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President Donald Trump’s former attorney refused to repeat earlier testimony he made when called to task about Trump’s criminality. Cohen was the star witness in New York prosecutors’ 2024 hush money case against Trump involving illegal use of money to buy a sex worker’s silence. This made Trump the first ever former president to become a convicted felon when he was found guilty on 34 counts of…
Under Trump, the National Park Service has allowed thousands of park projects across the country languish while only the handful that he considers to be priorities have been fast-tracked, wrote The Atlantic's Michael Scherer on Thursday . Citing internal documents and interviews, Scherer reported that Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum has established a "White House priorities" docket that pushed…
Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has had a long history of controversial takes, from threatening that President Donald Trump could “destroy” people who accused him of links to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to urging the president to take a vacation and saying he should exact vengeance against actor Robert De Niro . Now O’Reilly is warning Trump that if Democrats retake Congress,…
President Donald Trump’s politicized Department of Justice has abandoned major white-collar prosecutions in favor of waging legal war against Trump’s perceived political enemies. But a White House whistleblower from Trump’s first term says there will be no way to hide Trump’s lawfare from investigators when he leaves office — no matter how much paper he shreds. “[T]he Trump administration is not…
On Thursday, Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf laid out the true breadth of President Donald Trump 's "epidemic" of lies, and detailed the "grim" consequences if they go unchecked. According to Rothkopf, under Trump's leadership, the government has gone "braindead," and if he and his allies have their way, the American people will be next. "This administration has waged war on the First…
President Donald Trump has released a number of documents about his 2020 election win, but he continues to hide documents that Congress ordered he make public. New York Times intelligence reporter Dustin Volz wrote Thursday that out of all of the classified information Trump has released in recent months, he's still holding back documents that show foreign meddling in the 2024 election. Trump has…
It’s rare when a Republican senator peels away from President Donald Trump and openly criticizes his unilateral war on Iran, but Utah appears to be a place of rebellion. “U.S. Sen. John Curtis was a teenager during the Vietnam War and still remembers seeing neighbors, just a few years older than he was, drafted,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune. “And once, Curtis said, he attended a Church of Jesus…
President Donald Trump's key demand from his hires is now working against him in a big way. On Thursday, lawyer Norm Eisen and legal reporter Adam Klasfeld agreed that there is some reason for "hope" as Trump's administration fights so many cases across the country. Klasfeld began listing all of the huge losses Trump has suffered in the past two years, including 22 cases that are specifically…
On Thursday, religious groups asked a federal judge to hold Department of Justice officials in contempt for violating a court order barring immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. According to Politico , the request comes after an undercover agent spying on a Minnesota church accidentally dropped a recording device that exposed their true identity. The coalition of church groups is…
There's a hidden problem with President Donald Trump's renovation projects that extends beyond the preservation of history and high costs. Writing Thursday, lawyer Lindsay Zimliki, who works for Democracy Defenders Act, penned a column for "The Contrarian" Substack, flagging that many lawsuits are fighting against the White House's claims that the president has absolute power over all of these…
