• Trump's claim about hush money judge's daughter debunked in devastating fact-check

    Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."The account’s veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren’s known Twitter...

  • Trump lawyer John Eastman 'will lose his ability to practice law' after judge's new ruling

    John Eastman, who was indicted alongside former president Donald Trump for his alleged role in a scheme to overturn the results of Georgia's presidential election in 2020, has reportedly been recommended for disbarment by an attorney discipline judge.The court recommended disbarment for Eastman, who has previously seen his Trump-related legal arguments shot down in the public square, on Wednesday, according to POLITICO's Kyle Cheney.ALSO READ: ‘Don't have enough’: Wealthy Trump allies balk at...

  • 'Y’all are so dumb': Nancy Mace feuds with fact-checker over $517 million funding claim

    Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) took the high road Wednesday after she claimed credit for $517 million for her district and naysayers accused her of voting against the legislation that made the funding possible. "Y’all are so dumb," Mace retorted on X. "I delivered for the lowcountry and will always continue to do so. Oh and do better."Mace's snappy retort was directed at X's fact-checking account @communitynotes, which posted context to Mace's initial boast of funding for South Carolina's first...

  • 'No pathway': Chris Christie reportedly bows out of No Labels third-party consideration

    Chris Christie won't roll up the sleeves to take on Donald Trump as a third party candidate. The Washington Post reported the former New Jersey governor scratched his name off of the list of potentials that No Labels hopes to formalize ahead of the November 5 election to rival President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.“I appreciate the encouragement I’ve gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy,” Christie informed The Post on Wednesday. “While I believe this is a conversation that...

  • Trump biographer exposes 'serial bankruptcy artist' ex-president's greatest failures

    Former President Donald Trump has made his career off of conning others out of their money — and that's what his 2024 campaign is all about, biographer Tim O'Brien told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.O'Brien's analysis arrived on the heels of a New York Times investigation that revealed Trump has paid off $100 million in legal fees raised by stirring "rigged" election panic. Recent reports also show Trump is forming a new arrangement with the Republican National Committee to expand that...

  • 'Flat-out false': Jack Smith shreds Trump valet Walt Nauta's newest legal argument

    The only proof former President Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta offered that he’s the victim of a vindictive courtroom witch hunt is a chat his lawyers had with prosecutors over coffee, according to special counsel Jack Smith. Smith makes this argument in a new filing to Florida’s federal court Wednesday in rebuttal to Nauta’s bid to criminal charges that he helped conceal documents at Trump’s social club Mar-a-Lago. “Many of the factual allegations are flat-out false, and the associated...

  • 'Trump has defrauded his own voters': Conservative explains ex-president's 'grift'

    During a segment on MSNBC's Deadline: White House this Wednesday, the panel discussed a new report from The New York Times that states Donald Trump has "spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials" -- money that has come "almost entirely on donations made in an attempt to fight the results of the 2020 election."Speaking during the segment, political strategist Tim Miller acknowledged that...

  • Revealed: New texts allegedly show Devin Nunes aide organizing Biden disinformation plot

    Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas released what he claims to be texts showing an aide to former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) coordinating with Trump allies how to spread Biden/Ukraine conspiracy theories.Parnas, who has been slowly rolling out his correspondences with figures in Trump world, was part of Giuliani's effort to push the idea that Biden sought to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor before his son's business holdings could be investigated, which has been repeatedly debunked."Devin Nunes...

  • 'Shocked': Condolences pour in after former Senator Joe Lieberman dies from fall

    Former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman has reportedly passed away, and politicians and experts were quick to give condolences.Lieberman, who was previously connected to the "No Labels" third-party movement, died due to complications following a fall, according to a report."BREAKING NEWS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82," Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News said on Wednesday. "The Stamford, Conn., native died from complications from a fall, his family said."ALSO READ: A criminologist...

  • 'Trump is in a difficult position': Ex-defense secretary explains how Biden can 'dominate'

    In order for Joe Biden the candidate to stay put as president, he must own April and all of autumn. For the next couple months, while Donald Trump will likely be defending himself in a Manhattan criminal court against charges he manufactured a hush-money scheme to silence porn star Stormy Daniels to help him win the White House — former Defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta thinks it opens up a chance for President Joe Biden to up his ground game and go on the offensive. "I think...

  • 'Careless and demagogic' MAGA movement could tank Republicans' chances in 2024: analysis

    Former President Donald Trump and his allies have racked up an enormous sum in defamation suit losses, wrote Aaron Blake for The Washington Post on Wednesday — and that could add yet another headache to their 2024 challenges.This comes as Kari Lake, the failed gubernatorial candidate now running for Senate in Arizona, opted to skip her own defense in the defamation suit brought against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer for her claims he helped rig the 2022 election against her, and...

  • 'Very big problem': Conservative's Ronna McDaniel defense comes back to bite the GOP

    A conservative's defense of Ronna McDaniel — the former Republican National Committee chair ousted from NBC when her hiring spurred an uproar — came back to bite the GOP when it hit social media Wednesday. Washington Post commentator Hugh Hewitt appeared on Fox News Wednesday to share his views on the news network's decision to drop McDaniel over the support the RNC that, under her leadership, threw behind Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. "I don't know who is going to keep...