President Trump

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“This Is Probably Bad for Former President Trump”: The DOJ Does ... (Vanity Fair)

Last month we learned that Donald Trump's attorneys are “planning for criminal charges” from the Department of Justice, an effort that ramped up in the wake ...

In March, a federal judge wrote that Eastman and Trump very likely committed a crime in attempting to overturn the election, and noted that “the illegality of the plan was obvious.” In addition to being the highest-ranking member of the White House staff to have been called to testify by the feds to date, Cipollone was in the West Wing while Trump’s supporters, egged on by the then commander in chief at the “Stop the Steal” rally, attacked the Capitol. As The New York Times notes, Cipollone “also attended several meetings in the run-up to the riot in which Mr. Trump and his allies discussed how they could overturn the election and keep him in office.” In a previously taped recording that aired during the final January 6 hearing of the summer, Cipollone told the panel he believed the president should have done more to call off the angry mob. On Tuesday, ABC News reported that in a “dramatic escalation in the Justice Department’s investigation” of the plot to overturn the 2020 election and the violent insurrection that followed, the department had subpoenaed Pat Cipollone, White House counsel during the Trump administration. No. But we’ve gotten to a point where if you don’t think criminal charges are at least somewhat likely, you are not serving the [former] president’s best interests.” And while it’s possible the DOJ could decline to indict the former guy, recent developments suggest he might not get that lucky. “I think I was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response, statement, public statement, that people need to leave the Capitol now,” he said. No.… Do they think the Department of Justice would be wise to charge him?

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Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and ... (The Guardian)

If Trump or any of the likely Republican nominees win in 2024, they will immediately move to protect those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election.

Cooperation is already reported to have begun among the lawyer-enablers of Trump’s coup plotting. That is one of the main charges that observers believe federal prosecutors could bring against Trump. Part of why a lengthy post-indictment/pre-verdict period is foreseeable is that federal district courts are bound to protect an accused’s rights to full airing of pre-trial claims and the time needed to file and argue them. It is not hard to imagine a majority of supreme court justices in no great hurry to resolve motions upon which the start of trial could depend. Time is of the essence in bringing his case to indictment. With the growing list of deletions, there is a whole new criminal conspiracy to investigate: one to destroy evidence of the grave federal crimes already under investigation.

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Donald Trump's legal team in contact with Justice Dept. officials in ... (USA TODAY)

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump's legal team has been in contact with Justice Department officials involved in the Capitol attack investigation ...

Trump is not only dealing with aspects of a Justice Department inquiry. the Trump statement said. Cipollone urged then-President Donald Trump to intervene as rioters stormed the Capitol and defended Justice Department officials in rejecting Trump's demands to pursue false allegations of election fraud.

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Former Republican vice president labels Trump a 'coward' and liar (Sky News Australia)

Former United States vice president Richard "Dick" Cheney has lashed out at Donald Trump and labelled him as the "greatest threat" to America.

“Liz is fearless, she never backs down from a fight. “He lost his election and he lost big. He is a coward, a real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Stream more US news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. Former Republican vice president Richard 'Dick' Cheney insists there has never been "a greater threat to our republic" than Donald Trump and labelled the former president a "coward" who lied to his supporters.

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Exclusive: Trump lawyers in talks with Justice Department about ... (CNN)

The talks revolve around whether Trump would be able to shield conversations he had while he was president from federal investigators.

Yet, according to a source familiar with the relationship, Trump and Meadows have spoken a number of times. Since then, he's never been a big part of the political operation or [Trump's] thought process," said a second person close to Trump. "How can any future President ever have private conversations with his attorneys, counselors, and other senior advisors if any such advisor is forced, either during or after the Presidency, in front of an Unselect Committee or other entity, and be forced to reveal those privileged, confidential discussions?" "President Trump will not be deterred by witch hunts or kangaroo courts from continuing to defend and fight for America, our Constitution, and the Truth." Trump has grilled his attorneys on whether they actually believe he will face formal charges, sources said. The conversations have not been previously reported.

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Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. sat for depositions as part of NY probe ... (CNN)

Former President Donald Trump is expected to testify later this month. A lawyer for Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump declined to comment, and representatives from ...

The New York attorney general's investigation is in an advanced stage. The judge lifted the contempt order He was involved in several properties, including 40 Wall Street, and certified the accuracy of the financial statements from 2017 forward, the attorney general's office has said. The New York attorney general's office declined to comment. It is not clear what he was asked or how he answered the questions. Ivanka Trump's behind-closed-doors deposition took place Wednesday and Trump Jr. had his deposition last Thursday, the people said.

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Ivanka Trump and Donald Jr. deposed in New York AG probe: report (The Hill)

Former President Trump's two children sat for depositions in the New York attorney general's probe into Trump's business and finances, CNN reported ...

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Dining across the divide: 'I was bewildered when she said Donald ... (The Guardian)

Voting record Mostly Green, or Labour if there's no Green – and Lib Dem to support friends who are local councillors. Never Tory! Amuse bouche As a teenager, ...

You might want to employ a person with better qualifications and a work ethic – an engineer in their home country, who ends up stacking shelves at Tesco – but that means some young person in Britain will lose out. Suzy I wasn’t interested in the economic pros or cons of Brexit. My reasons for supporting it were political. She didn’t seem to like the idea that people actually want to make a profit from business – if you tax them more, or make them pay a living wage, there’ll be no incentive for them to do business. The majority of people are not wealthy enough to hide their money in the Virgin Islands. Alix I’m a vegetarian and we agreed to start by sharing the Greek meze platter, so that was nice. Alix seemed friendly, open to the world, intelligent and forceful, as a woman should be.

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Dick Cheney calls Donald Trump a 'coward' in new ad supporting ... (CNN)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticizes former President Donald Trump as a "threat to our republic" and a "coward" in a new campaign ad for his ...

"There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office." Her rivals have attacked Cheney over her role as one of two Republicans on the January 6 panel, and have dismissed that probe's importance. I know it, he knows it and, deep down, I think most Republicans know it," Cheney says.

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Opinion | With Trump, It's 2015 All Over Again (POLITICO Magazine)

Rich Lowry is editor in chief of National Review and a contributing editor with Politico Magazine. After watching Donald Trump ascend to power and crash back ...

Rather than an outsider who has to be grateful for every small crumb of support from Republican officialdom, Trump owns the RNC, has elected officials he endorsed — from governor to dogcatcher — scattered all over the landscape, has a government in waiting in the form of various “America First” entities, and is lavishly funded. According to the RealClearPolitics run-down of primary polls from Florida in the 2016 race, Trump hasn’t been losing to another Republican in the Sunshine State since July 2015, way back when another native son, Jeb Bush, was leading in Florida. This would remain true until he got the nomination in the spring of 2016. Or consider Florida. A couple of polls conducted the last couple of weeks have DeSantis beating Trump in Florida. Needless to say, it’s very favorable terrain for the home-state governor. Are they the redoubt of die-hards who show up in considerable numbers but are also a relatively small number of Republican voters? Trump has had monstrous 30- or 40-point leads in the national polling over potential competitors, but a recent USA TODAY/Suffolk poll had him at just 9 points over Ron DeSantis nationally. As much as anything, the rallies were a metonymy for the larger Trump phenomenon. Are they an echo of the past rather than a sign of future vitality? In 2015 and 2016, these pundits thought people might be showing up for the entertainment, or to see what the fuss was about. These doubts are perhaps another sign of wishful thinking on the part of people hoping Trump will fail to launch or go away, just like when he was about to descend the famous escalator. Still, there’s a school of thought that believes he hasn’t truly decided whether to run and could pull up short if conditions don’t look propitious or he doesn’t feel up to it for some other reason. And would he really want to go through the paces of disclosing his finances?

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Trump likely to be criminally charged in DOJ election probe along ... (CNBC)

Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder said a Georgia prosecutor is more likely to act sooner than the Justice Department against Donald Trump.

"Put that before a jury ... Regular people, looking at the evidence, I think, will get to what I think is an appropriate conclusion." Look at the Justice Department in 2023," Holder said. "You watch the Justice Department in 2023," Holder said. Holder in his interview said the pace of the Justice Department investigation into election meddling is likely to proceed in the same way that a character in the Ernest Hemingway novel "The Sun Also Rises" answered when another character asked how he went bankrupt: "Gradually, then suddenly." But Holder suggested that before that happens, Trump is more likely to first face possible criminal charges from the Georgia state prosecutor who is investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to undo President Joe Biden's win there in 2020. - "I expect you're going to see the pace of this investigation or these investigations pick up," Holder said.

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Cheney calls Trump a 'coward' in campaign ad for his daughter (The Washington Post)

Former vice president Dick Cheney, in a campaign ad for his eldest daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), said former president Donald Trump is a “coward” and ...

Which primaries are the most competitive? Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. Here’s a complete calendar of all the primaries in 2022. In the ad, the former vice president wears a white cowboy hat and speaks directly to the camera. The former president has repeatedly spread false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney rips 'coward' Trump in election ... (CNBC)

The ad came as polls show Cheney trailing her top Republican opponent, Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, by wide margins.

"Liz is fearless. Dick Cheney has been involved in these talks as well, CNBC previously reported. Cheney is Trump's biggest Republican critic in Congress and a leading member of the House select committee investigating him over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Polls of the Aug. 16 Wyoming primary show Cheney trailing her top Republican opponent, Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, by wide margins. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it." A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters," Cheney said.

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Dick Cheney calls Trump a 'coward' in ad for daughter's reelection (Politico)

There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” the former vice president said in advocating for Rep.

“Lynne and I are so proud of Liz for standing up for the truth, doing what’s right, honoring her oath to the Constitution, as so many in our party are too scared to do so,” Dick Cheney said in the ad, referring to his wife. Trump’s targeting of Cheney grew more intense when she agreed to serve as the top Republican on the House Jan. 6 select committee, where she was the breakout star during a series of revealing hearings about the former president and his inner circle in the days leading up to the attack. Her father’s ad dropped less than two weeks before Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is set to face a tough challenge from a Trump-backed candidate, attorney Harriet Hageman, in her Aug. 16 primary. He lost his election, and he lost big. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.

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Dick Cheney calls Trump a 'coward' and a 'threat' in ad for Liz Cheney (USA TODAY)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney called Donald Trump "a coward" and said that "a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters."

"There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office," Cheney said in the ad. In the ad, the elder Cheney said Trump knows he lost the election and accused him of lying to supporters about false claims of voter fraud. "It’s why people are fed up with her, and this ad just reinforces that point."

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney calls Donald Trump a "coward ... (CBS News)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney blasted former President Donald Trump, calling him a "coward" and a "threat."

I know it, he knows it and deep down, I think most Republicans know it," the 46th vice president added. There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office and she will succeed." "Liz is fearless," he added.

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'He's a Coward': Dick Cheney, in Ad for Liz, Calls Trump Threat to ... (Bloomberg)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in a campaign ad for his daughter, Liz, said no one has posed a greater threat to the Republic than Donald Trump.

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