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Leftwing members of 1.3m-strong labor union unhappy with Sean O’Brien for private meeting with Republican frontrunnerIn an unexpected political convergence, Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters union, announced he had met privately with Donald Trump – raising questions about who the Teamsters will endorse in 2024 and drawing anger from the union’s progressive members.The…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is under pressure from conservatives and former President Trump to reject an emerging bipartisan border and Ukraine aid package even as he gets the squeeze from the Senate GOP and White House. Republican senators in support of the deal argue that the leverage of Ukraine aid has given them a unique…
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Elections The admonition is another example of the former president’s penchant for punishing people perceived as disloyal. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Simpson College the day before the Iowa caucuses in Indianola, Iowa on Jan. 14, 2023. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO By Daniel Lippman 01/18/2024 05:00 AM EST Updated: 01/18/2024 10:59…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeZoë RichardsA Washington judge on Thursday dismissed an effort to remove Trump’s name from the state’s primary ballot. In a ruling Thursday, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Mary Sue Wilson said that Secretary of State Steve Hobbs had “acted consistent with his duties” when…
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What to WatchAdvertisementSupported byBest of Late Night“Yep, Ramaswamy took the stage and praised Trump for eight minutes,” Fallon said. “Then he was, like, ‘Wait, Donald, this is your speech. Sorry!’”By Trish BendixWelcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to…
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Video: Kamala Harris says she is ‘scared as heck’ Trump may win 2024  CNNsource

E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer told a New York federal jury that “self-proclaimed billionaire” Donald Trump needs to “pay dearly” for defaming her after he denied assaulting her in the mid-1990s.Trump, whose 2024 presidential campaign is colliding with a crowded schedule of criminal cases and lawsuits, sat attentively Tuesday in Judge Lewis Kaplan’s Manhattan courtroom, glaring…
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Judge rejects Trump bid to hold special counsel Jack Smith in contempt in election case  CNBCsource

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsIn a recent social media post, former President Trump says U.S. presidents 'must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function' and 'Even events that 'cross the line' must fall under total immunity.Jan. 18, 2024 © 2024 NBC UNIVERSAL source

Trump Brags He ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test, Correctly Identified a Whale  Rolling Stonesource

Cases against Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn and others set the stage for a historic Supreme Court battle next month.

“What if the ex-president commits murder — then he can’t be charged?” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked of Trump’s immunity claims. “That seems weird, right?”

Watch CBS News By Cristina Corujo, Annie Bryson January 17, 2024 / 5:49 PM EST / CBS News Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson spent much of his long-shot presidential campaign criticizing former President Donald Trump over the felony cases against him, but his message failed to resonate with voters, and he dropped out Tuesday —…
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Under a sky filled with gray clouds that promised rain later in the day, the casket carrying a former first lady’s mother was lifted into the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea on Thursday morning.The funeral for Amalija Knavs, mother to Melania Trump and grandmother to Barron Trump, began at about 10 a.m., with the former first…
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Former President Donald Trump is following up his big victory in Iowa by campaigning in some traditional and unusual venues: the state of New Hampshire and a courthouse in New York City.Trump’s decision to shuttle between a defamation trial brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll and the battleground state underscores a paradox of an already…
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Trump’s defamation hurt my status, writer E. Jean Carroll testifies  Reuterssource

E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. Less than a year after convincing a jury that former President Donald Trump sexually abused her decades ago, Carroll is set to take the stand again to describe how his verbal attacks affected her after she came forward.Eduardo Munoz…
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The funeral for former first lady Melania Trump‘s mother will take place this morning at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach.Amalija Knavs, 78, died Jan. 9 in Miami following an undisclosed illness. The service begins at 10 a.m., the Rev. Tim Schenck, the church’s rector, told the Palm Beach Daily News.The town of…
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Kamala Harris “scared as heck” Trump may win 2024 election  Axiossource

A judge in Washington rejected an effort to boot former President Trump off the state’s primary and general ballots in a ruling Thursday. Thurston County, Wash., Superior Court Judge Mary Sue Wilson’s ruling was in response to a challenge from a group of residents contesting Trump’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment. Wilson said she…
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Donald Trump is “responsible for the state of abortion in this country right now,” the Massachusetts senator said.

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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeMark MurrayBridget BowmanAlexandra MarquezThe process, makeup and history of the coming New Hampshire primary couldn’t be more different from what we saw in the Iowa caucuses.For one thing, New Hampshire’s contest is a primary. Unlike in Iowa, where GOP caucusgoers had to arrive at…
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Senate Republicans have signed on to a brief supporting former President Trump in his Colorado ballot case at the Supreme Court. The brief argues that the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court last month to kick the former president off the ballot under Section 3 of the…
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President Biden on Thursday said that former President Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to the economy, citing his political rival’s comments that he expects the U.S. economy to crash. “Did you hear he wants to see the stock market crash?” Biden said Thursday during remarks in Raleigh, N.C. “We’re doing…
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