Donald Trump

The cherry tree folklore is too good to be true, but it’s no lie that George Washington had a thing for the truth. “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy,” he wrote in his farewell address. A few…

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith's office have requested that former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for alleged mishandling of classified documents be delayed until December, according to a court filing on Friday. Earlier this week, Judge Aileen Cannon set a trial date for Aug. 14 and estimated…

WASHINGTON -- Infowars host Owen Shroyer, who promoted baseless claims of 2020 election fraud on the far-right internet platform, pleaded guilty on Friday to joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol. Shroyer, who didn’t enter the Capitol but led rioters in chants near the…

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign team is expected to announce Friday he’s won the endorsements of more than half of Pennsylvania’s House GOP delegation. The ex-president’s Pennsylvania backing reportedly flows from Reps. Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler and John Joyce. Their show of support helps him draw…

Politics The leader of the Republican primary is running to the left of his competitors. Sometimes. Sort of. Get it? He’s on the left. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images and Sean Rayford/Getty Images. Earlier this month, former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he is seeking…

When Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee brought special counsel John Durham in for a hearing Wednesday, they thought it’d be an opportunity to tout Durham’s findings that the FBI should not have launched an investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Rep. Jerry Nadler…

It’s a serious sign of something when as many as 20% of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents tell pollsters they support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination. Perhaps it’s a sign that their brains have been addled by Wi-Fi radiation coming at them from their cellphones, something…

The FBI resisted opening an investigation into former President Donald Trump's role in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot for more than a year, according to The Washington Post. The report details how Department of Justice officials shut down an early plan for a task force focused on the former…

At some point last week, as Donald Trump was indicted on federal charges, he was likely told of his rights as a criminal defendant. The first one is something the former president has probably seen or heard on television: He has the right to remain silent and anything he says…

Donald Trump just keeps making his own legal troubles worse. In a damning interview with Fox News on Monday, the twice-impeached, twice-indicted, and liable for sexual abuse former president pretty much confessed to stealing and hoarding classified documents. In the interview, Fox host Bret Baier asked Trump directly about several…