
Indictment shows White House lawyers struggling for control as Trump fought to overturn election
Trump turned to outside allies to launch what federal prosecutors have called a “criminal scheme” to fraudulently overturn the election.
Trump turned to outside allies to launch what federal prosecutors have called a “criminal scheme” to fraudulently overturn the election.
The proposed date is just under two weeks before the first votes are set to be cast in the Republican presidential race, with Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses scheduled for Jan. 15
The judge formally accepted the latest not guilty plea of the former president, who said in court papers last week that he is not guilty and waived his right to appear at the hearing in person
The indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election will become dangerously intertwined with the 2024 presidential campaign, but the potential risks of not prosecuting the former president are greater than doing so
Trump said he will announce next week whether he’ll participate in the debate, scheduled for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee
A judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply with Jack Smith’s request, according to court documents released Wednesday
The meeting is part of the government’s case accusing ex-president Donald Trump of working to overturn his 2020 election loss
Biden’s trip to the Southwest is shaded by his reelection campaign and the challenge of getting a majority of U.S. adults to say they believe the economy is in good shape
Trump assailed Smith as a “thug prosecutor” and a “deranged guy” a week after being indicted on felony charges for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election
Biden said the new designation would see the federal government live up to its treaty obligations with Native American tribes
The former vice president is the eighth candidate to qualify for the leadoff debate on Aug. 23
Prosecutors quickly countered the lawyers’ request with their own filing accusing Trump of objecting to their proposal because he wants to use the government’s evidence to ‘try the case in the media rather than in the courtroom’
Two pioneers of women’s soccer and the fight for equality off the field are hanging up their boots after the early elimination of their teams at the World Cup
The president leaves on Monday for a three-night trip to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In Arizona, he is expected to announce a new national monument to protect land and limit uranium mining
A federal judge ruled Monday that the former president can’t claim that E. Jean Carroll defamed him by continuing to say she was not only sexually abused but raped
The acknowledgement aired in an NBC News interview on Monday after years of equivocating answers from the Florida governor about the legitimacy of the last presidential election
The former vice president’s testimony is key in the case against the real estate magnate, who has been charged for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 vote
The former president’s lawyer claims he was ‘asking’ not ‘directing’ when he called on his allies to alter the results of the 2020 vote, which he lost to Biden
Republican strategists have warned against attacking Trump directly, arguing it tends to anger voters who have supported him and see the charges he faces as political persecution
Trump got just over 4% of the presidential election vote in the district in 2016 and 5.4% in 2020
Trump’s baseless allegations about election tampering in 2020 have been rejected by numerous courts
His labor to spur the party forward stood in sharp contrast to the Trump campaign’s release of an on-line ad attacking Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith
McConnell has been an annual fixture on the picnic stage in the tiny community of Fancy Farm, where he long has relished jousting with Democrats
Prosecutors are pointing to a post on Trump’s social media platform in which Trump wrote, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!”
Several legal experts are calling it perhaps the most troubling threat to the country’s democratic institutions should Trump win the White House next year
It is navigating unprecedented conditions in American democracy while trying to fight back against relentless attacks on its own credibility and that of the U.S. election system
‘The American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn’t just ask me to pause. They asked me to reject votes, return votes, essentially to overturn the election,’ the former vice president told Fox News on Wednesday