This upcoming election has consequences. In 2020, we saw then-President Donald J. Trump refuse to concede after losing reelection to Joe Biden, serving as an exclamation point on a term that was marred with turmoil, crises, and outright lies. As we head into 2024 with Trump as th … | Continue reading
The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some i … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 This is the way she proceeded: On one occasion, in 2006, did future candidate Donald J. Trump engage in sexual intercourse with director Stormy Daniels? Daniels says the gentleman did. The gentleman says he didn't. That said: As has been explained a million t … | Continue reading
How to fix the presidential debates. Bill Bradley on the glorious Knicks. A king’s portrait. And much more. | Continue reading
Biden and Trump have committed to two debates. Can we make sure they don't just yell at each other? | Continue reading
The former president has been dragged into court on a flimsy charge that rests on the testimony of a convicted liar. | Continue reading
Donors who once worried more about Donald Trump now see the president’s bid for a second term as the greater threat to America. | Continue reading
MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024 The world's most basic distinction: As we type, the numbers from the swing states may be going from bad to worse. In this gloomy, brand-new report, the New York Times / Axios survey has Candidate Trump ahead of Candidate Biden is five of six such states. In f … | Continue reading
“If you’re for crypto, you better vote for Trump.” The message was simple and it came from the man himself,… Continue reading Donald Trump courts the crypto vote, Biden warned The post Donald Trump courts the crypto vote, Biden warned appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Even by meme stock standards, Trump Media is an insane story. For starters, as James Surowiecki points out "His company has $4 million in revenue, and it lost $58 million last yr, and it was valued at $9 billion, making it arguably the most overvalued company in history." Then th … | Continue reading
From p. 224 of the transcript of the April 30 session of The People of the State of New York against Donald Trump, Defendant, where prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is questioning Keith Davidson, who was Stormy Daniel's lawyer at the time of the hush-money payment from Michael Cohen: … | Continue reading
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Russ Buettner, The New York Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024 Explains why Daniels did it: If you watch Red America's "cable news" channel, the god can do no wrong. For the record, the god in question is former president Donald J. Trump. The program in question airs at 5 p.m.—and yes, that helps explain why the progra … | Continue reading
On October 31, 2020, former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon—who had left Trump’s administration in 2017—explained to a group of people that, knowing that votes for Biden would accumulate throughout the evening as mail-in ballots were counted, Trump planned simply to declar … | Continue reading
Paul Manafort, a top Trump associate who pleaded guilty to money laundering and obstruction of justice before being pardoned by the 45th president in 2020, is back in the news with the Washington Post reporting he’s revived his international consultancy business. But there’s one … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has made a prophet out of Bruce Cain, a political scientist at Stanford. Four weeks ago, he told New York Times contributor Thomas Edsall that some of the conservative victories in campaign finance law — particularly Citizens United — have strengthened “the power of … | Continue reading
Donald Trump will host a dinner at his Florida club (and residence) Mar-a-Lago tonight, according to a report from Axios. And while the place is often crawling with the dumbest people on the planet, the air will be even more thick with nonsense this evening. The crowd will be pur … | Continue reading
Once, they put their hopes in Donald Trump. Now they’re looking to Putin. ‘I often say it feels like our positive vision of 1950s America.’ | Continue reading
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024Also, Welker's repeated question: Kudos to the Washington Post for what it has started to try to do.In a lengthy report by David Nakamura, the paper has now started to try to explain the legal basis on which Donald J. Trump has been charged with a felony—actual … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024 Also, Welker's repeated question: Kudos to the Washington Post for what it has started to try to do. In a lengthy report by David Nakamura, the paper has now started to try to explain the legal basis on which Donald J. Trump has been charged with a felony—actu … | Continue reading
Have you seen a photo of MyPillow CEO and big-time Trump backer Mike Lindell looking spaced out, with dark circles under his eyes? It’s gone viral on social media, racking up millions of views. But it’s not real. The photo might look oddly realistic, but it’s been altered signifi … | Continue reading
Greg Sargent writes: I disagree with Sargent’s statement that “The reason Trump regularly tells lies that are very easy to debunk . . . is to assert the power to say what truth is.” I think it’s simpler than that. … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Marie Morelli in Syracuse.com: Former President Donald Trump testified in the New York civil fraud trial, earning rebukes from the judge for his off-topic comments. In the editorial cartoon gallery’s lead image, Nick Anderson pokes fun at Trump’s courtroom theatrics by showing hi … | Continue reading
This book was published in the spring of 2020 and written by David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama, with the intent of helping to give ideas to individuals about what they could do to help beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The actual suggestions are pretty succin … | Continue reading
Kristi Noem: The politician who has the guts to tell you to kill your dog. https://t.co/u68uxR3b4o — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2024 Trump VP contender Kristi Noem defends shooting her puppy to death, saying it makes her “tough” pic.twitter.com/BofGjW41Wh — Biden-Harris H … | Continue reading
Peter Savodnik reports from an encampment 7,248 miles from Gaza. NPR CEO subpoenaed by Congress. And much more. | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s 18-year-old son is going to save the nation, according to the online right. | Continue reading
Lionel Shriver on PEN’s cowardice. Trump on trial. Ben Kawaller among the Mormons. And much more in today’s Front Page. | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024George Conway, One Other Guy: We just saw George Conway on Deadline: White House refer to Donald J. Trump as "a narcissistic sociopath." He also used the term "psychopathy" as he discussed Trump's mental / emotional state. As we've recently noted, Conway ha … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 George Conway, One Other Guy: We just saw George Conway on Deadline: White House refer to Donald J. Trump as "a narcissistic sociopath." He also used the term "psychopathy" as he discussed Trump's mental / emotional state. As we've recently noted, Conway h … | Continue reading
How far would Trump go if elected? | Continue reading
For around two years now, we've been hammering the point that much of the political impact of Dobbs would be from the secondary and tertiary affects the ruling. Secondary and tertiary is mainly where the unintended consequences lurk, women with miscarriages being denied urgent me … | Continue reading
What's real and what's hot air in the potential sequel to the worst presidential release in my lifetime. | Continue reading
“Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing her dog—and goat—in new book.” — The Guardian 4/26/24 - - - The dog is wiry and playful. Its red mouth hangs open and the tang of blood briefly throbs through the chilly South Dakota air with every heaving pant. The chicken stares … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the presidential immunity appeal from Donald Trump this week (coverage from Election Law Blog, Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse, CNN takeaways, CNN live coverage, and The Bulwark). The outcome is uncertain, but appears to be headed for dela … | Continue reading
One month since Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange, the share price has been… Continue reading ‘The mother of all meme stocks’ – tracking Trump’s Truth Social The post ‘The mother of all meme stocks’ – tracking Trump’s Truth Social appeared fi … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former president Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it back from the dead. Read more... | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024 With what is Donald Trump charged? The future president made the statement back in the early days. Joe and Mika were in the process of flipping on the candidate—a candidate over whom they had fawned all through the previous year. It was January 2016. NPR … | Continue reading
Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded — this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders. Read more... | Continue reading
Crooks and Liars.com: Four years ago yesterday, Donald Trump announced that “injecting bleach and shining light into the body would cure COVID-19” – it’s amazing we survived Trump, much less COVID-19! | Continue reading
24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer called) ‘the art of the deal’ – that is a transactional approach based on exploiting leverage. Such an approach is … | Continue reading
Harvard’s best and brightest minds have proved Scientifically that border walls don’t work (see this 2019 Harvard Gazette story, for example, and “Laurence Tribe sues Trump over border wall” (MSNBC coverage of the Harvard Law School prof’s fight to keep the border open)). This we … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024 Or is it extremely strong? Incomparably, your Daily Howler keeps churning out results. She appeared today at 6:03 a.m. Her appearance on Morning Joe ended at 6:20. Along the way, she restated her "basic takeaway" from yesterday's Morning Joe. Once again, … | Continue reading
However, excessively weak recovery in Germany, disruptions to global supply chains and the election of Donald Trump as the next US president could also create turbulence in the region. Despite the challenging international environment and significant downside risks, the economies … | Continue reading
Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away. | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024 Old ways disappear: Journalistically speaking, we'd call it a moment that was. Yesterday, opening statements were delivered at the Trump hush money / election corruption trial. When we left off this morning, Donald J. Trump had somehow "corrupted the 2016 … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump could pocket more than $1 billion in paper wealth by the end of the day Tuesday. Read more... | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024 Our journalism, ourselves: The New York Times is a national paper of record. Based upon a recent report, that's especially true for the jurors who begin their service today in Gotham's admittedly "lurid," hush money / porn star trial. Last Friday, the newsp … | Continue reading