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Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson. A Trump campaign official told NBC News that the former president “spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring Ukraine to give up some territory, according to people familiar with the plan. Some foreign policy experts said Trump’s idea would reward Russian President Vladimir Putin and condone the violation of internationally recognized borders by force. Trump’s proposal consists of …

Newsweek reports: Amid Donald Trump’s upcoming New York hush money trial, the former president compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela on Saturday night, sparking ridicule across social media. Trump took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to criticize the case and the gag order as the former president said he would gladly go to jail and become a …

“He’s looking rather svelte. And that caught the eye, as you can imagine, of many on social media and elsewhere. And there has been a lot of chatter about whether he is on the big ‘O.’ “And by that, I mean, Ozempic, to the point where The New York Times, my employer, actually ended up writing to the campaign to …

Mediaite reports: Trump lawyer Alina Habba laughed and joked with podcast hosts as they played video of the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse and spun conspiracy theories about the cause of the disaster. Habba was a guest on a recent edition of the Patrick Bet-David-hosted PBD Podcast for nearly two hours, during which she dispensed a familiar menu of patter about …

“We left the communist state of New York and then we were in the state of Connecticut and we just escaped all of the earthquakes. And then we got to Massachusetts, which probably had some earthquakes. Then we got to New Hampshire and there were no earthquakes. Which is telling me that somebody is sending us a message that communist …

The Washington Post reports: And after relying on a longtime personal doctor and then two White House physicians who had attested to his well-being in office, Trump turned to an unknown: Bruce A. Aronwald, a 64-year-old osteopathic physician from New Jersey — and a longtime member of Trump’s Bedminster golf club. Trump began his political career in 2015 by releasing …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump have again asked the judge presiding over his upcoming criminal trial to recuse himself from the former president’s case, this time citing an “unacceptable appearance of impropriety.” In a court filing made public Friday night, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove contended Judge Juan Merchan has a conflict of interest because his …

NBC News reports: For the mere price of $2.5 million, people who raise money for former President Donald Trump can secure a “personalized” pair of “Never Surrender” high-top sneakers, according to a donor-access program menu shared with NBC News by a person close to the Republican National Committee. Buck-rakers who hit that minimum for entry into the “Trump Victory Trust” …

CNN Business reports: Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled 9% on Friday, sinking to their lowest level since the company went public last week. The selloff has erased nearly $2 billion from the value of former President Donald Trump’s stake in the company this week. Trump Media shared surged to as high as $79.38 on …

Axios reports: A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation on Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Trump. It’s a response to a bill proposed by several House Republicans to rename Dulles Airport in D.C. after the ex-president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee. The two-page measure would re-designate the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in …

The Washington Post reports: When asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday whether he was “100 percent with Israel,” the former president did not give a direct answer but emphasized the optics of the ongoing conflict, saying the country is “losing the PR war.” “They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down,” Trump said. …

The Associated Press reports: Rudy Giuliani will be allowed to remain in his Florida condo for now after a New York bankruptcy judge on Thursday declined to rule on a motion filed by his creditors that would’ve forced him to sell the Palm Beach estate. At a hearing, Judge Sean Lane acknowledged the “significant” concern that Giuliani was sinking money …

“I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going …

“All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level, like to use their vaunted ‘disinformation machine’ to try and convince people, and it is not easy to do, that TRUTH is not such a big deal and doesn’t ‘get the word out’ as well as various others, which …

CNN reports: A federal judge will not dismiss the classified documents charges against former President Donald Trump, who argued that he had the authority to take classified or sensitive documents with him after he left the White House. The short order from US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday leaves open the possibility that Trump could still use the argument …

Reuters reports: A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss criminal charges in the state’s 2020 election interference case against him, which the Republican former U.S. president argued violate his free speech rights. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee found that the indictment alleges statements by Trump and 14 others charged in the case were made …

Politico reports: The Biden administration put the finishing touches Thursday on a plan to restrict presidents from unilaterally nixing civil service protections from large swaths of the federal workforce, as former President Donald Trump renews his vow to uproot a perceived “deep state” if he is returned to the White House. While a future president could take steps to squelch …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump spoke recently with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, their first publicly disclosed conversation since Mr. Trump left office in January 2021, according to two people briefed on the discussion who were not authorized to speak publicly about it. If President Biden manages to clinch a trilateral …

The New York Times reports: The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan rejected his last-ditch bid to delay a trial beyond April 15, removing one of the final obstacles to the first prosecution of a former American president. Mr. Trump had asked the judge to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on whether he …