A few days before his Manhattan trial got underway, former president Donald Trump posted an image on social media that he suggested proved his innocence. “LOOK WHAT WAS JUST FOUND!” he shouted about the photo. “WILL THE FAKE NEWS REPORT IT?” The picture showed a piece of paper with a statement from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Dated Jan. 30, 2018, ...
Mike Johnson on Tuesday vowed to remain in his job as speaker past the 2024 election, defying a pair of hard-line conservatives who continue to seek his ouster, and attempting to retain his shaky grip on an unruly House. “I intend to lead this conference in the future,” Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday. “We have plans for the next Congress, and ...
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial featured its first bombshell day Tuesday, with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand to detail her claims of an affair with Trump. Daniels went into extensive detail about the alleged 2006 tryst — more extensive than the defense and even the judge cared for, with numerous objections being sustained. This post appeared first on ...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump sat stone-faced as Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of his criminal hush money trial, described meeting him at a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Calif. “He was obviously a golfer,” she said. “He was probably as old or older than my father.” This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified Tuesday about a disturbing sexual encounter she says she had with him, leading to angry, profane muttering from the former president that alarmed the judge. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan called Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche to a sidebar during a ...
Donald Trump’s Florida trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them has been pushed back indefinitely, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Tuesday, increasing the chance that the former president’s ongoing New York criminal trial may be the only one to happen before the November election. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
President Biden was in the Map Room at the White House, going line by line over a speech he would soon deliver commemorating the Holocaust, when, a few hundred miles to the north, a prosecutor stood before the court and declared, “The people call Stormy Daniels.” Biden would soon visit Capitol Hill to join some of the country’s top elected ...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) is projected to win a hard-fought primary for reelection that centered on her record of support for her native Ukraine, according to the Associated Press. Spartz — the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress — was facing a crowded field of challengers after she reversed her decision to not seek another term and reentered the race this ...
The Biden administration paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel, including controversial 2,000-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. officials said Tuesday. “Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are ...
A reader asked us to fact-check a four-minute “history lesson” posted by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on YouTube. International events — and the causes of war — are often open to interpretation. But Kennedy’s lecture, about how the United States allegedly provoked the Ukraine war, was filled with so much misinformation and Russian talking points that it seems ...