Former President Donald Trump has endorsed JD Vance for the Republican Senate primary in Ohio, weeks before the May 3 election. Trump had resisted the race, but eventually decided to back Vance, a venture capitalist and author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” In his endorsement, Trump said Vance had the best chance of winning the … Read more
Editor’s note: Nicole Hemmer is a Columbia University Research Associate on the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and author of “Messengers from the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.” She co-hosts the “Past Present” and “This Day in Esoteric Political History” history podcasts and is a co-producer of the “Welcome To Your … Read more
CNN — The Justice Department reiterated its arguments on Monday as to why it is seeking to block a subpoena for the testimony of former President Donald Trump who is wanted by a former FBI agent who pursued his firing in 2018. In its latest court filing in the dispute, the department argued that former … Read more
New York’s attorney general on Thursday asked a state judge to issue a contempt order against former President Donald Trump, saying he failed to comply with a previous ruling l forcing him to hand over documents by March 31 as part of an investigation into his company’s financial practices. . New York Attorney General Letitia … Read more
New York’s attorney general on Thursday asked a state judge to issue a contempt order against former President Donald Trump, saying he failed to comply with a previous ruling l forcing him to hand over documents by March 31 as part of an investigation into his company’s financial practices. . New York Attorney General Letitia … Read more
The abrupt departure of two senior executives from a social media platform backed by former President Donald Trump raises questions about what’s next. Chief technology officer Josh Adams and head of product development Billy Boozer left Truth Social after a bumpy start in February for its iPhone app, Reuters reported on Monday. CBS News technology … Read more
Wilberforce, Ohio CNN — Desperate to prove that Ohio is not a lost cause, Democratic candidates for governor and an open Senate seat are trying to avoid culture wars and tap into a vein of economic populism that has eluded them in the increasingly red state in recent decades. It wasn’t long since the Democrats … Read more
The Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign $8,000 and the Democratic National Committee $105,000 for obscuring their funding of the “Steele dossier,” a 2016 opposition research report which sought to highlight alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia. The bipartisan Elections Commission also dismissed a complaint against Christopher Steele, the author of the … Read more
The chairman of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 said a report by CBS News and the Washington Post recorded the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. show a gap in former President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes is “concerning”. “Obviously there isn’t a second in the … Read more
John Bolton, the Trump administration’s former national security adviser, told CBS News on Tuesday that he had heard former President Donald Trump use the phrase “burner phones” in several discussions and that the former president knew what that meant. White House records obtained by CBS News and the Washington Post show Trump didn’t use his … Read more