The prosecution in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial is attempting to "stack the deck" against Trump in jury selection, Jesse Binnall said.
Say what you want about Donald Trump, but the man is a brilliant communicator. His builder-from-Queens bluntness sometimes manifests as obnoxiousness, but it also has produced some of the most effective messaging of our time. Has there ever been a more concise slogan than “Make America Great Again”? Into those four simple words are packed a vastness of disaffection that is otherwise indescribable even if one uses the entire dictionary.
Donald Trump believes he shouldn’t be held accountable for any crimes he’s been accused of before, during, or after his presidency. But on Monday, he found himself sitting in a courtroom as the first former U.S. president ever to go on trial for criminal charges. It’s the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accusing Trump of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. But while this might be...
Attorney General Merrick Garland graded himself an “A” for his work on crime over his three years in office, though he told Congress on Tuesday that there is “room for improvement.”
Donald Trump's first criminal trial is set to begin Monday. Tim O’Brien, the man who wrote the book on the former president, joins The Weekend to preview the historic trial as Trump takes aim at his ex-attorney Michael Cohen and judges despite a gag order.
The mass exodus of lawmakers fleeing D.C. ahead of the portentous 2024 election is proof that "MAGA hellions" are determined to run the show and run out those who don't agree, according to a new political analysis.New York Times columnist Frank Bruni expressed as much in his latest piece, "The great 2024 exodus is all about Trump-era discord and dysfunction".Bruni focuses on the dozens of House Republicans he says are heading for the exits because of fatigue with the Tea Party movement, MAGA and...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says Trump prosecution isn't about politics
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke candidly about his unease with the job’s political demands. A former law professor, he’s more comfortable untangling complex legal questions than swaggering up to a podium. But when the first
A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the sensitive records after he left office. Lawyers for Trump had cited a 1978 statute known as the Presidential Records Act in demanding that the case, […]
Elements of the liberal media don’t see the lawsuits and trials against former President Trump as just tools to score wins for their electoral politics, they also see them as tools to score wins for their racial politics as well. MSNBC host Joy Reid made that abundantly clear during the network’s Monday lovefest for the hush money trial in New York when she praised “my DEIs” for bringing so many charges against the former President. Delving into her usual race-baiting, Reid described it as...
Elements of the liberal media don’t see the lawsuits and trials against former President Trump as just tools to score wins for their electoral politics, they also see them as tools to score wins for their racial politics as well. MSNBC host Joy Reid made that abundantly clear during the network’s Monday lovefest for the hush money trial in New York when she praised “my DEIs” for bringing so many charges against the former President. Delving into her usual race-baiting, Reid described it as...
Former President Donald Trump experienced a fresh form of humiliation during the second day of his criminal hush money trial, listening to a cavalcade of negative social media posts about him without reacting, according to new piece from Daily Beast writer David Mack. Mack revels in "the Joy of making Trump listen to mean tweets About himself" in his new op-ed."The vicious, thin-skinned ex-president was forced to endure readings of social media posts by prospective jurors that mercilessly mocked...