Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese

At 6:07 tonight, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis walked toward reporters on the tarmac in Fort Myers with a gold-plated coin. But behind that spectacle was a far more consequential admission: Trump said he personally ordered his Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to delay certification of Alaska’s Senate election under certain conditions. In this episode, I look at what that case asks for, the disputed allegations surrounding Jared Kushner, and why the consequences of this administration reac...

At 2:38 in the afternoon, Donald Trump shared a Truth Social post praising an ad that used Dr. Amy Acton’s estranged mother to attack her own daughter. He called a childhood abuse survivor “defective,” described the ad as “very powerful,” and said it should win awards. Hours later, on the White House South Lawn, reporters asked him about the abuse Acton survived and the mother who stayed married to the man charged with raping her. His answer: “Well, I know nothing about it.” I woke up sick to...

Just after 4:00 in the afternoon, Donald Trump spent barely seven minutes with reporters outside the Oval Office and turned questions about Russia sanctions into insults against two women. Hours later, at a South Carolina rally that was supposed to help a Senate candidate, protesters kept interrupting him, and he praised a supporter who punched one of them. Then he told the crowd he was in a very good mood. Something is very wrong with what we are watching, and it keeps getting worse. Based ...

Donald Trump promised Americans they could become rich by turning people in. Then he said he would personally decide who deserves the money. After threatening reporter Andrew Feinberg in the Oval Office, Trump left us with something even more dangerous than another attack on the press: a program that could turn neighbors against neighbors, with the President putting himself in charge of the rewards. We already have a law that pays whistleblowers. So what is this really building? Based on the...

At 6:58 pm, Donald Trump walked onto a stage in Wichita after a video explaining why “God made Trump.” What followed was an hour and 37 minutes of racist attacks, threats against the press, and complaints that nobody appreciates him. Protesters interrupted six times. A man in the crowd hit an older protester being escorted out while others chanted “USA! USA!” Trump wants us afraid to speak and afraid of one another. I keep thinking about the immigrants who cared for me when I faced emergency ...