Money alone won’t fix our military
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) sounded the alarm from General Headquarters about the perilous state of the U.S. military. “The American military is unprepared for either war or peace,” Wicker declared in a New York Times op-ed last week. In a longer document, Wicker laid out a plan to reverse what he sees as a defense […]
Here’s where Trump stands in public opinion after guilty verdict in ‘hush money’ case
Public opinion of former President Donald Trump has changed little since his conviction last week in a Manhattan hush-money case, two new polls show. After Thursday’s verdict, Trump’s approval rating stood at 31%, the pollster said. ABC News/Ipsos Poll The numbers, released Sunday, are statistically unchanged from March, when the 77-year-old Trump’s approval rating was […]
Claim Biden was behind hush money case ‘ridiculous’
In an interview Sunday, President Trump’s former lawyer, Joe Tacopina, strongly denied claims that Trump’s hush money case in New York is the result of a “weaponization” of the justice system. “This is a state case. It’s not the Jack Smith case. It’s not a federal prosecution. It has absolutely no connection to Joe Biden […]
Trump hush money verdict brings GOP skeptics into the fold
A guilty verdict against former President Trump is rallying moderate Republicans and longtime Trump skeptics to his side in a way that the Trump campaign has failed to do for months. Longtime critics of Trump, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and moderate Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have rallied to his defense […]
Donald Trump says he’s ‘OK’ with jail time, house arrest after hush money conviction
Former President Trump said he would “don’t care” if he was sentenced to either house arrest or prison after being convicted of 34 felony counts in New York last week. Asked on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” how he would handle the possibility of house arrest or even prison, Trump said: “I’m OK with that.” […]
‘That Did Not Happen’: Doug Burgum Pushes Back On CBS Host After Asking About Claims Trump Sought Money From Oil Execs
Republican Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota on Sunday fired back at CBS host Margaret Brennan, who was questioning former President Donald Trump about allegations that he sought financial help from oil company executives during meetings with them to help fund his inauguration. Burgum appeared on “Face the Nation” to discuss his reaction to President […]
Donald Trump attends UFC 302 just days after guilty verdict in hush money trial
Donald Trump arrived at UFC 302 at the Prudential Center in Newark on Saturday night and received a raucous reaction. The former president, a frequent game-goer, had posted to Truth Social earlier in the day that he planned to attend the game. Former US President Donald Trump is seen attending the UFC 302 event. Zuffa […]
Easy Money and Hard Economic Times
Editors’ Note: As the article below indicates, a new magisterial history of interest rates and central banking has been published. The author, Edward Chancellor wrote a previous book just before the last great financial crash called Devil Take the Hindmost, which was extremely timely if not prescient. This new book is extremely critical of current […]
Trump’s hush money lawyer lauds ‘solemness’ of former president’s reaction to conviction
Todd Blanche, former President Trump’s lawyer in the New York hush-money case, said he was surprised by the former president’s “solemn demeanor” at the historic guilty plea. “I was struck by the way he accepted the sentence,” Blanche told The Associated Press. “He just stood there and accepted it with the solemnity that was appropriate […]
Trump to hit UFC 302 mere days after ‘hush money’ guilty verdict
Donald Trump is wasting no time in beginning his fight to get back into the White House. The 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to attend a UFC fight at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night, two days after his shock guilty verdict in a Manhattan “hush money” trial. According […]