Charlie Shamp — a bearded Christian “prophet” with a jet-black pompadour — appeared as a guest on the Jim Bakker Show last week to share a heavenly vision about Republican politics. And for once, it wasn’t about Donald Trump. “We need to watch Ron DeSantis,” Shamp told the televangelist’s audience. …
Read More »Nikki Haley Is Unable to Explain Why Voters Should Pick Her Over Trump
Nikki Haley‘s 2024 presidential campaign isn’t off to a great start, in that no one seems to understand why she’s embarking on what seems to be such a hopeless endeavor. The conservative Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board even wrote on Wednesday that they see “no clear rationale” for her bid …
Read More »Wyden to Biden: Damn the Judge, Protect the Abortion Pill
Someday very soon, a single district court judge in Texas could order the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, cutting off access — nationwide — to the most widely-used abortifacient in the United States. (The earliest a decision is expected is next Friday, February 24.) If …
Read More »Justice Department Wields Crime-Fraud Exception to Pierce Trump's Attorney-Client Privilege
Federal prosecutors are looking to cut through Former President Donald Trump’s staunch wall of lawyers by using the crime-fraud exception to compel the testimony of his lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. The crime fraud exception voids legal secrecy when a client has …
Read More »Nikki Haley, Who Backed Trump in 2020, Says the President Shouldn't Be Old
Nikki Haley is running for president, which she may find difficult considering how she’s praised the far-more-popular candidate she’s going to have to defeat to secure the Republican nomination. The former South Carolina governor is going to need to find a way to differentiate herself from Donald Trump if she …
Read More »Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House
“What do you think of firing squads?” That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, three people familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone. It’s not an idle inquiry: The former president, if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the …
Read More »Ron DeSantis Wants You to Know Trump Isn't the Only One With an Execution Fetish
The 2024 Republican primary for president is going to brutal. The current frontrunner, Donald Trump, has a penchant for executing people and, as Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday, is pushing to bring back firing squads and publicly broadcast executions. The only candidate who currently seems to have a reasonable chance …
Read More »Trump Used 'Classified' Folder as a Lamp Shade, Lawyer Says
Donald Trump‘s creativity knows no bounds when it comes to documents. He’s torn them up and scattered them. He’s tried to flush them down the toilet. He’s absconded from the White House with hundreds of classified ones, setting off a Justice Department investigation that is still ongoing months after the …
Read More »Profits from Trump and Kushner's White House Connection to Saudi Prince Continue to Roll in
While in the White House, Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner cultivated close ties with the Saudi regime, and it’s paying off in the form of billions of Saudi dollars flowing into the two men’s post-presidency businesses. This is raising questions about how Trump and Kushner may have used …
Read More »Trump Aide Unwittingly Copies Classified Pages to Laptop, Report Says
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys turned over more documents marked classified to federal prosecutors in December and January, CNN reports, as an investigation into whether Trump mishandled sensitive government records trudges ahead. In December, Trump’s legal team found pages marked classified while going through boxes at his Mar-a-Lago residence, per …
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