Morning Joe trolls Trump with supercut of his latest gaffes
Newsweek has revealed an op-ed by Donald Trump framed as an attraction for the votes of young individuals taking part in on their monetary considerations and the cost of dwelling inflicting Gen Z and Millennial {couples} to place their lives on maintain by way of marriage and additional training.
He lays all of the blame on President Joe Biden and his “war on young people” earlier than taking a darker flip towards conventional Maga territory with boilerplate warnings about “the Radical Left”, violent crime, World War III, Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, medication, and the southern border.
A recent ballot urged that extra young voters are leaning towards the previous president within the 2024 election.
In a court docket submitting late on Monday, Mr Trump’s federal election interference case legal professionals urged that Mike Pence cooperated with federal prosecutors to keep away from felony fees for retaining labeled paperwork. They consult with testimony he gave Special Counsel Jack Smith relating to the occasions main as much as the January 6 Capitol riot.
Mr Pence had an incentive to “[provide] information that is consistent with the Biden Administration’s preferred, and false, narrative” within the investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election, they allege.
Cheney: McCarthy visited Mar-a-Lago after Jan 6 as a result of Trump was depressed
Oliver O’Connell30 November 2023 06:30
Something for you Maga-loving uncle and aunt…
Former President Donald Trump is cashing in on his authorized troubles any method he can.
According to Mr Trump’s marketing campaign web site, his workplace is now promoting “never surrender” Christmas objects emblazoned together with his mugshot, together with wrapping paper and a stocking.
Mr Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” baseball caps are additionally being provided within the conventional crimson and inexperienced with a Christmas lights embellishment.
The hats are at present on sale for $50 every, whereas the wrapping paper is being offered for $35. The stocking is priced at $25.
Oliver O’Connell30 November 2023 04:30
GOP megadonor Koch community backs Haley over DeSantis
The Republican donor community managed by billionaire Charles Koch is getting off the sidelines and backing Nikki Haley for the 2024 Republican nomination, a serious boon for her marketing campaign as she battles with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the runner-up spot.
Americans for Prosperity Action introduced on Tuesday that it was throwing its help behind Ms Haley’s marketing campaign in what is bound to have been a serious disappointment for Mr DeSantis, who had lengthy been thought of Donald Trump’s predominant rival for the GOP nomination however has seen his bid for the White House falter within the wake of Ms Haley’s rise.
“When we announced our decision to engage in our first ever Republican presidential primary, we made it clear that we’d be looking for a candidate who can turn the page on our political dysfunction – and win. It’s clear that candidate is Nikki Haley,” CEO Emily Siedel stated.
John Bowden has the story.
Oliver O’Connell30 November 2023 03:30
NY fraud trial: Deutsche Bank was eager to land a ‘whale’ of a consumer in Trump, paperwork present
Deutsche Bank seen Donald Trump as a “whale” of a consumer, was wanting to land him and eagerly cultivated a relationship that grew from $13,000 price of income to $6 million in two years, in response to paperwork introduced Wednesday on the former president’s civil fraud trial.
The financial institution’s dealings with Trump are a key subject in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, which accuses Trump, his firm and a few executives of hoodwinking lenders and insurers by presenting them with grossly inflated statements of his asset values.
The defendants deny any wrongdoing. They have sought to indicate that the financial institution felt delighted, not deceived, by Trump and courted his business.
Oliver O’Connell30 November 2023 02:30
Students for Trump co-founder arrested
According to court docket information from Johnston County, Mr Fournier, 27, is accused of grabbing the girl by her proper arm and hanging her within the head with a 9mm SIG Sauer firearm on 21 November.
Axios reported that the girl concerned within the attack sustained minor accidents within the incident. Identifying data for the girl has been redacted from court docket information.
Michelle Del Rey stories.
Students for Trump co-founder arrested
According to court docket information from Johnston County, Mr Fournier, 27, is accused of grabbing the girl by her proper arm and hanging her within the head with a 9mm SIG Sauer firearm on 21 November.
Axios reported that the girl concerned within the attack sustained minor accidents within the incident. Identifying data for the girl has been redacted from court docket information.
Michelle Del Rey stories.
Oliver O’Connell30 November 2023 01:30
Charles Bullock, a political science professor on the University of Georgia, famous Georgia’s election outcomes have been tallied 3 times in 2020: the preliminary Election Day rely, the hand-counted audit and a remaining recount by voting machine requested by Trump’s marketing campaign. All 3 times, Biden prevailed.
“It’s misleading to claim this is fraud,” Bullock stated by cellphone. “Were there errors? Yes. But they were not malicious.”
Corbitt, the Fulton County spokesperson, declined to handle Trump’s claims immediately, however confused elections within the county have undergone quite a few critiques moreover the audit investigation.
“In the face of this intensive scrutiny, no fraud has ever been identified in Fulton County elections,” she wrote in an e mail. “Unfortunately, various parties continue to spread misinformation about previous Fulton County elections.”
Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung maintained that the audit errors recommend greater than 4,000 “false votes for Joe Biden” have been counted.
“These errors from one county, in one category of votes (absentee ballots), could certainly have impacted the results, given that no other counties or vote categories were checked,” he wrote in an e mail. Cheung didn’t reply to requests to elaborate on the figures he cited.
But consultants agree with the assessment’s findings that the errors couldn’t have swung the election decisively to Trump.
“There’s nothing nefarious here,” Trey Hood, a political science professor on the University of Georgia, stated by cellphone Monday. “It’s irrelevant to the election outcome.”
Trump and 18 different persons are going through fees in Georgia that embody collaborating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally attempt to maintain Trump in energy after his 2020 loss.
Four individuals have pleaded responsible after reaching offers with Georgia prosecutors. The remaining 15 have pleaded not responsible, and no trial date has been set.
Charles Bullock, a political science professor on the University of Georgia, famous Georgia’s election outcomes have been tallied 3 times in 2020: the preliminary Election Day rely, the hand-counted audit and a remaining recount by voting machine requested by Trump’s marketing campaign. All 3 times, Biden prevailed.
“It’s misleading to claim this is fraud,” Bullock stated by cellphone. “Were there errors? Yes. But they were not malicious.”
Corbitt, the Fulton County spokesperson, declined to handle Trump’s claims immediately, however confused elections within the county have undergone quite a few critiques moreover the audit investigation.
“In the face of this intensive scrutiny, no fraud has ever been identified in Fulton County elections,” she wrote in an e mail. “Unfortunately, various parties continue to spread misinformation about previous Fulton County elections.”
Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung maintained that the audit errors recommend greater than 4,000 “false votes for Joe Biden” have been counted.
“These errors from one county, in one category of votes (absentee ballots), could certainly have impacted the results, given that no other counties or vote categories were checked,” he wrote in an e mail. Cheung didn’t reply to requests to elaborate on the figures he cited.
But consultants agree with the assessment’s findings that the errors couldn’t have swung the election decisively to Trump.
“There’s nothing nefarious here,” Trey Hood, a political science professor on the University of Georgia, stated by cellphone Monday. “It’s irrelevant to the election outcome.”
Trump and 18 different persons are going through fees in Georgia that embody collaborating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally attempt to maintain Trump in energy after his 2020 loss.
Four individuals have pleaded responsible after reaching offers with Georgia prosecutors. The remaining 15 have pleaded not responsible, and no trial date has been set.
But the errors don’t change the result of the 2020 election in Georgia, during which Biden garnered greater than 12,000 votes than Trump to take a shock win in a historically crimson state, election officers and consultants say.
It additionally isn’t proof of felony wrongdoing or voter fraud, as Trump and others suggest.
“There was, in fact, no crime,” Jessica Corbitt, a spokesperson for the Fulton County Board of Elections, responded in an e mail this week. “The consent order addresses procedural issues but there were no accusations or admissions of criminal activity.”
The order recognized 36 inconsistencies in batch tally sheets for the audit, however discovered they have been on account of “human error” and never “intentional misconduct.” It additionally discovered they didn’t have an effect on the ultimate election outcomes as they represented a “fractional number” of the votes forged.
The goal of the risk-limiting audit was to substantiate whether or not the outcomes of the unique tabulation have been correct, which the audit confirmed,” reads the order.
The county agreed to take remedial steps to forestall repeat points, in response to the order. Those insurance policies and procedures have been put in place in time for the 2022 election.
The court docket submitting moreover states that it represents a “civil settlement” with “no criminal ramifications” and isn’t an request for forgiveness or legal responsibility by Fulton County officers.
But the errors don’t change the result of the 2020 election in Georgia, during which Biden garnered greater than 12,000 votes than Trump to take a shock win in a historically crimson state, election officers and consultants say.
It additionally isn’t proof of felony wrongdoing or voter fraud, as Trump and others suggest.
“There was, in fact, no crime,” Jessica Corbitt, a spokesperson for the Fulton County Board of Elections, responded in an e mail this week. “The consent order addresses procedural issues but there were no accusations or admissions of criminal activity.”
The order recognized 36 inconsistencies in batch tally sheets for the audit, however discovered they have been on account of “human error” and never “intentional misconduct.” It additionally discovered they didn’t have an effect on the ultimate election outcomes as they represented a “fractional number” of the votes forged.
The goal of the risk-limiting audit was to substantiate whether or not the outcomes of the unique tabulation have been correct, which the audit confirmed,” reads the order.
The county agreed to take remedial steps to forestall repeat points, in response to the order. Those insurance policies and procedures have been put in place in time for the 2022 election.
The court docket submitting moreover states that it represents a “civil settlement” with “no criminal ramifications” and isn’t an request for forgiveness or legal responsibility by Fulton County officers.
AP Fact Check: Trump misleadingly cites ‘duplicate’ ballots in disputed Georgia county as proof of election fraud
CLAIM: A recent court docket submitting revealed that 3,600 “duplicate” ballots have been forged for Biden and illegally counted in Fulton County, Georgia in the course of the 2020 election.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. A state assessment of the county’s audit of the 2020 presidential race discovered errors and inconsistencies within the vote rely, together with some double counting of ballots. But the errors weren’t sufficient to change the election outcomes, in response to the assessment and outdoors consultants. They additionally weren’t deemed felony, as social media posts declare.
THE FACTS: Former President Donald Trump is constant to forged doubt on the 2020 election ends in Georgia as he seeks a return to the White House amid myriad authorized instances, together with election interference fees within the Peach State.
In recent days, he’s taken to social media to assert a authorized submitting in Georgia’s Fulton County, which incorporates Atlanta, proves that hundreds of ballots have been illegally double counted within the battleground state he narrowly misplaced to President Joe Biden in 2020.
“Fulton County, Georgia, acknowledges, in a major Consent Decree, that 3,600 individual ballots were DUPLICATED,” the Republican wrote in a publish on his social media platform Truth Social. “THAT’S A LOT OF CRIME. When are the rest of the facts coming out? We are all waiting. This is just the beginning. UNBELIEVABLE!”
The declare has since been broadly shared on different social media websites together with Instagram and X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter.
“3,600 duplicate ballots in Georgia? What are your thoughts?” wrote one consumer on Instagram who shared a video of Trump’s feedback.
Trump’s posts consult with a June consent order that discovered Fulton County election staff “misidentified and duplicated” voting outcomes in the course of the state-mandated audit of the 2020 election, which was a hand recount of the presidential race outcomes.
Sununu reveals who he’ll vote for in Trump-Biden matchup
New Hampshire’s average Republican governor has walked a positive line as a centre-right Republican in a celebration that’s trending increasingly more to the extremes.
For instance, whereas criticising the implementation of Mr Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure invoice over what he seen as inadequate freeway funds for his state, for instance, the governor additionally issued a stern rebuke aimed toward members of his personal occasion’s conservative wing who sought retribution towards these members who had voted for the laws.
John Bowden stories on what he stated when requested a couple of Trump-Biden showdown in 2024…
Oliver O’Connell29 November 2023 23:30
Report: Lawyer warned Trump it might be against the law to not adjust to labeled docs subpoena
One of former president Donald Trump’s present attorneys instructed particular counsel Jack Smith’s crew that, inside days of the Justice Department issuing a subpoena final yr for all labeled paperwork at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, she “very clearly” warned Trump that if he failed to completely comply — however then swore he did — “it should be against the law,” in response to sources acquainted with the matter.
Sources stated the lawyer, Jennifer Little, instructed investigators Trump “completely” understood the warning, which got here throughout a pivotal assembly at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and one other legal professional, Evan Corcoran, who had lately joined Trump’s authorized crew.
What Little allegedly instructed Smith’s crew earlier this yr might shed additional gentle on how Smith got here to accuse Trump of knowingly violating the legislation, saying in his June 9 indictment towards Trump that the previous president defied a subpoena by hiding greater than 100 labeled paperwork from the FBI and even his personal authorized crew, after which having his authorized crew certify in any other case.
Oliver O’Connell29 November 2023 22:40
