• 'These people have kids': Expert shocked lawyers will work for Trump after latest threat

    A day after the start date for Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial was announced, the former president was hit with a gag order by presiding New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday.The order came hours after Trump took to Truth Social to attack both Merchan and his daughter, calling the judge "a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome." The MAGA hopeful added, "His daughter is a senior executive at a Super...

  • Trump's latest grift? A Trump-endorsed Bible

    On paper, coup-attempting fascist leader and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is about $4 billion richer now.   That’s thanks to some truly bizarre stock market shenanigans that assert his dorky little Twitter clone, Truth Social, to be worth $7 billion despite bringing in only $3.5 million in revenues while losing $45 million to do it. The man could retire in Moscow and be treated like the crooked king he always wanted to be for however many years of life he has left....

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    Trump pleads for donations, citing threat of losing Trump Tower, as bond deadline looms

    As the deadline for Donald Trump to post bond for his $464 million civil fraud judgment inches closer, the debt-laden former president's campaign is fundraising off Trump Tower's fate. In a text message to supporters on Wednesday, a fundraising committee for Trump cast his financial woes — which stem in large part from his massive legal bills — as a ploy by Democrats, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, to "stifle" his campaign. "Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia James wants to...

  • Trump hammered for ‘vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric’

    Democrats and the White House blasted former President Donald Trump‘s claims about Jewish voters electing Democrats, calling the claims “vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric.” During a radio interview with Sebastian Gorka on Monday, Trump said that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion” while hammering Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who […]

  • What the Press Still Doesn't Understand About Its Latest Trump Hysteria

    Following Trump's latest rally, we were all transported back to 2016, a time when the press would routinely take the now-former president's words out of context to paint a picture of a coming fascist state. Call it "bloodbath-gate," which sounds kind of hardcore, but the long and short of it is that Trump was talking about how the automotive industry and the economy as a whole would do if Joe Biden were to win in November.

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    Donald Trump faces an over $400 million judgment for his civil fraud trial Monday while he’s in court with Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money case. Former Senior Trump White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman joins Alex Witt to discuss what can be expected on Trump’s busy day.

  • Trump-backed Bibles are the latest entry on a cringeworthy list

    The list of Donald Trump’s money-making schemes is not short. Sure, the gold sneakers and the NFT trading cards stand out as some of the more recent and cringeworthy examples, but we don’t have to look back too far into the recent past to find a series of related grifts. Remember Trump University? And Trump Steaks? And the Trump board game? How about the former president selling off pieces of the suit he wore while taking his mug shot after one of his criminal indictments? It’s against this...

  • MAGA cultists bet big on Trump's latest grift

    On Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest grift went public—in the stock-market sense of the word. Trump Media & Technology Group, which at this point consists of the cobbled-together fake-Twitter social media site Truth Social and not much else, completed its merger with the gloriously sketchy special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp, and will now be traded under the ominous ticker symbol "DJT." It's difficult to explain just how weird this all is. Digital World’s stock price...

  • Trump nabs latest win in Louisiana GOP primary

    Former President Trump, the likely GOP nominee, has won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Decision Desk HQ projected. Trump went into the Louisiana primary with 1,636 pledged delegates and won all 47 delegates available Saturday. The state awards its delegates in a "winner-take-all" manner. The former president has already crossed the threshold needed to clinch

  • White House criticizes Trump for ‘unhinged antisemitic rhetoric’

    Ex-president claims Jewish people who vote for Democrats ‘hate Israel’ and ‘hate their religion’US politics – latest updatesThe White House has criticized Donald Trump for “vile and unhinged antisemitic rhetoric” after the former president claimed that Jewish people who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and “hate their religion”.In an interview on Monday Trump was asked about increased criticism by Democrats of Israel’s military action in Gaza, which has left more than 30,000 Palestinians dead....

  • How Not To Fall For Yet More Trumper Textualism About His Latest Threat of Violence

    If you've followed the uproar over ex-President Trump's promise of a "bloodbath" if he's not elected you'll see it's partly been diverted into a kind of textualist grudge match over whether he meant

  • The True Threat of Donald Trump’s “Bloodbath” Speech

    Jeet Heer Deplatforming the former president hasn’t worked, so America needs to rediscover his depravity.