Month: July 2024

Trump Immunity RulingAdvertisementSupported bynews analysisThe decision most likely delays Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case past the election, and if he wins in November, people close to him expect the Justice Department to drop the charges.By Maggie HabermanA legal system that has dealt Donald J. Trump painful blows over the last six months has just granted…
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Russia’s United Nations ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, on Monday refuted former President Trump’s frequent claim that he could end the war in Ukraine in a single day if he is elected to another term in the White House. “The Ukrainian crisis cannot be solved in one day,” Nebenzia said at a news conference, when asked about…
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Try our new AI-powered search betaIN DECEMBER JACK SMITH tried to get the Supreme Court to quickly take up the question of whether Donald Trump was immune from prosecution for allegedly attempting to subvert the results of the election in 2020. The charges, wrote the special counsel (an independent prosecutor appointed by the Department of…
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Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said Vice President Harris should replace President Biden on the Democratic ticket this fall, making him one of the first figures in the Democratic Party to publicly call for a change after the president’s poor debate performance last week. “We have to rip the band aid off! Too much is…
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Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) criticized President Biden’s campaign for its “dismissive attitude” toward the concerns of many Americans about his ability to lead after last week’s debate. “I really do criticize the campaign for a dismissive attitude towards people who are raising questions for discussion. That’s just facing the reality that we’re in,” Welch told…
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Oklahoma Schools Chief: Bible in Classrooms Order Inspired by Trump  U.S. News & World Reportsource

While Americans can take satisfaction in their still-functioning democracy and the free-wheeling airing of issues exemplified by last week’s Biden-Trump debate, the candidates themselves are not a source of either national pride or international respect.  That two elderly men who are clearly showing their age and their cognitive limitations should be put forward by the…
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Donald Trump’s ‘Black Jobs’ Remarks Have Done Him a Lot of Damage  Newsweeksource

Steve Bannon Made Wrong Move Delaying Jail Sentence: Attorney  Newsweeksource

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Monday he expects the federal election subversion case against former President Trump will never head to trial, after the Supreme Court ruled core presidential powers are immune from criminal prosecution. “It’s a big, big victory for Donald Trump,” Toobin said on CNN’s “AC360,” referring to the 6-3 ruling that sends…
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Former President Trump opened up a 3-point lead over President Biden nationally following last week’s debate after the candidates were tied before, according to a new poll.  The USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Tuesday showed Trump leading Biden with 41 percent to the incumbent’s 38 percent in a race that also includes notable independents and…
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Morning Rundown: Biden rebukes Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, Cat. 5 Hurricane Beryl breaks record, trans runner Nikki Hiltz makes Olympics team ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWelcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and…
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr dismissed threats from ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon that he should face prosecution for his testimony to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Barr in a Monday interview about how Trump would act in a second term, noting that…
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Trump calls Supreme Court decision a ‘big win’ for the constitution and democracy  NBC Newssource

Donald Trump’s niece also said the New York Times editorial board can “f**k off” over its call for Joe Biden to step aside.

Takeaways from US Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity  Reuterssource

An attorney for former President Trump suggested that the so-called “fake electors” scheme qualifies as an “official act,” which would prevent it from being prosecuted under the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump attorney Will Scharf told CNN Monday night that some acts alleged in the former president’s federal election subversion indictment do…
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Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling poses risk for democracy, experts say  The Washington Post Supreme Court says Trump has absolute immunity for core acts only  NPR Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decision  The New York Times source

Biden says public must block Trump if Supreme Court will not  POLITICOsource

Pollster Nate Silver, the founder of ABC’s FiveThirtyEight, said he expects to see “some further decline” in President Biden’s poll numbers, as post-debate surveys are published in the days and weeks ahead. Silver’s “2024 Silver Bulletin presidential election forecast” tipped slightly in former President Trump’s favor Monday evening, after the first batch of post-debate polls…
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Dear First Lady Biden:  We, the American people desperately need you. We need you to save this country from the prospect of four more years of Donald Trump. We need you now.  But first, we must thank you for convincing your husband to run for president in 2020. He was the only one who could…
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Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia  CNNsource

Trump’s comeback prospects surge, spurring Democratic panic  The Hillsource

Live updates: Supreme Court rules Trump has presumptive criminal immunity for official acts  The Hillsource

President Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week is not news, regardless of the furious pushback from his deluded loyalists. And fact-checking Donald Trump’s golf handicap won’t fix this mess.  The more one analyzes the road ahead, the more obvious it is that a continued Biden candidacy is a kamikaze mission sure to wreck the Democratic…
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