Donald Trump is having a hard time keeping his eyes open. These aren’t early-afternoon siestas or weekend catnaps; they’re something more unusual. On numerous occasions, the former president has been spotted dozing off in court—during his own trial. Yes, the New York criminal trial arising from alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Although there…
It seems there were two standup comedians at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Sunday: Saturday Night Live writer Colin Jost and President Biden. Since 1921, the dinner celebrating freedom of the press brings together journalists and politicians for a night of friendly jabs and to raise money for scholarships. Roughly 2,600 people attended the annual event…
It now seems likely that Donald Trump will be able to run for president this year without having faced any legal penalties for his effort to overturn the last presidential election. To many of his supporters, of course, this outcome is just. But it is also striking. Most Americans believe that Trump committed serious crimes, polls show….
It’s not a hard question, or at least it hasn’t been before: Does the United States have a king – one empowered to do as they please without even the pretext of being governed by a law higher than their own word – or does it have a president? Since Donald Trump began claiming he…
Donald Trump wished his wife Melania Trump a happy 54th birthday from outside the courthouse where his hush money trial is taking place — but ex-Melania Trump aide Stephanie Grisham said the message wasn’t really about their relationship. Melania Trump would have “rolled her eyes” at her husband’s Friday stunt, Grisham told CNN’s Erin Burnett. It was just a “performance for…
When Michael Cohen takes the stand in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, as he’s expected to, it will mark a climax in the real-life tale of ambition and betrayal that has unfolded between the two men over nearly two decades. In the New York City courtroom, Cohen will be a few yards away from the man he once looked…
Some say Donald Trump is seeking the status of a “king” as he fights for complete and total criminal immunity, but it’s actually much worse than that, according to a history professor at Yale Sunday. Renowned Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder, who previously said Putin wants Trump to win because the former president shows our “system is rotten,” has recently spoken…
Stormy Daniels, an adult film star and an upcoming witness in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money cover-up case in New York, is defending the trial as witnesses build a story to show the former president committed criminal acts. Daniels, who is alleged to have received a payment to be quiet about her purported affair with Trump in…
Donald Trump’s latest stab for complete immunity is totally “absurd” from a purely constitutional perspective, Laurence H. Tribe, one of America’s leading constitutional scholars, said on Sunday. Tribe flagged the purportedly contradicting argument on immunity on social media, asking, “Did anyone notice what Trump’s lawyer identified as the textual source of the novel immunity he…
Donald Trump’s legal team has been working overtime to force Special Counsel Jack Smith to make public his prosecution team’s evidence against the former president in the criminal documents case, and they just had a victory… sort of. Recently, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed several documents in the Florida criminal case, resulting in a trove of…
Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham questioned the testimony that Ivanka Trump gave during her father Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York. Grisham noted Sunday in an interview with MSNBC’s Alex Witt how Ivanka Trump had tried to get out of testifying “many, many times, stating that it was in the middle of a school week and…
Donald Trump returned to court for the latest instalment of his New York hush money trial on Thursday, where the jury heard further testimony from a former tabloid mogul who detailed the “catch-and-kill” scheme at the heart of the case. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified about his agreement with his “mentor” Mr Trump and ex-attorney Michael Cohen to suppress stories about the defendant’s alleged affairs….
President Joe Biden shakes hands with NABTU President Sean McGarvey after giving remarks at the North American Building Trades Unions 2024 Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Biden attended the conference to receive an official political endorsement from NABTU. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Cheered for his pro-union…
Donald Trump hasn’t set foot in the White House since leaving office more than three years ago, but that didn’t stop him from pretending it’s still his residence this week when he offered a visitor a key to the building. Trump gave the baffling gift to former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, who visited him at…
Donald Trump faces his inaugural criminal trial, making history as the first U.S. president to undergo such legal scrutiny. Amidst this pivotal moment, his ardent supporters, notably Fox News, are visibly stirred. Although Fox recently parted ways with Tucker Carlson, the network still boasts Jesse Watters as a prominent voice. Even during my late-night strolls,…
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump ‘s chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts to use so-called fake electors to try to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that…
Eleven Republicans who signed documents falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state in 2020 are facing criminal consequences in Arizona for the first time. A state grand jury on Wednesday issued an indictment in which the electors are each charged with nine criminal counts, including conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and…
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 still thinks windmills cause cancer.”…
Jimmy Kimmel had a quick comeback for Donald Trump’s latest courthouse complaint. The former president on Tuesday griped that he’s tied up in court while President Joe Biden is free to hit the campaign trail, but in the same breath also insisted that it might be an advantage for himself after all. “He can’t campaign, nobody knows what he’s…
Jimmy Kimmel slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday for lying about “a crowd that wasn’t there” outside the Manhattan courthouse where his hush money trial is taking place. Mr Trump, 77, is currently on trial in New York accused of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an alleged bid to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. He allegedly paid Ms Daniels,…