Month: April 2024

Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas.  Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed that 99 percent of…
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Election Live Updates: Abortion and Inflation Raise Issues for Biden and Trump  The New York Timessource

The House Rules Committee advanced a bill to reauthorize the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance authority late Thursday night, sending the measure to the floor one day after a band of Republicans blocked consideration of a previous version of the legislation. The panel voted 8-4 to adopt the rule — which governs debate on legislation — for a…
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said former President Trump hasn’t mentioned being his running mate in the presidential election, despite speculation in recent months that he’s one of the contenders. “I’ve never actually spoken to the president about VP speculation. My simple answer is, I wanna help him however I can,” Vance told Fox News’s Laura…
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Trump’s Legal TroublesAdvertisementNewsletterJury selection begins Monday in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.By Jesse McKinleyWelcome back to Trump on Trial. I’ll be filling in for Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer today.Starting on Monday, I’ll be part of the Times team of reporters covering the first criminal trial of a former American president. It will unfold in a…
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By Max Goldbart International TV Co-Editor Immediately off the back of its inclusion in the Cannes Film Festival Competition lineup Thursday, Ali Abbasi‘s The Apprentice has dropped a first look of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Billed as an exploration of power and ambition, set in a world of…
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Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Trump ahead of his upcoming hush money trial, he tested its limits by disparaging two key witnesses in the case.

Playbook: Why Trump is Johnson’s best friend right now  POLITICOsource

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Donald Trump is 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president’s lawyers.FILE – Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense…
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New York Republicans see hope in Trump’s latest abortion stance  POLITICOsource

The surprising person Bolton says he’ll vote for in 2024  CNNsource

Donald Trump Faces Christian Rebellion Over Abortion: ‘Depraved’  Newsweeksource

A new poll suggests it’s Republicans who should be rooting for higher turnout.In 2016, former President Donald Trump was a political outsider looking to win the GOP nomination for president. In part, his campaign sought to appeal to voters who were disenchanted with politics.Despite that, though, Trump wasn't significantly more popular with infrequent voters than…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Steve BenenIn the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, then-House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was not pleased with Donald Trump. The congressman even told his members — in comments that were recorded and later released — that he’d “had it with this guy,” referring to Trump.…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsFormer President Donald Trump’s video statement on abortion this week comes after years of conflicting statements on his abortion stance. In his video he said the legalities around the procedure should be up to the states but considering nearly half of the states in the U.S. have a ban or…
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Trump’s hush money criminal trial isn’t about politics  Beloit Daily Newssource

Former President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are set to hold a joint press conference Friday focussed on election integrity, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill, an appearance that comes as one of Trump’s close allies is threatening to oust the Speaker from the top job.The press conference is scheduled…
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Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited passion project Megalopolis and Jacques Audiard’s musical set in the world of Mexican drug cartels will also be in competitionDonald Trump, impersonated by Marvel actor Sebastian Stan, will make an unlikely star attraction on the Côte d’Azur in May, as a new film about the US presidential candidate’s real-estate career is…
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Trump hush money charges seen as serious by most voters, Reuters/Ipsos finds  Reuterssource

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Friday for remarks about “election integrity” with Trump, two sources directly familiar with the plans confirmed.Asked by NBC News what his news conference with Trump will…
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Republicans haven’t ‘moderated’ their extreme stance on abortion, but much of the media is eager to give that impressionSometimes, in 2024 America, you have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not in a long-running dystopian nightmare. Then again, maybe we all are. And no amount of pinching will help.Two scenes from this week stand…
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Donald Trump is facing felony charges in four separate criminal indictments in three states and Washington, D.C., with a guilty verdict in any of the cases possibly meaning a prison sentence.The circumstances have raised an often-asked question: Could Trump, or anyone else, be convicted of a felony and serve as commander in chief, possibly from…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA New York appeals court judge on Wednesday denied a third effort in three days by Donald Trump’s attorneys to put the former president’s impending criminal trial on hold.Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York denied Trump’s third legal…
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<!– Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care <!–   The Big Story  Mpox outbreaks aren’t over  Cases of mpox in the U.S. have been elevated for the past six months after a relatively calm period following the 2022 outbreak. Health experts are hoping a summer surge can be…
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By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Sebastian Stan is continuing to be a master of disguise.…
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