Every superhero gets an origin story. So, for that matter, do most supervillains. The Apprentice drops viewers into New York circa 1973, when a 34-year-old resident of Queens walked in to the upper-crust establishment on the Upper West Side known as Le Club. He went there in an attempt to …
Read More »4 Ways Michael Cohen Threw Cold Water on Trump's Hush-Money Defense
Michael Cohen may have directly transferred the funds, but he says it was at the behest and benefit of Donald Trump that he made the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. After four days on the witness stand, the prosecution’s key witness stepped down on Monday following a barrage of …
Read More »'The Apprentice' Director Offers Trump Film Screening Following Campaign's Lawsuit Threat
Ali Abbasi’s film The Apprentice premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday evening and no sooner than the run time could reach its conclusion was the Trump Campaign already threatening to file a lawsuit. In response, Abbasi is extending the offer for Donald Trump to see the film for himself …
Read More »Trump's Allies Didn't Want Him to Testify: 'The Jury Would Hate Him'
Donald Trump’s defense rested on Tuesday, which means the former president will not be testifying in his criminal hush-money trial. Few would have begrudged Trump for declining to testify, but he promised he would take the stand while suggesting the only thing that prevented him from doing so was his …
Read More »Trump on Restricting Access to Contraception: 'We're Looking at That'
Donald Trump signaled in an interview with a local Pittsburgh TV station that he is open to restricting access to birth control. KDKA aired an interview with the former president shortly after his defense team rested its case in his criminal hush-money trial in New York. “Do you support any …
Read More »Trump Campaign Threatens Lawsuit Over 'The Apprentice' Film
After the film The Apprentice debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, the Trump Campaign threatened to sue over the controversial depiction of the ex-president during his early days in real estate and his marriage to his first wife, Ivana. Among scenes of Trump taking amphetamine pills and getting …
Read More »Trump's Witness Repeatedly Criticized Judge Before He Was Reprimanded in Court
The big news from Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush money trial Monday was Judge Juan Merchan clearing the courtroom so he could reprimand the Trump legal team’s combative witness, Robert Costello — who had spent the last several days publicly attacking the judge and the proceedings. Costello, a lawyer, previously …
Read More »'Emphasis on Cult': Jon Stewart Breaks Down Why Trump is the 'Real Cancel Culture'
Jon Stewart detailed the hypocrisy of conservative media’s condemnation of cancel culture on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, pointing out that their “boy king” Trump has cancelled numerous opponents who have dared to speak against him. The late-night host opened his monologue with news of the backlash Kansas City …
Read More »How Kid Rock Went From America's Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece
W HEN YOU VISIT BOB RITCHIE at his home in the jagged hills outside Nashville, the guy who will likely greet you at the door is a tall, well-dressed, exceedingly polite gentleman who goes by “Uncle Tom.” Because of course he does. Ritchie makes his living as Kid Rock, but …
Read More »Giuliani Was Tracked Down by Arizona AG Because He Couldn't Stop Posting
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who played a pivotal role in former President Donald Trump’s schemes to steal the 2020 election, was having a blast evading Arizona law enforcement last week. According to two people who talked to him about it — including during his 80th birthday bash …
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