For the first time in history, a former president and current presidential candidate has been convicted of a felony. But will he still win the election? How very 2024: Donald Trump shatters all precedents, breaks all boundaries for what a president can do or say, and yet here we are …
Read More »RFK Jr., Parrots Trump, Says Guilty Verdict Is 'Weaponizing the Courts'
After the hush money verdict was announced Thursday, Donald Trump was not the only presidential candidate to criticize the court’s decision — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a jab, too. “The Democratic Party’s strategy is to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box,” Kennedy said in …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Reacts to Trump Verdict: The Jury Spanked Him 'Even Harder Than Stormy Did'
Christmas came early for Jimmy Kimmel, who gleefully responded to Donald Trump‘s guilty verdict last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The late-night host opened the show by announcing, “We have a verdict in the case of the people vs. OJ… I mean DJ… Donald John Trump is guilty of 34 …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Star James Austin Johnson Reprise Trump Impression to React to Guilty Verdict
James Austin Johnson frequently embodies Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, which recently aired its season finale. But Johnson couldn’t resist the opportunity to imitate Trump again last night following a New York jury finding the former president guilty on 34 charges. The SNL cast member shared an Instagram video …
Read More »Jason Aldean Desperate to Know What Donald Trump's Felony Convictions 'Mean for the Rest of Us'
Noted respecter of the rule of law, Jason Aldean, expressed his displeasure with the rule of law after Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Doing his best impression of the flagpole outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, Aldean posted an upside down American …
Read More »Trump Is Cashing in on His Criminal Conviction
Donald Trump has been cashing in on his new title of convicted felon. Rolling Stone reported earlier this week that the former president’s team expected a guilty verdict in the hush-money trial and were preparing a fundraising blitz as soon as the jury handed down a decision. The blitz came …
Read More »Trump Rambles Through Grievances in Train Wreck Post-Conviction Speech
A lot has happened in the nearly eight years since Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower and announced that he was running for president. He won, he lost, he tried to overthrow the government, and on Thursday, he became — for the first time in the history …
Read More »Biden Campaign on Trump Conviction: 'No One Is Above the Law'
President Joe Biden’s campaign reacted to Donald Trump’s criminal conviction shortly after the former president was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to his 2016 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Through a statement issued on social media, the campaign wrote that “In New York …
Read More »Biden Slams Trump's Racist Track Record at Philadelphia Rally
President Joe Biden pummeled Donald Trump’s long history of racism during a campaign rally on Wednesday in an effort to drum up support from Black voters. Biden spoke alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and several other Black elected officials during the afternoon event at Girard College, a majority-minority boarding school …
Read More »Will Anyone Care if Trump Is a Convicted Felon?
Twelve jurors in New York are preparing to hand down one of the most-anticipated criminal trial verdicts in American history. The decision will be historic, but will it be consequential? According to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Thursday, more than two-thirds of registered voters say the jury finding Donald Trump …
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