Tag: Trumps
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Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was ‘duped’ by Trump’s election lies
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers now says she was “duped” by the former president’s lies about the 2020 election. Dana Jean Bell was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly on Thursday. Federal prosecutors had sought 27 months…
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Trump’s legal team tried to keep Stormy Daniels quiet ahead of 2024 election, MSNBC reports
Former President Donald Trump this summer offered a financial incentive to adult film star Stormy Daniels if she agreed to keep quiet about Trump — including about the relationship that became the center of the hush money payments that ended up the subject of a New York criminal trial — ahead of this November’s election,…
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Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 case rejects ‘strained’ argument about his false 2020 election claims
WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump rejected the former president’s claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud he continuously repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There…
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Trump’s coin sale misses early targets as crypto project’s website crashes
Donald Trump’s new crypto project is off to a rough start. World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said “well over 100,000 people” are on the whitelist to invest. But WLF’s website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of…
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Trump’s bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity
Donald Trump’s campaign wants its candidate to talk more about policy, but on Monday night it was all about the music. Trump was in Oaks, Pennsylvania, to host the type of town hall event his advisers hope will keep the former president on track talking both about his policy positions and those of his opponent,…
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Trump’s dark rhetoric about big cities returns to the campaign trail
When Donald Trump visited Detroit last week, he unfurled a string of insults. He compared the city, which is 77% Black, to a developing nation and posited that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. If there was any question whether Trump thinks this is good or…
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Kamala Harris questions Trump’s transparency after she releases medical report
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Vice President Kamala Harris suggested Sunday that former President Donald Trump is trying to return to the White House without revealing vital details about his health and policy plans that voters need to make an informed choice in the election. At a raucous rally in the battleground state of North Carolina, Harris…
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‘The Apprentice’ hits theaters amid fury from Trump’s campaign ahead of the 2024 election
No movie on the fall calendar has stoked as much prerelease controversy as “The Apprentice,” an R-rated dramatization of the early years of Donald Trump that hits theaters on Friday, 25 days before the presidential election. Nearly every major Hollywood distributor and streaming service refused to touch “The Apprentice” after it premiered at the Cannes…
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Wipe out Trump’s advantage on the economy
Kamala Harris is zeroing in on a monumental task that could make or break her prospects in the final month before Election Day: wiping out Donald Trump’s persisting advantage among voters on whom they trust to handle the economy. While Harris has gained ground on stewardship of the economy, Trump still leads in most surveys…
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Trump’s new go-to complaint: ‘Election interference’: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we examine how Donald Trump is making baseless claims of “election interference” as he faces federal charges himself.…