In recent days, Donald Trump opened the door to cutting Social Security, and he’s also threatened to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would throw millions off health insurance. All this comes as President Biden’s economy is by many metrics booming. Yet Trump is favored on the economy, and his MAGA support remains solid, even […]
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It’s Good That Trump’s Trials Are Delayed
But as they put themselves to this task, the court continued to quietly snitch out the GOP for their misrule. At one point, the court warns in its unsigned opinion of an “evolving electoral map” that could “dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and states across the country, in different ways and at different […]
Read MoreHere’s Why Judge Aileen Cannon’s Law Clerks Seem to Have Suddenly Quit
The former president has until Monday to pay off the half-billion-dollar disgorgement—and if he doesn’t, James can begin taking steps to seize his assets to cover the debt, including 40 Wall Street and Trump Tower. But Trump is juggling more than the fine deadline. Paying out of pocket could potentially put a major Wall Street […]
Read MoreTrump’s Rage-Rant About Dems “Killing” Social Security Is a Big Tell
You can see this at play in Trump’s rant, which claims immigrants threaten the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. That gets things exactly backwards: As many analysts have shown, more immigration would go a long way toward shoring up those programs, because immigrants would swell the ranks of working-age Americans, paying the taxes […]
Read MoreTrump’s Latest Rage-Rant Reveals a Major Political Weakness
You can see this at play in Trump’s rant, which claims immigrants threaten the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. That gets things exactly backward: As many analysts have shown, more immigration would go a long way toward shoring up those programs, because immigrants would swell the ranks of working-age Americans, paying the taxes […]
Read MoreTrump Is About to Get a Windfall—But Don’t Worry, It Won’t Save Him
The former president has until Monday to pay off the half-billion-dollar disgorgement—and if he doesn’t, James can begin taking steps to seize his assets to cover the debt, including 40 Wall Street and Trump Tower. But Trump is juggling more than the fine deadline. Paying out of pocket could potentially put a major Wall Street […]
Read MoreDon’t Worry, Trump’s Truth Social Payday Won’t Really Save Him
The former president has until Monday to pay off the half-billion-dollar disgorgement—and if he doesn’t, James can begin taking steps to seize his assets to cover the debt, including 40 Wall Street and Trump Tower. But Trump is juggling more than the fine deadline. Paying out of pocket could potentially put a major Wall Street […]
Read MoreIdiot Trump Confesses He Actually Has the Money to Post Bond
The former president has until Monday to pay off the half-billion-dollar disgorgement—and if he doesn’t, James can begin taking steps to seize his assets to cover the debt, including 40 Wall Street and Trump Tower. But Trump is juggling more than the fine deadline. Paying out of pocket could potentially put a major Wall Street […]
Read MoreThere Are Four Postelection Scenarios, and Not One Is Good
This is a repeat of the 2016 election. It will highlight the ongoing weaknesses of the Electoral College, having put Republicans who lost the popular vote in office again for the third time in three out of the last seven elections, and three out of the four total times that a Republican has won in […]
Read MoreTrump’s $454M Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception
Similarly, it might seem like overkill to make Trump fight off four indictments related to his former presidency even as he campaigns for a second term. No other president has been indicted even once after serving in that high office. Trump claims persecution, but these cases too have all arisen from Trump’s behaving as though […]
Read MoreTrump’s $454 Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception
Similarly, it might seem like overkill to make Trump fight off four indictments related to his former presidency even as he campaigns for a second term. No other president has been indicted even once after serving in that high office. Trump claims persecution, but these cases, too, have all arisen from Trump’s behaving as though […]
Read MoreSlovakia’s Presidential Election Is A Warning to America
What’s more, it looked, for a moment, like people would be held accountable. Martin Kočner, the financier and real estate tycoon who was believed to have orchestrated Kuciak’s killing, was charged with ordering the murder. (Kočner was also suspected of having ties to Fico). Fico and his close political ally and former interior minister Robert Kaliňák, in 2022, […]
Read MoreWhy Flailing Trump Is Suddenly Turning To MAGA Lawyer Christina Bobb
With Donald Trump’s fundraising badly trailing that of President Biden, the RNC’s new “election integrity” lawyer, Christina Bobb, is emerging as an important player in the Trump-MAGA campaign apparatus. Bobb, a major co-conspirator in Trump’s Stop-the-Steal efforts, will reassure the MAGA faithful, perhaps firing up the small-dollar donors that Trump desperately needs. We chatted with […]
Read MoreTrump’s Most Obvious Delay Tactic Yet Exposed in Hush Money Trial
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreManhattan D.A. Slams Trump’s Obvious Delay Tactic in Hush Money Trial
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreWhy Did Two of Judge Aileen Cannon’s Law Clerks Suddenly Quit?
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreAlina Habba Accidentally Admits Donald Trump Could Be Totally Bought
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreTeam Trump Has a Big Money Problem—And It’s Not His Legal Bills
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreTeam Trump Is Desperate for Cash—And Still Lagging Behind Biden
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]
Read MoreGreg Abbott and Ken Paxton Are Purging the Texas GOP
Indeed, Paxton and Abbott took pains to paint their preferred candidates as further to the right than the incumbents; what matters is that Texas has seen a mass mobilization of resources on the state and local level to move the party in line with the whims of two specific people. And while it’s indisputably true […]
Read MoreElon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam
They shouldn’t. As Jon Favreau notes, “demographics have not been destiny for Democrats.” Denizens of the red-pilled set sometimes treat that idea as given: They regularly insist their populist ideology appeals to nonwhite working people (including Latinos) alienated by liberal elites. So why aren’t Musk and his pals eager for populist Republicans to compete for […]
Read MoreGreg Abbott and Ken Paxton Are Pushing Texas Even Further Right
Indeed, Paxton and Abbott took pains to paint their preferred candidates as further to the right than the incumbents; what matters is that Texas has seen a mass mobilization of resources on the state and local level to move the party in line with the whims of two specific people. And while it’s indisputably true […]
Read MoreShe Had a Heart-Wrenching Abortion. Now She’s a Candidate—in Alabama
Donald Trump just announced that he’s likely to campaign for the presidency on a promise of a 15-week abortion ban, even as political commentators are wondering whether reproductive rights will be as salient this fall as they were in 2022 and 2023. An interesting test looms in Alabama, where Marilyn Lands is running for a […]
Read MoreMeet the Woman Running On Her Agonizing Abortion Story—in Alabama
Donald Trump just announced that he’s likely to campaign for the presidency on a promise of a 15-week abortion ban, even as political commentators are wondering whether reproductive rights will be as salient this fall as they were in 2022 and 2023. An interesting test looms in Alabama, where Marilyn Lands is running for a […]
Read MoreTrump’s Campaign Insists He’s Really Not Mad About Owing $454 Million
More importantly, the indictment does not say that Trump was acting based on information that the election was fraudulent. The indictment alleges that Trump knew he had lost but still insisted that fraudulent ballots had been cast and that electronic voting machines were switching votes to Democratic. “These claims were false, and the Defendant knew […]
Read MoreDonald Trump Has a Big Problem With Republicans
“We got everything we asked for,” Smith said. “We asked to void the agreement, that she not pay back. I didn’t want her to pay me a dime. So we got that. And she still has the right to sue Alina Habba for fraud. And she has the right to sue the club for sexual […]
Read More“Restore Roe!” Is a Bad Rallying Cry
The Missouri initiative that remains in play, the campaign for which raised more than $1 million on its official launch day, has a viability limit. “It will be better at getting people abortions. It will hurt getting the government out of pregnancy,” said Erika Christensen, co-founder of Patient Forward, a group that advocates for abortion […]
Read MoreThe Big Problem With All These Abortion Ballot Initiatives
The Missouri initiative that remains in play, the campaign for which raised more than $1 million on its official launch day, has a viability limit. “It will be better at getting people abortions. It will hurt getting the government out of pregnancy,” said Erika Christensen, co-founder of Patient Forward, a group that advocates for abortion […]
Read MoreThe Real Corruption Risk Facing Trump
This represented a major about-face. Trump had spent much of the GOP primary campaign insisting he was the one candidate who wouldn’t take an ax to popular entitlement programs. Indeed, his position on this issue helped him win the presidential nomination back in 2016, and surely helped again this year. Cutting Medicare and Social Security […]
Read MoreIdiot Trump Uses Supreme Court Filing to Rant About Election Fraud
“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together […]
Read MoreTrump Wants to Give Vivek Ramaswamy a Terrifying Spot in His Cabinet
“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together […]
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