GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his promise to pardon those arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who violently attacked police officers, if he is elected in November. Near the end of a 35-minute interview at the annual National Association of Black Journalists conference, ABC News … Read more
Donald Trump attended a Q&A with political journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday, where, despite some internal opposition to Trump’s presence, NABJ President Ken Lemon promised those assembled “the opportunity … to ask the tough questions” of the twice-impeached former president. Trump, who’s grown accustomed to softball questions … Read more
In recent weeks, Vance’s campaign as Donald Trump’s running mate has been tripped up by a internet joke that falsely claims the conservative Ohio senator wrote in his memoir about having sex with a couch. So far, Vance’s camp has not discussed the made-up couch sex claim with media, and reportedly hung up on a … Read more
In a controversial sit-down interview with political journalists at the annual National Association of Black Journalists convention, former President Donald Trump did not seem familiar with the death of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy earlier this month. Trump also refused to clearly answer if the officer … Read more
Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance, said in 2021 that “we have to go to war” against the idea that women can decide not to have children, suggesting that someone who focuses on building their career instead of making babies will be “a sad, lonely, pathetic person.” In an interview with The Federalist in … Read more
In an interview with Fox News that aired Monday night, the former president gave noncommittal answers when asked whether he would debate the presumptive Democratic nominee. “I want to do a debate. But I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am. And now people know who she is,” Trump said, adding the he … Read more
For the past two weeks, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has been mocked as someone who has sex with couches — a strange situation even in the no-holds-barred world of presidential politics. Now the person who created the bizarre meme is coming clean to Business Insider about how he came up with the weird … Read more
Sen. JD Vance, the Ohio Republican who was named this month as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has come under fire ― and become a meme ― for disparaging people who don’t have children as “childless cat ladies” in 2021. But the 39-year-old senator has a years-long documented history of describing people without children … Read more
On the same day the director of the far-right presidential transition plan known as Project 2025 stepped down ― and amid Donald Trump’s attempts to distance himself from it ― news outlets published a book excerpt tying Trump’s running mate directly to the project’s organizers. Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s vice presidential nominee, wrote the foreword … Read more
Kari Lake on Tuesday won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona, setting her up to face off in November’s general election against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who ran uncontested for his party’s nomination. The winner will replace outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who said in March she would not seek reelection. Lake, a … Read more
