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Powerful new evidence in the Mar-a-Lago case accusing former President Trump of personally directing the deletion of security footage at his Florida estate could bolster prosecutors' case and demonstrate the former president acted to conceal his guilt. The superseding indictment filed Thursday night details an effort by Trump, his valet Walt Nauta and a new co-defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, to delete security footage showing boxes being moved in and out of a Mar-a-Lago storage room. |
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Former President Trump's legal crises are growing more serious this week and show no signs of fading, even as his 2024 bid for the White House barrels forward. Federal prosecutors filed additional serious charges against Trump on Thursday over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, and anticipation has reached a fever pitch over whether Trump will be charged in Washington, D.C., for his conduct after the 2020 election. Here are five takeaways from the latest legal developments around Trump. |
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Former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday said former President Trump's response to the most recent charges in the classified documents case show that "he thinks he can do whatever he wants." Bolton, in an interview with CNN, also joked that his former boss should have taken lessons from previous scandals in Washington, but argued "Trump doesn't learn much very quickly." |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on the possibility of him issuing a pardon for former President Trump that he does not believe having "an almost 80-year-old former president" serve time in prison is in the country's interest. DeSantis said during an interview on Megyn Kelly's podcast, looking at the example of then-President Ford pardoning former President Nixon over Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal, that the move caused Ford to receive some backlash, but it allowed the country to move forward. |
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday took aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at a gathering of Iowa Republicans, seeking to cement his grip on the state with less than six months until the state caucuses. Trump and nearly every other Republican running for the party's 2024 nomination spoke at the Iowa GOP's Lincoln Dinner on Friday night in Des Moines. While DeSantis and other top rivals did not attack the former president — who in a recent Fox Business Network poll was leading in the state by 30 points — Trump wasted little time attacking the Florida governor, who is viewed as his top competition. |
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) further weighed in on Florida's updated educational curriculum on slavery in an interview on Friday, arguing that slavery is "antithetical to who we are" and that it "doesn't need to be explained, that just needs to be digested." During a podcast interview with NH Journal on Friday, Scott was asked about his comments over updated and controversial educational guidelines in Florida that have drawn criticism from members of both parties, including Vice President Harris and Reps. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) and John James (R-Mich.) |
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said he largely supports Florida's new education guidelines about Black history as a whole, but disagrees with "one line," despite Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's recent hits. The state has been heavily criticized for a line in the new curriculum about slavery, which requires teachers to instruct on "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit." |
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Justice Samuel Alito said Congress has "no authority" to regulate the Supreme Court in an interview with the Wall Street Journal's opinion section published Friday, pushing back against Democrats' attempt to mandate stronger ethics rules. Alito, one of the high court's leading conservatives, is just one of multiple justices who have come under recent scrutiny for ethics controversies that have fueled the renewed push. |
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Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) on Friday was jeered by a crowd of Iowa Republicans at a gathering for 2024 presidential candidates when he asserted former President Trump is only running for the White House "to stay out of prison." "One of the things we need in our elected leaders: To tell the truth, even if it's not popular," Hurd, a candidate himself, said at the Iowa GOP's Lincoln Dinner. |
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OPINION | More bad news for President Biden: Prices at the pump are heading higher again — and this time he cannot look to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bail him out. Biden's hopes of a second term are threatened not only by his unpopularity and increasing allegations of corruption; it is also in peril thanks to rising gasoline prices. Voters will see higher prices at the pump as the clearest signal yet that Bidenomics does not work for them, and they will hold the president responsible. |
OPINION | Americans are losing faith in our democracy. Just 1 in 10 believe the government either represents them or works very well. And the next presidential election may further entrench this existential distrust and dissatisfaction: A large majority of voters don't want Trump or Biden to run for president — 60 percent and 70 percent, respectively — yet they are party frontrunners. |
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Trying to keep cool during a record-setting summer is a social divide for residents of low-income colonias, where running water can be in short supply. |
Elon Musk wants more power—literally. The man behind the race to replace gasoline-fueled cars with electric ones is worried about having enough juice. |
Former President Donald Trump charged ahead with his bid for the 2024 GOP nomination Friday at a major Republican event in Iowa, largely ignoring the new charges he faces in the federal classified documents probe. |
The superseding indictment filed against Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation this week — and the addition of a third defendant — expand the scope of the crimes the former president is accused of committing and could bolster the case against him, according to legal experts. |
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