Speaker Mike Johnson is making an effort to emphasize close ties to former President Donald Trump as the Louisiana Republican faces the threat of a vote to strip him of the speaker’s gavel. CNN political commentator SE Cupp gives her reaction to Johnson’s planned appearance with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
A New York appeals court judge has rejected the latest bid by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money criminal trial, less than a week before jury selection is set to start. Trump’s lawyers wanted the trial postponed indefinitely while he fights a gag order that bars him from commenting about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the hush money case. Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling is another loss for Trump, who has tried repeatedly to get the trial postponed. Unless there's more...
It comes as the Republican House speaker faces internal dissent and calls for his removal.
The House Speaker spearheaded GOP efforts to reverse his 2020 loss as the former president continues a baseless narrative that the outcome was rigged against him
For the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial. Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case. It took Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer just minutes after hearing arguments to reject the interim...
By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The transcript of an FBI interview made public late Thursday details how an aide to former President Donald Trump characterized the boxes of sensitive documents that are now at the center of the special counsel’s case into the mishandling of classified documents from the Trump White House. The new court
NEW YORK >> A New York appeals court judge today rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his hush money criminal trial, taking just 12 minutes to swat aside an argument that it should be postponed while the former president fights a gag order.
It comes ahead of jury selection beginning in the former president’s hush money case on Monday
Donald Trump offered a political lifeline Friday to House Speaker Mike Johnson, saying the beleaguered GOP leader is doing a “very good job,” and tamping down the far-right forces led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to oust him from office.
It’s the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump met Wednesday in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term. The presumptive Republican nominee hosted Duda at Trump Tower, where the two discussed the war in []
Donald Trump gave another confused speech that bordered on gibberish last night at Mar-a-Lago. This time, he bizarrely spouted nonsense that had something to do with New York Attorney General Letitia James — but he couldn't speak coherently, let alone get her last name right. — Read the rest