Transcripts reveal Trump threatened Mike Pence ahead of Jan 6 Capitol riot: Latest

The Impartial’s Kelly Rissman staked out Trump Tower, the place vacationers, locals, and mask-covered Trump impersonators collide, to take a temperature verify on the chance that the lawyer common might seize the golden-plated property.

John Bowden reviews from Washington, DC:

Democratic lawmaker Jared Moskowitz is more and more working to show the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden right into a spectacle because the proof gathered by his committee seems to nonetheless lack the votes to go even the hardline Republican-held Home of Representatives.

Regardless of saying about ten days in the past that he’s open to cuts in Social Safety and Medicare, Donald Trump has taken to Reality Social to try to make clear his place in an effort to stroll again a speaking level that might turn into a critical electoral legal responsibility with older voters.

The previous president wrote:

In contrast to the Democrats, who’re KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE by permitting the INVASION OF THE MIGRANTS, I’ll NOT, underneath any circumstance, enable both of those two valuable GEMS to be even touched underneath a Trump Administration. Biden is killing them each with the INVASION, whereas on the identical time destroying our Nation! MAGA2024

CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS THE WORST PRESIDENT, BY FAR, IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. MAGA2024!

Staunch Trump ally (and touted as a doable Veep choose) Republican Rep Elise Stefanik of New York launched the next assertion on the New York Legal professional Common’s obvious transfer to doubtlessly seize Donald Trump’s Westchester County golf property.

The weaponization in opposition to Joe Biden’s political opponent, President Donald Trump, is a completely unprecedented type of election interference. It’s basically un-American that Tish James and Choose Engoron—with out even a jury—imposed an unconstitutionally punitive almost half billion judgment in opposition to Trump. And now they’re punishing President Trump for exercising his proper to enchantment by making an attempt to grab his belongings. The New York appellate courts should instantly cease this. In any other case, key companies—and essential jobs—are going to proceed to flee our state.

Joe Sommerlad wrote this who’s who of who went to jail:

Kimmel’s crew took a visit over to a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina to quiz a few of his supporters with questions you’ll discover on a US citizenship take a look at.

Earlier this month, her workplace took step one in doing simply that.

Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis plans to re-up her request that Choose Scott McAfee set a trial date for as early as this summer time in Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference legal case, in keeping with reporting by CNN.

Beforehand, Ms Willis had requested that the trial start in August.

After a two-month detour wherein the defendants tried to take away Ms Willis from the case, the DA’s workplace is making an attempt to get issues again on observe to attempt the case earlier than November’s election.

Ms Willis additionally faces investigations by Georgia’s Republicans concerning her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade who has since left the case.

After which there’s the Supreme Court docket’s looming choice on whether or not the previous president enjoys absolute immunity from particular counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion costs, one that might have an effect on varied legal proceedings in opposition to Trump. Any ruling in favor of the previous president from the excessive court docket could possibly be a significant blow to each legal instances in opposition to Trump associated to the 2020 election, together with in Georgia. Hearings start in April, with a choice anticipated by the top of June.

Sources near the Fulton County DA’s workplace say the uncertainty of the federal case doesn’t forestall McAfee from setting a trial date. Fulton County prosecutors mentioned in a latest e mail to protection attorneys they deliberate to reply to Trump’s immunity declare inside two weeks of the Supreme Court docket’s choice, in keeping with a supply acquainted with the correspondence.

Prosecutors consider McAfee can put the immunity challenge to the facet till the Supreme Court docket guidelines whereas, within the interim, making certain the Georgia case is as near prepared as doable if the justices determine Trump could be prosecuted, a number of sources acquainted with the considering inside Willis’s workplace inform CNN.