After a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa today, Donald Trump stopped by a local Dairy Queen. Here is what happened: I am reminded of the time in February 1992 when President George H.W. Bush visited a Florida supermarket and […]
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Was Trump really impeached twice?
Yes. He was. But Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik don’t think so. No, really. They have introduced resolutions to “expunge” Trump’s impeachments from the historical record “as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the House of Representatives.” […]
NBC News poll puts Trump nearly 30 points ahead of DeSantis in GOP nomination race
The poll was taken between June 16 and June 20, 2023: The NBC News poll also gives Biden a four point lead over Trump in the 2024 general election. It has DeSantis in a dead heat with Biden in 2024. […]
The Trump cult of personality was on full display yesterday at Road to Majority 2023: “I’m being indicted for you!”
Nearly all the candidates running for the GOP nomination in 2024 got a chance to speak at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority” conference. Some seemed to get more time than others. But if you want to get a glimpse of […]
Kari Lake at the Road to Majority conference: Let’s “make sure we get that brash New Yorker back in the White House”
Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake spoke at Ralph Reed’s Road to Majority conference earlier today. Some of you may remember when Mark Driscoll anointed her with oil. Watch: Lake is all in for Trump in 2024: “I’m looking forward […]
Conservative evangelicals boo Chris Christie after he delivers a speech on character that was rooted in biblical and Christian teaching
Chris Christie came to the Road to Majority conference to discuss–surprise!– presidential character. Earlier in the day Ralph Reed, the conference host, rejected the idea that conservative evangelicals were part of a Trump “cult.” He said that Christians do not […]
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson endorses Trump in 2024
Mark Robinson is running for governor of North Carolina. Watch his speech at Ralph Reed’s Road to Majority conference: Robinson was the first non-candidate to make an endorsement: The right move [for America] is to get someone into office who […]
Ralph Reed opens the “Road Majority Conference”: Christians should be “at the top, and not the bottom, of our political system”
The God and country crowd is gathered at the Washington D.C. Hilton this weekend for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority Conference.” Christian Right political activist Ralph Reed founded the Faith and Freedom Coalition in 2009 to oppose […]
Just how unprecedented was Trump’s federal indictment?
Donald Trump is the first president or former president to face a federal indictment, but as Joshua Zeitz points out at Politico, a sitting vice-president and the president of the Confederacy faced treason charges. Here is a taste of Zeitz’s […]
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley suggests that Trump could die in prison
Some you may remember Jonathan Turley as the George Washington University law professor who testified at Donald Trump first impeachment hearing in 2019. At that time he asked: “Will a slipshod impeachment make us less made or will it only […]
Trump is indicted. Historians weigh-in.
Here is CNN: “The former president faces his first federal indictment for retention of classified documents and conspiracy with a top aide to hide them from the government and his own attorneys — a total of 37 counts.” Read an […]
More evangelical responses to the Trump indictment
Donald Trump is the first president in United States history to face a federal indictment. How are some of his most loyal followers responding? (We published some earlier responses last night). Speaker of the House: MAGA worship leader: Paula White […]
Trump: “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this!”
Last night we learned that the Department of Justice will indict Donald Trump on Tuesday. At this point the DOJ has not released the indictment. This morning CNN is reporting that Trump admitted on tape that he didn’t declassify “secret […]
GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson urges Trump to end his campaign
Here is the statement from the former Arkansas governor:
Trump indicted on seven counts in the Mar-a-Lago documents case
No word yet from the Department of Justice, but Trump just wrote this on his “Truth Social” platform: No United States president has faced a federal indictment. Here is CNN: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted in the special counsel’s classified […]
Burge: “People are picking their religion based on their politics, not their politics based on their religion.”
Political scientist Ryan Burge writes: “There is no doubt in my mind that politics is one of the main culprits for the emptying out of American religion.” After laying out his statistical case, Burge adds: Social behavior doesn’t just change […]
Franklin Graham on the verdict in the Trump sexual assault case
I suffered through most of last night’s CNN New Hampshire townhall meeting with Donald Trump. Here is what we “learned”: You can learn more here. During the interview Collins, who often fact-checked Trump in real time, asked the former president […]
Manhattan jury: Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll
Here is David French: It’s important to note that this was a civil case, not a criminal trial. The burden of proof in civil cases is lower. The jury was charged with determining whether Carroll proved her claims with a […]
The never-Trumpers, the semi-fascists, and the rationalizers
Over at The Bulwark, Nicholas Grossman breaks down the GOP into three categories: TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS SEGMENT of Republicans is so DeSantis-needy, let’s briefly revisit the typology of the GOP following its crackup. Donald Trump’s election and presidency split […]
Chris Christie: “An imperfect kamikaze candidate”
Today at Current we are featuring Marvin Olasky’s interview with Atlantic writer (he was at The New York Times at the time of interview) Mark Leibovich. Last weekend The Atlantic published Leibovich’s interview with former New Jersey governor and potential […]