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Donald Trump took a swipe Wednesday at the judge overseeing his New York hush money trial, accusing him of thinking he is "above the Supreme Court." Speaking to Fox News, Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan, accusing of "prohibiting" the former president from attending arguments Thursday on presidential immunity and calling it "the most important case...
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Between now and the end of the term, the Supreme Court will issue decisions concerning abortion, guns, administrative law and Trump, Trump, and more Trump. (In addition to the high-profile cases, for example, today the court hears oral argument in a case that tests whether the statute used to try January 6 defendants applies to their conduct.) My...
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I was away for most of last week but I did find time to ask readers this question on Twitter: "There are some on this website who say Donald Trump's first criminal trial is very bad for him politically. I have said the same. Is it true? Obviously, we can't know yet, but what are you thinking?”The former president is charged in Manhattan with...
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Despite the sordid details, former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial has come as a welcome relief to Republicans, a new analysis contends. Political commentator S.E. Cupp Wednesday made this claim in a New York Daily News editorial Wednesday unpacking GOP responses to Trump's ongoing trial in Manhattan criminal court.Trump stands...
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of the right-wing group Turning Point USA, was ridiculed on social media Wednesday after he suggested that the Arizona indictment charging Donald Trump's allies with crimes was spawned just because of a poll showing Trump ahead in the Grand Canyon state.Earlier in the evening, Raw Story reported on those charged in...
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A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell,...
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Donald Trump's wake is littered with the fallen of those who pledged fealty. That is the metaphor that Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, conjured during an interview on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlin Collins. "Look at how Mr. Trump has conducted himself through his business career and also his...
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Donald Trump recently got the endorsement of his former Attorney General Bill Barr, but that didn't stop the ex-president from lashing out at his own appointee Wednesday evening.Barr, a lifelong Republican, served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Barr then resigned over disagreements surrounding the former president's 2020...
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The Campaign Legal Center, a prominent ethics watchdog group, is warning that a scheme by former President Donald Trump's campaign to conceal payments to his legal defense could be afoul of the law, reported USA Today on Wednesday.This comes after new reports this week revealed that Trump funneled payments from his 2024 presidential campaign to his...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
While numerous people were charged in the Arizona fake elector effort to keep President Donald Trump in power back in 2020 — the former president, referred to as "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1," so far gets to skate free.Trump might not be indicted in the case yet, but it is another state indictment. And that means even if the 45th president wins...
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A key member of Donald Trump's legal defense team has reportedly dropped one of the former president's associates, Boris Epshteyn, as a client as it became clear that the two were considered adversarial to each other due to a recent Arizona criminal indictment.Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian, reported after Epshteyn...
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The Arizona indictment released on Wednesday for the fake elector scheme charges several of former President Donald Trump's lawyers and strategists, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, and Boris Epshteyn, as well as Arizona GOP officials like Kelli Ward, and names Trump himself as an unindicted co-conspirator — but...
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WASHINGTON — The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a "silver bullet." As weapons and ammunition are rushed to the country, other issues such as manpower shortages in Kyiv's struggling military have come to the fore. Meanwhile, the monthslong delay in passing the aid package...
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Donald Trump on Wednesday brought up what some would call the low-point of his presidency, saying that the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville "is like a peanut" compared to what Joe Biden faces today.Trump, who famously suggested people should blame both sides in connection with the Charlottesville event that caused injuries and...
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Social media exploded on Wednesday evening after a report that 11 individuals had been charged in connection with alleged 2020 election subversion in the state of Arizona. One thing that stood out to many is the "unindicted co-conspirators" redacted from the filing.The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reported that Arizona state prosecutors had charged...
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The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday.The newly dropped...
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Former GOP lawmaker and current Trump Media & Technology Group CEO, Devin Nunes, is turning to his former colleagues on Capitol Hill to help fight against Wall Street traders dealing in the company's stock who he says are participating in "anomalous trading” — a practice in which they bet on the stock declining. In a letter to his former...
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Judge Juan Merchan should get a move on and quickly rule on whether Trump was in contempt of court for violating a gag order in the Manhattan hush money trial, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday — because it's clear that Trump is in fact in violation.The former president is forbidden, under the gag order,...
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Former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward is among 11 individuals who have been charged in connection with alleged 2020 election subversion, according to a reporter.Kyle Cheney of Politico flagged the filing on social media on Wednesday, saying, "Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 election."He...
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Former President Donald Trump's staff at the White House were enraged with the cavalier way he handled classified information, according to a new report from ABC News."While much of [Special Counsel Jack] Smith's sprawling classified documents investigation has focused on how Trump handled classified materials after leaving the White House, a wide...
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Sanctions may rain down on Donald Trump in the form of fines and jail threats for potentially breaching his hush money trial gag order by his rampant social media posts and quotes — but prosecutors may also put all of them into evidence that could be used as fodder to radically sway his jury. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution...
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Former President Donald Trump claims his gag order forcing him to stay mum on various individuals surrounding his historic criminal hush money trial is unprecedented.In a Truth Social post, Trump moaned about the gag order that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan imposed and then strengthened barring him from criticizing witnesses, jurors,...
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One of Richard Nixon's most famous quotes...right up there with "I am not a crook"... had to do with presidential immunity."When the president does it" he said "that means that it is not illegal." That idea – that you can't prosecute someone for actions taken as president - the Supreme Court has never actually ruled on it.On Thursday,...
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Former President Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial is being viewed in a totally different way abroad, German Der Spiegel reporter Marc Pitzke told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.This comes as Trump is set to receive a ruling on whether he violated the gag order in the case, which charges him with business fraud in connection with his...
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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has promised his Democratic colleague to deliver a list of "high crimes" he says President Joe Biden committed that qualify him for impeachment. Recent comments from fellow lawmakers confirm the opposite. "Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out. He is fed up,” a GOP lawmaker told CNN Wednesday. Now, his colleagues...
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A Donald Trump sequel as president means pardons and a payday for Jan. 6 defendants. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is dangling carrots for the return of the Donald to 1600 Pennsylvania by letting it be known the 45th president keeps his promises. "As I noted in my last post, one Congressman, or even a more united House of Representatives, can only do so...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Former President Donald Trump has been dubbed a co-conspirator in the scheme to claim an unearned victory in Michigan's 2020 presidential election, according to reports of testimony from an Attorney General's office investigator.Michigan prosecutors consider Trump, former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani unindicted...
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A "sovereign citizen” who skipped his federal trial last summer on Jan. 6-related charges is now in custody after the FBI arrested him in Florida.Victor Sean Dennison, 49, was arrested at Woodlake Condominiums in Clearwater, Fla., on Monday, according to multiple outlets. Federal court records show that Dennison is charged with failure to appear...
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An admitted Jan. 6 participant ran and lost his mayoral race in Connecticut last year. Now he's headed to jail. Former Republican mayoral candidate Gino DiGiovanni Jr. was sentenced to 10 days in confinement and one year probation after pleading guilty last year to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, a misdemeanor.When...
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Former President Donald Trump's inner circle believes their boss has already won his Supreme Court presidential immunity case, insiders told Rolling Stone Wednesday. Word of down-low celebrations arrived just one day before the nation's highest court is expected to hear the arguments that have stymied special counsel Jack Smith's federal election...
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In a message posted to the conspiracy theory-laden site that he founded, Jim Hoft announced that The Gateway Pundit has declared bankruptcy. "TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a...
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Donald Trump has spent the past several years lashing out at his former lawyer. Michael Cohen went to prison after pleading guilty to crimes surrounding the hush money scheme that Trump now faces in court. The first two days of the trial, former AMI chief David Pecker revealed details about the so-called "catch and kill" operations that he and...
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Former President Donald Trump's erstwhile attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is making a promise to his former boss: He'll stop talking about the Manhattan criminal trial in public until he takes the witness stand to take down the ex-president.Cohen made the mocking promise in a post to X on Wednesday."Despite not being the gagged defendant, out of...
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) is being subjected to Seventh Circle of Hell-level burns after news broke he hopes divine intervention will get him out of the President Biden impeachment probe. CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona kicked the mockery off Wednesday when she shared on X a comment from an anonymous Republican...
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The U.S. has 50 states, but that didn't stop Republican Party co-chair Lara Trump from telling Newsmax that they have "litigation in 81 states." Lara Trump made this declaration in a Newsmax interview that the Democratic National Committee shared on X Wednesday afternoon in a post that almost immediately drew ridicule. "We have lawsuits in 81...
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A Michigan judge warned that disparaging online comments about witnesses could lead to contempt charges, highlighting concerns about witness intimidation in a high-profile case involving so-called "fake electors." District Court Judge Kristin Simmons addressed the issue on Tuesday during a hearing. She pointed out that making negative comments...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Donald Trump has two attractive ways to lose the presidential immunity arguments his attorneys will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, a new legal analysis contends. Trump's lawyers are expected to argue Trump is immune from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case because his actions leading up to...
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Fox News guest host Charles Payne clashed with co-host Leslie Marshall over the difference between President Joe Biden's misstatements and former President Donald Trump's false claims.After pointing out that Biden had misspoken during a speech in Washington, D.C., Payne argued that critics had different standards for the two candidates — and that...
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The Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments Thursday in Donald Trump's claim that, as president, his actions had absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. At issue is whether Trump can be criminally charged for efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and for encouraging the attack on the U.S. Capitol, or whether his position as...
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Former President Donald Trump received a digital tongue-lashing Wednesday after a post-hush money trial photo-op saw him hand Japan's former prime minister a White House "key."Trump invited Taro Aso to Trump Tower's golden lobby on Tuesday, just hours after he left Manhattan's criminal court, to present his guest with a golden key.The resultant...
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President Joe Biden received a standing ovation Wednesday after joking about former President Donald Trump's hair.The president took a shot at Trump while speaking at the North America's Building Trades Unions conference."In fact, construction of new factories has more than doubled in our administration," he pointed out. "Meanwhile, Donald Trump...
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A "throw everything against the wall and see what sticks” strategy is emerging from Donald Trump's defense team in his New York hush money criminal trial — and it may reflect a desperate attempt to appeal to a potential "lone holdout juror," according to a new report. "The scenario of a lone holdout juror causing a 'hung jury' and ensuing...
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During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who at 17-years-old killed two people and injured another after traveling to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020 to "protect businesses" during Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, is now the author of a book who goes on speaking tours. But his current college speaking tour is being hit by...
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