Bill Maher Rips Merrick Garland for 'Bending Over Backwards' to Help Trump: 'We Needed a Pitbull, We Got a Purse Dog' | Video The HBO host said Garland has basically let Donald Trump off the hook for his many crimes, dismissing him as "a purse dog" who has been "bending over backwards" to avoid doing "his job." In fact, ... 05/4/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
Capitol Notebook: Iowa to receive over $30M to replace lead water pipes Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Thursday that Iowa will receive over $30 million from the federal infrastructure law to identify and replace lead water service lines. The Environmental ... 05/2/2024 - 11:26 am | View Link
Trump’s Contempt for His Court Is So Pervasive It Has Become Routine Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to talk about the concept of “defining deviancy down.” Donald Trump has been a master of doing so — numbing the public to behavior that in a different era would ... 05/2/2024 - 4:32 am | View Link
'Surprising' and 'disturbing': Legal experts react to Supreme Court arguments on Trump's immunity claim Legal experts weigh in on the "surprising" arguments at the Supreme Court on Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. 04/30/2024 - 12:49 am | View Link
THE TRASH REPORT: President Jokes vs. Ex-President Farts! Also: Zendaya, Britney, Monica, and an Exercise on Positive Thinking Hello, Trash Pandas, and welcome to another edition of The Trash Report. I've had some serious blues lately and I'm not totally sure why. The likely culprits are: 1) it felt like spring for a second ... 04/29/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Week 3 of testimony in Donald Trump's first criminal trial of 4 started with a bang! Judge Merchan took the bench and immediately ruled that Trump had violated the gag order for a 10th time (2nd ruling on this, the first one involved 9 violations). Here is a bit of what he said from the bench:
Now—The judge finds Trump in contempt for a 10th time."Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction."
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 6, 2024
Merchan:"The last thing that I want to do is to put you in jail," calling it a last resort.
Mark Levin just made a bossy, egotistical, and absurd demand to Donald Trump.
If a prospective VP candidate won't come on my RADIO SHOW, Donald, don't pick them!
Transcript via Media Matters:
MARK LEVIN (HOST): You know, America, we have a little test here. We have 14 and half million listeners on this program every week.
“Donald Trump will return to Minnesota next week as he tries to add the state to his electoral calculations despite two prior defeats,” MPR News reports.
“Trump has reportedly told donors and other associates that he has a pathway to flip Minnesota, a state that Democrats have had a lock on in presidential races for longer than anywhere else.
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial said they have “a little more than two weeks of their case left, citing a few Fridays off in the coming weeks,” the New York Times reports.
“After that, the defense can put on a case, but does not have to. And after that, we will get closing arguments and the case will go to the jury.”
“A U. S. soldier was detained in Russia last week,” NBC News reports.
“He had been stationed in South Korea and traveled to Russia on his own and not on official business.”