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Rosemary Rossi

Donald Trump’s non-existent seven hours of phone logs on January 6 had MSNBC host Tiffany Cross calling him a “ghetto president” who was acting like the drug-dealing thug Bodie on the HBO crime drama “The Wire.” Cross invited The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal on MSNBC’s “Cross Connection” on Saturday to discuss the White House call logs and the seven-hour gap in calls going through the switchboard (both to Trump and from him) on January 6 at the exact time of the capital riots. However, multiple sources corroborated that Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence did speak on a phone that day. Cross and Mystal said the gap in the phone records and the absence of at least one call in the logs raise a lot of questions. “Honestly, Elie, the ghetto president that they thought Obama would be is officially Donald Trump,” Cross said.
Chris Sununu of New Hampshire makes remarks at event noted for tradition of roasting politicians with cutting comedy speeches
Richard Luscombe

A Republican governor has blasted Donald Trump as “fucking crazy” and said if he was ever committed to a mental institution “he ain’t getting out”. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire delivered the remarks at Saturday’s Gridiron Club dinner in Washington DC, an event noted for its tradition of roasting politicians with satirical and often cutting comedy speeches.
Mychael Schnell

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday said former President Trump asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for damaging information on President Biden’s son, Hunter, is “the worst possible thing you can do” and “completely unacceptable.”
Max Greenwood
Donald Trump’s overtures to Moscow are exposing what Democrats and some Republicans believe could be a major vulnerability for the former president should he mount another White House bid in 2024. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February, Trump has been met with repeated criticism, first over his insistence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been “savvy” in his maneuvering in Ukraine and more recently over his pleas for Moscow to release dirt on President Biden’s family. The entreaty to Putin echoes a similar plea from the 2016 presidential race, when Trump publicly asked Russia to release his then-opponent Hillary Clinton’s emails. This time, however, even some Republicans admit that Trump could face more serious political ramifications. “He’s staking out a position on this, intentionally or unintentionally, that no one really wants to take,” one GOP donor said, noting how even some of Trump’s allies, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have sought to distance themselves from his remarks.
New evidence reveals how Trump participated in directly demanding legislators help steal the 2020 election. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains how this evidence links Trump more directly to his aide Peter Navarro’s confession on “The Beat” detailing a plan to use the Vice President’s power to stop the transition of power.
By Zachary Cohen, Jamie Gangel, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Paula Reid, CNN

Just days before the US Capitol riot, White House officials started providing fewer details about then-President Donald Trump’s calls and visits, the person in charge of compiling those activities for the official record told the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, according to two sources with knowledge of the probe. The committee interviewed Trump’s presidential diarist roughly two weeks ago. That interview has not been previously reported, nor has the testimony describing a noticeable drop-off in information provided by Oval Office staff leading up to January 6. Other witnesses also have told the panel there was significantly less information being shared with those involved in White House record-keeping during the same time period, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.
The gap in the White House phone records follows immediately after Donald Trump failed to persuade Mike Pence to throw out the elections results.
Ed Pilkington

A mysterious gap of 7 hours 37 minutes in phone records for 6 January 2021 coincides with the insurrection in Washington DC. At 2.26pm on 6 January last year, Donald Trump picked up a White House phone and placed a call to Mike Lee, the Republican senator from Utah. The communication came at a very significant moment. Thirty-seven minutes earlier, a riot had been declared by Washington DC police. Minutes after that the then vice-president, Mike Pence, was rushed out of the Senate chamber, where he had been presiding over Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and put into hiding. Fifteen minutes before Trump made the call his supporters, exhorted by the sitting president to “fight like hell” against what he falsely claimed was a rigged election, broke through a window in the south front of the Capitol and entered the heart of American democracy.
CNN's Kasie Hunt interviews former Trump attorney Michael Cohen about the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump. "The Source" is available on CNN+ — CNN's new streaming service.
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN

Michael Cohen, formerly one of Donald Trump's top confidants before turning against him to become the star witness in the investigation into the New York real estate mogul's business and finances, is "disappointed" by reports that the Manhattan district attorney has decided not to bring criminal charges against the former President. "I was disappointed. I was discouraged. And I was distressed," Cohen told CNN+'s Kasie Hunt in an interview that aired Thursday on "The Source." "I was disappointed, because no one is supposed to be above the law." Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has been investigating Trump and the Trump Organization and whether they misled lenders, insurers, and others by providing them false or misleading financial statements about the value of properties. Bragg in February informed the two top prosecutors leading the criminal probe that he wasn't ready to authorize an indictment, leading the prosecutors to resign, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN. CNN previously reported that the resignations had followed weeks of internal debate within the office over the strength of the case, with some prosecutors believing that there is sufficient evidence to charge.
Andrew Feinberg

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump used the term “burner phones” — a slang term used to describe an untraceable mobile phone which he has denied knowing — in a September 2021 civil lawsuit, according to court documents. On Tuesday, The Washington Post and CBS News reported that White House records turned over to the House January 6th select committee by the National Archives and Records Administration do not include any calls made or received by Mr Trump between the hours of 11.17am and 6.54pm on the day a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in hopes of stopping certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Mark Niquette

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump is seeking to temper his characterization of Vladimir Putin as a “genius” shortly before the invasion of Ukraine while the Biden White House sharply criticized the former president over his comments this week about the Russian leader.
Maria Pierides

Donald Trump has sensationally asked Vladimir Putin to help him dig up dirt on President Joe Biden and his family. Trump's shocking request to the Russian president comes less than one month after he spoke at a Republican fundraiser in New Orleans and suggested putting Chinese flags on US fighter jets and sending them to "bomb the [expletive] out of Russia," adding, "And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch." In an interview on Just The News that aired on Tuesday, March 29th, Trump can be seen and heard asking Putin to give him any potentially damaging information he has on the reports that suggest that Elena Baturina, the wife of Moscow’s former mayor, gave $3.5 million to a company co-founded by Biden's son, Hunter, now 52, over a decade ago. Biden’s lawyer, however, has insisted that he did not co-found the company that received the $3.5 million, and has denied that the president's family has any stake in it.
wrojas@insider.com (Warren Rojas)

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump alerted the nation that there were "100,000 brand new, sparkling copies" of his picture book available for sale from a publishing house co-founded by his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. During the past week, Trump has also blasted out emails touting Trump-owned golf clubs in Miami, Los Angeles, and West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump's relentless marketing was not, however, issued by his business empire, the Trump Organization. Instead, it came from a federal government-funded office provided to him by the Former Presidents Act. The constant plugs for family business ventures Trump weaves into the email blasts from his taxpayer-subsidized, post-presidential office are "unsavory" but not unexpected, an ethics professional said, given that he's flouted ethics rules since entering political life.
Trump’s call to Republican senator should have been reflected in presidential call log on day of Capitol attack but wasn’t
Hugo Lowell in Washington DC

Donald Trump used an official White House phone to place at least one call during the Capitol attack on January 6 last year that should have been reflected in the internal presidential call log from that day but was not, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The former president called the phone of a Republican senator, Mike Lee, with a number recorded as 202-395-0000, a placeholder number that shows up when a call is incoming from a number of White House department phones, the sources said. The number corresponds to an official White House phone and the call was placed by Donald Trump himself, which means the call should have been recorded in the internal presidential call log that was turned over to the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack.
Revelation from former national security adviser raises pressure on Trump as lawmakers investigate gaps in January 6 call logs
Ed Pilkington in New York

John Bolton, the former national security adviser, has revealed that he heard Donald Trump use the term “burner phones” several times and that they discussed how the disposable devices were deployed by people as a way of avoiding scrutiny of their calls. Bolton’s intervention compounds Trump’s difficulties amid a billowing controversy relating to seven hours and 37 minutes that are missing in official call logs. The gap occurs in records made for 6 January last year – the day of the violent insurrection at the US Capitol.
Maria Pierides

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump "more likely than not" broke the law when he "corruptly" tried to obstruct President Joe Biden's win back in January 2021. The judge's ruling came following a civil suit on Monday, March 28th involving the House committee investigating the riots that broke out at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. "With a plan this 'BOLD,' President Trump knowingly tried to subvert this fundamental principle. Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in his 44-page ruling. "If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself," he added.
Ewan Palmer

Donald Trump has been widely criticized for calling on Vladimir Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia while the Russian president is carrying out attacks on Ukraine. In an interview on Real America's Voice show Just the News, Trump pushed unsubstantiated claims regarding President Joe Biden's son, and his dealings in Russia. The former president repeated an accusation that Hunter Biden's company received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, the widow of former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, a claim he often made during the 2020 election campaign.
In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has about the Biden family, in a brazen request for domestic political assistance from America's top adversary.
Bob Brigham

Former President Donald Trump continues to be praised on Russian state television almost as much as he's regaled on Fox News, with state media now calling for regime change in the United States. Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis has been monitoring Russian state TV to report on how the invasion is being portrayed by the Kremlin. "Putin’s invasion of Ukraine pitted Russia against most of the world, leaving Kremlin propagandists yearning for any tidbits of pro-Russian sentiment in the United States. These days, state television draws on a bounty of translated quotes almost exclusively from two Western voices: Tucker Carlson of Fox News and former U.S. President Donald J. Trump," Davis reported Tuesday.
Bob Brigham

Former President Donald Trump's well-established habit of calling for wrongdoing and then claiming he was joking has become such a trope that CNN's Jim Acosta came close to giving a preemptive fact-check of an assumed future lie on Tuesday. Acosta's analysis came after Trump called upon Vladimir Putin to release dirt on President Joe Biden. The former president's comments came the same day a Russian state TV host called for regime change in America to "help our partner Trump." CNN's Acosta expected Trump to eventually lie about his request for a foreign government to interfere in American domestic politics. "Don’t be surprised if Trump later lies and says he was joking about asking Putin for dirt on Biden. He’s lied that he was joking when he asked Russia for Hillary Clinton’s emails," Acosta noted.
Trump is layering lie upon lie to rewrite the history of his encouragement of Russian hackers.
By Aaron Rupar

Trump accused reporters this weekend of mischaracterizing comments he made in July 2016 publicly encouraging Russian hackers to attack Hillary Clinton. But the way he described those comments is completely at odds with reality, and there’s video to prove it. “Do you remember when I said, ‘Russia, if you’re listening, find her emails,’ or whatever the hell I said? ‘Find her emails,’ and then we all laughed together, 25,000 people in a stadium,” Trump said at a rally in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. “They cut it off exactly before we all started to laugh together, right? And for two years they’ve been saying, ‘He dealt with Russia. He asked Russia to please get her emails,’ or whatever the hell we were asking ... the whole place cracks up with me ... this is how dishonest these people are.” This is no doubt part of his never-ending effort to discredit the media. Watch:
Putin is a pariah. Trump still sees him as a political asset.
By Aaron Blake

When presidential candidate Donald Trump asked Russia to find his 2016 opponent’s emails — i.e., “Russia, if you’re listening” — Republicans hinted that maybe this was a bad idea. So Trump claimed it was a joke. And Republicans moved on and stood by him. When Trump in 2020 used the presidency to leverage Ukraine for an investigation into his next opponent, a number of Republicans admitted it was unseemly, but said it wasn’t impeachable. They moved on and stood by him. One of them even ventured that Trump had learned a “pretty big lesson” about asking a foreign country to investigate a political rival, and predicted he would “be much more cautious in the future.” Trump wasn’t joking. He will not be more cautious in the future. And if anything, the big lesson he learned seems to have been that he has so effectively demolished this norm that it no longer encumbers him whatsoever.
By Marshall Cohen, CNN

Washington (CNN) In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has about the Biden family, in a brazen request for domestic political assistance from America's top adversary. It's the latest example of Trump's willingness to solicit and embrace domestic political help from foreign powers -- even from Putin, who is currently overseeing a bloody war against Ukraine. In an interview with JustTheNews, Trump pushed an unproven claim about Hunter Biden's business dealings in Russia, and asked Putin to release any information that he might have about the situation. It's not clear that any material exists, or if the Kremlin has access to it. "I would think Putin would know the answer to that," Trump said, referring to Hunter Biden's potential dealings in Russia. "I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer."
The former president is once again asking for Russia to help boost his political prospects
By Ryan Bort

Donald Trump famously called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails ahead of the 2016 election. He’s now calling on Vladimir Putin to dig up dirt on President Biden’s family. The ask came during an interview with Just the News on Real America’s Voice, with the former president citing a Senate report that found a Russian oligarch once gave $3.5 million to a company he claims was founded by Biden’s son, Hunter. “Why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens, both of them, $3.5 million? That’s a lot of money,” Trump said. “She gave him $3.5 million so I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” Trump said. “I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.” The Senate report to which Trump is referring is a partisan report Republicans released in 2020. The report found that Yelena Baturina gave $3.5 million to a firm called Rosemont Seneca Thornton in 2014. Hunter Biden was the co-founder of a firm called Rosemont Seneca Advisors. Biden’s lawyer told CNN that this is not the same firm that received the “consultancy agreement” payment from Baturina. There is no evidence the payment was corrupt or that Hunter Biden had anything to do with it.
It’s the latest example of the former president soliciting foreign governments to intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.
By Quint Forgey

Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between Eastern European oligarchs and Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. Trump’s remarks, in an interview with discredited far-right journalist John Solomon, were published Tuesday by the “Just the News” television show on the Real America’s Voice network. In making his claims about Hunter Biden, Trump cited the findings of a controversial, highly politicized investigation by Senate Republicans into the Bidens, which was published just weeks before the 2020 election and produced little new evidence of wrongdoing.
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

(CNN) When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Or in the case of Donald Trump, the 10th time. At a campaign rally in Georgia over the weekend, the former President, again, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The smartest one gets to the top," Trump told the crowd. "That didn't work so well recently in our country. But they ask me, 'Is Putin smart?' Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, 'That's a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.'" Trump added that Putin made a "big mistake," but that "it looked like a great negotiation." That all sounds a lot like what Trump has been saying about Putin almost since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Greg Myre

A new report by the U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday says Russia sought to help former President Donald Trump in last year's presidential election. But the document also emphasized there was no indication Russia or any other country attempted to alter actual votes. Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S," says the report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The unclassified document is the most comprehensive look the intelligence community has released regarding foreign efforts to meddle in the 2020 election.
Tom Boggioni

In an interview with CNN's Kasie Hunt, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) claimed that NATO allies have indicated to him that they will likely "re-think" their own security situations should Donald Trump be re-elected in 2024. The Utah lawmaker -- one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach the former president over the Jan 6th insurrection -- claimed the NATO alliance could be endangered by Trump's return. "Do you think that the former president, Donald Trump, permanently damaged NATO?" Hunt asked. "I think what happened with NATO is they have said can we rely on the U.S.? And is this America First idea, which is the president saying to everybody, 'hey, go off and do your own thing,' that approach is one that frightens other members of NATO and they wonder are we committed to NATO and our mutual defense, or are we going to go off on our own? And so they wonder."
Travis Gettys

A federal judge found that Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed crimes in a bid to remain power, setting off a variety of reactions from legal experts. Judge David O. Carter of the Central District of California issued a 44-page ruling Monday ordering former Trump legal adviser John Eastman to turn over emails he had sought to shield from the House select committee, and the judge found that both he and the former president had likely engaged in obstruction of justice. "Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history," the judge wrote. "Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower—it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process." The ruling stunned observers.
Matthew Chapman

On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," anchor Jake Tapper tore apart former President Donald Trump's claim that the Russian invasion of Ukraine wouldn't have happened had he been elected to a second term. "Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been engaging in quite a bit of revisionist history about this matter," said Tapper, playing a clip of Trump saying, "It is so sad. This would have never happened if we had the Trump administration. There was no chance this would happen. And I know [Vladimir Putin] well. And this was not something that was going to happen at all." Tapper proceeded to spell out exactly why this claim is nonsense. "Trump, of course, failing to mention his own actions and inactions, and that of his administration that may have enabled Putin in many ways, instead of calling out Russia's decades of invasion, in Georgia in 2008, annexing Crimea in 2014," said Tapper. "Trump in this day seems to find room to even praise Putin as a genius for the brutal attack. Even some of Trump's foreign advisers wonder if his approach may have empowered the Russian president on the world stage."
Graham Kates

Investigators for New York Attorney General Letitia James' probe into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization's finances are seeking documents from a second accounting firm that did work for the company, according to a document filed in a New York State court. On March 10, James' office requested that the Trump Organization provide written consent for the firm RSM US LLP "to disclose tax documents" to the attorney general. It is not clear what work RSM has done for the company, or for how long the firm counted the Trump Organization as a client. A spokesperson for RSM said in an email that the firm could not answer questions about the attorney general's request. "As a matter of policy, we do not comment on legal or regulatory matters," said Kimberly Bartok, the company's spokesperson. The request for documents from RSM was sent less than a month after James' office revealed in a court filing that another accounting firm, Mazars USA, had recanted financial statements from a decade of work for the Trump Organization.
Dan Mangan

The New York Attorney General Office's probe of the Trump Organization has "uncovered significant evidence" suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied on misleading valuations of its real estate assets, the office said Tuesday in a court filing.
By Dave Goldiner New York Daily News

Former President Trump is suspected of using disposable so-called “burner” phones as the Jan. 6 attack unfolded after official White House logs reportedly show a shocking more than a seven-hour gap in his official communications that day. No calls were placed or received by Trump on his official phones from 11:17 am to just before 7 pm, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing documents turned over to the congressional committee investigating the attack. Trump is known to have called several allies during that time as a violent mob of his extremist supporters stormed the Capitol, raising suspicions that the logs were altered or he deliberately used other phones to cover his tracks.
MSN

Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted, according to documents obtained by CBS News' chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa and The Washington Post's associate editor Bob Woodward. The lack of an official White House notation of any calls placed to or by Trump for 457 minutes — from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. — on Jan. 6, 2021 means there is no record of the calls made by Trump as his supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol, battled overwhelmed police and forcibly entered the building, prompting lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to flee for safety.
A federal judge said Monday that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election. CNN's Paula Reid reports
By Jackie CalmesColumnist

What Donald Trump is saying is bad enough: For 13 months, history’s sorest loser has been repeating his lie that he was robbed of reelection, and undermining the faith of millions of Americans in their democracy, including three out of four Republicans who buy his poison. What Trump and his allies are doing, however, is perhaps worse: They’re working to rig the next presidential election for him. This activity, while mostly out in the open, has been little noted because seeing the full picture requires connecting dots in swing states nationwide, each dot representing interventions by Trump or his minions to affect some of the country’s most obscure public offices, like county vote-canvassing boards and precinct judgeships.
One message threatened, “You can’t run for governor when you’re already dead. We are going to hang you for treason, you fucking bitch.”
By William Vaillancourt

The GOP spent much of the past year chipping away at the authority of state and local election officials as part of the party’s ongoing efforts to destroy faith in US democracy, following the failed re-election of Donald Trump.  With Trump and his supporters continuing to lie about the 2020 presidential election and criticize election officials who refused to go along with attempts to overthrow the results, it shouldn’t be terribly surprising that, according to a report published by Reuters on Thursday, these local officials have been subject to a steady stream of abuse and threats since the 2020 presidential election. The report contains more than 850 threatening and hostile messages spanning 30 jurisdictions in 16 states. Law professors and attorneys say that about 110 of them appear to warrant federal prosecution.
Russia helped Trump win the 2016 election will they help him in 2024?
Julia Davis

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine pitted Russia against most of the world, leaving Kremlin propagandists yearning for any tidbits of pro-Russian sentiment in the United States. These days, state television draws on a bounty of translated quotes almost exclusively from two Western voices: Tucker Carlson of Fox News and former U.S. President Donald J. Trump. They have a plan to reward them both: Carlson with a highly-coveted interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Trump with a freebie PR campaign designed to light his path back to the White House.
7NEWS Australia

Former US President Donald Trump has praised Putin's encroachment on Ukraine as 'genius'. But an Australian television commentator, Jane Caro, was having none of it.
Hannah Ward-Glenton

You win some, you lose some
Donald Trump has invested in countless properties over his lifetime, spanning everything from one-bedroom condos and local casinos to the dizzying heights of the Trump Towers and world-famous golf clubs. But bearing the Trump name isn’t always a ticket to success, and some properties have hemorrhaged cash along the way. Click or scroll through to discover Trump’s biggest real estate wins and losses.
Bob Brigham

Donald Trump took his revenge tour to Georgia on Saturday as he seeks vengeance against Republicans who did not help him staff in office despite losing the 2020 election. The former president is backing former Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in his campaign against GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) in his campaign against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Dawn White of 11 Alive news in Atlanta reported "former President Donald Trump has arrived to the 'Save America' rally in Commerce, GA. more than an hour late. The crowd is still here." Trump threatened his supporters would boycott the November general election if Perdue loses the primary to Kemp.
Bob Brigham

Donald Trump traveled to Commerce, Georgia on Saturday to rally his MAGA base against the top incumbent Republican in the Peach State. "I've covered more than two dozen Trump rallies around the nation. This is the smallest crowd I've seen at a rally of his in Georgia since he won the 2016 election -- significantly smaller than the crowd in Perry in September," Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter Greg Bluestein noted. Trump is backing former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in his campaign against GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) in his campaign against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. "This crowd is hardly applauding. Not the same sort of enthusiasm I’ve seen at other Trump rallies," Bluestein reported.
By Jason Lemon

Former President Donald Trump's Georgia rally on Saturday failed to draw the number of supporters he has been accustomed to in the southern state, according to multiple journalists covering the event. Trump held the event in support of several of Georgia's Republican primary candidates in Commerce, Georgia, which is about an hour drive northeast of Atlanta. While the former president has regularly seen tens of thousands attend his events in the state, as well as other states across the country, journalists assessed that the crowd size was underwhelming this weekend.
In a resignation letter published in the New York Times, prosecutor Mark Pomerantz claimed the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is abandoning its investigation into former President Trump. MSNBC Legal Analyst Jill Wine-Banks shares why the case could still be moving forward.
By Molly Crane-Newman New York Daily News

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision not to seek an indictment against Donald Trump was “misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” said a prosecutor who probed the ex-president for almost three years. Mark Pomerantz made the stunning declaration in his resignation letter to Bragg on Feb. 23 that was published Wednesday by the New York Times.
By Curtis Brodner

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A prosecutor who resigned last month after the Manhattan District Attorney dropped a criminal case against former President Donald Trump described failure to pursue charges as a ‘grave failure of justice’ in a resignation letter obtained by The New York Times. Two prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned after Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg dropped a case against former President Donald Trump for falsifying business records — a felony in New York State. “The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did,” Pomerantz wrote in his resignation letter.
Antonio Fins Palm Beach Post

In emails, rallies and broadcast interviews, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted he would have prevented Russia's brutal invasion of neighboring Ukraine if he were still in the Oval Office. The boasting, however, overlooks Trump's sordid Ukraine policy, which was mired in scandal and led to a constitutional crisis. Namely, an impeachment that drew a field of Floridians into the spotlight, from Rudy Giuliani to Boca Raton businessman Lev Parnas, to Congresswoman Val Demings to former Attorney General Pam Bondi. In interviews, officials and experts who closely watched what transpired in 2019 question whether Trump aggravated what was already a volatile international affairs challenge on the European continent by withholding military aid, roping Ukraine into domestic U.S. politics, guilt-by-association smearing of the country's new president and denigration of the NATO alliance.
Analysis by Marshall Cohen, CNN

Washington (CNN) The Russian invasion of Ukraine didn't just happen out of nowhere. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratcheted up tensions with the West for the better part of the last decade -- he annexed Crimea, meddled in US elections, poisoned an ex-spy on British soil, and more. Nearly every step of the way, former President Donald Trump parroted Kremlin talking points, excused Russian aggression and sometimes even embraced it outright. It's easy to forget that a few years ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't known for his steely wartime leadership, but for getting dragged by Trump into the US political scandal that led to Trump's first impeachment. Experts say Trump's actions weakened Ukraine, divided NATO, emboldened Putin and helped get us to where we are today. And even with Trump no longer in office, his impact lives on in the form of Putin-friendly commentary in conservative media and from some Republican lawmakers.
Sonam Sheth and Nicole Gaudiano

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told Insider that then President Donald Trump's behavior with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was "absolutely appalling." She was referring, in particular, to Trump's conduct as he was carrying out a months-long pressure campaign to strong-arm Zelenskyy into launching politically motivated investigations targeting the Bidens ahead of the 2020 US election. While doing so, Trump withheld nearly $400 million in vital military aid to Ukraine and dangled a White House meeting that Zelenskyy desperately wanted. Yovanovitch also pointed to the infamous July 2019 phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy that was the catalyst for his first impeachment in 2019. It was "very clear that the President of the United States was trading his office for a personal or political favor, rather than working in our national security interest to help strengthen a partner country," Yovanovitch told Insider. "This was our official US policy. He was holding up security assistance that Congress had voted for, and pressuring Zelenskyy, a new and untried president, to 'do us a favor, though.'"
By Tracy Wilkinson, Sarah D. Wire

The last time (and maybe the first time) most Americans heard of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president was at the center of a scandal that would lead to the impeachment of then-President Trump. Trump in 2019 threatened to hold up weapons deliveries to Ukraine — caught even then in a simmering war with Russian proxies — unless Zelensky helped him dig up political dirt on rival Joe Biden. Today, the shadow of that scandal lingers. How much did Trump’s toying with Ukraine, cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and, ultimately, Trump’s acquittal on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress influence Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine?
Ditching machine tabulators and replacing them with people counting votes by hand has become a new fixation on the right.
By Zach Montellaro

Trump supporters are pushing to prohibit machine counting of ballots in future elections around the country, which election officials say could make vote-counting slower, more expensive and — most importantly — less accurate. Legislators in at least six states this year have introduced proposals to prohibit the use of ballot tabulating machines. Local jurisdictions in Nevada, New Hampshire and elsewhere have also been considering similar measures. The proposals stem from baseless conspiracy theories stoked by former President Donald Trump since the 2020 election, in which he and others contended that election machines around the country were hacked and votes were flipped.
Philip Bump

What stopped me in my tracks in the new lawsuit filed on behalf of former president Donald Trump was a reference to internal discussions at the Democratic National Committee that, the suit alleges, show that there was an effort within the DNC to “damage Republican presidential candidates’ credibility with voters.” The startling thing wasn’t that line, an attempt to make utterly run-of-the-mill political-campaign activity seem nefarious. It was, instead, that as Trump and his lawyers were trying to make a case for how the investigation into possible links between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia were a product of a conspiracy helmed by Hillary Clinton and her aides, they were citing these particular documents.
Ewan Palmer

Donald Trump said he spent more than $24 million dollars and lost business dealings while fighting allegations his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race. The former president made the claim in a lawsuit filed against his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, a number of other Democrats, and leading FBI officials claiming they orchestrated an "unthinkable plot" to accuse him of working with Russia in order to rig the election in his favor. The suit was filed in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida more than five years after Trump beat Clinton in the 2016 election. The document claims that Trump sustained "significant injuries and damages" such as defense costs, legal fees and related expenses defending against the Democrats' "tortious actions, false accusation, and overall fraudulent scheme to discredit and delegitimize him" ahead of the 2016 election.
BY EWAN PALMER

Questions have been raised about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after a top prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump's financial dealings said the former president was guilty of "numerous" felonies and condemned a decision not to indict him. A number of legal experts have reacted to the revelations made in Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz's resignation letter, who quit abruptly in February amid reports that Bragg would not be moving forward with a criminal case against Trump over allegations of felony tax fraud by the Trump Organization. In Pomerantz's resignation letter, obtained by The New York Times, the prosecutor criticized Bragg's decision to not push forward with the probe against Trump and feared that the DA's hesitation will "doom any future prospects" of prosecuting the former president for crimes he is alleged to have committed.
Trump may regret this move it opens him up to discovery, possibly a counter suit and they could find something he may not like.

By Marshall Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN

(CNN) Former President Donald Trump filed a sprawling federal lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 other people and entities that he claims conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by falsely tying him to Russia. The lawsuit names a wide cast of characters that Trump has accused for years of orchestrating a "deep state" conspiracy against him -- including former FBI Director James Comey and other FBI officials, the retired British spy Christopher Steele and his associates, and a handful of Clinton campaign advisers. "Under the guise of 'opposition research,' 'data analytics,' and other political stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public's trust," says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida. "They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump." Over 108 pages, the lawsuit rails against many of Trump's political opponents and highlights the grievances that he has complained about for years. It claims Democrats and government officials perpetrated a grab bag of offenses, from a racketeering conspiracy to a malicious prosecution, computer fraud and theft of secret internet data. The lawsuit asks for more than $24 million in costs and damages. The suit also contains some factual inaccuracies and some of the same grandiose or exaggerated false claims that Trump has made dozens of times.
By Jan Wolfe and Jonathan Stempel

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday sued his rival in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Hillary Clinton, and several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig that election by tying his campaign to Russia. The lawsuit covers a long list of grievances the Republican former president repeatedly aired during his four years in the White House after beating Clinton, and comes as he continues to falsely claim that his 2020 election defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud. "Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty," the former president alleged in a 108-page lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida. The suit alleges "racketeering" and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood," among other claims.
Bob Brigham

The star prosecutor who came out of retirement to investigate former President Donald Trump for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office blasted the lack of prosecution of the former president in a resignation letter obtained by The New York Times. "One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was 'guilty of numerous felony violations' and that it was 'a grave failure of justice' not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump," the newspaper reported. Pomerantz, a prominent former federal prosecutor, said Bragg's non-prosecution decision was “contrary to the public interest." Carey R. Dunne, also a senior prosecutor on the case, resigned the same day, raising questions by legal experts.
‘We’re a greater nuclear power,’ former president who previously praised Putin as ‘smart’ tells Fox Business
Martin Pengelly in New York

If Donald Trump were still president, he told Fox Business on Monday, he would threaten Russia with nuclear submarines. Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, who is therefore dealing with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s status as a nuclear-armed power has shaped the US response, particularly in Biden’s reluctance to take steps, such as a Nato-implemented no-fly zone over Ukraine, that might lead to direct armed confrontation with Russia. Such caution cuts little ice with Trump. “I listened to him constantly using the N-word, that’s the N-word, and he’s constantly using it: the nuclear word,” Trump told Fox Business on Monday.
Martin Pengelly in New York

The Alabama Republican congressman Mo Brooks said on Tuesday Donald Trump asked him to “rescind” the 2020 election, remove Joe Biden from the White House and reinstate Trump. The extraordinary statement came in an angry response to a withdrawn endorsement in a US Senate race. Trump was angered that Brooks was insufficiently toeing his line on calling the 2020 election a fraud. Brooks’ statement is likely to be of interest to the January 6 committee. The panel is investigating Trump’s lie about electoral fraud in his defeat by Biden, efforts to marshal members of Congress to object to election results, a rally near the White House on 6 January 2021 which Trump and Brooks addressed, and the deadly attack on the US Capitol that followed.
Opinion by Richard N. Bond

(CNN) As the 2022 primary season gets underway, those of us who have long opposed former President Donald Trump may finally begin seeing an end to his reign over the Republican Party. Just consider the current realities Trump faces. His legal woes and their attendant distractions have not gone away. Investigations in New York and Georgia continue, and a court filing outlining potential evidence of criminal conspiracy by the January 6 House select committee also looms large. (Trump denies wrongdoing in all.) Meanwhile, Trump, once the master of social media with more than 88 million Twitter followers and 35 million on Facebook before the insurrection, has had disastrous results in creating his own online platforms. He terminated his blog, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," after 29 days due to what aides describe as lack of readers and negative press. His recently announced social media network, Truth Social, has suffered from an inept rollout involving technical glitches and a 13-hour site outage.
Manafort was stopped from flying to Dubai, according to Miami police.
By Tom Winter, Jonathan Dienst and Dareh Gregorian

Former Trump campaign chairman and presidential-pardon recipient Paul Manafort was blocked from leaving the country Sunday because his U.S. passport was not valid, a Miami-Dade police spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday. Manafort, 72, was attempting to fly from Miami to Dubai on a 9:10 p.m. Emirates airline flight when he was denied boarding because of an issue with his passport, the police spokesperson said, confirming a Knewz.com report. The spokesperson said Customs and Border Protection officials on the scene denied his boarding. A CBP spokesman declined comment, saying, "For privacy reasons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is unable to discuss a specific individual’s arrival or departure into or from the United States."
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