A microphone in hand, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) left the podium at a recent barbecue event in South Carolina and made his way through tables draped in red, white and blue as attendees finished plates of pulled pork and baked beans. As he talked about his campaign, Scott passed Casey DeSantis, the first lady of…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Record numbers of criminal cases are tried in Florida’s Southern District every year, where attorneys ready to join a blockbuster fight should be easy to come by, former prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys say.But Carlos De Oliveira, the latest defendant charged alongside Donald Trump in the…
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Investors voted Tuesday to give the blank check company attempting to take Truth Social public another year to finalize its merger with former President Trump’s media startup, according to reports. Shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) granted the company a 12-month extension to close the deal with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), just…
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A CNN poll released Tuesday found that 13 percent of Republicans and independents who lean Republican said they think Trump should be disqualified from the presidency if charges he faces connected to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election are true. Meanwhile, 19 percent said the charges “cast doubt on his fitness for the job,…
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CT News Junkie Connecticut News from your locally owned & operated news source at the state Capitol since 2005. I remember when Richard Nixon resigned. Even though I was only 12 at the time, I had a general understanding that our country’s president had done something wrong, got caught, and needed to step aside. “By…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) in a new filing asked a state judge to sanction former President Trump, his two adult sons and their legal team for $20,000, saying they continue to bring up arguments already rejected in court. James — who is suing the former president, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and…
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Lawyers for Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claim the ex-president then used that blown up value for business dealsIn 2014, a year before entering politics and two years before winning the White House, Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2bn, lawyers for the attorney general of New York state…
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Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd knocked the foreign policy of fellow White House hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, calling it “always wrong, never in doubt.” “Vivek Ramaswamy’s approach to foreign policy can be summed up simply: always wrong, never in doubt,” Hurd wrote Tuesday in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Truth: Tens…
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A federal judge has yet to decide whether to move Meadows’ case to federal court.
Donald Trump and his various unindicted and indicted associates were livid on Thursday at Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and they flocked to various right wing media forums to complain. That includes one of Trump’s lawyers, Alina Habba, who had an unusual defense of the 4-times-indicted ex-President.“He doesn’t do what’s popular or what’s right,” Habba said…
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Former federal judge Michael Luttig says court will decide ‘sooner rather than later, and most likely before the first primaries’The US supreme court is likely to soon determine whether Donald Trump is eligible to run for president in 2024, the well-respected former federal judge Michael Luttig said on Sunday.Some legal experts believe Trump could be…
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The final co-defendant in the Fulton County, Ga., election interference case Tuesday waived their right to an in-person arraignment. Misty Hampton’s filing means all 19 co-defendants have now pleaded not guilty and opted against entering their pleas before the judge and the cameras in the courtroom. However, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who…
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Nearly 2 in 3 D.C. residents in a new poll said they would vote to find former President Trump guilty in the federal case over his efforts to remain in power in the wake of the 2020 election. The Emerson College Polling survey released Tuesday found that 64 percent of residents in the nation’s capital…
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Former President Trump’s national lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis among the 2024 GOP White House candidates has widened to 34 points, according to a CNN primary poll published Tuesday. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who are registered to vote, 52 percent said they were most likely to support Trump for the party’s nomination, whereas…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsBy Jake TraylorDonald Trump is airing a television ad in Atlanta, and other TV markets, that attacks the Fulton County district attorney who could soon charge the former president with his fourth criminal indictment.A Trump campaign aide told NBC News the one-minute political ad will air in Atlanta, New York and…
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<!– {beacon} 12:30 REPORT To quote Billy Madison…: © AP 🎶 Oh, back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I’m not a fool. I’ve got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight. I hope I don’t get in a fight. Ohh back to school. 🎶 With August recess and…
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Trump Indictment As the former president faces at least five trial dates over the next year, his actions in some cases are being used against him in others. Former President Donald Trump’s legal thicket has also created an unusual situation in which some people in his orbit have different roles in different cases. | Alex…
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John Bolton suggested on Tuesday that Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy “emulates” former President Trump “every time he can,” as the political newcomer continues to isolate himself from the rest of the GOP with his controversial stance on Ukraine. “I think Ramaswamy reminds me an awful lot of Donald Trump,” Bolton said in an interview…
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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board is arguing against a push to ban former President Trump from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment. “Now that their indictments have boosted Mr. Trump in the GOP primary polls (see nearby), his opponents are resorting to their worst idea since the panicky agitation of 2017 to remove…
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Most Republicans are waiting on the sidelines when it comes to their party’s 2024 presidential primary, but several dozen have already weighed in. At least 73 House Republicans and 10 GOP senators have endorsed former President Trump’s 2024 comeback bid. No other candidate comes anywhere close to having that level of support from Republican members…
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The MSNBC host was aghast over the Wall Street Journal poll’s findings.
Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, argued on Monday that President Biden’s age is a legitimate concern for voters in the 2024 election, warning that former President Trump could be one “Biden-has-a-McConnell-moment” away from a second term. “If the expert class doesn’t understand that Biden’s age is both a real concern for voters and a…
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Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan. In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday evening, Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry and President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles. With…
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