Well, we’re now a few days into Donald Trump’s election fraud trial in New York City, and we are already learning a lot. Unfortunately, none of it is very surprising.For instance, it looks like our media has settled into calling it a “hush money” trial, even if it most assuredly is a helluva lot more than that. In raw, legal terms, Trump is charged with violating New York Election Law, which prohibits conspiracies to promote a candidate’s election through unlawful means, and/or concealing a...
Trump's fundraising pleas center around his ongoing hush-money trial.
Based upon the opinion of two prospective jurors who did not make the cut to participate in the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump, the former president's defense may be hampered by the attorney he hand-selected to oversee the case.With opening statements scheduled to begin Monday morning in the so-called hush money case where the former president is looking at the possibility of jail time after being charged with 34 felonies, the last thing Trump needs is a lawyer whose courtroom demeanor...
200 years ago, this landscape was almost completely lost after the Fens were drained
House members are lobbying Speaker Mike Johnson to raise the threshold to trigger the procedure to oust the speaker. However, Johnson announced he would not change the procedure for removing him from the speakership after Republican hardliners reacted with fury to the proposed change of rules. A single member can force a floor vote on the motion to vacate - part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made to become speaker last year. The move would have helped ensure the Louisiana Republican’s job without...
Ten years ago, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under Barack Obama and George W. Bush, wrote a memoir in which he offered a damning assessment of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
While attempting to sway voters ahead of the 2024 election, Biden is often repeating this years-old story about Trump.
We're in the thick of election season, and the MAGA movement appears to be letting young influencers drive the Trump campaign. And as with many novice drivers, this is shaping up to be a pretty bumpy ride. I’ve written a lot about the rising power of younger conservative activists, particularly affiliates of Turning Point USA, within the Republican Party. But lately, they have been flexing their influence over Team Trump’s public relations efforts, as well as some of its policy priorities. And...
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) stated that “there should be criticism of administrations on both sides of the aisle” over how they handled Iran, and Iran has
In elections across the country, the abortion issue is proving to be political kryptonite for Republicans. And now, a columnist is suggesting a major swing state's recent abortion restrictions threaten to doom former President Donald Trump's hopes of retaking the White House in November, and in turn, Republicans' down-ballot electoral chances.In a Saturday column for the British Independent newspaper, columnist Jon Sopel wrote that Trump's "woman problem" is growing more urgent by the day. He...
On April 23, 2020, Donald Trump stood in the White House press briefing room and raised the prospect of an entirely new kind of Covid treatment. As the then-president saw it, patients might benefit if they received, among other things, injections of disinfectant into their bodies. The brief, impromptu comments, quickly became the quintessential moment of Team Trump’s pandemic response, capturing the Republican’s ineptitude and the eagerness with which he embraced nonsense. Exactly one year...
A dozen jurors were chosen for Trump’s hush-money trial in April 2024.