WASHINGTON ― So far, Reps. Lloyd Doggett (Texas) and Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.) are the only Democrats in Congress who have called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. But several others are making it clear this week that they’re panicking about Biden’s prospects, after his terrible debate performance against Donald Trump last … Read more
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign warned in a new ad that Donald Trump could be unbound if he returns to the White House following this week’s Supreme Court ruling giving presidents expansive immunity from criminal prosecution. “Nearly 250 years ago, America was founded in defiance of a king, under the belief that no one is … Read more
Stormy Daniels on Tuesday detailed how vitriol leveled at her by Donald Trump supporters has significantly ramped up following the former president’s hush money case conviction. The death threats “are so much more graphic and detailed and brazen,” porn actor Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in a lengthy interview. … Read more
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder shared a warning on X (formerly Twitter) about what will happen if presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump wins back the White House in the 2024 election. “Unless Trump loses, America ends,” he wrote in his first of a five-post thread. Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism and the author of … Read more
Former President Donald Trump talked about the importance of high ratings ― and how they allow people on TV to be ― in newly released audio from an interview he gave at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in November 2023. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee addressed the idea of returning to NBC — … Read more
The author of a new book about Donald Trump on Tuesday highlighted what he believes was “so disturbing” about the former president’s first 2024 presidential debate against President Joe Biden, which CNN hosted last week. And it wasn’t Biden’s faltering performance that has sparked calls from newspapers and prominent Democrats for him to quit the … Read more
Virginia election officials on Tuesday declared Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, the loser in his close primary against state Sen. John McGuire. The determination came two weeks after Good’s primary and makes him the first casualty of GOP infighting this cycle. McGuire’s 374-vote margin is still slim enough that … Read more
Conservative former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig on Monday joined the chorus of condemnation of the Supreme Court’s ruling of total immunity for Donald Trump’s “official” acts when president. Luttig, appearing on Nicolle Wallace’s “Deadline: White House” show on MSNBC, slammed the decision as “shocking” and “reprehensible.” “This is indeed an historic day in constitutional … Read more
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein said on CNN Monday night that sources have told him President Joe Biden has appeared similarly to how he did during last week’s debate more than a dozen times in the past 18 months, troubling those close to him. “These are people, several of them who are very close to President … Read more
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Monday the U.S. Supreme Court went “a little further than I anticipated” in granting Donald Trump complete immunity for “official” acts he committed when president. The justices were “always going to draw a constitutional line here, a separation of powers line, and they drew it, and it’s … Read more
