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☆ Hunter Biden conviction shatters Trump’s persecution narrative
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In his first reaction to the verdict, Hunter Biden didn’t attack the judge or prosecutors, simply saying he was grateful for the love and support of his family and blessed to be clean again. The Hunter Biden verdict also contradicted the central rationale of Trump’s multiple legal defenses in his four criminal cases, several civil matters and his entire presidential campaign. “So much for the weaponization of the Justice Department to go after just the enemies of the other side,” Michael Zeldin, a former senior Justice Department official and federal prosecutor, said on CNN Max on Tuesday. Stephen Miller, Trump’s former White House domestic policy adviser, argued that the Justice Department had actually shown favoritism toward Hunter Biden by not charging him with 50 felonies over foreign influence peddling. “Hunter Biden just became the Deep State’s sacrificial lamb to show that Justice is ‘balanced’ while the other Biden crimes remain ignored,” she wrote on X.

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☆ ESPN’s Pat McAfee faces backlash after calling WNBA star Caitlin Clark a ‘White b*tch’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —ESPN host Pat McAfee is facing backlash after he called WNBA star Caitlin Clark a “White b*tch” during a rant on his show Monday while praising her accomplishments in the women’s basketball league. There is one White b*tch for the Indiana team who is a superstar.”McAfee went on to describe how Clark “carried” Iowa’s basketball program and shattered NCAA scoring records. But instead we have to hear people say we only like her because she’s White, and she’s only popular because the rest of the rookie class is doing what they’re doing. ET on X, formerly known as Twitter: “I shouldn’t have used ‘white b*tch’ as a descriptor of Caitlin Clark. “Referring to Caitlin Clark as ‘the white b*tch for Indiana.’ That’s beyond being too comfortable.

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☆ All the questions you have about Donald Trump's criminal conviction, answered
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump is officially a felon. Related stories This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Legal experts told Business Insider that Trump will more likely receive probation at his sentencing, which is set for July 11. Can Donald Trump still run for president? And he's already doubled down on trying to use Thursday's guilty verdict to his advantage.

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☆ Trump Family Reacts to Guilty Verdict: Don Jr. Eric Trump Denounce Conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is now a convicted felon after a jury found him guilty in the hush-money trial. His two eldest sons immediately took to social media to denounce the verdict. "Such bullshit," Donald Trump Jr. said on X. AdvertisementDonald Trump's eldest sons immediately posted on social media to denounce their father's historic conviction on Friday in the New York hush-money trial. "Such bullshit," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X, before publishing more posts, criticizing the verdict and baselessly painting the trial as an attempt to interfere with the 2024 election.

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Mr. De Niro said that Mr. Trump had engaged in a “coward’s violence” after the 2020 election. The news conference was the sort of thing the Trump campaign would have done from the beginning if the political situation were reversed. The Biden campaign has rarely discussed that case or the verdict against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump has sought to tie together all four of his pending criminal cases and has argued baselessly that Mr. Biden is behind them all. Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, said the Biden campaign was “making a political mockery” of the criminal case with its appearance.

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☆ Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Karen Yourish | Charlie Smart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024Former President Donald J. Trump has baselessly and publicly cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election about once a day, on average, since he announced his candidacy for president, according to an analysis by The New York Times. A line chart shows the number of times Donald J. Trump cast doubt on the fairness or integrity of the election during the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election cycles. Mr. Trump first raised questions about the 2016 election in August of that year, about 100 days before the election. About six weeks before Election Day in 2020, Mr. Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “We want to make sure that the election is honest, and I’m not sure that it can be,” Mr. Trump said.

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☆ Cruz refuses to unconditionally accept results of 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Shania Shelton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“I think that’s actually a ridiculous question,” replied Cruz when asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” whether he will accept the results of the 2024 election regardless of who wins. Cruz, who objected to Arizona’s election results on January 6, 2021, then went on in his interview with Collins to suggest, baselessly, that the 2020 election was rife with fraud. “So my question for you again, free and fair election, will you accept the results regardless of who wins?” Collins asked. “If the Democrats win, I will accept the result, but I’m not going to ignore fraud regardless of what happens,” Cruz responded. Trump said earlier this month that he would only accept the 2024 election results “if everything’s honest.” Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York and Sen. J.D.

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☆ Voting this year will be harder than it is was four years ago in more than half the states, a new report finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Fredreka Schouten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Americans in more than half of the states will face voting restrictions this year that weren’t in place four years ago during the last presidential election, a new analysis finds. Kay Ivey in March – makes it a crime in most cases to return an absentee ballot application on behalf of another voter. And it’s now a felony for a person to receive payment for distributing or collecting absentee ballot applications. At least 11 states have enacted laws this year that the Brennan Center officials say make it easier to vote. Given the changed election law landscape, she added, it’s crucial that people who plan to cast ballots this fall start to familiarize themselves with their state’s voting rules.

Persons: Brennan, ”, Sara Carter, Donald Trump, baselessly, –, Kay Ivey, ” Ivey, Grant Baldwin, Michael Swensen, ” Carter Organizations: CNN, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, Brennan Center, Republican Gov, “, Getty, Brennan, Kentucky Locations: North Carolina, Alabama, Idaho, Charlotte , North Carolina, Carolina, Louisville , Kentucky, Nebraska

☆ Trump is spending most of his court-free days without public campaign events
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Daniel Dale | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But a review of his activities over the trial’s first four weeks shows that he has done little campaign travel, and held few public campaign events, on days off from court. Trump held no public events on seven of the 12 court-free days. But he has let the majority of the 12 off days pass without doing any public campaign events. No public events; attended Republican National Committee fundraising luncheon at Mar-a-LagoMay 5: Day off court. No public events; attended dinner with NFT buyers at Mar-a-LagoMay 9: CourtMay 10: CourtMay 11: Day off court.

Persons: Donald Trump, “, ” Trump, baselessly, Joe Biden, It’s, Trump, Andrzej Duda, New Jersey CNN’s Kate Sullivan Organizations: Washington CNN, Trump, Democratic, Republican National Committee, New, Trump Tower, Bedminster, Republican National, Mar, Miami Locations: Manhattan, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina , Georgia, Ohio , New Hampshire, South Carolina, New York , New Jersey, Georgia, South Carolina , Ohio, New Hampshire, Ohio, Poland, New York City, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Miami, Bedminster, New York

☆ Campaign Updates: At the R.N.C. donor retreat, Trump calls the Biden administration the ‘Gestapo.’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Maggie Haberman | Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

“You have to respect the office of the presidency,” Mr. Trump said. “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40 percent because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare,” Mr. Trump said on Saturday. director whom Mr. Trump fired amid an investigation into Mr. Trump and his campaign, was connected to the Blagojevich investigation. Mr. Trump also mocked the physical appearance of Jack Smith, the special counsel who has indicted him twice. At another point, Mr. Trump said that if anyone wanted to donate $1 million to the R.N.C.

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☆ Trump doesn’t rule out political violence if he loses, and other takeaways from his Time interview
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Steve Contorno | Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump wouldn’t dismiss the potential for political violence from his supporters if he isn’t elected in November, suggesting it would depend on the outcome of the presidential race. “I don’t think we’re going to have that,” the presumptive GOP nominee told Time magazine. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”The remarks came in a wide-ranging interview with the magazine that published Tuesday. But pressed by the magazine in a later phone interview, Trump was less definitive about the future. Throughout his political career, Trump has regularly refused to accept the results of an election or commit to a conceding defeat.

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☆ Fact check: Trump falsely claims police turned away ‘thousands’ from Manhattan courthouse and that supporters ‘can’t get near’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Daniel Dale | Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump is a famed exaggerator of the size of his crowds. For years, he has lied about how many supporters attended his presidential inauguration and numerous campaign rallies. The police have not turned away “thousands of people” from the courthouse during his trial; only a handful of Trump supporters have shown up to demonstrate near the building. Trump may have been suggesting that thousands would have been present if not for repressive security measures. Trump supporters are free to walk into not only the protest zone but also the courthouse itself, though they, like everyone else, have to observe decorum rules if they go inside.

Persons: Donald Trump, –, Trump, denigrate, ” Trump, it’s, George Conway, “, ” CNN’s Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Jeremy Herb, Nicki Brown, Sabrina Souza, Joel Williams Organizations: Washington CNN, New York Times, Trump, CNN, Security, Police Locations: Manhattan, Lower Manhattan

☆ Opening statements to show the stark personal and political stakes of Trump’s first criminal trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial. The process, known as a Sandoval hearing, offered the ex-president a glimpse of personal and unflattering revelations that the trial could dredge up. The political case against the prosecutions was laid out by South Dakota Gov. But Noem rehearsed a political argument that Trump and his associates will be seeking to land as the trial goes ahead. But the deeply consequential political and personal stakes for the former president will become even clearer when the first trial begins for real on Monday.

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☆ As hush money trial begins, Trump hits the trail in North Carolina
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Appearing in Greensboro, North Carolina ahead of the state’s primary last month, Trump remarked on his legal peril at length. Nikki Haley managed to win support from 23% of Republican primary voters in North Carolina, with many in Trump’s party saying they could not overlook the vast legal challenges he faces. “Polling shows the American people see right through the Stalinist tactics employed by Crooked Joe and his allies,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement. Without cameras inside the courtroom, Trump has also challenged the narratives that have emerged from those watching the proceedings. I’m supposed to be in North Carolina, South Carolina.

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☆ Election Updates: Trump’s first criminal trial begins and Biden and Harris hit the trail.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

When former President Donald J. Trump goes on trial on Monday in Manhattan, President Biden and his allies are not likely to say much. The media coverage will be constant, especially if Mr. Trump takes the stand, which he has floated as a possibility. Mr. Biden and his campaign have said nothing publicly about the criminal indictments against Mr. Trump, worried about improperly influencing the cases or stoking Mr. Trump’s repeated allegations — made without evidence — that Mr. Biden has engineered the charges. Many of the deep-pocketed outside Democratic groups supporting the Biden campaign are charting a similar path. When Mr. Trump goes on trial on Monday, he will be the first U.S. president to face criminal prosecution.

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☆ Fact checking Trump and Johnson’s election integrity announcement
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Facts First: The system, as it is currently set up, is working, and effectively prevents mass voting by non-citizens in US elections. Despite Johnson’s focus on this topic, it is extremely rare, according to decades of voting data and nonpartisan experts. In federal and state elections, where voting by non-citizens is illegal, it occurs on a microscopic level. This system, as shown from decades of data, is very effective at stopping non-citizens from registering and voting in federal elections. Further, from a common-sense perspective, there’s little to gain for an undocumented immigrant who theoretically wants to vote in a presidential election.

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☆ GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Fredreka Schouten | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“What he has said is that we would like ultimately there to only be voting on Election Day. Republican attorneys have filed an assortment of lawsuits across the county that vary in both what types of election rules they target and how seriously election law experts believe the case should be taken. The legal fight against mail voting has taken GOP lawyers to states beyond the typical presidential battlegrounds. In addition to the case targeting Mississippi’s post-election day mail ballot receipt deadline, Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging the major expansion of mail voting enacted by New York lawmakers last year. To arrive at the claim that the states’ voter rolls are bloated, Republicans are using a formula that has previously been rebuked in federal court.

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☆ There is no loneliness epidemic
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

With the report, a steady trickle of headlines about the epidemic turned into a firehose: "Loneliness is at epidemic levels and it's killing Americans" (USA Today); "This Epidemic of Isolation Is as Harmful as Smoking" (Bloomberg); "America's Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant" (The Atlantic). There's one problem: The loneliness epidemic doesn't exist. Even the authors caution in their meta-analysis that "the frequently used term 'loneliness epidemic' seems exaggerated." Calling it a "loneliness epidemic," then, may be a bit like calling COVID a "sneezing pandemic." "There are many, many surveys that are just making up questions about loneliness and are not using the UCLA Loneliness Scale or some other validated loneliness scale," she says.

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On Tuesday, lawyers for Ms. Lake indicated she would not dispute the facts of a defamation lawsuit that Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder, had filed against her. But they seem to be more durable and pervasive in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, riling up residents long after campaigns have closed up shop. Credit... Rebecca Noble for The New York TimesThe numbers back up Arizona’s outsize role in election fraud claims. At a news conference on Monday, Gary M. Restaino, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, said seven of the nation’s roughly 18 federal cases regarding election threats involved people targeting Arizona election officials, though the suspects are not Arizonans. Image Bill Gates, a Maricopa County supervisor, during Arizona’s primary presidential election in Phoenix earlier in March.

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CNN —The final death toll from the Moscow concert hall attack last week could be higher than the 143 confirmed dead, as Russian investigators said they have received more than 100 reports of missing people. Investigators had said earlier that they had also received 143 reports of missing people since Friday. Russian social media channels have since been filled with appeals from friends and relatives to help find the victims still missing. Mourners lay flowers in Moscow on Saturday for the victims of the Crocus City Hall attack. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty ImagesDespite ISIS sharing video evidence, Russian President Vladimir Putin has baselessly claimed that Ukraine was in some way responsible for the attack.

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CNN —A New York judge has imposed a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting the former president from making statements about potential witnesses in the criminal trial relating to hush money payments scheduled to begin next month. The order does not prevent Trump from talking about New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is a public figure, or Merchan himself. Trump criticized Merchan, his daughter and one of Bragg’s prosecutors in the hours before Merchan issued his order. The district attorney’s office had requested the gag order last month to remain in place for the duration of the trial. In the civil fraud case last fall, Trump was twice fined for violating Judge Arthur Engoron’s gag order and making comments about the judge’s staff.

Persons: Donald Trump, Juan Merchan, Trump, Merchan, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Alvin Bragg, …, ” Merchan, reimbursements, Cohen, Daniels, denigrating, Arthur Engoron’s, ’ ” Merchan, “, Matthew Colangelo, Colangelo, General Merrick Garland’s, ” Trump’s, Bragg, Biden, ’, ” Trump Organizations: CNN, Trump, New York, Republican, New, Monday’s, Justice Department, Defendant, DOJ, Office, Democratic, Truth, Attorney Locations: York, New York, Washington , DC

☆ Trump is fundraising to keep NY AG's 'filthy hands' off Trump Tower — but using donor cash this way may be illegal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In the frenzied fundraising message blasted out to MAGA voters on Wednesday, Trump's campaign called on one million "Pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say, STOP THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP!" AdvertisementIt called for supporters to donate to the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, Trump's main campaign PAC. But it suggested the money would somehow back his battle cry of "KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF TRUMP TOWER!" Kathy Willens/Associated PressRepresentatives for Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment by BI on Thursday. Trump once again railed against his massive civil fraud judgment in a post Thursday to his social media platform, Truth Social, and insisted he did "nothing wrong."

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☆ Examining Trump’s Alternate Reality Pitch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“There wouldn’t have been an attack on Israel. And we wouldn’t have had any inflation,” he declared during a rally in January in Las Vegas. The next month in South Carolina, he baselessly claimed that Democrats had admitted as much. Politicians routinely entertain what-ifs, which are impossible to prove or rebut with certainty. But Mr. Trump’s suppositions underscore the ways in which he often airs questionable claims without explanation and which might not be supported by the broader context.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ”, baselessly Locations: United States, Israel, Ukraine, Las Vegas, South Carolina

☆ Biden hits battleground states as Trump opts for a seat in court
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Harris was nearby in Minnesota, making what is believed to be the first visit of a sitting president or vice president to a clinic that provides abortion services. “Big crowds in Fort Pierce, Florida, for the Biden induced Witch Hunt against his political opponent, ME!,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. The president has been barnstorming key swing states since delivering a combative State of the Union address a week ago. The vice president, the first woman in her position, spoke frankly about the medical care provided at clinics like the one she visited. “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump told the right-wing news outlet during a sitdown at Mar-a-Lago.

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☆ RFK Jr.’s VP prospect Aaron Rodgers has shared false Sandy Hook conspiracy theories in private conversations
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Pamela Brown | Jake Tapper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that among his potential vice-presidential prospects is New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who in private conversations shared deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting not being real. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter. This person, to whom CNN has granted anonymity so as to avoid harassment, recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. Kennedy told CNN in an interview on Tuesday that he had recently met with Rodgers, as well as former Minnesota Gov.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Aaron Rodgers, Sandy Hook, Rodgers, Pamela Brown, Brown, Alex Jones, Jones, ”, “, ” Rodgers, Kennedy, Jesse Ventura Organizations: CNN, Independent, New York Jets, Kentucky Derby, Green Bay Packers, Derby, Sandy Hook Elementary, Minnesota Gov Locations: Sandy, Connecticut, Oakland , California

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