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“If a former president commits a crime, you know, especially a serious crime, they should be indicted for it. “If the Department of Justice can show that these were indeed very sensitive documents, which I think they probably were, and also show that the president consciously was involved in misleading the department, deceiving the government, and playing games after he …

“I have been going through this for six years — for six years I have been going through this, and I am not going to go through it anymore. “And I hope the Republicans have the courage to fight this. I have been proven innocent for six years on everything – from fake impeachments to Mueller who found no collusion, …

CNBC reports: GOP megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer have no current plans to help former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. The Mercers, a father and daughter who were one of Trump’s major benefactors during his first run for president in 2016, are distancing themselves from the ex-president’s third White …

NPR reports: Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked. The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite. Now, three years after Trump’s tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) …

The New York Daily News reports: Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, testified Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he kept a handwritten list detailing the brazen tax fraud he committed in his top drawer at Trump Tower. During his first full day on the witness stand, the convicted 75-year-old talked about keeping two sets of …

The Daily Beast reports: E. Jean Carroll, the writer who three years ago accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room, plans to bring a new civil suit against him, according to a Thursday court filing made by her lawyer. Carroll, a one-time magazine columnist, plans to sue Trump for defamation over a social …

The Washington Post reports: A Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016. Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime, months before he was indicted again on six counts related to facilitating an illegal foreign campaign donation. He was found guilty Thursday …

“I can’t enter into specific details about this testimony. But I will tell you that from everything we’ve learned, we know that the former president was incensed and enraged when he was not being taken to the Capitol. “He was adamant that he be able to join the mob and approach and enter the Capitol with them. Again, everything that …

CNBC reports: Billionaire and GOP megadonor Ronald Lauder won’t help finance Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for president, his spokesman told CNBC on Wednesday. Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, is the latest Republican megadonor to distance himself from Trump as the former president launches a third bid for the White House. Lauder has known Trump since college, and …

The Washington Post reports: Republican office holders conspicuously avoided Mar-a-Lago for Trump’s “special announcement.” Even Trumpophilic Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) begged off, claiming bad weather kept him from flying from Washington to Palm Beach, when in fact air travel Tuesday was normal. Reporters spotted only one current member of Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina — and he was …

CNBC reports: Trump has railed against the rising GOP stars as they steal away the party’s attention, and campaign donations, further driving away some of Trump’s most loyal backers. “I’m not going to give (Trump) a f—ing nickel,” said New York-based Andy Sabin. Sabin contributed $55,000 this year to a pro-DeSantis PAC which supported the Florida governor’s successful bid for …

From the article buried on page 26: With just 720 days to go before the next election, a Florida retiree made the surprise announcement Tuesday night that he was running for president. In a move no political pundit saw coming, avid golfer Donald J. Trump kicked things off at Mar-A-Lago, his resort and classified documents library. Trump, famous for gold-plated …

From the editors of the conservative National Review: To paraphrase Voltaire after he attended an orgy, once was an experiment, twice would be perverse. A bruised Donald Trump announced a new presidential bid on Tuesday night, an invitation to double down on the outrages and failures of the last several years that Republicans should reject without hesitation or doubt. The …

“They don’t want the American people to hear directly from the biggest leader of the greatest political movement in our history. So, I do suspect they’ll try to censor and cut away. “However, the people are anxious to hear from him. So, they will go right around the major networks if they do indeed cut away.  “We do not have …

Axios reports: Stephen Schwarzman — chairman, CEO and co-founder of private-equity giant Blackstone — says in a statement to Axios that he’s defecting from former President Trump for the 2024 presidential race. “America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” Schwarzman says. “It is time for the Republican Party to turn to …

“Sean, the construct of the speech is pitch perfect. If he keeps on like this tonight, he is unbeatable in 2024. Nobody can touch him. Not a Republican, not a Democrat. I’m telling you, this was an absolutely brilliant speech, the best I’ve heard him give in a long time. And he stays on this message, I agree with Pete, …

CNN reports: Facebook’s fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN. While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says and false statements made by Trump can be posted to the platform by others. Despite …

From the QAnon meme shared by Trump last night: What does he get out of this? Does he want to make the U.S./world a better place for his family and for those good and decent people who have long been taken advantage of? Perhaps he could not stomach the thought of mass murders occurring to satisfy Moloch? Perhaps he could …

Politico reports: A new legal brief in Donald Trump’s battle against social media giants makes some novel arguments about the former president as he accuses Twitter and the U.S. government of violating the First Amendment by suppressing misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 election. The brief likens Trump to Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted by the …

CNBC reports: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges in an investigation related to his efforts in Ukraine to help former President Donald Trump politically, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday. Giuliani, a former top federal prosecutor who has acted as Trump’s personal lawyer in the past, faced a grand jury probe in the Southern …