On Saturday, Charlamagne Tha God again disputed claims that roughly 22% of Black voters in the U.S. will vote for Donald Trump in November. He told CNN’s Michael Smerconish that the same voters aren’t supporting Trump because of his numerous federal cases — an assertion that is racist in and of itself. “Black people are not monolithic, so I can’t …
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Maya Rudolph was in a courthouse when Donald Trump’s guilty verdict was announced on Friday. The actress and comedian told Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night show that she was attending her daughter’s 8th grade mock trial — at a real courthouse — when the news began to ping across cell phones and she received “all these beautiful, glorious texts.” “While …
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In a contentious exchange Friday on CNN, Ohio Senator JD Vance angrily repeated several of the arguments Donald Trump and other republicans have advanced about Trump’s fraud trial felony conviction, prompting an incredulous response from Wolf Blitzer. For example, Vance, a potential Republican vice president pick, argued that Judge Juan Merchan should have recused himself because he donated $15 to …
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Robert De Niro‘s latest round of Trump-bashing has cost him a new accolade — ’cause an org says they’re taking back what they planned to give him … and they’re citing his politics. The actor was all set to receive an award next week in D.C. from the National Association of Broadcasters — namely, the NAB Leadership Foundation’s Service to …
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Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House, with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole. Speaking from his namesake tower in Manhattan in a symbolic return to the campaign …
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A flag waving upside down in front of the US Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021, when pro-Trump protestors converged. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Trump supporters are flying upside-down American flags after he was found guilty in a criminal trial. That has long been a signal of distress. It also featured when pro-Trump rioters …
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Chris Hayes has been fairly positive about what it means that Donald Trump was found guilt on all 34 counts in his New York fraud trial on Thursday. But on Friday’s episode of “All In,” the MSNBC host expressed serious concerns about the way Republicans have responded to the verdict, warning that Trump is enforcing “totalitarian unanimity,” proving that the …
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Play video content ABC “The View” hosts couldn’t contain their excitement a day after Donald Trump was convicted — especially Whoopi Goldberg … who took her sweet time to rub it in on the air. The actress-comedian — who apparently hasn’t used Trump’s name on the show in years — riled up the crowd at the end of the show …
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Jimmy Kimmel is once again celebrating the public humiliation of his number one rival, Donald Trump. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday. The former president was found guilty of falsifying business documents in order to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Donald …
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Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on Friday, as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Former US president Mr Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake tower in Manhattan on …
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