Former President Donald Trump is not only having to spend significant sums of money to defend himself in court, but he's also losing valuable time that could be spent on the campaign stump. That's according to several political experts, who recently told Newsweek that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee being prevented from engaging with voters in swing states could hurt him in the long run. "A general can't lead from the rear-and neither can presidential candidates," Boston University associate professor of politics Thomas Whalen said. "By spending the bulk of his time in a courtr...
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Republicans can win back control of the U.S. Senate by flipping two Democratic seats. But that may prove difficult if the GOP continues to get out-worked by the Democratic Party's fundraising machine. A Friday report by Bloomberg's Bill Allison revealed that despite having the support of conservative billionaires like investor Ken Griffin and the Charles Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity infrastructure, the GOP is still unable to catch up with Democrats in the 2024 money race. As of March 31, Ballotpedia's tally of party committee fundraising shows that Democrats and their affiliated House ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court spent much of Thursday, April 25 listening to opposing oral arguments in Donald Trump's absolute immunity case. The former president claims that because he enjoyed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution when he was in the White House, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's election interference indictment is illegitimate and needs to be thrown out. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, assigned to Smith's case, has flatly rejected Trump's absolute presidential immunity claim — ruling that U.S. presidents do not enjoy a "divine right of kings." In a scat...
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Yet another Donald Trump-related election interference case rocked Trump World when, on Wednesday, April 24, Democratic Arizona Attorney Kris Mayes announced the indictment of 18 people who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election results in her state — including 11 of the "fake electors" along with ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis. Trump himself, however, is not indicated, although he is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator. Following Mayes' announcement, former Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson ...
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President Joe Biden gave an nearly-unannounced, last-minute, live exclusive interview Friday morning to Howard Stern, the SiriusXM radio host who for decades, from the mid-1990s to about 2015, was a top Trump friend, fan, and aficionado. But the impetus behind the President’s move appears to be a rare and unsigned statement from the The New York Times Company, defending the “paper of record” after months of anger from the public over what some say is its biased negative coverage of the Biden presidency and, especially, a Thursday report by Politico claiming Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger is f...
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From a legal standpoint, Thursday, April 25 was a major day for former President Donald Trump. While former National Inquirer Publisher David Pecker was giving additional testimony in Trump's hush money/falsifying business records trial, the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments for and against Trump's presidential immunity claims. Trump contends that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys immunity from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case — a claim that Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkan consider absurd. Barack Obama appointe...
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Donald Trump’s Friday morning claim Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building is “heavily guarded” so his supporters cannot attend his trial was torched by a top CNN anchor. The ex-president, facing 34 felony charges in New York, had been urging his followers to show up and protest on the courthouse steps, but few have. “I’m at the heavily guarded Courthouse. Security is that of Fort Knox, all so that MAGA will not be able to attend this trial, presided over by a highly conflicted pawn of the Democrat Party. It is a sight to behold! Getting ready to do my Courthouse presser. Two minutes!” Trump wro...
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While President Joe Biden is trying to appeal to a broad coalition by reaching out to everyone from liberals and progressives to independents, Never Trumpers and conservative Nikki Haley voters, presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has been making a concerted effort to fire up his MAGA base as much as possible. But at the same time, GOP strategists and members of Trump's campaign realize that he will also need some independents if he hopes to win in November. The Daily Beast's Jake Lahut, in article published on April 26, cites examples of things Trump has recently done that ...
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is reportedly on presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's short list for a possible running mate — a list that also includes, among others, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). The Republican governor, an aggressive supporter of Trump's MAGA agenda, is promoting herself with a new book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward" (which has a May 7 release date on Amazon). The Guardian has obtained a copy and reports that it includes an anecdote in which Noem describes shooting ...
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2024 has been a turbulent year for former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel. After leaving the RNC — where the new ultra-MAGA leadership includes Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump — McDaniel was planning to work as an NBC News contributor. But because of her past support of former President Donald Trump's false, repeatedly debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, a long list of MSNBC hosts — from conservative Joe Scarborough to liberal Rachel Maddow — were vehemently critical of the decision to hire her. And NBC News fired McDaniel...
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