TrumpsCrimes.com is for sale for $5,000

Ten years from now, American universities may once again be bastions of vigorous and provocative intellectual pursuit, true tolerance, and robust but respectful (and evenly applied, bipartisan) free speech. You know — everything they have ceased to be for the last 20 years or so, or at least certainly since Donald Trump became president. That is probably…
Read more

Watch CBS News By Graham Kates December 12, 2023 / 3:06 PM EST / CBS News Lawyers for former President Donald Trump ended a month-long procession of more than a dozen witnesses Tuesday with testimony from a feisty, combative accounting professor named Eli Bartov, who proclaimed that New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against…
Read more

Legal He cited three apparently bogus cases as precedent to terminate supervised release for Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. After a failed political career of his own, David Cohen first started working for Trump in 2006 after wooing him. | Yuki Iwamura/AFP By Andrew Zhang 12/12/2023 07:42 PM EST Link CopiedMichael Cohen’s troubles just…
Read more

The “Late Night” host ran with a CNN report on Trump’s suspicious outreach to an ex-worker when he quit after the FBI raid.

Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Morning Report newsletter Subscribe Neither Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
Read more

Takeaways from CNN’s Iowa town hall with Ron DeSantis  CNNsource

I’m puzzled why former President Donald Trump and his most staunch acolytes, people like Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Paul Gosar and the failed governor candidate Kari Lake, are not enthusiastically teaming up with Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting Trump on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.Really.Smith is asking the U.S. Supreme…
Read more

Republicans are mostly shrugging off President Trump’s comments about being a dictator for a day if he wins reelection to a second term. Trump, who doubled down on his dictator comments over the weekend, has faced sparse pushback from others in the GOP and in most cases has seen Republican lawmakers and allies rally to…
Read more

Alarms are growing louder for Democrats over the potential that Muslim American and Arab American voters could shun them in next year’s presidential election. Muslim Americans and Arab Americans have expressed growing anger over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, with many leaders in the community warning they won’t vote for Biden next year,…
Read more

A dramatic move by special counsel Jack Smith has put the issue of former President Trump’s trials — and their timing — front and center once again. In a surprise filing Monday, Smith sought to get the Supreme Court to rule promptly on Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions taken while…
Read more

WASHINGTON : A looming election rematch next year between US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump would be closely fought, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, with both candidates saddled with profound vulnerabilities that could cost them the White House. Biden, an 81-year-old Democrat, continues to be plagued by voters’ doubts about the strength…
Read more

Leon Cooperman explained why he’ll “never” vote for the Republican front-runner and why the president doesn’t have his support either.

Watch CBS NewsCopyright ©2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. source

“They were able to open Trump’s phone by doing face ID on a pumpkin,” the “Tonight Show” host quipped.

Biden campaign sharpens its attacks on Trump over abortion restrictions amid Texas case  CNNsource

The standoff over presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases is now before the Supreme Court. Special counsel Jack Smith filed an accelerated motion before the justices on Monday to ask them to review the matter as quickly as possible.Smith asked the justices to consider two questions: first, whether a former president is…
Read more

Republicans have agreed to strip several partisan culture war provisions from the annual defense spending bill, but there are still a handful of fights on the horizon as negotiations near the finish line.  Congressional negotiators last week came to a compromise on the behemoth National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an $886 billion measure for fiscal 2024 that includes a…
Read more

WASHINGTON − A Day One executive order addressing racial inequity. More federal loans for Black businesses. Actions to lower prescription drug prices and cap the crippling cost of insulin.“Putting in the work for Black America,” a narrator says in a President Joe Biden campaign ad that ran this fall, listing these accomplishments.But when Yolanda Pickstock…
Read more

Jack Smith wants the court to rule on presidential immunity regarding Jan. 6.Special counsel Jack Smith's team has asked the Supreme Court to step in and decide the issue of presidential immunity regarding former President Donald Trump's federal election interference charges.Hours after Smith filed his request Monday, the court said it would consider the request…
Read more

General Assignment Reporter, HuffPostDonald Trump’s recent comments about his lawyer Alina Habba left host Jimmy Fallon skeptical on Monday’s “Tonight Show.” (Watch the video below.)In a speech to the New York Young Republican Club gala last weekend, Trump took a moment to praise the attorney.“She happens to be a beautiful woman, but I never think…
Read more

“Mike Johnson is in way over his head right now,” said the network’s Alex Wagner.

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – A looming election rematch next year between U.S. President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump would be closely fought, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, with both candidates saddled with profound vulnerabilities that could cost them the White House.Biden, an 81-year-old Democrat, continues to be plagued by voters' doubts about…
Read more

Keep abreast of significant corporate, financial and political developments around the world. Stay informed and spot emerging risks and opportunities with independent global reporting, expert commentary and analysis you can trust.Keep reading for $1Find the plan that suits you best. Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. Check if your university or organisation offers FT…
Read more

Sununu endorses Haley, hoping to slow Trump’s march to nomination  CNNsource

© 2023 POLITICO LLC source