Donald Trump attacked his former attorney general Bill Barr after Barr said Trump is “toast” if “even half” of the 37-count indictment against him is true. “It’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning,” Barr said on Fox News Sunday. Those comments unleashed a barrage of insults from …
Read More »DeSantis Can't Stop Defending His Biggest 2024 Rival
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may want to snatch the 2024 Republican nomination from Donald Trump’s grasp, but he seems incapable of landing punches even when they’re handed to him on a golden platter. On Friday, the Justice Department unsealed a scathing criminal indictment that included 37 charges against the former …
Read More »Trump Goes After Special Counsel's Wife in First Post-Indictment Appearance
Donald Trump gave his first public speech on Saturday following the new indictment against him by a federal grand jury on Thursday. Appearing at the Georgia GOP convention in Columbus, he called the indictment — where he is charged with 37 felony counts over allegations related to the classified documents …
Read More »Are the Orange Skies Here to Stay?
As smoke lifts for East Coast cities this weekend, take a deep breath. And then hold it, because this might happen again. Parts of Canada and the eastern United States are at risk for an unusually active fire season this summer. So this week’s great eastern smoke-out might be just …
Read More »The Special Counsel Is Using Trump's Own National Security Staff Against Him
Since last year, Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of investigators and Justice Department attorneys have interviewed an array of officials who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council, grilling them about specific instances that show the then-president acknowledged proper and legal declassification processes, according to two sources familiar …
Read More »Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
Extreme supporters of Donald Trump have met news of his federal indictment with visions of violence and retribution. At The Donald, a forum for ultra-MAGA Trump supporters, users demanded public executions and other forms of lynching to avenge the federal prosecution of Trump, for the alleged mishandling of state secrets …
Read More »Trump Melts Down as Damning Indictment Goes Public
On Friday, the Justice Department unsealed a 38-count indictment against Donald Trump and his longtime aide Walt Nauta, laying out the reasoning behind their decision to charge the former president over his hoarding of classified documents after leaving office. Trump is not coping well. Special Counsel Jack Smith has leveled …
Read More »Republicans Rush to Trump's Defense After Second Indictment in Four Months
For a second time this year, Donald Trump is facing criminal charges. The former president is reportedly being slapped with a seven-count federal indictment amid an investigation into his unauthorized hoarding of classified documents after leaving office. A source with knowledge of the matter previously told Rolling Stone that the …
Read More »Trump on Tape: 'I Can't' Declassify Sensitive Docs I Took
Donald Trump‘s longstanding defense of why he stored hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House is that he declassified them before his term in office ended. He admitted on tape in 2021 that this is a flat-out lie. “As president, I could have declassified, but now …
Read More »Trump Indictment Part II: What's Different This Time?
Donald Trump is now the first former president to be indicted on federal charges, having earlier this year become the first former president to be criminally indicted on state charges. Both cases charge felonies. The New York case could result in prison time if there’s conviction. But in this federal …
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