The testimony by former porn actress Stormy Daniels in the Donald Trump hush money trial got me thinking for the umpteenth time about Evangelical Christians and Trump, given Trump’s behavior. Daniels testified in detail about her one night stand (Trump denies the affair) with Trump in a hotel room in 2006 just months after Melania
Former President Donald Trump's criminal trial could wrap up as early as next week.Judge Juan Merchan told the court Thursday that closing arguments in the hush money trial could begin as soon as Tuesday. Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to the hush money payment that was made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty and has denied Daniels' allegations that the two had a sexual encounter.The update came...
Merchan’s gag order neutralized Trump’s most recognizable attribute — the willingness to launch shock-and-awe, no-holds-barred personal attacks on his foes.
We’ve spent 40 years putting together an apparatus to protect public health and environment from a lot of different pollutants. [Former EPA administrator Scott} Pruitt is pulling the whole apparatus down. – William Ruckelshaus, the EPA’s first administrator, regarding former president Trump’s first EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. One of President Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishments over More
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, has threatened former President Donald Trump with a new investigation into his reported promises to Big Oil.The Washington Post reported this week of a deal that Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, reportedly offered to top oil executives at a Mar-a-Lago dinner last month—raise $1 billion for his campaign and he will reverse dozens of President Joe Biden's environmental regulations and prevent new rules, according to people with...
Donald Trump's dominance in the 2024 Republican primaries is still being hampered by Nikki Haley's ongoing and potentially significant support.On Tuesday, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate continued his successful primary season with a resounding victory in Indiana, winning more than 78 percent of the vote.However, Haley, Trump's last remaining Republican rival who dropped out of the race in March, still managed to achieve 21.7 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 128,000 votes....
Judge Cannon just admitted she has no intention of setting a trial date in Trump's stolen documents case.
Attorney Todd Blanche may be leading former President Donald Trump's legal team, but there's another lawyer who has emerged as a fixture in the courtroom where Trump's criminal trial is playing out.Emil Bove, one of the defense attorneys representing Trump in the hush money case, returned to the podium on Monday to lead the cross-examination of former Trump Organization Comptroller Jeffrey McConney—a position Bove is becoming increasingly familiar with.As of Monday, Bove has cross-examined all...
Joan Walsh I know, he’s a big man-baby and he’d hate even a minute of it. But his martyr complex could overcome his cowardice.
Former President Donald Trump relished a “very interesting day” after his defense team roughed up Michael Cohen, the star witness in the hush money case against the presumptive GOP nominee.
Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, won his state's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press (AP).Hogan, 67, was up against GOP candidates Robin Ficker and Chris Chaffee, and was declared the winner by AP at 8:38 p.m. EST. The former governor, who served two terms from 2015 to 2023, has been a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in November.AP also declared Trump the winner of Maryland's GOP...