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“I’ll be interested in what everyone else things in terms of demeanor,” Weissman said after watching the clip. “It’s a little striking to me that he sounds very unsure of himself, and frankly a little scared, and he rightly should be as he’s facing 71 felony counts in federal and state court and maybe could be facing additional charges.”Weissman was referring to the moment that Trump told Baier that he retained the boxes because he needed to sort out his personal belongings – things like “clothing” and other items he said were interspersed among the sensitive classified material.“In my case I took it out pretty much in a hurry, but people packed it up in a hurry and I had clothing in there,” Trump said, his voice rising.
“I will go through these boxes! I have to go through those boxes.” Weissman read Trump’s elevated pitch and volume in that moment as a tell that his usual bulldozer confidence was perhaps on the wane.“That was the thing that struck me the most was his tone,” Weissman continued. He added that Trump’s insistence that he keep talking to the press about the felony indictment is only hurting him.“This is the kind of thing that (special prosecutor) Jack Smith has to be salivating over,” Weissman said.
“His talking is the best possible thing – as E. Jean Carroll knows full well.
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Bestie, wake up, new Trump tape just dropped!
CNN obtained the audio recording of a 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump discussed having secret documents he did not declassify.
told MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki on Sunday’s “Inside With Jen Psaki.” “We have to do everything to make sure that a person so frivolous with our democracy, so jeopardizing of our national security, so disrespectful of our rule of law, would [never] be president of the United States once again.”Despite the growing pile of evidence against Trump, the Speaker Emerita also noted her hesitancy to say there’s no way he could win again since she “never thought he could win the first time.” As the pair discussed Trump’s recent indictment — to which he pleaded not guilty to 37 federal counts regarding the illegal retention of classified documents as well as obstructing justice and making false statements — Psaki pointed out that some of the documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence were the highest level classifications possible.“Knowing what you know about former President Donald Trump, we know he has an affection for dictators,” Psaki said. “Do you have concern, without us knowing at this point, of what he may have wanted to do with those documents?”While Pelosi didn’t give a definitive answer to Psaki’s inquiry, the California representative underlined the extent to which Trump “seriously jeopardized our national security,” which went against protecting important security documents that he expressed as a priority during his candidacy.
Prince Harry reportedly wanted to controversially interview Vlamidir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhood in a Spotify podcast.
Fox News has released a preview clip of anchor Bret Baier’s interview with Donald Trump, the former president’s first sit down since he was indicted last week on federal charges related to his withholding of classified documents.
Kathy Griffin admitted the fall-out from her controversial Donald Trump photoshoot contributed to her Complex PTSD. The outspoken comedian - who battled lung cancer in 2021 and recently underwent vocal cord surgery - saw a string of shows cancelled and she was dropped from her annual co-hosting job on CNN on New Year's Eve after she took part in a shoot with photographer Tyler Shields in which she posed with a bloody decapitated head resembling the then-US President in 2017, and she's admitted the scandal was a factor in the "crippling" anxiety she's experienced. She told People magazine about the "bizarre and awful" feeling of being cancelled: "I feel like I lost my voice creatively.
Donald Trump is at it again, y’all.
Donald Trump is under arrest again, just two months after he was placed under arrest in New York.
cease-and-desist letter from Fox News – dropped a third episode of his Twitter show in the immediate wake of Donald Trump’s indictment, suggesting that the former president “sealed his fate” on February 16, 2016.“That’s the day Donald Trump made a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history, which would be the federal government,” Carlson said. On that day, nearly nine months before the 2016 election, the Republican Party held a primary debate in South Carolina, during which then-candidate Trump said: “We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.
“I mean, or not,” Reid continued. “This is Donald Trump we’re talking about, so what mattes in life are things: gold toilets, celebrity tchotchke collections, gold bathroom chandeliers, gold in the gold ballroom – or the Shauquille O’Neal sneakers he bragged about to a Wall Street Journal reporter back in 2015.”(That story is true, and the whole exchange was clipped in the segment, all of which is worth a watch above.)It was all a setup for Reid’s crack conclusion that Donald Trump just likes stuff.“But we’ve always known this about Trump, right? – that he’s kind of a weird, old hoarder guy with the taste level of a mega millions lotto winner from the 1980s, mashed up with that guy you went to high school with Who still wears the letter jersey from his 11th grade football championship.”The boxes, and the documents they contained, were no more than souvenirs.“That explains why he would leave office with a mania to cling to icons of power,” Reid said.
William Earl Donald Trump has arrived at a federal courthouse in Miami, where he was placed under arrest and booked on federal charges prior to his court appearance, where he will be arraigned in front of a magistrate judge, according to the New York Times. He is not expected to be fingerprinted or made to take a mug shot. The former president has been accused of mishandling classified documents in an indictment that was filed on June 8. Trup’s attorney Todd Blanche told press that his client would be entering a “not guilty” plea. Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, spoke to reporters at the courthouse, explaining why he was given different treatment compared to other defendants. “President Trump is in a very unique position where he does not need to be given a mugshot, obviously,” she said. “He’s not a flight risk. He is the leading candidate of the GOP at the moment. He is going through a process that has been coordinated with the Secret Service and it will all be handled seamlessly.”
Fox News edged out MSNBC in total viewers and a key demographic in total day and primetime on Tuesday, when Donald Trump’s arraignment in Miami dominated coverage.
Ivanka Trump wished her father the best over his birthday. The message comes in the midst of Donald Trump’s problems with the law, and is paired with multiple images of him over the years. Ivanka Trump stunned at royal wedding with two stylish party dressesWho wore it best? Ivanka Trump wears the same gown as Kate Middleton to her daughter’s bat mitzvahIvanka Trump wears all-white ensemble to synagogue after Donald Trump’s indictmentA post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump)The post shows Trump over the years, posing with his children and his ex-wife, Ivana Trump.
Former US President Donald Trump has arrived at court in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of his court appearance on charges of allegedly hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate.
CNN and MSNBC decided to skip live carriage of former President Donald Trump’s post-arraignment speech at Mar-A-Lago on Tuesday night, leaving Fox News as the only major cable news network to cover it live.
Donald Trump’s indictment on federal charges last week helped propel MSNBC to a weekly ratings win in primetime.
UPDATE: The judge who will oversee Donald Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday says that cameras are a no-no in the courtroom and the courthouse.
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were spotted attending the synagogue with their two kids following her father’s second indictment. The former first daughter was spotted in Miami over the weekend, following news of Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of official documents.
McKinley Franklin editor Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production banner Artists Equity states that it “did not consent” to the use of a monologue from the film “Air” in a new campaign ad for Donald Trump. On Saturday, Trump shared a fundraising video on his Truth Social platform. The ad features footage and images of the former president throughout his life, accompanied by audio of Damon’s climactic monologue from the film “Air.” In the spring release, Damon’s Nike exec gives the speech to a young Michael Jordan to convince him to sign a sponsorship deal with the shoe company. “We had no foreknowledge of, did not consent to and do not endorse or approve any footage or audio from ‘Air’ being repurposed by the Trump campaign as a political advertisement or for any other use,” a spokesperson for Artists Equity told Variety on Sunday. “Specifically in terms of any and all rights available to us under U.S. copyright and intellectual property law, we hereby, expressly give notice that in the case of any use of material from ‘Air’ by the Trump campaign where approval or consent is required, we do not grant such consent.”