A royal commission is a good idea,but only if the government commits to implementing the recommendations. This needs to be a whole of community approach,not just whole of government.
The bombshell revelations were made during Trump’s historic hush money trial,in which the ex-president has been accused of falsifying records to stop an alleged affair from becoming public.
“I will not allow American democracy to be undermined,” Democratic state Attorney-General Kris Mayes said.
Just when you thought the most buffoonish member of the US right could not get any sillier,he managed to pull it off – and it stinks.
Haley suspended her presidential campaign last month. If the voters who backed her this week refuse to support Trump in November,it could damage his prospects of victory.
One of them is still grappling with feelings of guilt over what is now alleged to have been a successful attempt at election interference.
Ongoing wars in Ukraine – and especially in Gaza – remain politically problematic,and potentially fatal,for US President Joe Biden.
“You’ve presented nothing,” the judge told Trump’s lawyer,who sought to argue the ex-president was responding to online criticism.
The former US president’s sizable stake in his social media company is set to jump even more as he’s rewarded with additional shares in its parent company. But he can’t sell any of them for months.
As the former president sat with his eyes closed every so often,prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the jury that Trump lied “over and over” in his quest to win.
Donald Trump has broken a number of conventions in politics. He is about to be the first president to have his fate decided not just by voters,but by 12 citizens in a jury box.