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Democratic Senators: Maybe Biden Should Skip Debates

High-ranking Dick Durbin says Biden should 'think twice' before getting on stage with Trump

(Newser) - Donald Trump hasn't attended a single GOP primary debate this election season. At least two Democratic senators suggest President Biden should return the favor when it comes to debates for the general election. "I would think twice about it," Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois tells the Hill...

James Asks Fraud Trial Judge to Make Trump Pay $370M

Filing calls for former president to be barred from running a business in New York

(Newser) - The New York attorney general's office has made its recommendation for penalties Donald Trump and Trump Organization executives should pay for what it called "myriad deceptive schemes" to inflate his financial worth. A state brief filed Friday calls for Trump to pay a nearly $370 million penalty and...

Trump Hotels Took in Millions From Foreign Governments

Democrats call it unconstitutional, while Republicans call investigation 'beyond parody'

(Newser) - Former President Trump's various business took in at least $7.8 million from foreign governments during his presidency, say House Democrats in a new report . In doing so, Democrats say he violated the Constitution's emoluments clause that bars a president from accepting money or gifts from foreign entities...

Haley Steps Up Attacks on Trump
Haley Steps Up
Her Jabs at Trump
Jan 4, 2024 8:27 AM CST

Haley Steps Up Her Jabs at Trump

But she's only going so far, as some suspect her of eyeing the role of Trump's VP

(Newser) - Nikki Haley has said the country "won't survive" another four years with Donald Trump in his old job. Yet she's refused to rule out becoming his running mate. It's all a bit wishy-washy, which has been a mark of her attitude toward Trump for years (she...

What to Know Regarding the Jeffrey Epstein Document Release

A rundown of reading on the topic

(Newser) - Court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's case have begun to be released publicly after a federal judge ordered them unsealed , and details from the first release of 943 pages are trickling out. Some names included in the documents that are getting particular attention include Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and...

Would Christie Pardon Trump? &#39;No, No, No, No&#39;
Christie: I Won't Pardon Trump
Jan 3, 2024 6:35 PM CST

Christie: I Won't Pardon Trump

Former president wouldn't pass his test, candidate says

(Newser) - With two of his rivals for the Republican nomination having promised Donald Trump their support if he's convicted and they're elected, Chris Christie was asked Wednesday if he too would pardon the former president. He stepped on the question, the Hill reports, not waiting to answer. "No,...

Poll: Time Makes Republicans More Loyal to Trump, Rioters

62% of Americans now say Biden's election was legitimate

(Newser) - Republicans have only grown more supportive of Donald Trump and the Capitol rioters since the attack three years ago, new polling shows. Although their views vary more than Democrats' do, Republicans are less likely now to say Trump shares responsibility for the attack, that the rioters were mostly violent , or...

Trump Skipping Yet Another Debate
Trump Skipping
Yet Another Debate
Jan 3, 2024 1:30 AM CST

Trump Skipping Yet Another Debate

Leaving just Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to participate

(Newser) - Another Republican debate, another event for former President Trump to skip. CNN has a primary debate scheduled for next Wednesday night in Iowa, but instead of attending that, Trump will participate in a Fox News town hall in Iowa scheduled for the same start time of 9pm Eastern, Politico reports....

Trump Picks Up 'Notable' GOP Endorsement

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he's proud to endorse former president

(Newser) - With less than two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump has picked up an endorsement from one of the most powerful congressional Republicans. "I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, and I look forward to working with President Trump and a Republican...

Maine Official Who Ruled Against Trump Is Swatted

Police respond to false alarm at home of Shenna Bellows

(Newser) - A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot. She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting , which...

Trump Claim Is a Threat to Democracy, Smith Tells Court

Special counsel's office files brief on former president's immunity argument

(Newser) - Special counsel Jack Smith's office asked an appeals court on Saturday to deny Donald Trump's argument that the former president is immune from criminal charges in his election interference case, saying that such a protection would "threaten to undermine democracy." Federal prosecutors filed their brief with...

After Barring Trump From Ballot, Maine Secretary of State Receiving Threats

'Those are unacceptable,' she says

(Newser) - Maine's secretary of state says her office has received threats since barring Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot Thursday. "I was prepared for the possibility of threats, and I really appreciate law enforcement and the people around me who have been incredibly supportive of my safety...

Pressure on Supreme Court to Settle Trump Issue Intensifies

DeSantis warns of 'Pandora's box,' and Christie worries it makes former president a 'martyr'

(Newser) - Now that Maine has become the second state to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, the fallout is similar to the one that ensued after Colorado became the first. But now everything is amplified by two. As the New York Times reports, the Maine decision puts even more pressure on...

Haley Says She&#39;ll Pardon Trump if Elected President
Nikki Haley: I'd Pardon Trump
Dec 29, 2023 8:50 AM CST

Nikki Haley: I'd Pardon Trump

She says she'd do it so 'that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him'

(Newser) - Nikki Haley says former President Trump won't have to worry about languishing in a federal prison if she's elected president. In response to a question from a 9-year-old boy at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, the Republican candidate said it would be in the "...

After Maine's Rejection, California Has Good News for Trump

Former president allowed to stay on ballot; losing state's 169 delegates would have been body blow

(Newser) - Former President Trump was kicked off the Republican primary ballot in Maine on Thursday—but hours later, his campaign received welcome news from a state with a population nearly 30 times bigger. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, left Trump's name on the certified list of candidates...

Maine Blocks Trump From Primary Ballot

Aides say former president will appeal Democratic official's decision

(Newser) - Maine became the second state to bar Donald Trump from its primary ballot, when Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday that the former president does not quality to be a candidate because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. "I am mindful...

Trump Has Beef With Cameo on Home Alone 2

Former president says he didn't bully his way into the 1992 sequel, was responsible for its success

(Newser) - The only Home Alone 2 actor to ever become president of the United States is now defending how he nabbed his secondslong cameo in the 1992 film. In 2020, director Chris Columbus told Business Insider that Donald Trump had more or less forced his way into the movie, which was...

Colorado GOP Asks SCOTUS to Keep Trump on the Ballot

Trump himself also plans to appeal the Colorado ruling

(Newser) - The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday appealed that state's supreme court decision that found former President Trump is ineligible for the presidency, the potential first step to a showdown at the nation's highest court over the meaning of a 155-year-old constitutional provision that bans from office those who...

Michigan Supreme Court: Trump Stays on the Ballot

It declined to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling

(Newser) - Michigan's Supreme Court did not go the way of Colorado's . On Wednesday it said it would not rule on whether former President Trump should be disqualified from the state's primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's Insurrection Clause. The court said in its order that it was...

Trump's Christmas Wish: May My Enemies 'ROT IN HELL'

Former president also renews his push to undo ObamaCare

(Newser) - "Merry Christmas to all," former President Trump wrote at the start of a Christmas Day post on Truth Social . But the warm feelings ended there as Trump ticked off a list of his political enemies and told them to "rot in hell," reports the Hill . Trump...

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