The president of Serbia on Monday batted away any suggestion that he might have intentionally tried to steer a valuable real estate project in Serbia’s capital to Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, in an effort to influence Mr. Trump should he return to the White House. “I died laughing,” the Serbian leader, Aleksandar Vucic, […]
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Why Are Americans Still Down on the Economy?
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Honestly, I didn’t think Republicans were going to try replaying Ronald Reagan’s famous line, since so much of the G.O.P.’s 2024 strategy depends on a sort of collective amnesia about the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Is it really a good idea to […]
Read MoreTrump Seeks to Appeal Ruling Allowing Fani Willis to Keep Georgia Case
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and seven of his co-defendants in Georgia told a judge on Monday that they want to appeal his ruling allowing Fani T. Willis to continue prosecuting the election interference case against them. Because the defendants want to pursue an appeal now, ahead of any trial, Georgia law requires them to […]
Read MoreChief Justice Roberts Rejects Peter Navarro’s Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Prison
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Monday that Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to Donald J. Trump during his presidency, must start serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress while he pursues an appeal. The order will make Mr. Navarro, who refused to comply with a subpoena seeking information about the Jan. […]
Read MoreDemocrats Are Meddling in Republican Primaries
In the final days of a notably nasty Republican Senate primary race in Ohio, a conservative candidate is getting an unusual boost from the Democratic Party. As my colleague Michael Bender reported last week, a Democratic group is spending $2.7 million on an ad highlighting the conservative credentials of Bernie Moreno, the Cleveland-area businessman backed […]
Read MoreManafort in Talks to Return for the Republican National Convention
Paul Manafort, a top adviser to Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign who was pardoned by the former president at the end of his White House term, is in discussions to return to help with the Republican National Convention, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Mr. Manafort’s potential role at the party’s […]
Read MoreTrump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Tries to Raise $454 Million Bond in Fraud Case
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers disclosed on Monday that he had failed to secure a roughly half-billion dollar bond in his civil fraud case in New York, arguing that doing so was “a practical impossibility.” The filing, coming one week before the bond is due, raised the prospect that the former president might face a financial […]
Read MoreMike Pence Rues the Day
Gail Collins: Bret, I feel obligated to start out by asking you — TikTok? Potential foreign agent? Bret Stephens: I think of TikTok in two ways. First, as a gigantic vacuum cleaner of personal data — possibly including your location — that goes directly from the unsuspecting eyes, thumbs and minds of its 170 million […]
Read MoreMark Robinson, the Republican With a Right-Wing Vision for North Carolina
As Mark Robinson completed his rapid six-year rise from conservative internet sensation to the Republican nominee for North Carolina governor, he worked relentlessly to sell his political vision to evangelical Christians. Traveling from church to church and thundering away on social media, he condemned “transgenderism” and “homosexuality” as “filth.” He said Christians should be led […]
Read MoreKushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump
The plan by Jared Kushner and his business partners to redevelop a prized location in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, echoes interest from Donald J. Trump a decade ago in pursuing a deal for the site and a similar proposal pushed during his White House term by a top aide now working with Mr. Kushner, a review […]
Read MoreWhat Trump’s TikTok Flip-Flop Tells America
When the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last Wednesday to pass a bill that would require TikTok to divest its Chinese ownership or face an American ban, it provided a glimmer of hope in a dreary political time. This is exactly what a nation should do when it’s getting serious about the national security threat […]
Read MoreBiden’s $53 Million February Haul Fuels Money Edge Over Trump
President Biden’s re-election campaign said on Sunday that it had raised more than $53 million in February together with the Democratic Party, an influx of cash that is expected to widen the Democrats’ cash advantage in a general-election contest against former President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Biden, the Democratic Party and their shared accounts now […]
Read MoreHow Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they […]
Read MoreTrump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses
Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a freewheeling speech in which he used dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, maintained a steady stream of insults and vulgarities and predicted that the United States would never have another election […]
Read MoreTrump’s Alternate Reality Pitch, Examined
Aside from falsely insisting that he did not lose the 2020 election, former President Donald J. Trump has peddled a related set of theories centered on one question: What would the world have looked like had he stayed in office? Mr. Trump, in rallies and interviews, has repeatedly asserted — more than a dozen times […]
Read MoreHow Trump Is Scrambling to Raise Cash
As many as three nights a week, Donald J. Trump has been hosting private dinners at Mar-a-Lago, schmoozing with some of the Republican Party’s biggest financiers as he races to address a sizable cash shortfall against President Biden. There is no request for money from the attendees at these meals, which have included Larry Ellison, […]
Read MoreRepublican Senate Slugfest in Ohio Fuels Jitters About Trump’s Candidate
With just days to go before the election, the three-way Republican Senate primary in Ohio has turned into a food fight, fueling concerns about former President Donald J. Trump’s favored candidate, Bernie Moreno. The contest on Tuesday to decide who will face Senator Sherrod Brown has been contentious for months, with Mr. Moreno, a wealthy […]
Read MoreFani Willis Hangs Onto Trump Case, but More Turbulence Lies Ahead
After revelations of Fani T. Willis’s romance with a subordinate sent the Georgia criminal case against Donald J. Trump down a two-month detour worthy of a soap opera, a judge’s ruling on Friday resolved a major cliffhanger. Ms. Willis could continue prosecuting the case, so long as her ex-boyfriend withdrew from it. But the resignation […]
Read MoreJudge Delays Trump’s Hush-Money Trial in Manhattan Until Mid-April
A New York judge on Friday delayed Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan until at least mid-April, postponing the only one of Mr. Trump’s four criminal cases that appeared set to begin. The delay — lasting 30 days from the judge’s Friday decision — stems from the recent disclosure of more than 100,000 pages […]
Read MoreJudge Rules Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Georgia Case as Nathan Wade Resigns
An Atlanta judge ruled on Friday that Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, could continue leading the election interference prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia, but only if her former romantic partner, Nathan J. Wade, withdrew from the case. The highly anticipated ruling by Judge Scott McAfee […]
Read MoreJared Kushner Pursuing Development Deals in Albania and Serbia
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump, confirmed on Friday that he was closing in on major real estate deals in Albania and Serbia, the latest example of the former president’s family doing business abroad even as Mr. Trump seeks to return to the White House. Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to […]
Read MoreTrump Georgia Case: Takeaways From the Ruling on Fani Willis’s Conduct
The much-anticipated ruling on whether Fani T. Willis should be disqualified from prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump and 14 of his allies in Georgia came on Friday, requiring her to make an unusual decision. Ms. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., can keep control of the state election interference case that has […]
Read MoreA Damaged Fani Willis Picks Up the Pieces of Her Case Against Trump
March 15, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET March 15, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET Credit…Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Patrick Healy, deputy opinion editor: On Thursday, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, all but called on Israelis to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. I don’t know how I feel about a top American lawmaker telling another country to […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Stays Out of Dispute Over Drag Show at Texas University
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from an L.G.B.T.Q. student group at a public university in Texas to let it put on a drag show on campus over the objections of the university’s president, who had refused to allow it. In an emergency application, the students said the president’s action violated the First […]
Read MoreHighlights of the Judge’s Ruling on Fani Willis in the Georgia Trump Case
A judge overseeing the criminal election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump in Georgia declined on Friday to disqualify the district attorney leading the prosecution, Fani T. Willis, over a romantic relationship she had with the lawyer she hired to manage the case, Nathan J. Wade. But even as the judge, Scott McAfee […]
Read MoreTrump’s Court Delays Pile Up, and Schumer Says Netanyahu ‘Lost His Way’
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Read MoreDon’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump
It’s official — we have a rematch. This week, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump officially secured the delegates needed to win renomination in their respective primaries. This will be the first contest since the 1892 race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland where a former challenger, now incumbent, faces off against a former incumbent, […]
Read MoreAnother Trump Trial Faces Delay
Donald Trump’s New York hush money case — the only one of his four criminal cases that looked as if it would soon go to trial — suddenly faced the likelihood of delay on Thursday when a big batch of potential new evidence abruptly became available. The news of the likely postponement arrived as the […]
Read MoreSocial Security and Medicare Are on the Ballot
A few days ago, the Biden administration released its budget proposal for the 2025 fiscal year (which begins in October). Given that Republicans control the House, this budget isn’t going to happen, so it serves mainly as a statement of principles and intent. But that doesn’t make the budget irrelevant. It clearly signaled Democrats’ vision […]
Read MoreJudge Denies One of Trump’s Efforts to Derail Documents Case
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents expressed deep reservations on Thursday about some of the motions filed by his lawyers seeking to have the case dismissed. At a nearly daylong hearing in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, entertained […]
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