• Arizona indicts Trump allies over 2020 fake elector scheme

    Former Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those charged, court documents show.

  • 'Very good news' for Jack Smith as Arizona indictment puts 'pressure' on Trump allies

    The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday.The newly dropped indictment names a number of Republican officials and Trump strategists in an alleged criminal scheme to stop the electoral count in Arizona, including...

  • Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and more than a dozen Trump allies indicted in Arizona for fake elector plot

    Indictment comes as Supreme Court set to consider whether Trump immune from federal 2020 election conspiracy case

  • Arizona grand jury indicts Trump allies including Giuliani over 2020 fake elector scheme

    Along with 11 fake electors, seven allies of the ex-president including Mark Meadows and John Eastman were also chargedAn Arizona grand jury has charged 18 people involved in the scheme to create a slate of false electors for Donald Trump, including 11 people who served as those fake electors and seven Trump allies who aided the scheme.Kris Mayes, Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, announced the charges on Wednesday, and said the 11 fake electors had been charged with felonies for fraud,...

  • Trump calls RFK Jr. a 'Democrat plant,' says voting for him is a 'wasted protest vote'

    Former President Donald Trump accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of being a “Democrat plant” in a tirade against the independent presidential candidate.

  • Electoral College War Between Maine and Nebraska

    There's a war brewing between Maine and Nebraska over both states' practice of awarding electoral votes based on which candidate wins individual congressional districts.

  • The Enquirer was the go-to tabloid. Trump helped change that.

    Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died.

  • Ted Cruz Pressured to Turn on Donald Trump

    Republican Senator Ted Cruz is being pressured to turn on former President Donald Trump after former National Enquirer published David Pecker testified that he helped Trump's 2016 campaign by manufacturing fake stories about Cruz.Pecker made the remarks at Trump's hush-money criminal trial in New York City on Monday and Tuesday, testifying that he helped the then-future president win the White House by agreeing to publish negative and false stories about Cruz and his other political rivals...

  • Trump Has Changed the Rules for How Republicans Win (and Lose)

    Not only is the 2024 presidential election weirder than we imagine, but it is weirder than we can imagine. Former President Donald Trump enjoys an insurmountable 22-point lead among people who don't vote. Presidentish Joe Biden has an insurmountable nine-point lead among those who do. This is all according to Interactive Polls.

  • Donald Trump Swiftly Changes His Stance on Ron DeSantis

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis received rare praise from former President Donald Trump a day after the pair had a "great meeting" in the Sunshine State.A private meeting on Sunday between Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee for president, and his ex-rival DeSantis has fueled speculation that the former president may tap the Florida governor to be his running mate in November's election. However, a source told the Associated Press that the meeting was not to discuss the vice presidency...

  • New poll suggests a Trump conviction could cost him votes

    Supporters of Donald Trump who are most likely to reconsider their support if he is convicted in his Manhattan hush money trial have very Joe Biden-friendly profiles, according to a CNN poll on Americans’ views of the criminal proceedings. While three-quarters of current Trump supporters said a criminal conviction would be immaterial to them, 24% said they "might reconsider" their support. In other words, of all the voters supporting Trump in the survey, 76% were MAGA diehards, while roughly a...

  • Climate change is scary now. It will be terrifying under Trump

    The intrusion of Donald Trump into this nation’s political bloodstream and his refusal to depart the field after eight long years has provided him ample opportunity to reveal his nature to the American public. His grotesque mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and his callous disregard of the lives of American citizens was probably the worst example of his stunning lack of human conscience or empathy. That was almost certainly the primary reason Americans decided to dispose of him after one...