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...
Last week, various Christian nationalists and abortion abolitionists gathered for a discussion on Twitter about how they should respond to former President Donald Trump’s recent statements about abortion, specifically his criticism that a recent court ruling in Arizona went too far and his claim that he would not sign a national abortion ban if he’s […]
Based upon the opinion of two prospective jurors who did not make the cut to participate in the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump, the former president's defense may be hampered by the attorney he hand-selected to oversee the case.With opening statements scheduled to begin Monday morning in the so-called hush money case where the former president is looking at the possibility of jail time after being charged with 34 felonies, the last thing Trump needs is a lawyer whose courtroom demeanor...
In elections across the country, the abortion issue is proving to be political kryptonite for Republicans. And now, a columnist is suggesting a major swing state's recent abortion restrictions threaten to doom former President Donald Trump's hopes of retaking the White House in November, and in turn, Republicans' down-ballot electoral chances.In a Saturday column for the British Independent newspaper, columnist Jon Sopel wrote that Trump's "woman problem" is growing more urgent by the day. He...
A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, alleging it illegally deleted the emails of federal employees in violation of federal law. America First Legal, led by former senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, and the National […]
Former President Donald Trump's key defense in his hush money trial, now underway in Manhattan, is likely to present a major problem as the case unfolds, a legal analyst revealed Monday. Former prosecutor Maya Wiley appeared on MSNBC to explain the pitfall Trump may stumble into as he tries to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's star witness, Michael Cohen. While Cohen is expected to testify that he orchestrated payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016...
I quit when it sank in that pushing back at my routine embassy job felt less like resistance than complicityWhen I began working as a consular officer at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, I was at the beginning of what was supposed to be a 20-year diplomatic career. Maybe I didn’t love all of US foreign policy, but in my routine visa assignment I was deeply committed to treating everybody I interviewed fairly and playing my part in facilitating the American immigrant dream. Then, on 27 June...
When the Trump show heads to Shankweiler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, it was set to coincide with a tribute to the 90th anniversary of America's second oldest drive-in movie theater. But now the owners of the Shankweiler’s Drive-In said the small business was forced to switch the day after being informed that the 45th president and presumptive nominee would be stumping in town. "We found out through the news," Shankweiler’s co-owner Matt McClanahan said in a video posted on their social media...
Judge Juan Merchan made a last-minute ruling Friday that denied Donald Trump's attempt to stop his New York hush money trial, claiming pretrial publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.The first of the former president's criminal cases to go before a jury is now almost certain to start Monday.In just four pages, Merchan shot down the argument that the publicity meant it would be impossible to find impartial jurors in Manhattan.Experts have pointed out that Trump himself has spent...
Former President Donald Trump's recent comments about his hush money trial jury may have violated his gag order, according to a former judge.Trump made the questionable comments about his panel of New York City jurors in an interview with John Fredericks on Real America's Voice Monday night. "That jury was picked so fast," Trump said. "Ninety-five percent DemocratsIt's a very unfair situation, that I can tell you." Fredericks proceeded to call the trial a "scam Soviet manifesto trial going on...
Conventional political wisdom suggests the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, which got underway in Manhattan last week, will have a minimal effect on the 2024 election. Many political observers see the allegations — covering up hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election — as relatively trifling, and certainly not comparable to the other three indictments Trump faces in Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C. Even a guilty verdict in the trial would “be unlikely to have a big influence come...
Former President Trump met Wednesday night with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of conversations the presumptive Republican nominee has held with foreign leaders. Trump hosted Duda at Trump Tower in New York City, where the former president is staying as he attends his criminal trial over an alleged hush money scheme.