|
Representative Thomas Massie, a vocal critic of President Trump, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday. The race was a closely watched test of the president's power to eliminate Republican rivals.
|
|
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.
|
|
For President Trump, the interest in Cuba is not new.
|
|
The president's preferred candidate ousted an incumbent in Kentucky, while a Democratic primary in Pennsylvania was a win for the democratic socialists.
|
|
The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.
|
|
(Main headline, 2nd story, link)
Related stories:
MOST EXPENSIVE SUMMER
TRUMP: 'THIS IS PEANUTS'
73% RATE ECONOMY POOR
|
|
The president has spent a great deal of political capital this spring trying to unseat fellow Republicans he sees as disloyal, and he has succeeded.
|
|
President Trump unseated Representative Thomas Massie, a top Republican critic in Congress, and also got his way in other primary contests.
|
|
President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss two verdicts against him resulting from civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. In 2019, the famous advice columnist published a memoir describing an encounter in the 1990s when she says Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store. When Trump denied the account, Carroll sued him and won $5 million in damages, with a unanimous New York jury finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. After Trump made disparaging remarks about Carroll, she sued him again and won a second defamation judgment for $83.3 million. Federal courts have upheld both verdicts, but now Trump's attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to overturn them, asserting he has "absolute immunity" as president.
Carroll's life and her legal fight against Trump are the focus of a new documentary, Ask E. Jean, by award-winning filmmaker Ivy Meeropol. "This is an incredible opportunity for audiences to see what really goes on when a woman brings a case like this, especially against a powerful man," Meeropol says.
|
|
Representative Thomas Massie, President Trump's chief G.O.P. antagonist in the House, lost to Ed Gallrein, Mr. Trump's handpicked candidate.
|
|
The president offered journalists the closest look yet at the construction project, where photographers captured images of the work in progress and Trump touted security measures.
|
|
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has won over some former critics while Vice President JD Vance struggles with Trump's shadow.
|
|
