The Hall of Fire

In a new interview, Donald Trump says he's considering limiting access to contraception: https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1792925742885372172 I guess after his Manhattan trial more widely disseminated the fact that he didn't use a condom when cheating on his wife, he's decided to go all in on that...

Asked why his father didn't testify in his own defense, Donald Trump Jr. today said this proceeding is a "kangaroo court," adding "You don't subject yourself to that." So why did Donald Trump repeatedly lie and claim that he would testify? Edited to add: If Trump is convicted, he...

It seems the International Criminal Court has yet to issue any warrants in the Ethiopian civil war , which has been raging since 2018 and resulted in 600,000 civilian deaths. Some people say this is because Ethopia never signed the Rome Statute that created the ICC. But while Israel signed, its leg...

Recent polls show Donald Trump's lead on President Biden growing: it's up to 1.4% in the 538.com average. - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, Trump advisor Peter Navarro says , in an interview from prison , that Donald Trump as president would immediately fire Jerome Powell, the very successful Federal R...

Wasn't he supposed to be a witness for the defense? And not just for the email I quoted but for another one the prosecution in which Robert Costello, having yet to lock down Michael Cohen as a client, wrote to Jeff Cintron that Cohen "is playing us and the President. What should I say to this ...

This is old news (confirmed under oath in court today), but I hadn't heard this story before. Robert Costello is an attorney who was angling to represent Michael Cohen in 2018 as part of a joint defense defense agreement with Donald Trump and others. Cohen and Costello communicated at some length ab...

Rachel Maddow interviewed Fani Willis tonight.

On March 26, 2024, the first day that Truth Social was on the stock market, it peaked at $74.79 per share. At the close of business today, April 5, 2024, Truth Social was trading at $40.57 per share, which is 46% below its peak. And it had dropped to $37.17 at close today. Blame it on the eclipse? ...

Melinda Gates resigned last week from the Gates Foundation. It was widely speculated that she did this in order to become more politically active.

Today Melina Gates donated $400 million to the Be a Hero PAC, the left-leaning organization founded by the late health-care advocate Ady Barkan.

I like to see Joe Biden embracing Donald Trump's characterization ("If the radical Democratic extremists get their way, they will have a federal law for abortion").

The Wall Street Journal editorial board is big mad about the commencement address that President Biden gave at Morehouse College (a historically Black institution in Atlanta), which presumably means they're afraid it was effective. Sample passage: He also told the graduates that Republicans don’t wa...

Donald Trump tonight posted images on his social media network seemingly implying that he will oversee a "Unified Reich" as president.

(I'm willing to accept that this was borne of incompetence rather than actual Nazism, even though Trump is a Hitler-curious racist.)

The United States says the International Criminal Court has violated its own rules by asking for warrants on Netanyahu and Gallant.

And the prosecutors who requested the warrants were actually supposed to visit Israel today on a fact-finding mission but at the last minute didn't board their flight.

I've seen several videos purporting to show some Iranians cheering the news of their president's death. It's very difficult to verify such videos, and even if you could, wouldn't do so put those Iranians at risk of execution?

Donald Trump today for the third time canceled a previously announced campaign event in Arizona.

My favorite line from the SNL opening two night ago: "Trust me, I would love to testify. I'm not afraid to testify at all. I'm just not going to out of fear."

A new January 6th defendant told a federal judge during arraignment today, "Trump's going to be back in office in 6 months, I've got nothing to worry about."

One claim made repeatedly by Donald Trump over the past several years was that Michael Cohen only flipped on him to protect his family. Has Trump's defense team tried to make this point? That Cohen (supposedly) lied to incriminate because he didn't want his wife or father-in-law to go to jail?

I started this post a couple hours ago and returned to find it was already out of date. Lisa Rubin reports on how Donald Trump's legal strategy today is apparently to slow down the trial. Prosecutors have video evidence of Trump speaking that they wish to introduce into evidence. Some of the videos ...

The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warr...