Category: Uncategorised

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Matt Loffman Matt Loffman Leave your feedbackFourteen percent of voters say they dislike both of the leading candidates for president, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, more than four times the number who…
Read more

WASHINGTON – Talk to about any Democratic voter these days, and they’re already nervous about 2024.At some point the conversation usually turns to this: How can Donald Trump – a twice-impeached, four-times indicted former president who tried to overturn the 2020 election and is campaigning on retribution – be tied, or even leading, Joe Biden…
Read more

Already in uncharted territory, House Republicans are navigating even more surprise waves as they race to select a replacement for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) next week. The normally internal, relationship-based process is getting a swath of outside attention — a reality that is not sitting well with many in the House GOP.  Plans for…
Read more

Lawyers for former Trump attorney Sidney Powell urges judge to throw out Georgia election fraud indictment  Yahoo Newssource

ASSOCIATED PRESSRep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, is flanked by Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., left, and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., as they criticize Democrats for launching a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, in September 2019. Jordan, now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally…
Read more

Trial to resume on Tuesday but court stays judge’s order to immediately break up Trump’s businesses in New York stateDonald Trump’s New York fraud trial will continue next week after an appeals court rejected the former president’s latest bid to halt proceedings.Lawyers for Trump had argued that the court should wait for an appeal on…
Read more

Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial will roll ahead next week after the former president lost a bid Friday to halt the proceedings while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of Trump Tower and other marquee properties.An appeals court judge rebuffed Trump’s push to pause the New York trial, but agreed to leave…
Read more

Trump trial Day 5 highlights: Ex-Trump executive says Allen Weisselberg asked for help in committing tax fraud  NBC Newssource

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Donald Trump is getting indicted and tried all the way into a third Republican presidential nomination, and perhaps a second term in office.Trump’s court dates and legal entanglements aren’t a distraction from his campaign, as some observers predicted; in large part, they are the campaign.We’re all familiar…
Read more

Former US President Donald Trump claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were “disrespectful” to the Queen and expressed his desire for a debate with the Duchess during her time in the British royal family, reported HT.  In the radio show, ‘The Hugh Hewitt Show’ with host Hugh Hewitt he claimed that Prince Harry and…
Read more

Trump Jan. 6 case: How Trump is trying to get out of it.  Slatesource

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsSoon after leaving office, former President Trump shared sensitive information about American submarines with Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, the New York Times reports. The Morning Joe panel discusses the new reporting.Oct. 6, 2023 © 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL source

Help keep Salon independentA second attorney for Rudy Giuliani is seeking an exit from his Georgia legal team, according to a Tuesday court filing, which would seemingly leave the former New York City mayor without any local representation in the state. Brian Tevis, who joined Giuliani’s legal team shortly before he surrendered to Fulton County authorities in August,…
Read more

Trump loses bid to stay NY fraud trial, but gets delay of business certificate cancellations  CNBCsource

Bolton’s advice to Trump’s 2024 rivals  CNNsource

He’s $300m shy of the cutoff, according to the magazine, though with an estimated $2.6bn he’s got plenty of pocket changeDonald Trump has dropped off the Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest people in the US for the second time in three years, the magazine announced on Wednesday as the former president’s business fraud trial…
Read more

WATCH VIDEOSABC7 New York 24/7 Eyewitness News StreamFormer President Donald Trump is dropping a lawsuit he filed against his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen.The lawsuit alleged Cohen had breached his fiduciary duty to keep Trump's confidences.Trump had been scheduled to sit for a deposition in the case but delayed it until next week because,…
Read more

How Donald Trump’s trial dates overlap with his 2024 election …  Reuterssource

Watch CBS News By Olivia Rinaldi, Aaron Navarro, Jacob Rosen October 5, 2023 / 7:46 PM / CBS News Former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced late Wednesday that he raised over $45.5 million in the third quarter, all while Trump’s legal battles continued to mount. The campaign said it has over $37.5 million cash on hand,…
Read more

Former national security adviser John Bolton said former President Trump hasn’t set a good example, claiming his actions could have an “unfortunately ripple effect.” “I think the President’s example really has an unfortunate ripple effect throughout the bureaucracy and gives rise to a lot of cynicism and a lot of carelessness,” Bolton said on CNN…
Read more

Trump fraud trial live updates: Day 5 kicks off with ex-Trump executive’s testimony  NBC News Trump’s penthouse value estimate boosted by millions due to his fame, execs testify in fraud trial  The Associated Press Donald Trump’s lawyers seek to halt civil fraud trial and block ruling disrupting real estate empire  The Associated Press source

Conservative leaders from multiple organizations signed a letter Friday announcing their collective endorsement of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to become the next House Speaker, citing his consistent conservative record. “Congressman Jim Jordan has consistently been on the front lines for the Conservative Movement and all Americans since elected,” the leaders said in a joint statement.…
Read more

“‘At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.’” That’s Hillary Clinton on how supporters of Donald Trump should consider breaking ties with the former president, who’s now the top Republican 2024 contender.Speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Clinton, the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, expressed…
Read more

Media mogul has become ‘a frothing-at-the-mouth’ Trump critic, Fire and Fury author writes in new book, The FallRupert Murdoch loathes Donald Trump so much that the billionaire has not just soured on him as a presidential candidate but often wishes for his death, the author Michael Wolff writes in his eagerly awaited new book on…
Read more

Jump to Donald Trump’s lawyers sparred with the judge overseeing the ex-president’s civil fraud trial in downtown Manhattan Wednesday, arguing for their right to ask repetitive questions.New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who’s presiding over the trial, was having none of it.“You’re not allowed to waste time,” he snapped at Trump’s lawyers during one…
Read more