The best way to interview Donald Trump is to not interview him. Unless you’re a particularly ardent supporter of vicious, kindergarten-level lies—such as “I won the election because I was ahead on election night” or “immigrants ate my health care plan”—there’s really no reason to listen to, much less solicit, any of his so-called opinions. But Time magazine did just that. Since his latest fibs are just fragrant fish heads in a whopping seafood ‘n’ BS paella, it’s important to at least take a...
Donald Trump's first criminal trial kicks off third week Another day, another chance Trump goes to prison. Believe it or not, Howard Dean is thinking comeback Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! New poll suggests a Trump conviction could cost him votes So voters don’t actually want to elect a criminal? Cartoon: Dogged by controversy There are no words. Kristi Noem's story of murdering her dog keeps getting worse She’s still digging, but the hole isn’t big enough for all the bodies. If you love dogs,...
Rachel Maddow dedicated time during her show on Monday to talking about the extent of the election fraud rot in the Republican Party. Acknowledging that Donald Trump is always going to hoover “up all the oxygen in the room,” Maddow said she wanted to broaden the scope to look at the GOP as a whole. "There are at least 53 Republican officials and lawyers and activists who are facing felony criminal counts other than Donald Trump himself," she said. For example, in Arizona, recently indicted...
Donald Trump can't stop the abortion policy fallout he kicked into high gear earlier this month when he declared states should be the ultimate arbiters on reproductive freedom and the bodily autonomy of pregnant Americans. In a new interview with Time magazine's Eric Cortellessa, Trump dodged questions about whether he would sign a national abortion ban, okayed the idea of monitoring pregnant women, and revisited the possibility of prosecuting anyone who gets abortion care. Asked specifically...
Louisiana's conservative Supreme Court ruled on Friday that St. George, a wealthy and heavily white suburb southeast of Baton Rouge, could incorporate as a new city. Residents of St. George had voted for incorporation by a 54-46 margin in a 2019 referendum, but lower courts had blocked it from going forward because of its potentially adverse effects on the finances of both Baton Rouge and St. George. By a 4-3 margin, however, the Supreme Court reversed those previous decisions and allowed...
It would be hard to find an organization more corrupt and incompetent than the NRA, though a few individuals on a certain court sure come to mind. In January, chief executive Wayne LaPierre ended three decades of control when he resigned ahead of a trial over tapping organization funds to treat himself to yacht trips, African safaris, and regular use of a private jet. In February, that trial ended with LaPierre being ordered to pay back almost $4.4 million. In the wake of LaPierre’s...
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of GOP chicanery from the weekend to cover during his Monday night monologue. He touched base on Donald Trump’s hush money trial, the “privately” held meeting he had with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the fruitless messaging of Trump’s progeny, Trump’s anxiety over losing some of his wacky voters to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and avowed “puppy killer” Gov. Kristi Noem. Kimmel began by throwing jabs at Trump's courtroom happy birthday wishes to his...
House Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that they’ll allow members to block any effort from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her tiny team of nihilists to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, a reminder of where the power sits in the House. “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark, and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said in a statement. ...
Donald Trump’s trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records to disguise payments made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels kicks off its third week on Tuesday. Prosecutors are expected to resume questioning former managing director of First Republic Bank Gary Farro. Farro served as a banker for Trump attorney Michael Cohen. His testimony so far has largely focused on laying out the sequence of actions by which Cohen created a shell company to pay Daniels, opened bank accounts for that shell...
Not only does CNN analyst Harry Enten think that President Joe Biden is polling better among likely voters than registered voters, but he also says Biden might benefit from low turnout in November. "It turns out that this potentially lower turnout, who does it benefit more? It actually benefits Biden more than it benefits Donald Trump at this particular moment," Enten said. Enten's supposition was that the "likely voters" who appear to be the foundation of Biden's coalition are higher...
Donald Trump, who believes he’s the only Republican who knows how to talk about abortion, just gave President Joe Biden and Democrats all the ammunition they need on the issue. In a lengthy interview with TIME, Trump refused to say he would veto a federal abortion ban three times. The question wasn’t hard the first time; a simple “yes” or “no” would have done the trick. “Will you veto any bill that imposes any federal restrictions on abortions?” “You don’t need a federal ban. We just got out...