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, chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander walks through the voluminous list of other potential turning points still to […]
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in November’s election, has joined an unusual club: presidential contenders who have also been convicted of a crime. Before Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic verdict on Thursday, the most well-known convict seeking the Oval Office had been Eugene Debs, […]
WASHINGTON — The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned Thursday against former President Donald Trump spurred a wave of violent rhetoric aimed at the prosecutors who secured his conviction, the judge who oversaw the case and the ordinary jurors who unanimously agreed there was no reasonable doubt that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee falsified business records […]
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Donald Trump discussed two witnesses in the criminal case against him Friday while complaining about his conviction, comments that could violate the judge’s gag order against him. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Trump’s commentary on the witnesses. Judge Juan Merchan’s April order barred Trump from “making or directing […]
With help from Shawn Ness IS IT RIGGED?: Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is laying the groundwork to claim the bidding process for the three wildly lucrative casino licenses could be skewed against him. “We’re moving ahead with our plans for a casino, and if it’s a fair process — and I’m a little concerned […]
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential vice presidential contender, is taking heat for comparing former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial to show trials in military revolutionary Cuba and posting video of one that ended in the execution of the accused. Rubio has been vehemently criticizing Trump’s conviction and deriding the judge and prosecutors. After […]
For years, it was known as the “zombie” case within the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Many thought the case they’d built against Donald Trump had natural jury appeal, but this specific application of the law would be new and untested. On Thursday, the zombie sprang back to life. “Guilty.” A word uttered 34 times by […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Friday that his X app is planning to host a livestreamed town hall-style event with former President Donald Trump. “This will be interesting,” Musk, the owner of X, posted on the app while sharing a report about the plan from the New York Post. Plans for the event were reported […]
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