Again, this was originally written in 2016 and has been updated to reflect what more we know ten years later.

I originally wrote and published this article in December 2016, prior to Donald Trump taking over the Presidency and the Republicans taking both Houses of Congress in 2017, as a warning about the dang...

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You’ve gotten your pocket picked for almost seventy years, and they’ve done it in broad daylight, with your permission, while you were distracted by the shiny object over ———————> there.

While campaigning for President in 2024, Trump gave a speech in May in Waukesha, Wisconsin where he promised: “We’re going to give our police their power back, and we are going to give them immunity f...

A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.

The jury didn't find Trump "raped" Carroll only because of a quirk in New York state law, according to the judge who oversaw the trial.

Ex-president claimed that writer defamed him when saying he raped her, but judge said term is commonly ‘used and understood’ in context

What the jury found Donald Trump did to E. Jean Carroll was in fact rape, as commonly understood, even if it didn't fit New York law's narrow definition, says Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.