Month: October 2023

Judge issues gag order and rebukes Trump after social media post attacking his clerk  CNN Judge Issues Gag Order for Trump in Fraud Trial After Post Targeting Clerk  The New York Times Gag order Judge Engoron put on Donald Trump doesn’t go far enough  MSNBC source

Who gets the gavel? After a narrow vote to vacate the speakership, House Republicans are busy determining who will be next to lead.

Jump to Former-“Apprentice” star and onetime White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has accused former President Donald Trump of saving his “worst” insults for women of color. Manigault Newman, an outspoken Trump critic who briefly served as a White House adviser to him in 2017, spoke about her former boss on CNN on Monday after he appeared in a New York…
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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is backing efforts by some members of the House Republican Conference to nominate former President Trump to be the next Speaker of the House.  “This isn’t crazy. We need to shake things up in there,” he said of the idea in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. Rep.…
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The 39-year-old attorney is a fierce ally of the former president and caused a stir at his hearing in New York on Monday Donald Trump was not the only person to attract attention when his fraud trial began in Manhattan.Seated next to the former president was Alina Habba, a key member of his legal team…
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Former President Trump dropped off The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans for the second time in three years, Forbes Magazine said Tuesday. Trump, with an estimated $2.6 billion fortune, is $300 million short of the criteria set by The Forbes 400 ranking, dealing a blow to the former president, who the magazine said has…
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Pundits on the left and the right are straining to explain a head-scratching phenomenon: President Joe Biden is remarkably unpopular despite near-record-low unemployment, steadily falling inflation, no signs of a long-predicted recession, declining murder rates in most big cities and a nation at peace while its chief foreign foes, China and Russia, struggle.  The main…
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Support for a third major party in U.S. politics has ticked up to 63 percent in the latest Gallup poll.  Nearly 6 in 10 Americans in the new poll say a third major party is “needed” because the Republican and Democrat parties do “such a poor job” of representing the people. The figure is a 7-point…
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“Donald Trump is no longer rich enough for the country’s most exclusive club,” according to Forbes.

Morning Rundown: What’s next for the House of Representatives, Elon Musk sued, and scarce Covid shot appointments for kids  ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsA man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur was suspected of raping a woman days before and was already under surveillance, police saySeptember 28, 2023, 12:24 PMMichael Gambon, the actor…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday said she will only back one person to replace former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the top House GOP role: former President Trump. “The only candidate for Speaker I am currently supporting is President Donald J. Trump,” Greene wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. “He has…
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Morning Rundown: What’s next for the House of Representatives, Elon Musk sued, and scarce Covid shot appointments for kids  ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsA man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur was suspected of raping a woman days before and was already under surveillance, police saySeptember 28, 2023, 12:24 PMMichael Gambon, the actor…
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The former Trump adviser lauded the left without irony after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker.

Donald Trump will be all across America this week, except on the …  CNNsource

In the current attention-deficit-disorder, clickbait world of the media and punditry, you would think the presidential election is just days away. Bad polling has sent Democrats into a spiral of depression and Trumpers into orbit. But Election Day is more than a year away, and an avalanche of legal troubles is about to crash down…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsA man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur was suspected of raping a woman days before and was already under surveillance, police saySeptember 28, 2023, 12:24 PMMichael Gambon, the actor best known for playing Dumbledore in the 'Harry Potter' films, dies at 82September 28, 2023, 8:02 AMMorning Rundown:…
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The House of Representatives does not have a Speaker.  In a historic turn of events, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted from his post Tuesday by a small group of House Republicans, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — along with Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Ken Buck (Colo.), Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Eli Crane (Ariz.), Bob…
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The Trump campaign is ramping up public pressure on the Republican National Committee (RNC) to scrap plans for additional presidential primary debates, urging the party to essentially crown former President Trump the presumptive nominee and turn the page to the 2024 general election. The RNC, which is neutral in the primary process, is unlikely to…
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Former President Trump’s latest White House campaign appears more disciplined than his previous bids for the Oval Office, strategists say, making moves that have surprised some observers as savvy.  Trump’s 2024 presidential bid was initially criticized as sluggish and disorganized after his launch last November, but since then, the campaign has appeared relatively streamlined, even as…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsThe judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud case issued a gag order against Trump after he attacked the judge’s law clerk on social media. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins MSNBC’s Katie Phang to discuss the judge’s decision and Trump’s ongoing trials. Cohen predicts there will be “multiple violations” of…
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A federal judge on Tuesday gave former President Donald Trump's defense lawyers a deadline of Oct. 11 to finish getting their security clearances approved in the 2020 election interference case amid complaints from special counsel Jack Smith's team that the former president's team is trying to delay the start of next spring's Washington, D.C., trial.U.S.…
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There’s one glaring issue standing in the way of the far-right plot to install Trump as next House speaker.

By Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Donald Trump has been told to watch what he says and posts, or risk ending up behind bars for up to a month. In the second day of the former POTUS’ financial fraud trial, Judge Arthur Engoron just issued a limited gag order against everyone in…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – The interior of the execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is seen, March 22, 1995. Fresh details are emerging three years since 13 historic federal executions were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency. (AP Photo/Chuck Robinson, File)FILE…
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