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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine were charged Tuesday with lying to federal investigators in a new, expanded indictment accusing them of accepting gold bars and cash to dole out favors to local businessmen and foreign governments. Both Menendez, 70, and Nadine were charged with new obstruction of justice and additional bribery counts in the fourth version of an indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The married couple, alongside co-defendants Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, now faces 18 counts — 16 of which involve the senator — as part of a “corrupt relationship” to benefit the New...

The Department of Justice has filed new criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, CNN reported on Thursday. Nine charges were filed against the president's son in California on Thursday. All nine charges relate to tax, including four failure to pay charges, two felony charges for filing a false return, a felony charge for tax evasion and a further two charges for failure to file. The charges span the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 tax year. Prosecutors allege the president's spent millions on an 'extravagant lifestyle' while avoiding paying taxes for years. 'The Defendant engaged in a four-year...

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) called on Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign over his federal corruption indictment, a stinging blow from the embattled senator’s home state colleague. Booker called the “shocking allegations of corruption” in the indictment “specific, disturbing details of wrongdoing.” My statement on Senator Robert Menendez. pic.twitter.com/h7WY9EWwUz — Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) September 26, 2023

Former President Trump sounds “cognitively impaired” when he speaks, MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough said Monday. “He’s talking about Joe Biden being cognitively impaired, he looks cognitively impaired,” Scarborough said on his morning talk program. “I don’t know that either of them are cognitively impaired. They get tired sometimes.” The host was reacting to comments Trump made during a speech Friday in Washington.

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Tuesday on “Deadline” that she was “very happy” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was indicted in Georgia for his actions after the 2020 presidential election. McCaskill said, “This is a tale of two very different indictments. We have one in the federal system that is lean and mean and targeted on the boss. And then we have Georgia, where this prosecutor has decided that she needs to go after the whole enterprise and all of this evidence would come in. The whole barrel of bad apples got indicted. You can’t assume in the...

The Biden Administration has clearly given up on the idea that the federal government exists to do anything but satisfy Joe Biden’s whims.So why not get it over with? Throw Donald Trump in jail without due process, construct reeducation camps, and rename the FBI the Stasi?In less than 1 week the administration has shredded the already tattered reputation of the Justice Department. - Last Wednesday a US Attorney tried to convince a judge to give what amounted to a plenary pardon to Hunter Biden for all crimes he had committed in the past. - On Thursday Donald Trump was indicted...

This is not the presidential portrait he wanted. A sheriff in Georgia said former President Donald Trump will likely have his mug shot taken if he is hit with a fourth indictment in that state. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat anticipates authorities will adhere to “normal practices” if Trump receives an indictment for attempting to challenge the 2020 election results in the Peach State. “Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status,” Labat told reporters during a press conference Tuesday. “We’ll have a mug shot ready for you.”

REHOBOTH, Del. — President Biden and first lady Jill Biden went to see the summer box office hit movie “Oppenheimer” the evening his predecessor and political rival, former President Trump, was indicted. The Bidens are on vacation in Rehoboth and prior to going to the movies, they had dinner at a nearby restaurant, Matt’s Fish Camp Lewes. They arrived at the theater around 6:30 p.m. to see the movie, starring Cillian Murphy as the famed real-life Manhattan Project physicist.

According to CBS News, the DC grand jury investigating Trump may indict the former president as early as Tuesday afternoon. “If there’s going to be an indictment here in DC in the special counsel’s January 6 investigation, it could come as early as tomorrow, 1 pm Eastern time when the grand jury is here in the courthouse. The January 6 grand jury tends to meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays,” CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane reported. “That’s the soonest it could happen but there is certainly no date on the calendar…there’s no indictment that is certain…” he said.

Former President Donald Trump rolled out a possible new campaign slogan Saturday night at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C.: 'I'm being indicted for you.' Trump headlined the conference's Saturday night gala and continued to complain about the recent federal charges brought against him for mishandling classified materials, again arguing that he was merely an ex-president 'legally keeping his own documents.' He earned a 'USA' chant from the crowd as he proclaimed, 'I'm probably the only person in history who was indicted and my numbers went up.' 'Everytime the radical left Democrats, Marxist, communists and fascists indict...

Shocking news of a Florida grand jury was revealed this week through leaks to the media. Bloomberg noted evidence collected from the grand jury in Florida may be used in the DC case against Trump. ..SNIP "Trump was indicted on at least 7 counts, according to ABC News. The charges range from conspiracy to willful retention of national defense information to a scheme to conceal to false statements, ABC reported. Reporters swarmed the Miami courthouse on Thursday. Trump will be arraigned in federal court in Miami next Tuesday afternoon. ABC News reported: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for...

Ana Navarro told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that the possibility of former President Donald Trump getting indicted by the Justice Department makes her “downright gleeful.” Discussing Trump getting a target letter from the Justice Department, co-host Sunny Hostin said, “The worst thing you can get when you’re a potential criminal defendant is a target letter because we used to call it bug, beer, turn. Either your phone is bugged, you’re going to turn and cooperate, or baby, you are it. That’s the target letter. The target letter basically says you are the target of a Department of...

Lex iniusta non est lex: An unjust law is no law at all. Seventy-five years ago, it was established at the Nuremberg trial for doctors that never again would we allow medical experimentation upon human beings without their consent. Well, here we are, 5.5 billion people into the human experimentation of the COVID injections that have killed and maimed millions, and the principle of informed consent is dead. All the government officials, pharmaceutical executives, and doctors involved in defrauding the public with taxpayer funding and violating the consent of humanity to mandate dangerous shots are absolved of liability. Meanwhile, a...

Well, it looks like Donald Trump may have been off by one day when he posted on Truth Social over the weekend about a looming indictment in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against the former president. According to new reporting that originated with the Daily Mail, the 45th president-turned-2024 candidate, "who is currently in Florida, is expected to be formally charged tomorrow." Following a potential indictment Wednesday, authorities in New York will reportedly begin coordinating with the former president and his United States Secret Service detail to have Trump appear in Manhattan for an arraignment that's not expected to...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that she believes if former President Donald Trump is not indicted, we will not have a country. Behar said, “Indictments against Trump could reportedly happen at any time now. For those keeping score, here’s speed round of investigations he’s facing. In Georgia, he is being investigated for election interference for pressuring state officials to find more votes. Remember, ‘I just find want to find 11,780 votes,’ remember that. In Florida, the DOJ just subpoenaed dozens of Mar-a-Lago employees over his hoarding of classified documents. Here in New York State, the...

TOPLINE Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has asked former President Donald Trump to testify before a grand jury investigating a hush money payment to a porn star in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to the New York Times, in a strong signal that an indictment against the ex-president is near. KEY FACTS It’s not clear if Trump will accept the offer, though it’s rare for prospective defendants to testify, according to the Times report, which cited four unnamed sources “with knowledge of the matter.” The case centers around a $130,000 payment then-Trump fixer Michael Cohen...

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Wednesday on “The View” that she thinks former President Donald Trump will likely be indicted in the next 90 days. Discussing Trump’s 2024 announcement, Hostin asked, “Shall we chat about the big house?” She continued, “That’s what I think this is all about, right? Any private citizen can be indicted for a crime. You do not have the protection of the presidency. He’s got two years to run.”

Oct 6, 2022 - Fox News host Jesse Watters reports on Hunter Biden's alleged sketchy business dealings on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal said on this week’s broadcast on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” former President Donald Trump will be indicted for mishandling documents in Winter 2023. Katyal said, “The Justice Department on Friday filed a motion to say, we want to appeal this whole question of a special master, because Jonathan, you don’t get a special master if you’re a normal person ever. And Judge Cannon said the reason why he gets one is because he’s the former president. That is not exactly powerful legal reasoning. And so the department has said, the court of appeals, please hear...

Bill Maher says indicting Donald Trump would likely “turn him into a martyr,” but that the former president “has to be held accountable for what he did.” “There’s always a risk of everything with anything controversial and anything important,” the “Real Time” host told ITK in an exclusive Thursday interview, when asked if an indictment against Trump could ignite a civil war.