Новости за 30.07.2023

A minor crash in Tennessee has revealed Ron DeSantis’ use of taxpayer cash on his campaign – spending that would have been kept secret if the accident had happened in Florida because of laws that he passed, a columnist said Sunday.

It’s not just across the nation that Ron DeSantis’ lackluster campaign has forced a reset – the Florida governor is tanking in his home state too, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

Republican strategist Frank Luntz disagreed with a GOP voter who believed the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.

United States Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) on Sunday tore into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for placating far-right lawmakers' demands to impeach President Joe Biden and/or members of his administration purely out of political spite stemming from the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case has been targeted by dozens of threats since she was assigned the case, The Messenger reported Sunday.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin blew off comments Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba made on Fox News Sunday morning in which she tried to dismiss obstruction of justice charges related to the attempted destruction of Mar-a-Lago surveillance video that led to a superseding indictment from special counsel Jack Smith.

A non-verbal autistic man was taken for a wild ride when the Mercedes-Benz he was sitting in was stolen from outside Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop by an opportunistic car thief, cops said Sunday. Brandon Simeon, 54, was waiting inside an idling 2010 Mercedes-Benz outside the well-known grocery on Union St. when a crook hopped into the driver’s seat about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. The keys were in the ignition and the thief sped off, making a turn onto Seventh Ave. and fleeing south, police said. Читать дальше...

Indicted ex-President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen warned on MSNBC on Sunday that Republican presidential candidates' dalliances with neofascism indicate that there is little daylight between themselves and Trump, whose brand of grievance politics has swept through the GOP's primary voting bloc.

Donald Trump's Save America PAC, which has been paying the crushing legal bills the twice-indicted former president and close aides have racked up due to multiple investigations, might be in the throes of a cash crunch reports the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The Danish government will seek to "find a legal tool" that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Koran in front of other countries' embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Sunday. "The burnings are deeply offensive and reckless acts committed by few individuals. These few individuals do not represent the values the Danish society is built on," Rasmussen said separately in a statement. "The... Читать дальше...

Fox News host Eric Shawn corrected Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) after she compared Donald Trump's legal woes to President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning with host Ali Velshi, former Donald Trump lawyer Micheal Cohen suggested that a Mar-a-Lago employee now under indictment for his involvement in a plot to destroy evidence may have been unaware he was being ordered to break the law.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley confirmed on Sunday that she still wants to pardon former President Donald Trump despite a new obstruction of justice charge.

The 2024 Republican presidential primary field is crowded, with more than a dozen candidates vying for the nomination. Former President Donald Trump, despite the dozens of state and federal criminal indictments that have been and are expected to be filed against him, continues to dominate in the polls. But his mounting legal woes are taking a toll on his public presence, and are having profound effects on his messaging to GOP voters.

By Jibran Ahmad and Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least 40 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. The blast took place at a gathering of the conservative Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, known for its links to hardline political Islam, in the former tribal area of Bajaur, which borders Afghanistan. The provincial police chief... Читать дальше...

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said on Sunday that the Republicans do not have a good case for impeaching President Joe Biden.

CNN "State of the Union" fill-in host Kasey Hunt had to cut off her guests on Sunday morning after a panel discussion on President Joe Biden acknowledging his seventh grandchild fathered by his son Hunter turned ugly and one of her guests went on an angry rant.

What started out with former Joe Biden Special Assistant Michael LaRosa expressing dismay at conservatives harping on personal matters that should only concern the Biden family went off the rails when GOP campaign consultant Scott Jennings launched a broadside at Hunter Biden... Читать дальше...

NBC host Chuck Todd argued that Republican voters may not realize Donald Trump can't win the presidency until it's "too late."

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, refused to deny that her client tried to obstruct justice by deleting incriminating video tapes.

In interviews with USA Today, a bevy of conservatives who are either under investigation or are facing election fraud charges for participating in a fake elector plot, lashed out at associates of Donald Trump for getting them into the mess they are in.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy defended older lawmakers while referring to them as cabbages.

The impact Donald Trump will have on Republicans who will appear on the 2024 general election ballot, where he likely will be the GOP's presidential nominee, is already playing out in one swing state that could see the governorship flip with the former president as a key factor.

In her column for the New York Times, editorial, board member Michelle Cottle pointed out the coming battle in New Hampshire where Republican Gov. Chris Sununu -- a highly vocal critic of Trump -- is not running... Читать дальше...

The tsunami of legal problems swamping Donald Trump has led to the PAC paying for his lawyers and lawyers representing a wide array of aides to shell out over $40 million in just the first half of the year with no end in sight.

New research suggests that the spread of misinformation among politically devoted conservatives is influenced by identity-driven motives and may be resistant to fact-checks. These individuals tend to prioritize sharing information that aligns with their group identity, regardless of its accuracy. The new research, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, utilized behavioral tasks and neuroimaging to understand the underlying processes involved. Social media has become a major source of news for many adults... Читать дальше...

Get ready America, because things are about to reach a whole new level of crazy. The nation is more ideologically divided than it has ever been in modern times, and no matter who wins the upcoming presidential election, it is practically guaranteed that half of the country is going to feel like the world is about to end.