Speaker Mike Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in government, has been leaning hard into former President Donald Trump’s embrace lately. Naturally, that boosting extends to blatant spin ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate. “I expect everybody will be watching,” Johnson told Tony Perkins, president of the archconservative Family Research Council, on the latter’s new show, “This Week […]
WASHINGTON ― Republicans are rallying around Donald Trump in the wake of his unprecedented conviction in New York, claiming that the U.S. justice system is being “weaponized” for political purposes to specifically tear down the former president, who is running for another term in the Oval Office. “The prosecution of President Trump wasn’t about justice. […]
Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on Friday, as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Former US president Mr Trump spoke to reporters at his […]
In his first remarks since a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records, President Joe Biden took a thinly veiled swipe at the former president’s attacks on the justice system. “It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system Friday as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake […]
Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on Friday, as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Former US president Mr Trump spoke to reporters at his […]
A longtime employee for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games will serve eight years in federal prison for attempting to blow up the games’ office with a homemade bomb. Thomas Dewey Taylor Jr., 45, of Newland in Avery County, pleaded guilty to several federal charges: attempting to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce […]
Spirit Airlines CEO Slams “Uninformed Government,” Says Airline Industry Is A “Rigged Game” As The Company Struggles To Survive Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) was once the target of a hot bidding war between two of its rivals, Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU). Less than two years after JetBlue successfully beat out Frontier with a […]
Well, here we go again. The rigged game of meme-stock trading is back in vogue, evidently. GameStop (NYSE:GME) stock traders deserve the credit or, perhaps, the blame for this. I won’t win any popularity contests for this, but I am bearish on GME stock and expect this mania phase to end badly, just like it […]
The Powerball drawing for Saturday, April 6, has been delayed for technical issues, according to a press release. No time has been determined for the Powerball drawing to take place as of 2:16 a.m. Sunday, April 7, 2024. Several Powerball players are unhappy about the delay and some are even crying foul over the postponed […]
Rep. Katie Porter’s parting comments after her failed bid for U.S. Senate have been widely and appropriately denounced. Calling the primary race “rigged” was ill-tempered and immature, and it helped reassure those who voted against Porter that they were entirely justified for having done so. She later apologized, sort of, acknowledging during an interview on […]
On Wisconsin’s presidential primary election day, Donald Trump made his first campaign stop in the state, where he railed against so-called “migrant crime” and doubled down on false election claims. “We won in 2016 – we did much better in 2020, hate to say it, we did a hell of a lot better,” the former […]