Новости за 17.12.2023

Attorney Alina Habba hinted on Sunday that Donald Trump could award her with a government position so she could go after the former president's enemies if he wins another term.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI suggested there is a real possibility that a Russian intelligence file that went missing near the end of Donald Trump's presidency could have ended up in Russian hands.

Former RNC Chair Reince Priebus clashed with former DNC Chair Donna Brazile over the claim that GOP voters want "more blood" in the 2024 campaign.

A surprising decision by the Supreme Court this past week to not even consider taking up a challenge to a so-called "gay conversion" ban in Washington state caught the eyes of two legal scholars who claimed members of the nation's highest court seems to have had their fill of specious far-right legal claims.

Melania Trump declined to make Saturday's UFC fight a date night with her husband, Donald Trump, but attorney Alina Habba was a fill-in for the former president's wife.

During Sunday's episode of MSNBC's Velshi, host Ali Velshi spoke with former U.S. attorney and analyst Barbara McQuade about whether hundreds of other January 6 defendants' charges will impact Donald Trump's consequences.

Political strategist Lucy Caldwell warned Republicans on Sunday that an impeachment of President Joe Biden was likely to bolster his re-election prospects.

Reacting to Donald Trump admiringly quoting Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to a New Hampshire crowd on Saturday, CNN's Jake Tapper dryly asked, "Who needs Pravda?" before launching into a scathing attack on the former president on Sunday morning.

Saturday Trump told rallygoers, "Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He’s a threat. Even Vladimir Putin … says that Biden’s — and this is a quote – ‘politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows... Читать дальше...

In a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley dodged a question about Donald Trump's claims of "presidential immunity."

Appearing on MSNBC early Sunday morning, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) put the Republican House leadership on notice that she is not going to sit idly by as the GOP caucus pursues an impeachment hearing against President Joe Biden.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, the Texas Democrat claimed she plans to drag Donald Trump into the hearings while also making a vague threat that some of her GOP colleagues will become targets too.

"As a member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee... Читать дальше...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) downplayed former President Donald Trump's Nazi-style rhetoric about immigrants.

With Sen. Joe Manchin (R-WV) deciding to not run for re-election the Republican leadership sees an easy pick-up to help them retake the Senate in 2024 but are, once again, worried about possible candidates in key states who could destroy those hopes.

According to a report from Politico, controversial candidates running in swing states could blow the party's chances at a majority and the leadership is trying to lock up nominations now before it gets out of hand.

As Politico's Ally Mutnick and Burgess Everett wrote... Читать дальше...

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy slammed actor Matthew Perry after he died while suffering from depression.

According to former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), the current Republican House leadership has made a critical mistake by giving the go-ahead to an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden that will likely end badly for them.

In a column for MSNBC, the former Republican lawmaker said he sees no legitimate case to hold impeachment hearings, there is no indication that every House Republican will vote to send it to the Senate and there is no way he sees the Democratic-controlled Senate allow it to succeed. Читать дальше...

During an appearance on MSNBC, former prosecutor David Henderson claimed the massive $148 million judgment two Georgia poll workers received after winning a defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani should be a red flag for Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Speaking with fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., Henderson exclaimed, "To be, honest this isn't just a win, this is one of the biggest wins I've ever heard of."

Using that as a jumping-off point, the former prosecutor claimed the result is a "preview" of what Trump... Читать дальше...

Hours after the publishing of an article in the Washington Post that described the internal dysfunction that has plagued the 2024 presidential campaign conducted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), the political strategist who headed the DeSantis-aligned Never Back Down PAC abruptly quit late Saturday night.

As Donald Trump embraces an online campaign filled with vulgar imagery attacking women, he continues to brag that he “killed” abortion by appointing Supreme Court justices who, with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, reversed more than 50 years of women’s reproductive freedom.

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is a Republican Christian, but she wants you to know she's not a Christian nationalist.

Donald Trump could have just set the stage for another election defeat, as he says the 2024 race is "ALREADY ON ITS WAY TO BEING ANOTHER RIGGED ELECTION!"

Donald Trump is priming the pump when it comes to his "dehumanizing" language, an authoritarianism expert said on Saturday.

Donald Trump has had nothing but praise for House Speaker "MAGA Mike Johnson" (R-LA), but that's not true of the former president's allies—the most recent being co-defendant Jeff Clark.

Republicans are going to lose control of the House next year, according to one GOP strategist on Saturday.

Donald Trump was under fire on Saturday after he once again said that migrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," repeating language purportedly used by Hitler and other dictators.

Tim Burchett (R-TN), who had voted to oust fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, was cornered on MSNBC's Symone after he was unable to recite evidence warranting an inquiry into a President Joe Biden impeachment.

Donald Trump said at a rally on Saturday that the four years of his presidency were the "greatest" years of citizens' lives. That caused some pushback from legal experts and political onlookers.