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The Hill (@thehill)
"If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security," former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said. https://t.co/d6nsjK8XjO

All of the sudden he wants to do radio interviews in Miami. Would he be doing radio in Miami if his jury pool was in DC?

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:32 pm

Atticus Finch wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:46 pm If Trump is found guilty of these crimes he will be the first candidate to run for the presidency but wouldn't be able to vote because of his felony convictions.

oh, he'd vote.

Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BillPascrell wrote: Wow over the weekend the indicted leader of the republican party openly admitted to conspiring with America's enemies to raise your gas prices.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote: Trump claims that while president he was on a call with Russia and Saudi where he pleaded for higher oil prices

Trump is meeting with oil company CEOs to raise gas prices he just celebrated as a 'massive tax cut'
Peter Weber
April 3, 2020·2 min read

President Trump is meeting at the White House on Friday with the top executives of some of the largest U.S. oil companies to discuss ways his administration might support the oil and gas industry amid an oil crash. On Thursday, Trump tweeted that he had spoken with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Russia — whose price war combined with a sharp drop in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic to tank oil prices — and expected them to cut production, which "will be GREAT for the oil and gas industry!" Indeed, oil prices shot up after Trump's tweet and continued rising early Friday.

But higher oil prices mean higher gas prices for consumers, as CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart noted.

Trump embraced that tension at Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing: "Now, gasoline's gonna be 99 cents a gallon and less, you know that. That's already starting, it's popping up — 99 cents. So that's like giving a massive tax cut to people of our country." He also mentioned, "I'm going to meet with the oil companies on Friday," and said, "We don't want to lose our great oil companies."

On Tuesday, Trump told the White House press corps that he'll join Russia and the Saudis "at the appropriate time if need be" to work on helping end their price war, explaining, "it's hurtful to one of our biggest industries, the oil industry." In mid-March, meanwhile, Trump said he "would have dreamed about" oil prices this low, adding: "With gasoline prices coming down, that's like a tax cut. Frankly, that's like a big tax cut, not a little tax cut, for the consumer." Tax cuts, it appears, don't solve everything.

Election Wizard 🇺🇸 @ElectionWiz wrote: TRUMP: “[Biden is] going to use law enforcement to try and win an election that he can't win at the ballot box."

Kendra wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:10 pm

Estiveo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:07 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:34 am I turned MSNBC off because they were covering the motorcade, mostly just in a corner box, but it's not news.

Of course it's not news, it's...
BREAKING NEWS!

Always breaking news. I'm watching Dana Bash on her first day of the anchor desk at Inside Politics.

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:27 am Calligula: "He seems completely normal to me."

busterbunker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:10 pm Miami is a big tourist destination so I expect there will be a lot of tourists doing touristy things. Could be a real big pootenanny. Support your local jails!

Trump finds no new lawyers for court appearance in Mar-a-Lago case
Exclusive: Trump is expected to be represented by existing lawyers Todd Blanche and Chris Kise

Hugo Lowell in Doral, Miami
Tue 13 Jun 2023 10.00 BST

Donald Trump is expected to be represented at his first court appearance to face federal criminal charges for retaining national security materials and obstruction of justice by two of his existing lawyers, despite trying to recruit a local Florida lawyer willing to join his legal defense team.

The lawyers making an appearance with Trump on Tuesday will be the top former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche and the former Florida solicitor general Chris Kise, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s co-defendant, his valet Walt Nauta, will be represented by Stanley Woodward.

Trump and his legal team spent the afternoon before his arraignment interviewing potential lawyers but the interviews did not result in any joining the team in time for Trump’s initial court appearance scheduled for 3pm ET on Tuesday after several attorneys declined to take him as a client.

Trump has also seemingly been unable to find a specialist national security lawyer, eligible to possess a security clearance, to help him navigate the Espionage Act charges.

The last-minute scramble to find a veteran trial lawyer was a familiar process for Trump, who has had difficulty hiring and keeping lawyers to defend him in the numerous federal and state criminal cases that have dogged him through his presidency and after he left the White House.

After interviewing a slate of potential lawyers at his Trump Doral resort, the former president settled on having Kise appearing as the local counsel admitted to the southern district of Florida as a one-off, with Blanche being sponsored by him to appear pro hac vice, one of the people said.

Blanche and Kise had dinner with Trump and other advisers on Monday at the BLT Prime restaurant at the Doral.

Among the Florida lawyers who turned down Trump was Howard Srebnick, who had expressed an interest the former president at trial as early as last week in part due to the high fees involved, but ultimately was not allowed to after conferring with his law partners, the person said.

The other prominent lawyer who declined to work with Trump was David Markus, who recently defended the Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum against charges that he lied to the FBI and funnelled campaign contributions into his personal accounts, the person said.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rraignment

Trump and his team have interviewed the corruption attorney Benedict Kuehne, who was indicted in 2008 for money laundering before the charges were dropped, the person said. But he has his own baggage as he faces disbarment for contempt of court in a recent civil suit he lost.

in above

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:55 am Not even pro bony aka left over from his MaL kitchen

even the best rejected his proposal

Trump and his team have interviewed the corruption attorney Benedict Kuehne, who was indicted in 2008 for money laundering before the charges were dropped, the person said. But he has his own baggage as he faces disbarment for contempt of court in a recent civil suit he lost.

in above

Any lawyer who decides to represent him has to understand that their legal advice will be subordinated to the theories of Kash Patel, Christina Bobb, Tom Fitton and a couple of lawyers doing Newsmax hits at 2:00 AM.

Kendra wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:30 am https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 8857208832

Any lawyer who decides to represent him has to understand that their legal advice will be subordinated to the theories of Kash Patel, Christina Bobb, Tom Fitton and a couple of lawyers doing Newsmax hits at 2:00 AM.