• Biden Blames Trump for Florida's 'Nightmare' Abortion Law

    President Joe Biden went on the attack against Donald Trump while campaigning in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday, blaming the former president for the state's six-week abortion ban set to begin next week."Next week, one of the nation's most extreme anti-abortion laws takes effect here in Florida," Biden told supporters at Hillsborough Community College, according to a report from Roll Call. "It's criminalizing reproductive health care before women even know whether they're pregnant. I mean, this is...

  • Trump Tells 'Young People' to Blame Biden if TikTok Gets Banned

    Even though former President Donald Trump enacted an executive order to ban TikTok while he was in the White House, he once again says he now opposes barring access to the popular social platform, writing in a post to Truth Social on Monday that President Joe Biden would be to blame for the possible restrictions."Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok," wrote the former president. "He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it...

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    Why a woman who almost died after being denied an abortion blames Trump for Florida’s ban

    Amanda Zurawski, who almost died after being denied an abortion in her state of Texas, says she blames Donald Trump for Florida’s controversial ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

  • Trump Says Biden 'Hates Israel,' Blames Him for Pro-Palestinian Protests

    Former President Donald Tump has accused President Joe Biden of having "hate" for Israel, Jews and Palestinians, while arguing that he is responsible for an avalanche of pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses.Student protesters have recently been demonstrating against Israel's ongoing attack on Gaza at universities across the country, seemingly inspired by a massive protest at New York City's Columbia University that has been accompanied by repeated reports of antisemitic incidents...

  • 'Needy, rattled' and 'smaller' by the day: Columnist sees trial taking toll on Trump

    Donald Trump boasted that he would use his criminal and civil trials to campaign for president, but he already looks "needy and rattled" after just a week in court, argued one columnist.The former president – amplified by numerous media outlets – claimed he would bask in the wall-to-wall coverage to manipulate the courts and boost his campaign profile, but that's not what has happened since he lost defamation and fraud judgments for more than a half-billion dollars, wrote Washington Post...

  • Trump seeks to pry ‘young’ voters from Biden over TikTok ban brewing in Congress

    Former President Donald Trump is attempting to tie brewing legislation potentially banning TikTok to President Joe Biden as he courts young voters. The House advanced legislation Saturday included in the foreign aid bills, forcing the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners within a year to avoid a ban in the United States. The Senate […]

  • Trump blames hush money lawyers for 'guilty as hell' optics: 'Art of the Deal' writer

    Former President Donald Trump is lashing out at the lawyers over his less-than-innocent optic in his Manhattan hush money criminal trial, "The Art of the Deal" writer Tony Schwartz argued Tuesday. Schwartz appeared on MSNBC to discuss with anchor Joy Reid Trump's reported habit of throwing his lawyers under the bus — and what it might mean for the first of four criminal court cases he faces. "There's reporting [Trump is] unhappy with Todd Blanche, his attorney, who, when I saw him in court, he...

  • To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

    WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia’s invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories. McConnell, 82, tells the story of his father’s letters from Eastern Europe in 1945, at […]

  • To pass Ukraine aid, ‘Reagan Republican’ leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

    Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress. But the all-out effort to get the package through Congress left House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell struggling with an entirely new generation of the Republican Party shaped by Donald Trump. Throughout the six-month debate in Congress, both lawmakers had to expend significant...

  • 'Devastating blow': lawyer highlights Trump hush money trial witness' bombshell testimony

    A background witness in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial delivered a "devastating blow" in his testimony Tuesday, according to a trial lawyer watching the case. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker took the stand in Manhattan's criminal court to detail stories cooked up to damage Trump's political rivals during his 2016 presidential campaign and, in doing so, did significant damage to Trump's defense, argued criminal defense attorney Stacy Schneider. "This is...

  • WILD: ABC’s Moran Blames ‘Gravitational Pull of the Trump Melodrama’ for Self-Immolation

    Friday afternoon featured one of the more disturbing incidents one will ever see on live TV as, amid rolling coverage on cable news and streaming platforms of the Trump trial brought by far-left Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, a man lit himself on fire in the so-called protest space outside the New York City courthouse. On ABC News Live, longtime network correspondent Terry Moran invoked January 6 and repeatedly implied without evidence Trump and “the gravitational pull of themelodrama” around him...

  • 'It feels pretty silly': Columnist roasts Fox News for fawning Trump trial coverage

    Fox News host Jesse Watters’ coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial is raising eyebrows for the praise he lavishes upon the former president and the basic facts about courtroom proceedings he seems not to understand, a new analysis shows. Among his confused viewers is Vanity Fair’s political correspondent Bess Levin, who targeted Watters Tuesday with a quick fact check and a joking prediction for Fox News. ALSO READ: Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism...