The Trump campaign told donors at a private GOP retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, that $76 million was raised in April between the campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to two sources who were present for the briefing. The retreat brought together wealthy GOP donors and potential vice presidential contenders that Donald Trump is considering,…
Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that President Joe Biden is running a “Gestapo administration,” the latest example of the former president employing the language of Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric. The remarks Saturday at Mar-a-Lago were described by people who attended the event and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss…
Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Joe Biden while blaming the current president for the recent indictment of a Democratic lawmaker who is accused of “participating in two schemes involving bribery, unlawful foreign influence, and money laundering.” The indictment of Henry Cuellar was recently announced by the DOJ, which said that he and his wife allegedly took approximately $600,000 in…
Just over a week before the start of his second impeachment trial, former President Donald Trump’s entire legal team has walked away. What already promised to be an unpredictable and unprecedented show on the Senate floor just got even messier, as it appears that Trump will insist on repeating the same dangerous lie that sparked the…
Norman Eisen is a CNN legal analyst and editor of “Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial.” He served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the first impeachment and trial of then-President Donald Trump. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. It’s a cliché to say that…
Former White House adviser Hope Hick’s testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial was a “devastating” blow to his defense on the 34 felony count trial that wrapped up its second week of testimony on Friday. That is the opinion of Norm Eisen, who assisted the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment and trial of then-President Donald Trump….
There is a key detail in the official transcript of the testimony of Donald Trump’s longtime aide, Hope Hicks, that is even “more incriminating” to the former president’s criminal case than has previously been reported, a law professor said on Saturday. Hicks testified in the New York criminal case, where her former boss stands accused…
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial has been filled with salacious testimony, but a well-known financial reporter who has been covering the former president for years said on Saturday that one thing in particular simply didn’t add up. New York Times reporter Susanne Craig, who is known for following the finances of Trump and his business empire, appeared…
The North Carolina Republican Party on Saturday came under fire for a Star Wars-themed post meant to celebrate the “May the Fourth” internet holiday and promote Donald Trump. The official account of the North Carolina Republican Party on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted an image showing Trump holding a lightsaber. The text says, “May the Fourth Be…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is expected to survive a challenge from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other far-right Republicans next week, but the goal isn’t to elect a new speaker. At least not this time around. The goal is to move today’s GOP even further to the right, they indicate, and Johnson’s the…
Alvin Bragg’s latest witness provided damning information linking Donald Trump to a potential felony in the former president’s hush money cover-up case, but a Fox News legal and political analyst doesn’t see it that way. Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett, who previously said it’s a “myth that collusion in a political campaign is a crime,” wrote a piece for the…
Former prosecutor and current MSNBC host Katie Phang had little sympathy for Hope Hicks during a discussion over the tearful testimony given by the former Donald Trump White House aide on Friday in a Manhattan courtroom. During an appearance on “The Alex Witt Show,” on Saturday, Phang stopped just short of cursing while bluntly stating “I…
Jurors saw a full transcript of the “Access Hollywood” tape on Friday, including Trump’s infamous “grab ‘em by the p*ssy” comment, as well as other vulgar language the campaign tried to dismiss as “locker room talk.” (They did not, however, hear Trump on the tape, as the judge ruled the video would be prejudicial to the…
Trump’s legal team continued its trial-long assault on Cohen’s credibility Friday, going after everything from the way he handled his cell phones to how he would go “rogue” during 2016 campaign. During cross-examination, Trump’s attorneys asked Hicks to confirm that Cohen was not looped in on campaign strategy and did things that were not authorized by the…
Donald Trump’s former campaign press secretary and White House communications director Hope Hicks took the stand Friday, sitting feet away from her former boss as she described the fallout from the “Access Hollywood” tape and the Trump White House response to stories about hush money payments. Hicks was visibly nervous, and she mostly avoided eye contact with Trump…
Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal on Saturday issued an eyebrow-raising reference to Donald Trump, with whom she has claimed to have had an affair, as the former president’s criminal hush money cover-up case heats up. McDougal, who has had her story discussed at length in Trump’s criminal trial to give prosecutors context for charging document fraud…
Democrats have long pointed out Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake’s frequent out-of-state travel. Now, Donald Trump has apparently taken notice as well. According to the Washington Post, the former president is annoyed by Lake’s frequent jaunts to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s resort and political home base in Palm Beach, Florida. At one point, according to the report, Trump even…
Christina Bobb, a former lawyer to Donald Trump, said she could spend the rest of her life in prison following a recent indictment in Arizona. Bobb, who currently serves as the head of the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) election integrity unit, was recently indicted by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in connection to alleged attempts to overturn the…
Former President Donald Trump has reportedly expressed disappointment in South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem after she revealed that she killed her puppy. In the upcoming book, Noem wrote about how she was forced to shoot Cricket, her dog, because of its aggressive personality. The politician recently addressed the outrage on social media, saying the book is full of “honest stories…
Eric Trump was mocked for claiming his father, Donald Trump, is like an energy bunny — despite the ex-president, 77, caught snoozing in court during the first week of hush money trial. “He’s going all over the place. His stamina, Maria, I’ve never see anything like it in my life. I have just never seen it. He will be…