In mid-2015, announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, Donald Trump declared that he would “be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Subsequently, the Republican billionaire hammered away at this theme. The nation’s loss of factory jobs, he argued, was the fault of Democrats, but, as he told a Detroit audience, he would “restore manufacturing in More
Former President Donald Trump railed against teleprompters and offered an impromptu rant against the word "folks" after suffering a teleprompter mishap during a campaign rally in Michigan.Trump, who during a campaign stop in Wisconsin hours earlier had mocked President Joe Biden for using teleprompters, appeared to have difficulty delivering a coherent speech at multiple points when wind blew a teleprompter out of his view during a rally in Freeland, Michigan, on Wednesday.After touting what he...
On Tuesday, the judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial held the former president in criminal contempt for violating his gag order. Nine times. With a fine of $1,000 a pop. Though it's shocking that a former president doesn't appear to understand courtroom rules that anyone who has ever seen "Law & Order" could explain, there is a certain poetic justice. After all, no one loves contempt more than Donald Trump. It is his metier, his medium, his world view. Contempt for those who disagree with...
New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied two motions filed by former President Donald Trump's defense team in his hush-money case on Thursday as several witnesses, including Stormy Daniels, took the stand.Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records in attempts to conceal hush money paid to Daniels, an adult-film actress, and others during the former president's 2016 campaign. The payment to Daniels was intended to keep her quiet about an extramarital affair she had...
Former President Donald Trump has hit out at Representative Majorie Taylor Greene for potentially stirring "chaos" that could jeopardize his election chances by pursuing her failed attempt to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.Greene, a favorite of Trump's MAGA movement, has been lobbying for Johnson's removal since he allowed military aid for Ukraine to pass through Congress, arguing that the speaker is a member of "the uniparty" and should lose his job like former House Speaker Kevin...
Donald Trump needs to consider any Supreme Court prospects carefully. Our nation depends on it.
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Judge Juan Merchan was "surprised" that former President Donald Trump's lawyers didn't do more to halt adult film actress Stormy Daniels' damning testimony in the criminal trial.Daniels, who claimed to have received a $130,000 hush money payment from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, revealed intimate details about her sexual encounter with Trump that upset the defense.Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to the payment made to Daniels. He has pleaded not...
When Ronald Reagan sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1980, it was an open question as to whether the former governor’s family life would be perceived disqualifying. Voters had never before elected a divorced president, and there was great uncertainty about whether the electorate was prepared to put aside this apparent taboo. When Bill Clinton sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination 1992, the then-governor publicly conceded that he’d “caused pain” in his...
Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.
Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump's graduation ceremony.On April 30 Judge Merchan, who is presiding over the former president's Stormy Daniels hush money case, announced the court wouldn't sit on May 17, allowing Trump to attend the event. But the former president is also due to speak at the Minnesota GOP event on the same day,...
The announcement was made Monday afternoon