Month: January 2024

Conservative Republicans continue to abandon decency to defend Trump.This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The elected officials who quietly defend Donald Trump’s immorality even though they…
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‘We beat Donald Trump’: E. Jean Carroll and lawyers on Trump’s fallibility  MSNBCsource

Throughout the defamation trial, Donald Trump eroded the distinction between the court and the court of public opinion.Listen to this article00:0007:45Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.The first time Donald Trump faced the writer E. Jean Carroll in court, in the spring of 2023, he declined to appear at the trial.…
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Watch CBS News By Robert Legare Updated on: January 29, 2024 / 3:24 PM EST / CBS News Washington — The Internal Revenue Service contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking the federal tax records of former President Donald Trump and some of the nation’s wealthiest individuals was sentenced Monday to 5 years in prison, 3…
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Is there anyone as cloying as Kari Lake in devotion to Donald Trump?She doesn’t speak a word without bowing to Trump, saying his name and fetching his slippers and pipe.“I’m so proud to stand with President Trump …” “I support President Trump in his efforts …” “As President Trump says …” Donald Trump is so all possessing of…
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Biden heads to Trump’s territory of south Florida for fundraising stops  CNNsource

The House speaker said it is “absurd” to think he opposes the legislation as a way to help Donald Trump’s election chances.

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers.Hosted by Michael BarbaroFeaturing Astead W. HerndonProduced by Caitlin O’Keefe and Mary WilsonWith Asthaa Chaturvedi and Clare ToeniskoetterEdited by Rachel Dry, Rachel Quester, Paige Cowett and John KetchumOriginal music by Dan PowellEngineered by Alyssa MoxleyInside the Republican Party, a…
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WASHINGTON – A former Internal Revenue Service contractor, Charles Littlejohn, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison − the maximum possible − for releasing tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of other affluent people.Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty in October to unauthorized disclosure of tax return information.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes sentenced him…
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Overnight Editor, HuffPost“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Monday mocked Donald Trump for obsessing over one strange issue. “This man never lost sight of what matters most to voters: That he once took a cognitive test that checks for brain damage,” he cracked. Trump has repeatedly boasted about how he “aced” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment…
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Trump: Border deal being used to put ‘disaster’ onto Republicans’ shoulders  The Hillsource

Former President Trump on Tuesday endorsed a primary challenger to Texas state House Speaker Dade Phelan’s (R) reelection bid, citing Phelan’s role in the “fraudulent” failed impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). In the months surrounding Paxton’s impeachment, Trump fiercely defended the state’s attorney general and attacked Phelan, who was among the…
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WATCH LIVENEW YORK — A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.Friday's verdict was the second time in nine months that a jury addressed Carroll's claim that…
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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on June 21, 2023. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline) Constitutional law experts, state elections officials and a long list of Republican political figures are among those who have flooded the U.S. Supreme Court with their views on a landmark Colorado ruling blocking former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot…
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Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who …NEW YORK — Donald Trump could potentially have his real estate empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on…
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GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley hit President Biden on Tuesday over his decision in 2021 to restore funding to United Nations relief agency for Palestinians after it was halted under the Trump administration. “I know UNRWA well,” Haley, the former UN ambassador under Trump, said of the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…
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The “Tonight Show” host wisecracked about the former president’s effort to pony up after a steep defamation verdict.

The “Tonight Show” host wisecracked about the former president’s effort to pony up after a steep defamation verdict.

The “Tonight Show” host wisecracked about the former president’s effort to pony up after a steep defamation verdict.

Big business is bracing for the return of former President Trump, as Republican voters appear certain to give him a third shot at the White House. After Trump scored key wins in Iowa and New Hampshire against former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — the preferred choice of some major business figures — corporate leaders seem…
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Team E. Jean Carroll took turns zinging Trump lawyer Alina Habba over her courthouse rant and courtroom antics during the defamation trial that just concluded.After Trump walked out of court during closing arguments and Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened Trump’s lawyer with jail time on Friday, Trump was hit with a bombshell $83.3 million judgment for defaming Carroll while he…
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The economy is the top concern among voters, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found.Former President Donald Trump trounced his Republican opponents in the first two 2024 Republican nominating contests, setting the course for a potential general election rematch with likely Democratic nominee President Joe Biden.The decisive issue, according to polls, may prove to be the economy.…
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A grassroots group advocating for retired Americans endorsed President Biden in his reelection bid Tuesday, citing his accomplishments that have benefitted seniors during his first term in office. The board of the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), a nonprofit group with more than 4 million members founded by the AFL-CIO, voted Tuesday to make the…
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