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....
The Senate Republican leader told ABC News he'll keep fighting GOP isolationism.
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday celebrated the impending passage of $60 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine ahead of a final vote, while lamenting the fact that it took months to secure enough Republican support to land it. At a press conference, the Kentucky Republican pinpointed two men responsible for that delay: former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and former President Donald Trump. “The demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up...
More than 50 prospective jurors were dismissed en masse at Donald Trump's hush money trial on Monday.During the first day of the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, Justice Juan Merchan asked the first group of 96 potential jurors to raise their hands if they could not be impartial to Trump."More than half of prospective jurors in the first panel of 96 people have been excused after saying they could not be fair and impartial," Graham Kates wrote for the press pool. "At least 50...
The GOP is, of course, still Donald Trump’s party. His coronation is set for this July in Milwaukee, and Republican grandees continue to bend the knee, saying they will support him even if he is convicted of felonies by a jury of his peers. But the images out of New York, coupled with the latest state primary results, ought to spread disquiet in the party ranks. In Pennsylvania this week, former U.N. ambassador and one-time presidential candidate Nikki Haley got nearly 157,000 votes in the GOP...
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
Trump let loose outside court after the first day of jury selection as he became the first U.S. ex-president to stand criminal trial.
Judge Juan Merchan issued a stern warning to Donald Trump for his reaction to a potential juror in the courtroom. Former Trump Payroll Corp. attorney William Brennan reacts.
On Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) proved once again why she’s a former federal prosecutor. Speaking about the upcoming hush-money trial against former President Trump, Hostin proclaimed that she feared the impartial jury would be infiltrated by a Trump supporter who would “lie” by telling the court the contradictory statement: “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial.” Hostin admitted she was “excited”...
On Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) proved once again why she’s a former federal prosecutor. Speaking about the upcoming hush-money trial against former President Trump, Hostin proclaimed that she feared the impartial jury would be infiltrated by a Trump supporter who would “lie” by telling the court the contradictory statement: “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial.” Hostin admitted she was “excited”...
Judge Juan Merchan told President Donald Trump’s defense team they were "losing all credibility" during a Tuesday hearing on whether the 45th president violated a gag order in the Manhattan criminal trial. "I have to tell you right now, you’re losing all credibility in the court," Merchan told Trump attorney Todd Blanche on Tuesday. Tuesday’s court proceedings began with Merchan hearing the prosecution's request that Trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order that bans him from...
Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a scheme to silence porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking about an alleged tryst with him.