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Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making the upcoming election a referendum, he now hopes, not just on his record against Joe Biden’s but the entire political system.
Republicans call it a miscarriage of justice; for Democrats, it’s proof that no one is above the law.
History will remember it as a new chapter: Donald J. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime.
“We didn’t do anything wrong. I am a very innocent man,” said Trump, dressed in his trademark blue suit and too-long tie at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.
Then a familiar script as the former president embraced martyrdom, arguing that his conviction was part of a larger war for the soul of a nation.
“I’m fighting for our country. I’m fighting for our Constitution,” he said. “Our whole country is being rigged right now.”
Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Each count carries a maximum prison term of four years.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just four days before Trump is slated to accept the Republican presidential nomination for a third consecutive time.
Although questions abound about the fate of the former president and the nation, there is little to no chance Trump will end up behind bars before the end of the year. He is expected to remain free on bail pending appeal, a process that is not likely to be exhausted until well after Election Day.
The case now shifts to the appellate courts—as well as the proverbial court of public opinion.
Democrats have been desperate to cast the election as a rematch of Biden v. Trump with an emphasis on character, not a judgment on President Joe Biden’s first term in office. They may have gotten what they wanted.
“Donald Trump is a racist, a homophobe, a grifter, and a threat to this country,” said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. “He can now add one more title to his list—a felon.”
Sources close to the former president prefer a different description.
A senior Trump campaign official predicted weeks before the decision that a conviction would “make him the Nelson Mandela of America,” comparing Biden to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his imprisonment of political rival and late dissident Alexei Navalny.
The framework suits Trump, who blasted out an email fundraiser shortly after his conviction calling himself “a political prisoner,” arguing both that “justice is dead in America” and “our country has fallen.”
This kind of rhetoric, complete with comparisons of the U.S. to the Third World, is likely to accelerate in the weeks and months ahead. Both major presidential campaigns now argue that the other could end democracy.
“These people would do anything and everything to hold onto political power. They don’t care if they destroy our country in the process,” said the former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Martyrdom has been a central theme of Trump’s return to politics. After his indictment in New York last year, the GOP nomination was practically a fait accompli and his campaign nearly told RealClearPolitics as much at the time. It is unclear whether that phenomenon will translate to a general election.
Court has not crippled Trump so far, however, and Biden has not surpassed his rival a single time this year in the RealClearPolitics Average of polls. Well aware of those numbers, the Biden campaign attempted to tamp down jubilation on the left over the bad legal news consuming the right. They warned that Trump still could win.
“There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” said Biden-Harris communications director Michael Tyler.
Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House counsel’s office reacted to the news by saying only, “We respect the rule of law, and have no additional comment.” By remaining silent, however, he ceded the spotlight to Trump, allowing his rival to shape the first 24 hours of the narrative.
[Biden didn’t comment until early Friday afternoon, when he noted before turning to the Israel-Hamas war that, “just like everyone else,” Trump will have an opportunity to appeal the verdict. The president added: “That’s how the American system of justice works. And it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”]
Nothing bars Trump from running for president as a felon. It is unclear, however, if he will be able to cast a vote for himself while his case goes through the appeal process.
A more immediate consequence of the trial ending: Trump’s schedule just opened up, and Trump can return to the campaign trail in earnest.
Sources in regular contact with the former president report that the prospect of prison has not cast a shadow over Trump personally. One told RealClearPolitics that Trump “sincerely believes” that divine providence now guides his steps and “that he has been chosen for a time such as this.”
Trump has six months to convince the country to return him to the White House, and in the most extreme circumstance, to preserve his freedom. Republicans were as bullish over those odds as they were angry.
“Today’s verdict from this partisan, corrupt, and rigged trial just guaranteed Trump’s landslide victory on Nov. 5, 2024,” Mike Davis, founder and president of the pro-Trump Article III Project, told RealClearPolitics.
Former Rep. Peter Meijer, a Michigan Republican who voted to impeach Trump, echoed that sentiment, warning that a conviction would backfire on Democrats. “The chain reaction will cause infinitely more damage than whatever they think they are preventing,” he told RCP.
The conviction created a tidal wave of donations as Trump began fundraising almost immediately after leaving court. The Trump campaign buckled briefly at the surge. The fundraising website, WinRed, temporarily crashed under the strain of heavy traffic.
“I’ll lose friends for this,” wrote Shaun Maguire in a lengthy post on X announcing his $300,000 donation to Trump. A partner at Sequoia Capital and a former Democratic donor, Maguire said that “lawfare” in part inspired his donation:
“Fairness is one of my guiding principles in life,” he said, “and simply, these cases haven’t been fair for Trump.”
Following the conviction, there was a discernable shift on the right among conservatives who normally argue that the judicial system ought to remain apolitical. Some Trump allies described the guilty verdict as “the Rubicon.”
Asked about the new Republican appetite to use the courts to go after political opponents, Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller told RCP that “the good guys must be as tough as the villains or freedom is doomed.”
The field of potential vice presidential candidates snapped to attention in their immediate condemnation of the conviction.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the verdict was “a complete travesty that makes a mockery of our system of justice.” Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, called it “election interference.” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said it was an “absolute injustice” that “erodes our justice system.”
“From the start, the weaponized scales of justice were stacked against President Trump. Joe Biden, far left Democrats, and their stenographers in the mainstream media have made it clear they will stop at nothing to prevent President Trump from returning to the White House,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., in a lengthy statement to reporters.
“This lawfare should scare every American,” said a more succinct North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican. “The American people will have their say in November.”
The safest thing for any Republican elected official anywhere Thursday night was to attack the judicial system. Defending that institution, meanwhile, was verboten.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a frequent Trump critic now running for Senate, appeared to miss the memo when he shared a statement calling for GOP leaders to “reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.”
Replied Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser dispatched to oversee the Republican National Conventio: “You just ended your campaign.”
The most common sentiment among Trump’s close circle of advisers and friends was that something had changed permanently, not in the former president personally but in the country.
“Today marks a turning point,” said Brooke Rollins, who led Trump’s Domestic Policy Council before launching the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank often described as a Trump White House in waiting. “I see it as a fire that has been lit. I see the sleeping giant of the American people awakened.”
On the second day of jury deliberations, Trump had kept up appearances with a smile. A verdict was not expected Thursday, and by the afternoon, Judge Juan Merchan was preparing to dismiss the jury for the day.
The foreman replied instead that the jury had reached a verdict. He read each of the 34 charges and followed by a one-word pronouncement: “guilty.”
A smile turned to a grimace, and Trump, surrounded by his defense team, stared forward stone-faced as he listened to the verdict and American history. He vowed in brief remarks to reporters afterward that he would “fight till the end and we’ll win because our country’s gone to hell.”
It was like so many of the pronouncements he has made after so many of the other controversies that have defined his political life. It was also different. A loss, if the conviction stands, could mean prison.
Rollins predicted that Trump would persevere, as he has before.
“From my perspective,” she said, “it is almost biblical to see this sort of courage and leadership and unwillingness to back down even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.”
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Pro-Ukraine House Republican chairmen on Friday said President Joe Biden allowing Ukraine to strike certain targets on Russia soil with American weapons is a half measure.
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Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk is preparing to host a town hall on his social media website for former President Donald Trump after slamming Trump's conviction.
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Former President Donald Trump's campaign announced on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in the 24 hours after Trump's conviction by a New York jury.
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On Friday’s edition of the “Tomi Lahren Is Fearless” podcast, New York Times bestselling Breaking Biden author and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow argued that Democrats want to try to wear down 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump with the criminal
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) clarified on Friday that former President Donald Trump still has the right to vote in Florida elections despite a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on 34 counts that District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asserted are felonies.
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On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News White House Correspondent Mike Memoli stated that “the Biden team has seemed to concede that there’s nothing they’re going to be able to do to fix the inflation problem” and are
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The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF) is stepping down from her position at the "end of the summer" amid a House investigation regarding donations the Chamber's Foundation had received from the Tides Foundation, according to an internal memo.
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CNN analyst Paul Begala said Friday on "News Central" that Donald Trump is an "obese flatulent old man with bad makeup and weird hair" when asked for his reaction to the former president's conviction at the business record trial in New York.
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Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu declined Friday to confirm or deny U.S. President Joe Biden's claim that Israel had proposed a deal for a ceasefire and hostage release that would keep Hamas armed and in power in Gaza.
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Co-host Whoopi Goldberg closed Friday's broadcast of ABC's "The View" by saying the word "guilty" exactly 34 times, one for each charge former President Donald Trump was convicted of in the New York business record trail.
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Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed on Friday that her mother, Marian Robinson, had died at the age of 86.
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Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, posted a heartwarming video of the former president hugging his grandchildren, a day after a jury in his business records trial found him guilty.
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Alex Soros, the son of left-wing activist and billionaire George Soros, suggested Democrats mention that former President Donald Trump is a "convicted felon at every opportunity" they get.
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The story of America is scrappy, daring, and revolutionary. Our Founding Fathers took an idea—democracy—that had been dead for centuries and revived it with little more than an amateur militia and a dream for a better world.
The great American experiment has been led by consequential presidents. They were warriors, leaders, and titans. Some of them, like Abraham Lincoln, literally stood above the crowds with imposing height. Military heroes such as Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt had the kind of courage you only read about today.
Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence. Ronald Reagan, an actor before entering the political sphere, pioneered conservative policies and paved the way for the modern conservative movement.
From innovators, thinkers and writers to generals, orators, and businessmen, the presidency of the United States used to be a job that attracted the best of the best.
Fast-forward to 2024. America’s president is the butt of jokes around the world. President Joe Biden gets lost on stage, forgets what he’s saying in the middle of a sentence, and bears little resemblance to the charming “Uncle Joe” that many Americans admired during the Obama administration.
Adding insult to injury, the Biden administration makes wrong decision after disastrously wrong decision. It’s been four years of failure and intentionally destructive policies.
To put it plainly, Biden does not measure up to the legendary presidents of American history.
Just this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted from the podium that the Biden administration could take executive action to fix the border crisis, but it won’t. In fact, she bragged about the executive actions Biden took early in his presidency to destroy the progress of President Donald Trump‘s administration.
Biden stumbled through nine errors in a recent speech that White House staff had to clean up afterward.
Biden’s White House issued condolences for the death of the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi—a man nicknamed the “Butcher of Tehran” for his human rights abuses and whose leadership led to a rise in terrorism and instability in the Middle East.
In another gaffe, Biden claimed to have been vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also gave some bizarre marital advice: Marry a woman with a lot of sisters. He incorrectly announced that a person being held hostage by Hamas terrorists since Oct. 7 was in the crowd at an event.
He repeatedly stumbles up the stairs of Air Force One. He slips and falls on stage. He crashed his bike while riding at a slow pace. He reads aloud, with squinting eyes, the speech cues on his teleprompter.
He tells strange, inconsistent, and false stories about vague family members and friends.
Rather than cause alarm, Biden’s gaffes have become a punch line for late-night television. Hollywood brushes it off. Mainstream media happily provides him cover.
Unlike the media elites, the American people are horrified. They don’t think that Biden is truly capable of running the country. The chaos erupting around the world—in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Israel, and Taiwan, to name a few—doesn’t calm any of those fears.
Biden is a liability on the campaign trail—and his team knows it. That’s why they’re trying so hard to keep Trump tied up in court, because when you put these two side by side, there’s no comparison.
The president shouldn’t be a punch line. He’s the most powerful person on the planet and leader of the free world. Presidents are supposed to inspire hope; they don’t hide in a basement.
The upcoming debates between Biden and Trump will make the choice explicitly clear.
When Americans head to the polls on Nov. 5, they will be reminded of the American presidents who have changed the course of history, some for better and others for worse.
Our great American revival can only happen when we embrace true leadership and put America first. Our next president must bring us closer to the promise of “E Pluribus Unum”—out of many, one.
We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.
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Democrats and the left-wing media intend to latch on to the term "felon" to lambaste Trump ahead of November.
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President Joe Biden flashed a smug, toothy grin after a reporter asked him about former President Donald Trump considering himself a political prisoner.
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The illegal alien accused of murdering Laken Riley has pleaded not guilty to ten counts, including murder and kidnapping.
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Former President Donald Trump says migrants are arriving at the United States-Mexico border from all "corners of the globe." The remark comes as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data reveals an increasing share of migrants encountered at the border on President Joe Biden's watch are from outside North America.
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Model and left-wing activist Emily Ratajkowski celebrated the Trump trial on Thursday by parading around New York in a Stormy Daniels t-shirt for all the paparazzi to photograph.
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Protesters interrupted Harvard University interim president Alan Garber Friday during "Alumni Day" proceedings in Harvard Yard, with one person storming the stage and dumping green glitter all over Garber as he delivered a speech.
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Populist Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini reacted to the guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the 45th president is "a victim of judicial harassment" brought on by "the weaponization of the justice system by the left."
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Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe circumstances, potentially leaving them to die.
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CNN anchor Chris Wallace was stunned when comedian Bill Maher asserted that Donald Trump will probably win the 2024 election for president during Wallace's little watched Max podcast "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace."
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Bernie Moreno called on Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to condemn the "bogus Trump verdict" after Brown refused to weigh in on the case.
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Popular podcaster DJ Akademiks took to X on Thursday to tell his 1.6 million followers that former President Donald Trump being "found guilty on 34 felony counts for paying off his side hoe" only makes him "wanna vote for dat ni**a even more."
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that former President Donald Trump's supporters were "perfectly willing to surrender critical thinking skills."
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Conservative talker Mark Levin said Friday on FNC's "Fox & Friends" that the Democratic Party has completely destroyed our electoral system when reacting to former President Trump's felony conviction.
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Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun rebuffed U.S. concerns about China’s “provocative” behavior toward Taiwan, and told the U.S. to stop sending “wrong signals” to “separatist forces,” at a meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Singapore on Friday.
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Former President Donald Trump's campaign raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on Thursday, the Trump campaign announced Friday morning.
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NFL Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher has announced his full-throated support for Donald Trump in the wake of the verdict in the former president's Manhattan business records trial.
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Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) said Friday on CNN's "Inside Politics" that what happened in former President Donald Trump's New York City business record trial was the "definition of fascism."
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Joe Biden defended the conviction of Donald Trump and claimed it was "reckless" for his gagged political opponent to call it "rigged."
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President Joe Biden announced a proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas on Friday -- but its terms repeat those that Hamas has already rejected in recent weeks.
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign donation page crashed Thursday within minutes of the jury returning a guilty verdict.
Shortly after the verdict, the page displayed a 500 error stating “something went wrong.” Trump also received massive influxes of cash from major donors after the verdict, including $300,000 from Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire.
“The timing isn’t a coincidence,” Maguire wrote on X. In the past, Sequoia Capital employees have donated to both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee, as well as the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, according to Open Secrets.
Trump’s campaign wrote on X that “the American people see through Crooked Joe Biden’s rigged show trial.”
“So many Americans were moved to donate to President Trump’s campaign that the WinRed pages went down,” the campaign said.
I just donated $300k to President Trump
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) May 30, 2024
The timing isn't a coincidence https://t.co/LDU4nJ8FBx
The jury convicted Trump on all 34 counts of falsifying business records charged in the indictment brought by Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump is set to be sentenced on July 11.
WEBSITE IS BACK ONLINE!https://t.co/KojPKxsxaD https://t.co/LylEZV7zJb
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) May 30, 2024
New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin also wrote on X after the verdict that he just “secured a $800k donation from someone for President Trump’s Joint Fundraising Committee.”
“Never experienced a massive ask that easy,” he wrote.
The Trump campaign and WinRed did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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The pressure campaign against Justice Samuel Alito is the latest from left-leaning media outlets and Democrats, who have also targeted conservative Justice Clarence Thomas and similarly demanded his recusal from politically expedient cases.
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Joy Behar told her co-hosts Friday on ABC's "The View" that former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York business document trial was so exciting she "started leaking."
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CNN legal analyst Elie Honig has published an article in New York magazine pointing out many of the procedural flaws behind the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who was convicted in Manhattan on Monday.
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The left's use of lawfare against former President Donald Trump "has already backfired," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said.
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Left-wing social media channels are celebrating former President Donald Trump's Thursday guilty verdict by touting Stormy Daniels.
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Former president Donald Trump appeared to refer to his disgraced former attorney, Michael Cohen, without using his name during a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday morning.
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Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed Thursday's guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump, saying "great damage was done to the public's faith in the American legal system," adding, "anyone is at risk" now that "a former president can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter."
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There was no "slush fund" or "hush money" in relation to former President Donald Trump's business records trial in New York, Trump made clear during a press conference Friday morning.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is finally pulling the trigger. The West Virginia senator announced Friday he will leave the Democrat party, a long-speculated move for the retiring senator.
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The GOP raised a record amount of money after former President Donald Trump was found guilty in his Manhattan business records trial.
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Reuters published a story on Friday claiming that supporters of former President Donald Trump are calling for "riots" and "violent retribution" after Thursday's verdict in New York convicting him on 34 counts in a trial seen as unfair.
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WNBA player Brittney Griner says she is "shocked" anyone would think she is unpatriotic despite the fact she spent years protesting against the country and refusing to stand for the national anthem.
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Donald Trump said during a press conference on Friday that despite the political persecution, he was fighting for something beyond himself.
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Country music star Jason Aldean has publicly slammed Thursday's guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump's New York trial, saying these are "scary times in our country right now."
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to appeal the guilty verdict for falsifying business records.
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Democrats will "rue the day" they decided to use lawfare to target a former president, Megyn Kelly warned after leftists celebrated.
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In a move that may cost him friends and business opportunities, Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital and former Hillary Clinton supporter, has donated $300,000 to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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Two new polls show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surging politically in Israel, despite pressure by Democrats in the United States, and left-wing protests in Israel, to force new elections and a change in government
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) won at the Supreme Court against New York and the anti-gun movement Thursday, unanimously ruling that the NRA’s First Amendment rights were violated by politicians who oppose the Second Amendment, in a major victory with implications for former President Trump.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been released to convalesce at home, but he has a long and difficult recovery ahead of him.
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Many European newspapers report trial won't be as advantageous to Democrats as they might earlier have hoped.
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Ukraine can use weapons supplied by Germany against attacks from positions just over the Russian border, Berlin announced Friday.
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Actor James Woods (Once Upon a Time in America) sounded off after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts in his Manhattan criminal trial.
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Russian deaths and wounded crossed the half-million mark in the past week, per Ukraine's publicly stated estimate.
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During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, National Security Agency Director and U.S. Cyber Command Director Gen. Timothy Haugh said that the second biggest cyber weak link is the fact that “we’re really seeing China be very aggressive to use
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Former President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump said Thursday on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight" that former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York business document trial was a "great day for America."
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Institutions that parents once trusted are now actively working to undermine their authority, presenting new dangers to our children. Parents deserve to know what is happening with their children, which is why the American Parents Coalition has launched The Lookout.
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California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, a top client of Trump Trial Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren Merchan, immediately began trying to raise money off of the guilty verdict against the former president.
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A sneering Robert De Niro could barely hold back Thursday when asked to comment in the wake of former President Donald Trump being found guilty on all 34 counts in his Manhattan business records trial.
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A host of major GOP donors pledged millions of dollars in support Thursday for former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty on all 34 counts in his Manhattan business records trial.
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John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush and ex-Trump national security adviser, said the guilty verdict returned by 12 jurors Thursday in New York City is a “fire-bell” in the night.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — no fan of former President Donald Trump’s — criticized the guilty verdict returned in the business records trial Thursday.
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Thursday on CNN, following the announcement of a guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump on 34 counts by a Manhattan jury, CNN senior political contributor Scott Jennings predicted it would favor Republicans in the election cycle.
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During an appearance on MSNBC during the network's wrap-up coverage of former President Donald Trump's guilty verdicts, former Trump aide Michael Cohen, the embattled star witness for the prosecution against Trump, applauded New York Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the Trump trial.
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Thursday, after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts in his Manhattan criminal trial, Trump attorney Todd Blanche lamented the outcome and the circumstances that he felt led to the outcome.
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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight" that former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York business document trial was a "sweet vindication of the rule of law."
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During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that President Joe Biden should not talk about the verdict in 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s case and everyone should “let the
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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decried the "Guilty" verdict against former President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the Democrats want to beat him in court rather than at the ballot box.
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Thursday, immediately following the Trump guilty verdict, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on Newsmax TV to criticize the court for its handling of the case.
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Following the "Guilty" verdict against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan on Thursday, legal experts have been weighing in, with some saying that the conviction will be overturned, while others have been saying the coming election in November will be the final arbiter.
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Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York City on May 30, the feast day of St. Joan of Arc, the patron saint of prisoners who is revered by Catholics and admired by patriots everywhere as a pillar of strength in the face of political persecution.
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Trump announced a press conference shortly after a jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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Hollywood star Rob Schneider tore into the “biased” Democratic Party after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in the business records trial in Manhattan, New York, Thursday.
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) blistered a Manhattan verdict after the jury in former President Donald Trump’s business records trial reportedly found him guilty on all 34 counts.
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A Pakistani migrant is now accused of attempting to murder a group of Orthodox Jewish students outside of a Brooklyn, New York, school this week, allegedly shouting "I'm gonna kill all the Jews!"
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American Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters on Wednesday that he is optimistic the member nations of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) will agree on a framework to respond to future pandemics, despite the collapsed of talks on a proposed "pandemic treaty" this week.
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It was Christmas in May for Hollywood celebrities after a jury in deep blue New York City voted to convict former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts in his business records case.
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Thursday, following the announcement of the guilty verdict on 34 counts against former President Donald Trump, Fox News Channel personality Jeanine Pirro, also a former Westchester County, NY judge, criticized the verdict for what she warned did to the rule of law.
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The Biden campaign is cheering the guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump in New York today in his business records case, the merits of which have been widely questioned by legal scholars and experts.
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Biden is guilty of persecuting his political opponents, Gabbard declared after Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records.
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In what is being termed a “dark day for America,” Republican officials are expressing outrage after a New York jury found former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty in his hush-money trial, accusing the Biden administration of using “lawfare seen in third world countries” while warning that if political opponents can target a former president, “they can do it to anyone.”
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The coalition of anti-Trump activists, from George Conway to Bill Kristol, celebrated Thursday's guilty verdict against the former president.
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Republicans' online donation website was so overwhelmed in the minutes after a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty that its functionality was incapacitated.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will hold a press conference after former President Donald Trump was convicted on all charges in his New York criminal trial on Thursday, May 30.
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Democrats and the leftist media are now hyping former President Donald Trump as a convicted felon following a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts in his business records trial.
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Actor Michael Rapaport wasted no time to weigh in on former President Donald Trump being found guilty on all 34 counts in the business records trial in Manhattan, New York, Thursday.
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MAGA Republcians and allies of former President Donald Trump slammed the jury's verdict in his New York business records trial on Thursday, which found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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President Donald Trump is to be sentenced in New York on July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention is set to begin on July 15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where delegates are to cast their votes Trump as the presidential nominee.
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The sentencing date for former President Donald Trump in his business records trial — where the Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 counts — is yet another form of election interference, Donald Trump Jr. said on Thursday.
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Olympic gold medalist and reality TV megastar Caitlyn Jenner blasted the jury finding former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts in the business records trial in Manhattan, New York, Thursday.
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Former President Donald Trump blamed President Joe Biden on Thursday for the guilty verdict in his criminal trial.
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The verdict in former President Donald Trump's business records trial in Manhattan was the "culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement on Thursday following the Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts.
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) is reducing criminal charges against immigrants to shield them from deportation.
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A judge in the sanctuary state of Washington has reduced bail by 90 percent for the illegal alien accused of killing Christopher Gadd.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested President Joe Biden could one day support Ukraine attacking Russian territory with U.S. weapons.
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Most Americans agree that former President Donald Trump's business records trial is a "political sham," the Trump campaign said in a memo at the start of the jury deliberations, which began Wednesday.
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A wrongful death lawsuit that families of Uvalde victims filed claims Activision trains "adolescents to become gunmen."
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The "real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people," former President Donald Trump reacted to Thursday's verdict, which found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal trial in Manhattan.
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Donald Trump's conviction on all 34 felony counts in a business records trial "isn't justice, it's election interference," J.D. Vance says.
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MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said the jury should be thanked and protected during her network's coverage of former President Donald Trump being found guilty on all counts in a unanimous decision by a Manhattan jury in his business record trial.
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The jury in former President Donald Trump's business records trial in Manhattan has reportedly found him guilty on all 34 counts.
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A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide “hush money” payments in 2016 to former pornographic movie actress Stormy Daniels.
Upon leaving the courthouse, Trump called the trial a disgrace and said, “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt.” He continued: “The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people.”
Trump faces up to four years in prison.
BREAKING: Donald Trump says the "real verdict" will be decided on election day November 5th, 2024, calls out George Soros after being found guilty.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 30, 2024
"It's okay, I'm fighting for our country… I'm fighting for our constitution."
Trump also called out President Biden, saying the… pic.twitter.com/3QibqBSCrt
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts issued a statement on the conviction:
This verdict is a travesty to our republic. This was a bogus prosecution engineered by President Biden and his weaponized DOJ that has made the New York justice system look like that of a third-world country where government officials engage in partisan prosecutions against their political opponents.
(Read the rest of Roberts’ statement here.)
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The Biden campaign put out a statement saying that “no one is above the law.”
Biden-Harris Campaign Statement on Today’s Verdict pic.twitter.com/TEmdNsPmzP
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 30, 2024
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a statement that the verdict represents a “dark day” in America:
This is a dark day for America. This entire trial has been a sham, and it is nothing more than political persecution. The only reason they prosecuted Donald Trump is because Democrats are terrified that he will win reelection. This disgraceful decision is legally baseless and should be overturned promptly on appeal. Any judge with a modicum of integrity would recognize that this entire trial has been utterly fraudulent.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said in a statement on X that a guilty verdict never would have been reached if Trump wasn’t the person being charged.
Today’s verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved: a leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America—all in an effort to “get” Donald Trump.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 30, 2024
That…
MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy organization, called the verdict a “small degree of justice” in a statement:
Today, a jury concluded that Donald Trump broke the law. This verdict represents a small degree of justice against Trump and his enablers and now millions of MoveOn members will keep up their work to guarantee he loses at the ballot box, too.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the No. 4 Republican in the House, said the verdict demonstrates that the nation’s legal system under President Joe Biden is “rigged.”
My statement on the rigged verdict in the New York City Biden Trial against President Trump:
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) May 30, 2024
“Today’s verdict shows how corrupt, rigged, and unAmerican the weaponized justice system has become under Joe Biden and Democrats. I fully support President Trump appealing this decision…
Before beginning to deliberate on a verdict Wednesday, the 12-member jury received unusual instructions in Manhattan Criminal Court from Judge Juan Merchan, as Fox News’ John Roberts reported on X.
Judge Merchan just told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict. 4 could agree on one crime, 4 on a different one, and the other 4 on another. He said he would treat 4-4-4 as a unanimous verdict.
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) May 29, 2024
The former president spoke to reporters and onlookers Tuesday outside the court before closing arguments in his trial.
Tiffany Trump makes her first appearance at the sham Trump trial.
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 28, 2024
Don Jr, Eric, Lara, Michael Boulos (Tiffany's husband), Steve Witkoff, Will Scharf, and Deroy Murdock are also in attendance.pic.twitter.com/mrn6aDNThV
Also before those closing arguments, actor and liberal activist Robert De Niro showed up at the courthouse to denounce Trump and his supporters and express his own support for Biden.
The Democrats parade a washed up actor, Robert De Niro, outside of Trump's trial, a man who has spewed vile, pejorative-filled poison at Trump multiple times, and now he's upset Trump supporters are shouting at him in protest?!
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 28, 2024
De Niro is a unhinged, entitled maniac. pic.twitter.com/Ar9A0f60dS
Inside the courtroom during closing arguments, Trump’s lawyer argued that the prosecution had failed to come up with any evidence that Trump committed a crime.
“President Trump is innocent,” defense attorney Todd Blanche said. “He did not commit any crimes, and the district attorney has not met their burden of proof, period.”
Blanche was referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat.
Trump’s attorney also pointed to the prosecution’s star witness, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, as an unreliable witness with a history of lying.
“You cannot send someone to prison based on the words of Michael Cohen,” Blanche told the jury.
Merchan, the judge, reprimanded Blanche for this remark, calling it “outrageous” and “highly inappropriate.”
The prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, rested his case by arguing that Trump’s defense was built on deception.
“The name of the game was concealment and all roads lead to the man who benefited most, the defendant, Donald Trump,” Steinglass said.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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The Biden campaign is pushing a decade-old allegation that former President Donald Trump used the “N-word” on tape during filming for The Apprentice, while ignoring that President Joe Biden actually used the word during Senate hearings 15 times.
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Former President Donald Trump and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., are trolling leftists from the courthouse in New York.
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Walgreens is lowering prices on more than one thousand items as other corporations also battle inflation in President Joe Biden's America.
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Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said Thursday on ABC's "The View" that she was selling merchandise that highlighted when she claimed Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a "bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body" to save democracy.
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A Democrat California state senator working to prolong the time pedophiles spend behind bars is fed up with members of her party.
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A gunman shot and killed a Mexican mayoral candidate as he was about to take the stage during a campaign event in the coastal state of Guerrero. The murder comes amidst one of Mexico's bloodiest election cycles, with at least 36 candidates murdered and over 300 political attacks in a span of less than a year.
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Less than a quarter of Americans believe former President Donald Trump will be convicted in the business records case in New York, a survey from the Economist/YouGov found.
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"Time is running out to get his message across," Democrats warned President Joe Biden on Thursday about the important demographic of the black vote.
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The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt admitted that show tapes that allegedly captured Donald Trump using the “n-word” would “never be found.”
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that three soldiers had been killed by a booby-trapped tunnel in Rafah that was located in a medical clinic that was part of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school.
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) publicly ditched his Harvard University graduation hood on Wednesday during his address at the commencement of Yeshiva University, a religious Jewish college in New York.
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Widespread online reaction followed a message from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising pro-Hamas American university students protesting Israel, welcoming them to the terrorist “Resistance Front,” and encouraging them to “become familiar with the Quran.”
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) is reportedly planning to introduce legislation that would ban smartphones in schools.
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Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the "world is watching" his criminal trial in Manhattan and might decide not to do business in New York State because of its "rigged" judicial system.
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Americans see the charges against former President Donald Trump as less serious as the trial continues, a CNN analyst reported, based on data.
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As the integration of artificial intelligence in the news industry accelerates, corporate media outlets are reaping the benefits of becoming training fodder for AI, while many right-leaning publishers find themselves left out in the cold. The result will be ChatGPT and other popular tools that spout leftist answers backed up by the Atlantic, Financial Times, and other left-wing media sources.
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a former strategist to President Donald Trump and host of “America First,” joins host Mike Slater to discuss his day at Trump’s New York trial.
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Wednesday on FNC's "Hannity," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted New York's prosecution of former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" that he has a "man crush" on Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's New York business record trial.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sent a letter to Democrat lawmakers on Wednesday, rejecting their demands for him to recuse himself from ongoing cases related to former President Donald Trump and January 6.
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Melinda French Gates is dumping $1 billion into women's organizations, including groups that promote killing unborn babies via abortion.
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President Joe Biden refused to answer when asked in Pennsylvania on Wednesday if he will serve a full four-year term if reelected in November.
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Tariq Habash and Lily Greenberg Call, former political appointees for President Joe Biden who resigned over the Israel-Hamas war, said Wednesday on CNN's "News Central" there is a "dam breaking."
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The jury in New York City's trial against former President Donald Trump is continuing deliberations on Thursday for a second day after failing to reach a verdict on the first day of deliberations.
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Jurors in the Trump business records trial do not have to agree on what crime former President Donald Trump allegedly committed in order to convict him, but would just have to agree that he falsified or caused someone else to falsify business records with the “intent of committing or hiding that crime.”
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A Mexican border state official actively worked with the Gulf Cartel to lure a group of businessmen to a local restaurant where gunmen from the Gulf Cartel then threatened them and extorted them. The businessmen provide food-vendor services to various international manufacturing companies operating in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
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A child is in a serious condition and three adults are in hospital after a shooting Wednesday near a restaurant in north-east London.
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said that Hamas can’t be eliminated and the idea they’re built on can’t be killed off and “We need a free Palestine so Hamas then ceases to need to exist.”
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The mood in Germany has turned negative towards Brussels, with just 29 per cent of Germans seeing membership in the EU as an advantage.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” congratulated American students on Wednesday for their anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests, saying that they had joined the “Resistance Front,” which includes terrorist groups. Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing
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South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), the highest appellate court in the country other than the Constitutional Court, dismissed an appeal this week against a decision that "Kill the Boer" was not hate speech.
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