The Democrats’ hopes have just been shattered after the judge in President Donald Trump’s classified documents case officially removed the trial from the calendar.
The move shuts down Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump case, ensuring that it will never go to trial before the 2024 election, as the Democrats had hoped.
As Slay News recently reported, Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial after it had emerged that the prosecution had been tampering with evidence.
The trial was scheduled for May 20, and while Democrats may have been hoping the case could get back on track before November, those hopes have now been crushed after it has officially been removed from the calendar.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he will not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades and instead proposed two debates with former President Donald Trump to be held earlier in the year.
Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about providing his own transportation.
Joe Biden and President Trump on Wednesday accepted an invitation from CNN for a debate on June 27.
Trump also accepted ABC News’ invitation to debate Biden on September 10.
“It is my great honor to accept the CNN Debate against Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST PRESIDENT in the History of the United States and a true Threat to Democracy, on June 27th. Likewise, I accept the ABC News Debate against Crooked Joe on September 10th. Thank you, DJT!” Trump said on Truth Social Wednesday morning.
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) launched a vehement critique against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), highlighting what she referred to as a glaring conflict of interest involving his interactions with Michael Cohen and financial ties to the daughter of the judge presiding over the Trump trial.
The subcommittee convened on Wednesday to delve into allegations of lawfare tactics being employed to manipulate legal systems against political adversaries, including the witch hunt against former President Trump.
During the hearing, Rep. Hageman did not mince words: “It seems like there might be a dog in this hunt on the other side. What you need to understand is that Mr. Goldman, the novice representative from New York, actually does have a personal stake in this case. He has been involved with the Bragg case, helping to prepare Mr. Cohen for his testimony. So, he is quite closely aligned with an admitted and convicted liar and perjurer.”
On Wednesday, Joe Biden released a new campaign ad in which he mocked Donald Trump‘s ongoing legal troubles and told him to “pick the date” for a debate.
The move comes after the former president challenged his successor to get up on stage with him “anytime, anyplace.”
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in the ad atop bass-heavy background music. “Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again!”
“Well make my day, pal,” he continued. “I’ll even do it twice.”
So, say you’re an attorney who decides to testify against a former client and assert he did all manner of bad things. What happens when your former attorney then testifies against you? Well, we’re about to find out.
On Wednesday, while the trial of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan was on its regular break, Robert Costello, the attorney who formerly represented Michael Cohen (who himself formerly represented Trump), testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Government.
Costello, once the deputy chief of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office’ prestigious criminal division, alleges in his prepared testimony obtained by Just the News that Cohen repeatedly insisted that Trump had done nothing wrong when he was debriefed in 2018 while federal prosecutors were investigating whether Trump violated any election laws in 2016. Ultimately, federal prosecutors chose not to bring charges.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) is requesting that the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden for withholding military aid to Israel as House Republicans continue to criticize the president for weakening U.S. support for the Jewish state.
Tenney sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday asking him to appoint a special counsel to review Biden’s decision to withhold an arms transfer that included 3,500 bombs over concerns regarding the growing Israeli offensive in Rafah.
The New York Republican pointed to the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which Biden signed into law last month, that allocated $26.38 billion to support Israel, including $4 billion to replenish the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems and additional humanitarian aid for Gaza.
The Democratic National Convention will be hosted in August in Chicago, Illinois, and given Mayor Brandon Johnson’s roots in activism, some fear that protesters could take center stage at the party’s flagship event.
Johnson’s critics worry that he won’t rein in protesters and that the convention will be reminiscent of the riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which was also in Chicago.
Johnson said he is committed to safety and will “move with precision” to keep everyone safe. He said he will allow activists to peacefully protest, and he won’t commit to clearing overnight encampments, such as the ones that have sprouted up on college campuses across the country.
The White House was forced Wednesday to defend President Joe Biden‘s dubious claim that inflation was at 9% when he took office.
Biden has said so twice now, but in reality, inflation stood at just 1.4% in January 2021. It did reach 9% — in June 2022, when he’d been in office for nearly 18 months. When a reporter brought up the discrepancy, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke to wider forces in the economy.
“The point he was making is that the factors that caused inflation were in place when he walked into the administration,” she said. “The pandemic caused inflation around the world by disrupting our economy and breaking our supply chains.”
The exhaustive list of demands released by Joe Biden’s campaign for only two presidential debates tells you just how weak he truly is, but whatever. They’re not unreasonable requirements, and a couple could even work to Donald Trump’s advantage.
Trump has accepted the proposal, but he should also insist some of his own conditions are agreed to by Biden and, just as crucially, whoever moderates.
Biden’s demands are laughably transparent. He wants two debates instead of three because his campaign knows as well as anyone there’s no upside in the rapidly deteriorating president appearing next to the tanned, restless, and ready Trump, who is currently demolishing Biden in surveys of swing-state voters.
A jury was chosen Wednesday for the federal bribery trial of U.S. Sen Bob Menendez, which means opening arguments have begun.
The jury consists of 12 jurors and 6 alternates. They will have to decide if the three-term New Jersey senator is guilty of bribery charges. The jurors were selected from a pool of 150.
All had filed into Manhattan federal court over the last three days. The pool of jurors included a standup comedian, musicians and a pastor.
The Nevada Supreme Court agreed Wednesday with a lower court’s decision to dismiss Robert Beadles’ election lawsuit against Washoe County.
The Republican activist and donor, who represented himself in the case, had sought the removal of county officials for not responding to his election concerns.
“Taking all the factual allegations in the complaint as true and drawing every inference in favor of Beadles, he can prove no set of facts that would entitle him to the relief as pleaded,” three Supreme Court justices wrote in their five-page order.
On Sunday, Drew Bradley and Ryan Krueger, two members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), penned an op-ed calling on the party to consider “ranked choice voting as part of the broad democratic struggle and an aspect of building a stronger Popular Front.” Under RCV, which critics often refer to as “rigged-choice voting,” voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) is pushing for the Washington Commanders to honor the team’s former logo as the Senate bill to redevelop the site of the former Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium is being debated.
The former logo of the team, when they were known as the Washington Redskins, depicts a Native American designed after Walter “Blackie” Wetzel, a member of the Blackfeet Nation in Daines’s home state of Montana. Daines has threatened to hold up the bill from passing quickly if the team does not properly honor the old logo.
The Montana senator has explicitly said he is not calling for the team to revert to the “Redskins” name but that they should consult with the grandson of Wetzel, Ryan Wetzel, for the logo to be used in some way to honor him.
Make no mistake, this iconic logo was inspired and envisioned by Blackie Wetzel as a tribute to Native Americans. It is not a caricature. It is a depiction of pride, strength, courage and honor.
United States Representative Jim Banks (R-Indiana) recently confronted Biden’s secretary of health and human services, Xavier Becerra, about non-governmental organizations raking in massive profits from human trafficking, including child smuggling, due to the administration’s open border crisis.
In a statement to Blaze News, Banks said, “Illegal human traffickers are making billions in profits and Joe Biden is sending their NGO accomplices billions of your tax dollars every year. The Biden border crisis is a racket. Democrat activists and Mexican cartels get rich, American taxpayers get ripped off, and foreign children suffer.”
The fact that Mitt Romney (R-UT) gave an interview with a talking head at MSNBC itself says a lot about the junior senator from Utah, but in the course of that interview, Senator Romney made an interesting statement: that President Joe Biden not only should have pardoned former President Trump on any federal charges but should also have pressured prosecutors to drop any state or local charges. But not before throwing some shade at his fellow Republicans for supporting the former President.
In an exclusive interview on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney expressed his dismay in response to Republican lawmakers, including the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s vice presidential prospects, rallying to Trump’s defense outside of the Manhattan courthouse where Trump’s hush money trial is taking place.
The 2024 presidential campaign took an interesting turn on Wednesday when Joe Biden, after months of ignoring Donald Trump’s calls to debate, did his best Clint Eastwood impression and challenged Trump to two debates, one in June and the other in September.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden claimed in a video message, conveniently forgetting that he has also refused to debate his primary challengers. But since when has Biden cared about facts? “Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice. So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”
Biden’s video message, a mere 13 seconds long, had five jump cuts, indicating that it took multiple takes for him to deliver the short message correctly.
The firm of Democrats’ favorite lawfare artist — who was also the attorney behind the Russia-collusion hoax — was all but laughed out of court in a recent Wisconsin election integrity case.
D.C.-based Elias Law Group, founded by former Clinton campaign and Democrat National Committee lawyer Marc Elias, brought a “novel” absentee ballot complaint against the state that an Obama-appointed judge called “head-scratching.”
In dismissing the lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission, U.S District Court Chief Judge James D. Peterson summarily rejected the leftist law group’s outlandish claim that a state law requiring a U.S. citizen witness and sign an absentee voter’s ballot is a violation of voting and civil rights.
In recent weeks, President Joe Biden has claimed repeatedly now that inflation was at 9 percent when he took office in January 2021. Last week’s comments came in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, which touched upon inflation. Biden tried to push Americans into being more grateful about the economy, including through such a false claim, as he then even bragged about the matter. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler has more examples of such false claims about inflation, though, including and especially about the 9 percent figure.
“Three times now, Biden has suggested that inflation was 9 percent … when he took office.”
“The fact that the president has gotten this wrong three times suggests this is more than slip of the tongue. He earns Four Pinocchios.”
The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a stunning blow to protest rights in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi on Monday when it declined to hear Mckesson v. Doe, leaving in place a fifth circuit appeals court’s ruling that allows protest organizers to be held liable for violence caused by any single person who shows up to a mass protest.
Mckesson arose when a Baton Rouge police officer, identified only as “John Doe,” sued Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson in 2016. Mckesson had organized a local protest after the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by police, which turned violent when one protester threw a rock at the officer. Doe was struck in the face and suffered “injuries to his teeth, jaw, brain, and head,” according to the complaint.
After a New York Times/Siena College poll on Monday showed former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in five battleground states, Republicans might be tempted to congratulate themselves on their standard strategy of trying to persuade enough voters to win at the polls on Election Day. But the lesson the Trump campaign and other Republicans should take from the polling bump is the opposite: Republicans need to care more than ever about chasing ballots from low-propensity voters.
The NYT poll reflected significant gains by Trump among traditionally Democrat, traditionally low-turnout voters such as young people and racial minorities. The poll commissioned by the corporate media outlet showed the former president ahead of Biden among 18-29-year-olds, and just three points behind among Hispanic voters. But both Hispanic voters and voters between the ages of 18-29 are traditionally low-propensity voters, meaning they may be registered to vote but have infrequent turnout compared to other demographics.
Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a $105 billion bill designed to increase the number of air traffic controllers, add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories, and require airlines to automatically pay refunds to travelers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed.
The House passed the measure to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration programs by a 387-26 margin and sent it to President Joe Biden. The Senate passed the measure last week.
Supporters called the provisions of the legislation a key step in improving aviation safety after a number of close calls between planes at U.S. airports in the last two years.
John Kennedy continues to be an American treasure. Appearing on Fox News, the senator displayed his patented humor and wit with a takedown of both Alvin Bragg and Joe Biden.
That it took him less than a minute makes it even more impressive. I know this guy is 72 years old, but can we keep him for at least another term?
“Mr. Bragg … my observation is that if you want to hide something from him you put it in a law book.” @SenJohnKennedy on Trump NYC trial. pic.twitter.com/A9BMZlNMiy
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 15, 2024
The Biden Administration has voiced its opposition to a bill championed by Republicans in Congress that would force Joe Biden to give military aid to Israel, after it had been revealed that he was deliberately withholding such aid.
As reported by Fox News, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, introduced by House Republicans over the weekend, would “compel the expeditious delivery of approved defense articles and services to Israel, including third-party deliveries.” Initial reports claimed that Biden was deliberately withholding shipments of munitions and weapons that were already bound for Israel as part of the massive $95 billion foreign aid package he had previously signed into law; Biden later admitted to withholding this aid in an interview.
The Department of Justice, and specifically its Office of Inspector General (OIG), loves to give the impression that its offices are staffed by independent, nonpartisan lawyers whose only goal is to investigate and root out corruption within the department. Records, however, show the watchdog is staffed by Democrat activists eager to use their power to crush their political enemies.
This partisanship has been on display in how the OIG, the DOJ’s internal watchdog office, has gone about investigating Trump’s Justice Department, particularly its scrutiny of two investigations by then-Attorney General William Barr. These IG “investigations,” reports on which are forthcoming, entail analyzing press releases and other communications to see if the DOJ broke the law or violated departmental guidance when it announced its own investigations.
Ohio’s voter rolls are being purged of people who are not U.S. citizens, but Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says he needs federal help to do the job thoroughly.
LaRose announced Tuesday that a review of voting registrations found that 137 non-citizens were on the rolls, according to a news release from his office.
Citing that data, he sent an order to all 88 of Ohio’s county boards of elections to comb their voter rolls for non-citizens.
He also said his office will “conduct an annual review of the statewide voter registration database to identify persons who appear not to be United States citizens.”
“Ohioans overwhelmingly passed an amendment to our state constitution which makes it clear that only U.S. citizens can vote in our elections,” he said in the news release. “It is my duty under the law to uphold the constitution, and the legislature has explicitly tasked me with ensuring that only eligible citizens can register and vote.”
● MD-Sen: Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks overcame a massive financial deficit to defeat self-funding Rep. David Trone in Tuesday’s Democratic primary to succeed retiring Sen. Ben Cardin. Alsobrooks leads 54-42 with the Associated Press estimating that 66% of the vote is tabulated as of Wednesday morning.
Trone, according to data from AdImpact, outspent Alsobrooks and her allies at EMILYs List $48 million to $7 million on the airwaves, but his advertising onslaught was unable to match the depth of Alsobrook’s support from Maryland’s political establishment. Overall, Trone self-funded more than $60 million, a record for a primary.
Alsobrooks will now face former Gov. Larry Hogan, who beat wealthy perennial candidate Robin Ficker 62-30 with 82% of the estimated vote in, in a rare competitive general election in this dark blue state. Republicans argue that Hogan, who decisively won reelection during the 2018 Democratic wave, maintains enough crossover support to put this race in play, and they were encouraged by early polls that showed him easily beating either Alsobrooks or Trone.
