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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalA NY appellate court judge has DENIED Trump's attempt to stay his criminal case/trial while his appeal of the gag order
https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1777744102211080559Jack Smith has filed his SCOTUS brief on immunity issue
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1777480048871633094
https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1777484371638845594
Here is a link to the filing
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/306999/20240408191803801_United%20States%20v.%20Trump%20final%20for%20filing.pdf
Majority Leader Schumer Statement Marking Six Months of Captivity for Hostages Taken by Hamas
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1777149034039329142
Veterans group slams GOP's Tim Sheehy on evolving gunshot story
Republican Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has a bullet stuck in his right forearm. Knowing when and how he was shot, however, is proving to be a little tricky.
https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1777372108672372869
After a family visit to Montana’s Glacier National Park [in 2015], he told a National Park Service ranger that he accidentally shot himself in the right arm that day when his Colt .45 revolver fell and discharged while he was loading his vehicle in the park, according to a record of the episode filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana.
Soon after, a ranger cited Sheehy for illegally discharging his weapon in a national park, relying on the Republican’s version of events.
Sheehy told the Post, however, that he lied to the National Park Service ranger and that he was actually shot while serving in Afghanistan. The article added, “He said he made up the story about the gun going off to protect himself and his former platoonmates from facing a potential military investigation into an old bullet wound that he said he got in Afghanistan in 2012. He said he did not know for certain whether the wound was the result of friendly fire or from enemy ammunition, and said he never reported the incident to his superiors.”
In case this weren’t quite enough, the Post went on to report, “Sheehy’s latest account of his arm wound is one of several differing descriptions he has given of being shot while deployed. In his 2023 memoir ‘Mudslingers,’ he wrote in one passage that he received multiple bullet wounds in Afghanistan. In another, he wrote that his body was hit by a bullet just once. In the book, he also offers varying accounts of how he was shot.”.....
https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1777310858168709503
.....Given that the Senate majority might very well rest on what happens in Montana in the fall, I don’t imagine we’ve heard the last of this one.
Trump's bid for emergency relief to halt trial for change of venue is denied.
https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1777444924813648290
Mike Luckovich-Planned GOP Miscarriage Recovery Rooms
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1777428870632751437
Why it matters that Trump keeps comparing himself to Nelson Mandela
The problem isn't just that Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Nelson Mandela. It's his motivation that makes the rhetoric significantly worse.
https://twitter.com/me060943/status/1777376957170086091
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/matters-trump-keeps-comparing-nelson-mandela-rcna146808
Evidently, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is still thinking along these lines. The Washington Post reported:
Former president Donald Trump said Saturday that it would be a “great honor” to be jailed for violating a gag order, marking an escalation in attacks he’s made against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and other court officials in a case about to go to trial. ... Writing on the Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump dared Merchan to throw him in jail. He also compared himself again to Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who became the first president of a post-apartheid South Africa.
Trump, of course, has an unfortunate habit of comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican recently likened his civil fraud judgment to the persecution of Jesus, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise that he sees a parallel between himself and the iconic Nobel laureate.
But I’m especially interested in what he does next. It would be Trump’s “great honor” to defy a court order, even if that means ending up in the “clink”? He’ll have plenty of opportunities to back this up before the scheduled start of the trial next week.
DOJ rebuffs House GOP's request for Hur-Biden interview audio
Source: Politico
The Justice Department is rebuffing House Republicans’ demands to hand over audio of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden.
The DOJ sent a letter to Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) saying it would not turn over the audio by the House GOP's Monday deadline. Officials warned that handing over the interview audio could negatively impact future investigations.
“Even assuming the Committees did have a remaining investigative purpose behind their request for the audio files that has not been rebutted by the information produced so far — and they has not identified one — it is critical for the Department to understand why the Committees believe they have a remaining need for the information in these files,” assistant attorney general Carlos Uriarte wrote in the letter to Comer and Jordan, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO.
They did, however, hand over the transcript of the Hur team interview with Mark Zwonitzer, Biden’s ghost writer.
House Republicans have warned they could hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department didn’t hand over information from Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. The Justice Department previously handed over transcripts of Hur’s interview with Biden, as well as providing access to documents referenced in his report, but Republicans specifically wanted the audio of the interview.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/08/congress/doj-rebuffs-house-gop-request-00151113
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1777417943212495146
Trump makes unsubtle call for immigration from 'nice' countries
There was nothing subtle about Donald Trump's use of the word “nice,” followed by his reference to countries with overwhelmingly white populations.
https://twitter.com/blury___face/status/1777376983267065939
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-unsubtle-call-immigration-nice-countries-rcna146865
A Washington Post analysis noted at the time, “That argument — that immigration changes existing ‘culture’ for the worse — is a staple of white nationalist rhetoric in the United States.”
Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking at a multimillion-dollar fund-raiser on Saturday night, lamented that people were not immigrating to the United States from “nice” countries “like Denmark.”
.....Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious: There was nothing subtle about the Republican’s use of the word “nice,” followed by his reference to countries with overwhelmingly white populations. Trump’s history of racism is not new, though it’s a record that continues to grow.
I’m also reminded of an incident from eight years ago. Toward the end of the 2016 campaign, Trump, desperate to win Florida, traveled to Miami and spent some time at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, stressing the “common values” he shared with Haitian Americans. “Whether you vote for me or not,” the then-candidate said at the time, “I really want to be your biggest champion.”
Call me cynical, but I’m starting to think the rhetoric he used at the time wasn’t entirely on the level.
Trump tries, fails to bring his abortion views into sharp focus
Donald Trump said he’d come up with an abortion position that would make “both sides” happy. He instead released a new statement that made no one happy.
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1777343904112676869
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-tries-fails-bring-abortion-views-sharp-focus-rcna146833
Evidently, he’s made a decision. NBC News reported:
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that abortion laws should be left to the states, many of which have enacted new restrictions since he appointed Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn federal protections for the procedure.
Specifically, Trump said states "will determine" whether or not to impose abortion bans.
Roughly nine hours before releasing his four-and-a-half-minute video to his social media platform, the former president sent a pretty clear signal to his base that he wouldn’t come right out and endorse a new national abortion ban to be imposed at the federal level. “We must use common sense in realizing that we have an obligation to the salvation of our Nation ... TO WIN ELECTIONS,” Trump wrote last night.....
For the first time in decades, has the former president come up with a vision in which Americans can put the abortion fight “behind us”? Not even close
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