NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Monday sought to delay his New York criminal trial, scheduled to start March 25, with claims related to presidential immunity, which several legal experts described as an attempt at distraction unlikely to work on the judge overseeing the case. Trump’s lawyers argued in a motion made public Monday that […]Read More

House Republicans’ review of the House Jan. 6 committee’s work found inconsistencies between the never-released testimony of a Secret Service agent and key portions of testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and perhaps the committee’s most prominent witness. In explosive testimony to the House Select Jan. […]Read More

The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee — handpicked by former president Donald Trump — started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly. About 60 people were told they […]Read More

Donald Trump called into a CNBC show on Monday morning, allowing host Joe Kernen to ask a question about government spending and, specifically, the large chunk of spending that is committed to social programs. “Have you changed your outlook on how to handle entitlement — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Mr. President?” Kernen asked. “It seems […]Read More

When a jury last year found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, Trump responded at a CNN town hall by going right on attacking Carroll — in much the same terms. So when it came time earlier this year for another jury to decide what Trump owes Carroll in a […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump said Monday that he agrees that Chinese-owned TikTok is a national security risk but again indicated he no longer supports banning it in the United States because, he said, doing so would lead to increased support for Facebook, which he lambasted as “an enemy of the people.” In an interview with […]Read More

A group seeking to oust the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly over his handling of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection loss in the state submitted signatures Monday in hopes of forcing a recall election. The group, Recall Vos, said it had collected 10,700 signatures, more than the roughly 7,000 signatures required from voters in […]Read More

One of the recurring rebuttals to Donald Trump’s endless claims that the 2020 election was stolen was that — contrary to his insinuations — swing-state cities were not hotbeds of voter fraud. In fact, they often supported Joe Biden at smaller margins than they had Hillary Clinton four years before. That change in some of […]Read More

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge will step down from her role in the Biden administration this month, she announced Monday, saying she had “mixed emotions” about leaving an agency that serves those most frequently left behind. “It has always been my belief that government can and should work for the people. For […]Read More