engoron's hefty $355 million fine after finding Trump liable for years of fraud, and noted that unless the former pre...
American voters are broadly skeptical that President Joe Biden is mentally fit to serve a second term, and most do not think his potential general election rival Donald Trump is mentally fit either, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday.Sixty-four percent of respondents in th...
Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals could remove Judge Aileen Cannon from the Donald Trump documents case without anyone asking for it. Cannon has already been overturned by the higher court twice, and if special counsel Jack Smith a...
Newsmax, a far-right cable network that is all in for former President Donald Trump and helped him promote election conspiracy theories, is sounding the alarm to condemn a pair of bills advanced by Republicans in the Florida legislature that are intended to make it easier to sue outlets like The New...
For Jessica Reyher Jan. 6, 2021, was a "devastating day" and one where she and others "went too far." In a letter to the judge set to sentence her next week for taking a plea to a felony offense of civil disorder, the 38-year-old expressed her regrets to what transpired on that day, and admitted ...
In an attack on Judge Arthur Engoron for his judgment in Donald Trump's New York fraud trial, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that he should be fired from the judicial system entirely. But the term she used is turning heads. Posting on the social media site "X" on Thursday, Greene argued, ...
The SCOTUS wait game on whether to keep the January 6 prosecution on hold as Trump has asked is likely due to some back chambers maneuverings. But one expert believes the nine justices have already made their decision."First, we expect whatever the Court does to be a 'miscellaneous order,'" Steve Vl...
Fox News gave Trump the heave-ho in the middle of his rally. Veteran host Neil Cavuto put on a fact-checking clinic in real-time after muting former President Donald Trump mid-sentence while delivering his rally speech at Rock Hill, South Carolina, one day before the Palmetto State's citizens plac...
Former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that the U.S. Justice Department might go after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at his rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Friday.However, he didn't bother to elaborate on why he thinks this or what he believes she would be charged with."If...
A month and a day ahead of trial in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case against Donald Trump, the New York prosecutor requested that the judge place a "narrowly tailored" gag order on the former president.According to the Hill, "Prosecutors argued in their motion that 'the need...
Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews on Monday slammed Republicans who refuse to speak out against her old boss at the 2024 presidential election looms.This prompted MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace to hone in on one particular group: "Where are the men?"The all-female panel on Wallace...
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace returned to the airwaves Monday and was quick to convey her disgust at Donald Trump using courtrooms and courthouses to increase engagement in his 2024 election and score more campaign cash. Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) kicked off the conversation looking at the big ca...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were slammed with harassing phone calls over the weekend after one of former President Donald Trump's attorneys put their contact information in a public court filing, according to a new report. Willis and Wade, according...
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel has given an official date for her departure from that position: Friday, March 8. McDaniel's co-chair at the RNC, Drew McKissick, is leaving as well.Former President Donald Trump has made no secret who he would like to see replace them: Micha...
Donald Trump ally and election-denying lawyer Ken Chesebro was lied to Michigan prosecutors when he claimed he never used one of his social media accounts, a new report suggests — he had a "burner" account on the site "X," which contradicts what he told the prosecutors. Harvard constitutional law pr...
Legal experts argue that the efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump on election racketeering charges effectively died in the water Tuesday. This response came after Terrence Bradley, the former divorce lawyer for Nathan Wade, ...
J.R. Majewski won't be ending his Ohio congressional campaign after all.After reports earlier this week that the pro-Trump, QAnon-promoting candidate would drop out over his attack on Special Olympics athletes, Majewski put out a statement making clear he would in fact do no such thing."After carefu...
Former president Donald Trump took a virtual victory lap Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled it would take up his presidential immunity case.Trump suggested that the court’s decision to hear arguments — flatly rejected by a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel loath to grant presidents “unbounded...
Legal analysts rushed to the internet and television cameras on Wednesday afternoon when the Supreme Court announced that they would take up Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity. Conservative retired judge Michael Luttig was aghast at the decision. "Look, this is a momentous decision, just...
Right-wing District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, may be planning to maneuver not simply to slow-walk the trial, but to help Trump manipulate the calendar to box out any chance of special counsel Jack Smith's other ca...
Former senior prosecutor for the Justice Department, Andrew Weissmann, warned that the Supreme Court isn't following the law when it comes to the stay in the Donald Trump election case. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, the NYU law professor compared it to Bush v. Gore, but not being ...
In a press release published this Thursday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington (CREW) said the mounting civil judgements against Donald Trump make him even more of a threat to national security than he already was. Trump is facing judgments that total upwards of $600 mi...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will allow an attorney representing several media outlets to weigh in on issues relating to access to filings in former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.In the filing, Cannon notes that the media coalition "moves for leave to intervene i...
Many legal experts believe the Supreme Court's decision to review former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim in the federal election conspiracy case has likely dashed hopes of special counsel Jack Smith trying the charges before the November presidential election.But not so fast, ar...
Former President Donald Trump might not get the full force of federal Judge Tanya Chutkan's wrath should he be convicted in special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case, Kyle Cheney writes for Politico.The key reason behind a potentially lightened sentence can be found in an unrelated case Chutkan decid...
Some say it was a sneaker con all along. The 45th president came to Philly in mid-February and debuted before sneaker heads at the Sneaker Con his limited edition, golden bathed, red-soled "Never Surrender High-Tops" with Stars and Stripes accents for a $399 sticker price. The Never Surrender ...
Political and legal analysts unleashed social media commentary as lawyers for Donald Trump and his co-defendants made their final arguments why District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified in the Fulton County election interference caseThe main comments came as Mike Roman's lawyer, John Merc...
Donald Trump had several verbal slip-ups at his rally in North Carolina on Saturday, prompting the internet to go wild. Trump delivered remarks at a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he said President Joe Biden is the worst leader our nation has ever seen. The forme...
Sidney Powell, a former Trump attorney who pleaded guilty in connection with attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, just got called out by an election official for spreading false claims of voter fraud associated with the upcoming contest in 2024.Powell, often referred to ...
Donald Trump said something about public schools that got no media coverage, yet it's causing political analysts, ex-prosecutors, and other onlookers to sound the alarm.Trump began hinting last year that, if he were made the president once again, he would withhold all federal funds from schools that...
The Supreme Court may have just tipped its hand in a case stemming from a Donald Trump appeal, and some experts have called it "completely inappropriate."Numerous reporters flagged a Supreme Court notice on Sunday that has been described as "really unusual" and "curious."In doing so, according to po...
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee's upcoming reelection bid in Georgia is an eventuality that could "add a whole new dimension" to the "weeks of theatrics" in the case, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges in the case, where ...
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) lashed out at "far left zealots" after he was named in a report about prescription drugs supplied to members of the Trump administration while he served as a White House physician. "Rolling Stone is nothing but a liberal rag used as a propaganda tool for the far left ze...
Despite the fact that he is facing four criminal indictments — one of which involves alleged hush money payments to an adult film star — former President Donald Trump continues to enjoy widespread support among far-right white evangelicals. Trump has plenty of critics and detractors within Christian...
Former President Donald Trump is demanding that he be given a do-over trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.According to CNN's Kara Scannell, "Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial." In court...
Friday will mark the end of Ronna Romney McDaniel's time as chair of the Republican National Committee, and former President Donald Trump is recommending North Carolina GOP chari Michael Whatley as her replacement — with the former president’s daugher-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair.Lara Trump has dra...
Allan Lichtman is among the 25 historians who submitted an amicus brief in Trump v. Anderson and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Colorado Supreme Court decision barring Donald Trump from the state's election ballot under Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.According to Secti...
The pivotal decider in the sprawling RICO case involving former President Donald Trump and 18 allies who are charged with subverting the election is facing competition to keep his powerful position. Civil rights attorney and talk radio host Robert Patillo announced he is going to run against Fulto...
Trump-supporting Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has lost her bid to stop a defamation suit against her brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer — and that spells a huge problem for her, wrote KTAR talk radio host and legal analyst Barry Markson on social media Wednesday.Lake has repeat...
Critics have accused the New York Times of spending the past years fretting about President Joe Biden's age over questions about America's future under Donald Trump's leadership.Message boards and newsletters from opinionated followers of politics are filled with questions asking what is "wrong" wit...
Special counsel Jack Smith may be readying for an appeal if notice of court filings is any indication. Judge Aileen Cannon refused to rule on major issues last week during the hearing between Smith and Donald Trump. Anna Bower and Ben Wittes explained that while those decisions await, questions rema...
MAGA supporters have become so wrapped up in "incoherent QAnon babble" that they are incapable of noticing former President Donald Trump's rapidly deteriorating mental state — at least, that's what Salon writer Amanda Marcotte suspects.This comes as the former president, now in his late seventies an...
Former President Donald Trump has already decided on his choice for a vice presidential running mate, according to one of his top confidants, Sebastian Gorka. Gorka, who served in the Trump administration as deputy assistant to the president, was asked about the VP choice during an interview wit...
Trump calls the president "Sleepy Joe" and "Crooked Joe" and has often pantomimed the 81-year-old POTUS having trouble walking and mocked his stutter. But all of the slander to score political points has served President Joe Biden well.Political analyst Molly Jong-Fast, interviewing with MSNBC's N...
Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to get another extension on having to pay the judgment in the E. Jean Carroll verdict.According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Trump only has himself to blame for his current financial difficulty in paying the damages he o...
Donald Trump went from being one of the unlikeliest of American presidents to having a firm grip on the Republican Party, its leadership, and its most extreme members despite his long history of failure at the ballot box in regards to his handpicked candidates. The GOP will come to regret those fail...
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in New York has ordered that the identities of the jurors will be concealed from the general public, amid credible fears that they could be subject to tampering, reported Law360's Frank G. Runyeon Thursday."The names ...
Donald Trump on Saturday accused Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against the former president, of making a major admission in recent court filings. Trump has previously claimed that President Joe Biden is orchestrating all of the criminal and civil cases against...
Donald Trump recently hosted Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago, and now the autocratic leader of Hungary has released an endorsement video that is shaking social media. Raw Story reported on the meeting between Orbán and the former president, pointing out an analyst's take that the plan to embrace the ...
Columnist E. Jean Carroll, who was found by a jury to have been sexually assaulted and defamed by Donald Trump, had what one conservative attorney called a "gracious" response to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)'s recent attacks against her.Earlier in the day Sunday, Mace exploded at ABC host George Stephanop...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) faced backlash on Sunday after she attacked ABC News host George Stephanopoulos because he asked about her support for Donald Trump. On ABC's This Week, Stephanopoulos asked Mace, a rape survivor, how she could support a man who a judge found to be a rapist. Mace accused t...
At a rally in Georgia on Saturday night, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on writer E. Jean Carroll that may hand the New York writer's lawyers reason to file a new lawsuit against him as well as kill the $92 million appeals bond he just posted on Friday.Appearing with the hosts on MSNBC's "The ...
Brian Butler, an employee at Mar-a-Lago serving as a witness in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, told his side of the story to CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview released on Monday.Butler, identified in court records only as "Trump Employee 5," said he was aske...
The Biden campaign blasted Donald Trump on Monday after a short clip of the ex-president’s remarks calling for cutting Social Security and Medicare received hundreds of thousands of views.But the full text of his comments, which include at best inaccurate or misleading claims about inflation and the...
Former President Donald Trump's finances are crumbling, Atlantic reporter David Graham told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Wednesday — and there aren't a lot of ways he can get out of the crisis he's in.This comes as Trump has been slammed with a double whammy of an $83.3 million judgment in the E. Jean Car...
For Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, the evidence window is closed.As the judge readies to rule at the end of the week on whether to disqualify Georgia DA Fani Willis based on misconduct charges that she profited from a clandestine romance with her special counsel subordinate Nathan Wade — the defe...
House Republicans believe the only problem with their policy on abortion is “branding” — and now, they say, they’re ready to face it head-on.Taking the advice of former top Trump White House advisor and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, the House GOP will be told it must go on the offensive — and ...
If Trump had it his way, he would be immune right out of the womb. So says the barrage of knocks aimed at Trump's attorney Alina Habba. The esquire who once said: “Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart’" — went on ...
Chubb, the insurance company that agreed to pay former President Donald Trump's almost $92 million bond in the second defamation case he lost to writer E. Jean Carroll, defended its move to customers Wednesday.Politico's Josh Gerstein reports via X, "NEW: Insurance giant Chubb issues letter to custo...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asked for a 30-day delay in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial that was due to begin in less than two weeks. This means it will be well into April before Trump faces his first criminal trial proceeding.Bragg's request came after the U.S. Atto...
Legal analyst Neal Katyal explained that he considers himself to be an excellent attorney — but even he wasn't sure he could win Donald Trump's classified documents case. Katyal, the former acting solicitor general for Barack Obama's administration, spoke to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Thursday after...
It's a big deal for a former vice president to refuse to endorse their former president, especially when that ex-president is once again their shared party's nominee, and Mike Pence's decision to do so deserves some reflection, according to conservative Rick Wilson.Wilson, in a Substack published on...
The reddest district in the state of Ohio could be poised to elect a non-MAGA candidate, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said on Sunday.Kinzinger, a frequent critic of Trump who is also known to blow up right-wing conspiracy theories on social media, said in his Substack that the...
A White House correspondent is confused about the pushback related to Donald Trump's recent "bloodbath" comments.Trump, at a rally in Ohio, was speaking about the auto industry when he said there would be a bloodbath if he isn't elected for another term as president. He then said that would be "the ...
Former president Donald J. Trump could face yet another criminal prosecution if his biographer has anything to say about it. Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump's taxes and financial matters for years, appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports Sunday. The host asked him about...
Writing with former ethics czar Norm Eisen, authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned that one of Donald Trump's key tactics is talking with such vague generalities that he can't be pinned down to answer for anything — including his most violent rhetoric. Ben-Ghiat included Trump in her book about ...
Donald Trump targeted Jews who vote Democratic Monday, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office. His remarks, which include claiming Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quic...
Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, identified as Employee #5 in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents indictment of former President Donald Trump, gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night — and revealed new details about the things he saw as he was ordered to help transport boxes...
The congressional hearing with former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski failed to advance the GOP's impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden — and even former President Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon knew it.On Wednesday's edition of "War Room," he raged about Republicans' inability to ...
Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, declined to say Wednesday if the former president has asked Saudi Arabia or Russia to pay his legal debts. During an interview on Fox News, host Martha MacCallum asked Habba to respond to the "glee" among some after Trump failed to come up with a $464 m...
MAGA-backed CJ Pearson had called for a recount after falling short in the Georgia House runoff. But now he's deciding to bow out to put all his efforts behind Donald Trump's reelection. "Re-electing President Trump, keeping Georgia red, and fighting for America First policies in every corner of the...
Judge Aileen Cannon is seriously entertaining a "ludicrous" legal theory put forward by former President Donald Trump in the jury questionnaire procedure, former House January 6 litigator Eric Columbus told Law & Crime's Brandi Buchman.Specifically, Cannon, a right-wing judge appointed by Trump hims...
Judge Aileen Cannon should be removed from Donald Trump's classified documents case because she just keeps getting things wrong, according to a legal expert.Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where she was asked about Cannon's recent orders. Specifically, the t...
In a new documentary, adult film star and producer Stormy Daniels remarked that even before former President Donald Trump was elected to office, he took advantage of the imbalance of power between the two when they first met.The Daily Beast's Laura LeMoon wrote Saturday that Daniels (whose governmen...
Donald Trump on Sunday took to social media to attack a conservative network that has often had his back: Fox News.Trump, who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with the right-wing media giant owned by the Rupert Murdoch family, posted his attack on Truth Social. The social network the ex-president...
Eric Trump is spreading false information about his father's bond in the fraud case in which the former president was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.Trump, who earlier in the day told Fox News that top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond mone...
Donald Trump is stressed, and is likely to deal with that by causing some form of chaos to distract from his upcoming hearing, former Trump White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said. Newman, a former "Apprentice" contestant who became a White House aide, spoke to MSNBC on Sunday and was a...
From legal analysts to political strategists, social media erupted on Sunday with people eager to pin Donald Trump with a new nickname.Trump, who has long been considered the king of political nicknames, has previously dubbed President Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe" and then, ultimately, "Crooked Joe." Now,...
Former President Donald Trump has the swing state of Michigan on his mind and a particular voting bloc he'd like to sway, according to new reports.State GOP have been urged to make strides to win over “nontraditional Republicans voters and traditional Democrat voters — specifically Black voters — ar...
Former President Donald Trump faces a brand new challenge in the current string of legal cases against him, said MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Monday: the truth. Wallace pointed to the civil property valuation fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James and the upcoming criminal hus...
Donald Trump last week told a court he could not secure a $454 million bond, but he was reportedly “more than $5 billion richer” Tuesday and saw his net worth “more than double” in the space of just hours, all thanks to the parent company of his Truth Social social media platform that went public Mo...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is being accused of bungling the criminal classified case and letting it spiral out of control in favor of former President Donald Trump's slow-walk to election strategy, according to some legal scholars. The delay tactics in the case where the 45th president and Re...
Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."...
Chris Christie won't roll up the sleeves to take on Donald Trump as a third party candidate. The Washington Post reported the former New Jersey governor scratched his name off of the list of potentials that No Labels hopes to formalize ahead of the November 5 election to rival President Joe Biden an...
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas released what he claims to be texts showing an aide to former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) coordinating with Trump allies how to spread Biden/Ukraine conspiracy theories.Parnas, who has been slowly rolling out his correspondences with figures in Trump world, was ...
In order for Joe Biden the candidate to stay put as president, he must own April and all of autumn. For the next couple months, while Donald Trump will likely be defending himself in a Manhattan criminal court against charges he manufactured a hush-money scheme to silence porn star Stormy Daniels ...
When former President Donald Trump visited the wake of fallen New York police officer Jonathan Diller Thursday, he played up his credentials of being the candidate that stands up for law and order.But that smacks of "cynical hypocrisy," wrote Michael Daly in a scathing column for The Daily Beast.As...
Former President Donald Trump casts himself as a champion of law enforcement, having paid a visit to the funeral of fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller — but it's completely insincere, said former GOP strategist Tim Miller on MSNBC.That's because the former president continues to demand the release ...
Donald Trump may soon face additional criminal contempt sanctions, if prosecutors in his hush money case have their way on it.MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin appeared on MSNBC on Friday to discuss recent filings by prosecutors in Trump's criminal case involving payments to Stormy Daniels ahead of the...
Former President Donald Trump is a "dangerous" pretrial defendant, said former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on MSNBC — and judges and prosecutors should avail themselves of the tools they have to deal with dangerous defendants.This comes amid worry about the former president's public attacks o...
The prosecutors in charge of Donald Trump's criminal hush money case are arguing that, when "properly read," the gag order already placed on the ex-president prohibits his recent attacks on the judge's own civilian daughter.Trump has already responded to the prosecutor's letter, arguing that to "cla...
In the wake of rising hostility from the far-right to the courts, possibly fueled by former President Donald Trump's ongoing attacks against judges overseeing his litigation and even their families, an MSNBC panel had some dark fears about where it's all heading."The question I ask again, to all the...
A lawsuit that was launched in 2020 against then-President Donald Trump and his administration accusing them of unconstitutionally clearing racial justice protesters at Lafayette Square Park by using chemical irritants, including tear gas, before Trump used the area for a photo op holding a bible, c...
Donald Trump on Saturday put on display multiple photos of the daughter of the judge in his hush money criminal case, even as the prosecution argues that targeting her could violate an established gag order in the case over purported payments to an adult film star.Trump, who was previously put on th...
Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that Joe Biden's White House banned religious-themed egg designs from its Easter celebration, but that policy extended even into Trump's term, according to some insiders.Trump and other MAGA-worlders melted down over the alleged change, represented by a White House i...
"How does Marco Rubio really feel about the others on Trump's V.P. short list?" A body language expert answered that question Saturday. Rubio, who vehemently opposed Trump when he ran against him in the 2016 GOP primary, has since been a dedicated loyalist for Trump. Recently, reports suggested ...
During an appearance on MSNBC, longtime Washington insider Jonathan Alter claimed that Donald Trump's gag orders are especially important to watch.Alter, a contributor for MSNBC who has covered 11 presidential campaigns and recently secured a seat at the ex-president's hush money trial in New York ...
A former Trump campaign adviser is out to debunk the ex-president's latest "lies" about President Joe Biden and Easter.MAGA influencers raged Saturday against Biden and the White House, claiming that the president has declared Easter to be "transgender visibility day." The Trump campaign joined in p...
NBC host Kristen Welker is in hot water after a report in which she told viewers that Donald Trump's attacks against the daughter of a judge in the former president's criminal case are a "reminder" that this is a "deeply divided nation." This isn't the first time Welker has been criticized for ...
Donald Trump has "plenty to worry about" after facts of his involvement in alleged election subversion attempts went public in a recent ruling recommending disbarment for his former legal advisor, according to a new report.Trump worked with John Eastman in matters related to the 2020 election, and a...
Right-wing news outlets and MAGA influencers were quick to jump on rumors that Donald Trump had paid off the mortgage of fallen New York police officer Jonathan Diller, but it appears that's simply not true.While the ex-president has yet to comment on or debunk the claim that he paid off the home of...
Former President Donald Trump's net worth dropped a staggering $1 billion Monday after news of Truth Social's reported financial losses sent its stock into free-fall, according to multiple reports.Axios quipped, "This was a MAGA meme stock meeting financial reality."Trump Media & Technology Group's ...
Donald Trump filed notice that he will demand Judge Juan Merchan recuse himself from the New York City hush money case set to come to court later this month, newly revealed records show.The attorneys Monday wrote a pre-motion letter saying that after issuing the gag order, Merchan must go, according...
Donald Trump on Wednesday reposted a blog entry by MAGA diehard Laura Loomer exposing alleged ties of Judge Juan Merchan's wife to New York Attorney General Letitia James. The story published on Wednesday by Loomer, "More of Judge Merchan’s Anti-Trump Bias Exposed as New York AG Letitia James Em...
The new ruling by Judge Juan Merchan, who denied Trump's claim of presidential immunity, was specific. Lawfare's legal fellow and courts correspondent Anna Bower pointed to part of the ruling in which Merchan explains that Trump had ample opportunity to bring up the idea of presidential immunity as ...
Judge Juan Merchan was heaped with praise after he slapped down former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity plea claim in his criminal hush money case.Merchan's ruling Wednesday denies Trump's request to delay the New York City criminal trial until after the Supreme Court rules on the pres...
New York Attorney General Letitia James wants answers on how former President Donald Trump's bond in the civil fraud case is structured — and she is strategizing multiple avenues to get the information she needs, wrote legal expert Lisa Rubin on X."Earlier today, the New York Attorney General filed ...
Former President Donald Trump's now-public media company is facing mounting calls for investigation, as suspicions rise that it could be a vessel for people to peddle favor with the former president by investing in the business.According to The Guardian, "In a three-page letter on Thursday, the Demo...
Former President Donald Trump has hyped up Truth Social is "amazing" and "very solid." “All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level, like to use their vaunted ‘disinformation machine’ to try and convince people, and i...
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been barred from a Native American reservation because its residents accuse her of “gossip and lies,” according to a report.Noem is reportedly on the shortlist to be a running mate for 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and has been a popular spea...
WASHINGTON — Major political donors will gather Saturday in Donald Trump's fiefdom of Palm Beach for a fundraising event that his campaign hopes will mark a new phase in a swaggering, high-stakes race for big money with Joe Biden. While spending huge sums of money on campaigning may not be something...
A journalist was reportedly ejected from a Colorado Republican event after the state GOP chairman determined her reporting was "unfair."Ernest Lee Luning, who covers politics in Colorado at coloradopolitics.com, flagged the development involving Sandra Fish of the Colorado Sun. According to the Sun'...
Christian Republicans are expressing frustration at Donald and Melania Trump after it was announced Melania would attend a fundraiser for the pro-LGBT group the Log Cabin Republicans at Mar-a-Lago later this month.Raw Story recently reported on the event, noting that the former first lady, known for...
Donald Trump, late on Friday, filed a brief with the Florida federal court overseeing his criminal case over allegedly stashed classified documents, but he may have given away more than he intended to, according to one legal analyst.Trump and his co-defendants argued in the filing that a trial shoul...
Saturday afternoon, just hours before he is set to host a gala fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump lashed out at three New York judges in a three-part furious rant about how he has been treated by the legal system.Along the way, he he also attacked New York writer E. Jean Carroll who s...
Donald Trump's lawyers may have made misrepresentations to the court regarding the former president's bond in his civil fraud case, and legal experts are looking out for what comes next.ProPublica reported on Friday that Trump's attorneys "had told the appellate court it was a 'practical impossibili...
Former President Donald Trump shared an unexpected video of his wife being affectionate to him after she was described as a "hostage" in a video released the night before. While appearing at a Republican fundraiser on Saturday, a video circulated of Melania Trump seemingly uncomfortable next to ...
Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social stock continued to circle the drain Monday as financial experts warned he may have broken the law trying to prop up the price. Trump Media shares lost 8 percent Monday after losing 12 percent Friday, according to an analysis from Boston's NPR station WBU...
Assuming there are no more delays, Monday will mark a first in United States history.That day, jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in New York City — where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will try to show jurors that Trump, in 2016, falsified business ...
Former President Donald Trump was dealt a humiliating blow on Monday when a judge immediately dismissed his push to delay the April 15 date of his Manhattan hush money trial.Trump, whose attorneys had been arguing the delay was necessary in order to pursue a change of venue, were summarily denied by...
On Monday, a group of 19 retired military leaders urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity from federal prosecution. According to Law & Crime, the retired four-star generals and admirals wrote in a 38-page amicus brief that the former president's claim of ...
Former President Donald Trump couldn't convince a judge to push back his criminal hush money trial set to begin on April 15 in New York City, according to new reports. Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez denied the former president's request to move the venue out of New York City without explanation in a o...
A New York Times interview published Tuesday morning revealed new details about Jared Kushner's business dealings with Saudi Arabia that landed his equity firm $2 billion after his father-in-law former President Donald Trump left the White House. Eric Lipton, one of three Times reporters to appear o...
Former President Donald Trump and his legal team are reportedly running out of time to post the bond for appealing his civil fraud trial verdict before New York Attorney General Letitia James starts seizing his assets, according to a prominent real estate attorney.Attorney Paul Golden, who is a part...
The complicated Trump Media lawsuit pitting two former contestants of "The Apprentice" against former President Donald Trump will be overseen by a judge who is a pro when it comes to "buyout battles," according to a new analysis.Delaware judge Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn is the subject of a new...
Kathy Petsas was the kind of Republican who knocked on voters' doors if there was a forthcoming election. Her story features amid the Steve Bannon quotes and Mar-a-Lago anger in a new book by Isaac Arnsdorf that explores the MAGA movement. "Finish What We Started" details the lifelong Republican who...
Days away before his hush money criminal case is set to start, defendant Donald Trump's reportedly in panic mode. Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen sees former President Donald Trump's last-ditch efforts to stall the case as acting out in "extraordinary desperation." Three days in a row, ...
While the dates Judge Aileen Cannon outlined are bad news for scoring a pre-election trial over Donald Trump's document case, there was one silver lining, according to a legal analyst. Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell pointed out that special counsel Jack Smith had proposed March 18 for Trump to file h...
Donald Trump will become next week the first former president to stand trial in a criminal court that could hang on the testimony of a former fixer with a criminal record who says he was following the boss' orders. Legal analyst Neal Katyal spoke with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Wednesday about the hush...
A New Hampshire county chair for the Trump campaign allegedly made rape and murder threats in a workplace dispute over purported sexual misconduct while he was serving as a police officer in the town of Claremont.According to S.V. Dáte for the Huffington Post, Jonathan Stone, who also serves as a re...
Donald Trump is going to war with National Public Radio, according to a new Truth Social Post. Trump into an attack on public funding for public radio in a rant Wednesday, taking up a common theme voiced by Republicans for years. It followed a public letter written by NPR's senior business editor hi...
While she sharpens the knives to possibly demote Speaker Mike Johnson from his post, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gushed over her bond with former President Donald Trump. Boosting his MAGA profile on Friday by paying homage to the 45th president at Mar-a-Lago, Speaker Mike Johnson is navigat...
Former President Donald Trump gave a furious speech about his legal problems in New York, in which he seemed to be confused on many issues, like calling New York Attorney General Letitia James "Letitia Jones," and mixing her up with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting his hus...
Donald Trump will not really be able to dispute the basic facts in the New York hush money case being brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Thursday.Rather, he argued, it's all going to be about trying to convince the jury to make sens...
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman, who now serves as a legal analyst for the Los Angeles Times, pinpointed one witness he believes will be the "most devastating" in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case.Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Litman addressed longtime Trump loyalist ...
Monday is the beginning of Donald Trump's New York trial that will decide whether he is just as guilty as Michael Cohen was in the hush money scheme involving an adult film star. Trump, who faces 34 felony counts in the case, is accused of paying off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to keep h...
Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are advancing legislation at an upcoming news conference at Mar-a-Lago that would prohibit non-citizens from voting in federal elections — a development trumpeted by former Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes on X Thursday."It’s sad...
Donald Trump has made numerous statements suggesting that he plans to pardon his supporters who've been convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In one interview from 2022, he said he's considering "full pardons with an apology to many" if he's elected president. But a new report sugg...
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are holding a big press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday where they will reportedly propose a bill that was already passed 28 years ago in 1996. According to USA Today, the men will demand passage of a bill that would prevent immigrants from voting in an...
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson's Mar-a-Lago press conference Friday was met with almost immediate scorn from a slew of social media skeptics. Trump and Johnson's national address focused on an "election integrity" bill the two Republicans argued was necessary to prevent "hund...
Former President Donald Trump sent a very clear message on Friday when he held an "election integrity" press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) at Mar-a-Lago: the speaker has Trump's confidence. It was in some ways a jab at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has led the push in r...
Judge Juan Merchan made a last-minute ruling Friday that denied Donald Trump's attempt to stop his New York hush money trial, claiming pretrial publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.The first of the former president's criminal cases to go before a jury is now almost certain to sta...
Donald Trump on Saturday decided to respond to the recently reported attacks by Iran on Israel, and it did not go well.After it was reported that Iran launched more than 100 drones toward Israel, the internet looked to "MAGA" Mike Johnson, who has been withholding a bill for aid to allies Israel and...
A man who was prosecuted for what he says were crimes he committed on behalf of Donald Trump has a serious warning for the former president.Trump on Saturday attacked a key witness in his felony criminal trial slated for Monday, prompting some to ask if there will be "consequences" for the apparent ...
Donald Trump recently got an endorsement from a GOP governor who was prior to that steadfastly opposed to the former president's new bid for high office, and the internet is mocking the New Hampshire official.New Hampshire Gov. Sununu (R), a former surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Nik...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was fact-checked by Fox News about former President Donald Trump's administration after she attacked Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. During a Sunday interview, Mace lashed out at Biden for what she said was a weak stance on Iran following attacks on Israel. "Well, ...
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film...
Donald Trump is already sharing "fake allegations about jurors" in his criminal hush money case, a former federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.Trump made history this week when he became the first former president to face criminal trial after jury selection began in the case accusing the ex-presiden...
Former President Donald Trump is toying with the idea of promising a large tax cut for the middle class as part of his 2024 re-election campaign — and one way he might do it is to raid the funding for Social Security and Medicare.According to Gram Slattery of Reuters, "Donald Trump has indicated to ...
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host...
Former President Donald Trump has always commanded a larger-than-life presence — but the Manhattan criminal hush money trial could bring that all crashing down, MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang suggested on Thursday."I want to know how far this goes," said anchor Jason Johnson. "What is the scale of ...
Former President Donald Trump's partnership with the mob in his early days of business were legion, said biographer Tim O'Brien on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" — but deep down, even as Trump looked up to crime bosses, he was very scared of them.This conversation came during an analysis of the for...
Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money jury likely includes a person who arrived in "stealth" and has the potential to make or break the case against him, a legal expert said Thursday.Trial Behavior Consulting analyst Steve Duffy spoke with the Independent about the problematic "stealth...
The historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump may see a historic prison sentence should the jury render a guilty verdict. That's the thinking by Tristan Snell, the former New York State assistant attorney general who took the real estate mogul to task before he became president and he...
Former President Donald Trump has just gone through the first week of his criminal hush payment trial in Manhattan — and it's already hurting him politically, said commentator Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday evening. The conventional wisdom for months has been that t...
"Trump deflates," writes former Bush speechwriter David Frum.Frum, who previously assessed former president Trump was prone to stoking violence, writes for the Atlantic about how the U.S. House voted to approve something Trump has steadfastly stood against."Ukraine won. Trump lost," he wrote. "The H...
Donald Trump's private "rage" undermines his claim that he's a willing martyr, according to a new exclusive report from the Rolling Stone.Trump, who previously waved around a Rolling Stone article from years ago that he said supported him in his criminal hush money case, publicly claims that he is "...
Donald Trump was "firmly scolded" by the judge in his criminal hush money case, and he was also warned that he might go to prison if he doesn't show up at the next hearing date, according to an investigative journalist.Carol D. Leonnig, an investigative journalist and MSNBC contributor, appeared on ...
The first witness scheduled to provide testimony in Donald Trump's historic criminal case in Manhattan will bring "dynamite evidence" that jumps to the heart of the case and shows Trump intended to conceal his affairs in order to win the presidency, a law professor said.Raw Story reported on Sunday ...
Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out against the "lightweights and fakes" who once worked for his White House, and now talk badly about the former president on TV.Trump, who is currently bound by a gag order that prevents him from attacking witnesses in the criminal trial he's facing, instead turned hi...
Donald Trump could be facing a jail sentence if he's found guilty in his first criminal case, and the former president has a plan to make that much more likely, according to a legal expert. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, who also served as one of the impeachment lawyers for House Democrats and Wh...
Melania Trump on Sunday made her first public statement on X/Twitter in more than a month and a half, and users of the social media site used the opportunity to mock the former first lady.Melania Trump, who has been at times distanced from the campaign of her husband Donald Trump, over the weekend s...
Manhattan prosecutors Monday read to the jury transcripts of former President Donald Trump's notorious "Access Hollywood" tape, prompting one legal expert to describe it as both "cringy" and "damning." The reading came after a debate between District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team and Trump's lawye...
A full jury has been empaneled to hear former President Donald Trump's criminal case in Manhattan — but that doesn't necessarily mean the court won't have to deal with more jury complications, trial expert J. Lee Meihls told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday.That's because there's every risk that more jur...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a smart tactical move by choosing David Pecker as his first witness in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.Vance appeared on MSNBC Tuesday to explain to Katie Phang why she felt the...
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin Tuesday said testimony presented in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made her "laugh out loud."Rubin shared this moment of levity with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace during a panel discussion of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker's testimony...
Former President Donald Trump's staff at the White House were enraged with the cavalier way he handled classified information, according to a new report from ABC News."While much of [Special Counsel Jack] Smith's sprawling classified documents investigation has focused on how Trump handled classifie...
Former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward is among 11 individuals who have been charged in connection with alleged 2020 election subversion, according to a reporter.Kyle Cheney of Politico flagged the filing on social media on Wednesday, saying, "Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their...
Donald Trump's attorneys keep getting on the bad side of the New York judge presiding over former president's criminal hush money trial. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan nearly browbeat Trump's attorney Emil Bove over what prosecutors alleged was a "totally improper line of questioning" ...
Donald Trump's former defense secretary, Mark Esper, rejects the idea of absolute immunity for a president, which was the argument before the Supreme Court on Thursday. But it certainly wasn't the first time he broke with Trump. Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper, Esper said he hates it when examples are...
Another day in the books for Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, and it ended with the former president speaking to reporters in the corridor talking about how "breathtaking" Thursday was and then tangentially editorializing on some current events — from the price of gas and pro-Palestinian ...
For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for ...
Donald Trump's long-time friend David Pecker, the former chief of AMI/National Enquirer, detailed their relationship and efforts to work together to help Trump get elected in 2016. The defense team never went after him nor questioned whether he was lying. There's another witness who will likely be s...
CNN's Donie O'Sullivan clashed with Julian Lightfoot, a Donald Trump supporter who was stunned to learn that "God" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution.The interaction was part of an advance excerpt from "Misinformation: The Trump Faithful," scheduled to air on Sunday, and follows up on a nu...
Former First Lady Melania Trump has boasted being multilingual but for years there hasn't been indisputable proof. The speculation was stirred back up by former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Monica Crowley, who while appearing on Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" this week showered praise on M...
The Republican National Committee was all set to open 40 field offices in key states for the 2024 presidential election — then former President Donald Trump ousted longtime party chair Ronna McDaniel and replaced her leadership team with a group of loyalists, including his own daughter-in-law Lara T...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Donald Trump is aggressive in court, but he tends to back down once you hit him back, according to the former president's biographer, who beat a $5 billion lawsuit over financial allegations.Tim O'Brien, who spent massive amounts of time with Trump before writing TrumpNation: The Art of Being the ...
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders partook in "unethical behavior" while employed by Donald Trump's White House, according to a former colleague's analysis.Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss a wide variety of Trump-related legal...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch may have said the "quiet part out loud" at a hearing into Donald Trump's presidential immunity claims, an expert said Monday.Legal analysts Allison Gill and Andy McCabe addressed the Supreme Court hearing in the most recent episode of their "Jack: A Special Counsel...
Former President Donald Trump's newly revealed policy plans is ringing alarm bells for at least one conservative operative who warned Americans Tuesday they should "be afraid."Republican strategist Sarah Longwell appeared on CNN Tuesday afternoon to discuss Time Magazine's sweeping exposé on Trump c...
Donald Trump raged Tuesday outside the Manhattan courtroom where he faces a criminal hush money trial and spurred one indignant CNN analyst to blast the former president for what he described as a torrent of false and misleading claims. Daniel Dale told anchor Jake Tapper he has grown tired of addre...
Former President Donald Trump appeared to once again nod off during witness testimony at his hush money trial Tuesday, as he reportedly did multiple times last week.MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin tweeted that Trump was having trouble staying awake during court proceedings, writing that he "appears to h...
Former First Lady Melania Trump had an unconventional reaction to reports of Donald Trump's sexual misconduct allegations, according to a former senior aide who released text messages Thursday. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former senior aide to Melania, said the wife of Trump "knows who she marr...
Donald Trump on Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in Florida, accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped. Trump, who has largely spoken positively of the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon who is oversee...
Golden sneakers.Nonfungible tokens.Jingoistic Bibles.Much ado has been made about the baubles and bibelot a cash-strapped Donald Trump keeps peddling to MAGA-heads.But one can wear a Trump shoe, auction a Trumpy digital asset and ponder Matthew 19:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10 while reading the Lee Greenwoo...
As the United States witnesses the unprecedented criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump, it’s time to ponder how these events will affect the upcoming presidential election. While some Americans might expect the negative publicity of the court cases to diminish Trump’s popularity, an ...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is once again being ridiculed on social media, this time following an interview on NBC in which he failed to promise to honor the 2024 election results. Scott, who previously made people cringe with his attempts to appear close to Donald Trump as the former president con...
Recent polls suggest half the country may vote against their own self-interests in November. The self sabotage is head-turning: Christians who defend Donald Trump’s debauchery, poor people who give their money to a billionaire with rotating Ponzi schemes, pensioners who don’t understand that tax cut...
Special counsel Jack Smith believes that Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta, has two incriminating photos in his phone, according to a Monday Newsweek report.This comes just two weeks after CNN reported Nauta "was told that if he was charged with lying...
Former President Donald Trump came up with a new complaint Monday about his Manhattan criminal hush money trial: it's taking too long."Oh, we just heard two to three more weeks," Trump told reporters outside the courthouse. "I thought they were finished today, and they are finished today if you look...
Former President Donald Trump and his legal team will likely blame a staffer for business documents at the heart of his criminal hush money trial, a legal expert said Monday. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani predicts Team Trump will say the former president was oblivious to slippery bookkeepi...
WASHINGTON — One of the grievances Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed in her motion on Wednesday to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was that he did not act to "defund" special counsel Jack Smith, who is currently prosecuting former President Donald Trump for federal election consp...
Former President Donald Trump took a break from his criminal hush money trial to tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to cool it. Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday afternoon a video statement calling on Greene (R-GA) to give up on her "majority of one" quest to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. ...
Longtime Donald Trump friend and confidant Roger Stone came under fire on Sunday after posting an unrelated photo in an effort to show that the state of New Jersey could be won by Trump in the upcoming 2024 election.Trump spoke in the Garden state on Saturday, and was criticized for his apparent slu...
Donald Trump's biographer believes the former president's predilection for "bending people to his will" was made plain Monday when Michael Cohen testified in his criminal hush money trial. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts that he falsified business records to conceal hush money paid ...
Michael Cohen has described his 15 years with Donald Trump as akin to being in a cult and, after conversations with him, longtime friend Donny Deutsch agrees — describing his relationship as being akin to Stockholm Syndrome.. Cohen took to the stand on the 15th day of Trump's hush money trial Monda...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has admitted he came to New York City Monday to break a gag order for former President Donald Trump. MSNBC Anchor Nicolle Wallace reported Tuberville's public admission, made on the conservative channel Newsmax, as part of her coverage on Trump's ongoing criminal hus...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after the flag outside of his home was flown upside down, a symbol adopted by the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rallygoers. The U.S. Flag Code outlines: "The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in inst...
Trump supporters believe Michael Cohen dropped a bombshell on the stand that could get Donald Trump off the hook in his hush money trial — but some experts aren't so sure.Trump stands accused of 34 felonies for creating false business records to conceal hush money spent to keep an affair quiet. On T...
Donald Trump on Saturday attended the 153rd Annual National Rifle Association Meeting in Dallas, Texas, where he gave the keynote speech and claimed his former doctor once said he was a "better physical specimen" than Barack Obama. Trump mentioned a lot of his greatest hits at the speech, but th...
When Donald Trump's lawyers make their Monday morning appearance in Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom they may face being put on the spot over their client's recurring refusal to abide by the judge's gag order.During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former Manhattan Asst. District Attorney Cathe...
Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to debate each other, once in June (on CNN) and once in September (on ABC). The most unusual thing, if it can be considered unusual these days, was that the agreement came after “a rapid back-and-forth between their campaigns and a flurry of taunts ...
Donald Trump knows he can't handle a debate against Joe Biden, and he thinks he's found his way out, according to a formerly conservative columnist.Columnist Jennifer Rubin — a conservative until Donald Trump came along — appeared on MSNBC on Sunday, where she was asked about Fox News' recent atta...
Donald Trump's allies on Sunday lashed out at a politically conservative website, saying it is "bullying" the former president for his apparent refusal to take the stand on his own behalf in his criminal trial.Matt Drudge and Trump were once allies, but more recently, the Drudge Report aggregator ha...
Donald Trump's legal team may have scored a few points on witness Michael Cohen, but the former president is still barreling toward a conviction in the New York hush money cover-up case, a Florida prosecutor said Sunday.State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC over the we...
Donald Trump's current criminal trial lawyer had a "giddy" demeanor when he asked a magazine writer, "How did I do?" But lawyer Todd Blanche may not be ready for the "complicated" answer.Andrew Rice, a features writer at New York Magazine, on Sunday published a piece in which he mentions the recent ...
Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed documents in Florida, has some harsh words for the prosecutors in that case in a new filing Sunday.Cannon, who has been criticized for purportedly slow-playing the federal case over the former president's alleged ho...
Donald Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, went to court for a hearing Wednesday, alleging he was being unfairly persecuted by the Justice Department in the classified documents case before Judge Aileen Cannon. Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Brandon Van Grack, a former national security official fo...
Once again the Trump campaign is claiming massive attendance at his latest rally, and once again internet users are making a mockery of those claims – as a local ABC reporter reveals a few facts about attendance and the attendees."Trump vows to 'save' deep-blue New York City in massive, historic Bro...
Back in 2009 and 2010, when he was chairing the Republican National Committee, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele had his share of policy disagreements with then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden. But in 2024, the Never Trump conservative and MSNBC host is a Biden support...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some people are wondering if the Secret Service team charged with protecting Donald Trump is just playing politics.Trump recently gave a speech before the Libertarian National Convention, where he begged for the group's nomination despite being booed from the beginning to the end of his short speech...
Donald Trump's son, Eric, is catching some heat this Memorial Day weekend after a "particularly disgusting" statement he posted on social media. Eric Trump, who made headlines due to his defendant status in a civil fraud lawsuit in New York as well as his appearances at his father's criminal tri...
Donald Trump's most loyal supporters aren't happy with the ex-president's latest endorsements for 2024.Trump is known for the near-unbreakable hold he has on some of his fans, but his latest endorsements are ringing alarms for them, and they are making their voices heard.Trump on Sunday, for instanc...
Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would have won the Libertarian nomination "if he wanted it," after being booed off stage and getting only six votes in the contest.Trump begged for the Libertarian nomination at the Libertarian National Convention, and then became hostile when they booed him. He t...
Accusations that Donald Trump has taken advantage of taxpayers by overcharging for lodging and travel for his Secret Service detail are once again being raised as he travels across the country running for the presidency again.In 2022, NBC News reported that a House investigative report showed that t...
Donald Trump has already lost two defamation suits brought against him by magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, and he may be in for a third one after his Memorial Day attack on the woman who he was found to have sexually assaulted. Trump on Monday posted a lengthy attack labeled as a Memorial Day po...
The jury appears to be homing in on the "conspiracy" elements of the Manhattan criminal hush money case, said former federal prosecutor David Kelley on MSNBC Wednesday — and that's a disturbing sign for former President Donald Trump.This comes after the jury asked Judge Juan Merchan for a refresher ...
The jury is now deliberating in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in Manhattan, where the former president is charged with felony business fraud for allegedly concealing payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a matter Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is arguing was...
Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out against a Fox News host, saying she was "stupid" for suggesting that President Joe Biden isn't involved in the former president's criminal case in New York.Trump's representative Alina Habba appeared on Fox News with Shannon Bream on Wednesday as the jury deliber...
A federal judge is on the defense by a Donald Trump ally for publishing a New York Times Op-Ed rebuking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and saying the upside-down American flag and "Appeal to Heaven" flag placements erode trust.Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project, a collective that...
Over 1,000 complaints have flooded into Judge Aileen Cannon's court, seeking her recusal from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.According to CNBC News, "The complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon have come to light amid renewed criticism by some legal obs...
Donald Trump and his allies accidentally created a monster that could mean a loss in the presidential election, according to a former Republican campaign aide.Matthew Dowd, who previously worked for George W. Bush's campaigns, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss Trump's bid to unseat President Jo...
Donald Trump Sunday made it clear that he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in the former president's upcoming sentencing for 34 criminal convictions for business records fraud in New York. Trump over the weekend took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to lash out at the upcoming sen...
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) erupted on live television Monday over House Judiciary Committee Republicans she argues are destroying Americans' faith in its political institutions to help an "irrational child of a man," former President Donald Trump.The committee is a powerful one, she noted, and one o...
A new notice put out by New York Judge Juan Merchan notified both the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and former President Donald Trump's legal team about a post on the Facebook page from the New York court system, which purported to be from the cousin of a juror with knowledge of the verdict.T...
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's angry reaction to the indictment of three Donald Trump allies over attempts to interfere with the 2020 presidential election is a sign that he fears he could, once again, be swept up in the criminal case, according to a conservative writer.After Kenneth Chesebro, Michae...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Saturday was pressed on MSNBC on multiple issues, including Donald Trump's record while he was in office. Host Rev. Al Sharpton, who earlier in the extended discussion picked Donalds apart over the lawmaker's comments suggesting that "During Jim Crow, the Black family ...
A right-wing media personality complained on Saturday that president Joe Biden turned his D-Day speech into an attack on Donald Trump, but was met with some backlash.Just last week, the internet piled on conservative media personality Erick Erickson, the founder of Red State, after he complained tha...
One of Donald Trump's top potential picks for his vice presidential nominee was picked apart on Saturday by MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton.Sharpton, a longtime acquaintance of Trump and a civil rights leader prior to his time hosting a show on the news network, interviewed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) over...
Donald Trump was blatantly lying on Saturday when he claimed credit for lower insulin costs, according to Joe Biden's campaign.The former president over the weekend took to his own social media network, Truth Social, to proclaim that he is the one who got millions of Americans low insulin pricing."L...
A Republican lawmaker who weighed in to support Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the former president's recent multi-count felony conviction in New York got a brutal reminder from social media. Congressman Andy Biggs, who was ordered to testify in front of a grand jury as Arizona Attorney Gene...
Convicted felon Donald Trump has absolutely no heroic qualities. He’s a bully and a coward. There’s no doubt that he’d use a baby as a human shield like Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone. However, a specific demographic of Americans — “dummies” — still admires him. The Times ran an article Tuesday title...
Utah Senator Mitt Romney has been one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics. He voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial following the January 6 coup attempt. Since then, he’s called Trump a “demagogue” and a “whack job,” among other epithets. He’s made it clear that he thinks Trump is a danger t...
Former president Donald Trump was in hot water on Sunday after he told attendees at his Nevada rally, "I don't care about you. I just want your vote." Trump, who also went on a bizarre rant about batteries and shark attacks at his rally in Las Vegas, was attempting to draw attention away from ...
Nigel Farage, a U.K. politician known for his populist anti-European Union rhetoric, endless media appearances and close friendship with Donald Trump’s MAGA Republicans, received an unwelcome treat while out on the U.K. election trail on June 4, 2024: a milkshake, directed at his face. He isn’t t...
Call it trickle-down politics. On Monday, just hours before the filing deadline, a Topeka man with a violent criminal history submitted the paperwork necessary to run for Congress. “The majority of Kansas is probably going to vote for a felon for president,” said the newly minted candidate, M...
The first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is less than three weeks away, and despite independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. consistently polling in the double digits, he is currently not scheduled to participate in the CNN-hosted event. The network, RFK Jr. says, has ...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) cast shame on Republican members of Congress after they "hung out with a felon" by meeting with Donald Trump. During a Thursday House Judiciary Committee hearing, Swalwell alluded to Trump's visit with Republican lawmakers earlier in the day. The hearing sought to examine T...
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), who chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus, is competing in a tough primary race against a Republican state senator endorsed by former President Donald Trump. And now he's facing additional scrutiny over financial disclosure reports that are raising more questions than they'...
Former President Donald Trump is attempting to reinvent himself in the 2024 cycle by embracing economic populism. But Democrats are warning voters not to be taken in, pointing to his past record of empty promises.According to a Semafor report Friday, Trump's promise to eliminate taxes on tips for wo...
Republicans whipping up a bill to bump former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to federal court are wasting their time, a former federal prosecutor argued Sunday. Renato Mariotti, formerly of the U.S. Attorney's office in Northern Illinois, appeared on MSNBC Sunday to throw cold wa...
According to a report from the Daily Beast, the pastor of Texas megachurch who was appointed to Donald Trump's "spiritual advisory" group in 2016, has admitted that he fondled a 12-year-old when he was 20 and was staying with her family in 1982.That admission, made in a statement to the Christian Po...
As congressional Republicans prepare for Donald Trump's possible White House return by plotting to expand tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that were the cornerstone of his first term in office, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday said Democrats must be ferocious opponents of another "GOP t...
Donald Trump on Saturday sought to push back against reports that he was "rambling" when he told a story about sharks and electrocution at a recent rally, leading some onlookers to say his attempt to defend his remarks were worse than the original telling itself. Trump earlier in June ranted at ...
In Colorado's small towns of Otis and Limon, New York Times' Opinion national politics writer Michelle Cottle recently observed US Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) latest campaign events earlier this week, ahead of the state's Tuesday primary election.Cottle points out in a Sunday, June 23 op-ed that th...
Trump campaign surrogates continued complaining Tuesday after a CNN anchor cut off campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier in the week.In a Tuesday interview on the pro-MAGA network Real America's Voice, Trump's campaign deputy communications director, Caroline Sunshine, used the segment f...
Convicted criminal and political adviser Steve Bannon urged former President Donald Trump to turn Thursday's debate into a "cage match" by refusing to shake hands with his opponent.Just hours before the debate was set to begin, Bannon spoke to Real America's Voice correspondent Brian Glenn — Rep. Ma...
Donald Trump on Sunday gave a plea for the U.S. Supreme Court to gift him immunity for his alleged crimes. The country's top court is expected on Monday to deliver the long-awaited answer to Trump's question about whether he can in fact be held accountable for any crimes whatsoever that occurred...
Former Hillary Clinton adviser Philippe Reines and CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger on Wednesday, discussed the health — not of President Joe Biden, as many analysts have over the last week — but of ex-President Donald Trump. Since his poor debate performance last week, Biden and his c...
Donald Trump has to feel pretty good, as he bested — some might say obliterated — a stammering, low-energy President Joe Biden in their first debate of 2024. A CNN poll declared Trump the hands-down winner, 67 percent to 33 percent. But are those who win that first debate more likely to take the ele...
Florida Judge Aileen Cannon could be totally removed from the Donald Trump Espionage Act case if she tries to dismiss it entirely in response to the Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling, as the former president has requested, according to a local prosecutor. State Attorney for Palm Beach Count...
A member of the closed-door Republican Party platform committee meeting unleashed her own fury after the committee voted to pass former President Donald Trump's policies into the party as a whole. Political director Matt Smith of WISN12News Milwaukee caught up with Gail Ruzicka, a platform committee...
Former President Donald Trump's campaign should be riding high at the moment, with the Democratic Party in a circular firing squad over whether to try to force out President Joe Biden over concerns about health.There's just one problem, reported The Atlantic: Trump's campaign chiefs, Chris LaCivita ...
Former Republican strategist Tim Miller highlighted the importance of those surrounding Donald Trump as he continues to ramble aimlessly through rally speeches. While the press is focused on President Joe Biden's sharpness, reporter David Fahrenthold listed the people Trump is welcoming to Mar-a-Lag...
Donald Trump's former "fixer" is asking the Supreme Court to resurrect his First Amendment lawsuit against his old boss after a federal appeals court smacked down his attempt to seek compensation over retributive jailing.Michael Cohen told news outlets Wednesday in a statement that, "No president sh...
Former President Donald Trump hasn't just become the uncontested leader of the Republican Party, wrote Philip Bump for The Washington Post — he has changed the way they even write their policy platform.The release of the new platform, which is loaded with all-caps Trumpisms and caused outrage among ...
An already iconic image of Donald Trump's bloodied face and pumped fist immediately after a failed assassination attempt on Saturday can be seen on tote bags, T-shirts, trading cards and other merchandise for sale across the Internet.Versions of that image belong to the news organizations whose phot...
MILWAUKEE — The self-styled “secretary of retribution” for Donald Trump who’s circulating a 350-person “target list” of politicians, bureaucrats and journalists had nothing to say about his plans when approached by Raw Story reporters Wednesday at the Republican National Convention.Raw Story attempt...
Many of J.D. Vance's political and religious beliefs are being exposed as the spotlight turns to shine on him for the role of vice presidential running mate. Donald Trump picked Vance, a friend of his son Don. Jr., ahead of the Republican National Convention.Wednesday, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace listed...
Vice President Kamala Harris has signaled her approval of three possible dates to debate former President Donald Trump's new running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).But the Trump campaign has not yet backed any of the debates, with senior adviser Brian Hughes putting out the statement, “We don’t know w...
When Donald Trump heard that Joe Biden had endorsed Kamala Harris to be the next president, he first tried to change the terms of his upcoming debate. The second thing he did was to complain about having to "start all over." In a post on his own social media network, Truth Social, Trump summar...
"Deadline White House" host Nicolle Wallace began her Monday show with a panel on Vice President Kamala Harris and the impact she will make on Donald Trump's campaign. She spoke to political strategist and distinguished lecturer Dr. Basil Smikle, Jr., and pointed out that the most entertaining piece...
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said her father-in-law was willing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris "anytime, anywhere, anyplace" after the former president suggested he would back out of a planned showdown on ABC.After President Joe Biden announced that he would not be the D...
Melania Trump on Sunday celebrated what she called a "personal milestone," but a former pal was quick to point out how Donald Trump would do his best to undermine it if he were to become president again. The former First Lady over the weekend took to social media to celebrate when she became a Un...
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) has been extremely critical of Donald Trump in the past, but on Sunday he downplayed the former president's recent remarks that Christians "won’t have to vote anymore" if Republicans win this election. That didn't sit well with former Tea Party Republican ...
MSNBC viewers took to social media on Sunday to slam the network, as well as one of its hosts, for letting a Donald Trump surrogate "steamroll" through an interview without much pushback. Jason Miller, senior advisor to the 2024 Trump campaign, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was in...
Donald Trump has infuriated his own base of support over the weekend. Late on Saturday, the former president made a move that has become familiar to him: he took to Truth Social to announce a new political endorsement. What he probably didn't expect, was the outrage that followed after he anno...
Donald Trump gave us an insight into who Americans are in 2016, but it appears his running mate has yet to learn that lesson, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist Sunday. Allysia Finley, a member of the Journal's editorial board who previously argued that "tyrant" accusations fit President J...
In the years since Donald Trump has been in the political world, has he ever actually laughed? That's the question being asked by a potential Kamala Harris Vice Presidential nominee, and now by Mark Cuban. And the billionaire is willing to put money on it. The debate was started by Minnesota's D...
Carla Sands, a surrogate for Donald Trump, falsely claimed this week that internet security firm CrowdStrike was plotting to take down voting machines on Election Day.Sands, Trump's former ambassador to Denmark, made the remarks at a Wednesday rally in Pennsylvania for the former president.While exp...
CHICAGO — In the midst of President Donald Trump's interview today with Black journalists, a person created a federal super PAC that uses the N-word, according to an official filing with the Federal Election Commission that Raw Story reviewed.A statement of organization for "N----- for Trump" was fi...
CHICAGO — Right before former President Donald Trump was about to be introduced for a question-and-answer session at the National Association of Black Journalists convention Wednesday, the crowd erupted into cheers over the announcement that the conversation would be fact-checked in real-time.The au...
Donald Trump touted a new range of branded sneakers Wednesday — and was immediately criticized on X.The shoes, which include the logo "Trump - Crypto President," had been debuted at a Bitcoin conference last weekend."Just spoke at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday. It was G...
MSNBC news reporter Yamiche Alcindor was in the room for the National Association of Black Journalists question-and-answer session with Donald Trump and reported that even among political experts, people were "gasping" at his comments. Speaking to Nicolle Wallace for "Deadline White House" Wednesday...
CNN political analyst Van Jones had a simple response when asked about his reaction to fundraising numbers showing Donald Trump's campaign raised $138.7 million last month — less than the $200 million Kamala Harris campaign raised in the first week of her candidacy."Kamala-mania,' Jones said on CNN'...
Former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, attempted to turn Donald Trump's combative interview with Black journalists into a positive about tax cuts. "Is she Black, or is she Indian?" Trump asked of the biracial vice president, Kamala Harris.During his Thursday show on F...
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is in no position to lecture Vice President Kamala Harris about her identity, Fox News' resident Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov said on Friday's edition of "The Five."This comes as Vance, the running mate of former President Donald Trump, defends the former president for...
Multiple prominent Fox News hosts doubled down on right-wing attacks against an Olympic boxer who defeated her opponent in under a minute and has since faced a deluge of smears on social media, including from former President Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance.Algerian Imane Khelif defeat...
A Chinese citizen was reportedly arrested after police said he tried multiple times to enter former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, claiming he had documents linking China to the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, faces a...
Kyle Rittenhouse, the shooter acquitted of murder charges in the deaths of two men during a Wisconsin protest, abruptly announced he was abandoning his support for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But after a torrent of backlash from the right, Rittenhouse reversed his decision.Internet troll Phil...
The first thing to say about the largest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War is thank God that’s over. The second thing to say is the story about this historic event should be about the president, his administration, foreign allies and relations, and the still-c...
As the U.S. economy dipped Monday, Donald Trump's famously triggered aide accused his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, of not only causing an inflation and border crisis but of ducking the media for more than two weeks.The U.S. experienced a frightening Monday stock market plunge reminiscent of a 19...
MSNBC panelists couldn't help but chuckle Monday afternoon after The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes identified former President Donald Trump as being in the "fat Elvis stage of his career."Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised Sykes's comment on Monday morning, which started the network off. "I've go...
A celebration of the opening of Donald Trump's campaign office in Valdosta, Georgia was marred by a physical fight between two conservatives.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gathered information from police and witnesses following the July 29 event. A police report said that Brandon Phillips, the to...
Former President Donald Trump has no second thoughts about attacking Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his family because he is convinced he's got the state in the bag and doesn't need the help of politicians on the ground to win it.That's according to Erin Perrine, former communications stra...
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took the stage at Detroit Metro Airport on Wednesday at the latest rally for Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). And she laid into former President Donald Trump, scorching his record and stressing he can't ...
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain delivered a fiery speech at a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and slammed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as the crowd erupted into chants of "He's a scab!"Fain, whose union represents more than 1 million auto workers, gre...
A panel on Fox News' "The Five" erupted into chaos on Wednesday when resident Democratic commentator Jessica Tarlov chided the rest of the group for echoing the Trump campaign's attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's military service, following his selection as Vice President Kamala Harris' running ma...
Donald Trump's company, Trump Media — owner of the social media app Truth Social — reported losing $16 million as revenue plummeted 30% from the same period last year, CNBC reported Friday.The stock price for the social media company, whose namesake, Trump, is the majority shareholder, fell from mor...
Donald Trump's recent — and demonstrably false — tale of a near-helicopter crash was apparently not the first time Trump had made such a claim involving a helicopter.During his news conference on Thursday, Trump shared a story about a near-helicopter crash with former California Assembly Speaker Wil...
Donald Trump is getting pushback on Sunday on his latest conspiracy theory from an unlikely source: his own MAGA supporters. The former president earlier in the day claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was faking her huge crowd sizes by using AI. The claim was ranked as "just false" by CNN,...
Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, bragged on social media on Sunday about his recent TV news appearances, generating some serious criticism. Vance, who earlier in the day shocked a CNN host with a "weird" answer during an interview, took to social media afterward to brag abou...
Former President Donald Trump took time during his news conference at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey to rage against Vice President Kamala Harris' home state of California, calling it "one of the worst run states" and accusing her and Gov. Gavin Newsom of destroying the quality of life there...
Donald Trump is planning on hosting a gathering of convicted felons next month — and one legal expert is pointing out that the event may frustrate his efforts to remain a free man.According to NJ.com, the ex-president is hosting a "J6 awards gala" at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club next month. ...
During the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a variety of speakers attacked Donald Trump over Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation's 900-plus-page blueprint for a second Trump administration.Trump has been making a concerted effort to distance himself from Project 2025, but many DNC ...
Donald Trump may have a card up his sleeve for an "October surprise," and J.D. Vance should be worried, a conservative columnist said Saturday.During an appearance on MSNBC over the weekend, columnist Jennifer Rubin — a loyal conservative until Donald Trump came along — was asked about the impact ...
A comedian with an incredible Donald Trump impersonation was asked on Sunday to defend from attacks on Robert F. Kennedy's alleged "brain worm."One panelist questioned whether Kennedy could actually help Trump convince more independent voters, given the fact that Kennedy himself is known as an ant...
On Tuesday, a process begins that could ultimately decide whether Judge Aileen Cannon will retain control of the criminal case looking into Donald Trump's allegedly unlawful retention of White House documents, a former federal prosecutor said on Sunday.Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote for her Substac...
Donald Trump's pick for vice president, J.D. Vance, represents an "awkward darkness," according to former House Republican Congressional Committee Investigative Counsel Sophia Nelson, a lawyer who formerly worked on legal and advisory teams for several prominent Republicans.Appearing on CNN on Sun...
Donald Trump's pick for vice president, J.D. Vance, is in hot water with those in his community, according to a news report.According to the Daily Beast, "JD Vance’s neighbors have slammed the vice presidential candidate after the Secret Service closed and [barricaded] a park near his home in Alexan...
First it was "Covfefe," and now it's "Powerfulnnz." Donald Trump early Sunday morning released a Truth Social post with multiple errors, resulting in mockery in the comments. He then deleted the statement. Trump took to his social media network to hail the Border Patrol Union's leadership, whi...
Shemane Nugent, the wife of conservative rocker Ted Nugent, said she had "goosebumps" over the weekend after singer Lee Greenwood suggested that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was predicted in the Christian Bible.During an interview on Shemane Nugent's Real America's Voice program Sunday,...
When special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump in the federal election interference case, he excluded all sorts of evidence that could run afoul of the Supreme Court's immunity decision. But he chose to keep in former Vice President Mike Pence — ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined former President Donald Trump in railing against a superseding indictment handed down against Trump in the wake of two U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Taking to the social media site X, Greene blamed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who, s...
Donald Trump is being accused of a racist "dog whistle" associated with his recent rallies. Trump's choice of venue at his rallies in this presidential election cycle has been of particular interest to critics and observers, who say the former president is intentionally choosing locations known ...
As Donald Trump faces backlash from the US Army following his illegal photo-op in a restricted area of Arlington National Cemetery last week, one veteran is sounding the alarm on how a second Trump presidency could abolish the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).In a Sunday, September 1 op-ed publis...
Donald Trump has long been criticized for what some have called corrupt foreign practices involving money coming from foreign nations, but those issues are only growing deeper, according to a new report.Before, during, and after his presidency, Trump benefited from foreign deals that largely flew un...
Donald Trump recently claimed he doesn't ramble during his speeches that cover everything from windmills and whales to batteries and sharks, and that he's instead employing something called "the weave," but experts don't appear to be on board.“You know, I do the weave,” Trump recently said at a poli...
A top volunteer for Donald Trump's campaign in Massachusetts lost his position after he emailed fellow volunteers and said neighboring New Hampshire was "no longer a battleground state" and encouraged supporters to instead direct their efforts on winning Pennsylvania.Tom Mountain wrote in the email,...
A former FBI official outlined what he expects will — and won't — come now after former President Donald Trump entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday in his trimmed-down Washington D.C. election subversion case.Last month, Smith tweaked the charges to remove references that Trump tried to order the Justi...
A former top prosecutor of organized crime at the Justice Department was left flabbergasted at the message Donald Trump shared at his roundtable with the Fraternal Order of Police on Friday in North Carolina. Andrew Weissmann, who has left the DOJ for New York University, confessed his shock that th...
Donald Trump on Saturday suggested that people in their 80s are too old to be able to be held accountable for documents they have signed. Trump, currently 78 years old and running for a four-year term in the nation's highest office, is at this moment the oldest candidate ever to sustain a run fo...
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade made fun of Donald Trump's lawyers for suggesting they will run to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to bail them out if she rules against there attempt to get special counsel Jack Smith off the case.Sitting down with...
Vice President Kamala Harris is "going to fall flat on her face" at the presidential debate against Donald Trump, and she will also be on drugs, according to right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.Jones, a Trump ally who in August claimed that there are Democrats plotting to put conservatives "...
Donald Trump's mental health is deteriorating and the American press is unable to properly cover it, according to the former president's psychologist niece.Trained psychologist Mary Trump said on Sunday that her uncle's recent rambling, stream-of-consciousness answers to policy questions are worth c...
A longtime Republican fundraiser believes former President Donald Trump made a sound decision by ducking a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.As Fox News host Neil Cavuto and Trump found themselves in a public spat Thursday — over Cavuto's comments that the ex-president bombed at the Tu...
Donald Trump at his latest rally reportedly made a slip-up that's being labeled as "embarrassing." Trump at his event on Friday accepted the endorsement of a singer named "Nicky Jam," but the moment didn't go smoothly, according to a report from Billboard. "Nicky Jam is officially endorsing Do...
Donald Trump Saturday once again claimed credit for terminating Roe v. Wade while pushing away his party's strict anti-abortion stances and reminding fellow Republicans that the GOP must "win elections." Trump, who appointed the Supreme Court justices who ultimately eliminated the women's health...
According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, there is good reason for prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to go to Judge Juan Merchan and make the case that Donald Trump is in violation of his gag order.Earlier in the week New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's ...
A panel of longtime political commentators agreed that Donald Trump may have always been a little "crazy" or nutty in a laughable way, but they're now concerned he's "dribbling the apple sauce" — meaning they believe he is showing signs of a cognitive decline. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, fo...
Recent activity in the state of Georgia could wrongfully hand the 2024 election to Donald Trump, according to a voting rights expert.Ari Berman, Mother Jones' national voting rights correspondent, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss the situation in Georgia, where far-right MAGA allies have bee...
One of Vice President Kamala Harris' "most trusted" senior advisors has a shocking prediction for a campaign shake up against Donald Trump.Harris campaign senior adviser for communications Brian Fallon revealed some of his predictions in an interview with Politico.According to the outlet, Fallon rec...
Congressional leaders have reportedly reached a deal to avoid a shutdown of the government, dealing a blow to Donald Trump, and the internet was quick to react. Trump has reportedly pushed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), the House Speaker, to force a government shutdown, which the former president pur...
Donald Trump has been lying about Oprah Winfrey to "exaggerate his importance" to her, a report says.Trump took a shot at Oprah on his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, saying she is not the woman he once knew after watching her sit-down interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.On Truth ...
Donald Trump over the weekend boasted about meeting his foreign leader "friends" at Mar-a-Lago, but the ex-president's supporters didn't take it very well. Trump took to his own social media network, Truth Social, on Sunday to thank multiple Middle Eastern leaders for meeting with him. "It was...
Former President Donald Trump may have just handed special counsel Jack Smith a crucial piece of evidence in an ongoing criminal case, according to a new legal analysis. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in a North Carolina campaign speech made a bold new claim about his defeat in the 2020...
A small fly stole Donald Trump's thunder at the former president's rally on Saturday, causing him to rant about how things wouldn't have been like this years ago. Trump spoke at an indoor rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where at one point he called Vice President Kamala Harris "a mentally ...
A sandwich shop outside of Pittsburgh refused to let Senator J.D. Vance host a planned campaign event, instead reportedly forcing the Republican vice presidential nominee to shake hands in a parking lot. NBC senior political desk editor Doug Adams reported on Saturday that Donald Trump's pick fo...
Donald Trump will address his faithful followers at an indoor arena in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin at a smaller venue than originally planned due to Secret Service concerns. at 3:30ET.The former president has ramped up appearances in the so-called battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and M...
— October surprise? Jack Smith has filed a massive collection of evidence demonstrating Trump’s direct involvement in an attempted coup against the government of the United States, and Judge Chutkan may make it publicly available. The next two to three weeks will decide what we see and when, as Trum...
Laura Loomer, the far-right activist and conspiracy theorist expected to take up a role in a second Donald Trump administration, on Sunday morning called out US Rep. Marjorie Greene Taylor (R-GA) for allegedly neglecting her constituents for a football game.The self-described "white advocate" wrote ...
Former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the controversial figure Donald Trump named to be his White House national security adviser, escalated violent rhetoric against Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, calling her "an enemy of America" and saying we're at "war." Sitting alongside conspiracy theorist a...
Donald Trump on Sunday proposed a new policy that many critics said is equivalent to legalizing "The Purge." Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he admitted that his attendees were "falling asleep" at one of his earlier rallies. Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign noted that, as T...
As Donald Trump was still speaking during his rally on Saturday, multiple people placed directly behind the former president started heading out. Trump was speaking to supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, where earlier in the event he admitted that some people were "falling asleep" at one of his ra...
Former President Donald Trump admitted Sunday that he used foul language at his rallies because people tended to fall asleep if he didn't.Trump made the admission while speaking to supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, about the environment.The former president said that his wife and Franklin Graham had...
Special counsel Jack Smith's new massive filing in the Trump federal election conspiracy case is hugely consequential, voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.In particular, said Elias, Smith has detailed evidence that Trump knew he lost — and kept trying to overt...
Former President Donald Trump took no responsibility for pushing a fake endorsement from prominent investment bank CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday, according to a new report.The former president bragged about the supposed endorsement on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, saying, “New: Jamie Dimon, ...
Donald Trump on Sunday gave a speech in which he messed up his words multiple times, leading observers to label it yet "another senior moment." Trump spoke in Wisconsin, where he made a comment that some took as a veiled threat to supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris. After the rally, he t...
Donald Trump on Sunday reignited a feud with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Trump over the weekend hosted a rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin. During his speech, the former president battled a fly on stage and made an off-hand comment that some took as a veiled threat against supporter...
Donald Trump shocked observers on Sunday with a comment he made about a potential supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris at one of the former president's swing-state rallies. Trump, who has been accused of fostering violence that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, gave a speech in Wisconsin over the w...
Donald Trump was in the middle of talking about fossil fuels when a fly distracted him, and critics say he came off looking old and even confused.Trump, who at the end of September was similarly thrown off when a small fly stole his thunder at a rally, causing him to rant about how things wouldn't...
New York (AFP) – Kamala Harris has taken a slim lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential race, a new poll showed Tuesday, as the Democrat slammed her rival for "weakness" during a media blitz four weeks before the election.Vice President Harris and Republican former president Trump -- who was d...
Former President Donald Trump refused to appear in an interview with CBS News program "60 Minutes" this week after they offered both presidential teams an opportunity for an interview. And he now alleges a conspiracy is afoot. Ahead of the interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, "60 Minutes" wa...
Donald Trump was criticized online on Saturday after he made what some deemed as a "delusional" comment at an event in Nevada. Trump over the weekend appeared at a roundtable discussion with Latin American supporters in Las Vegas. At that event, the former president made a comment that confused ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday caught heat from critics who mocked her for what they perceived as a lack of self-awareness. Greene, a top congressional ally to Donald Trump, is known for promoting conspiracy theories. Most recently, for example, she insinuated that Democrats in t...
Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) caught some heat on Saturday after his answer about a question regarding the Jan. 6 riot on the Capitol. Vance, who held a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, was asked about whether or not he will commit to a "pea...
Donald Trump's recent alignment with the richest man in the world is a "devil's bargain" that could help them both "end American democracy" as we know it, according to Trump's own niece.Mary Trump, a trained psychologist and chronicler of Trump family scandals, took to her Substack on Saturday to di...
The New York Times' newly released full interview with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) reveals the 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee is doubling down on one of his most notorious campaign attacks. After former President Donald Trump officially selected Vance as his running mate, the Ohio senato...
Donald Trump cooked up a "pressure" campaign for a special election that he hoped would reinstate himself as president six whole months after Joe Biden took office, according to details purportedly from famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's book. Foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen dropped the...
Police assigned to patrol Donald Trump's rally in California on Saturday say they arrested a man outside of the event for illegal possession of firearms.Trump faced one attempt on his life months ago in Pennsylvania, and a separate person was arrested for purportedly planning a second attack in Flor...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday taunted Donald Trump for a failure to release his medical records. Harris, who already released her own medical records in accordance with tradition with nearly all presidential candidates in the U.S., spoke at a rally in North Carolina. At that event, sh...
Some of Donald Trump’s highly visible supporters seem concerned that their man is losing his mind and everyone can see it.The former president was scheduled for an early-morning interview today, a regular thing for a presidential candidate. It was even more regular for someone like Trump. The show w...
Donald Trump's efforts to get people to vote for him in two battleground states have been flagged as "potentially fake," according to a new report.Trump enlisted the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, to help him with the campaign's get-out-the-vote plan, including in Arizona and Nevada. But those...
Chris LaCivita, Donald Trump’s current campaign co-manager, reposted statements on social media condemning the violent and deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection and attack on the U.S. Capitol—and blaming Donald Trump for that day’s violence.“On January 6, 2021, LaCivita reposted several posts that har...
A former campaign official for George W. Bush said that while Gen. John Kelly's comments about Donald Trump won't likely impact vote turnout, they could suppress conservatives in states with tight races.A bombshell interview with Kelly posted Tuesday included audio of Kelly speaking in his own words...
A new report describes how former President Donald Trump routinely denied federal disaster aid money to states whose governors either criticized him or declared President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. And he didn't discriminate between Democratic and Republican critics.Politico's E&E; N...
Donald Trump at his rally on Saturday lashed out at sound engineers handling a video he played at the event, insisting to his campaign: "Don't pay the bill!" Trump played a video about Vice President Kamala Harris and tax proposals. After the video ended, Trump said the sound was "lousy." ALSO...
Donald Trump's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York featured a speaker who suggested MAGA needs an electoral "slaughter" for the former president to be elected again.Miami-based private equity manager Grant Cardone, speaking at the rally, ratcheted up the rhetoric as he condemned Vice...
Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd, a numbers guy, said he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris is in a stronger position heading into the election than Donald Trump. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Dowd said he doesn't think Americans are actually "undecided" — ...
A former intelligence officer cautioned on MSNBC Thursday afternoon against Donald Trump as president, saying he disqualified himself. Sue Gordon was among those who briefed Trump when she served in his administration. Her final position was as the fifth principal deputy director of National Intelli...
Donald Trump is expected to enter the White House with a Republican House and Senate, as well as a Supreme Court including several jurists he himself appointed, but there is still an unexpected source of pushback that could hamper some of his efforts, according to some legal experts.Trump defeated V...
Donald Trump is likely to escape accountability for any alleged crimes he may have committed in the federal cases brought against him now that he has been elected president, and one former prosecutor highlighted what he says is the "biggest mistake" that led to that particular scenario.During an app...
Donald Trump may have crushed his federal cases by winning the presidential election, but there's still a chance he gets some jail time in the state case in which he was already convicted, according to an expert who was in the room during the former and incoming president's criminal trial.Longtime W...
George W. Bush in a recent interview downplayed the division in the United States, simply telling citizens that they should "turn to religion." Former President Bush, who has criticized Donald Trump in the past but stopped short of endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, has come under fire for st...
Donald Trump made a campaign promise to eliminate the Department of Education, but that will never come to fruition, an expert said Saturday.Former President Barack Obama's Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss Trump's vow to end the department Duncan once l...
Donald Trump's transition team was caught in a "violation of federal law," a Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was asked about the president-elect's government takeover.Mfume called attention to a recent news development causing ...
Donald Trump's transition has failed to sign ethics agreements, which in turn has reportedly allowed the team to run on "secret money," and the president-elect's critics are outraged. Trump has been quick to announce his Cabinet nominations over the last two weeks, but he has been slow to reveal...
Donald Trump's ethics and transparency promises may be a violation of the Presential Transition Act, a report suggests.The former and incoming president raised eyebrows by missing a key deadline for signing transition agreements with the White House. He ultimately signed most of the needed documents...
Donald Trump winning the presidency eliminated almost all of his criminal legal concerns, but there is "one point of light amid the darkness," according to a legal expert.Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner recently lamented that special counsel Jack Smith dropped all federal charges against t...
Political pollsters who underestimated Donald Trump's popularity in 2016 and 2020 said they finally cracked the challenge, a report suggests.Trump won in 2016 despite many polls saying he would lose to Secretary Hillary Clinton, and came close to President Joe Biden when some analysts said it would ...
Donald Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court damaged the justice system, but the harm can be undone, a former prosecutor said Sunday. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who over the weekend posted a video focusing on "points of light," as he sees them, in the legal world, chimed in a day late...
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), also the vice president-elect, is missing in action, according to Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser, John Bolton. Bolton, who has been critical of Trump, including the president-elect's election fraud conspiracy theories, appeared on CNN on Saturday to discu...
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to hit the ground running from the moment he is inaugurated, planning to rapidly confirm his Cabinet and start implementing his agenda at light speed. But the slow pace of Trump's transition suggests he may have difficulty racking up many accompli...
A group of 75 Nobel laureates are concerned that there will be a disaster for public health, with someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the Department of Health and Human Services.The New York Times reports that "it's the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together aga...
Experts and critics of Donald Trump spoke out on Saturday after it was reported that ABC has agreed to give $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to resolve a defamation lawsuit.The Associated Press reported over the weekend that the settlement comes after Trump sued the media giant when ancho...
Tulsi Gabbard could serve as a "heat shield" that protects a "more dangerous" Donald Trump administration pick, a Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), who previously flipped the script on a Fox News host over Trump's debate, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss...
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina stirred things up in MAGA world over the weekend when he suggested that Donald Trump's current strategy for backing his nominees could backfire. Tillis gave an interview with Fox News, during which he spoke out about Trump's pressure campaign to get ...
Donald Trump is going back on his word and tricking his own supporters, a columnist argued Satruday. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, after Trump's own biographer was on to talk about what he sees as the president elect's "aching thirst to monetize the p...
Donald Trump has an "aching thirst to monetize the presidency," according to the president elect's own biographer.Tim O'Brien, who spent massive amounts of time with Trump before writing TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Trump's recent transition move...
Just one month after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, some of the president-elect's supporters in the small town of New Castle, Pennsylvania are concerned about whether or not their benefits are at risk under his incoming administration, The Washington Post reports.Per the report, part-time tax ...
Donald Trump on Sunday attacked someone he said he considers a "friend," calling out former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for what the president-elect says is "one of the dumbest political decisions made in years." McCarthy was booted from his position heading the House Republicans after former G...
A foreign leader who has been dubbed a "neofascist" is on a secret mission to meet Donald Trump, according to a report. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who announced in 2023 she was separating from her partner, with whom she has a daughter, after he was recorded making sleazy comments, is...
Billionaire Mark Cuban on Saturday explained why he thinks fellow mega-rich Americans are kissing Donald Trump's proverbial ring. Cuban, who has found himself in Trump's crosshairs in the past, took to social media over the weekend to give his insider perspective on why people like Elon Musk and...
Donald Trump's recent Mar-a-Lago gathering to promote a Jan. 6 lawyer's new documentary is a "clear slap in the face to democracy," an ex-prosecutor said on Sunday.Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance earlier in the day wrote about an "interesting footnote" that Judge Juan Merchan included in the...
It was recently reported that Amazon is putting out a Melania Trump documentary, but many onlookers are looking forward to skipping it. The Wall Street Journal is among the news outlets that on Sunday reported that Amazon's Prime Video streaming service has officially "licensed what it said was ...
Comedian Bill Maher's new special was predictable and out of touch, a professor argued Sunday.Georgetown University Jewish Civilization professor Jacques Berlinerblau has previously claimed that Donald Trump is creating entirely new types of antisemitism.Over the weekend, he turned his sights to Mah...
Donald Trump's number two has found himself to be the number one target of several faithful members of the MAGA movement, including Jan. 6 rioters. Vance told Fox News on Sunday that not all Jan. 6 defendants deserved pardons, specifically saying those who engaged in violence could potentially b...
Donald Trump on Saturday announced the implementation of tariffs that are so controversial even Republican Senator Rand Paul opposes them. Just after signing the order, Trump hopped on his own social media platform, Truth Social, to explain his decision, which some economists say could lead to i...
Donald Trump on Sunday complained that Democratic lawmakers are delaying his nominees. The President took to his own social media site over the weekend to air his grievances against those keeping him from installing his chosen officials. "Democrats are purposefully delaying virtually all of my...
Right-wing host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Sunday said Donald Trump gave him a "tranche" of "secret evidence."Jones, who famously lost defamation suits from the victims of Sandy Hook parents after he claimed they had faked the deaths of their children, said on his show over the weekend ...
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter excoriating now-former acting Assistant Attorney General Danelle Sassoon after she sent her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi. And her letter makes allegations against Bove that could end up in court, a legal analyst warned Thursday on M...
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a win Monday afternoon as it allowed his administration to — for now — use a 1700s-era law to deport migrants it alleges are gang members.The court said Trump's administration can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was part of the Alien and Se...
by Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan April 8, 2025 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol Police chief testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, had negative repercussions on morale within the department and for polic...
CNN’S Jake Tapper launched a terse take down of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting two members of his former administration he now views as his political enemies with Department of Justice investigations. The presidential directives came Wednesday during an Oval Office signing ceremo...
Republican lawmakers who have continued to give in to Donald Trump's demands could be making preparations for a potential rebellion.Republicans like Chip Roy and Thomas Massie have challenged the President, but things have ultimately gone his way, according to a Washington Post report Saturday.Paul ...
President Donald Trump’s recent escalating rhetoric and actions across multiple fronts have alarmed political experts, who are now warning that the United States is not just drifting but accelerating toward fascism—and may have already crossed the threshold.“He’s threatening media companies who are ...
While media reports were going around about Donald Trump ousting his national security adviser, there was reportedly "behind-the-scenes" confusion about who would take over the role.CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene said on Saturday that she was told by people inside the White House that "they ...
"Trump is now threatening Supreme Court justices who ruled against him," Democratic influencer Harry Sisson said on Saturday. That is just one of the notable people who over the weekend accused the president of lobbing indirect threats at the members of the mostly conservative Supreme Court, man...
A MAGA influencer who has the president's ear is spreading conspiracy theories following former President Joe Biden's recent cancer announcement. Laura Loomer, who has been credited for getting certain White House officials fired because of her influential position in Trump's orbit, reacted to t...
Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday she isn't satisfied with what Donald Trump's administration has so far been able to accomplish. After commenting on former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, the MAGA ally turned to X to talk about how little Trump's team has been able to find out about th...
A medical scholar and physician known for mocking Republicans is asking questions about former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. It was announced on Sunday that Biden had been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer. Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene wished him well, b...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said it was disheartening to see President Donald Trump revert to the same kind of rhetoric in his second term that had contributed to the January 6 Capitol riot.In an interview with NBC aired Sunday, Pence also voiced criticism of Trump’s tariff strategy and various...
Just a couple of hours after it was reported that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with cancer, Donald Trump weighed in.Biden was reported to have been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer, and his family is reportedly considering the treatment options. Prior to Trump chimi...
Billionaire Elon Musk pushed back on accusations that he was a Nazi sympathizer because of a hand gesture he made during one of President Donald Trump's rallies.In a Tuesday interview with CNBC, Musk accused the mainstream media of propaganda."What would an example of that be?" CNBC's David Faber wo...
Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani spurred confusion and conspiracy theories among his own followers on Saturday, by posting a single letter on his social media. Giuliani, an ally of President Donald Trump who recently volunteered to take the job of special counsel and prosecute Joe Bi...
I’m going to make a confession in this introduction to my interview with Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of communication and journalism at Texas A&M.; Here it is: I have lost so much trust in democracy that I don’t know how to rebuild trust in democracy. She says that “anyone who supports democracy ...
Earlier this year, almost 20 tornadoes rampaged across several Mississippi towns, killing seven people and damaging hundreds of homes. Residents are still waiting for aid from President Donald Trump's administration months later.PBS NewsHour recently reported that even in the deep-red Southern state...
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he is leaving his role in the US government, in which he was tasked with reducing federal spending, shortly after his first major break with Donald Trump over the president's signature spending bill.While classified as a "special government employee" and "senior adviso...
Harvard University has been flooded with requests from foreign students to transfer to other institutions as US President Donald Trump's administration seeks to ban it from hosting international scholars, a staff member said Wednesday."Too many international students to count have inquired about the...
A US federal appeals court has temporarily halted a ruling that found many of President Donald Trump's tariffs illegal, but the chance it could ultimately back the original decision looms over the White House.What is in the US Court of International Trade's original ruling -- which the Trump adminis...
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel just pilloried both President Donald Trump and conspiracy theorists in a satirical YouTube video entitled: "The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel: Is Trump a Time Traveler?"Assuming the persona of a conspiratorial YouTube host (even telling viewers "never trust anything ...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)'s aide was arrested and video of the "dramatic" and "chaotic" incident was published online. The Gothamist recently reported that U.S. Department of Homeland Security police had handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler aides in the congressmember's Manhattan office, "which is...
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