ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWelcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill.In today’s edition, national political reporters Bridget Bowman and Henry J.…
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Trump attorney ‘shocked’ by his verdict reaction KELOLAND.comsource
AdvertisementProduced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’After Donald Trump was convicted last week in his hush-money trial, Republican leaders wasted no time in rallying behind him. There was no chance the Republican Party was going to replace Trump as their nominee at this point. Trump has essentially taken over the G.O.P.; his daughter-in-law is even co-chair…
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When all colors of pigment are mixed, the result is black paint. When all colors of the light spectrum are combined, it becomes white light. Both mysteriously produce uniformity. Like combining color, a criminal trial’s goal is unanimity. However, a jury trial is not mysterious; it is public, the evidence introduced scrutinized, and the participants…
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Donald Trump Spokesperson’s ‘Shameful’ Admission Is 1 Gigantic Self-Own Yahoo! Voicessource
Trump and eight co-defendants have asked the state Court of Appeals to reverse a decision keeping Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office on the case after misconduct allegations.Oral arguments in former president Donald Trump’s appeal of a decision to allow an Atlanta area district attorney to continue prosecuting an election interference case…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday announced a “three-pronged approach” to go after the justice system following former President Trump’s conviction. The plan, according to Johnson, includes using the appropriations process, legislation brought to the floor and Congress’s oversight authority to take on the Justice Department. “All those things will be happening vigorously, because we…
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Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024 in New York City. Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by David…
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Aileen Cannon Playing ‘Dangerous Game’ in Donald Trump Trial: Attorney Newsweeksource
Trump’s lawyer pans Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels during closing arguments Courthouse News Servicesource
By Rob TodaroOn Thursday, May 30, 2024, a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Specifically, the jury found Trump guilty of faking records to conceal a $130,000 payment that was made to…
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Trump Has New Support From Ex-Attorneys General in Fight Against Jack Smith Newsweeksource
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday ripped into President Biden’s executive order on border security, calling it “weak” and “window dressing.” Johnson, speaking to reporters Tuesday morning shortly before the order was unveiled, argued Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took a series of actions that “engineered the open border” during Biden’s White House…
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Republicans seek revenge for Trump conviction in hush money case The Washington Postsource
Fauci draws GOP ire but Kennedy may be making him a problem for Trump CNNsource
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 12:30 Report newsletter Subscribe <!– {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s a beautiful Tuesday in Washington. June really is the best time of the year. Here’s what’s happening today: President Biden announced an…
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The “Morning Joe” host laughed off the former president’s remarks on prayer.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is planning for the possibility of former President Trump, the GOP presumptive nominee, being jailed during the convention, the party’s chair said on Tuesday. “Yeah, we’re working on that right now,” Michael Whatley, the RNC chair, said during his Tuesday appearance on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I’m actually going up…
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Donald Trump Scores Post-Conviction Bump in the Polls Newsweeksource
Americans hold more polarizing views on former President Trump than they do on President Biden, according to a Gallup favorability poll released Tuesday. The May poll — conducted before Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in his hush money trial in New York — asked respondents to rate the two major political parties’ presumptive…
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued the Nevada secretary of state Monday, pressuring him to declare the signatures on his ballot petitions legitimate, despite the official having already considered the signatures invalid. Kennedy filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar,…
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Trump’s awkwardly timed fundraising swing through California POLITICOsource
Wisconsin’s attorney general on Tuesday charged three people involved in a scheme to send slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” in 2020. Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis and Michael Roman — allies to the former president who each played different roles in his 2020 campaign efforts — were charged in state court with a single count of forgery, a…
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Trump attorney: Melania’s absence at husband’s trial not for ‘lack of love and support’ The Hillsource
Ultra-wealthy Republican donors are rallying behind former US President Donald Trump following his historic trial and criminal conviction. Trump, the Republican candidate for this November's White House election, was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to former adult-film star Stormy Daniels. While he has lagged behind Joe Biden and the…
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