Donald Trump Hope Hicks, once a spokeswoman for Donald J. Trump, broke down in tears on the witness stand as she talked about their time together. By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and ... 05/3/2024 - 6:40 am | View Link
What to Know About the Trial Donald Trump Faces in Manhattan Prosecutors accused Mr. Trump of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. It is the first criminal trial of a former president. By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. 05/2/2024 - 1:48 am | View Link
Column: Trump was just fined for contempt of court. Could he go to jail next time? Judge Juan M. Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many civil and criminal cases: He’s down to his last chance. 05/1/2024 - 9:50 am | View Link
Here's what to know about Donald Trump's lead lawyer in his hush money trial In his historic hush money trial taking place in lower Manhattan, former president Donald Trump is relying on one person more than anyone else: his lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche. Blanche is ... 04/30/2024 - 3:58 am | View Link
How Far Trump Would Go A second Trump term could bring ... that non-Mexican asylum seekers be sent south of the border until their court dates, and Title 42, which allows border officials to expel migrants without ... 04/30/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
"The big issue in '68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order," says historian James Traub. And for Biden, "The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden's right." And his "narrow path" is to "take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concernsin a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators."
Despite Biden and Trump now saying they will debate, neither party has contacted the Commission on Presidential Debates, says co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf, and likely won't until after their Conventions. After September 6, the last day any state determines who qualifies for the ballot, "we'll then know who meets the requirement of being on enough ballots to conceivably get 270 electoral votes."
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more