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Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained why Donald Trump and his adult children are under intense pressure to tell the truth when they are forced to testify in his $250 million New York fraud trial.

According to one former Donald Trump White House official who spent a great deal of time around Ivanka Trump, she expects Trump's oldest daughter will stress making herself look good in a Manhattan courtroom next week at the expense of her family.

With Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Trump scheduled to testify in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom this coming week as part of the $250 million civil lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, former White House Deputy Press Secretary... Читать дальше...

CNN host Jake Tapper blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she offered a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for leading a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Now that former Vice President Mike Pence has abandoned his ill-fated bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, there is nothing holding him back from providing testimony about Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

According to MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, he believes Trump's former running mate no longer has anything to lose by turning on his old boss and he can easily see Pence becoming a willing witness about the former president's part in the Jan. Читать дальше...

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On July 30, 2020, Plant Extinction Prevention Program field botanist Hank Oppenheimer was conducting a routine plant survey in Pohakea Gulch in West Maui when he noticed a strange purple flower on a familiar shrub.

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie warned Donald Trump's legal team that their client would eventually throw them "under the bus" to save himself.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday delivered a rapid-fire takedown of Donald Trump, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that the former president “never finishes what he started.”

Speaking with Tapper on Trump’s hot-and-cold relationship with the Republican Jewish Coalition, Christie noted that Trump “deserves credit for” several accomplishments in his first term. But, Christie warned, “what a second Trump presidency looks like will be much, much different.”

“I wouldn’t count on anything from Donald Trump... Читать дальше...

CBS host Margaret Brennan grilled Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday after he said he opposed aid to children in Gaza because he insisted it would go to the terror group Hamas.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade explained that, should Donald Trump and his three children who will be taking the stand in a Manhattan courtroom in the coming weeks attempt to plead the 5th, it could make matters worse for them.

Speaking with fill-in MSNBC host Charles Coleman Jr., McQuade noted that the testimony before Judge Arthur Engoron is part of a civil trial and the use of the constitutional amendment regarding self-incrimination is applied differently than in a criminal trial. Читать дальше...

ALMATY — The death toll from a fire at a coal mine in Kazakhstan owned by ArcelorMittal rose to 45 on Sunday, with emergency teams engaged in an operation to find one remaining miner believed to have been underground, emergency service officials were quoted as saying.

Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law, argued on Sunday that Jews were "safer" in Saudi Arabia than they are in the United States.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested on Sunday that he would push his party to move forward with an "official" impeachment of President Joe Biden.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance suggested that Donald Trump's children, who will be testifying in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom this coming week, can expect no mercy if they are caught lying.

Speaking with host Katie Phang, Vance said Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump will have to make up their minds before they testify in New York Attorney General Letitia James $250 million financial fraud case whether they want to face the wrath of... Читать дальше...

NBC host Kristen Welker pressed Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis about his failure to immediately condemn neo-Nazis who showed up in his state.

By Leonard Greene

The power went out on my block the other day, and even though it meant being without electricity, the internet and heat on a chilly morning, it was worth it because it also meant my neighbors couldn’t operate their annoying inflatable Halloween display.

In a scathing column for MSNBC, longtime conservative Charlie Sykes warned that newly elected Speaker Michael Johnson (R-LA) should not be underestimated when it comes to being a Donald Trump supplicant.

— MAGA Mike Johnson says there’s no need for gun laws cuz we still use cars ... Yesterday I wrote about how virtually every Republican policy position, from climate change to education to healthcare and guns, is driven by either the hope for campaign funds from billionaires and industries or the fear that those funds will be used against them in a primary.

— MAGA Mike Johnson says there’s no need for gun laws cuz we still use cars... Yesterday I wrote about how virtually every Republican policy position, from climate change to education to healthcare and guns, is driven by either the hope for campaign funds from billionaires and industries or the fear that those funds will be used against them in a primary.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) is so concerned about mail fraud that he introduced legislation that would double the penalties for those convicted of theft via the U.S. Postal Service.

Due to stipulations contained within her plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is poised to become a major weapon that multiple prosecutors will use against her old boss.

Donald Trump was fined $15,000 for repeatedly violating a civil court's gag order regarding attacks on court staff, but the judge might not be willing to do more than meaningless financial penalties, former Watergate prosecutor and "Sisters in Law" co-host Jill Wine-Banks said.

Lawmakers who kiss Donald Trump's ring are going to cost Republicans their House majority, a former GOP staffer said Saturday.

Donald Trump's own advisers, allies, and administration appointees joined in on making fun of Judge Engoron, who is overseeing the former president's civil fraud trial in New York, for his fashion choices.

Mike Pence caused his own undoing, a Vanity Fair correspondent said Saturday.

Donald Trump will need more than monetary fines to decide not to violate court-imposed gag orders, Michael Cohen said on MSNBC on Saturday.