Abortion and the Florida Fakeout
It seemed, for a while there, that 2024 was going to be The Presidential Election Year Without Much Florida.
Political news from state Florida
Trump and R.N.C. Announce a $65.6 Million Haul in March
Former President Donald J. Trump had the best fund-raising month of his 2024 campaign now that he’s working in tandem with the Republican National Committee, pulling in $65.6 million in March, the party announced on Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Trump’s classified documents case sharply rebuke judge’s unusual and ‘flawed’ order
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors chided the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, warning her off potential jury instructions that they said rest on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.”
US Sen. Rick Scott spends multiple millions on ads focused on Florida’s Hispanic voters
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is spending millions to reach out to Florida’s Hispanic voters, a key voting group for his November reelection campaign that has grown to lean more heavily Republican.
Shvartsman brothers plead guilty to insider trading on Trump Media merger plans
Two Florida brothers pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York federal court to insider trading charges related to their purchase and sale of securities of the company that eventually merged with former President Donald Trump's social media firm. The brothers, Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman, earned more than $22 million in illegal profits by trading in securities of the shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., in October 2021 after learning of nonpublic information that DWAC planned a merger with the privately held Trump Media & Technology Group, prosecutors said. Although that merger was announced in late October 2021, it only was completed last month in a deal that led to Trump Media becoming a publicly traded company. "I've made a terrible mistake," Gerald Shvartsman, 46, told Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan federal court as he pleaded guilty, according to the Associated Press. He also said that what he had done was "wrong and the mistake I will pay for dearly the rest of my
Trump sues two Trump Media co-founders, seeking to void their stock in the company
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, the newly public parent company of his Truth Social platform, arguing that they should forfeit their stock in the company because they set it up improperly.
Jack Smith slams judge’s handling of Trump classified documents case over ‘fundamentally flawed’ order
Special counsel Jack Smith has slammed the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s federal classified documents case over an order in which she asked prosecutors and defence lawyers to file proposed jury instructions based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise”.
Mockery Floods In After Trump Botches 'We Will Deport You' Threat
Donald Trump was the subject of social media ridicule after making a gaffe during his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.