Even as Donald Trump faces four two trials related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president continues to feed his MAGA base the false claims that President Joe Biden and the Democrats coordinated a fraud schemes across the country in order to win. The Associated Press reported in August, "There is evidence that his lies are resonating: New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 57% of Republicans believe Democrat Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as president." In a Sunday, May 12 op-ed, MSNBC's Hayes Brown points to ...
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Former President Donald Trump recently made a controversial proposal to a gathering of oil executives and lobbyists at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida: Favorable policy in exchange for $1 billion in campaign cash. Now, it looks as if the U.S. Senate may launch an official inquiry into the ex-president. That's according to the New Republic's Greg Sargent, who spoke to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) about Trump's recent entreaty to the oil industry. Whitehouse said it was "highly likely" that the Senate Budget Committee would investigate the former president over his brazen offer. ...
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The key element of the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's 34-count felony indictment of former President Donald Trump is that he had intimate knowledge of a hush money payment scheme to allegedly buy the silence of various women claiming to have had affairs with him. And Trump's defense is largely that the affairs never happened, the women in question were extorting him and that the payments were made without him having a hand in it. Trump's fate will ultimately depend on which narrative jurors believe. However, a new report by the New York Times' Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and ...
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An aide to former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign is now alleging that millions of dollars in campaign donations were paid out to an untold number of women, and that a law firm helped cover it up. The Daily Beast reported on a recent court filing by A.J. Delgado, a senior advisor to Trump's first campaign for the presidency who also worked on his presidential transition team. In the filing, Delgado accused the campaign of sex discrimination, saying that she was sidelined after it became known she was pregnant. The Beast reported that the father of Delgado's child is Trump advisor Jason ...
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Nobody likes Big Oil, a monopolistic and heavily polluting industry with a legendary history of abusing its excessive power that can be traced back over the past hundred years. But Donald Trump has promised to be the oil industry's best friend -- if its bosses give him a billion dollars. In the latest instance of the former president's mind-blowing corruption, he is reported to have entertained a group of two dozen top U.S. oil company executives at Mar-a-Lago. Over dinner at his Palm Beach sanctum, Trump is quoted as telling the chiefs of Chevron, Exxon, and Occidental Petroleum and their col...
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Out of the four states where former President Donald Trump's advisors and inner circle are facing criminal charges for their alleged roles in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, a new report singles out Arizona as perhaps the toughest jurisdiction for the defendants. A Friday report by Politico's Kyle Cheney and Betsy Woodruff Swan described how the Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 defendants in the so-called "fake elector" scheme was given plenty of leeway to pursue any line of inquiry against any defendant, and went even further than prosecutors expected. In the end, jurors indicted...
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Brian K. Pritchard is no longer the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party after a large majority of his fellow Republicans voted to remove him from his position this week. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Pritchard was removed from his role as the party's #2 official after a whopping 86% of the Georgia GOP's state committee supported a motion to oust him. The vote to officially remove Pritchard came after he refused to step down amid revelations that he voted on nine separate occasions despite a prior felony conviction. "Today’s vote demonstrates how serious we take elect...
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Just 24 hours after being named as a delegate for his father at this year's Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Barron Trump is now abandoning those plans. CNN reporter Alayna Treene tweeted Friday that former President Donald Trump's youngest son would now no longer be a participant in the convention, following a statement issued by the office of former First Lady Melania Trump and an unnamed senior advisor to the 2024 Trump campaign. There was no reason given for Barron's withdrawal other than that "he regretfully declines due to prior commitments." Spec...
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On Friday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team entered a years-old tweet from former President Donald Trump into evidence, which appears to both confirm the facts of the indictment and undermine the core of defense lawyers' main argument. MSNBC legal contributor Adam Klasfeld tweeted Friday that one of Bragg's paralegals read the tweet into the official record despite Trump's team unsuccessfully fighting to exclude it. The tweet itself, which was sent on May 3, 2018, while Trump was in the White House, reads: "Mr. [Michael] Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from t...
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Former President Donald Trump may be finding out who is real friends are in his hour of need, as he has had scant public support during his first criminal trial in Manhattan. In an essay for Salon, columnist Heather Digby Parton observed that one particular thing stood out in the 45th president of the United States' ongoing trial proceedings — his allies are keeping him at arms' length. With a few exceptions like his adult children, a handful of campaign advisors and a recent appearance by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida), who is running for another term this November, Trump hasn't had many surroga...
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