“If everything’s honest, I’d gladly accept the results.” That was former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, playing cute with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s question over whether he’d accept the outcome of Wisconsin’s presidential election. As my colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim pointed out, Trump has a long track record of similar statements, offering sham justifications to disguise the fact that he doesn’t feel bound by election results. The events of Jan. 6, 2021, laid bare the true...
Former President Donald Trump indicated in a campaign speech Wednesday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, that he intends to spare the United States from the kind of accelerated cultural degradation and jihadist takeover he believes have alternatively rendered Paris and London "unrecognizable." The Biden campaign apparently figured Trump's remarks were beyond the pale or at the very least out of touch with popular sentiment and decided to share them on social media. It appears this was a grave...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former president Donald Trump met privately with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the weekend, according to three people familiar with the discussion, marking a detente between the former rivals after a brutal primary contest marked by insults and bruised egos. The meeting, which lasted three hours, was organized to help the […]
Donald Trump's campaign is "playing up" issues like crime to appeal to more male voters and turn the 2024 election into a "men vs. women" contest, an Axios reporter claimed Wednesday. Speaking to MSNBC, Axios co-founder Jim Vandehei said that with ballot initiatives for reproductive health in states around the country, Trump's campaign has given up attempting to appeal to female voters and opted for appearing more "manly" instead. "If you look at the last off-year election, if you look at...
Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential
The New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump continued for the eleventh day on Friday, with one of the prosecution's so-called key witnesses, Hope Hicks, taking the stand. Hicks was Trump's former White House communications director and campaign aide.Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo questioned Hicks. During her testimony, Hicks stated that she "was concerned" when she received an email request for comment from the Washington Post regarding a piece on the "Access Hollywood" tape....
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Trump is expected to hold fundraisers in the coming weeks in Kentucky, New York, Nevada, Houston and Dallas.
Nationwide protests at college campuses about the Israel-Hamas war are becoming a campaign issue for President Joe Biden. Laura Davison reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Former President Donald Trump's campaign is griping that the 2024 presidential debates have been "delayed" after the commission that organizes them declined a request to hold the debates sooner than usual.During an interview last week with radio talk show icon Howard Stern of SiriusXM, President Joe Biden said that he would agree to debate Trump, ending months of speculation about whether the debates would even take place this year. Trump refused to debate any of his Republican presidential...
As Trump awaits a ruling on whether he will be held in contempt for violating a gag order, prosecutors on Thursday accused him of making four more violations.
Cohen is the prosecution's star witness but his record gives the defence plenty ammo to undercut the case.