Michael Cohen Testimony: Five Biggest Bombshells From Donald Trump Hearing Newsweek has provided a list of the top five bombshells that were revealed during Cohen's testimony. Newsweek reached out to Donald Trump's attorney, and representatives of his 2024 presidential ... 05/17/2024 - 4:47 am | View Link
The jurors in Trump's hush money trial are getting a front row seat to history – most of the time Some of the most explosive moments in Donald Trump's hush money trial have played out for most of the world to see – except for the people who are actually deciding his fate: the jury. 05/15/2024 - 2:54 am | View Link
Is Michael Cohen still a lawyer? Here's how Trump's former fixer now makes a living. In addition to his books and podcast, Cohen is a regular guest on cable television, using his appearances to bash his former boss. Hating on Trump would be big business for Cohen if it weren’t ... 05/14/2024 - 6:18 am | View Link
Trump defense cross-examines Michael Cohen in hush money trial Donald Trump's defense will continue to cross-examine Michael Cohen on Thursday as it aims to discredit the prosecution's key witness in the former president's criminal hush money trial in New York. 05/14/2024 - 12:59 am | View Link
'His life is one big sordid scam': Donald Trump slammed as Michael Cohen decodes legal strategy ex-prez has been using for a decade Michael Cohen stated during his testimony on Monday, May 13 that Trump has been using the same legal tactic since 2016 ... 05/13/2024 - 8:53 pm | View Link
Never mind that there's every reason to doubt that any of their story is true, Fox's John Roberts and Shannon Bream did their best to help the Alito's turn the story about their unacceptable behavior into another conservative victimhood fairy tale that's all about the neighbor.
Here's Roberts and Bream on this Friday's America Reports playing stenographers for the Alitos:
ROBERTS: Let's bring in Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News Sunday and chief legal correspondent.
The day after Marge Greene's outrageous behavior, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to X to break down how Greene’s outburst overshadowed—and aided—what Ocasio-Cortez describes as a “microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.” Via the New Republic:
“AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter).
On this day in 1978, British rockers Dire Straits released their debut single, “Sultans of Swing.”
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Workers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States. Via CNN:
The result was a close outcome. Out of the valid votes counted, 56% of workers voted “no,” while 44% voted “yes” for unionization, according to Mercedes-Benz.
Wisconsin Republicans are so very confused about where they stand on ballot drop boxes, they don't even know their own position anymore. For decades, Republicans were all for drop boxes and wanted them in every county. Then when Trump lost in 2020 and blamed, in part, voter fraud because of drop boxes, the Republicans were dead set against them.