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4:22 p.m. ET, April 25, 2024 Pecker confirms he didn’t say Hope Hicks was at Trump Tower 2015 meeting in government interview Bove asked Pecker whether he told agents at a July 2018 interview that Hope Hicks attended the August 2015 meeting with Cohen and Trump. Steinglass objected to this question, and Judge Juan Merchan sustained the objection. Bove then tries again. Pecker asks to see what Bove is referring to, where he didn’t mention Hicks. Bove is trying to get Pecker to confirm that he did not mention Hicks when he first told prosecutors in 2018 about the August 2015…
President Joe Biden’s campaign continued to link Donald Trump to political violence on Monday ahead of the former president’s visit to the key battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.At a news conference in Washington, DC, Biden campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler said a video posted by Trump on Friday that featured an image of Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck, was “not the first time and sadly will not be the last time that Donald Trump chooses to traffic in violence as he seeks to regain power.”Tyler said the former president is “perfectly comfortable with violence when…
Three Republicans on Wednesday joined Democrats in the Arizona House to vote to repeal the state’s controversial 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, which was revived by a court ruling earlier this month and which only includes exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman.The final vote was 32-28.The video is from a related report.”I’ve known for a while that the votes were there, it just takes a lot of fortitude, a lot of spine,” Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, who sponsored the bill, told ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee.Hamilton said she had several phone conversations with Republicans the…
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Today, 538 launched our interactive polling averages for the 2024 presidential general election. They show incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump essentially tied in national polls and Trump with a tenuous lead in key swing states.Specifically, as of April 25 at 9 a.m. Eastern, our national polling average shows 40.9 percent of likely voters would support Biden if the election were held today, while 41.6 percent would support Trump.538’s 2024 presidential general election polling average, as of April 25 at 9 a.m. Eastern.538 Photo IllustrationBut there’s considerable uncertainty in…
Former President Trump late Wednesday swiped at his one-time attorney general, Bill Barr, after Barr said he would support the GOP presidential ticket despite his criticisms. “Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him ‘Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy’ (New York Post!),” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement. Thank you Bill.” Barr, who…
By Alexandra AlperWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican China hardliner Marco Rubio is calling on the Biden administration to block all sales to Huawei after the sanctioned Chinese tech company released a new AI-enabled laptop powered by an Intel AI processor chip.The release of Huawei’s first AI-enabled laptop, the MateBook X Pro powered by Intel’s new Core Ultra 9 processor, last week drew fire from Republican lawmakers, who said it suggests that the Commerce Department had given the greenlight to Intel to sell the chip to Huawei.If the Commerce Department did authorize the shipment, “this would be unacceptable and a failure to…
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Former President Donald Trump. Curtis Means-Pool via Getty Images Trump’s company hired an accountant who couldn’t get his name right in filings, per the Financial Times.Ben F Borgers spelled his name in 14 different ways, the FT reported.Some variations were just minor typos, but others were entirely different names. The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump’s social media company seemed to have a lot of trouble spelling his name, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting…
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump had to cancel his first planned rally since the start of his criminal hush money trial because of a storm Saturday evening in North Carolina, an added complication that highlights the difficulty the former president faces in juggling his legal troubles with his rematch against President Joe Biden.Trump called into the rally site near the Wilmington airport less than an hour before he was scheduled to take the stage and apologized to a few thousand supporters who had gathered throughout the afternoon under initially sunny skies that later darkened with storm clouds. Speaking from…
(KSTP) – Republican members of the Minnesota Senate filed an ethics complaint shortly after noon on Wednesday against fellow Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury).The complaint comes one day after Mitchell was formally charged with first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home early Monday morning.5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Chief Political Reporter Tom Hauser says the complaint was filed during Mitchell’s absence at Wednesday’s Senate floor session.Shortly after the complaint was filed, Sen. Eric Lucero (R-St. Michael) called for a motion to expedite the ethics process against Mitchell to determine what should happen, with the most severe potential punishment being expulsion.He was…
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump attends a campaign event on April 2, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. CNN — Former President Donald Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Michigan attorney general’s probe into the attempts to overturn the 2020 election in that state, an investigator testified Wednesday. The investigator also said the list of unindicted co-conspirators includes ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis. The revelations came at a pretrial hearing in Lansing for some of Michigan’s fake electors, who have been charged by Michigan…