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FILE - Former President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, March 25, 2024, in New York. Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Trump meant to curtail “inflammatory” speech ahead of his upcoming criminal hush money trial, the former president tested its limits by disparaging two key witnesses in the case as liars. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, file)

Trump tests limits of gag order with post insulting 2 likely witnesses in criminal trial

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Speaker Johnson’s message to Trump: FISA overhaul would ‘kill the abuses’ of FBI, intel agencies

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

This artist sketch depicts former President Donald Trump, right, conferring with defense lawyer Todd Blanche, left, during his appearance at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, Aug. 3, 2023. Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised. He's joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold. (Dana Verkouteren via AP) **FILE**

Election catalyst for hurried Trump trial; average case takes 26 months to go through federal courts

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, April 10, 2024, after arriving in Atlanta. Trump on Wednesday questioned the mental fitness of Jewish voters who back President Joe Biden and framed this year's election as a referendum on the strength of Christianity in the U.S. as part of a blunt effort to appeal to evangelical conservatives who are a critical element of his political base. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump’s lawyers try for a third day to get N.Y. appeals court to delay hush-money trial

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump knocks Jewish voters who back Biden, Democrats: ‘Should have their head examined’

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, shows U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan, the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's election interference case on Wednesday rejected the notion that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label that Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners. (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts via AP, File)

Judge in Trump’s election interference case rejects ‘hostages’ label for jailed Jan. 6 defendants

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Protesters in Phoenix shout as they join thousands marching around the Arizona state Capitol after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision on June 24, 2022. Three state supreme courts are scheduled to hear arguments in abortion-related cases this week. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Trump says Arizona abortion ruling too tough

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, arrives at the court in New York, Wednesday, April. 10, 2024. Weisselberg is set to be sentenced for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying in civil fraud case

By Michael R. Sisak and Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Washington. The House was holding a key test vote Wednesday on whether to consider a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, but the prospects were uncertain amid intense Republican opposition as well as an edict earlier in the day from former President Donald Trump to “kill" the measure. Johnson has called the program “critically important” but has struggled to find a path forward on the issue, which has been plagued by partisan bickering for years. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

House derails vote to renew FISA after Trump trashes the bill

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Trump choices illustration by The Washington Times

Trump cedes the moral high ground on abortion

By Cal Thomas

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Johnson and Trump to hold joint press conference on election integrity

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 18, 2016. For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do. He transformed the U.S. Supreme Court into a conservative majority that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Pro-life community, why are you so hard on Trump?

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

N.Y. appeals court rejects Trump’s third request to delay hush money trial

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 18, 2016. For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do. He transformed the U.S. Supreme Court into a conservative majority that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Trump defends new abortion stance in the face of sharp criticism from conservatives

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump comments as he arrives for a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Donald Trump's hush money case. Judge Juan M. Merchan made the ruling Monday. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) **FILE**

Ex-military leaders ask Supreme Court to reject Trump’s absolute immunity claims

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

‘Unprecedented’: Jack Smith tells Supreme Court to reject Trump’s claim of absolute immunity

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Black Voters Going Conservative Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Minority voters fleeing Democratic Party will instigate radical, populist policies

By Peter Morici

In this Aug. 21, 2017, file photo, then-President Donald Trump points to the sun as he arrives to view the solar eclipse at the White House in Washington. Trump's comment about injecting disinfectant to fight coronavirus is just the latest in a long list of comments and actions that run contrary to mainstream science. He's gone against scientific and medical advice by staring at an eclipse without protection, calling climate change a hoax and saying wind turbines cause cancer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

In campaign video, Trump compares his election to magnitude of solar eclipse

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom before the start of closing arguments in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. Records show over the past two years, Axos Bank and its largest individual shareholder Don Hankey, have extended more than $500 million in financing that has benefited Trump. Ethics experts say they could also grant Hankey and Axos Bank outsize sway in a future Trump administration. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool) **FILE**

Trump warily weighs in on abortion limits, says matter should be left to the states

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump does a little dance after speaking, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

House Republicans confident Trump-led ballot will propel them to bigger majority in November

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times