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☆ Trump's lawyer says presidents could get away with crimes if they aren't discovered until after they leave office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's lawyers say a president can get away with crimes if Congress doesn't find out about it while they're in office. If a president leaves before Congress can impeach and convict, they're home free, Trump's lawyers say. Related storiesIn oral arguments Thursday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked what would happen if potential criminal conduct wasn't discovered until after a president already left office. "What if the criminal conduct isn't discovered until after the president is out of office, so there was no opportunity for impeachment?" Smith didn't bring his indictment against Trump until the summer of 2023 — more than two years after Trump left office.

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Sitting together last month, Graham and MBS spoke with Trump for roughly five minutes, two people familiar with the call told CNN. The call encapsulates how Trump looms over an agreement that US, Israeli and Saudi officials all see as vital to achieving lasting stability in the Middle East. Graham informed Biden officials of the call between MBS and Trump and says they understand why he wants to keep Trump in the loop. With the election looming and the region engulfed by turmoil over Israel’s war in Gaza, the window of opportunity is rapidly shrinking, people involved in the negotiations told CNN. “I think President Trump understands this is building on what he did,” Graham told CNN.

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☆ Takeaways from the final day of jury selection in Trump’s historic hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

There had been estimates at the start of the week that jury selection could spill into a second week, and it appeared likely after Merchan lost two empaneled jurors on Thursday. Here are takeaways from the final day of jury selection in Trump’s hush money trial:The jury is setFour women and one man were added to the jury on Friday as five of the six alternates for the case. The fourth day of jury selection played out similarly to the first three. Trump is still trying to stop his trialDespite seating a jury, Trump’s legal team again tried to stop the trial in its tracks with another strategic appeal. The DA’s team argued at that point that the motion was premature because jury selection hadn’t happened yet.

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Asked for proof of his claim that Mr. Biden was personally directing the local cases against him, Mr. Trump pointed to purported ties between prosecutors and “Washington,” but provided no evidence that Mr. Biden had been involved in any of the hiring decisions, conversations or meetings that Mr. Trump cited. The writer E. Jean Carroll filed her first lawsuit against Mr. Trump in November 2019, accusing him of defamation. Faulty and irrelevant comparisonsWhat Mr. Trump Said“I got indicted more than Al Capone.”— in a rally in Ohio in MarchFalse. Mr. Hur described Mr. Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had “diminished faculties and faulty memory.” He did not declare Mr. Biden mentally incompetent to stand trial. Inaccurate attacks on judgesWhat Mr. Trump Said“Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately.

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States could, in theory, try to keep Mr. Trump off the ballot by passing legislation requiring a clean criminal record, but this would be on legally shaky ground. The California Supreme Court also unanimously blocked it as a violation of the state constitution, and the case never reached the U.S. Supreme Court. And the 14th Amendment is separate from criminal cases, meaning convictions would not disqualify Mr. Trump either. Now that Mr. Trump has secured a majority of delegates to the Republican convention, the party has no mechanism to nominate somebody else. Mr. Trump is registered to vote in Florida, and he would be disenfranchised there if convicted of a felony.

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☆ Trump’s extreme rhetoric is a mainstay of his 2024 campaign. Much of it could become a reality if he wins another term
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Phil Mattingly | Andrew Seger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

His pledge to direct Justice Department investigations is backed by allies who view his second term as driven by a maximalist theory of a president’s authority. But it also underscores why a second Trump term would be dramatically different. Some in Washington saw them as guardrails for a White House intent on fracturing not one, but all three branches of government. Yet Trump, should he secure a second term, would enter the White House with his most powerful Republican critics on Capitol Hill almost all gone. That would be a position that isn’t backed by his second term policy plans, or his private impulses during his first term in office – or, for that matter, in the decades prior.

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☆ 'Almost impossible': Inside Biden's uphill battle to win the backing of key anti-Trump Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

There is already an effort underway by wealthy Biden donors to recruit Haley's bundlers and contributors. The Biden Victory Fund raises money for the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and dozens of state parties. "Everyone, including Republican voters who reject Trump's chaos, division, and violence, has a home in President Biden's campaign," said Munoz, the Biden campaign aide. The ads will feature onetime Trump voters explaining why they decided not to vote for him again. A political action committee called "Haley Voters for Biden" is also trying to persuade Haley voters to support Biden, according to Semafor.

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☆ It's not just inner-ring suburbs. Trump has also underperformed in key exurban counties during the GOP primaries.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

And this year, Trump underperformed in many inner-ring suburban counties compared to his statewide vote totals. Related storiesIn the 2016 general election, Trump won Emmet County — in the northern reaches of the Lower Peninsula — by 19 points. AdvertisementIn the 2024 Michigan GOP primary, Trump won Emmet by 34 points, but the figure was below his nearly 42-point statewide victory. A similar scenario unfolded in the North Carolina primary, where Trump won statewide by nearly 51 points. Robert Schwartz, the senior advisor for Haley Voters for Biden, a one-time pro-Haley super PAC, is one of those backers.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Trump, they'll, Parker Fairbairn, Emmet, Nikki Haley — Trump's, Charlotte exurbs, Haley, Joe Biden, Biden, reelect Biden, Robert Schwartz, Nikki Haley, MAGA Organizations: Service, Democratic, Business, Politico, Republican, Republican Party, GOP, Trump, Republicans, Emmet, Michigan GOP, Haley Voters, Biden, Haley, PAC Locations: United States, Orange County , California, Cobb County , Georgia, Emmet County , Michigan, Michigan, Emmet, North Carolina, Cabarrus, Union

☆ Trump's deals to sell Bibles, sneakers and perfume are unprecedented for a presidential candidate, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I can't think of any other modern example of a presidential candidate hawking an array of goods for their private benefit," Fischer said. The website for the Bibles says it has no link to Trump's campaign. It instead uses Trump's name, likeness and image under paid license from a company called CIC Ventures LLC. Lessig noted that Trump's business moves do not appear to be violating campaign ethics or financial rules. A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

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☆ Analysis: Trump’s DJT stock creates a unique new ethical nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In the meantime, he’s also trying to sell “God Bless the USA” Bibles via his social media platform Truth Social for $59.99. )”A history of bankruptcyAnother note of caution for investors in DJT should the history of the last company Trump took public. Trump’s casino company also went by the ticker DJT, but on the New York Stock Exchange between 1995 and 2004, when it went bankrupt and was delisted. None of that has stopped what some experts have referred to as a bubble forming around the Trump Media & Technology Group. Susquehanna International Group did not return a request for comment about the company’s stake in Trump Media & Technology Group.

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☆ Trump undoubtedly controls the GOP, but the TikTok vote shows Republicans won't always follow him in lockstep
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Even Republican House lawmakers, the group that is arguably the most pro-Trump in Congress, defied their de facto leader, who now opposes the bill. There's a lot of good and there's a lot of bad with TikTok. Congressional Republicans have defied Trump before. Even Republican voters have at times defied Trump. The former president has been especially effective in his targeted campaign against the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for inciting the insurrection.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Lara Trump, Wednesday's, TikTok, Jeff Yass, Tom Emmer's speakership, Jim Jordan, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Mike DeWine, Rob Portman, Sen, Sherrod Brown Organizations: Service, Republican Party, Republican National Committee, Republican, Trump, Biden, Chinese Communist Party, CNBC, Facebook, Congressional, GOP, week's Ohio GOP, Ohio Gov, Democrat, Republicans Locations: Congress, ByteDance, Beijing, Yass, week's Ohio

☆ Key classified documents witness who worked at Mar-a-Lago for 20 years comes forward and says Trump case is 'not a witch hunt'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewA former Mar-a-Lago employee who is cooperating with federal investigators in Donald Trump's classified documents case says the charges against the former president don't constitute a "witch hunt." Butler told the outlet that he unwittingly helped Trump staffers move 10-15 boxes of sensitive records in June 2022. "I think the American people have the right to know the facts, that this is not a witch hunt," Butler said. Trump has characterized the case — as well as his myriad other legal troubles — as a politically-motivated witch hunt, and has made several ongoing efforts to have the case tossed. "This is so much bigger than me," Butler told CNN.

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☆ CNBC invited Trump on its air. The network didn’t even try to stop his lies
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“I believe on the ‘Squawk’ news line, we are joined by former President Donald J. Trump, DJT 45. It’s been a while, Mr. President,” Joe Kernen, co-host of “Squawk Box,” greeted Trump on the air. Almost immediately after commencing the interview, Trump launched into one of his trademark, fact-free rants. Instead, the outlet quickly spliced Trump’s comments into a handful of clips and posted them online, amplifying his comments further. “We appreciate all the time you’ve given us this morning, Mr. President,” Kernen said.

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☆ Analysis: China worried about return of Trump, but also sees opportunities if he wins 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Then-US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at Beijing's Forbidden City in 2017. “If this decoupling is carried out by Trump 2.0 in a very forceful way, the impact on China is going to be very severe. But experts say China’s business and official sectors are likely already considering contingency plans. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin leave a reception following talks at the Kremlin in March 2023. “Whoever wins – the structure of (US) confrontation, competition, pressure to China are still there,” he said.

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☆ Election Updates: Biden and Trump kick off the general election campaign in the battleground state of Georgia.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Chris Cameron | Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump will both campaign in Georgia today, kicking off their likely general-election battle for a state that Mr. Biden won by a tiny margin in 2020. Mr. Trump will hold a rally in Rome, a city of about 38,000 people in the state’s deeply conservative northwest. Vice President Kamala Harris will also campaign on Saturday in Nevada, a battleground state that she and Mr. Biden won in 2020. Mr. Biden beat Mr. Trump in Georgia in 2020 by just 11,779 votes. In Mr. Trump’s vast effort to deny Mr. Biden his electoral victory, he devoted particular attention to the state.

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☆ Opinion: Trump’s pernicious superpower
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. His dark vision of what America is today, so divorced from reality, is aimed at frightening voters into supporting him. Frida GhitisThat is Trump’s pernicious superpower. But Trump’s speeches weave a fantasy that turns dark into light, and radiance into shadows. It’s a challenge for Biden, to overcome Trump’s practiced tactics – the Washington Post clocked 30,573 lies and misleading claims during his presidency.

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☆ Trump can insult Haley's supporters all he wants, but he'll need them in November
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He did include a brief plea for Haley voters to back him, but he also insulted some of them. But the reality is simple: The former president will need Haley's voters come November. The Washington Post cited Quinnipiac University, which found that while a large portion of Republican and Republican-leaning Haley voters would back Trump, 37% would vote for Biden. Regardless, the GOP primary showed how Trump continues to struggle in suburban areas that often have more educated voters. Haley might have had key policy differences with Trump on foreign policy, such as supporting Ukraine and reassuring North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

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☆ Opinion: Super Tuesday won’t help Haley. But she can help Trump.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Opinion Daniel Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

To start with, who are the Republican voters that Trump will have the most trouble getting to the polls in November? In South Carolina, it was 36% of voters in the Republican primary (and Trump won 18% of them). In New Hampshire, it was 46% (and Trump won 22% of them). Biden won four of 2020’s battleground states by 2% or less, and Trump won North Carolina, the closest battleground state in which he prevailed, by just a little over a point. Her effort isn’t harmless, however: It does force the Trump campaign to spend money that could otherwise be put toward taking on Biden.

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☆ Judges in Trump-related cases face unprecedented wave of threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +20 min

These broadsides frequently trigger surges in threats against the judges, prosecutors and other court officials he targets, Reuters found. In that time, serious threats against federal judges alone have more than doubled, from 220 in 2020 to 457 in 2023, as Reuters reported on Feb. 13. For judges, threats have always been part of the job. Over the last four years, the Marshals investigated more than 1,200 threats against federal judges that they considered serious, according to the data provided to Reuters. Among the 57 federal prosecutions Reuters identified during that period, 47 involved threats against federal judges, six involved threats against state judges, and four involved threats against both.

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☆ Three Theories for Why Trump’s Primary Results Are Not Matching Expectations
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Nate Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s still early in the primary season, but a whiff of a possible polling error is already in the air. In Iowa, the final 538 polling average showed Mr. Trump leading Nikki Haley by 34 points with a 53 percent share. In South Carolina, Mr. Trump led by 28 points with 62 percent. In the scheme of primary polls, these aren’t especially large misses. But with Mr. Trump faring well in early general election polls against President Biden, even a modest Trump underperformance in the polls is worth some attention.

Persons: It’s, Donald J, Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Biden Organizations: Trump Locations: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina

☆ Fraud like nobody's watching: Trump was probed for 5 years, and still wouldn't clean up his act
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Donald Trump's fraud verdict targets three things he values dearly: his cash, his New York business address, and the Trump Organization steering wheel. Otherwise, as Engoron noted in his verdict, Trump, his company, and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, "are likely to continue their fraudulent ways." In previous years, Trump has settled allegations of fraud involving the Trump Foundation, Trump University, and the 2017 Inaugural Committee, Amer pointed out in closings. The same day James concluded her initial investigation and filed her massive Trump fraud lawsuit, on September 21, 2022, Trump incorporated "Trump Organization II" in what her office worried was an attempt to shift and protect assets. Advertisement"In short," they added, Trump and Trump Organization leadership "have proven themselves incapable, time and again, of following the law."

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☆ Trump Organization says $364 million fraud ruling will fuel the 'exodus of companies from New York' — but Trump's frauds may make him an outlier
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Trump Organization, Trump, and lieutenants face a $364 million judgment in a civil fraud case. But several factors, including the extent of Trump's fraud, could make him an outlier. "If allowed to stand, this ruling will only further expedite the continuing exodus of companies from New York," the Trump Organization spokesperson said. It's also worth noting the exceptional circumstances that led to the investigation into the Trump Organization. While running for attorney general in 2018, James promised to aggressively investigate Trump's business dealings.

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CNN —Judge Arthur Engoron hit Donald Trump with his biggest punishment to date on Friday, in a ruling that fined the former president $355 million for fraudulently inflating the values of his properties. Combined with the $83 million judgment issued against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, that means Trump has been fined roughly $438 million over the past four weeks. Engoron found that the defendants’ fraud saved them about $168 million in interest, fining Trump and his companies that amount. “Overall, Donald Trump rarely responded to the questions asked, and he frequently interjected long, irrelevant speeches on issues far beyond the scope of the trial,” Engoron wrote. properties that offered a much lower valuation than reported on Donald Trump’s financial statements.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Meta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after criticism over his support for Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the monthslong war still raging in the Gaza Strip, the company confirmed Friday. Khamenei and accounts associated with the supreme leader had been praising the Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage. Immediately after the attack, Khamenei backed Hamas in a speech, saying: “We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime." Iran has provided arms and support to Hamas, though Tehran isn't believed to have directed the Oct. 7 attack. “He’s used these platforms for years to incite violent antisemitism, to legitimize militant anti-zionism and to make genocidal threats,” Greenblatt wrote online.

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☆ Opinion: In Trump Supreme Court case, remember Congress already disqualified him
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Opinion Tristan Snell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The case now comes to the Supreme Court following Trump’s appeal, and it could determine whether Trump appears on the ballot in up to 35 different states where his eligibility is being challenged. Fortunately, the Supreme Court need not look far for answers to these questions. The Supreme Court may be wary of disqualifying Trump based solely on their own ruling as a group of unelected judges. The Constitution is clear, Congress’ votes are clear and Trump’s disqualification is thus wholly justified. That is the genius of the 14th Amendment — which the Supreme Court should fully embrace.

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