Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is no recent convert to Donald Trump’s gospel of the Big Lie; after the 2020 election, Johnson led 100 House Republicans in filing an amicus brief supporting an effort to invalidate the results of four swing states President Joe Biden won. So it was little surprise to see him standing next to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, trying to link election conspiracy-mongering to immigration fear-mongering. Johnson and Trump were there to propose new legislation...
To the editor: Buried more than 20 paragraphs into your article on the presidential candidates' instances of dishonesty and mistakes, there is a statement by Joe Biden that is propped up as a lie that justifies this comparison to Donald Trump. President Biden's "lie"? That he visited ground zero in New York the day after 9/11, when he actually went nine days later. Contrasting this misstatement with the torrent of lies and malicious fabrications that flow nonstop from former President Trump, and...
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A kerfuffle in Grand Rapids, Mich., in recent days revealed a grim truth about America’s institutions in these troubled times: Too many of them lack the courage to stand up to the threat to democracy that is Donald Trump, thereby contributing to the alarming staying power of the once and perhaps future president. We already know about the failure of the main institutional players in this constitutional crisis: those atop the Republican Party. “Political parties are democracy’s gatekeepers,”...
Because of holidays and natural disasters, Tax Day comes later this year for residents of several US states.
While Donald Trump has struggled to get some major traditional Republican donors on board, he retains the support of some heavy hitters
Twelve major media outlets signed a joint statement asking President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive nominees, to debate ahead of the general election in November ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News Media, NBCUniversal News Group, NewsNation, Noticias Univision (Univision Network News), NPR, PBS NewsHour, and USA […]
Former President Donald Trump will be in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday in hopes of raising more money in one night than has been done ever before in a presidential race. Hedge fund portfolio manager John Paulson is hosting the event in his home with the expectation it will raise $43 million on Trump’s behalf. […]
Trump's new grift: Charging GOP candidates to use his name As if selling sneakers and Bibles wasn’t grift enough. Jimmy Kimmel's late-night digs are driving Trump bonkers Kimmel’s trolling of “yabba dabba doofus” is just what we need. Cartoon: The running mate Sometimes you’re just stuck with someone. New poll shows when Republicans talk about abortion, they're losing Despite what Republicans hope, abortion is not a subject that can be swept under the rug. Trump wants to gut diversity...
No reasonable jury in America would convict anyone of the charges laid out against Trump, but this is New York City.
Trump Rakes In $50 Million In One Night, But Israel-Advocate Adelson Still Holding Out Less than a week after President Biden raised $25 million at a celebrity-studded New York City event, Donald Trump doubled him up, raking in a whopping $50.5 million at a billionaire's mansion on Saturday. However, Biden still has a big financial edge, as Trump's biggest 2020 donor -- Israel-booster Miriam Adelson -- has yet to give a single dollar. "This is likely to be the biggest and one of...
Moose's tale begins with a harrowing ordeal, having survived a gunshot that left her with a bullet embedded in her lung.