Politics
Stock shorters have made millions betting against Trump Media: ‘A lot of his businesses go belly up’
Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive…
Read MoreSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admits to killing her dog in new book: ‘I hated that dog’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again. This time, it’s for a new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back:…
Read MoreJordan Klepper Declares Donald Trump ‘The King of Pettiness’
That Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president’s antics in recent years. (See Exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.) But a late-night outburst on Wednesday attacking Bill Barr has The Daily Show correspondent and this week’s co-host Jordan Klepper declaring…
Read MoreMitch McConnell Breaks With Trump on Absolute Presidential Immunity
As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposes Trump’s view of absolute immunity. McConnell spoke with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker Thursday for a pre-recorded interview set to air Sunday. During their talk, Welker inquired whether…
Read MoreTrump’s lawyers seek to discredit testimony of former National Enquirer publisher in hush money trial
Donald Trump’s defense team attacked the credibility Friday of the prosecution’s first witness in his hush money case, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme between Trump and a tabloid to bury negative stories to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign. Returning to the witness stand for a fourth day, former National Enquirer publisher David…
Read MoreWhite House Hits Back at Trump’s Bogus Charlottesville Comparison
Donald Trump’s claim that the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 was less hateful than pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses lately was “repugnant and divisive,” the White House shot back Thursday night. After proceedings in his criminal trial in New York concluded for the day, Trump said the torch-lit rally on the campus…
Read More‘Saltburn’ for Real: Meet the Young, Rich ‘Narco-toffs’ Who Party Hard
The extraordinary claim by Rebel Wilson that she was invited to a drug-fueled orgy by a minor royal at an LA party was greeted with wry amusement by friends of some hard-partying members of the aristocracy and minor royals this week. Dubbed the “narco-toffs” by their peers, there has always been a section of the…
Read MoreHow Fox News Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Michael Avenatti
Once upon a time Fox News gleefully mocked its cable-news rivals for their breathless promotion of disgraced former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti, who was once hyped as Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare” and even floated as a possible presidential candidate. Now that the convicted felon is defending the ex-president as a “victim of the system”…
Read MoreTennessee governor plans to sign bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators sent to his desk this week that would allow school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds. “What’s important to me is that we give districts tools and the option to use a tool that will keep their children safe…
Read MoreEnquirer Chief Testifies He Was Told Stormy’s Trump Story Was ‘True’
Making a deal with a porn star who said she slept with Donald Trump was a step too far even for tabloid king David Pecker, he testified on Thursday. The American Media Inc. (AMI) chief told jurors he had grave concerns that buying her story in a “catch-and-kill” scheme to protect the future president could…
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