“The scandal is what’s legal” was a saying in Washington for a long time. Politicians commit blatantly corrupt acts every day, abusing power for their own political benefit or personal enrichment. Nevertheless, almost none of them ever face prosecution — misdemeanor or felony charges. Partly, it’s because proving intent is real difficult. Largely, we don’t […]
The first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president is over with a guilty verdict from a Manhattan jury. The case has been remarkable in many ways. Not the least of these is the fact that the verdict is almost entirely irrelevant. Donald Trump will have to spend more money to overturn the verdict on appeal, […]
The term “kangaroo court” has seemed an apt and amusing term to apply to the trial of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan during the past month. But now that, for the first time in history, a former president has been found guilty of felony indictments, it cannot be regarded as anything other than a […]
Shortly before the verdict of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case was announced on Thursday, a memo circulated by the Trump campaign suggested that Trump’s trial would only have a minimal impact on who voters support in November. “According to the appended memo based on our internal surveys conducted by Tony Fabrizio, well over […]
The vast majority of voters don’t want President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump to be the next president. A lot of those voters simply are not going to vote. This is going to be an election determined not by who swing voters may or may not choose but by who can best motivate […]
Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans can do nothing right. Former President Donald Trump‘s nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the high court set off a frenzy amid the legacy media. Democrats subjected Kavanaugh to unsubstantiated eleventh-hour rape claims and character assassinations during his hearing. The media lambasted Barrett, whose […]
Gary Millerchip, the new CFO and executive vice president of Costco, shared a frank message with investors and analysts while hosting his very first Costco earnings call on Thursday afternoon.
A 12-person New York jury convicted former President Trump on all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial Thursday. But he still faces 54 criminal charges in three other cases. Trump made history as the first former U.S. president to become a convicted felon after the jury found him guilty of falsifying business records...
Former President Trump railed against the outcome of his hush money trial in New York on Friday, the morning after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts, tearing into Judge Juan Merchan and the district attorney who brought the case, Alvin Bragg (D). Trump, in lengthy remarks from the lobby of Trump Tower in...