It’s Treviño Wright’s willingness to poke the bear — the center, for example, responded to Kolfage’s tweets with “#LiarLiarPantsOnFire” — that brings a fresh wave of attacks on the regular. “We have been targeted,” she tells me, “because we told the truth.” In less than five years Treviño Wright has morphed from an apolitical, nature-loving … Read more
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) gives an opening statement at a Justice Department House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, October 21, 2021. Former President Trump and Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spoke on the phone for 10 minutes on the morning of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots, two sources told CNN. The two sources reviewed the … Read more
“Our goal is to end the demonstration,” Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly said Friday morning, acknowledging that the extended protest has led to “a lot of unacceptable and unlawful activities.” The demonstrators are “highly organized, well funded, extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstrations safely,” he said. “Freedom Convoy 2022” organizers raised … Read more
Ryan McCarthy was a top Pentagon official during the Trump administration.
In the 2020 election, Latino voters swung toward former President Trump by 8 percentage points, the largest swing of any racial or ethnic group in the electorate. In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the co-founders of Equis Research — a political data firm focused on Latino voters — share their research on why … Read more
It’s latest chapter in the complicated rapport between the two men.
A significant part of his argument rested on the view that clemency was particularly important during and after riots and rebellions. As he explained in Federalist 74: “The desirability of conferring on the President the power of pardons has, if I am not mistaken, been disputed only in relation to the crime of treason… [T]there … Read more
Former President Donald Trump throws a hat at the crowd during a rally January 29 in Conroe, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell / Getty Images) Donald Trump is sending the most dangerous signal of his post-presidency by promising that he will be ready to pardon the January 6 insurgents when he returns to power. His … Read more
Trump’s case is no different — except that he will be facing similar challenges in all 50 states. While not all states will address this issue the way North Carolina does, they all require their election authorities to make an evidence-based decision about whether candidates are eligible to run for a particular office. It isn’t … Read more
Former US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, on January 15, 2022.Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump played a role in plans for seizing voting machines in the 2020 election. Trump asked Rudy Giuliani to call … Read more