by Jim Heath | Nov 23, 2021 | Headlines
The Republican National Committee is paying some personal legal bills for former president Donald Trump, spending party funds to pay a lawyer representing Trump in investigations into his financial practices in New York. In October, the RNC made two payments totaling...
by Jim Heath | Nov 22, 2021 | Headlines
The US has been added to an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time, the International IDEA think tank has said, pointing to a “visible deterioration” it said began in 2019. Globally, more than one in four people live in a backsliding democracy, a...
by Jim Heath | Nov 16, 2021 | Headlines, Polls
Republicans used to accuse Democrats of being ‘sore losers’, but now they clearly own the title. Almost one in three Republican voters still believe that Donald Trump will be reinstated as president before the end of the year, something that legally...
by Jim Heath | Nov 16, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
Former one-term President Trump’s company has agreed to sell its Trump International Hotel operation in Washington, D.C. The deal is said to be worth $375 million and will result in the Trump name being removed from the landmark property that stands close to the...
by Jim Heath | Nov 12, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
Former president Donald Trump said he considered it “common sense” for his supporters to chant “Hang Mike Pence!” during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Audio of Trump’s comments to ABC News’s Jonathan Karl were published Friday by Axios in advance of a forthcoming book by...
