Here’s who might buy TikTok as a Senate ban-or-divest order appears all but certain

fortune.com The clock is ticking for TikTok: The Senate just passed a procedural vote for a bill that would require TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media…

Donald Trump's Trial Will Only Help Him

newsweek.com "The poll numbers are up because people know what's going on," said former and perhaps future president Donald J. Trump before opening arguments began in his New York…

Donald Trump Isn't Saying His Lawyers Made Him Do It. He's Just Saying They Were There When He Did The Crimes

dealbreaker.com On Monday, Donald Trump announced his intention to assert an advice-of-counsel defense in the false business records case. Sort of. Forced to disclose whether he intends to…

What Happens If Trump Gets Convicted? Will He Go To Prison?

benzinga.com In a Manhattan courtroom, former President Donald J. Trump is confronting 34 felony charges related to hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. These…

Trump set to make $1.25B ‘earnout’ bonus as Trump Media stock hits benchmark

nypost.com Former President Donald Trump is set to earn a $1.25 billion “earnout” bonus from his media company after its stock price exceeded a key threshold that made him eligible for…

Donald Trump set to receive $1.25 billion worth of Trump Media stock in DJT earnout bonus

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article Former President Donald Trump is poised to receive an…

See inside Trump's prized $100 million Boeing 757 private jet he's managed to hold onto despite his costly legal battles

aol.com None Donald Trump has a Boeing 757 private jet outfitted with gold-plated seatbelts and a bedroom. • None The ex-president has used the $100 million plane to fly to rallies…

‘Not Just False

mediaite.com CNN called out former President Donald Trump’s courthouse rant seconds after it ended, with one analyst calling his claim about President Joe Biden “not just false —…

Guess Who Just Endorsed Red, White & Blog?

mediapost.com If you click on the video above, you can hear for yourself. But no, it's not Donald J. Trump. Or John Barron of John Miller or David Dennison or any of the many fake…

Biden Campaign Trolls 'Sleepy Don' Trump In Blistering Memo

mediaite.com President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign turned the tables on former President Donald Trump by dubbing him “Sleepy Don” in a blistering campaign memo lacerating Trump and…

Love, Hate or Fear It: TikTok Has Changed America

nytimes.com Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers? And…

In Trump Trial, Press Coverage of Jurors Draws Partisan Reactions

nytimes.com Opening arguments in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial will not start until next week, but media coverage of the proceedings has already been met with…

Donald Trump faces new legal headache over "hidden debt"

newsweek.com Former President Donald Trump may be paying a "secret third party" through a non-existent $50 million loan, an ethics group claimed. The issue arose after Barbara Jones, the…

N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment

zerohedge.com N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Politics, Jury selection is underway now complete in the case of The People of the State…

Legal Fight Over Trump Media’s Ownership Adds to Its Woes

nytimes.com Twenty years ago, Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky met Donald J. Trump as contestants on his reality TV show, “The Apprentice” — a connection that led them to help launch the…

Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter

nytimes.com After former President Donald J. Trump was kicked off Twitter in 2021, conservative entrepreneurs rushed to promote social media alternatives tailored to him and his…

Biden, Competing With Trump to Be Tough on China, Calls for Steel Tariffs

nytimes.com President Biden on Wednesday called for major increases to some tariffs on steel and aluminum products from China, speaking to members of a national steelworkers union in…

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/17/2024

nakedcapitalism.com “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles…

Trump advisor Roger Stone endorses $TRUMP memecoin

protos.com Roger Stone, a former Donald Trump campaign adviser and self-described ‘Trump Loyalist’ who was previously convicted of felony counts of witness tampering, obstructing an…

Donald Trump blasted for "confusing" Jimmy Kimmel for Al Pacino

newsweek.com Former President Donald Trump faced ridicule for appearing to confuse Jimmy Kimmel with Al Pacino in a Truth Social post raging against the talk show host's monologue about…

7 Jurors Sworn In For Trump Trial, More To Come

zerohedge.com 7 Jurors Sworn In For Trump Trial, More To Come Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The first seven jurors have been selected and sworn in to serve…

Biden to Call for Tripling Tariffs on Chinese Steel Products

nytimes.com President Biden will travel on Wednesday to Pittsburgh, where he will ask the U.S. trade representative to increase tariffs to 25 percent on certain Chinese products that…

NPR suspends an editor for his essay blasting … NPR

poynter.org When a senior editor at NPR recently wrote a 3,500-word essay for another outlet, blasting where he works and saying that NPR had “lost America’s trust,” my first thought,…

Jimmy Kimmel Notes ‘Another Stormy Day’ in ‘The Orange People’s Court’

nytimes.com Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on…

Smartmatic and OAN Settle Defamation Suit

nytimes.com The voting technology company Smartmatic reached a settlement on Tuesday in its defamation lawsuit against One America News Network, a far-right broadcaster, over the…

Donald Trump appears to have trouble staying awake during his criminal trial. I can relate

aol.com None Donald Trump is apparently having difficulty staying awake during his first-ever criminal trial. • None And most Americans must, too. They told Gallup they needed more…

Republicans Fan Out to Defend Trump in Hopes He’ll Notice and Pick Them to Be His VP

vanityfair.com As Republicans have proven countless times over the past eight years, they don’t need a reason to go on TV and defend Donald Trump against whatever awful, possibly criminal…

Alvin Bragg’s Odd “Hush Money” (Except Not) 34-Felony Case Against Trump Begins

nakedcapitalism.com Patient readers, matters occurent prevented me from delivering the encyclopedic post on The People of The State of New York -against- Donald J. Trump, Defendant , that I had…

The Fundamental Unraveling Of America

zerohedge.com The Fundamental Unraveling Of America Authored by Albin Sadar via American Greatness, By now, it must be overwhelmingly apparent to every American citizen that what…

Special Counsel Jack Smith Responds to Blackman-Tillman

reason.com [This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.] Last month, we filed an amicus brief in United States v. Trump (S.D. Fla.), one of two prosecutions brought…

Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Complains Judge Wouldn’t Let Jurors Off For Jewish Holiday

mediaite.com Trump attorney Alina Habba complained to Fox News that Judge Juan Merchan refused to let jurors off for the Jewish holy days of Passover — which is just as false as her…

Truth Social to Launch Streaming Platform

globenewswire.com SARASOTA, Fla., April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NASDAQ:DJT) (“TMTG” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth…

Trump's trial: A 'freak show' on the outside and solemn on the inside

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article Inside a courthouse nestled between Tribeca and Chinatown on…

Late Night Savors Day One of the Trump Trial

nytimes.com Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on…

Jon Stewart Mocks Trump’s ‘Gettysburg, Wow’ Story: ‘Plagiarized Almost Directly from My Seventh Grade Book Report’

mediaite.com Jon Stewart mercilessly roasted Donald Trump over the former president’s re-telling of the Battle of Gettysburg. Trump held a rally on Saturday in Schnecksville,…

Jon Stewart Dings “Illustrious Historian” & “Civil War Buff” Donald Trump After Bizarre Rally Mentioning Battle Of Gettysburg & Amid Hush Money Trial

deadline.com Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump on The Daily Show as the former POTUS campaigns and makes a run for the White House amid the hush money criminal trial. “Our former president…

Lauren Boebert suggests how Trump's trials would "go away"

newsweek.com Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert said that the legal challenge against Donald Trump would disappear if the former president decided to "just quit" his run for a second…

Trump Trial Day 1 Was Made Real by Threats of Ejection, Arrest

thewrap.com Former President Donald Trump was “a pretty defeated and deflated Donald J. Trump” after the first day of his hush money trial in New York City, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said…

Trump ‘Glared’ At Maggie Haberman for ‘Several Seconds’ After She Reported He Fell Asleep In Court

mediaite.com Former President Donald Trump reportedly spent “several seconds” glaring at New York Times political reporter Maggie Haberman as he exited his criminal trial in New York…

NPR C.E.O. Faces Criticism Over Tweets Supporting Progressive Causes

nytimes.com Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR, is facing online criticism for years-old social media posts criticizing former President Donald J. Trump and embracing liberal…

Trump Media stock tanks 16% on move to issue millions of shares

finance.yahoo.com Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) stock slid as much as 16% on Monday after the parent company of Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social filed to issue more…

Trump Media stock tanks on move to issue millions of shares

finance.yahoo.com Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) stock slid as much as 16% on Monday after the parent company of Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social filed to issue more…

Trump Media Stock Slumps Further After Company Files to Issue New Shares

variety.com Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the operator of the Truth Social social network positioned as a “safe harbor for free expression amid increasingly harsh censorship…

Trump stock tanks after announcing tens of millions new shares

aol.com Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock is tumbling again after the company announced a massive new influx of shares. The struggling company is rapidly losing money, and a…

Trump stock tanks after issuing tens of millions new shares

cnn.com Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock is tumbling again after the company announced a massive new influx of shares. The struggling company is rapidly losing money, and a…

Donald Trump wants to change how he reveals his donors

newsweek.com Former President Donald Trump's campaign is requesting to change how often it reveals some of its donors. On Friday, Trump's campaign committee filed a request with the…

The ‘short’ story behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform

nypost.com Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group — the former and possibly future president’s eponymous social-media company — have lost around half their value since going public…

Trump or Biden? The Stock Market Doesn’t Much Care

nytimes.com The markets assume that former President Donald J. Trump has an even chance of winning the November election. So far, it appears they don’t care either way. The political…