A move to impeach Joe Biden over his immigration policies was pushed off to two congressional committees, as House Republicans avoided splitting their own caucus over the question of removing the president from office.
03.06.2023 - 00:35 / deadline.com
Joe Biden may have stumbled yesterday at the US Air Force Academy graduation, but the President had some swagger tonight.
“There were extreme voices threatening to take America for the first time in our 247-year history and a default on our national debt,” said Biden with a swing at Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in his first Oval Office address to the nation since taking office. Nothing, nothing would have been more irresponsible. Nothing would have been more catastrophic.”
In much criticized CNN town hall on May 10, the past and potentially future president urged Republicans “to do a default” if they couldn’t get massive spending cuts and more.
Underscoring the importance that the current occupant of the Oval Office wanted to give to the “vital” debt ceiling deal that passed both chambers of Congress this week after some down to the wire negotiations, Biden’s speech was covered live by CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and the BBC. Fronted by anchor Norah O’Donnell, CBS also carried the almost primetime address live in a special report as did ABC and NBC. On the West Coast, the Comcast owned network missed the first couple minutes of Biden’s speech due to local news coverage.
If anything, tonight’s speech was a sneak peek at the Rose Garden strategy one of America’s great retail politicians has planned for next year’s election campaign.
In that vein and wrapping himself in the power of the office, the President made it official in his 13-minute-long remarks that he would sign the debt ceiling bill into law on Saturday. That’s two days before the Treasury Department estimated the United States would hit its debt limit and run out of cash to pay the bills, a historic fail. Biden’s bill signing almost guarantees that Wall
A move to impeach Joe Biden over his immigration policies was pushed off to two congressional committees, as House Republicans avoided splitting their own caucus over the question of removing the president from office.
@chrislhayes: The ritual humiliation of Hunter Biden—a mainstay of the right-wing media—is an attempt to wage a sort of psychological warfare upon the president. Joe Biden has no control over the actions of his adult son—his sole surviving son—who he obviously loves deeply.
It’s been YEARS of investigation into Joe Biden‘s son. Now we finally have answers in the form of criminal charges, and they’re… frankly pretty underwhelming.
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.
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.
Donald Trump made history again on Tuesday, becoming the first former US president to plead not guilty to federal charges.
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.
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to a 37-count indictment in federal court in Miami today. He is the first former president in U.S. history to face such charges.
sit with CNN for a televised town hall discussion on Monday, this time moderated by Anderson Cooper. From the top, he was grilled about the second criminal indictment and 37 counts former president Donald Trump faces for taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon would like to exit stage left from former President Trump's presidential campaign. In a statement given to Fox News Digital, a representative for Artists Equity, the production company founded by the two Massachusetts natives, condemned Trump's recent use of audio from their film "Air," which tells the story of the partnership between basketball great Michael Jordan and Nike.
Donald Trump’s use of a monologue from the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon film Air has been condemned in a statement from the production.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck‘s production company have called on the Trump campaign to stop using footage from their recent movie Air.It comes after Donald Trump posted a video yesterday (June 10) on his Truth Social platform that included a monologue from the Amazon Affleck directed movie in which Damon plays the Nike marketing and sales representative Sonny Vaccaro.“Money can buy you almost anything,” Damon can be heard saying in the video as footage of Trump is shown.
About 24 hours after a federal indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed, the former president appeared at a Georgia rally and not at all surprisingly blasted the Justice Department and mocked special counsel Jack Smith.
History has been made… again. A former President of the United States has been indicted… again. Only this time we’re talking about 37 federal charges, serious felonies that could land Donald Trump in prison for decades. (You can read all about the bombshell indictment HERE!)
We have all the latest deets in the Donald Trump indictment Part Deux — and it’s ALL bad news for the former POTUS.
Just over an hour after a federal indictment of Donald Trump was unsealed, Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a brief statement on Friday in which he underscored the gravity of the case and why it should be brought.
The just unsealed indictment of Donald Trump over classified documents alleges that the former president “put at risk the national security of the United States”
Donald Trump’s second indictment. According to the MSNBC host, those responses are nothing but “sleazy” sentiments that demonstrate an “absolute contempt for the United States of America.”The second indictment officially came down on Thursday, as part of Jack Smith’s ongoing investigation into the mishandling of classified documents that were eventually seized from Mar-a-Lago.