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“Judge Kaplan has at least entered judgment in the second Carroll trial. That starts the clock for Trump’s post-trial motions and for him to post a bond. Specifically, federal rules governing civil cases stay a plaintiff’s execution on a judgment for 30 days after the entry of judgment, which effectively means he has 30 days to provide a bond or …

CNN reports: Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro’s effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction. Navarro was sentenced by Judge Amit Mehta in late January to four months behind bars after a jury …

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the 2024 ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. There are no cameras in the courtroom, but since the pandemic, the court has livestreamed its argument …

Mediaite reports: Rudy Giuliani said in bankruptcy court on Wednesday that Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign owes him $2 million in legal fees. “At that point, he had a tremendous number of complaints that there had been fraud in the election,” Giuliani said in a meeting with creditors and the office of the U.S. Trustee in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, “if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,” even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate. …

The Washington Post reports: The irony of Donald Trump’s assertion that he would seek to have dictatorial powers for the first day of his presidency is that he was supposed to be saying he had no authoritarian inclinations at all. Hannity aired clips of observers offering warnings about Trump’s embrace of authoritarian rhetoric and offered Trump a chance to tamp …

The Hill reports: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) took a dig at former President Trump in a House floor speech on Tuesday, denying the former president’s claim that any executive could unilaterally close the southern border. Trump’s comments in a social media post Tuesday came after House Republicans shut down a bipartisan Senate border security bill, claiming that President Biden should …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company, but I can give you plenty that are, am building a list, and might just release it for the World to see. Why not, the Radical …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and stalwart Donald Trump ally, is disputing the millions he owes creditors in at least 10 lawsuits — but doesn’t dispute that he owes nearly $10,000 for overdraft of his checking account. Documents filed in New York on Monday in Giuliani’s bankruptcy case show that he is challenging …

The Daily Beast reports: In an email to the AG and Trump defense team on Monday, Justice Arthur F. Engoron asked for both sides to respond to the news that former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is secretly negotiating a guilty plea with another law enforcement agency: the Manhattan District Attorney. “As the presiding magistrate, the trier of …

“There’s really three major findings that the D.C. Court of Appeals makes here. First of all, they reject this notion of blanket immunity. They say it is not, and cannot be, that a president simply can never be charged for anything that happens during his time in office. “Second, the Court of Appeals in D.C. says, if we’re asking the …

The Hill reports: “Prosecuting a President for official acts violates the Constitution and threatens the bedrock of our Republic. President Trump respectfully disagrees with the DC Circuit’s decision and will appeal it in order to safeguard the Presidency and the Constitution,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. Cheung echoed the argument Trump himself has made repeatedly in …

“In November 2020, I reported that election fraud had occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania during the 2020 Presidential Election. This story was based on Richard Hopkins’ claim that he had overheard Robert Weisenbach, the Erie Postmaster, direct another USPS supervisor to illegally backdate mail-in ballots. “Mr. Hopkins has since come to learn that he was wrong – neither Mr. Weisenbach nor …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump said during an interview Monday that he did not endorse Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who won re-election in 2022 and is now one of the architects of the immigration bill that Trump opposes. The problem: Trump did endorse him. “Just to correct the record, I did not endorse Sen. Lankford. I didn’t do it. …

“Almost anyone that President Trump is considering and would consider as a serious running mate can absolutely beat Kamala Harris in a debate. I think that Tim Scott checks a lot of the boxes, somebody who dropped out of the race and is actively campaigning for President Trump, but who will eat into this notion that the Democrats have a …

CNN reports: Most Americans want to see a verdict on the federal charges former President Donald Trump faces related to election subversion in 2020 before this year’s presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. About half of Americans, 48%, say it’s essential that a verdict is reached before the election, and another 16% that they’d prefer …

Politico Magazine today published a number of takes about the potential fallout should the Supreme Court actually disqualify Trump from the ballot. Here’s the first one, authored by a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellow: The question carries the implicit suggestion that we should worry about violence from a Supreme Court decision more than from other possible outcomes. In fact, …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done. This Bill is a great gift to the Democrats, and a Death …

NBC News reports: On the original ballot, Biden and Trump are tied 42%-42% among voters ages 18 to 34. But when these voters are asked about their ballot choice if Trump is convicted, they break for Biden by 15 points, 47%-32%. Similarly, Latinos go from Trump 42%, Biden 41% on the first ballot — to Biden 45%, Trump 35% on …

The Daily Beast reports: Ann Coulter didn’t mince her words when asked what former president Donald Trump could do to “help us take America back.” “Maybe he could die?” she wrote on X. The one-time MAGA supporter—and author of In Trump We Trust—became a born-again anti-Trumper in recent years, admitting she was “a very stupid girl” to support Trump in …