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The Washington Post reports: The visit was a symbolic display of bravado by Putin, just a day after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest over alleged war crimes and right before a state visit to Russia by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which begins Monday. But even as Putin personally staked his claim to occupied Ukrainian territory, …

The Hill reports: Former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn said he is “anti-protest” in response to former President Trump calling for his supporters to demonstrate against what he said was his looming arrest in connection to a New York state investigation. “I’m anti-protest, so I don’t think we should be protesting anything,” Cohn said in an interview with CBS’s Face …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right forums have overflowed with ideas on how to keep Trump out of the clink — with one person suggesting Trump supporters should create a “Patriot moat” around the former president’s estate at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida so law enforcement can’t enter. Police in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to questions from The Daily Beast …

ABC This Week anchor Jonathan Karl interviewed Mike Pence, during which he played Trump’s defense of rioters’ calls to have him hanged. Via ABC, here’s the transcript of what followed: KARL: I mean, he’s effectively justifying, or excusing, the actions of people who were calling for you to be hanged! PENCE: There is no excuse for the violence that took …

From the editorial board of the New York Daily News: If Trump is right, he will have to surrender for his arrest, using either the entrance at 100 Centre St. or at 1 Hogan Place. With his Secret Service detail present, he will be handcuffed, booked, fingerprinted and have his mug shot taken. He will be humiliated and may have …

Florida Politics reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest Republican heavyweight to divorce himself from Ron DeSantis‘ foreign policy vision. During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday, Pence rejected DeSantis’ framing of the Russian war on Ukraine as a mere “territorial dispute,” opting to frame it as a “Russian invasion.” “Let me be clear. What’s going on …

“Many claiming Christ in America today shall stand before God in judgment one day guilty of ‘the sin of omission’ (inaction) whereby they omitted the obligation to self-sacrifice at the expense of earthly security in order to ensure their children and grandchildren inherited freedom as they did. Instead, they omitted the obligation to preserve the blessing of freedom, causing their …

Newsweek reports: Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has dismissed Donald Trump’s calls for protests to break out should he be arrested in connection with an investigation into hush money payments he allegedly arranged in 2016. Greene, a staunch supporter of the former president, said that there doesn’t need to be any action against the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office or the …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: IT’S TIME!!! WE ARE A NATION IN STEEP DECLINE, BEING LED INTO WORLD WAR III BY A CROOKED POLITICIAN WHO DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HE’S ALIVE, BUT WHO IS SURROUNDED BY EVIL & SINISTER PEOPLE WHO, BASED ON THEIR ACTIONS ON DEFUNDING THE POLICE, DESTROYING OUR MILITARY, OPEN BORDERS, NO VOTER I.D., INFLATION, …

Politico reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg offered a private retort to Donald Trump’s message Saturday urging supporters to protest his expected indictment, telling office employees in an email that “we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York,” according to a copy obtained by POLITICO. “Our law enforcement partners will …