Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Coralville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington will be put on hold while the former president further pursues his claims that he is immune from…
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Former President Trump spoke about taking a recent physical and cognitive exam at a campaign event in Iowa on Wednesday. “I took a physical and I passed with flying colors,” the former president said. “And I took a cognitive exam. I said ‘Doctor, give me anything you want, I want to take it.’” The former…
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Trump returns to Iowa as he ramps up campaigning in early nominating states CNNsource
Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who headed the Republican House majority during former President Trump’s first two years in office, says that Trump is not conservative but instead an authoritarian narcissist whose guiding principle is to aggrandize himself. Ryan defended former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for standing up to Trump…
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legal Trump waited too long to invoke the immunity defense in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation law, a federal appeals court ruled. Three years after Carroll sued Trump for defamation over those comments, Trump attempted to assert presidential immunity, a broad doctrine that shields presidents from lawsuits arising from their official acts. | Alex Brandon/AP By…
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Former President Trump encouraged his supporters to “go out and vote” despite his leads in current polls at an event in Iowa Wednesday. The former president noted his leads in polls over fellow republican candidates including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) before emphasizing the need to vote…
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Senior Reporter, HuffPostThe Supreme Court ordered former President Donald Trump to respond to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s request for an expedited hearing on Trump’s claim he has absolute immunity from prosecution for the charges he faces related to his effort to steal the 2020 election, setting themselves up as the key decision-makers on whether Trump…
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Daily News e-EditionEvening e-EditionSign up for email newsletters Sign up for email newslettersDaily News e-EditionEvening e-Edition Trending: Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense case Tuesday at his civil fraud trial without calling him back to the witness stand — ending instead with a well-paid expert who came out swinging for the former president and a…
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Watch CBS News By Graham Kates Updated on: December 13, 2023 / 7:11 PM EST / CBS News After more than two months of heated courtroom outbursts, hallway grandstanding and intensive dives into the depths of accounting minutiae, the two sides in former President Donald Trump’s New York fraud trial have called their final experts,…
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Donald Trump Releases ‘Mugshot Edition’ Digital Trading Cards—Offers Pieces Of Suit From Fulton County Arrest Forbessource
Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who headed the Republican House majority during former President Trump’s first two years in office, says that Trump is not conservative but instead an authoritarian narcissist whose guiding principle is to aggrandize himself. Ryan defended former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for standing up to…
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A committee overseeing attorneys in Arizona has found probable cause that lawyers who represented Kari Lake in election cases should face discipline. The Attorney Discipline Probable Cause Committee filed the probable cause orders against lawyers Andrew Parker, Kurt Olsen and Bryan Blehm after the State Bar of Arizona conducted its initial investigations. Each lawyer has…
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legal The case calls into question prosecutors’ handling of an Enron-era obstruction law to punish those who stormed Congress. Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump stand on vehicles and the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. | Julio Cortez/AP By Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein 12/13/2023 10:14 AM EST Updated:…
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Ruby Freeman once went by “Lady Ruby,” a nickname she described as classy and unique. Her last name, she said, was a name that freed slaves chose instead of taking on a “slave master name.” But after the 2020 election, longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani accused her and her daughter, Shaye Moss, of committing election…
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The House approved a resolution Wednesday condemning testimony from a trio of elite university presidents at a hearing last week, during which the administrators declined to say that calls for the genocide of Jewish individuals would violate their schools’ policies. The chamber cleared the resolution in a 303-126-3 vote, formally rebuking the comments from Harvard…
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Video: Ron DeSantis reacts to Trump’s tweet about debating Hillary Clinton CNNsource
The Trump campaign on Wednesday took a victory lap over a judge’s ruling to pause proceedings in the former president’s federal election interference case, claiming it “derails” the government’s efforts to try the case before the 2024 election. Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung welcomed the decision by Judge Tanya Chutkan to pause proceedings while Trump appeals…
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Foreign Affairs The idea, which has been considered in other forms during years of U.S.-led negotiations with North Korea, would be a shift in Washington’s overall approach to Pyongyang. Former President Donald Trump (right) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un remain on good terms. | Evan Vucci/AP By Alexander Ward 12/13/2023 05:00 AM EST…
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After four decades as the data wizard behind the “gold standard” poll of the legendarily hard-to-predict Iowa caucuses, J. Ann Selzer says, “it’s hard to surprise me.” But Selzer acknowledged in an interview that the unprecedented showing by former president Donald Trump in her latest survey — published Monday by the Des Moines Register and…
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<!– Presented by Delta Air Lines — House GOP chairmen said they’ll kick off contempt of Congress proceedings against Hunter Biden after the president’s son failed to appear for a Wednesday deposition. {beacon} Evening Report © Getty House GOP chairmen vow to hold Hunter Biden in contempt House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Chair Jim…
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Glenn Youngkin praises Trump on economy, downplays ‘dictator’ fears CNBCsource
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear an appeal brought by a man who was charged with obstruction for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and how the court rules could directly impact former President Donald Trump, who faces the same charge.The court will hear the case of a man…
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A federal appeals court ruled that former President Trump cannot assert presidential immunity in a defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, denying Trump’s bid to avoid civil trial next month and thus setting up a Supreme Court battle.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled against Trump,…
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Justices to rule on scope of ‘obstruction of an official proceeding’ charge after lower-court judge dismissed three casesThe supreme court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against the former president Donald Trump.The justices will review an appellate ruling that revived a…
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