Month: May 2024

Stormy Daniels’ testimony at Donald Trump’s trial: Five takeaways  Reuterssource

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said Tuesday the city’s infamous Rikers Island jail will be “ready” for former President Trump if he is ordered to jail over violating a gag order in his criminal hush money trial. Adams said the city’s Department of Corrections “is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island,” comparing…
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Associated Press Associated Press Leave your feedbackYou can find updates from Monday’s court proceedings here and takeaways from today’s testimony here.NEW YORK (AP) — As the third week of witness testimony in Donald…
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The ‘veepstakes’ see prominent Republicans discarding any last shreds of integrity to impress Trump. It’s a grim omenKristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, did her best to pin down Tim Scott last Sunday.Would the junior senator from South Carolina state that he will accept the results of the 2024 presidential election no…
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President Biden declared Wednesday that the Trump administration’s much-touted efforts to bring a Foxconn facility to Wisconsin were nothing more than a “con,” contrasting the failed project with a new investment in the state from Microsoft. Biden traveled to Racine, Wis., to announce Microsoft would invest $3.3 billion to build a new artificial intelligence data…
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Trump trial highlights: Actor Stormy Daniels testifies about sex with Trump, hush money payments  NBC Newssource

The former president has already been warned about potential jail time after breaching the judge’s order 10 times.

Stormy Daniels Describes Sexual Encounter With Trump and Is Grilled by His Lawyer  The New York Timessource

The NAACP on Tuesday led a group of civil rights organizations in calling for President Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, a former state’s attorney for Baltimore, Md.  Mosby was convicted in February on a federal charge of making a false mortgage application in order to secure a lower interest rate. The conviction followed a November 2023 conviction on…
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Stormy Daniels testifies against Trump: Here’s what you need to know  NPRsource

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) warned that if people choose not to vote in November, they will have to own the “tragedy” of former President Trump getting reelected. In a new interview with USA Today, the freshman senator said he isn’t worried about progressives who threaten to abstain from the general election over the United States’…
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Porn performer Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in the hush money case against former President Trump, who looked on as she detailed their alleged sexual encounter and the payment she got to keep it quiet. Prosecutors allege Trump paid Daniels to keep quiet about the allegations as he ran for president in 2016.…
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Former President Trump leads President Biden by 4 points in a Pennsylvania survey of the November election released Tuesday.  The former president received 49 percent of support in the poll compared to Biden’s 45 percent. Trump’s lead grows to double digits when voters older than 50 were surveyed, with him amassing 52 percent while Biden…
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox.With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president’s hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later.Jurors…
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The decision will further delay another of Trump’s criminal trials.

The former president and his allies are pushing the envelope toward a jail cell.People with the Fox News app installed on their phones might have received an alert on Tuesday morning presenting former president Donald Trump in his favorite light: champion of America, American champion.“Trump vows risky gambit to defend Constitution,” it read (with a…
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A report says the independent presidential candidate and noted conspiracy theorist was told by doctors he had a dead parasite inside his head.

Donald Trump’s Lawyers Switch Up Roles  Newsweeksource

What to expect in a Trump rally speech: attacks, ad libs and America’s dire fate  NPRsource

Former Trump attorney calls hush money judge a ‘pro’  The Hillsource

That makes it all but certain the case won’t go to trial before Election Day.The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has now indefinitely postponed the trial date pending resolution of outstanding pretrial litigation, including disagreements about how the classified information is used during trial.It comes as Judge Aileen Cannon has continued…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday ripped pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as either “dumbasses” or “terrorist sympathizers” and called on the Department of Justice to investigate who is funding the protest movement. “There’s two classes of people here. Antisemites: If you say, ‘We are Hamas,’ and you mean it, then you are a religious…
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Indiana Presidential Primary Election Live Results 2024  NBC Newssource

Trump’s courtroom shut-eye and his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels converged in the “Late Night” quip.