Former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg has been sentenced to five months in prison for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Weisselberg, who served as the chief financial officer of Trump’s flagship company, entered a plea deal …
Read More »Fox News' Prime-Time Shows Mentioned Arizona's Abortion Ban Exactly Zero Times
This week Fox News received its marching orders from its favorite viewer: Donald Trump. As the former president attempts to soften his platform on abortion rights — claiming on Monday that he now supports states setting their own laws despite recently floating a national ban — the network is lauding …
Read More »Trump Says States Should Decide Abortion Laws … Just Not Like That
Less than 72 hours after publicly declaring his belief that states should decide their own abortion laws, Donald Trump is already contradicting himself by saying that what some states have decided needs to be changed. On Monday, Trump announced a pivot in his stance on reproductive rights, after months of …
Read More »GOP Rep. on First Priority of Congress: 'Get Trump Reelected'
Congress is back from its Easter Break and things are already getting chaotic in the House of Representatives. Amid chatter that House Speaker Mike Johnson may soon face a motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene, one representative wants to remind Republicans in the lower chamber of their top priority: …
Read More »Arizona Supreme Court Revives Total Abortion Ban
The Arizona Supreme Court has revived an 1864 criminal ban on abortion. The Civil War-era law, which predated Arizona statehood by almost a half a century, prohibits abortion at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason other than when “necessary” to save the pregnant person’s life. The ban carries a …
Read More »Trump Says Abortion Should Be Left To States Despite Recently Floating National Ban
Former President Donald Trump released a video Monday declaring his new views on abortion policy. He did not announce support for a national abortion ban, and instead stated that the issue should remain in the hands of individual states. While Trump took credit for the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning …
Read More »MAGA 'Prophets': The Eclipse Is a Warning to Repent — and Follow Trump
The total eclipse crossing the United States on Monday is more than a celestial marvel. According to MAGA-minded “prophets” with dubious gifts of divination, the eclipse is a signal of God’s design for America, and another marker that former President Donald Trump is heaven’s “anointed” candidate. Julie Green is a …
Read More »Trump Made Abortion a Campaign Issue. He May Already Be Regretting It
Donald Trump — the man most responsible for triggering the end of a federal right to abortion — announced Monday that if he wins the presidential election in November, he does not plan to support further federal restrictions on the practice and would allow it to remain a state issue. …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Tackles Northeast Earthquake, Trump's 'Cocaine' Comment
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Friday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered in New Jersey but was felt hundreds of miles away, as well as Donald Trump‘s latest unsubstantiated allegation about President Joe Biden. Colin Jost began: “Well yesterday, everyone in NewYork pretended they felt anearthquake.Just admit it, you …
Read More »GOP Rep. Turner: Republicans Have 'Uttered' Russian Propaganda 'on the House Floor'
Republican Rep. Mike Turner accused some of his colleagues of having “uttered” Russian propaganda “on the House floor” amid Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine. “We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the …
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