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Donald Trump on Saturday bragged about his past as head of Miss Universe while at the same time attacking the various judges who have ruled against him in civil or criminal cases.

"Pennsylvania is great!" Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend shouted as he walked down the line of people who hope to attend Saturday's rally in the state. Moments later, he was saying he doesn't want to be sued and dodging questions of election integrity.

I don’t get it and I’m hoping you can help me figure it out. Why do Republicans oppose President Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt?

A man who was prosecuted for what he says were crimes he committed on behalf of Donald Trump has a serious warning for the former president.

Donald Trump on Saturday attacked a key witness in his felony criminal trial slated for Monday, prompting some to ask if there will be "consequences" for the apparent violation of a gag order in the hush money case.

Just prior to holding a rally in the political hotbed of Schnecksville, Pennsylvania late Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to snarl and complain and point fingers over his impending 34-felony count trial set to commence in Manhattan on Monday morning.

The former president, who has been busily endorsing Republican candidates on social media, started off slowly and then built into a full-fledged meltdown over his most pressing legal problem at the moment. Читать дальше...

With Donald Trump's Manhattan trial related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels set to commence on Monday, close aides to the former president are both happy that he will be able to use the media attention to rally his supporters but also stressed that daily doses of the former president complaining about the proceedings will further alienate independent voters he desperately needs.

According to a report from CNN, the former president must be in attendance in the courtroom which... Читать дальше...

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, a slew of far-right websites popped up and cashed in on content propping up then-candidate Donald Trump. And those sites continued to rake in millions of dollars during Trump's time in the White House. But since 2020, the right-wing media cash spigot has effectively slowed to a trickle.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler bluntly stated that the moment Donald Trump steps into a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, it will commence the "worst day of his life" as he faces 34 felony counts that could lead to four years in jail.

Speaking with fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., Bultler explained that for the first time in his life, the former president's actions have led to a moment in life where he faces very real consequences that could impact his freedom. Читать дальше...

Businessman Tim Sheehy, who is running for US Senate in Montana, has been hyping his rural connections to voters on the campaign trail. But a new report suggests Sheehy is actually a product of suburbia.

Donald Trump's boast that he would be more than willing to testify at his upcoming hush money trial was greeted by a great deal of skepticism by one of his former lawyers on Saturday morning.

During an extended interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen blew a hole in the idea that it would be a good thing for the former president to take the stand as he faces 34 felony counts related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Speaking with the hosts... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's efforts to derail an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority has drawn more concerns that he either doesn't know what he is talking about or he has grown more confused as he ages.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off the conversation by noting that the former president used his Truth Social platform to rail against a provision of FISA and botched what he was opposing.

That led co-host Alicia Menendez to jump in and state... Читать дальше...

Democrats came out swinging at Donald Trump on the divisive issue of abortion on Friday, blaming him for unpopular restrictions they said are turning back the clock on women’s rights ahead of November’s presidential election.

Thousands of people voted to elect Raul Urena to Calexico council, hoping the young politician would bring a fresh approach to the California border city's long-standing problems with unemployment, crime and deprivation.

Donald Trump will become the first former US president to face criminal trial Monday, a watershed moment for the country as November's presidential election approaches.

With the value of stock in Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) continuing its unceasing slide downward since the technology company went public, supporters of Donald Trump who profess to have invested in the company are increasingly expressing dismay about the collapse on the former president's Truth Social platform.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Noah Kirsch, faith in the troubled company that was reported to have lost millions last year right after the public offering... Читать дальше...

Troop reinforcements from Israel's ally the United States headed to the region on Saturday, with fears of wider war growing more than six months into Israel's battle against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

A former U.S. ambassador who pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba for over four decades was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 15 years in prison.

An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in Sydney's beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene.

Michael Cohen used to be the personal attorney and longtime "fixer" for former President Donald Trump. But next week, he'll be the star witness in his former employer's first criminal trial.

According to the former CEO of AT&T, a meeting with Donald Trump over the threat posed by China to American telecom networks fell apart because the former president couldn't stop talking about adult film star Stormy Daniels.

As explained in a new book from the New York Times' David Sanger, Randall Stephenson recalled that he was brought to the Oval Office in 2019 to discuss the growing threat, but instead met with a distracted Trump who spent the first 45 minutes ranting about Daniels and male and female relations. Читать дальше...

As Donald Trump continues to try to make inroads with Black voters, his allegedly spontaneous viral visit to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A on Wednesday came at just the right time for the indicted ex-president as the patrons and staff, mostly young Black women, appeared to gush over him.

Even in the current tumultuous political times, Mark Robinson’s rapid rise from an obscure former factory worker with a rather checkered personal past to the highest-ranking Republican in North Carolina state government has been a remarkable one.

Last week, I told you about a pattern of rightwing malice that, once citizens see it and recognize it for what it is, they can make choices without also getting trapped by the very same pattern of malice.

On Friday, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) gave a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago to introduce an initiative aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting. But one Fox News host slammed that policy proposal as a red herring.