Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to knock former President Trump off the state’s ballot, arguing voters, not the courts, should decide if Trump should be “prevented” from being reelected to the White House. “What I will say is I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented…
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Former President Trump on Tuesday quickly sought to rake in campaign cash off a Colorado court ruling to kick him off the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The Trump campaign blasted out an email with the subject line “REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT” that urged supporters to give to the former…
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Former President Trump on Tuesday repeated his claim that immigrants coming into the United States are “destroying the blood of our country,” even after similar comments days earlier prompted comparisons to Adolf Hitler. Trump addressed those comparisons directly during a rally in Iowa in which he went on a diatribe about how immigrants are “ruining…
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The most profound question raised by Trump’s extreme rhetoric CNNsource
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledged to withdraw from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado following a ruling Tuesday from the state’s Supreme Court to remove former President Trump from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Colorado’s highest court kicked Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot under the…
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A slew of GOP lawmakers slammed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick former President Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment, with some claiming it’s an attempt by Democrats to prevent Trump from winning the 2024 election. The Colorado Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday night arguing Trump should be prevented from appearing…
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Help keep Salon independentA federal jury in Washington on Friday ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay nearly $150 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed by falsely accusing them of election fraud in 2020, upending their lives.Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss filed a lawsuit against…
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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt slammed the Colorado Supreme Court for knocking former President Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment, saying the high court’s latest move “beclowns itself and its state.” “Colorado Supreme Court, by a vote of 4-3, beclowns itself and its state,” Hewitt wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known…
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One person said the ruling makes them “actually interested in what the orange sack of crap has to say over on Truth Social.”
Former President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to end the business fraud lawsuit he faces in New York as he campaigns to reclaim the White HouseNEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to end the business fraud lawsuit he faces in New York as he campaigns to reclaim…
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Trump returns to Iowa as GOP rivals barnstorm state CNNsource
Help keep Salon independentDonald Trump fired off on social media Monday, berating the judge overseeing — and deciding the final payout of — the former president's civil fraud case, for questioning the credibility of one of Trump's witnesses. In a series of posts to Truth Social, Trump took aim at New York Supreme Court Justice…
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Watch CBS News December 15, 2023 / 11:25 AM CST / AP Liberals are calling for former President Donald Trump’s Wisconsin lawyer to step down from a state judicial ethics panel, saying he is unsuitable due to his role advising the fake Republican electors who admitted to taking part in an effort to overturn the…
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The Trump campaign vowed Tuesday to swiftly appeal a Colorado court ruling to kick him off the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, putting the matter on track to be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung sought to cast the 4-3 ruling…
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Marc Short, who served as Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff during the Trump administration, has in the past been critical of his former boss’s former boss. When Donald Trump disparaged former Cabinet official Elaine Chao — who resigned from Trump’s administration after the Capitol riot — Short noted that the comments constituted a…
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He’s disqualified because of 14th Amendment violations, the court ruled.
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday evening issued a ruling that former President Trump should be prevented from appearing on the GOP primary ballot next year. The ruling reverses a previous decision by a district court that ruled that the disqualification clause in the 14th Amendment, originally intended to address secessionists in the wake of…
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) took aim at former President Trump for launching a “misleading” ad suggesting she supports him. Trump’s campaign released an ad earlier this month including comments from Reynolds praising the former president as being “a partner in the White House” for the Midwest. She argued the ad was misleading since she has chosen to…
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Colorado’s highest court Thursday knocked former President Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment in a 4-3 ruling, making it the first state to block him from seeking the presidency because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so…
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The stage at former President Trump’s campaign rally in Iowa Tuesday evening featured Christmas-themed decorations — many of which included Trump’s now-infamous Georgia mugshot. At least two different kinds of Christmas wrapping paper covered gifts onstage in Waterloo, Iowa. Both versions had patterns featuring Trump’s mugshot prominently. The mugshot on the wrapping was photoshopped to…
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Vice President Harris on Tuesday slammed former President Trump’s recent comments that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the country, arguing it is similar to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler. Harris appeared on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC show, where she was asked about Trump’s comments in the context of her own background being biracial and the…
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Former President Trump formally threw his support behind ally Bernie Moreno on Tuesday in the closely watched Ohio Senate GOP primary. “It’s time for the entire Republican Party to UNITE around Bernie’s campaign for Senate, so that we can have a BIG victory in what will be the most important Election in American History,” Trump…
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“It’s not fair to Iowans,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said of a recent Trump campaign spot that features footage of her.
The coup-attempting former president has been calling his rival “birdbrain” for months, but apparently the childish insult wasn’t enough to stop her rise in polls.
ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump expects to wrap up his party’s nomination by March 19 — about two weeks after the scheduled start of his federal trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election — a senior campaign…
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