Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Says Rape Allegations Against Donald Trump Need to Be Treated Seriously
Mike Theiler/CNP/ZUMA A day after New York magazine published a bombshell story by journalist E. Jean Carroll that detailed when President Donald Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, the husband of one of Trump’s most prominent aides published an op-ed saying that his fellow Republicans should take the rape accusation seriously. In a Washington Post op-ed, George…
NYMag’s Trump Allegation Is a Clear Description of First-Degree Rape. Prosecution May Be Impossible.
Jim LoScalzo/AP On Friday morning, New York magazine published an explosive story from writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleging that President Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The White House denied the story in a statement, calling Carroll’s allegations “a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years…
Felix Sater Wanted to Testify Publicly but Democrats Balked, Lawyer Says
Felix Sater on October 6, 2018 in New York City.Thos Robinson/Getty Images House Intelligence Committee Democrats rejected real estate developer Felix Sater’s request to testify publicly about his role in helping Donald Trump pursue a deal to put his name on a tower in Moscow, Sater’s lawyer said Friday. Instead, Democrats arranged for Sater to…
Trump Confronts Iran—Without Allies, a Defense Secretary, or a Coherent Policy
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Early Thursday morning, the United States military accused Iran of an “unprovoked attack” on a Navy drone flying over international waters, spurring President Donald Trump to tweet that the Islamic Republic had “made a very big mistake.” Iran’s Revolutionary Guard acknowledged the attack but said the drone had been positioned over Iran, an…
Trump Labels Fox News “Fake” and Claims “Something Weird Is Going on” at Network
Ron Sachs/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Monday accused one of his favorite media outlets of spreading “fake news” after Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported on the network’s own polling that showed the president trailing or tied with a number of top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. That survey, which showed Joe Biden leading Trump by…
How Did a Man Who Murdered Three Muslims Receive a Presumption of Racial Innocence?
Travis Long/The News & Observer/AP; Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA/AP; Diedra Laird/TNS/Zuma In the old photos, the ones taken right after he was arrested for gunning down three Muslim students in their North Carolina home, Craig Stephen Hicks appears as a dumpy, chinless man with a mousy beard cut too high above the jawline. The style, if…