From his infamous “what the hell do you have to lose?” remark to his shallow “Platinum Plan” economic agenda for Black Americans, former President Donald Trump’s outreach to the Black community over the years has been little more than political theater, devoid of real substance. But the performance-artist-in-chief might just have outdone himself. Trump’s latest…
Donald Trump violated his expanded gag order seven more times since Monday, prosecutors told the judge presiding over the former president’s hush money trial in New York, according to court pool reports. The prosecutors’ accusations came in a new motion asking for the court to include the Trump social media and campaign website posts in question in next…
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the former chairman of the House January 6 committee, introduced legislation on Friday that would strip former President Donald Trump of Secret Service protection if he is sentenced to prison. “Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee — even a former President,” Thompson,…
Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges suggested that Germany may be withholding support for Ukraine amid fears that former President Donald Trump will win reelection. Speaking with Al Jazeera on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum held in Greece earlier this week, Hodges, who served as commanding general of U.S. Army Europe from 2014 to 2018, said that…
Donald Trump has been forced to spend three days in court, listening to multiple Americans describe what they don’t like him — and he doesn’t seem happy. On day three of jury selection in the New York hush money trial, the pool of prospective jurors got specific about their issues with Trump. Lawfare’sTyler McBrien posted…
Donald Trump rattled off a series of social media posts demanding presidential immunity and threatening his predecessors before heading into the fourth day of his criminal trial Friday. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in Trump’s appeal of his Washington, D.C., election subversion case, in which he claims to have broad immunity as a…
Melania Trump is making a pitch for unity and says the “safety” of Americans would be her prime concern if her husband, former President Trump, wins his bid to return to the White House. “The safety and well-being of American families remains my top priority,” the former first lady told Fox News Digital in a story published Friday….
A young man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial is taking place. His condition and motives were unclear. The shocking incident took place in full view of news cameras shortly after a full panel of 12 jurors and six alternates was seated for his hush money trial. Police and…
Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night noted that Taylor Swift isn’t the only recording artist with some new tunes out. Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, also released a song recently ― one Kimmel previously said proves that “autotune doesn’t work on everybody.” Kimmel admitted he might be a little biased when it comes to Trump, who he dismissed as “Taylor Not-Too-Swift.” So he…
At Donald Trump’s criminal trial, there is no dispute about a central underlying fact: the month before the 2016 presidential election, his personal lawyer and fixer paid a porn star for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Legal experts say the outcome of the first-ever trial of a former U.S. president hinges on…
Things may be starting to look up for the world’s leading chipmaker. Last year, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported its first profit decline in four years. But on April 18, the company reported its strongest sales growth since 2022, and rising quarterly profits that beat expectations. The Taiwan-based TSMC also forecast that second-quarter sales could rise as much as 30% on the backs of…
First lady Jill Biden, in Minnesota on Friday, will launch Educators for Biden-Harris — a national organizing program intended to engage and mobilize teachers, school staff and parents to vote for President Joe Biden, the Biden-Harris campaign shared exclusively with ABC News. Kicking off the coalition in an evening speech to educators at the Education Minnesota Convention…
Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night fired back at Donald Trump after the former president lobbed an error-filled rant at the talk-show host earlier in the day. Kimmel noted that Trump got just one word right in the post on Truth Social. “Literally everything else is not just wrong, but maybe-we-should-be-worried-about-him wrong,” Kimmel said. “Like maybe-we-should-take-the-keys-away-from-grandpa wrong.” The rant attacked Kimmel…
With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words. “This is bizarre,” she said, with just a slight hint of a seasoned New York accent. Bizarre it was. There was a potential juror who once spent the night at…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to face off with each other yet again in the rematch race for the White House in November. Trump is looking for a second nonconsecutive term in the White House even as he faces numerous civil and criminal cases moving through the courts. Biden is aiming for a second term as…
Ahead of Stormy Daniels hush-money trial in Manhattan, former President Donald Trump vowed to defend himself, saying that he will testify on Monday and speak out the truth. During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Trump said: “I’m testifying. I tell the truth. All I can do is tell the truth.” “And the truth is that there’s no…
Kerry Kennedy is doubling down on her family’s commitment to support President Biden in November’s election instead of her brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has launched a long-shot independent bid for the White House. “I think, you know, this is the most important election of my lifetime,” Kerry Kennedy told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”…
The top donors to President Joe Biden‘s 2024 election campaign have been revealed in Federal Election Commission (FEC) documents. Biden, the Democrats‘ presumptive 2024 presidential candidate, is expected to battle it out at the polls with Republican rival and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this November, with both men vying for a second term in the White House. As their election…
In a town typically light on fashion and heavy on partisan friction, what one high-profile figure wore to a swanky White House affair has ignited a ferocious debate seemingly just as polarizing as politics in Washington. Lauren Sánchez, the former TV host-turned-philanthropist and fiancee of Amazon founder and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, turned heads at the…
President Biden is stepping up mocking former President Trump in an attempt to remind voters about his flaws and personal issues. Just this week, Biden taunted Trump as shares of his media company fell sharply on the stock market. He also poked fun at Trump over needing money to pay enormous penalties and legal fees. And…