Новости за 19.08.2023

In a recent op-ed published by Religion News Service, Protect Democracy policy advocate Chris Crawford argues that "most religious doctrines do not require an embrace of democracy. But in today's world, authoritarians are attempting to do the opposite — to recruit communities of faith to undermine democracy."

Donald Trump is facing multiple criminal cases, but the one that recently landed in Georgia presents "unique" challenges for the former president, Jen Psaki said on Saturday.

Mark Meadows is an individual close to Donald Trump who could "for sure" cooperate with prosecutors in the criminal probes into alleged election subversion, a communications official for the former president said on Saturday.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday, a former prosecutor stated Donald Trump's latest delaying tactic to bump out his Washington D.C. trial to 2026 will not only be slapped aside by District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan but she will probably instruct him to expand his legal team to meet her schedule.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, Kristen Gibbons Feden was asked about the millions of pages of documents Trump's lawyers need to review to prepare his defense over accusations... Читать дальше...

A recently published New York Times/Siena College poll, according to The Bulwark's Tim Miller, "shows zero evidence of the Republican Party distancing itself from [ex-President Donald] Trump

With Donald Trump likely to not be in attendance at next week's Republican Party presidential debate, political observers will be focusing on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) who has the most to lose among the debate participants.

According to a renowned Harvard law professor and a distinguished retired conservative judge, regardless of how Donald Trump's Washington D.C. trial plays out over an alleged plot to overturn the voters' will in the 2020 presidential election, he is already ineligible to hold office again based upon provisions contained within the U.S. Constitution.

In a comprehensive column for The Atlantic, Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School, and retired... Читать дальше...

With an appearance at an Atlanta jail looming this week where he will be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken for all the world to see, Donald Trump snapped at Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Saturday morning.

The former president who was indicted by Willis using racketeering laws has been ordered to turn himself in this coming week along with 18 co-conspirators for attempting to tamper with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Taking to his Truth... Читать дальше...

A recent neuroimaging study has found that adolescents displaying heightened brain activity in response to emotionally charged tasks in the right inferior occipital gyrus, a brain region responsible for processing visual stimuli, tended to exhibit lower distress tolerance and increased levels of depressive symptoms two years later. The study was published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Distress tolerance, denoting the capacity to endure and effectively manage emotional distress, discomfort... Читать дальше...

During a panel discussion on CNN early Saturday morning, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona latched onto GOP strategist Alice Stewart's comparison between "crazy-bread" versus "milquetoast" voters who will dictate who will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.

Using the aforementioned "crazy-bread" voters who will vote for Donald Trump no matter how many times he is indicted as a reference point, Cardona said there is not enough of them to propel Trump back to the Oval Office. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump announced this week that he would be skipping the first GOP debate for an interview with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Donald Trump's decision to not participate in the first Republican Party presidential debate may seem to him to be a masterstroke, but one analyst is claiming the historical record may prove him wrong.

On Friday it was reported that the former president will skip the debate and instead have a one-on-one with fired former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in an effort to deprive his rivals of the chance to share the stage with him.

As Politico's Steve Shepard wrote, that decision... Читать дальше...

In a blunt-talking column published by the Charlotte Observer, a lifelong Evangelical expressed dismay that Christians have been taken in by Donald Trump who could not be less like Jesus Christ.

According to Isaac Bailey, Christians who are still standing by the former president despite his record of criminality and incitements to violence need to "wake up" and realize they have been suckered by a con man who has been preying on them since he was first elected in 2016.

Referring... Читать дальше...

Mexico prepared Friday for a powerful Pacific hurricane that triggered a warning of "potentially catastrophic" flooding in a northwestern tourist region and the neighboring US state of California.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, on the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire in late July pledged to supporters he would root out the deep state from the federal government: “we are going to start slitting throats on Day One.”

Former New York mayor and ex-President Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is currently "having financial difficulties" according to his lawyer, has repeatedly requested compensation from the former president and been unsuccessful, The New York Times reports.

A group of 19 Republican U.S. senators, including Louisiana’s John Kennedy, have complained to the Biden administration over its move to withhold money from public school archery and hunter education programs.

If you weren’t sure of it yet, climate change is quite clearly here. Heat waves scorching the United States. and other countries this summer — and subsequent wildfires that have killed dozens and choked millions — have shown us that extreme heat and its effects aren’t some abstract concepts that will only affect other people at some indeterminate point in the future.

A former prosecutor who was impeached, convicted and removed from elected office by the Kentucky legislature earlier this year is facing several federal charges including wire fraud and bribery.

NORFOLK, Nebraska — Kellyanne Conway, a pollster and long-time adviser to former President Donald Trump, told a booster club of Nebraska Republicans on Friday that they should stop fighting one another over the 20% of policies they disagree on. Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway addresses a Nebraska Republican Party booster club Friday in Norfolk, Neb. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)

Multiple recent studies show that Republicans are as much as 8.5 times more likely to both believe and share fake or false “news” with others than are Democrats. The phenomenon is obvious, actually: while as many as half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump, there’s no similarly disprovable “big lie” embraced by Democrats.

Donald Trump late Friday night invented a fictional scenario in which Joe Biden ordered the investigation into the former president.

Donald Trump's alleged co-conspirators might get one look at the Georgia jail where they'll be surrendering and decide to cooperate with prosecutors, a former Nixon White House lawyer said Friday.

The judges overseeing criminal cases into Donald Trump may have to pay extra close attention to keep him from scamming them, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Friday.

A former advisor to Donald Trump on Friday said he believes the former president could turn himself in during or just before Wednesday’s scheduled Republican presidential debate in effort to steal the spotlight from his GOP rivals.