Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway in New York. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner break down the latest from day one of Trump’s trial. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
Jeet Heer The problem isn’t that the former president is broke but that he’s for sale.
Donald Trump started Monday by staking his official incoherent position on abortion in a too-many-minutes-long speech packed with lies. Like ending Roe v. Wade was something that “all legal scholars—both sides—wanted, and, in fact, demanded.” And his assertion that Democrats “are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.” CNN’s Jim Acosta quickly fact-checked both of those claims. “Democrats do not believe in execution after birth,”...
Donald Trump made a pit stop Tuesday at a New York City convenience store where a worker stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense in 2022. The former president vowed to take on crime and “straighten New York out.”
Jill Biden says former Republican President Donald Trump is a “bully” who is “dangerous” for the LGBTQ community
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden rallied LGBTQ voters for President Joe Biden ‘s reelection campaign on Friday, calling likely rival Donald Trump a “bully” who is “dangerous” to their community and urging its members to “fight like hell” to keep the Republican from defeating her husband in November. She said outside forces are working to […]
Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh continued his vocal opposition of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, calling him an “evil demagogue.” Walsh appeared on MSNBC’s The Weekend to comment on the recent comments Trump made while on the campaign trail. In Ohio last month, the former president suggested the automobile industry will undergo a “bloodbath” if he is […]
First lady Jill Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump on Friday while speaking to an LGBT advocacy group. “Donald Trump is a bully,” she said at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event. “He is dangerous to the LGBTQ community, to our families, to our country, and we cannot let him win. […]
This past February, the increasingly legendary crime fiction author Don Winslow announced the publication of “City in Ruins,” the third and final book in his bestselling Danny Ryan series. He also announced that the novel would be his last, and that he was retiring from writing books, to concentrate full-time on political activism of the extremely anti-Donald Trump variety. This was not entirely unexpected, but it still felt like a surprise. For several years, Winslow and Shane Salerno—his best...
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign wrote a letter Thursday to the Commission on Presidential Debates urging the panel to move up the dates of the general election debates.