Donald Trump spoke in Waterford Township, Michigan at an airplane hangar on Saturday, Feb. 17, for a Get Out the Vote Rally in the crucial battleground state. He appeared wearing black gloves and a red MAGA baseball cap, and immediately began lambasting some of his recent legal woes when he …
Read More »Trump's NYC Criminal Trial Is His Final Showdown With Michael Cohen
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is here — and both his attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office are girding themselves for the man who could be standing between Trump and the first-ever criminal conviction of an American president: Michael Cohen. The hush money case, which revolves around Trump’s …
Read More »Trump Plans to Make Ron DeSantis a 'Political Eunuch'
After a year of getting roundly humiliated by Donald Trump and failing to unseat him as the leader of the Republican Party, Ron DeSantis finally dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump’s bid to reclaim the White House. But while the former president publicly retired his “DeSanctimonious” nickname, Trump …
Read More »Let Trump Be Dictator for a Day, 74 Percent of Republicans Say
The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk. A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a …
Read More »'SNL' Platforms Nikki Haley in a Big Way and Jokes About Her Civil War Denialism
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley showed up on Saturday Night Live‘s cold open to ask Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) about his refusal to get on the debate stage with his lone remaining GOP primary challenger. “My question is: Why won’t you debate Nikki Haley?” she asked during a faux …
Read More »Trump Claims He Was Kidding About Being a 'Dictator'
During an interview aired Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo gave former President Donald Trump a chance to explain away his remarks in a December town hall that he’d only be a dictator on “day one.” Trump brushed it off: “It was with Sean Hannity, and we were having fun, …
Read More »The Polling 'Disaster' That's Starting To Terrify Team Trump
In the middle of last year, several of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including some of his 2024 campaign’s senior staff, started noticing an ominous trend in independent polling and in internal Republican survey data: A significant share of swing voters in key states — even some Republicans — say they …
Read More »DeSantis and Allies Spent Over $7,000 Per Vote on Failed Presidential Bid
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies spent nearly $170 million for him to get utterly humiliated in his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination. According to newly released Federal Election Commission filings, Never Back Down, the primary super PAC backing DeSantis, had spent $131 million backing his campaign by …
Read More »Half of RFK Jr.'s Massive Fundraising Haul Came From Two People
Robert Kennedy Jr. and a super PAC backing his 2024 presidential campaign have raised $50 million, according to new federal election records released Wednesday. Half of that staggering cash haul has come from two people. Timothy Mellon, a Republican megadonor who has also backed former President Donald Trump, has donated …
Read More »Trump Allies Pledge 'Holy War' Against Taylor Swift
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift hasn’t even endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection yet. That hasn’t stopped members of MAGAland’s upper crust from plotting to declare — as one source close to Donald Trump calls it — a “holy war” on the pop megastar, especially if she ends up publicly backing the …
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