Former President Donald Trump has just gone through the first week of his criminal hush payment trial in Manhattan — and it's already hurting him politically, said commentator Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday evening. The conventional wisdom for months has been that the Trump trials, and particularly the Manhattan trial, will not significantly impact him, with large numbers of voters simply not caring about it. But this ignores that a great many non-Trump...
Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speakerFacing the press alongside the House speaker, fellow Republican Mike Johnson, Donald Trump bragged: “We broke Roe v Wade.”The former president made the stark admission about his dominant role in attacks on abortion rights at the end of a week in which the rightwing Arizona state supreme court ruled that an 1864 law imposing a near-total ban could go back into effect. Continue...
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...
Jane Timm, senior reporter for NBC News, talks with Alex Wagner about how threats and harassment from radicalized Trump supporters have made the already difficult job of election administration even more challenging, driving out huge numbers of election workers at exactly the worst time.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption, emails obtained by Breitbart News show.
Trump has violated his gag order seven more times since Monday, according to the prosecution in his New York hush money trial. Renato Mariotti, Ameshia Cross, and Dean Obeidallah join Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss what could change after Trump’s gag order on Tuesday and how Trump’s behavior inside and outside the courtroom is hurting him both politically and personally.
Former President Donald Trump seems unable to prevent his campaign from struggling as he instead focuses on "playing the victim" in the throes of his hush-money criminal trial in New York, according to former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.Trump's trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which began in Manhattan this week with jury selection, is expected to continue into June. The former president and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to all...
Donald Trump's lawyers have just 24 hours to hand over evidence to prosecutors or risk seeing it banned from the former president's criminal hush money trial, according to a reporter inside the courtroom. New York City Judge Juan Merchan set the deadline Monday after Assistant District Attorney Josh Steinglass said Trump's attorneys had failed to turn over any of the exhibits they plan to use in the former president's defense, according to Law 360 reporter Stewart Bishop. Trump's legal team was...
Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors.