2016 presidential election

Trump store puts '2028' hat on sale in third-term tease: 'Rewrite the rules'

The Constitution's 22nd Amendment states that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."

Bring the hammer down on Perkins Coie and every other player in the Russigate scandal

President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of security clearances for employees at Perkins Coie, the shady Dem superfirm whose lawyers played a key role in setting up the Steele...

Liberals loved this earnest Kate McKinnon moment on 'SNL' — but Lorne Michaels wasn't a big fan

After Trump’s win in 2016, she opened the show singing “Hallelujah” like a dirge.

Rudy Giuliani grilled over pricey possessions — like Yankees memorabilia and grandfather's watch — in $148M defamation case

The former politician once admired as "America's Mayor" accused opposing lawyers of asking "abusive" questions in Manhattan federal court during the tense hearing to determine whether he should be held...

Trump's victory spells success — without 2016's headwinds

All the unprecedented hostile efforts to end Donald Trump may only have made him stronger — and more empathetic when seen as a target of increasingly fanatical enemies.

Trump the 'colossus' is the comeback king of American politics

Donald Trump's utter refusal to be bent or broken by his enemies and his critics and his determination to redeem himself by recapturing the office he lost has no parallel...

I was at Trump's side in 2016 — here's why he'll win again

Our 2016 team consisted of exactly zero professional politicos, but Donald Trump was offering the kind of leadership Americans were craving — and he hasn't changed a bit.

How politics and social media are ruining young people — and fueling harassment

The intrusion of politics into classrooms and the never-ending din of social media are causing young people to behave with extremism.

Ex-Trump advisor fires back after FBI raid on his home: 'attempt to intimidate'

FBI agents this week reportedly raided and searched the Virginia home of a Russian-born policy analyst who advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

We can thank our broken political parties for giving us candidates so many of us hate

This dispiriting election year doesn’t look likely to do much good for our country, but maybe it will at least help that lesson sink in.

Hillary Clinton quips about losing 2016 election at Tony Awards — but joke falls flat

The former Secretary of State, 76, made a surprise appearance onstage at the Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in NYC on Sunday night.

Trump gets 'stormed' in Daniels' lurid testimony: Letters to the Editor — May 9, 2024

The Issue: Stormy Daniels’ testimony in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump.

Trump 'hush money' prosecutors admit entire case rests on proving complex 'conspiracy' centered around the 2016 election

Prosecutors revealed their “entire” hush money case is based on a legal theory that Donald Trump was part of a “conspiracy” to corrupt the 2016 election.

How Alvin Bragg made (preposterous) history with Donald Trump's case

Alvin Bragg is to be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case. 

Congress puts more nails in the constitutional coffin as it's set to renew FISA

Promising reforms is the easiest way to perpetuate abuses in Washington.

Trump ordered to pay $382K in legal fees to company behind the Steele dossier 

Former President Donald Trump was ordered by a judge Thursday to pay $382,000 in legal fees to the company founded by Christopher Steele, after unsuccessfully suing over the salacious allegations...

Ted Cruz 2016 campaign veterans offer little hope for Nikki Haley: 'Trump's not going to be stopped'

From the outset of her campaign, Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley meticulously picked her battles with former President Donald Trump, waiting until the field winnowed to dramatically ratchet up her...

New election year means another Russiagate as Biden, Dems try to smear impeachment probe

For the 2020 election, it was Russiagate 2.0. Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken prompted former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell to concoct the “Dirty 51” letter falsely claiming that Hunter...

CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report

The US Intelligence Community asked foreign spy agencies to surveil 26 associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, which triggered the allegations that the former president’s...

This is what Trump must do if he's facing off with Biden in November

A strategic choice of VP and a party unified in the battleground states, plus Biden’s dismal record, might be all it takes to turn the 2020 map back into Trump’s...