• Mike Pence calls Trump's abortion policy a 'slap in the face' to 'millions of Americans': Former VP gives old boss stinging criticism and suggests Republicans want to 'wash their hands' of the battle for life

    Pence blasted Republicans for backing away on the issue of abortion. Former vice president touted the Trump-Pence administration nominating the conservative justices who overturn Roe v Wade. READ:

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  • Trump's desperation for cash is complicating his VP search: report

    The dual burdens of funding an expensive presidential campaign combined with funneling enormous amounts of cash to pay his legal teams attempting to keep him out of jail is creating bumps in the road for Donald Trump's choice of a running mate.Add to considerations over what the number two person on the ballot with the former president brings to the table with regard to voters is Trump's desperate need for campaign cash because he is trailing his opponent, President Joe Biden, by a substantial...

  • Mike Pence: Donald Trump's Abortion Stance Is a 'Slap in the Face'

    Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed former President Donald Trump's position on a national abortion ban as a "slap in the face."

  • Mike Trout hits 6th home run, Angels lose to Rays

    ANAHEIM -- The homers keep coming for Mike Trout early this season. Trout set a club record on Tuesday, becoming the fastest player in franchise history to reach six homers to start a season, getting to the mark in just 11 games. He crushed a two-run blast in the first

  • Trump is going 'down in flames' when 'powerful' evidence hits at trial: ex-prosecutor

    Donald Trump is going to quickly realize that all the tricks he's used to survive politically are not going to help him get out of a criminal trial, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday.This comes amid reporting that the former president's allies are fearful about how he might react when he comes face to face with the witnesses at his trial."Glenn, I'll give you the last word on this how do you expect the prosecutor to handle this case?" asked Reid. "It's...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump won't stop her efforts to oust Mike Johnson: reporter

    Former President Donald Trump gave House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a vote of confidence when they held a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago last week, implicitly rebuking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her threats to oust him from power.But Greene is not deterred from her war with the speaker, CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju reports."On way into GOP meeting, [Greene] told me that Trump’s comments that he 'stands by' Mike Johnson doesn’t change her push to oust him," Raju...

  • 'Scared' Trump has 'something deep to lose' at hush money trial: ex-president's biographer

    Monday is the beginning of Donald Trump's New York trial that will decide whether he is just as guilty as Michael Cohen was in the hush money scheme involving an adult film star. Trump, who faces 34 felony counts in the case, is accused of paying off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to keep her mouth shut about their purported affair. Despite three attempts this week to delay the trial, it is moving forward. All the while, a new poll shows that 64 percent of Americans see the matter as...

  • Revealed: Trump county chair is reportedly an ex-cop who threatened to kill his boss' wife

    A New Hampshire county chair for the Trump campaign allegedly made rape and murder threats in a workplace dispute over purported sexual misconduct while he was serving as a police officer in the town of Claremont.According to S.V. Dáte for the Huffington Post, Jonathan Stone, who also serves as a representative in the New Hampshire State House, first met Trump on the campaign trail in 2016, where he gave him an inscribed AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle.However, he reported, "At that point, it...

  • 'He knows he's going to lose': Experts explain Trump's 'fearful' moves in hush money case

    Days before the trial starts and Donald Trump sits front and center to defend against charges of falsifying business records to hide a hush money scheme, experts say his last-ditch stalling game in the form of filings are a sign that "he knows he's going to lose."The batting average for former President Donald Trump to push back the April 15 tax day start date of his first criminal case, and historically the first against a former president who is running for a second term, is 0 for three. All...

  • Trump loses nearly $2 billion as Truth Social parent stock hits new low: reports

    The stock value for Donald Trump's media company dropped to its lowest since going public, stripping away nearly $2 billion from the former president's share, according to multiple reports. Shares for Trump Media were as high as $79.38 on March 26 when trading began, but this Friday shares plunges to $41.90, a drop of around 47 percent. The drop also took Trump’s personal stake in the company from $4.9 billion to about $3.3 billion, CNN reported. The fluctuation in share prices is causing...

  • Who runs the House? Donald Trump runs the House

    In the midst of one of his early morning social media snits, Donald Trump thumped out an all-caps “KILL FISA” insisting that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was used to spy on his campaign. Trump’s timing wasn’t coincidental, as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had scheduled a rule vote on Wednesday to bring the FISA bill up for reauthorization. It’s the kind of thing that should have gone along without an issue. During both tenures of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the number of rule...