Trump may have just begun his battle in court, but some Republicans already think he’s losing the war. The day after the former president was arrested and arraigned on felony charges of falsifying business records, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced that he would be throwing his support for the 2024 …
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For many of Donald Trump‘s supporters, today is a dark day indeed: The president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts today after being formally arrested in a Manhattan courtroom. But for those in the Qanon conspiracist movement, hope springs eternal, and “The Storm” is always just around the corner. …
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After a day of historic indignity — spent getting booked and arraigned at a Manhattan courthouse— former president Donald Trump retreated to his safe space, Mar-a-Lago, where he delivered an embittered televised address to the nation. Trump entered his ballroom to the strains of Lee Greenwood’s “I’m Proud to be …
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If you wrote a list of American political virtues, “patient” would not figure prominently.So when we learned last week that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had secured a grand jury indictment of former President and prominent Truth Social poster Donald Trump, nobody wanted to wait before jumping to conclusions.Speculation on …
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Judge Janet Protasiewicz has been elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving liberals a majority on the court ahead of a decision that could determine the future of reproductive rights in the state. The Associated Press called the race just before 9 p.m. local time. The race — between Protasiewicz …
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Thirty-four felony charges are, well, a lot of felony charges. The best way to understand the really, really dense indictment is by looking at the conduct Trump allegedly engaged in. What did he actually do?Well… Once upon a time, in August of 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump met with his then-lawyer/fixer …
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to be arrested and arraigned. On Wednesday, he called for Republicans in Congress to defund federal law enforcement. “REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES,” he wrote on Truth Social. …
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With the indictment of former president Donald Trump on 34 felony counts, our country is in uncharted territory. Never has a former president been indicted for criminal activity, and never has a former president warned of “potential death and destruction” as a result. What’s more, the indictments — stemming from …
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Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he was not at all saddened about getting arrested and having to plead not guilty to 34 felony charges stemming from an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star. “I can say that at least for this moment right now, I am in …
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Republican legislators in Tennessee are aiming to expel three of their Democratic colleagues after they joined protesters demanding gun control last week, The Tennessean reports. Tennessee House Republicans introduced resolutions to expel the three reps — Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, Justin Jones of Nashville, and Justin Pearson of Memphis — …
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