The two women, who said that they had affairs with Trump years before he stood for president were allegedly paid six figure sums to buy their silence in the months leading up to the 2016 election, which, if revealed, may have derailed his campaign and ultimately his potential bid to reach high office. To which, we now know, was successful. The trial itself will undoubtedly go down in history, as no former US President has ever faced criminal prosecution, although further troubles loom large for...
Editor's Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If you're like me and only pretended to read the Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Inferno in high school, good news: a recent four-hour documentary on PBS breathes new life into the musty classic. Though seven centuries separate us, Dante's work remains tragically relevant for us today.
WASHINGTON – Just days after returning from a two-week recess, right-wing
Former President Donald Trump released a statement claiming credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and suggesting abortion rights should be handled by the states. CNN’s Alayna Treene reports.
The last time North America experienced a solar eclipse, we were seven years younger, a pandemic was the last thing on anybody’s mind, and Donald Trump was president of the United States. It was Aug. 21, 2017, and a solar eclipse was due to pass over the U.S., darkening the skies for a few cosmically wondrous minutes. In Washington, D.C., then-President Trump stood on a balcony of the White House with Melania Trump and his son Barron as the moon slowly moved across the sun. To the nation’s...
ABC News host George Stephanopoulos clashed with GOP New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu over his support for Donald Trump on Sunday in a heated debate over the Republican governor's past condemnation of the former president. Sununu, who endorsed Haley in the GOP primary until she dropped out, said in March he would endorse Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, in the presidential election. Stephanopoulos asked if his support for Trump would continue if he's convicted in the hush money case. "This...
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden by one point among all voters, according to a recent poll.
Ahead of the 2024 election, Mark Cook has agreed to pack his suitcase and travel throughout his state of Arizona "for a mission he said he was called to by God," according to The Guardian. He's "one of several quasi-disciples of Mike Lindell and other big-name election influencers who have been spreading the hand-count gospel around the country since 2020, when Donald Trump began claiming without evidence that ballot tabulating machines were rigged against him."It is Cook's, and other right-wing...
The campaign for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid has come up with a new way to raise cash — which involves calling on down-ballot candidates who use his name and likeness in fundraising pushes to give him a cut of the money they raise. “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC. This includes, but is not limited to, sending...
“We’re going to defeat crooked Joe Biden and we’re going to make America great again,” Trump said to a cheering crowd of thousands at the Schnecksville Fire Co. fairgrounds on Saturday night.
Out of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump faces, the one scheduled to begin on Monday in a New York City courtroom is not the prosecution that most addresses the threat he posed (and still poses) to American democracy. But it carries powerful symbolism, for of all Trump’s cases, this one reminds the nation […]
Cumru Township Commissioner Lisha Rowe and Muhlenberg School Board member Miguel Vasquez are seeking the nomination in the April 23 primary.