Supporters of Donald Trump woke up Wednesday morning to a startling email message from the former president: “HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!” Thankfully, it was not a declaration of intent by Trump, but a melodramatic fundraising pitch accusing his political opponents of wanting to behead him. “Remember when that Sicko Kathy …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland slammed Republican attacks against the Justice Department in a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. “I will not be intimidated,” Garland said in his opening statements. “The Justice Department will not be intimidated. We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And …
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Donald Trump says he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in his upcoming sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. “The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social, …
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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 …
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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 …
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Donald Trump is officially a convicted felon. The former president spoke to reporters as he exited the courtroom after a jury found him guilty of 34 felony falsification of business records charges, telling the gathered crowd that “this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be …
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Republican lawmakers were apoplectic about the Trump verdict Thursday, with many joining the MAGA chorus in declaring it a political, sham trial, in an effort to delegitimize the jury’s decision. Some reactions were brief: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted an image of an upside-down American flag, a symbol associated …
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For a brief moment, Donald Trump allowed himself a glimmer of hope. For much of the past year, lawyers to Trump had counseled their client that it was basically a foregone conclusion that the jury in his Manhattan trial would convict the former president, as they did early Thursday evening. …
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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 …
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The 12 jurors in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial are set to begin deliberating Wednesday whether to convict the former president of a criminal offense. After Tuesday’s marathon day of closing arguments, Trump took to Truth Social to post a series of all-caps rants on the eve of a day that …
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