Throughout its 248-year history, America has witnessed dramatic, high-profile courtroom battles that test the laws and tear at its social fabric: from the Haymarket Square riot case and the Scopes Monkey Trial to the failed prosecution of Hall of Fame NFL running back O.J. Simpson in a grisly double murder. But the country has never seen anything quite like the made-for-the-screen trial set to start Monday in New York: A former president, who is also the current Republican Party nominee for the...
Monday was genuinely historic. For the first time since the nation was founded, a jury sat down to hear criminal charges against a man who once served as the nation’s highest executive. Despite months in which pundits had dismissed this case as the weakest of the criminal cases Donald Trump is facing, the prosecution got off to a powerful start, outlining for the jury Trump’s long history of scandal, cover-up, and playing fast and loose with legalities. Judge Juan Merchan kept things moving...
Even if somehow, someway you thought Donald Trump had "good policies," I don't see how you deny that he's a moron. Not just the stupidest President ever — that's kind of a given — but one of the stupidest adults you'd ever actually meet. — Read the rest
As Donald Trump the candidate overlaps with Donald Trump the defendant, new polling finds that many crucial independent voters consider his trial to be a serious issue. NBC News' Hallie Jackson reports.
He’s losing cash reserves and legal gambits, and his eponymous stock – DJT – took an embarrassing tumble this weekDonald Trump is doing his best Wizard of Oz imitation. These days, Trump is not looking like the “winner” he needs voters to believe him to be. Like the title character in L Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy and the 1939 movie, there is less there than meets the eye. The 45th president’s lead in the polls evaporates while his cash stash shrinks.His upcoming felony fraud trial in...
Donald Trump has an unfortunate habit, which I like to call “preemptive delegitimization.” The way it works is relatively simple: When there’s even a possibility that the former president might be held accountable for alleged wrongdoing, the Republican goes to ridiculous lengths to undermine public confidence in the process, the officials, and the institutions. The motivations behind preemptive delegitimization are obvious: If efforts to hold him accountable are inherently corrupt and...
My “take” on the politics of Biden/Trump/Israel/USA/Gaza politics is that: [1] The Zionist Lobby (AIPAC et al.) is stringing President Biden along with just enough money to keep him “in line” with Israel’s demands—but The Lobby much prefers Trump, to whom they may be giving even more money. [2] Israel and the Zionist Lobby prefer More
Donald Trump is backing the Republican vying to replace Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of two remaining GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach the ex-president.
Fox News host Jesse Watters questions the legal standing of the gag order on former President Trump in the NY vs. Trump trial Tuesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime." JESSE WATTERS: The trial of the century. Day six, the crime the Democrats still haven't named. They call it "hush money." We call it a pawn star shakedown. Nothing in the law calls either illegal. Trump's free speech went on trial today. Democrat prosecutors want the former president fined for talking – $1,000 a pop. Something tells...
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it. In making one of their earliest ever presidential endorsements, NABTU leaders are kickstarting an eight-figure organizing program to try to deliver their 250,000 members in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it. In making one of their earliest ever presidential endorsements, NABTU leaders are kickstarting an eight-figure organizing program to try to deliver their 250,000 members in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it. In making one of their earliest ever presidential endorsements, NABTU leaders are kickstarting an eight-figure organizing program to try to deliver their 250,000 members in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and