Новости за 22.12.2023

The Colorado Supreme Court justices who ruled to bump former President Donald Trump from the ballot have already been inundated with violent threats that include the warning “this ends when we kill these f---ers,” and that could spell trouble for the entire nation, a former FBI official warns.

The Supreme Court’s Friday rejection of special counsel Jack Smith's request to hear President Donald Trump’s immunity defense has probably ruined chances that the former president's trial can stay on schedule, legal experts say.

In a post to X Friday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed out at some of her fellow Republicans, saying that it's "nauseating" to watch them vie for Donald Trump's support.

Georgia’s court transparency laws could catapult Donald Trump’s election interference trial into that highest of American statuses: television stardom.

The Supreme Court has declined to take up an expedited review of former President Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from the 2020 federal election interference case, reported The New York Times on Friday — a loss for special counsel Jack Smith, who had urged them to take up the case and bypass the appellate court.

During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday, Donald Trump promised that, if he does become president in 2024, there won't be a January 6 repeat if he loses four years later.

Thousands of counterfeit units of Ozempic have been seized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is now urging pharmacies, suppliers and patients to use caution when dealing with the drug. The FDA issued a warning Thursday about the counterfeits of Ozempic, a drug for type-2 diabetes that has also become popular for weight loss. Patients and practitioners are being advised to check the 1-milligram injectable product and not to use those labeled with lot number “NAR0074” and serial number... Читать дальше...

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman told CNN on Friday that he thinks Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel put herself in real legal jeopardy when she offered to provide legal help to two Michigan canvassers if they refused to certify the results of the 2020 election.

Newt Gingrich slithered his way closer to Donald Trump’s campaign this week with a short-on-facts op-ed celebrating plans to “save American cities” by empowering cops.

Appearing on MSNBC on Friday morning, conservative political analyst Susan Del Percio said the newly unearthed recording of a phone call to Michigan election officials from Donald Trump and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will likely come back to haunt McDaniel if she is called as a witness by special counsel Jack Smith, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

After his landslide double-digit reelection in 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' supporters hailed him as the Republican who would crush Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary before crushing President Joe Biden in the general election.

Trump loyalist and co-defendant in the Georgia racketeering case, Jeffrey Clark, lost his bid to have his case put on hold until a federal appeals court rules on his request to fight the charges outside of Fulton County, The Messenger reported.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday defended his use of Nazi-style rhetoric to describe immigrants by claiming that he had no idea his words directly echoed those of Adolf Hitler.

With new figures stating that Trump now sits at 33 percent with voters, with Haley within striking distance at 29 percent, the embattled former president lashed out at what he called the "fake poll" and, once again, slurred his former U.N. ambassador as "Birdbrain."

As she closes the gap in the polls between herself and Donald Trump, former Gov. Nikki Haley's bid to become the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee is facing more scrutiny — including on a recent 11-month period where she made an estimated $2.5 million.

A measure of inflation favored by the U.S. Federal Reserve weakened in November on lower energy prices, government data showed Friday, providing further reassurance to policymakers keen to rein in price increases.

Many supporters of former President Donald Trump don't just like him for his policy ideas.

Only a person suffering mental decline would talk about the importance of airports during the Revolutionary War, Joe Rogan said as he slammed President Joe Biden late Thursday night.

Three years after the Capitol riot, extremists are still pushing the conspiracy theory that many of the rioters were actually Antifa agents dressed as Trump supporters in a false flag operation to frame the right.

Legal and political experts are responding to Thursday night's bombshell news of secret recordings of then-President Donald Trump, two weeks after the 2020 election, allegedly personally pressuring two Wayne County, Michigan election officials to not certify the results for Joe Biden. It "sounds like a classic case of bribery," says one expert, and is being called a "huge, systemic plot" to "seize power despite losing an election," by another.

The town of Huntington Beach, California is mulling a ban on celebrations centered on women, as well as on Black and LGBTQ Americans.

When the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the state's 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot, the other candidates were quick to rush to his defense.

Reacting to reports that Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniels was on the phone call that Donald Trump made to election officials in Michigan to pressure them to not certify the 2020 election results, one law professor claimed she could be investigated for bribery for promising legal help if they complied.

Georgia election board officials have asked the FBI to investigate a Texas activist who sent a series of emails demanding an investigation into the state's 2020 election, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

After Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted as House speaker, some Democrats worried that Republicans would nominate someone even further to the right — which is exactly what happened when Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) stepped up.