In deposition, Trump dismisses 'hoax' rape claim, threatens to sue accuser
Former President Trump repeatedly insulted and threatened to sue a writer who has accused him of raping her in the 1990s, according to recently unsealed portions of his October deposition. Trump is being sued by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused the former president of raping her in a New York City department store, one of more than 20 women who have accused the New York real estate mogul of sexual misconduct. The unsealed deposition became public after a fed
Read MoreBiden knocks 'fiscally demented' Republicans in MLK Day speech
President Biden on Monday called Republicans “fiscally demented” and knocked GOP priorities during the keynote speech at the National Action Network's (NAN) annual breakfast to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “They’re gonna talk about big-spending Democrats again. Guess what? I reduced the deficit last year $350 billion. This year, federal deficit is down $1 trillion-plus. That's a fact. And there's gonna be hundreds of billions reduced over the next decade. But so what? These guys are the fiscally demented, I think. They don't quite get it,” Biden said of Republicans, prompting
Read MoreWhite House counsel: No visitor logs for Biden Delaware home
The White House says no visitor logs exist for President Biden’s private residence near Wilmington, Delaware, where classified documents were found, after House Republicans called for the release of such records. "Like every President across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the White House Counsel's office said in a statement to numerous news outlets on Monday. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration
Read MoreRepublicans decry 'double standard' in handling of Biden classified documents case
Republicans see a double standard when it comes to how President Biden's handling of classified documents is being treated compared to how a similar controversy has played out regarding former President Trump. Months after Democrats panned Trump relentlessly for his handling of classified documents, Republicans are returning serve after what the White House says was a “small number” of Obama-Biden era files were found at the president’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. More were found days later in the garage of
Read MoreJuan Williams: Will House Republicans push granny off a cliff or cut Pentagon waste?
Granny is going over the cliff, again, apparently. During the 2012 campaign, Democrats’ allies ran political advertisements showing a grandmother-like figure in a wheelchair heading for the big fall — along with everyone else on Social Security and Medicare — under Republican proposals to cut government spending. The advertisement worked. President Obama won a second term, and Democrats added two
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