Month: April 2024

A chronicle of Donald Trump's Crimes or Allegations

No Labels abandons 2024 presidential effort

The bipartisan group No Labels won’t put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate. “Today, No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” the group said in a release Thursday. “No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line…
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Ruby Garcia's sister denies Trump's claim that he spoke to her family – NBC News

BREAKING: Georgia judge rejects Trump bid to dismiss election interference charges on free speech grounds ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeAt a Grand Rapids, Michigan, campaign event on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump told his supporters that he had spoken to the family of Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old woman who…
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The Trump Two-Step – The Atlantic

Once you recognize the pattern, you’ll see it everywhere.Is Donald Trump that clever, or are the media still just that unprepared? Whatever the reason, he continues to be just as adept as ever at running circles around the press and public.One of his most effective tools is what we might call the Trump Two-Step, in…
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John Eastman responds to disbarment call, says he’s been subpoenaed by Capitol Police

Former Trump attorney John Eastman downplayed a California judge calling for his disbarment last week, arguing that he’s still likely to succeed on appeal and revealing that he has been subpoenaed in a separate suit related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The judge recommended that Eastman, who was at the center of efforts…
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Most Americans say democracy important for US, but not functioning well: Survey

Most Americans say democracy is important to the U.S.’ identity, but that the nation’s democratic system is not functioning well, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 76 percent of Americans saying “a democratically elected government” is extremely or very important to the U.S.’ identity as a…
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Peter Navarro asks Supreme Court again to get him out of prison

Peter Navarro, adviser to former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to review his plea to get out of prison, in a long-shot request filed Tuesday. It’s the second time Navarro’s asked the nation’s highest court to set him free while he challenges his conviction. Chief Justice John Roberts shut down the first request…
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Biden Advisers Warn About Team Trump Focus On ‘Anti-White Racism’

The campaign said the plans should serve as a “warning to Black America.”

Analyzing Trump's use of inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail – PBS NewsHour

Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins Matt Loffman Matt Loffman Leave your feedbackWhatever you want to call him, Donald Trump is a showman. That is key to his campaign. His strength comes directly from his words and speeches, not staff or infrastructure. Voters are already exhausted by political shrapnel, but Trump’s speeches in Michigan and Wisconsin are…
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Family of slain Michigan woman says Trump campaign did not contact them – NBC News

Family of slain Michigan woman says Trump campaign did not contact them  NBC Newssource

Two plead guilty to insider trading related to Trump Media merger – Reuters

Two plead guilty to insider trading related to Trump Media merger  Reuterssource

Trump tests gag order by sharing articles on judge’s family

Former President Trump shared articles critical of Judge Juan Merchan and his family on Wednesday, appearing to test the bounds of the gag order placed on Trump in his New York hush money case. Merchan expanded the gag order Monday to prevent Trump from discussing his family, after the former president made comments critical of…
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Ex-Trump Attorney Reveals Why 'Incompetent' Judge Will Get Boot From Docs Case – Yahoo! Voices

Ex-Trump Attorney Reveals Why ‘Incompetent’ Judge Will Get Boot From Docs Case  Yahoo! Voicessource

Trump's Rallies Are Losing Their Luster as a Key Campaign Tool – Bloomberg

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial…
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US pushes back on judge over Trump claim that classified records he kept were personal – Reuters

US pushes back on judge over Trump claim that classified records he kept were personal  Reuterssource

Two brothers plead guilty to insider-trading scheme linked to Trump’s media business – The Guardian US

Michael and Gerald Shvartsman charged with trading on inside information in 2021 about Trump group’s plan to go publicTwo Florida brothers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud over their roles in a $23m insider-trading scheme when they traded on confidential information in 2021 about the planned merger between Donald Trump’s social media company and…
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'It's clearly strategic': Why Trump kept attacking judges' families – POLITICO

‘It’s clearly strategic’: Why Trump kept attacking judges’ families  POLITICOsource

Trump loses immunity claim ahead of New York hush money trial – MSNBC

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Jordan RubinDonald Trump just lost one of his far-flung attempts to thwart his upcoming criminal hush money trial in New York, which is set to start in less than two weeks. This latest failed effort was a presidential immunity claim, but Judge Juan Merchan rejected it out of hand. To…
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Ty Cobb says 11th Circuit may remove judge from Trump documents case – The Hill

Ty Cobb says 11th Circuit may remove judge from Trump documents case  The Hillsource

Trump touts ‘very solid’ Truth Social after parent company reports $58M loss

Former President Trump argued Thursday that Truth Social is “very solid,” after the platform’s parent company reported a $58 million loss last year and saw its shares plunge more than 20 percent this week. “All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level,…
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Biden praises NATO on alliance anniversary amid Trump threats

President Biden praised the NATO alliance to mark its 75th anniversary Thursday, amid threats from former President Trump to encourage aggression towards “delinquent” members. Biden called NATO “the greatest military alliance in the history of the world,” adding that for the last 75 years, the “United States and our fellow Allies have chosen to come together…
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Rove: Trump Jan. 6 pardons pledge a ‘critical mistake’

Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Democrats to “go hard” at former President Trump’s rhetoric surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, calling the former president’s pledge to free imprisoned rioters a “critical mistake.” “If they were smart, they’d take the Jan. 6 and go hard at it. And they would say, ‘He wants…
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Trump sues two Trump Media co-founders, seeking to void their stock in the company – The Associated Press

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Trump filed a law suit on March 24, suing two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, the newly public owner of his Truth Social platform,…
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Trump loses bid to delay hush money trial until US Supreme Court review – Reuters.com

Trump loses bid to delay hush money trial until US Supreme Court review  Reuters.comsource

Bolton says Trump ‘short attention span’ might keep US in NATO

Former national security adviser John Bolton downplayed former President Trump’s threats against NATO slightly, suggesting Trump’s “short attention span” could keep him from following through on leaving the alliance. Trump has been openly critical of NATO, calling on alliance members to increase their contributions and threatening that he could “encourage” Russia to invade if they…
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Trump to Netanyahu on war in Gaza: ‘You’ve got to get it over with … get back to normalcy’

Former President Trump said his advice to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to quickly wrap up the conflict in Gaza and “get back to normalcy,” warning that Israel was badly losing the public relations battle with its war against Hamas. Trump called into conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show Thursday morning, where he was…
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