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Any question that Donald Trump might take the stand on his own behalf Monday as part of the $250 million financial fraud case being heard in Judge Arthur Engoron's court was put to rest on Sunday afternoon.

MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin had some tough words for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after the former speaker unexpectedly announced he would resign from Congress.

Donald Trump may already be in violation of a limited gag order affirmed by a U.S. Appeals Court late Friday after giving a speech at the 111th New York Young Republicans Gala on Saturday night.

According to former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman, Donald Trump is putting himself at unnecessary risk if he chooses to testify on Monday in his defense in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom.

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt on Sunday afternoon, Litman pointed out that the former president has already lost the $250 million financial fraud case based on an earlier ruling from the judge and the continuing deliberations will be used to arrive at the financial penalties Trump and the Trump Organization will be liable for.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blamed Barack Obama — the nation's first Black president — for a deterioration of race relations in the United States.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he expected Donald Trump to "adapt" and discard his authoritarian tendencies when he realized Americans don't want a dictator.

Taking time out from posting his polling numbers demonstrating his lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to two Republican senators up for re-election next year.

On Truth Social, the former president singled out Sens Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and noted that Democrats appear to be targeting them in the 2024 election.

Without getting into whether he thinks the two high-profile Republicans are vulnerable... Читать дальше...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dropped the hammer on Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Sunday morning for her hypocrisy in using a House hearing on antisemitism on college campuses to grandstand on the topic while supporting Donald Trump who has a history of catering to white supremacists.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, Raskin, who is Jewish, said the Catholic Stefanik needs to get down off her "high horse."

The controversial Stefanik launched into furious tirades aimed at the presidents of Harvard... Читать дальше...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Russia's stance on the war in Gaza in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Argentina libertarian economist Javier Milei took office on Sunday warning in his maiden speech that he had no alternative to a sharp, painful fiscal shock to fix the country's worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation heading toward 200 percent.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo suggested that the deep state was coving for President Joe Biden by bringing new charges against his son, Hunter.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell suggested that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has put Donald Trump on notice that he can expect no plea deals or mercy and that she fully intends to see that he goes to jail.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) argued on Sunday that Republicans should "easily" vote to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden because former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was expelled from Congress.

As House GOPers aim to move towards a President Joe Biden impeachment this week, MSNBC's Katie Phang spoke with 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh's former campaign manager Lucy Caldwell about how the outcome of the effort could impact the party.

CNN host Jake Tapper called out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday after he claimed that Republicans do not want to curb birth control rights for women.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy compared the alleged censorship of conservative students to calls for Jewish genocide.

During an appearance on CNN early Sunday morning, former federal prosecutor Shan Wu laughed and seemed baffled why Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba chose to go on Fox News last Friday and admit she doesn't want her client to take the stand on Monday.

Appearing with CNN host Amara Walker, Wu was asked what he expected Trump to say and do when he takes the stand on Monday in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom on Monday to defend himself in the $250 million financial fraud trial.

First stating... Читать дальше...

According to one former federal prosecutor, it is finally time for Judge Tanya Chutkan to put some bite into her attempts to keep Donald Trump from trying to intimidate witnesses and courtroom personnel by plopping him in jail to get his attention.

State Sen. John Whitmire has defeated U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in a landslide victory to serve as the next mayor of Houston — the largest city in Texas and the fourth most populous in the country.

Late Saturday special counsel Jack Smith's office submitted a 45-page filing that contained the results of extensive interviews with senior intelligence officials who worked under Donald Trump, all of whom undercut his claims of outside 2020 presidential election interference.

According to a report from Politico's Kyle Cheney, the filing is designed to put a halt to the former president's legal team's fishing expedition to "access a broad swath of classified intelligence as part of his... Читать дальше...

Imagine it’s April 4, 2025, and Donald Trump is not in prison.

Trump is in the White House.

You wake up before dawn, and a wave of dread washes over you as you check your news app to see what’s going on.

Trump has declared it’s Ivanka Trump Day, and his Cabinet secretaries are approaching her one by one to compliment Ivanka at an East Room ceremony. Trump gets in front of the cameras and notes how beautiful his daughter is. “If Ivanka weren’t my secretary of commerce, perhaps I’d be dating her,” Trump says. Читать дальше...

A state lawmaker has been accused by his estranged wife of subjecting her to “mental, emotional and physical abuse throughout the years of marriage.”

As fanfare blares, female sprinters at the starting line suspiciously eye a man in a wig. A hulking, goateed wrestler slams a woman half his size to the mat. An ominous voice-over intones that women’s sports are being “trans-formed.”

It’s been four months since the police raid on the Marion County Record, but new revelations are deepening our understanding of what may come to be regarded as a signal moment in the history of American journalism. The more we know about the newspaper raid, the more alarmed we should be, because the stench just keeps growing.

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