TO: All congressional Republicans SUBJECT: Rules for mandatory visits to Donald Trump’s UNJUST criminal trial Just a quick reminder that every Republican lawmaker in the House and Senate is required to make at least one day trip to the Manhattan criminal courthouse while our hero and presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, is being persecuted […]
The greatest show of the 21st century is happening far from the tourists, the theater district and the neon lights of New York’s Times Square. It’s happening in the city’s Civic Center neighborhood in a stately Manhattan courthouse, surrounded by other stately federal buildings and a few small parks where protesters set up their banners […]
Donald Trump finally had a good day in court. The presumptive GOP nominee has often seemed embarrassed and infuriated by his first criminal trial, which has featured salacious exposés of his personal life and details of his alleged attempts to cover it up. But on Thursday, he got to savor his former fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen […]
May 16—Ohio is planning to roll out a new weather alert system using billboards in Dayton and Columbus. Called the Ohio Traveler Alert System, the system will display real-time alert information on digital billboards to warn motorists of possible threatening weather such as high winds, snow squalls, heavy ice and flooding. In particular the messaging […]
WASHINGTON ― Republicans in Congress have found a new way to prove their loyalty to Donald Trump: flock to New York City and attack the U.S. legal system at the courthouse where his criminal hush money trial is underway. Nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers spent Thursday not at work in Washington but hanging around a […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we have the latest news from a tense day at the Trump trial and what to expect […]
For Florida’s most ambitious Republicans, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is the place to be. Over the past week, a parade of GOP lawmakers from the former president’s adopted home state have made the pilgrimage to Manhattan, where Trump is standing trial on charges that he falsified business records in order to cover up a hush […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that his wife will undergo a mastectomy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a revelation made just as the first evidence — pictures of 13 gold bars and over $480,000 in cash seized from the couple’s home — was shown to jurors at his New […]
Robert Pooley wasn’t truthful when he was teaching courses at a skydiving center near Lodi. But his dishonesty wasn’t meant to mislead his students, one of his defense attorneys said Thursday. It was meant to trick the organization that licenses skydivers, the United States Parachute Association. “Rob Pooley is not charged with defrauding the parachute […]
(Bloomberg) — A logistics firm which won over £1 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of UK government contracts during the pandemic is embroiled in a trial over whether it was justified in breaking off a contract with a supplier during the race to source medical equipment during the first wave of Covid-19. Most Read from Bloomberg […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Thursday ominously invoked Donald Trump’s call to far-right violent extremists while joining the former president at his criminal trial in New York. “Standing back and standing by, Mr. President,” Gaetz wrote on social media, along with a photo of himself positioned behind Trump at his trial. The phrase is a […]
The House Oversight Committee had a specific plan for this morning. The Republican-led panel, chaired by Republican Rep. James Comer, was poised to advance a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. The measure lacked merit, and it appeared to be little more than a stunt, but GOP members were nevertheless eager […]