President Joe Biden traveled to Florida to take on Donald Trump on his home turf - ridiculing comments the Republican made about abortion and the Bibles the ex-president is hawking.
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
To the editor: Thanks to the letter writer who explained billionaires' support of former President Trump for the enlightenment and levity. He wrote that the very wealthy support Trump not for the tax cuts, but for their altruism and Trump’s policies to build the economy, increase homeownership and provide medical care. Increasing home ownership must have been why Trump appointed Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary — because when Mnuchin and his partners acquired the failing bank IndyMac and...
MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle. Violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work. Grotesque in body, graceless in […]
The 12-person jury is a reasonable cross section of Manhattanites. That should make Trump nervous.
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. Manhattan Read More
As Donald Trump the candidate overlaps with Donald Trump the defendant, new polling finds that many crucial independent voters consider his trial to be a serious issue. NBC News' Hallie Jackson reports.
POLITICO reporters take you inside the courtroom that could decide the 2024 election.
Michael Lind has written a provocative commentary, partly in response to John Judis and Ruy Texeira’s recent book, “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?” Lind would have us believe that the Democratic Party will do better in November than its naysayers suggest. Contrary to what Texiera-Judis maintain, namely that the Democrats have lost their traditional working-class base and may no longer be flourishing among racial minorities, the Dems supposedly have the wind at their back. The only reliable...
Perhaps the author of a recent letter understands how Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, put his finger on the scales of justice numerous times and that Trump has promised to do so if reelected, since he believes that’s what presidents do (“Biden is a dictator using agencies to ruin Trump,” Star-Advertiser, April 16). Of course, he laughingly denies Trump ever did it. See the Mueller report or Michael Cohen or Geoffrey Berman as proof of the fact.
The panel consists of seven men and five women who represent a