Trumps

Spying on presidents used to be a tough business. One of the great unsung heroes of American history was a formerly enslaved woman named Mary Bowser, a spy who infiltrated the family of Jefferson Davis as a domestic servant, and eventually landed a full-time job in the Southern White House, the political seat of his Confederacy. Armed with a photographic memory and an all-access pass to the inner workings of the Davis administration, she fed details daily to the Union army, which Ulysses S. Grant called the “most…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: James Pruett, Roland Mann, Silverline, TrumpsJames Pruett, formerly of Scout Comics, now CCO of Roland Mann's Silverline Publishing, launches their first direct market comic Trumps #1Article Summary James Pruett, former CCO of Scout Comics, joins Silverline as CCO. Trumps #1 is Silverline's first comic in the direct market for Feb 2024. Pruett reunites with Roland Mann, brings his extensive publishing experience. Trumps is a sci-fi twist on political…

Last Thanksgiving, Donald Trump had just announced he was seeking reelection, yet his political stock was low. He was blamed for Republicans’ unexpectedly bad showing in the 2022 midterm elections. “Toxic Trump in MAGA Meltdown,” the Drudge Report headlined, while the front page of the Murdochs’ New York Post declared newly reelected Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “DeFuture.”A year later, the Thanksgiving tables have turned. Opinion Columnist Jackie Calmes Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to…

The financial struggles of Truth Social, Donald Trump's social media venture, have been laid bare in a recent regulatory filing. Digital World Acquisition Corp, the special purpose acquisition company set to merge with Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, disclosed the platform's financial woes in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Since its inception, Truth Social has faced substantial losses, totaling $73 million, raising concerns about its sustainability. The…

Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot of Trump businesses, has lost massive amounts of money ($73 million, in this case) and is drifting, inevitably, toward insolvency. The site’s business partners seem worried it won’t recoup its losses anytime soon.The embarrassing financial news was laid bare in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made this week by Digital World…

While Donald Trump‘s Truth Social may be his soap box of preference, a filing shows that since its launch in 2022, the social media platform brought in $3.7 million in net sales while suffering a loss of $73 million. The Hollywood Reporter notes that this is the first time internal financial details from within the company, which is owned by rump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), have been shared publicly. A new financial disclosure from TMTG’s SPAC merger partner Digital World Acquisition Corp. revealed that in…

The US special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president's Twitter account in January and the company delayed complying, according to a US appeals court opinion on Wednesday.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the federal trial judge's decision to hold Twitter, now known as X, in contempt and fine it $350,000 (nearly Rs. 3 crore).The ruling said that Twitter had raised First Amendment concerns about a nondisclosure order issued over the warrant,…

Donald Trump in recent weeks has appeared to forget who the current occupant of the White House is, naming Barack Obama as president rather than Joe Biden. But if you ask Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, it’s all part of Trump’s plan. During his Saturday night speech, Trump referred to the current president as “President Obama.” Trump was speaking about Hungary’s President Viktor Orbán (whom he last month identified as the “leader of Turkey”) and said that the media asked Orbán, “What would you advise President…

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a speedy judgment against former President Donald Trump for allegedly inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to fraudulently secure favorable loan and insurance terms for more than a decade. In a filing Wednesday night in New York court, James argued that Trump, his sons, and his business had obtained “hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten savings and profits” and that, given the volume of evidence her office has collected, the judge should issue what’s…

Despite Donald Trump’s supporters constructing a gallows to hang Mike Pence in front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, the former vice president continues to defend Trump’s actions that day as not that bad. “The president’s words were reckless that day. I had no right to overturn the election,” Pence told Dana Bash during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. “But while his words were reckless, based on what I know, I’m not yet convinced that they were criminal.” DANA BASH: If the DOJ has evidence that…