Last week, various Christian nationalists and abortion abolitionists gathered for a discussion on Twitter about how they should respond to former President Donald Trump’s recent statements about abortion, specifically his criticism that a recent court ruling in Arizona went too far and his claim that he would not sign a national abortion ban if he’s […]
NEW YORK >> Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.”
Poor Donald Trump. It seems he isn’t selling enough $399 high-tops or $60 Bibles, and his Truth Social stock is in the toilet, so it’s time for a new, new, new, new grift: charging his fellow Republicans for uttering his name. The Trump campaign announced in a letter Politico obtained that Republican candidates and committees are now expected to pay “a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC” for using his “name, image, and likeness in fundraising...
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, political reporter Allan Smith examines how Donald Trump's new abortion stance takes a page from the GOP's 2022 midterm playbook. Plus, senior political editor Mark Murray asks if policy announcements from Trump and Joe Biden on Monday were blotted out by the total...
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.” As Donald Trump seeks the presidency for a third time, he is being vigorously opposed by […]
As Trump seeks the presidency, he’s being shadowed by a chorus of people who served in his administration who have become sharp critics.
The campaign for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid has come up with a new way to raise cash — which involves calling on down-ballot candidates who use his name and likeness in fundraising pushes to give him a cut of the money they raise. “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC. This includes, but is not limited to, sending...
A judge refused a delay motion from former President Donald Trump as he appeals a gag order from Judge Juan Merchan barring him from incessantly attacking court officers and the judge's own family.The worst part for Trump, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig explained on CNN Tuesday, is that even if Trump is ultimately successful in his bid to remove the gag order, it won't actually do anything to help him."Donald Trump's first criminal trial remains on track to begin on Monday after his latest...
Former Rep. Justin Amash served in Congress for exactly one decade, with his final years in Washington, D.C., featuring him dramatically quitting the GOP, voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, and deciding not to run for reelection. At the time, in 2019, he said Congress’s corruption was worse than in the famous Netflix series […]
EXCLUSIVE — A Nebraska Republican Party official resigned over the weekend, days after the failure of a legislative effort to change Electoral College vote rules that helped President Joe Biden in 2020 and could again this year in one of the nation’s otherwise reddest states. Doug Petersen stepped down as 2nd Congressional District chairman after […]
Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh (Ill.) said that former President Trump “appeals to the worst of us” when discussing his rhetoric and called on President Biden to “recognize the moment” when appealing to voters heading into November. Walsh, who served one term in the House, criticized Trump and called him an “evil demagogue.” “I mean
A Republican party official who was a founder of her state's "Women for Trump" advocacy group is admitting she is not enthused with the former president's third bid for the Oval Office and hopes that, if he doesn't win, he will just go away.According to a profile in the Guardian digging into Donald Trump's voter woes in the key swing state of Wisconsin, local activist Terri Burl bluntly admitted she is "not excited" by the 2024 campaign and is making a unique pitch to some "Never Trump"...