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One new poll has Haley now trailing Trump by just single digits.Sioux City, Iowa — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is working feverishly to close the gap between her and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, with new polling showing Haley's support growing in what could be a determinative contest in…
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Anchor Kaitlan Collins interrupted a live feed of the former president with a stinging reality check.

 Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) endorsed former President Trump for the White House Tuesday evening.“Well, the people of Wyoming and of course all your viewers know that the country was much better off under President Donald Trump and Joe Biden continues to fail America,” Barrasso first announced on Fox News’s “Hannity.”Barrasso praised Trump for his policies on…
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A slave auction; engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1861 (public domain) William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican candidate Nikki Haley, who answered a question at a Dec. 27 event in Berlin, New Hampshire,…
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How far does ‘absolute immunity’ go? Trump’s lawyer argues for incredible extreme  CNNsource

They burst the former president’s bubble over his “ridiculous” and “shocking” argument, saying it’s not one “any real lawyer would have come up with.”

Coup-murder bombshell: Trump Lawyer says POTUS may order ‘SEAL Team 6’ to kill American citizens  MSNBCsource

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired an alleged romantic partner to lead the Atlanta prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 others on election conspiracy charges and improperly financially benefited from that relationship, tainting the entire case, according to a new court filing by one of Trump’s co-defendants.The 127-page motion was filed Monday…
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Jump to Alina Habba, one of former President Donald Trump’s attorneys, called attention to Justice Brett Kavanaugh as the Supreme Court considered Trump’s appeal of Colorado’s decision to kick him off the Republican presidential-primary ballot.“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them,” Habba told the Fox…
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Jump to Lawyers for former President Donald Trump made the legal argument today — in a real courtroom, before actual US judges — that a president can order the military to assassinate his political rival and not be prosecuted for it as long as Congress is cool with it.Doron Kalir, a professor at the Cleveland-Marshall…
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Glenn Kirschner pointed out a key difference with the former president.

Trump legal news brief: Trump plans to deliver closing argument in financial fraud trail, sources say  Yahoo Newssource

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – E. Jean Carroll, right, walks out of Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown…
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“The Late Show” host issued a call to action in response to the former president’s latest courtroom argument.

Congress The Wyoming Republican’s endorsement gives Trump backing from 20 GOP senators. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) speaks during a press conference at the Capitol on Dec. 12, 2023. | Francis Chung/Politico By Burgess Everett 01/09/2024 09:50 PM EST Link CopiedSen. John Barrasso, the No. 3 Senate Republican, endorsed former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming…
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Reporter, HuffPostDonald Trump’s latest rally claim left Seth Meyers temporarily speechless.During an appearance in Iowa, the Republican 2024 front-runner claimed that people regularly stop to ask him: “Sir, how do you do it? How do you wake up in the morning and put on your pants?”The former president suggested the query comes from fans concerned…
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The “Late Night” comedian amplified the president’s slam in the most sarcastic way.

The late-night host spotted a major flaw in the former president’s latest legal argument.

He was attending a federal appeals court hearing in Washington on Tuesday.For weeks, former President Donald Trump's campaign teased a ramp-up in events in the new year ahead of the Iowa caucuses next Monday.Yet, with only four weekend rallies scheduled, the Trump campaign continues to hold limited events, facing multiple hurdles, including weather delays, canceled…
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia is alleging that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a top prosecutor working on the case.In a new court filing obtained by Atlanta News First, Michael Roman and his attorney Ashleigh…
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Highlights: Lawyers debate whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted in 2020 election case  NBC Newssource

Help keep Salon independentWhen you think of tails, cats, dogs and mammals come to mind — not exoplanets.However, according to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered that a massive, gaseous, exoplanet in space has a giant tail. Known as WASP-69b — an exoplanet that is nearly the same size as Jupiter…
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ATLANTA — A co-defendant in the Georgia election-interference case against former president Donald Trump has accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis of conducting an improper relationship with the case’s lead prosecutor and asked a judge to disqualify the entire prosecution team from the case.Mike Roman, one of Trump’s remaining 14 co-defendants in the…
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Pressed in court, Trump’s lawyers made an argument that would destroy nearly all limitations on presidential power.Donald Trump has always displayed authoritarian impulses, but the Trump who is running for president now is not the same as the Trump who ran in 2016. He is more ruthless, more dangerous, and more authoritarian than before. And…
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Appeals court unconvinced by contention of Trump’s lawyer that former president enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecutionA federal appeals court on Tuesday signaled it would reject Donald Trump’s arguments that he cannot be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results because it involved actions he took while president, questioning such an expansive…
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