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Maine Official Who Ruled Against Trump Is Swatted

Police respond to false alarm at home of Shenna Bellows

(Newser) - A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot. She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting , which...

Trump Claim Is a Threat to Democracy, Smith Tells Court

Special counsel's office files brief on former president's immunity argument

(Newser) - Special counsel Jack Smith's office asked an appeals court on Saturday to deny Donald Trump's argument that the former president is immune from criminal charges in his election interference case, saying that such a protection would "threaten to undermine democracy." Federal prosecutors filed their brief with...

After Barring Trump From Ballot, Maine Secretary of State Receiving Threats

'Those are unacceptable,' she says

(Newser) - Maine's secretary of state says her office has received threats since barring Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot Thursday. "I was prepared for the possibility of threats, and I really appreciate law enforcement and the people around me who have been incredibly supportive of my safety...

Pressure on Supreme Court to Settle Trump Issue Intensifies

DeSantis warns of 'Pandora's box,' and Christie worries it makes former president a 'martyr'

(Newser) - Now that Maine has become the second state to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, the fallout is similar to the one that ensued after Colorado became the first. But now everything is amplified by two. As the New York Times reports, the Maine decision puts even more pressure on...

Haley Says She&#39;ll Pardon Trump if Elected President
Nikki Haley: I'd Pardon Trump
Dec 29, 2023 8:50 AM CST

Nikki Haley: I'd Pardon Trump

She says she'd do it so 'that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him'

(Newser) - Nikki Haley says former President Trump won't have to worry about languishing in a federal prison if she's elected president. In response to a question from a 9-year-old boy at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, the Republican candidate said it would be in the "...

After Maine's Rejection, California Has Good News for Trump

Former president allowed to stay on ballot; losing state's 169 delegates would have been body blow

(Newser) - Former President Trump was kicked off the Republican primary ballot in Maine on Thursday—but hours later, his campaign received welcome news from a state with a population nearly 30 times bigger. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, left Trump's name on the certified list of candidates...

Maine Blocks Trump From Primary Ballot

Aides say former president will appeal Democratic official's decision

(Newser) - Maine became the second state to bar Donald Trump from its primary ballot, when Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday that the former president does not quality to be a candidate because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. "I am mindful...

Trump Has Beef With Cameo on Home Alone 2

Former president says he didn't bully his way into the 1992 sequel, was responsible for its success

(Newser) - The only Home Alone 2 actor to ever become president of the United States is now defending how he nabbed his secondslong cameo in the 1992 film. In 2020, director Chris Columbus told Business Insider that Donald Trump had more or less forced his way into the movie, which was...

Colorado GOP Asks SCOTUS to Keep Trump on the Ballot

Trump himself also plans to appeal the Colorado ruling

(Newser) - The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday appealed that state's supreme court decision that found former President Trump is ineligible for the presidency, the potential first step to a showdown at the nation's highest court over the meaning of a 155-year-old constitutional provision that bans from office those who...

Michigan Supreme Court: Trump Stays on the Ballot

It declined to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling

(Newser) - Michigan's Supreme Court did not go the way of Colorado's . On Wednesday it said it would not rule on whether former President Trump should be disqualified from the state's primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's Insurrection Clause. The court said in its order that it was...

Trump's Christmas Wish: May My Enemies 'ROT IN HELL'

Former president also renews his push to undo ObamaCare

(Newser) - "Merry Christmas to all," former President Trump wrote at the start of a Christmas Day post on Truth Social . But the warm feelings ended there as Trump ticked off a list of his political enemies and told them to "rot in hell," reports the Hill . Trump...

FBI Investigates Threats to Judges in Colorado

Denver police increase patrols around homes of justices who ruled against former President Trump

(Newser) - Threats made against Colorado Supreme Court justices who threw former President Trump off the 2024 ballot have reached the FBI's radar. The agency "is aware of the situation and working with local law enforcement," the bureau said in a statement Monday, per Mediaite . "We will vigorously...

Trump Lawyers: Case Will 'Plague' Nation for Decades

They file appeal in election interference case, saying he acted within power as president

(Newser) - Donald Trump was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about "alleged fraud and irregularity" in the 2020 election, his lawyers told a federal appeals court in arguing that he is immune from prosecution. The attorneys also asserted in a filing late Saturday night that the...

Report: Trump Was Recorded Pressuring Michigan Officials

He urged them not to certify 2020 election results in Michigan county, 'Detroit News' reports

(Newser) - Two weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Trump pressured canvassers in Michigan's most populous county to not certify the results, according to recordings obtained by the Detroit News . Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel was also on the Nov. 17 call with the two Republican canvassers in Wayne County,...

Dukes of Hazzard Actor Deletes a Volatile Tweet

John Schneider called for the execution of President Biden

(Newser) - John Schneider, the actor who played Bo Duke decades ago on the old Dukes of Hazzard, may not have been high on anyone's celebrity radar heading into Wednesday night. Then came two separate events in quick succession: First, Schneider (who also had hits as a country singer) was revealed...

Trump: It's Biden, Not Me, Who's an Insurrectionist

Former president references his own plea for supporters to protest 'peacefully and patriotically'

(Newser) - President Biden says he agrees with a Colorado court's assessment that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist. On Thursday, Trump fired back. "I'm not an Insurrectionist ("PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY"), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!" the former president wrote on Truth Social, per the Messenger . The line...

After Trump Ruling, Judges Are Getting Death Threats

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold 'extremely concerned' about potential violence

(Newser) - Social media has been flooded with death threats against Colorado Supreme Court justices since they ruled 4-3 this week to kick Donald Trump off the state's GOP primary ballot, according to a report from Advance Democracy. The nonpartisan research group says some users have posted the phone numbers and...

Biden: Yes, Trump 'Supported an Insurrection'

But president says he'll let courts decide if the 14th Amendment applies

(Newser) - President Biden says it's clear to him that his predecessor is an insurrectionist, but he declined to weigh in on whether that should keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Addressing reporters after arriving in Milwaukee on Wednesday, Biden initially said he would not comment on Tuesday's decision by...

McConnell Goes After Trump With Mention of His Own Wife

Senate minority leader brings up Elaine Chao in pushback at former president's immigrant remarks

(Newser) - Last weekend, former President Trump ramped up his attacks on immigrants at a New Hampshire rally, asserting they're "poisoning the blood of our country." Trump is now getting pushback on his rhetoric from both sides of the aisle, including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fellow...

Ramaswamy Will Remove Himself From Colorado Ballot, Too

Fellow presidential candidate vows to do so in solidarity with Donald Trump

(Newser) - If Donald Trump is not on the Colorado ballot, Vivek Ramaswamy doesn't want to be, either. The Republican presidential candidate says he will withdraw from the state's GOP primary ballot to protest the Colorado Supreme Court's Wednesday ruling that ordered Trump be left off the ballot due...

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