Author: admin
CNN — Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump will spend his one allotted weekday out of the courtroom hosting rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two critical battleground states he won in 2016 but lost in 2020. As the general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden heats up, both states are considered pivotal on the path to White House. Despite Trump and his campaign’s insistence that the former resident would take advantage of every second he wasn’t tethered to the courtroom, in…
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is griping that the 2024 presidential debates have been “delayed” after the commission that organizes them declined a request to hold the debates sooner than usual.During an interview last week with radio talk show icon Howard Stern of SiriusXM, President Joe Biden said that he would agree to debate Trump, ending months of speculation about whether the debates would even take place this year. Trump refused to debate any of his Republican presidential primary opponents before becoming the presumptive nominee.The former president, who has repeatedly called for an accelerated debate schedule while claiming that Biden…
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona condemned the protests at Columbia University and other colleges where demonstrators have been accused of intimidating Jewish students and chanting antisemitic phrases as “unacceptable.” “What’s happening on our campuses is abhorrent,” Cardona told lawmakers at a Senate budget hearing Tuesday. “Hate has no place on our campuses and I’m very concerned with the reports of antisemitism.” Republican senators on the appropriations subcommittee grilled Cardona and largely denounced the protests and urged him to do more to combat antisemitism, including by taking more immediate actions such as pulling federal funding from the colleges that aren’t addressing the…
Bruce Garelick walks following a hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court, in New York City, July 20, 2023.Amr Alfiky | Reuters”It’s a long story,” Litinsky sighed on the stand in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Garelick has decided to take his chances with a jury after his two co-defendants, the brothers Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman, pleaded guilty on April 3 to insider trading charges in the case.Garelick is accused of sharing non-public material information about the merger plans by the shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., with his boss, the Florida venture capitalist Michael Shvartsman and Gerald in 2021.All…
Former President Donald Trump said in a new interview with Time magazine that he doesn’t think there will be political violence around the 2024 election because he believes he’ll win — but that it “always depends on the fairness of an election.”The comments came along with a statement that Trump would “consider” pardoning every person who has been charged or convicted for rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after the then-president rallied his followers against what he has repeatedly and baselessly called a “rigged” election.Trump also answered questions digging into his campaign position on abortion policy being left…
Capitol Wrap: Senate Republicans try to force Mitchell resignation, State Office Building expansionFor the second day in a row, DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell was in the political crosshairs of Senate Republicans. They made a motion to have senators vote to ask Mitchell to resign. “This is serious members,” said Sen. Karin Housley, R-Stillwater. “We are dealing with an unprecedented case of a senator who was arrested in the dark of night while breaking into her stepmother’s home… We as a body need to uphold the integrity of the institution and we need to act now.”Democrats defeated the motion 34-33, with Mitchell…
Trump complains about temperature of courthouse: ‘An ice box’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump’s hush money trial got back underway on Tuesday with Judge Juan Merchan ruling that he found the former president in contempt of court on nine of the first ten violations of the gag order, fining him $1,000 for each. Further violations may result in “an incarceratory punishment”, he warned.The judge did say he would give the court a day off to allow Mr Trump to attend his son…
Politics exclusive details By Diana Glebova Published April 30, 2024, 5:58 p.m. ET The Commission on Presidential Debates has refused to acknowledge the Trump campaign’s requests for earlier and more frequent 2024 showdowns, sticking with its original schedule of three face-to-face meetings beginning in mid-September. Two top advisers to the 45th president, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, sent a letter to the CPD on April 11 stating the 77-year-old Trump was ready to debate President Biden “anytime, anyplace, and anywhere,” and arguing that earlier debates would allow for more voters to view a head-to-head match-up before early voting begins. On…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is on the way out. But he’s not going quietly. A GOP free agent of sorts, McConnell helped convince Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to back aid to Ukraine despite opposition from House Republicans. The effort led to another win in a long list of big legislative victories for the Kentuckian. McConnell, who is nearing the end of his days as the Senate Republican leader, is speaking more freely, too. He sharply criticized conservative pundit Tucker Carlson this month, saying he’d found a home in interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’s also gone after Republicans…
Keith Davidson is testifying about his first offer to former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard.Davidson’s offer to Howard over text was: “How about 1m now,” meaning $1 million, he explained. “And 75k per year for next 2 years as a fitness corresponded for ami & ur related pubs.””I’ll take it to them but thinking it’s more hundreds than millions,” Howard responded over text on July 23. Davidson said he interpreted that warning to mean, “I should expect a counter offer that was substantially less.”Davidson responded by offering $800,000 now and $100,000 per year for a total of $1 million.Howard’s response…