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By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com In Washington, D.C. 16:24 31 May 2024, updated 16:43 31 May 2024 A top Trump campaign adviser blasted former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan after the GOP Senate hopeful said Americans should ‘respect the verdict’ of the hush money trial. ‘You just ended your campaign,’ senior Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita posted to X Thursday evening. After departing the governor’s mansion in January, Hogan launched a surprise Senate bid in March and easily won the state’s Republican primary earlier this month. He’ll face Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in the fall. The former Maryland governor has been critical of…
11:30 a.m. ET, May 31, 2024 Trump says crime he was convicted of “sounds bad” but insists he did nothing wrong Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump Tower in New York City on May 31. Brendan McDermid/Reuters Donald Trump says the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records he was convicted of Thursday sound worse than they are. A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to cover up a hush money payment to an adult film star shortly before the 2016 election. The case hinged on how reimbursement for the payment was…
U.S. Senator Katie Britt is striking back with a group of her fellow Republican colleagues to eliminate the Biden administration’s controversial natural gas tax put in place by the Inflation Reduction Act. The new tax is being levied by the EPA against various American energy companies who are deemed to have violated the newly established methane emissions limits. Estimates currently indicate that the tax alone will raise the cost of household energy bills for 180 million Americans and 5.5 million businesses. This week, Britt lambasted the Biden administration for its hostile policies towards domestically produced energy and said that it’s…
Justin Lane/Pool/Reuters Former US President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial in New York on 30 May 2024. Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. CNN — As Donald Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of a felony on Thursday, the historic verdict sparked huge interest – and a fair amount of schadenfreude – in China. As a rising authoritarian superpower, China has long sought to project…
Donald Trump’s social media account on Tuesday removed a video showing fake headlines about a “unified reich” if he wins the 2024 US election, as President Joe Biden accused his election rival of using “Hitler’s language.” Trump’s campaign blamed an inattentive staffer for reposting the 30-second clip, which flashed a series of fictitious news stories painting a picture of American prosperity, with one including the term normally associated with Nazi Germany. Biden branded the staffer story a “lame” excuse and launched a full-court press over the latest friction point between the two November presidential contenders. “This is the same guy…
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) leaves a leadership meeting with members of the Senate Republican Conference on March 5, 2024. Senate Republicans on Thursday widely panned the guilty verdict against former President Trump for falsifying business records, arguing that it was a “disgrace,” a “sham” and that the true verdict will come in November. Republicans wasted no time laying into the decision after a jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is looking to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the party’s top spot next year, called on Republicans to rally around the…
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGeorgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a picture of an upside down flag in the wake of former president Donald Trump’s conviction on Thursday.The upside-down flag has become a symbol for the “Stop the Steal” movement that the former president’s supporters brandished at the US Capitol on January 6. It’s also the same symbol that was spotted at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home in Virginia, three years ago and recently brought to the public’s attention, sparking a…
President Biden has accused Donald Trump of imitating Adolf Hitler, denounced him as a beacon of “hate, anger and revenge” in a prime-time speech watched by one in 10 Americans and built a campaign that spends nearly three times as much as his rival, including about $84 million more so far in general election advertising.The result is a jump ball of a presidential race that has changed little this year. Trump maintains a slight edge in public polls, with a much better chance at winning the White House than he had in 2020.A New York jury’s verdict Thursday convicting Trump…
A group of Republican senators are calling on the Government Accountability Office to investigate what they say is a “perhaps unlawful subsidy scheme” to drive the proliferation of electric vehicles. Led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the lawmakers are asking the GAO a host of questions about the legality of the Department of Energy’s new formulas translating the power consumption of an electric car into gasoline use, or the miles per gallon equivalent. They claimed the department’s latest number-crunching amounted to “fake math” that generated a “hidden subsidy.” According to their calculations, the amount “likely far exceeds the $7,500 federal…
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. New York CNN — The jury might still be deliberating, but Donald Trump’s media allies have already delivered a verdict to their audiences Throughout the duration of the Manhattan hush-money trial, Fox News and the rest of MAGA Media have set the stage to absolve Trump in the historic case. Day after day, week after week, popular personalities such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon have lampooned the judicial system, portraying Trump as an…