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Merrick Garland appoints peculiar counsel to oversee Trump investigations
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The Justice Department is reportedly seeking to question Mike Pence arsenic portion of its ongoing probe into January 6 and Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Mr Pence, his vice president, was successful the Capital astatine the clip of the onslaught to enactment successful the ceritfication of the results. His beingness was straight threatened by rioters during the attack, and his information squad was forced to unreserved him distant to a unafraid presumption conscionable a fewer feet from wherever attackers had breached the building.
Since then, Mr Pence has been wide that Mr Trump’s actions during the riot endangered his family. The quality is the archetypal confirmation that the DoJ’s January 6 probe has definitively expanded to see the highest levels of the White House aft months of prosecutions of lower-level offenders arsenic good arsenic members of a right-wing militia charged with seditious conspiracy.
Conservatives kick astir Trump peculiar counsel wife’s links to Michelle Obama
Conservatives are furious aft it was revealed that the woman of the authoritative appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to find whether Donald Trump volition look immoderate transgression charges is seemingly a Democratic donor who was progressive successful a documentary astir Michelle Obama.
Jack Smith, a vocation authoritative astatine the Justice Department, was tapped by Mr Garland to marque the determination regarding Mr Trump’s ineligible destiny earlier this month. It notably followed the announcement by Mr Trump that helium would question the White House a 3rd time.
Read much astir however Mr Smith is connected to Ms Obama arsenic good arsenic Joe Biden, the antheral Mr Trump has accused of weaponising the Justice Department:
John Bowden24 November 2022 07:20
Trump rages astatine Bill Barr for saying it was progressively apt ex-president would look transgression charges
Calling him “sloppy,” “weak” and a “disgruntled erstwhile employee”, Donald Trump laid into his erstwhile lawyer wide this week aft Bill Barr suggested that helium thought it was present apt that national prosecutors would indict him implicit his retention of documents astatine Mar-a-Lago.
Mr Trump besides claimed that the Mar-a-Lago documents lawsuit was a hoax. “He knows thing astir the papers hoax, and arsenic a lawyer and erstwhile AG, shouldn’t beryllium talking.”
Read much astir Mr Trump’s latest meltdown successful effect to the betrayal of a erstwhile ally:
John Bowden24 November 2022 06:20
Judge warns Trump helium needs to lawyer up days earlier E Jean Carroll expected to record rape case
A national justice warned Donald Trump to determine connected his lawyers, and fast, up of a coming suit from writer E Jean Carroll accusing Mr Trump of raping her successful a Manhattan section store successful the 1990s.
The informing came connected Tuesday, during a league successful a defamation suit Ms Carroll filed aft Mr Trump called the writer’s allegations, archetypal aired successful an excerpt of her memoir published successful New York magazine, mendacious and an effort to drum up publicity.
“Your lawsuit has known this is coming for months, and helium would beryllium well-advised to determine who’s representing him successful it,” US territory justice Lewis Kaplan told Alina Habba, the erstwhile president’s lawyer successful the defamation case, connected Tuesday.
Read much astir the case’s caller developments successful The Independent:
John Bowden24 November 2022 05:20
Why bash Democrats attraction astir Donald Trump’s taxation returns?
The Supreme Court has dealt a last stroke to Donald Trump successful his years-long conflict to shield his taxation returns from Congress.
It was a triumph for Democrats connected an contented that seems astir antique present — the contented of Mr Trump’s finances took a backmost spot for galore successful the media and Democrats particularly aft January 6 and Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
With the House Ways and Means Committee present acceptable to person copies of Mr Trump’s taxation returns from galore years, it’s worthy looking backmost to refresh our memories of precisely wherefore those documents are truthful important.
John Bowden24 November 2022 04:20
Tucker Carlson impermanent says shootings volition proceed until ‘evil agenda’ of sex affirming attraction ends
Twitter users who came retired successful enactment of cheery and transgender Americans reacted with daze and disgust aft a impermanent connected Tucker Carlon’s immensely fashionable Fox amusement claimed that much attacks similar the Colorado Springs shooting would hap unless doctors ceased performing voluntary gender-affirming attraction for immoderate American.
It was a infinitesimal viewed arsenic a nonstop menace of unit by those who circulated the video connected Twitter and came arsenic immoderate conservatives loudly protested being linked to the aforesaid rhetoric that is present blamed for inspiring the attack.
Read much astir the right’s effect to what is progressively looking similar the astir convulsive enactment specifically targeting a cheery assemblage since the Pulse nightclub shooting:
John Bowden24 November 2022 03:20
Trump's long-teased White House bid is debased cardinal successful 1st week
From the infinitesimal helium near the White House successful decision past year, Donald Trump had teased the imaginable of a 3rd statesmanlike campaign. But successful the week since helium officially declared his candidacy, the erstwhile president has been uncharacteristically debased key.
There has been nary monolithic stadium kickoff rally, notable for idiosyncratic who has turned specified events into a signature of his nationalist life. His recently reinstated Twitter account, which helped substance his governmental emergence astir a decennary ago, sits soundless with its much than 87 cardinal followers.
With parts of the GOP successful unfastened rebellion, is Donald Trump genuinely inactive the person of the party?
Read more:
John Bowden24 November 2022 02:27
Montana antheral gets 3 years successful situation for relation successful Capitol riot
A Montana antheral who was among the archetypal radical to illegally participate the U.S. Capitol portion Congress was certifying President Joe Biden's triumph successful the 2020 predetermination has been sentenced to conscionable implicit 3 years successful national prison.
Joshua Hughes, 39, and his brother, Jerod Hughes, 37, pleaded blameworthy successful August to obstruction of an authoritative proceeding.
Read much astir this proceedings and others involving January 6 defendents arsenic the DoJ expands its probe to see erstwhile President Donald Trump himself:
John Bowden24 November 2022 01:20
One setback aft different for Donald Trump – but does it truly matter?
The atrocious quality keeps coming for Donald Trump. In the aftermath of immoderate of his high-profile endorsements getting the thumbs-down from the electorate came his low-energy 2024 motorboat speech. Videos showed immoderate of his ain guests trying to flight arsenic helium meandered endlessly on, whining and squinnying for each helium was worth. Even Fox News chopped distant for a while, possibly to springiness their viewers a much-needed break.
Absent from the code were immoderate high-profile supporters – including his ain girl and erstwhile aide, Ivanka. But that’s nary crushed to number the erstwhile president retired conscionable yet, writes Phil Thomas successful The Independent:
John Bowden24 November 2022 00:24
Like a Thanksgiving Turkey, Joe Biden was ‘pardoned’ by the midterms
If determination was a peculiarly light-footed jocularity astir Joe Biden this week arsenic helium pardoned turkeys Chocolate and Chip, which had been brought from North Carolina, it was understandable: the present 80-year-old Biden was mounting disconnected for a household gathering successful Nantucket aft having conscionable witnessed Democrats bask a midterm predetermination results not bettered successful 20 years.
In seeing disconnected a imaginable “red wave” and managing to bent onto the Senate, contempt his debased support rating, a turbulent system and humanities precedence that says parties that inhabit the White House thin to instrumentality a pounding successful this cycle, the midterms whitethorn person besides acted arsenic the Democrats’ ain pardoning of sorts of the president.
Andrew Buncombe has much connected the president’s reprieve successful The Independent:
John Bowden23 November 2022 23:15
Herschel Walker makes awkward ‘erection’ gaffe amid termination scandal
Former shot prima turned Republican Senate campaigner Herschel Walker connected Tuesday appeared to confuse the antiauthoritarian process with an highly delicate anatomical 1 erstwhile helium mistakenly referred to an aroused antheral intersexual organ during an interrogation connected Fox News.
Flanked by Texas Senator Ted Cruz and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Mr Walker was successful the midst of responding to a question from Fox News big Sean Hannity erstwhile helium committed the Freudian slip.
Watch the infinitesimal and work much successful this nonfiction from Andrew Feinberg, for The Independent:
John Bowden23 November 2022 22:10
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