• The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that

    Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Testimony by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker during former President Trump's hush money trial has been shocking even for people who bring a healthy degree of skepticism whenever they read the supermarket tabloid. Pecker has taken the stand to reveal details of a deal he made with Trump prior to his first presidential campaign to boost his candidacy, denigrate his rivals and silence embarrassing stories. The Enquirer has a...

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    Trump trial: National Enquirer would 'embellish' negative stories about Trump's 2016 rivals, Pecker says

    Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a scheme to silence porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking about an alleged tryst with him.

  • Trump Faces 34 Felonies at Trial. But Was There a Crime?

    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

  • Kandiss Taylor Threatens Violence Against Those Who Oppose Christian Nationalism

    Kandiss Taylor is a flat-earth, election-denying conspiracy theorist who unsuccessfully ran for governor in Georgia in 2022. Undaunted by her paltry showing in that election, Taylor subsequently became a Georgia GOP district chair and also began hosting a weekly program called “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” on the far-right Stew Peters Network. Peters himself if a […]

  • ‘Demolishing democracy’: how much danger does Christian nationalism pose?

    Documentary Bad Faith looks at the history of a group trying to affect and corrupt politics under the guise of religionBad Faith, a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, opens with an obvious, ominous scene – the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 – though trained on details drowned out by the deluge of horror and easily recognizable images of chaos. That Paula White, Donald Trump’s faith adviser, led the Save America rally in a prayer to overturn the...

  • Trump fined, faces jail and perhaps violated his terms of release

    Judge Juan Merchan, who presides over Donald Trump's criminal election fraud case, has found that Trump violated his gag order nine times. Donald Trump was fined $1,000 per instance because he violated his gag order. Judge Merchan also warned Trump that incarceration was an option should he continue. — Read the rest

  • Trump was not prepared for RFK Jr. to attract so many MAGA voters

    Just two weeks after Donald Trump urged radical leftists to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this November—because “he’s got some nice things about him” and “I happen to like him”—he’s suddenly taking a different tack. In the wake of new polling suggesting RFK Jr. would siphon more votes away from Trump than President Joe Biden, Trump is stablin’ and geniusin’ up a storm, taking to his perpetual prevarication platform Truth Social to knock the wind out of the independent candidate’s campaign. His...

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    Many think Trump being treated differently than other criminal defendants: Poll

    A majority of Americans believe former President Trump is being treated differently than most criminal defendants in his hush money case, according to a new CNN poll.

  • Many think Trump being treated differently than other criminal defendants: Poll

    A majority of Americans believe former President Trump is being treated differently than most criminal defendants in his hush money case, according to a new CNN poll. Trump’s hush money trial began last Monday, marking the first criminal trial of a former American president. He has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records

  • Doug Wilson Explains How to Establish the U.S. as a Christian Nation

    Last week, far-right pastor Doug Wilson was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, who billed Wilson as “the Christian nationalist they warned you about.” Pastor Doug Wilson is the Christian nationalist they warned you about. pic.twitter.com/E92V7OMLTS — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 15, 2024 On Wednesday, Wilson posted a video answering various questions about his views, particularly as […]

  • How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents: ‘The only choice for president’

    A New York court has heard how the tabloid deployed a practice known as ‘catch and kill’ to aid Trump in 2016US politics – latest updatesA New York court has heard evidence of how Donald Trump’s long and tumultuous journey to secure the Republican nomination – and later the presidency – was aided by a US tabloid known for printing gory pictures of murder scenes and questionable journalistic ethics.Testimony from David Pecker revealed how the former publisher of the National Enquirer had pledged...

  • WaPo Outraged That National Enquirer Might Have Helped Trump in 2016

    Strap in, my friends, for the Mother of all "Ya gotta be kidding me" lack of self-awareness moments from a "news" organization where it's practically the brand.