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The Harsh Glare of Justice for Donald Trump

25Aug

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The Harsh Glare of Justice for Donald Trump

As much as anything, this week was the real start of the 2024 campaign, and the preview it offered suggested how much the next year will be dominated by variations on the tiresome theme of Trump, Trump, and Trump again. Even the former President’s absence from the first Republican debate, on Wednesday, did little to distract from the story line of the poll-dominating “elephant not in the room,” as the Fox News anchor Bret Baier put it. But, if the subject is by now a familiar one, the plot has taken a notable twist, summed up in the extraordinary spectacle that unfolded in Atlanta late on Thursday evening.In a highly public display manufactured for maximum prime-time impact by the world’s most famous criminal defendant, Trump flew into the city on his private jet ahead of a Friday deadlin...

Marc Short Says Mark Meadows Was ‘Ringleader’ In Trump Plot

23Aug

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Marc Short Says Mark Meadows Was ‘Ringleader’ In Trump Plot

Mark Meadows was a “ringleader” in the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, according to a top adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.Marc Short, who served as Pence’s chief of staff, weighed in on Meadows’ legal predicament during an appearance on “CNN Primetime” on Tuesday.Meadows, who served as Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, was indicted earlier this month under Georgia’s racketeering statutes along with the former president and 17 other allies over an alleged conspiracy to change the state’s 2020 election results.“I don’t think any of us relish witnessing what’s happening to any of these people that we worked with,” Short said on CNN. “I think it’s fair to say that, you know, Mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around January 6.”Sho...

Special Counsel Obtained Trump’s Twitter DMs Before Jan. 6 Indictment

16Aug

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Special Counsel Obtained Trump’s Twitter DMs Before Jan. 6 Indictment

Federal prosecutors obtained many of former President Donald Trump’s direct messages sent on his Twitter account, as well as drafts and deleted missives, according to court papers unsealed Tuesday.It’s unclear what information the direct messages may contain or who they were exchanged with. But the revelation, first reported by CNN, adds new details to court documents from last week that first showed Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team had obtained a search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account in January.The court papers say that federal prosecutors sought “all content, records and other information” related to Trump’s account covering the period from October 2020 to January 2021 — when his @realDonaldTrump handle was permanently suspended — including drafts and any messag...

Judge In Trump’s Jan. 6 Coup Case Limits What Evidence He Can Use As He Campaigns

12Aug

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Judge In Trump’s Jan. 6 Coup Case Limits What Evidence He Can Use As He Campaigns

WASHINGTON — The judge in Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 coup attempt case on Friday ordered him not to reveal information that prosecutors turn over to his legal team from grand jury testimony, a prohibition that likely will apply to a sizable portion of the discovery material he receives in the coming weeks.“Sensitive materials ... may be used by the defendant and defense counsel (defined as counsel of record in this case) solely in connection with the defense of this case, and for no other purpose, and in connection with no other proceeding, without further order of this court,” U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in her five-page order.“Sensitive materials” in the case include information gathered from still-sealed search warrants as well as grand jury testimony, according to the ord...

The Mind-Bending World of Trump, His Indictments, and the 2024 Election

8Aug

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The Mind-Bending World of Trump, His Indictments, and the 2024 Election

It has been six days since the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump on felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and it’s already getting hard to keep up with the latest developments. On Monday morning, Trump, in a post on his social-media site, accused the special counsel Jack Smith of trying to deny his First Amendment rights by asking that the court order the former President not to disclose evidence prosecutors have gathered. Trump also criticized Judge Tanya Chutkin, an Obama appointee who has imposed tough penalties on some defendants involved in the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, repeating his demand that she recuse herself from the case. Meanwhile, in Florida, Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge in the classified-documen...

Trump: I Want Jan 6. Judge Recused ‘Immediately’

7Aug

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Trump: I Want Jan 6. Judge Recused ‘Immediately’

Former President Donald Trump directed his anger at Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in an indignant Truth Social post on Sunday.Trump addressed his latest criminal indictment by declaring his plan to ask for an immediate recusal of Chutkan, who was assigned to Trump’s case when the Department of Justice charged him for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election earlier this week.“THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE JUDGE ‘ASSIGNED’ TO THE RIDICULOUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH/FAIR ELECTIONS CASE,” he screamed online. “EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND SO DOES SHE!”“WE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ASKING FOR RECUSAL OF THIS JUDGE ON VERY POWERFUL GROUNDS, AND LIKEWISE FOR VENUE CHANGE, OUT IF D.C.,” he concluded.Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of four counts of conspiring to defraud the United Sta...

Judge’s Order In Jan. 6 Case Could Prove Too ‘Complicated’ For Trump

4Aug

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Judge’s Order In Jan. 6 Case Could Prove Too ‘Complicated’ For Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a routine part of a federal court hearing: The defendant was told not to discuss the case with any witnesses without lawyers present.But there’s nothing routine about this case. The defendant is Donald Trump, accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The potential witness pool is vast and includes members of the former president’s inner circle deeply involved in his reelection campaign, including some currently on his payroll. His lies about the election — which form the basis of the charges — are repeated in nearly every speech he gives.“The standard language may not work here, when you have thousands of Americans who could be witnesses and he continues to have daily contact with people who may be involved,” said Laurie L...

Mike Pence Torches Donald Trump And His ‘Crackpot Lawyers’

3Aug

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Mike Pence Torches Donald Trump And His ‘Crackpot Lawyers’

WASHINGTON ― Former Vice President Mike Pence responded angrily on Wednesday to former President Donald Trump’s claim that all he wanted on Jan. 6, 2021, was for Pence to request a delay in the 2020 election certification.Pence said it was “completely false” that Trump only asked him to “pause the vote counting,” as Trump’s attorney claimed Tuesday evening. Pence said it was perfectly clear what Trump wanted him to do.“Let’s let’s be clear on this point: It wasn’t just to ask for a pause,” Pence said on Fox News. “The president specifically asked me ― and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me ― to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives and literally chaos would have ensued.”As vice president, Pence presided over t...

Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself

2Aug

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Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself

The events that culminated in the rollout of the Justice Department’s most recent indictment of Donald Trump, on Tuesday, had a familiar ring: a barrage of social-media broadsides and gratuitous insults from the putative defendant, and hours of breathless cable-TV vamping about news that had not yet happened. (“A micro-development, but that’s all we have right now, Jake,” the CNN senior legal correspondent, Paula Reid, told the anchor Jake Tapper at one point.) In the early afternoon, reporters who had staked out the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, in downtown Washington, D.C., announced that the grand jury had left for the day. At 4:41 P.M., Trump made the reveal on his Truth Social account: “I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election o...

Public Opinion About Trump’s Criminality Is Shifting—a Bit

1Aug

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Public Opinion About Trump’s Criminality Is Shifting—a Bit

In just three weeks, the first televised G.O.P. Presidential debate will mark the start of the 2024 campaign proper, plunging American politics further into uncharted waters. “It is most likely that, by the time we get on the debate stage on August 23rd, the front-runner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions—Florida, Washington, Georgia, and New York,” Chris Christie, one of Donald Trump’s rivals in the Republican Presidential primary, remarked on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.Trump seems unlikely to appear at the debate in Minneapolis, but his presence will loom over every minute of it. Even allowing for how he has changed perceptions of American politics in the past eight years, and made the unprecedented seem routine, the current situation is extraordinary. On Thur...