Month: January 2024

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” criticized former President Trump for not walking back his 2020 remarks about Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. “But listen, there’s a lot in the far right who want to wish-cast these liberal elites being part of the Epstein things,” Farah Griffin…
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Trump Georgia Election CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe investigation of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was delayed after a judge blocked the Fulton County district attorney from conducting it. Nobody has been tapped to take over.By Richard FaussetSince the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump and 18 of his allies last summer on election interference charges in Georgia,…
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House hopeful Craig Riedel called Trump “arrogant.” Can you believe that?

Former President Trump and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley have made gains among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, according to a recent survey. The American Research Group poll found Haley polling at 33 percent among likely Republican primary voters in the Granite State in a survey taken between Dec. 27 and Jan.…
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Donald Trump has now appealed rulings from two states banishing him from their 2024 primary ballots for allegedly engaging in an insurrection after the 2020 election. Trump petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision. A decision by Maine’s secretary of state to disallow Trump, on the heels of…
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Former President Donald Trump (AP Photo: Seth Wenig), special counsel Jack Smith (AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite.)Defense attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked his Jan. 6 trial judge to order special counsel Jack Smith and two prosecutors on his team to explain why the shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating a…
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More money is on its way, but the entrepreneur’s chances of an upset remain dim.

Former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was previously pardoned by former President Trump, said that he has reached the number of signatures needed to qualify as a candidate for mayor in a Phoenix suburb Thursday. According to a press release posted to his account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Arpaio,…
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Trump now has the backing of all top four House Republican leaders.Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday earned an endorsement from House Majority Whip Tom Emmer — whom Trump called a "Globalist RINO" who is "totally out-of-touch" with Republican voters, effectively tanking Emmer's speakership bid in October.Emmer said Wednesday that it's time for the GOP…
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a bombshell decision from a Colorado court that could keep him off that state’s ballot over his actions connected to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.“In our system of ‘government of the people, by the people, [and]…
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Former President Trump boasted about his commanding grip on the Republican Party, pointing to his ability to garner endorsements even from tough holdouts within the party, according to new reporting Thursday from the New York Times. “They always bend the knee,” Trump said of securing the endorsement of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) for…
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A voter in Iowa pressed Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over why he hasn’t directly “gone after” former President Trump, citing DeSantis’s falling poll numbers. The voter, in the audience of a campaign stop in Waukee, Iowa, asked DeSantis, “One, why haven’t you gone directly after him [Trump]? Your polls are down. He’s…
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) withdrew her support from a former Ohio state lawmaker’s bid for Congress over his reported criticism of former President Trump. “Earlier this week, I informed Craig Riedel (OH-09) that I will be withdrawing my endorsement. I was very disappointed in his inappropriate comments regarding President Trump,” Stefanik wrote Thursday in a…
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More than the presidential election will be at stake when the U.S. Supreme Court settles whether former President Donald Trump is disqualified from office for being accused of engaging in insurrection. The court’s credibility also will be at stake when it considers whether to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified Trump from that state’s…
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Amid great hype, the first batch of previously secret court documents was unsealed late Wednesday related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating the documents amounted to a list of rich and powerful men who were Epstein’s…
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The indicted former president is looking to further stall his trial in case his play for absolute immunity fails.

Elections Haley is swiping at Trump in a fight over her record on gas taxes. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Rye, N.H. | Robert F. Bukaty/AP By Lisa Kashinsky 01/03/2024 07:46 PM EST Link CopiedLONDONDERRY, N.H. — Nikki Haley didn’t bat an eye…
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“It’s sad and pathetic, and it’s an addiction to Donald Trump by the core of the Republican Party,” Psaki said on MSNBC.

Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn January 2, 2024 / 4:48 PM EST / CBS News Washington — A group of Colorado voters who are seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot have called for the Supreme Court to step in and decide whether he is constitutionally eligible for…
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Administrations facing tough reelection campaigns avoid controversial new policy initiatives. Not surprisingly, they prefer to campaign on their successes.  Yet, a frightening humanitarian crisis is brewing just off the Florida coast. In Cuba, rampant inflation, sharply deflating wages and severe food shortages are driving a massive migrant exodus. Many of those who remain behind have been reduced to just…
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Oh, how the political winds shift.   One week, Nikki Haley was riding high on an endorsement from New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and rising poll numbers. The next week, she is choking on a question about the civil war, losing support from the anti-Trump side by suggesting she’d pardon the former president, and dealing…
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Former President Trump recently weighed in on Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation in the wake of controversy surrounding antisemitism and plagiarism at the university. “Claudine Gay has set Harvard back 50 to 100 years,” Trump posted Wednesday evening to his Truth Social site. “Other than that, she has done a great job!!!” Gay resigned from…
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Skepticism over vote counting appears to be spreading into the 2024 election, with most supporters of former President Trump in a new poll expressing doubt their votes will be accurately counted in this year’s election. In a Suffolk University/USA Today poll published Thursday, 52 percent of voters said they lack confidence the ballots will be…
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5 things to watch for in CNN’s town halls with DeSantis and Haley  CNNsource

By Ted Johnson Political Editor Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in the question of whether states can remove his name from the ballot. His attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Wednesday, arguing that the Colorado Supreme Court exceeded its authority when a majority of judges…
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