After Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020, former Attorney General Bill Barr seemed eager to put some distance between himself and the president he went to radical lengths to serve. In early 2021, for example, the Republican lawyer accused Trump of “inexcusable” behavior on Jan. 6. “The president’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office,” Barr said the day after the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol. A few months later, Barr sat down with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and went a little further....
A couple of hours before the start of his first criminal trial, Donald Trump posed a question by way of his social media platform. “Why didn’t they bring this totally discredited lawsuit 7 years ago???” the former president asked. “Election Interference!” For now, let’s not dwell on the Republican’s obvious errors of fact and judgment, including the fact that the criminal case has only been “totally discredited” in his active imagination. Let’s also brush past the fact that the defendant took a...
Judge Juan Merchan made a last-minute ruling Friday that denied Donald Trump's attempt to stop his New York hush money trial, claiming pretrial publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.The first of the former president's criminal cases to go before a jury is now almost certain to start Monday.In just four pages, Merchan shot down the argument that the publicity meant it would be impossible to find impartial jurors in Manhattan.Experts have pointed out that Trump himself has spent...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr appears to be endorsing Donald Trump in 2024 after years of decrying the former president, according to a new report. “I’ve said all along, given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country, and in my mind, that’s — I will vote the Republican ticket, " Barr said in a Fox News appearance last year. Barr, a lifelong Republican, served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Barr then...
In a bonus contender for "Worst of the Week," House Republicans introduced a bill renaming Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after former President Donald Trump. In response, a group of Democrats proposed a bill to rename Miami federal prison to the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution”. MSNBC Senior Political analyst Matthew Dowd and Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross join Ayman Mohyeldin to share their reactions.
Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham explains how she believes Donald and Melania Trump feel after a New York appellate judge denied an attempt to delay his hush money trial.
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 […]
If you're going to make a big deal about Bill Barr supporting Trump in this year's election, at least mention that the side channel Barr set up for Russian disinformation on Hunter Biden in 2020 ended up framing Joe Biden.
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who admitted to testifying falsely during Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail on perjury charges. Weisselberg was charged with five counts of perjury, but under a deal with prosecutors, he agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts relating to testimony he gave during a 2020 deposition with the attorney general’s office. Weisselberg also admitted to testifying falsely at the civil fraud trial last...
Former President Donald Trump slammed National Public Radio (NPR) just a day after a scathing op-ed by a senior editor, accusing the broadcaster of political bias.In an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform, Trump on Wednesday demanded that funding be withheld from the nonprofit media outlet over the opinion piece, which was published on Tuesday by The Free Press."NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO 'DAMAGE TRUMP,'" the former...
The Kansas Legislature has passed a bill naming the state’s “Official Heritage Railroad.”
Democrats are the "radicals" on abortion, former President Donald Trump said after revealing his official position on the issue.