Новости за 11.06.2023

A wave of demands for violence in response to the indictment of former President Donald Trump has security experts nervous ahead of Tuesday’s arraignment, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed the existence of audio recordings that could be used as evidence against him in a case about the mishandling of classified documents.

New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu does not mince words when it comes to former President Donald Trump.

The former chairman of the Republican National Committee hit out at party members for backing former President Donald Trump, suggesting they were turning a blind eye to major crimes so they could benefit politically.

Indicted former President Donald Trump’s legal team is planning to ask District Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss key evidence that ties him to obstruction of the FBI’s investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, a report said Sunday.

According to one political analyst, Donald Trump's rich history of involvement in civil lawsuits has given him a false sense of security as he faces real jail time should he gets a guilty verdict in any one of the 37 federal charges in his indictment.

In a column for Politico, Jack Shafer wrote that the former president has long boasted he knows the ins and outs of the court system after decades of civil lawsuits filed against himself and his Trump Organization.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told a group of women Sunday that Satan hated them because they could have babies.

According to the author of "Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has revealed himself to be a classic example of someone who attaches himself to an authoritarian leader in an effort to be close to power.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz called out Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist after she suggested President Joe Biden had ordered the arrest of former President Donald Trump.

United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was mocked and corrected on Sunday after he falsely compared the federal indictments filed against former President Donald Trump by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to the exoneration of Hillary Clinton by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ahead of the 2016 election.

Appearing on MSNBC early Sunday morning, a Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee taunted fellow lawmaker Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for threatening hearings over Donald Trump's 37-count federal indictment, saying she welcomed the opportunity for him to fail once again.

Speaking with host Katie Phang, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) laughed when the host brought up the Ohio Republican's name whose "DOJ weaponization" committee hearings which have turned up no wrongdoing.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised his voice in anger on Sunday during an interview about the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump.

During an extensive interview most notable for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) refusing to stop talking and allowing host Dana Bash to fact-check him, the CNN host was finally forced to cut off the conservative lawmaker and point out he was rambling instead of answering her questions.

Asked on to discuss the 37-count federal indictment that former president Donald Trump is facing, Jordan ranted about the politicization of the Department of Justice -- a central theme of hearings in the House Judiciary... Читать дальше...

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, said that her client is still grappling with the possibility that he could spend "decades in jail" after being hit with a federal indictment.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida explained what Donald Trump will experience when he turns himself into the authorities in Miami next week to face a 37-count indictment.

Speaking with host Katie Phang, former U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sloman walked host Katie Phnag through the stages of the former president's arraignment and said, if normal procedures are followed, he could be held in a jail cell for hours before entering the courtroom. Читать дальше...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said former President Donald Trump could be "toast" after being charged under the Espionage Act.

In the fiery theater of modern politics, few phenomena are as bewildering — and electrifying — as the ironclad loyalty of Donald Trump's followers.

During a late Saturday night appearance on MSNBC, conservative lawyer George Conway was asked about Republicans running to the defense of Donald Trump after the announcement that the former president is on the receiving end of a 37-count federal indictment.

That, in turn, led to the Conway -- the husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway -- to do a brutal impersonation of ex-vice president Mike Pence straddling condemning Trump while at the same time forgiving him.

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As Donald Trump heads to a Florida courtroom to be arraigned on 37 federal counts ranging from conspiracy to violations of the Espionage Act, he and his lawyers may find that his favorite legal tactic won't work for him this time.

In a column for MSNBC, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote that the flood of legal problems the former president has been mired in during his four years in office and since he lost re-election have caught the eyes of judges who are now more than aware of his penchant for delays and running out the clock. Читать дальше...

In a decision that shocked most observers, the Supreme Court this week ruled that an Alabama Republican gerrymander was in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. John Roberts and Bret Kavanaugh joined the Court’s three Democratic appointees in upholding the principle that “packing and cracking” congressional districts along racial lines was illegal.

In the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case.

It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether transgender people were victims of the Holocaust. Though there is no longer much debate about whether gay men and lesbians were persecuted, there’s been very little scholarship on trans people during this period.

The court took expert statements from historians, including myself, before finding that the historical evidence shows that trans people were, indeed, persecuted by the Nazi regime. Читать дальше...

Televangelist Pat Robertson, who died at the age of 93 on June 8, 2023, was a familiar face on television for many conservative Christians, attracting a million viewers each day on his flagship show, “The 700 Club.”

After threatening to force the government into default over the debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers Friday introduced new tax cuts that could add at least $21 billion to the national deficit over the next decade.

Cars using Tesla's Autopilot mode have been involved with 736 crashes causing 17 deaths since 2019, an analysis from The Washington Post revealed Saturday.

In light of former President Donald Trump's Saturday trip to The Peach State, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger encouraged Republicans to choose elected officials wisely, Politico reports.