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    Top Former Military Personnel urge Supreme Court to reject Trump Immunity Question

    Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department and Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to a new letter urging the Supreme Court to reject the Trump Immunity question from retired high ranking officers in our military, with concerns that it could upend America’s standing as protector of democracy around the world.

  • Trump: "Everything Biden Touches Turns To $hit"

    Trump: "Everything Biden Touches Turns To $hit" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a huge rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania Saturday night, Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden, reeling off a list of massive failures and urging that “everything he touches turns to shit.” Trump was speaking while Iran, which just four years ago was crippled under Trump, but in the past three years has prospered after Biden eased sanctions, decided to launch a full on military attack...

  • RNC Stands with Trump Campaign, Urges Earlier Debates

    The Republican National Committee (RNC) is standing with the Trump campaign in calling for much earlier debates.

    • MSNBC

    With Turning Point USA at the wheel, Trump's campaign is in for a bumpy ride

    We're in the thick of election season, and the MAGA movement appears to be letting young influencers drive the Trump campaign. And as with many novice drivers, this is shaping up to be a pretty bumpy ride. I’ve written a lot about the rising power of younger conservative activists, particularly affiliates of Turning Point USA, within the Republican Party. But lately, they have been flexing their influence over Team Trump’s public relations efforts, as well as some of its policy priorities. And...

  • Trump trial turns ordinary task of jury selection into the extraordinary

    Procedures that played out in New York courtroom were banal, but their significance was historic: the first US president facing a criminal trialJury duty in America can often be a banal affair, a day spent in a courthouse filling out forms and telling lawyers when you scheduled your next vacation.But for those New Yorkers summoned to the state courthouse on Monday it was a day when the ordinary had become extraordinary. They arrived to a frenetic scene of loud protest and high security in...

  • Opinion: Trump turns his trials into a soapbox. Does he know he's channeling Hitler?

    When Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason on April 1, 1924, for leading an armed insurrection against Germany’s democratically elected government, he discovered something remarkable: Courtrooms can make excellent soapboxes for political grandstanding. In real time, 100 years later, we’ve been watching another political leader, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, do the same. The echoes are uncanny and disturbing. During his monthlong trial in March 1924,...

  • US to Reimpose Venezuela Oil Ban Unless Maduro Acts Quickly

    (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s administration intends to reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela, ending a six-month reprieve, if Nicolas Maduro’s regime does not take steps in the next two days

  • 'Very negative message': Expert warns Trump could have already turned jurors against him

    Multiple instances have been reported of Donald Trump falling asleep in court — or possibly "resting his eyes," as MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell put it on Tuesday. While it's understandable that the minutia of a courtroom can be dull, jury consultant David Henderson said that his sleepiness could really affect the individuals who will decide Trump's fate. "People who show up for jury duty and stay, who don't say 'I can't do this' and look for the first opportunity to get out, what I found is when...

  • News Orgs Urge Biden And Trump To Commit To 2024 Presidential Debates

    Twelve news organizations on Sunday urged presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates, saying they were a “rich tradition” that have been part of every general election campaign since 1976. While Trump, who did not participate in debates for the Republican nomination, has indicated a willingness to take on his […]

  • Donald Trump: Everything Joe Biden 'Touches Turns to Sh t'

    While speaking at a political rally in Schnecksville, PA, on Saturday night, former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden, saying that everything he "touches turns to sh t."

  • Colombian Leader Petro Meets Venezuela Opposition Candidate With Maduro's Consen

    Colombia’s Gustavo Petro met with Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales during a whirlwind visit to Caracas as he positions himself as a mediator in the political crisis that has engulfed the neighboring country, according to people familiar with the matter.

    • MSNBC

    Retired military leaders warn of the threat to democracy if Trump is found to be immune

    Former military leaders are sounding the alarm ahead of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court immunity hearing later this month. Retired four-star admirals and generals, along with former secretaries of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, want to warn the justices about the dangers of his presidential immunity claim. Unless Trump’s theory is rejected, they wrote in an amicus brief, “we risk jeopardizing America’s standing as a guardian of democracy in the world and further feeding the spread of...