Former President Donald J. Trump kicked off a flurry of campaign activity on Wednesday with an eye toward a decisive victory in Iowa that would crush his Republican rivals’ hopes of emerging with any kind of momentum in the presidential primary. He’ll have a little help from his friends. Mr. Trump gave a speech in …
Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trump Is Immune From Prosecution
Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to rule on Mr. Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution. The request was unusual in two ways: Mr. Smith asked the justices to rule before an appeals …
Conundrum of Covering Trump Lands at Univision’s Doorstep
The howls of protest against Univision began as soon as its interview with Donald J. Trump aired. A month later, they still haven’t stopped. To critics of Univision, the Nov. 9 interview — with its gentle questioning and limited follow-ups from the interviewer, Enrique Acevedo — has confirmed their fears since the traditionally left-leaning network …
Appeals Court Says Jan. 6 Suits Against Trump Can Proceed for Now
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that civil lawsuits seeking to hold former President Donald J. Trump accountable for the violence that erupted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, can move forward for now, rejecting a broad assertion of immunity that Mr. Trump’s legal team had invoked to try to get the cases …
6 Takeaways From Liz Cheney’s Book Assailing Trump and His ‘Enablers’
It was inevitable that Liz Cheney’s new memoir would cause a splash. An outspoken Republican critic of former President Donald J. Trump in a party that he otherwise dominates, she has shown over the past three years that she is willing to say out loud what most other Republicans say only in private, if at …
Trump Will Skip the G.O.P. Debate and Attend a Fund-Raiser Instead
As his Republican rivals wrestle for attention at the fourth G.O.P. debate next week, Donald J. Trump will again be absent from the stage. Instead, Mr. Trump, the party’s front-runner for president, will attend a fund-raiser next Wednesday for his super PAC, MAGA Inc., in Hallandale Beach, Fla., according to two people familiar with his …
Lawyer Told Trump Defying Documents Subpoena Would Be a Crime
Not long after federal prosecutors issued a subpoena last year for all the classified documents that former President Donald J. Trump took with him from the White House to his estate in southern Florida, one of his lawyers told him, in no uncertain terms, that it would be a crime if he did not comply …
McCarthy Claimed Trump Was ‘Not Eating’ After Leaving Office, Cheney Says
Former President Donald J. Trump was “really depressed” in the days after losing re-election and leaving office in January 2021, so much so that he was “not eating.” At least that is what Kevin McCarthy told Liz Cheney in trying to explain why he had traveled to Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, an act …
Top Ramaswamy Aide Resigns to Join the Trump Campaign
Vivek Ramaswamy’s national political director is switching Republican teams and heading to former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign. The political director, Brian Swensen, has resigned and plans to join Mr. Trump’s re-election effort, a spokeswoman for Mr. Ramaswamy said on Wednesday. The news was first reported by The Messenger. The move came as Mr. Ramaswamy, …
Taking on Trump, a Super PAC Backing Haley Aims at Independent Voters
A group of entrepreneurs is forming a super PAC to try to draw independent voters to Nikki Haley, in the latest sign that many opponents of former President Donald J. Trump in the business world are coalescing around Ms. Haley as their favored alternative. The super PAC, called Independents Moving the Needle, will initially focus …