Month: May 2024

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version.Jeff Clark, the DOJ attorney who Trump unsuccessfully sought to install mid-coup attempt as attorney general, is facing an effort to disbar him in Washington D.C. And things aren’t going well for him. On Tuesday, a…
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When former President Donald Trump is in New York City for his criminal hush money trial, he stays in Trump Tower, where his penthouse features glittering chandeliers, plush furniture and gold everywhere. But he spends his days in a very different environment: the drab hallways and an aging courtroom in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.The historic…
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SEARCHStrap in for this one. News CorrespondentWe regret to inform you that Donald Trump is just asking questions about the true motives behind the pro-Palestinian protests currently taking place on campuses across the country.“Do you think that the Radical Left Lunatics that are causing all of the CHAOS at our Colleges and Universities are doing…
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NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actor slept with Donald Trump.“I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while questioning…
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Trump Trial Reveals the Real Fake News  Vanity Fairsource

Judge Juan M. Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many civil and criminal cases: He’s down to his last chance.Merchan ruled Tuesday on contempt motions brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in response to Trump’s serial violation of a…
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Banker Gary Farro testified in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York.Who could testify at Trump’s trial this week?Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in…
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Former President Trump on Wednesday confirmed he told Secret Service agents he wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while he mocked the claim that he lunged at officers in his vehicle when they refused.Trump, speaking to supporters in Wisconsin, complained at length about his legal cases when he began attacking lawmakers…
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed to take a “no-spoiler” pledge with President Joe Biden at a campaign event in New York Wednesday, as he feuds with former President Donald Trump.The pledge, as he laid out, would have Kennedy and Biden co-fund a 50-state poll of more than 30,000 people in mid-October that…
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“I’m not even supposed to be talking to you,” the indicted former president falsely claimed to his supporters.

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeSen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican who is among the contenders to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, will help the former president raise money next month in Cincinnati, according to an invitation obtained Tuesday by NBC News.Vance is billed as the “special…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsDonald Trump is taking advantage of a break in his hush money trial in New York with campaign stops in Wisconsin and Michigan.May 1, 2024 © 2024 NBC UNIVERSAL source

The former president reached new heights of incomprehensibility when he attempted to pronounce “infrastructure.”

Donald Trump’s Mystery $50M Loan Raises Questions: Ex-Prosecutor  Newsweeksource

The independent presidential candidate trails far behind Joe Biden and Donald Trump when voters are polled about a three-way race.

Trump returns to campaign trail for first time since hush money trial began  CNNsource

Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) sharply criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday for her decision to oppose their antisemitism legislation, and for her rationale for opposing it. Greene in a social media post said she would vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, introduced by Lawler and Moskowitz last…
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Trump lawyers cross-examine David Pecker in hush money trial  NBC Newssource

The tape that almost derailed his bid for the presidency is key to understanding his criminal hush money trial.

Laura Santhanam Laura Santhanam Leave your feedbackAs a New York jury hears testimony in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, a majority of Americans – 54 percent – say this and other investigations into the presumptive Republican nominee are fair in order to figure out if he has broken the law, according to the…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementKeith Davidson, a lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, will resume testimony on Thursday.By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Alan Feuer and William K. RashbaumHe was the man behind the hush money, the amiable Beverly Hills lawyer who specialized in celebrity dirt — unearthing it, and then, for the right price, burying it forever.But…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says in a new interview it should be left to the states whether to prosecute women for abortions…
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Former President Trump on Wednesday praised New York law enforcement for forcibly clearing demonstrators from a Columbia University building amid intense protests over the war in Gaza. The former president praised police for entering Hamilton Hall and arresting dozens of people late Tuesday, and he blasted college leaders and President Biden for their handling of…
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WATCH LIVENEW YORK — Witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial advanced on Tuesday with no fewer than three people taking the stand, including Gary Farro, who began testifying in the case last week.Among those called to the stand after defense attorneys concluded their cross-examination of Farro were the executive director of the C-SPAN…
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The House Judiciary Committee is again singling out a top prosecutor in former President Trump’s hush money case, asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over the bulk of its communications relating to Matthew Colangelo.Colangelo, who delivered the opening statement in Trump’s New York trial last week, was a senior Justice Department official in…
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