Month: April 2024

GOP senators mostly found creative ways to avoid criticizing the former president.

Former President Trump’s first criminal trial is set to begin in New York on Monday. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He denies all charges. The underlying events revolve around hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the closing days…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scheduled to appear alongside former President Trump on Friday as they find themselves on opposite ends of a pair of contentious debates on Capitol Hill. The gathering at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is being billed as a press conference to tout legislation that would prevent noncitizens from voting, something that is…
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Former President Trump and his allies are actively trying to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign a boost.  While Trump and his associates call Kennedy a “leftist,” they are betting the independent candidate could help the former president win in a close election where many voters are agnostic about the two other choices. It’s a…
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Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists. Republican senators are warning that the nation’s spy…
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Trump defends judge in classified documents case — again  Axiossource

Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat broke down the former president’s effective “manipulation of emotion.”

Hello, OnPolitics readers! Former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to begin in New York next week, and if convicted on all 34 felony counts, he could face over a decade in prison.Legal experts told USA TODAY’s Aysha Bagchi that’s an unlikely outcome – but some aren’t ruling prison time out completely.🤔 Wait,…
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Michael Steele slammed the ex-president just days before his first criminal trial.

Amazingly, we are still hearing that the indictments of Donald Trump in Manhattan are the least important of the four sets of charges against the former president. Okay, in some ways they are. They don’t involve the insurrection, the attempt to steal the 2020 election or the theft of hundreds of classified documents.But in other…
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst Paul M. Collins Jr. does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.UMass Amherst provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation…
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LISTEN: ‘The Trump Indictment’ podcast — ‘The Appeal’   The Atlanta Journal Constitutionsource

“And that’s the end of my political career,” said the former president.

AdvertisementSupported byThe party is unifying around a blunt message that Vice President Kamala Harris pushed for privately ahead of her Friday trip to Arizona, where Democrats hope to keep Republicans reeling.By Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas NehamasIn a meeting with her staff last week, Vice President Kamala Harris offered a prediction: Former President Donald…
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Harry Litman envisioned the former president “glowering” when this witness takes the stand.

To dig into the complex views voters have about the upcoming rematch, we asked poll respondents to describe their feelings in their own words.A voter casts a ballot in Southfield, Mich., during the state’s presidential primary in February.Credit…Emily Elconin for The New York TimesSupported byBy Camille BakerCamille Baker classified more than 900 responses from voters…
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Donald Trump Gets Warning Sign Out of Florida  Newsweeksource

Trump poses unique challenges for jury in his hush-money trial  CNNsource

European diplomats in DC scramble to gain access to Trump allies for insights  CNNsource

SEARCHSAYING SAYONARAWOWMOTIVE A MYSTERYGIVE IT BACKHEARTBREAKING TRIBUTEDEBT AFTER DEATHTIMES ARE HARDHIS & HERSSAYING SAYONARAEvan Corcoran, a key attorney for Donald Trump-turned-witness in the classified documents case against him, has left the former president’s legal team, CNN reported Thursday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter. Trump initially hired Corcoran in the early stages of the…
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Trump campaign calls for earlier and more presidential debates  CNNsource

The late-night host spots a gaping hole in the ex-president’s defense strategy.

Pontiac — The Michigan criminal trial of Stefanie Lambert, a lawyer who’s advanced dubious claims of voter fraud across an array of battleground states, will take place in the months ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, a judge indicated Thursday.Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jeffery Matis said he’s planning for Lambert’s trial to begin…
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