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Thursday on CNN, following the announcement of a guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump on 34 counts by a Manhattan jury, CNN senior political contributor Scott Jennings predicted it would favor Republicans in the election cycle. According to the former Bush administration official, the verdict would “massively backfire” on Democrats by galvanizing Republican support and encouraging fundraising. “Well, if my phone and the text messages I’m receiving are any indication, every Republican in the country is matter in a wet hen,” he said. “I mean, people who are decidedly non-MAGA, not Trump fans are blowing up tonight saying this...

Amongst the bedlam and cacophony on X after a New York jury found Trump guilty on all counts, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson took to Twitter to celebrate in his own way, by telling everyone that they should respect the verdict despite it being a farce. "It is not easy to see a former President and the presumptive GOP nominee convicted of felony crimes; but the jury verdict should be respected," posted Hutchinson. " An appeal is in order but let’s not diminish the significance of this verdict."It is not easy to see a former President and the presumptive GOP...

It's official, the verdict is in, and the deed is done; as RedState's own Susie Moore reported only moments ago, former President Donald John Trump has been found guilty of all counts by a Manhattan jury. The next few days will be filled with discussion of this result and what will happen next. As a certain character in a certain film franchise involving gene-engineered dinosaurs famously repeated: "Hold on to your butts." One of the biggest questions is this: "How will this affect the 2024 election?" The nominations on both sides are effectively decided. Donald Trump has the delegates sewn...

These idiot liberals may have just gotten Trump elected.

Terrence is upset and has no more faith in our justice system.

"I can play the game; just tell me the rules."As the world now knows, former President Trump was convicted today of 34 criminal charges. It was a shameless political verdict shaped by an unscrupulous prosecutor, aided by a corrupt and incompetent judge, and rendered by a jury that supposedly considered six weeks of testimony and 55 pages of complex jury instructions, and then deliberated for one day. These are small minds, who do not give a flying fig leaf for the good of the Country. They and those gleefully cheering the result do not care about the damage that they...

I just donated $300k to Trump. I’m prepared to lose friends. Here’s why. Back in 2016, I had drunk the media Kool-Aid and was scared out of my mind about Trump. As such, I donated to Hilary Clinton’s campaign and voted for her...

House Speaker Mike Johnson joined other top congressional Republicans in blasting former President Donald Trump’s historic felony conviction Thursday as “a purely political exercise” and “weaponization of our justice system” by President Biden. “Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon,” Johnson (R-La.) railed minutes after a Manhattan jury announced it found the Republican presidential candidate guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial.

President Joe Biden is guilty of persecuting his political opponents, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-HI) declared after former President Donald Trump was found guilty in New York on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records. “Biden: GUILTY of abuse of power. Biden: GUILTY of turning our country into a banana republic where those in power use the law to go after their political opponents. Biden: GUILTY of undermining our Constitution and the freedoms guaranteed therein,” said Gabbard, who officially shed her identity as a Democrat in 2022, accusing the party of being “under the complete control of an elitist...

Former President Donald Trump did not appear pleased with New York County Judge Juan Merchan’s jury instructions Thursday morning.“Mother Teresa could not beat these charges, but we’ll see. We’ll see how we do. It’s a very disgraceful situation,” Trump told reporters after the jury began deliberations in his criminal trial.“These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged,” he added. “We’re going to take back our country from these fascists and these thugs that are destroying us with inflation and with everything they do,” Trump continued, “allowing 15, 16, 17 million people into our country, totally unvetted, totally unchecked.”“We’re going...

The the jury was given the liberty to select from three main options, effectively turning the process into a choose-your-own-adventure game of legal implications. Violations of federal election law (which no one in that courtroom is familiar with, and the judge specifically prevents Brad Smith from testifying about); The falsification of business records; and Tax violations

Verdict in.

Donald Trump Jr. revealed the private area where he and his dad were taking a break as jurors began deciding the former president’s fate Wednesday. In a TikTok video, Don Jr. showed the echoing, white room where he and Trump awaited a verdict, sitting at a wooden table holding junk food including, a bottle of Diet Coke, a bag of Lays potato chips and a box of Milk Dud candies. “We are here with your favorite president,” the Trump son said in a 17-second video clip. “We are cranking out a couple mean tweets at the courthouse.” “Why don’t you...

President Joe Biden’s plans to deliver an address after the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s business records trial in New York shows how political and “rigged” it is, Trump 2024 National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Wednesday interview on Breitbart News Daily, noting that Trump and his team are expected to sit in the courthouse until the jury returns with its verdict. Reports are circulating that Biden plans to formally address the nation from the White House after a verdict is reached in the business records trial in New York. When asked about what she thinks of...

Merchan is a crooked judge, pure and simple I am not in the Manhattan courthouse, but I am listening carefully to what lawyers I trust (from Fox) who are there are texting/emailing to reporters, who are, in turn, reading them on air at Fox, as well as those who have left the courthouse and are speaking directly on air. The judge is a disgusting fraud who has his foot on the defense lawyer's neck, while he allows the prosecutor to ramble on in every direction, including (only now) about federal campaign law and personal insinuations about Trump, as well as...

resident Biden plans to address former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial in a “White House setting” when the jury delivers its verdict, according to a report. The 81-year-old president’s message will be tailored to the outcome of the trial, according to Politico, but in any scenario, he intends to stress that the US legal system worked and Americans should respect the process. Biden will deliver remarks whether the 77-year-old former president is convicted, acquitted or the jury cannot agree on a verdict. Closing arguments in Trump’s trial over alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels are...

Scientologists Elena and Grant Cardone established a GoFundMe page to help pay Donald Trump's latest legal bill. The ardent MAGA supporters set up the page hours after the former president was ordered to pay $355 million fine for lying about his wealth for years. 'I stand unwaveringly with President Donald Trump in the face of what I see as unprecedented and unfair treatment by certain judicial elements in New York' Elena Cardone wrote on the page. Cardone is seeking donations from supporters to cover the full cost of Trump's fine. However, only $53,000 had been donated as of Saturday afternoon....

Conservative attorney George Conway railed against former President Trump, calling him an “evil man,” after a jury ruled Trump must pay columnist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her by repeatedly denying her sexual assault allegations. “He’s somebody who can’t control himself,” Conway told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Friday, echoing rhetoric from the judge presiding over the case. “And, he can’t control himself because he’s a deeply disturbed, a morally bereft human being who has no conscience, has no morality, has no empathy, has no remorse and is sadistic as we saw during the trial.”

The headline is that a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her defamation claim against Donald Trump. What’s behind the headline is infinitely more important, for it shows how America’s leftist-run judicial system works. I should explain that I come with a strong bias to this matter. I worked as a litigator for almost thirty years in the San Francisco Bay Area. That experience left me with an abiding hatred for leftist judges. They routinely showed themselves to be disinterested in law and facts. Instead, they used their powerful positions to dispense “justice”—only their idea of “justice” was...

An angry Donald Trump responded on social media Friday to the stunning $83.3 Million verdict in a New York courtroom ordering him to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carrol – who accused the former president of sexual assault – for defaming her. "Absolutely ridiculous!" he raged on his social media platform Truth Social. "THIS IS NOT AMERICA!" He vowed to appeal the decision:Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being...