Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of Donald Trump’s scheme to subvert the 2020 election, has been charged with felony forgery in Wisconsin, court records show. Chesebro, who developed a strategy to send false slates of presidential electors — and to use them to stoke a conflict on Jan. 6, 2021 aimed at blocking Joe Biden’s Electoral […]
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Maddow Blog | After her failed gambit, will Greene face intraparty consequences?
“When you strike at a king,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously explained, “you must kill him.” Generations later, the phrase was tweaked and popularized on HBO’s “The Wire,” on which Omar Devone Little said, “You come at the king, you best not miss.” The point behind the sentiment, of course, was obvious: Those who take on […]
The state’s first “Granite Gambit Chess Festival” is a checkmate
May 5—MANCHESTER — School cafeterias are often echo chambers of laughter and mayhem. But the cafeteria at Memorial High School on Saturday, site of the state’s first Granite Gambit Chess Festival, was pin-drop silent — transformed into a learning and playing arena for an activity that is high-stakes, strategic, engrossing and fun. “I like that […]
Trump’s Precarious Truth Social Gambit Just Took a Turn for the Worse
The auditing firm for Donald Trump’s social media company Truth Social doesn’t look so clean. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged auditor BF Borgers CPA for “massive fraud” that affected more than 1,500 SEC filings. The firm is accused of “deliberate and systemic failures to comply” with federal standards between January 2021 and […]
S&P 500 gains after Tesla’s China gambit in big week for markets
Stocks on Wall Street climbed on Monday, kicking off a big week filled with a Federal Reserve rate decision, the monthly jobs report, and earnings from more Magnificent Seven tech heavyweights. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.3%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) gained roughly 0.4% as Tesla (TSLA) shares surged amid upbeat China news. […]
S&P 500 futures gain after Tesla’s China gambit
Stocks on Wall Street inched higher Monday ahead of a big week filled with a Federal Reserve rate decision, the monthly jobs report, and earnings from more Magnificent Seven tech heavyweights. Futures on the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) were both up roughly 0.2% as Tesla (TSLA) shares surged amid upbeat […]
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Ex-White House lawyer provides new details of final days of Trump’s 2020 election gambit
Donald Trump’s deputy White House counsel, Pat Philbin, was nervous. It was just a few days until Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was slated to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and Trump had suddenly resuscitated a plan to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark, a little known DOJ […]
Trump’s Criminal Trial Delay Gambit Now Faces a Crucial Test
For all the controversies and confusion surrounding the legal dramas of former president Donald Trump, a key question looms: Will Trump face election day as a convicted criminal, or not? A conviction before the vote could have massive political and legal consequences. Not only have voters said that a guilty verdict would weigh on their […]