Month: April 2024

Colin Jost’s Best White House Correspondents’ Dinner Jokes  Vulturesource

Scoop: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum moves up Trump’s VP ladder  Axiossource

Were he ever to consider a career in stand-up comedy, Joe Biden would be well advised to keep his day job. But delivering big laughs was not the president’s mission when he appeared Saturday night before a black-tie audience of 2,600 journalists and Washington power players at the White House correspondents’ dinner.Almost from the start…
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Watch CBS News By Aaron Navarro, Fin Gómez, Olivia Rinaldi April 28, 2024 / 7:12 PM EDT / CBS News Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met privately with former President Donald Trump for several hours on Sunday morning to talk, in part, about fundraising ahead of the 2024 general election, several sources familiar with the meeting…
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Help keep Salon independentI have a hard time with small talk, dinner-party phoniness and the whole idea of sucking up to a boss or someone in a superior professional position. The idea of learning how to "network up," which I once taught students in a high school career course I designed, makes me want to…
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Former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately Sunday morning in Miami, according to people familiar with the matter, breaking a years-long chill between the presumptive Republican nominee and his onetime chief primary rival.Allies brokered the meeting in hopes of a potential détente between the two men, and Trump’s advisers hope DeSantis…
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The Florida governor met with his one-time rival over the weekend, according to reports.

Trump Trials: More witnesses, 2nd contempt hearing expected in New York  The Washington Postsource

Majority of Voters Say Donald Trump Was a Success, Joe Biden Is a Failure  Newsweeksource

Trump’s Truth Social has made stock shorters millions  The Associated Presssource

“I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old,” he joked of his rival.President Joe Biden tweaked the concerns over his fitness for office and dug at his 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, at the annual White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday night.Speaking at a ritzy Washington hotel to politicos and journalists alike, the 81-year-old…
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President Joe Biden addressed potential debates with former President Donald Trump, changes in the Republican Party and personal perseverance in an unexpected interview on the “Howard Stern Show.”  Biden didn’t talk with the controversial radio host about U.S. aid to Israel or the anti-war protests taking place at college campuses, but he said in the interview released…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday used his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech to swipe at former President Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive GOP nominee while highlighting the stakes of the election. Biden cracked jokes at his political rival’s expense…
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US President Joe Biden delivered his annual speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner as the country readies for this year's election. Mr Biden used the traditionally light-hearted occasion to say he was a grown man "running against a 6-year-old", poking fun at his own age and his Republican rival Donald Trump. The President…
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By Sean Piccoli UPDATED: After David Pecker finished his fourth day of testimony, the next prosecution witness in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial Friday was Rhona Graff, Trump’s longtime assistant. Graff was a Trump Organization employee who, while there, kept contacts for both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in the company’s computer system. She testified…
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments on April 23, 2024, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial (Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images).The judge overseeing…
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Mitch McConnell Confronted Over Voting to Acquit Donald Trump  Newsweeksource

The South Carolina politician shared his thoughts on Trump’s criminal cases while appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

AdvertisementJournalists and politicians schmoozed over filet mignon at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside.transcript“The 2024 election is in full swing. And yes, age is an issue. I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old. Age is the only thing we have in common. My vice president actually endorses me. [laughter]…
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Donald Trump’s Women Voter Problem is Getting Worse  Newsweeksource

Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) held a private meeting in Miami on Sunday to bury the hatchet in their political conflict, The Washington Post reported. The multi-hour meeting, brokered by political allies hoping for a chill to what was once a red-hot rivalry, resulted in DeSantis agreeing to help the former…
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Supreme Court Has Three Ways to Resolve Donald Trump Case—Legal Analyst  Newsweeksource

CNN Poll: Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge  CNNsource

Trump’s former fixer to appear as prosecution witness, while Avenatti, serving prison sentence, willing to testify for defenseAs Donald Trump’s hush-money trial enters its second week, jurors will be asked to focus on the testimony of his former Mr Fixit – the disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen.Cohen, who served as Trump’s personal attorney for 12 years…
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