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“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” – Liz Cheney (R) Embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict, Republicans in Congress are fervently enlisting themselves in his campaign of vengeance and political retribution in the GOP bid to reclaim the White House. Almost no Republican official has stood up to suggest Trump – a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Trump – should not be the party’s presidential candidate for the November...

Donald Trump, a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist, addressed his 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors have called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to silence the accounts of women who claimed to have extramarital sex with him on May 31. While presenting his public rant he repeated numerous false or unsupported claims that he has made during the trial and while campaigning for a second term as president. His lies, made from Trump Tower, ranged from blaming the Biden administration for orchestrating the hush money case to other...

Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on May 31 and build momentum for his bid to seize the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness, and the criminal justice system as a whole. Ranting from inside his namesake tower in Manhattan in a symbolic return to the campaign trail, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered a message aimed squarely at his most loyal supporters. Defiant as ever, he insisted without evidence that the verdict was “rigged” and driven by politics. “We’re going to fight,” Trump said...

CNN and MSNBC both cut away from the criminally indicted and convicted felon ex-president Donald Trump as he spoke live on May 31, less than 24 hours after a jury of his peers unanimously found him guilty in New York on 34 counts related to falsifying business records in order to illegally influence the 2016 election. The decisions, along with coverage of the trial’s aftermath in general, spoke to how the nation’s divisions are reflected in the media and the way journalists continue to wrestle with how best to deal with Trump as he is well into his third...