Governor Ron DeSantis insists his recent remarks attacking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz should not be viewed as an endorsement of the biblical call for gay people to be executed.
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sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll. “The problem for them is that no matter how hard they try to spin themselves as the party of family values to create fake controversies, that’s hard to do with a straight face given the de facto leader of their party has now been branded a sexual abuser,” Psaki said on Sunday’s “Inside” on MSNBC.She specifically sniped prominent Republican figures like senators Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio for hypocritical statements made in their former president’s defense.
“Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans are doing everything they can to define themselves as the party of ‘family values,’ like kicking up a moral panic around education, gender and any discussion of sexuality. But that plan has one big problem, and his name is Donald Trump,” Psaki began. She added that following Trump being unanimously found liable by a jury on Tuesday, he continued mocking Carroll on his town hall with CNN Wednesday night.
“The following day at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, he openly mocked his accuser to the laughter and applause of Republican voters in the audience,” she said. “It was definitely disturbing, but unfortunately not necessarily surprising, because why should Republican voters take Trump’s wrongdoing seriously when the party leaders never call him out?”“Let’s be honest,” Psaki continued. “This shouldn’t be a difficult question.
If someone asks you, ‘Do you stand by somebody who was found liable for sexual abuse?’ the answer should be some version of no. But outside of a handful of Republican lawmakers, they have by and large pretty much avoided criticizing the former president.” That’s when she quoted the likes of Graham, Rubio, Sen. Bill Hagerty, Sen.
Governor Ron DeSantis insists his recent remarks attacking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz should not be viewed as an endorsement of the biblical call for gay people to be executed.
white boots to his fake laugh has served as fodder for online mockery. Former president Donald Trump’s super PAC even made an attack ad that centered around the revelation DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers. The most recent cause for laughter was the Florida governor’s “botched” campaign announcement via Twitter Spaces on Wednesday.
The New York Times, and more than doubled the $4 million Trump’s team said it raised within 24 hours after his criminal indictment in March. The Times added that, in contrast, Biden raised $6.3 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate in 2019.“But more importantly, as Trump fought legal battles and was kicked off various social media platforms, the Biden team kept building. This is not just about online fundraising or online ads.
Ivanka Trump is spending some quality time with her eldest son Joseph. The former first daughter documented her recent outing, watching the NBA playoffs at Kaseya Center in South Florida and having a lot of fun with her 9-year-old son.“GAME WITH MY MVP!” Ivanka wrote on Instagram, posing for a sweet photo at the Miami Heat against Boston Celtics game.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a live CNN presidential town hall next month in Iowa, the network said Wednesday. The announcement comes just weeks after the network held a town hall with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, moderated by Kaitlan Collins, in New Hampshire.
Seraphina Affleck had some special faces at their performance on Saturday night. The 14-year-old, whose famous parents are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, had the support of their blended family. Ben arrived at the show with his wife Jennifer Lopez and the twins she shares with Marc Anthony, Emme and Maximilian.Emme, who is Seraphina’s good friend, carried a bouquet while walking next to Ben.After they left, the performance the couple was all smiles amid reports that there is trouble in paradise.
Late last month the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn the Taliban for systematically depriving Afghan women of their rights, demanding the country’s fundamentalist Islamic rulers provide “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls” in Afghan society.
It’s not the years, it’s the mileage! Harrison Ford defended the de-aging technology used on him during a flashback sequence in his new film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Rep. @ByronDonalds (R-Fla.) defends him: "He said that when he was president.
reports Entertainment Weekly. “I know that that is my face,” Ford, 80, said at a Cannes press conference last week. “It’s not a kind of Photoshop magic — that’s what I looked like 35 years ago.” “Because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we’ve made together over all of these years.
Harrison Ford has defended a 25-minute scene in the forthcoming fifth installment of Indiana Jones in which he is de-aged. It comes after a recent trailer for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny ffeatured a jaw-dropping moment when a bag is pulled from Ford’s head to reveal a significantly younger version of him created through the use of VFX technology.The film’s team shared that new VFX technology was created for the film in order to de-age the 80 year-old, using artificial intelligence to comb through all of the decades-old footage the Lucasfilm studio had of him.But it has drawn criticism from some reviewers who questioned the believability of the technology and why a younger actor couldn’t be used in Ford’s place.But he hit back in a press conference on Friday (May 19) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.“I know that that is my face,” he said, via Entertainment Weekly. “It’s not a kind of Photoshop magic – that’s what I looked like 35 years ago.
If you figured the war between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis was going to take a breather for the weekend, think again.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said CNN is rebuilding itself to be a news network that presents “both sides” of every issue rather than an “advocacy network” — comments coming as CNN continues to face a backlash over the town hall with Donald Trump last week. Zaslav, speaking at the MoffettNathanson Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in New York, said that previously the overall impression of CNN’s brand was “left-leaning.” That’s now changing, he said, citing a new YouGov poll finding an 11-point improvement in U.S. viewers’ trust in CNN. “Our view is, there’s advocacy networks on either side. We have the best journalists in the world. We need to show both sides of every issue,” he said.
Donald Trump’s town hall was the hot topic across Sunday political talk shows, including on ABC’s “This Week,” where former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said the audience of Trump supporters looked awfully similar to the ones he saw when he was running for president in 2016.“I don’t care how they introduced them. I know a lot of those people in that audience.
According to The Guardian, Trump saw the night as a success. And he wasn’t the only one, of course.
@acyn on Twitter).“About last night: the 70 minutes I spent on stage in New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump was a major inflection point in the Republican party’s search for its nominee, and potentially the starting line for America’s next presidential race,” Collins said.“It’s important to remember that he is, right now, the GOP front-runner, that he running, as noted, while being criminally indicted, found civilly liable and under investigation for everything from his handling of classified documents to his business empire.”Collins’ comments come as CNN remains at the center of a heavy backlash over the Trump town hall. That backlash is complex, but the unifying point is that it was an irresponsible mistake at every level.
For the third time today, a prominent figure at CNN attempted to reframe the network’s roundly-criticized town hall with former president Donald Trump on Wednesday night, an event moderated by Kaitlyn Collins.
ON ELECTION FRAUD:Right off the bat, Trump claimed “it was a rigged election. And it’s a shame that we had to go through it. It’s very bad for our country.” Collins responded: “It was not a rigged election, it was not a stolen election.
A source is shedding light on Melania Trump‘s relationship with Donald Trump after he was found liable of battery and defamation.
Donald Trump‘s town hall on Wednesday, as he defended his decision to showcase Trump while on a call to CNN staff Thursday morning.“I absolutely unequivocally believe America was served very well by what we did last night,” Licht said on the call, per Semafor media reporter Max Tani.Licht also said that he was “aware” that there have been “opinions and backlash” to the event but “there is so much that we learned last night of what another Trump presidency looked like.” “While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story because the people in that audience represent a large swath of America,” Licht said on the call. The CEO also said that the “mistake” media made in the past was “ignoring that those people exist just like you cannot ignore that President Trump exists.”On a call this morning with CNN staff, network CEO Chris Licht says he is “aware that there has been people with opinions and backlash,” but that "there is so much that we learned last night of what another Trump presidency looked like.”CNN did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.On Wednesday, former president Donald Trump took the stage at St.