• President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

    By AAMER MADHANI (The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked […]

    • MSNBC

    The serious point at the heart of Biden’s latest anti-Trump joke

    On April 23, 2020, Donald Trump stood in the White House press briefing room and raised the prospect of an entirely new kind of Covid treatment. As the then-president saw it, patients might benefit if they received, among other things, injections of disinfectant into their bodies. The brief, impromptu comments, quickly became the quintessential moment of Team Trump’s pandemic response, capturing the Republican’s ineptitude and the eagerness with which he embraced nonsense. Exactly one year...

  • Biden jokes about Trump’s age and legal woes at White House journalists’ dinner

    Joe jokes about Trump's age and legal woes at White House journalists dinner (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Forecasting pioneer: A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to losePaths to Electoral College victory

  • Trump’s social media stock rises 16%, still down 67% from its $80 peak

    Even with the bounce, the stock has shed some $5.4 billion from last month, with the value of Trump’s position dropping to $2.1 billion.

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • The Media’s Coverage of Trump’s Immunity Case Has Been Appalling

    Elie Mystal By covering the Supreme Court’s hearing of Trump’s immunity claim as if the court were impartial and nonpartisan, the media has done the American people a serious disservice.

  • Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for Trump Media stock performance

    A price floor means ex-president gets bonus even though Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock value has plummetedFormer president Donald Trump qualified for a bonus worth $1.2bn after shares in his social media company remained above a certain value despite falling sharply.Trump is poised to receive 36m additional shares in Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), owner of his Truth Social platform, under an “earn-out” windfall which boosts the paper value of his stake in the business to about...

    • CNN

    Pritzker on Biden avoiding Trump’s legal woes: He’s ‘handling it perfectly’

    Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker tells Dana Bash that President Biden is handling Trump’s legal issues “perfectly”: “He is talking about Trump. He’s just talking about all of the other things about Donald Trump.”

  • Trump set to make $1.25B 'earnout' bonus as Trump Media stock hits benchmark

    Trump, who owns a majority stake in Trump Media and Technology Group, is due to receive an additional 36 million shares of the company on Tuesday.

  • ‘THE TRUMP STORY’: NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Trump’s NYC Trial Is Crowding Biden Out

    During the weekly panel discussion on NBC’s Meet The Press, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell fretted about the trial of former President Donald Trump overshadowing everything President Joe Biden is doing on the campaign trail, to the point of referring to the present media environment as “The Trump Story”. Watch as Mitchell compares the current Trump cycle crowding Biden to the 2016 news environment crowding Hillary Clinton, as aired on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • ‘THE TRUMP STORY’: NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Trump’s NYC Trial Is Crowding Biden Out

    During the weekly panel discussion on NBC’s Meet The Press, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell fretted about the trial of former President Donald Trump overshadowing everything President Joe Biden is doing on the campaign trail, to the point of referring to the present media environment as “The Trump Story”. Watch as Mitchell compares the current Trump cycle crowding Biden to the 2016 news environment crowding Hillary Clinton, as aired on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, April 21st,...