Month: June 2024

Former President Trump joined the social media platform TikTok on Saturday, surpassing the Biden campaign’s followers in less than 24 hours since launching the account. Trump and his team posted their first video to TikTok on Saturday night, featuring the former president alongside Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White at a UFC title fight…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsDonald Trump unleashed a new tirade of lies Sunday morning as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in New York. Lisa Rubin, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Michael Beschloss join The Weekend to weigh in how the leader of the Republican Party attacked Democrats and the justice system.June 2, 2024 © 2024…
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Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump chastised Larry Hogan, the moderate GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, for saying Americans should accept the verdict in former President Trump’s hush money criminal trial, regardless of the outcome. “I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have…
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Charlamagne tha God: America has zero protection from people like Donald Trump  CNNsource

Former President Trump said he would be “ok” with being sentenced to either house arrest or jail time after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts in New York. When asked on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” how he deals with the prospect of being sentenced to house arrest or jail, Trump said,…
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RNC co-chair Lara Trump slams Maryland GOP Senate candidate Larry Hogan for urging Americans to ‘respect’ hush money verdict  CNNsource

Donald Trump joins TikTok and rapidly wins two million followers  Reuterssource

NewsNation Rich Johnson (NewsNation) — Stormy Daniels was more relieved than happy when she learned of former President Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial, according to her attorney.“She was really kinda taken aback. She got emotional to me,” attorney Clark Brewster told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “The finality of it really hit her hard.”…
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The former president denied ever calling for his 2016 adversary, Hillary Clinton, to be arrested in a new interview on Fox News.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said this weekend that her sister is backing former President Trump’s reelection bid following the guilty verdict in the New York hush money criminal trial. In a column published Saturday, Dowd said after the guilty verdict, she called her brother and her sister – both of whom, she said,…
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Shawn McCreeshMoments after Donald Trump took his seat at a jam-packed arena in New Jersey for a U.F.C. fight tonight, the audience started chanting a vulgar chant incorporating Joe Biden’s name. It then turned to chanting, “We love Trump.” Shawn McCreeshAs the White Stripes’ “Seventh Nation Army” started up, the jumbotron at tonight’s U.F.C. match…
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C) on Sunday appeared to dodge directly answering if he would push former President Trump to reconsider a federal abortion ban if chosen as his vice president, given the two Republicans’ differing stances on the issue. When asked on “Fox News Sunday” if he is willing to concede his position on a…
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said it is a “terrible idea” to have former President Trump’s sentencing just four days before the Republicans’ national convention in July. Sununu said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the jury “did their job” in the hush money case, which he described as “politically driven.” He added…
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SEARCHRight-wing leaders around the world have rushed to offer their support to convicted felon Donald Trump. Americans should be very worried about what their collective intentions are.One by one they offered their loyalty pledge to MAGA’s Dear Leader. One by one Republican leaders publicly placed fealty to Donald Trump ahead of loyalty to the United…
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Former President Trump and his allies have spent the hours since he was convicted in New York arguing the verdict will play out to his advantage in the end. They could easily be wrong. To be sure, nobody knows for certain what the political ramifications of the verdict will be, given that the nation is…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) emphasized that there is a strong “contrast” between President Biden and former President Trump but did not say whether Democrats should be concerned that Trump’s conviction in the hush money case will help him win reelection. “Well, this election will present a clear contrast between President Biden and Democrats…
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Two days after Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in a hush money case, Iowa Republicans rallied in Des Moines to urge their supporters to turn out to support him and other GOP candidates in the coming November elections.“Joe Biden’s America is more dangerous than we have seen in years,” U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst…
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Sunday defended her endorsement of former President Trump despite her past criticism of the GOP presidential candidate, arguing that the past three-and-a-half years under President Biden have left the country worse off. “Well, after almost four years of Joe Biden, it wasn’t that difficult to watch and see ballots being…
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‘His own worst enemy’: Trump post-verdict remarks riddled with lies and attacks  MSNBCsource

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.This image shows the May 1, 1989, full-page newspaper ad that Donald Trump famously took out in the New York Daily News calling for the execution of five Black and Latino youths, also known as the Central Park five, wrongly convicted in a vicious attack on a white…
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Ex-president should also be made ‘the volunteer punching bag at a women’s shelter’, says former actor, following guilty verdictStormy Daniels has called for Donald Trump to be jailed after he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records.The adult film star, who was paid $130,000 as “legal expenses” for her silence about her affair…
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President Biden should campaign off of former President Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York hush money case. “I think for the president, there’s a time and a place for each argument. I think on the day of the conviction, that day thereafter, I can understand the president staying above…
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pushed back on former President Trump’s and his allies’ claims that the hush money trial was politically motivated and slanted against the former president. Schiff responded to Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where she criticized the prosecutors for bringing the hush money…
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Former President Trump suggested being placed on house arrest for his hush money conviction could be a “breaking point” for Americans, whom he claimed, “would not stand for it.” “I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s “Will Cain, Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy that aired…
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