GOP blasts California and “out-of-touch coastal elites ruining the country“.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in the Hush Money case.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.  He also can’t operate in NYC for 3 years.

The ex-president was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, but called her a liar. The award was “a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down,” she said.

The staff of the Atlantic writes on the threat a second Trump term poses to American democracy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/warning-second-trump-term/676117/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/donald-trump-second-term-policies/676176/

The special counsel, Jack Smith, urged the justices to move with exceptional speed, and they quickly agreed to fast-track the first phase of the case.  Click here.

For the fourth time this year, Donald Trump turned himself in to authorities after being indicted on criminal charges — but it was the first time the former president was required to pose for a mug shot.

Former president, Guiliani, Meadows and others accused of crimes related to efforts to overturn election results.

The Office of the Governor of Hawaii is directing all donors toward the Maui Strong fund of the Hawai’i Community Foundation, stating that “the fund is being used to support communities affected by the wildfires on Maui”

Click here to donate to Maui Strong

The indictment alleges four different crimes and describes six unnamed, uncharged co-conspirators