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☆ Joe Biden says he will 'respect the judicial process' as Hunter considers appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

U.S. President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden disembark from Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, U.S., February 4, 2023. President Joe Biden said Tuesday he will not challenge the federal jury verdict finding his son Hunter Biden guilty on three criminal gun charges. "As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal," Biden said. Hunter Biden said in a statement after Tuesday's verdict that he was "disappointed by the outcome," but added that he was grateful for the support he has received from his wife, Melissa Biden, and his family and friends. The jury convicted Hunter Biden, 54, on three counts related to his October 2018 purchase and possession of a revolver while using illicit drugs.

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☆ Hecklers Drown Out Trump’s Backers With Cowbells and Whistles
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Nate Schweber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump has been joined in recent days by entourages of supporters who watch his prosecution in the morning and then give statements backing him outside the courthouse. On Monday, the daily news conference disintegrated into chaos, when anti-Trump demonstrators and hecklers surrounded the speakers, then effectively silenced them with shouts, whistles and the clanging of a cowbell. Among the speakers on Monday in Collect Pond Park, across Centre Street from the courthouse’s front doors, were Bernard Kerik, New York’s former police commissioner, who was pardoned by Mr. Trump for eight felonies; Kash Patel, a former Trump administration intelligence official involved in his 2024 campaign; and Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Georgia Republican. Mr. Clyde said that “the judge is very one-sided,” and Mr. Patel said that the only person harmed had been the defendant: “That victim is Donald J. Trump.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, entourages, Bernard Kerik, Kash Patel, Andrew Clyde, Clyde, Patel, ” Organizations: Trump, Mr, Georgia Republican Locations: Pond, Bernard Kerik , New, Georgia

☆ Trump Media payday: What Truth Social executives got paid in stock and compensation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Those thresholds for the share price are well below where Trump Media stock was trading on Monday, when it closed at $37.17, down more than 8%. The filing disclosed that Trump Media awarded company stock to Nunes, chief financial officer Phillip Juhan, and chief operating officer Andrew Northwall. The three top executives, like Trump himself, are currently barred from selling any of their common stock in Trump Media for the next six months. CNBC asked a spokeswoman for Trump Media why promissory notes were used to grant stock to the executives. Legal battlesBesides Trump, the biggest shareholders in Trump Media are two corporate entities.

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By all accounts, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor hoping to derail former President Donald Trump's march to the Republican presidential nomination, will win Tuesday's Nevada primary handily. When state lawmakers moved to replace Nevada's presidential caucuses with a more traditional, state-run primary to decide presidential preferences. But that didn't go over well with a state GOP heavily made up of Trump loyalists. Best Cartoons on the 2024 Election View All 125 ImagesHolding a state government-run primary doesn't stop the party from holding caucuses anyway. "Nikki Haley is *not even on the ballot* in the Nevada GOP caucus & thus will get 0 delegates from NV.

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He said that, in a second Trump administration, “We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media,” over the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump has also promised “retribution” as a central part of his campaign message as he seeks a second term in the White House. Trump’s campaign distanced itself from Patel’s comments in a sharply worded statement, saying that proclamations “like this have nothing to do with” them. The campaign did not respond to questions about whether Trump is considering the plans Patel described. The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about whether Patel was being considered for a role as CIA director.

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Another source identified Trump Organization employee Yuscil Taveras as the unnamed computer specialist whose fees prosecutors said were paid by Trump's political group. Trump's legal spokesperson Alina Habba, who is also general counsel at Save America, did not respond to detailed questions on the payments. In July, after Save America reported its legal expenses to the Federal Election Commission, Cheung said Save America was helping people who had worked for Trump avoid "financial ruin." Asked how legal spending would affect his campaign, Trump told a SiriusXM podcast earlier this month: "Fortunately, I have a lot more money." Save America and the Trump campaign have not responded to requests for comment on the legal fee estimates.

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☆ CIA staff made a 'suicide pact' to resign if Trump fired director Gina Haspel, former aide says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

CIA staff pledged to quit if Donald Trump fired its director, Alyssa Farah Griffin said. At the time, Trump was said to be considering replacing Gina Haspel with supporter Kash Patel. "I have been told that they tried to fire Gina Haspel, the CIA director, and install Kash Patel." "They were able to stop it," Farah Griffin told the House select committee. "But allegedly, for about 14 minutes, Kash was actually the CIA director."

☆ DOJ grants immunity to Trump adviser Kash Patel to compel his grand jury testimony in Mar-a-Lago case
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dilanianmug.Jpg | Ken Dilanian | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has granted immunity to Trump adviser Kash Patel after a judge ruled that was the only way to compel his grand jury testimony in the Mar-a-Lago case, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News. Patel has said that former President Donald Trump declassified certain documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate before leaving office. NBC News reported in February that the archives found classified material among the boxes of White House documents that Trump improperly took to Mar-a-Lago. Patel told Breitbart News in May that the documents had been declassified by Trump but their markings were not updated. "Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves," Patel said then.

☆ Trump Aide, Granted Immunity, Set to Testify at Grand Jury Probing Mar-a-Lago Documents
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Sadie Gurman | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON— Kash Patel , a close associate of former President Donald Trump, is set to soon testify before a federal grand jury probing the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after receiving immunity for his information, people familiar with the matter said. A federal judge recently decided the Justice Department couldn’t force Mr. Patel to testify without such protection against his statements being used against him in some future prosecution. That ruling, the people said, opens the door for Mr. Patel, who says Mr. Trump broadly declassified White House documents while still president, to answer questions.

☆ Trump advisor Kash Patel granted immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents case
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Trump has claimed that he declassified all the documents he took with him before he left office, but so far the aides who have testified before a grand jury have said they saw no evidence that Trump declassified anything. Patel's testimony is considered crucial to answering the question of whether Trump declassified any of the documents he took with him to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Patel, however, claimed in an August interview with The Wall Street Journal that he had personally witnessed Trump verbally declassify documents. But when Patel was called later to testify before the grand jury in October, he reportedly did not make the same assertions. In a case that hinges on whether Trump mishandled state secrets, the question of whether the documents marked classified were in fact state secrets is pivotal.

☆ Trump aide Kash Patel appeared before a grand jury investigating the documents the former president was keeping at Mar-a-Lago, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump aide Kash Patel appeared before a grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago case. He faces potential legal repercussions over Trump's retention of government records, CNN reported. The DOJ believes Trump may have broken the law by keeping government records after leaving office. According to CNN, Patel, who still works for Trump, spent several hours before the grand jury in Washington, D.C., on October 13. The DOJ believes that Trump and his aides may have obstructed its probe into the retention of the records.

☆ George Conway says individuals defending Trump over his handling of presidential records are 'basically desperate'
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

George Conway during a CNN interview was highly critical of Trump's handling of classified documents. "Having top-secret FBI information in our home? Conway said individuals defending Trump and criticizing the FBI were "basically desperate." On CNN, Conway proceeded to lambast individuals who have backed Trump's claims regarding the FBI's search. He had no business bringing top-secret FBI material from the Situation Room or the Oval Office up to the residence.

☆ The January 6 committee did not finish the job
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-06 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The legislation establishing it directed the committee to report on the entire set of "facts, circumstances, and causes" surrounding the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The January 6 committee report contains extensive documentation of forewarnings of violence that were percolating up from confidential sources, open-source analysts, and senior officials. On January 4, Senator Mark Warner, chair of the Senate intelligence committee, called the FBI's deputy director with his concerns. As the committee notes, a threat analyst noted a "tenfold uptick in violent online rhetoric targeting Congress and law enforcement." Looming over the January 6 committee's report is the report by the 9/11 Commission, which was far from perfect, but much more comprehensive and unsparing.

☆ Îngrijorări la Pentagon: Trump îşi instalează din ce în ce mai mulţi oameni loiali în funcţii cheie
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

Surse militare au declarat pentru CNN că „Acestea sunt mişcări de dictator”, titrează Mediafax. De când Donald Trump l-a concediat luni pe secretarul Apărării, Mark Esper, alţi trei oficiali ai Departamentului Apărării au demisionat sau au fost demişi. James Anderson, subsecretarul interimar al apărării pentru politici, a renunţat la poziţie marţi la presiunile Casei Albe, relatează Politico. Joseph Kernan, subsecretarul apărării pentru informaţii şi Jen Stewart, şeful de cabinet al lui Esper, şi-au părăsit posturile şi au fost înlocuiţi de Ezra Cohen-Watnick şi Kash Patel. Este foarte neliniştitor", a declarat un oficial al apărării pentru CNN, adăugând: „Acestea sunt mişcări de dictator".

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☆ SUA: Mai mulţi demnitari importanţi din Pentagon au demisionat
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-11 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

11.11.2020 10:15 Sursa foto:Wikipedia Vizualizari:SUA: Mai mulţi demnitari importanţi din Pentagon au demisionatDepartamentul Apărării american a anunţat că trei membri importanţi ai săi au renunţat la funcţii, a doua zi după ce preşedintele în exerciţiu al SUA, Donald Trump, l-a destituit pe ministrul apărării Mark Esper, transmite Agerpres. Decizia nu a fost total neaşteptată, ţinând cont de divergenţele publice existente între Trump şi Esper pe mai multe subiecte în ultimele luni. Mark Esper se pregătea de ceva vreme pentru perspectiva demisiei sau a destituirii sale după alegerile de la 3 noiembrie, în special dacă Trump ar fi câştigat un al doilea mandat. Esper l-a înfuriat pe Donald Trump prin opoziţia la ameninţarea preşedintelui că va trimite militari activi pentru a reprima protestele antirasism care au zguduit SUA în vară. În plus, Mark Esper nu a fost de acord nici cu atitudinea de desconsidere a NATO afişată de Trump, au mai indicat sursele.

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