Month: May 2024

Former Trump attorney William Brennan said Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York hush money case involving former President Trump, is a “pro” and “a pleasure” to work with. Trump has frequently targeted Merchan before and during the hush money trial, lashing out and saying he is running an unfair proceeding. But Brennan…
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Election 2024 latest news: After big weekend in Palm Beach, Trump returning to N.Y. courtroom  The Washington Postsource

“Weirdest moment”: Experts call out Trump lawyers’ “planted evidence” defense over damning recording  Yahoo! Voicessource

Former President Donald Trump at a Republican retreat compared President Joe Biden’s administration to the Nazi secret police, according to multiple outlets that obtained audio recordings of his comments.“These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Trump said on Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.“And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s…
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Former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan (R) revealed Monday he would be backing President Biden in November’s election and criticized other Republicans who “fall in line” with former President Trump. In an op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday, Duncan wrote that it is “disappointing to watch an increasing number of Republicans fall in…
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President Biden is leading former President Trump in polls for the first time since October, according to The Hill/ Decision Desk HQ’s (DDHQ) latest average of polls. Biden is ahead of Trump by 0.1 percentage points. The president is polling at 45 percent support to Trump’s 44.9 percent, based on DDHQ’s average of 685 polls pitting…
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It couldn’t be closer.Six months before Election Day, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied 37%-37% in an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll as millions of Americans’ votes remain up for grabs.While the nation’s fierce polarization has set many political preferences in stone, 1 in 4 registered voters (24%) say they might…
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Reporter, HuffPostFormer Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele called into question Donald Trump’s self-perception of strength with a blistering analysis of the former president’s recent comments on election integrity.In a Time magazine interview published last week, the presumptive GOP nominee said his acceptance of the 2024 election result would depend “on the fairness of an…
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Trump’s Legal TroublesAdvertisementNewsletterDonald Trump’s lawyers played hardball, questioning Stormy Daniels’s lawyer’s history of profiting from celebrities in embarrassing situations.By Jesse McKinleyDuring the first two weeks of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the defense has often turned to three Ds to counter the prosecution’s arguments: denial, downplaying and deflecting responsibility.As the case heats up, though,…
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) stressed her affection for dogs on Monday, as she sought to defend herself against an onslaught of criticism and mockery over the revelation in a new book that many years ago, she shot an ill-behaved 14-month-old puppy. In a Monday interview on “CBS Mornings,” Noem pressed on with the…
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Watch CBS News By Graham Kates, Katrina Kaufman Updated on: May 6, 2024 / 11:56 AM EDT / CBS News The fourth week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York got underway Monday with the judge in the case finding the defendant in contempt of court for the 10th time.Judge Juan Merchan imposed another…
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Judge holds Donald Trump in contempt again for violating gag orderJudge Juan Merchan has found Donald Trump in contempt, again, for violating a gag order, and warned the former president that he will consider jail time for any subsequent infraction.Trump was fined $9,000 last week, $1,000 for each of nine previous violations. Merchan said:Mr Trump,…
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Potential Trump VP pick won’t commit to accepting 2024 election results  CNNsource

The former president was held in contempt of court for a 10th time on Monday.

Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here.Last week, members of Donald Trump’s defense team put the first serious dent in the prosecution’s case in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial. It came when they got their turn to cross-examine one of the prosecution’s witnesses, former Daniels attorney Keith Davidson, who represented the adult…
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) reminded left-wingers of the obviously urgent reason not to defy their self-interests in the 2024 election.

Trump’s porn star hush-money trial enters week four: Here’s what’s happened so far  CNBCsource

Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said Sunday that Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) interview in which he dodged repeatedly on whether he would accept the election results in 2024 sends a “very chilling signal” ahead of the November election. Taylor, who worked in the Trump administration, told CNN’s…
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President Biden is leading former President Trump by four percentage points among likely voters, according to a new national poll from ABC News/Ipsos. The poll found that 49 percent of likely voters would support Biden in a head-to-head matchup with Trump, who received 45 percent of support. However, Biden and Trump were nearly tied in…
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AdvertisementSupported byGuest EssayBy M. Steven FishMr. Fish is the author of “Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy’s Edge.”Donald Trump once called Bill Barr, his former attorney general, “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy.” When Mr. Barr recently endorsed Mr. Trump, rather than express gratitude or graciousness, the former president said, “Based…
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Tim Scott says Trump did not raise VP possibility, expects decision within 60 days  The Hillsource

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who has recently come under fire for shooting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, suggested in a Sunday interview that President Biden’s dog, Commander, should have met a similar fate. Commander bit Secret Service personnel at least two dozen times between October 2022 and June 2023, according to documents released in…
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When Americans go to the polls in November, they will be choosing a president — and, depending on the results of the election, setting up a replay of 2020’s post-election chaos. We need to face that fact now and acknowledge the likelihood that we will be in for another national trauma in about six months. …
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“#Reflecting,” the former Playboy model captioned a bathtub photograph on social media.

Your move, Nikki Haley. The clock is ticking. When are you going to endorse Joe Biden for president? Haley stands as the last major contender from this year’s GOP primaries to refuse to bow down and endorse former President Donald Trump. Her refusal has power, because she still has clout with voters. In last month’s…
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