Month: January 2024

Steve Bannon, ex-aide to former President Trump, said Monday that he anticipates a big fight over whether GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley should be the former president’s pick for vice president in the general election.Bannon advised strongly against Trump, who remains the GOP front-runner in the race, choosing the former South Carolina governor to be…
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Former president Donald Trump plans to skip a Republican presidential primary debate in Iowa next week and instead will hold a live town hall on Fox News in Des Moines.Trump avoided all of the four previous GOP debates as well, drawing criticism from his opponents but little apparent blowback from Republican voters in early nominating…
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Trump defense strategy in January 6 case may go beyond trying to delay trial, court filings reveal  CNNsource

We are off to a flying start on a momentous year. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether Donald Trump is disqualified from running for president because of the application of Section Three of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.A few months ago, only the most seasoned constitutional lawyers were aware that such a…
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U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the wrongful death and negligence civil counts, but is allowing the lawsuit to proceed.

Media Tycoon’s Tweets, Ties to Trump Officials Cited in Hong Kong National Security Trial  The Wall Street Journalsource

Donald Trump and his team of legal “stable geniuses” aren’t wasting any time in the new year contriving ever more outlandish arguments in defense of his unprecedented compendium of crimes. To date he has racked up 91 felony counts ranging from financial fraud, to theft and mishandling of classified materials, to inciting an insurrection, and…
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Trump, Haley and DeSantis qualify for CNN Iowa debate  CNNsource

Jan. 2 (UPI) — In a new filing in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith cites a previous argument from Trump that immunity from prosecution ends with presidency. Smith’s filing to the D.C. court of appeals, made public on Saturday, is the clearest rundown yet of the…
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Trump Ballot DecisionsAdvertisementSupported byThe move attempts to overturn the decision which made Maine the second state to rule the former president ineligible for the primary ballot.By Jenna RussellLawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed an appeal on Tuesday seeking to overturn the ruling last week by Shenna Bellows, Maine’s secretary of state, to bar…
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Help keep Salon independentDonald Trump is poised to lose his presidential immunity appeal in his election interference case, an ex-associate White House lawyer in the former president's administration says.Trump is accused of four felonies related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.…
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Former Iowa Rep. Steve King endorsed GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday. King lost his House seat in the 2020 primary after he was stripped of his committee assignments after questioning why the terms “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” had become offensive. King, a believer in the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, was…
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Daily News e-EditionEvening e-EditionSign up for email newsletters Sign up for email newslettersDaily News e-EditionEvening e-Edition Trending: Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen used Google’s Bard AI to generate bogus legal filings in a bid to end his court-mandated supervised release, his lawyer admitted in a federal court filing.Cohen is currently on supervised release after…
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As Donald Trump prepared to announce his presidential campaign in November 2022, some of his advisers tried to talk him out of jumping into the race so early. They struggled to fill Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom for a rambling kickoff speech that his own allies said was lackluster. Trump looked tired, almost grudging, as he spoke…
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Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-attorney, lost his appeal Tuesday to revive the claim that Trump retaliated against Cohen, using his presidential powers to jail him from promoting his book.Cohen, who was often referred to as Trump’s “fixer,” pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. While incarcerated, he began writing…
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By Debra Cassens WeissJanuary 2, 2024, 2:16 pm CST The Aug. 1, 2023, indictment against former President Donald Trump alleges that he spread lies that election fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 election and he actually won. Trump knew that his claims were untrue, the indictment says. Photo by Jon Elswick/The Associated Press.Lawyers for…
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CNN anchor Boris Sanchez asked the chair of Maine’s Republican Party seven times why it was wrong for the state to kick former President Trump off the ballot, as he repeatedly appeared to dodge the question.  Sanchez on Tuesday interviewed Maine GOP Chairman Joel Stetkis on CNN’s “News Central,” where he repeatedly pressed the Republican…
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Michael Cohen can’t hold Donald Trump liable for retaliatory imprisonment, appeals court says  Yahoo Newssource

“The View” host Sara Haines said Tuesday that banning former President Trump from states’ 2024 primary ballots gives the appearance of “a rigged election.” Haines argued on Tuesday’s episode of “The View” that the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine to remove the former president from the ballot will only push more people to believe…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA federal judge in Washington on Tuesday dismissed a wrongful death claim brought as part of a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and two men accused of assaulting U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the Capitol riot.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled…
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‘Sick to my stomach’: Hear what changed state senator’s mind about Trump after voting for him twice  CNNsource

A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll affirms that the Jan. 6 revisionism of Donald Trump and the political right has had an impact three years hence, by adjusting views in a more sympathetic direction to Trump and those who stormed the Capitol.But what the poll also shows is that most Americans have not bought…
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A retired Laramie attorney’s lawsuit to get Trump off Wyoming’s ballot has turned fiery, as he is now calling for Secretary of State Chuck Gray to resign, and Gray has responded by calling him a “madman.”December 29, 20233 min readIn a fiery volley with Wyoming’s secretary of state, a retired attorney asking a state judge…
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Nikki Haley Pulls Ahead Of DeSantis In GOP Primary Polls—But Still Far Behind Trump  Forbessource