Nicole Lafond

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Nicole Lafond is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois.

on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. Where Things Stand: Georgia Looms Over Trump’s Trial Prime Badge
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We just started the second day of House impeachment managers’ arguments as they seek to persuade a jury of senators to convict Trump of inciting the insurrection. All eyes, of course, are on the Republicans in the chamber.

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on November 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Where Things Stand: Trump’s Own Impeachment Lawyer Sued Him Last Year Prime Badge
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As if we needed more evidence after yesterday’s performance that Trump’s hodge-podge legal defense wasn’t going great, this morning we learned that one of his own lawyers sued him last year.

And he sued him over the very issue that he will be defending the ex-president against.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the US Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Dems’ Opening Argument: Damning, Violent Video Evidence Of Trump’s Incitement
Where Things Stand: Today Isn’t Really About What Trump Did Prime Badge
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Democrats have plenty of compelling evidence against the former president — mostly because everything he’s being impeached for, he did out loud, very much in the open.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 19: President Trump stops to speak to reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to visit with families four Americans who were killed in an explosion Wednesday in Syria. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images) Where Things Stand: There’s A Lot We Don’t Know One Day Out Prime Badge
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Ex-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate is set to begin tomorrow and there’s very little we know definitively about how proceedings will work — aside from the fact that Trump himself has no plans to make an appearance.

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Where Things Stand: The Fox News We Know And Love Prime Badge
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There might have been a brief period when the conservative, Rupert Murdoch-owned cable news network earned a sliver of respect from competitors over its coverage of Trump — most notably when it refused to retract its Arizona call for Biden, even after coming under pressure.

But it appears nature is healing. Fox News is back to its Obama-era fixations on tan suit-variety non scandals.

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Where Things Stand: Mask Optics Prime Badge
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Without naming the former President, the Biden administration has been intentional from the start about being everything the Trump White House was not. Especially on COVID-19.

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Where Things Stand: A GOP Day Of Reckoning Prime Badge
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By now we know that the meeting between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) did not quite go as the Republican leader hoped.

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Where Things Stand: Willing To Listen To Anyone, Anything Prime Badge
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In the waning weeks and days of Trump’s presidency, we knew from his public statements and retweets of widely debunked conspiracy theories that he had little left to work with in his push to overturn the election.

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Where Things Stand: More Proof Red States Welcoming Federal Vaccine Help Prime Badge
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Austerity be damned in the age of COVID-19.

That’s the messaging from at least one Republican governor who just this morning said that being fiscally responsible at this point no longer matters as the nation reels from more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths and an economy on life-support.

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