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Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN — “We are most deeply asleep at the switch,” wrote Annie Dillard, “when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God.” Dillard’s line — from her short meditative book titled “Holy the Firm,” published in 1977, two years after she won the Pulitzer Prize at the age of 29 — invoked the role of the switchman, whose…
ScreenshotTrump Media fired back with a statement of their own. “Citadel Securities, a corporate behemoth that has been fined and censured for an incredibly wide range of offenses including issues related to naked short selling, and is world famous for screwing over everyday retail investors at the behest of other corporations, is the last company on earth that should lecture anyone on ‘integrity,’” a spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal.Naked short selling, an illegal practice, differs from conventional short selling, which is when traders borrow stock shares before selling them, hoping to profit later by buying back the stock at a…
On Saturday, the day after the jury was impaneled for former President Donald J. Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, Melania Trump finally returned to the presidential campaign trail. The occasion: the Log Cabin Republicans’ fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, at which Mrs. Trump was the guest of honor and addressed the room.Yes, she’s officially back. And as ambiguously as ever.While Mrs. Trump’s words on unity and equality may have been directed to the audience in the ballroom, the outfit she chose for the occasion — a covered up black Michael Kors pantsuit with a leather belt wrapped tightly twice around her…
Opening statements to begin in Trump “hush money” trial – CBS News Watch CBS News Opening statements will begin Monday morning in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial. Trump is the first former president to face criminal prosecution, he is accused of falsifying business records to hide an alleged affair with an adult film actor ahead of the 2016 election. Trump denies all charges. Attorney and CBS News campaign reporter Katrina Kaufman has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On This article was originally published…
O.J. Simpson is dead. But he lives as a player in the 2024 presidential election. Simpson’s famous murder trial proved beyond all reasonable doubt that rich and famous people can create a media circus and gum up processes with endless delays. Exhibit A of Simpson’s continued power is on display right now in the case of New York v. Donald Trump. Trump is mimicking Simpson’s daily use of celebrity and race to distract public focus from charges of election interference through the use of “hush money” paid to an adult film actress. Attention has already been diverted from the criminal…
Jabin Botsford/Pool/Reuters Former President Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal court as jury selection continues in New York, NY on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Trump is on track to receive another 36 million shares as the owner of Truth Social. New York CNN — Former President Donald Trump is on the cusp of scoring a major financial bonanza – at least on paper. As long as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price doesn’t spectacularly implode before Tuesday’s closing bell, Trump is on track to receive another 36 million shares as the owner of Truth Social. This milestone is on track…
Getty Images Following the release of Pearl Jam‘s new album “Dark Matter,” frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed the rationale behind political song “Wreckage.” Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out…
Donald Trump likes to project himself on the campaign trail as a tough, “law and order” president who always “backs the blue.”At nearly every campaign stop, his advance team arranges for law enforcement photo ops, and a central part of his campaign message is that he wants the law strictly enforced and is always on the side of the police.After NYPD officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed in the line of duty last month, Trump scrambled a flight from Florida up to New York City to attend the slain officer’s memorial service. His campaign arranged for Diller’s family to…
NEW YORK — A New York judge said Monday that Manhattan prosecutors can bring up several civil lawsuits involving former President Trump if he chooses to testify in his ongoing criminal trial. After hearing arguments Friday, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that prosecutors can cross-examine Trump about six of the 13 prior court determinations they requested to raise in their efforts to impugn the former president’s credibility in front of jurors. Merchan ruled that prosecutors are permitted to question Trump about two rulings — one by a judge, the other by a jury — finding that Trump defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying…
Follow our live coverage of Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.The two Manhattan residents were led into the courtroom to fulfill a foundational civic duty: to be interviewed as prospective jurors.But in the room when they arrived was a defendant, Donald J. Trump, unlike any in American history.Both would-be jurors, a man and a woman, were eventually excused. But the experience thrust them into the spotlight in a way they never had imagined.One was challenged by Mr. Trump’s lawyers over his past social media posts relating to the former president. The other has a medical practice that she could not…