If you were just arrested for thirty-four felonies in a criminal case that has a boatload of inside witnesses testifying against you, and you were on the verge of getting criminally indicted on even more serious charges in two other jurisdictions, you’d probably be begging for help. So it’s perhaps no surprise that Donald Trump…
Donald Trump knows that his indictment and arrest make him look weak in the eyes of his right wing supporters, and he’s desperate to try to make himself look strong in all of this. Trouble is, he doesn’t know how to spin it. Trump’s latest social media meltdown is so bizarre, it’s tricky to even…
If you’re wondering whether Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan will be televised, you should be aware that New York state law currently prevents such things from happening. You should also be aware that the New York state legislature is pushing legislation to change that rule and allow cameras in the courtroom. If this legislation…
Donald Trump, who on some level knows deep down that he’s going to be found guilty in multiple jurisdictions and end up in prison, now seems to want to burn it all down for himself before his trials can even finish him off. Hours after a judge in Manhattan warned him to cool it with…
Marco Rubio has mostly been trying to stay off the national stage of late, and given how in over his head he is when it comes to national politics, that’s probably a good thing for us all. But he just had to pop and whine about the fact that Donald Trump was arrested. Rubio, who…
House Republican Jim Jordan never met the morally wrong side of an issue that he didn’t want to take. So of course after Donald Trump was indicted and arrested for thirty-four felonies, Jordan tweeted this: “Equal justice under the law, unless you’re a Republican running for president.” Oh give it a rest, Jim Jordan. Everyone,…
You can list off a number of reasons why tonight’s victory by the Democratic Party-backed candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is so huge. It’ll positively impact women’s rights now. It’ll positively impact voting rights going forward. It’ll keep Republicans from being able to steal Wisconsin in 2024 if they lose it. But there’s…
Did Marjorie Taylor Greene really think she was going to be able to make any headway by traveling to New York City for Donald Trump’s arrest and arraignment? Her attempt at a speech was quickly drowned out by anti-Trump audience members. Now Greene is throwing a fit, accusing the Mayor of New York City of…
Even after the Democratic Party-backed candidate won last night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election by a whopping ten points, Democratic activists still know they’ll have to work hard to win it all in 2024. They just know that the door is now wide open if they do work hard. Meanwhile over on the Republican side, they’re…
The judge the Manhattan criminal case warned Donald Trump during his arraignment today that if he kept inappropriately running his mouth, he’d end up bound by a gag order. Trump sat there quietly and acted like he understood what he was being told. And really, your only chance of succeeding as a defendant in the…
It’s a bad sign when you’re being arrested on thirty-four felony counts, and the most notable people who show up to support you are… Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos. That’s who you get after you finish scraping the bottom of the barrel, and have to look under the barrel. Of course Greene and Santos…
Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorneys in the Manhattan case have publicly let it be known more than once that when Trump gets to trial, he intends to use the defense that he only tried to cover up the hush money payments in order to avoid hurting or humiliating his wife Melania. This would still be…