Month: May 2024

Vice President Harris bashed former President Trump on Wednesday in Florida, a state the Biden campaign is trying to flip to blue, as the state’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect. “As of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Donald Trump has been fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case.El expresidente Donald Trump comparece ante el tribunal penal de Manhattan antes de su juicio en…
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DJT: Trump receives 36 million shares of Trump Media worth $1.8 billion as earnout bonus  CNBCsource

Election 2024 live updates: Trump to hold rallies in Wisconsin, Michigan during court break  The Washington Postsource

Trump’s trial got moving again with testimony from the attorney representing Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in hush-money negotiationsDonald Trump’s trial got moving again on Tuesday with testimony from the attorney who represented Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in their hush-money negotiations.Keith Davidson testified (and backed up by contemporaneous text messages and emails) about how…
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In a break from his hush money trial, Trump has his own ideas about what “the Radical Left Lunatics” are up to.

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeThe judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors and witnesses and warned Trump he could be…
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Will Donald Trump Go to Jail if He Breaks Gag Order Again? What We Know  Newsweeksource

Social Media Reacts To Trump Being Allowed To Attend Barron’s Graduation  Yahoo Newssource

Donald Trump’s Defense Stuck With ‘Terrible Strategy’—Attorney  Newsweeksource

Witness testifies about Stormy Daniels in Trump hush money trial  The Washington Post Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Says He Believed Trump Was Behind Hush-Money Talks  The New York Times Takeaways from Day 9 of the Trump hush money trial  CNN source

Americans still widely oppose the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, ruling women do not have a federal right to an abortion, according to a new poll released Wednesday. In the CNN poll, conducted April 18-23, nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents say they disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision — including 47 percent…
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Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the 12:30 Report newsletter Subscribe <!– {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Wednesday. Shall I introduce our May mascot, Justin Timberlake?! Happy May, everyone! Here are some highlights in today’s edition: Rep. Marjorie…
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Today in Manhattan criminal court, we got into the weeds of banking, the sleaze of tabloid dealmaking and the screams of Michael Cohen.The ninth day of the New York state case concluded with Keith Davidson — the Los Angeles lawyer who once represented adult-film actress Stormy Daniels — still on the stand. He spent hours…
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Joe Biden’s presidential campaign criticized Donald Trump on Tuesday for saying that, if elected, he would close an office in the White House tasked with making sure the country is better prepared for the next pandemic.In an interview with TIME published Tuesday, Trump said he would disband the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy…
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Trump hush money trial highlights: First week comes to an end  The Associated Presssource

Massimo Calabresi, Time’s Washington bureau chief, discussed the magazine’s revealing new interview with the former president.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) on Tuesday called on billionaires to support former President Trump for the sake of their shareholders and the “prosperity” of America. When asked on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” about his message to billionaires across the country, Burgum said, “Well, I wish they had gotten the opportunity to know…
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Trump’s Legal TroublesAdvertisementSupported byThe firm, LaRocca Hornik, has represented Donald Trump’s political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, including a pregnancy discrimination case in New York.By Ken BensingerA law firm that has long defended Donald J. Trump’s campaign and businesses from employment lawsuits has abruptly asked to withdraw from a yearslong…
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Trump fined $9,000 US, ordered to take down some social media posts about trial  CBC Newssource

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) pushed back on comparisons between the politically damaging dog stories that plagued both his and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) potential bids for the White House. During Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, a decades-old story about him tying his dog Seamus to the roof of his car on a family road…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementDonald J. Trump was fined for contempt and warned of jail time before a lawyer testified about how he struck deals to silence two women who said they had trysts with the former president.By Jesse McKinley and Kate ChristobekThe third week of the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump began with a rebuke:…
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It was inevitable that a presidential race headlined by two geriatric candidates would also force a national conversation about our aging lawmakers. But age isn’t just an issue on the presidential circuit — Congress is facing its own generational shift as a wave of millennial and even Gen Z candidates prepare to enter national public service.  …
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Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn, Olivia Rinaldi Updated on: April 30, 2024 / 9:54 AM EDT / CBS News Washington — Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is calling on the Justice Department to open an investigation into special counsel Jack Smith, alleging he violated department standards and ethical duties related to his prosecution of former…
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