Month: May 2024

There was a lot of press attention paid to the Trump immunity hearing at the Supreme Court building on April 25, 2024. (Mandel NGAN / AFP/Getty Images)Following the nearly three-hour oral argument about presidential immunity in the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, many commentators were aghast. The general theme, among legal and political experts alike, was a…
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The D.C. Court of Appeals has temporarily suspended the law license of former President Trump’s ex-lawyer following a similar order made in late March by a California State Bar Court. Former Trump attorney John Eastman’s license is suspended in D.C. pending a final disposition in the California court proceedings, chief judge of the D.C. Court of…
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Saturday’s sometimes profane remarks illustrate the central role his legal cases are playing in his bid to return to the White House for a second term.PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump escalated his attacks on prosecutors at a private luncheon here Saturday, referring to special counsel Jack Smith with an expletive and accusing…
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WASHINGTON − At a campaign fundraiser organized and attended largely by Asian American donors and lawmakers on Wednesday, President Joe Biden described three Asian countries, including U.S. ally Japan and an emerging partner, India, as “xenophobic.”Biden, who was crediting immigrants with fueling the American economy, went on to attribute “xenophobia” as a reason the economies…
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Alvin Bragg’s Witness Against Trump ‘Backfired Spectacularly’—Legal Analyst  Newsweeksource

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeIn 2016, Kelly Ayotte was a rising star in the GOP. In 2017, she was a former senator.Now, the New Hampshire Republican is seeking to return to a different political world than the one she left, as she mounts a bid to become the…
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Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Nevada lawmakers from both parties have strongly resisted a federal plan to turn the isolated southwest Nevada mountain — about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas…
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Republican senators say South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) viability as a vice presidential candidate has gone up in smoke after she admitted to shooting a 14-month-old puppy, and they are looking to other contenders to round out former President Trump’s ticket. Republican lawmakers who have spoken to Trump say he will be “strategic” in…
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With the ex-president punished for violating a gag order, the third week of the hush-money trial resembled his fraud caseIt was deja vu for Donald Trump at his Manhattan criminal trial this week in more ways than one.Six months ago a New York judge threatened to throw a former US president in prison for violating…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rising profile is raising the question of whether he could appear on a debate stage with President Biden and Donald Trump — and what impact that could have on the presidential race.It’s not yet clear if Kennedy, who has seen scattered polling throughout his candidacy, will even be able to qualify…
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Rightwing media have seized on campus protests to portray the president as weak. Will it have an impact in November?At the height of the tensions on US campuses this week, with Republicans gleefully seizing on student unrest as an election issue that could propel Donald Trump back into the White House, Joe Biden tried to…
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A lawyer who negotiated a pair of hush money deals at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal trial recalled Thursday his “gallows humor” reaction to Trump’s 2016 election victory and the realization that his hidden-hand efforts might have contributed to the win.“What have we done?” attorney Keith Davidson texted the then-editor of the National Enquirer,…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Hope Hicks testified Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money case, recounting how she followed Trump from the real estate world to politics and how his 2016 presidential campaign was turned upside down following a leak of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape. Testimony resumes on Monday.Hope Hicks testified Friday…
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Not long into the first day of Donald Trump’s historic criminal hush money trial, observers saw the former president’s chin fall to his chest as, eyes closed, his mouth went slack in an impromptu snooze at the defense table.There were no cameras in the Manhattan courtroom to record Trump’s April 15 power nap. Audiences had…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsAccording to a recent New York Times report, Donald Trump vented that he does not have a “Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless lawyer who was repeatedly indicted and disbarred. While Trump reportedly griped that his lawyer Todd Blanche has been insufficiently aggressive, Blanche has, in fact, employed the…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Rusty Bowers, Arizona state House Speaker, from left, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, and Gabe Sterling, COO for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, attend a hearing investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022. With…
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Trump releases ad heralding UNC frat bros who defended American flag from anti-Israel mob  New York Post source

Donald Trump May Have Violated His Gag Order Again  Newsweeksource

Live updates: Hope Hicks testifies in Donald Trump’s hush money trial  CNN Internationalsource

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“Shaking his head”: Trump “in disbelief” as lawyer admits he went out of his way to bash witnesses  Yahoo! Voicessource

The former president went after prosecutors before his comparison to the secret police force of Nazi Germany at a private RNC donor event.

Jurors in Donald Trump’s historic trial in New York got the inside scoop on how a presidential campaign responds to unflattering news stories. NEW YORK — When The Washington Post contacted then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 to ask about a recording capturing him boasting about grabbing women’s genitals, the request for comment landed…
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