Donald Trump’s children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump — took out over $22 million in loans over the past few years to pay for luxury homes in Florida, the Daily Mail reports.
Trump Pledges Expanded Role for the Military
“Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states,” the AP reports.
Said Trump: “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do. Well, we did that. We don’t have to wait any longer.”
“Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers have suggested they would have wide latitude to call up units. While deploying the military regularly within the country’s borders would be a departure from tradition, the former president already has signaled an aggressive agenda if he wins, from mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain Muslim-majority countries.”
Trump Fights an Uphill Battle in His Fraud Trial
“Two months into Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, the case does not seem to be going well for him,” Politico reports.
“The judge has already ruled that he committed fraud, fined the former president twice for violating a gag order and declared him to be “not credible.” Trump and his lawyers, meanwhile, have repeatedly antagonized the judge, attacking him in the press and even disparaging his law clerk.”
“And now, as Trump’s lawyers roll out a defense that at times has looked more like a PR pitch, his New York real estate empire hangs in the balance, with a verdict expected in mid-December.”
Decision on Trump Gag Order Nears
“An appeals court in Washington could decide at any time whether to reimpose a limited gag order on Donald Trump in his federal election-obstruction case in D.C.,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Thinks He Can Run As an Abortion ‘Moderate’
Rolling Stone: “The man who essentially ended the federal right to abortion thinks that he can now run for president in 2024 as a ‘moderate’ on the issue.”
“In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders — people who spent the past year pushing him to commit to enacting a draconian national ban — now have no ‘leverage’ to force him to do anything.”
Trump’s Pardon of Loan Shark Derailed Federal Probe
Rolling Stone: “Very early in the morning on Donald Trump‘s last day in office, the president announced he was pardoning Jonathan Braun, a loan shark who had been convicted of running a vast marijuana ring. Braun, who at the time was serving a 10-year sentence, was pardoned along with 142 others, including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.”
“Trump’s move undermined a years-long federal investigation, the New York Times reported Sunday. The paper also uncovered ties between Braun and the family of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.”
Giuliani Lands a New Georgia Lawyer
“After nearly two months without legal representation amid dwindling finances, Rudy Giuliani has a lawyer in Georgia,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump Says Attacks on Judge ‘Irrelevant’ to Gag Order
“Donald Trump’s lawyers on Friday filed a response to prosecutors’ Thursday filing, arguing that any threats the former president could have triggered against Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron or his court staff are ‘irrelevant’ to the need for a gag order in the case Trump faces in Washington, D.C.,” The Messenger reports.
Trump Posts Thanksgiving Message
Donald Trump sent a middle-of-the-night Thanksgiving message on Truth Social to the “lunatics, communists, fascists, Marxists, Democrats and RINOs, who are seriously looking to destroy our country.”
Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?
Peter Wehner: “Trump’s rhetoric is a permission slip for his supporters to dehumanize others just as he does. He portrays others as existential threats, determined to destroy everything MAGA world loves about America. Trump is doing two things at once: pushing the narrative that his enemies must be defeated while dissolving the natural inhibitions most human beings have against hating and harming others.”
“It signals to his supporters that any means to vanquish the other side is legitimate; the normal constraints that govern human interactions no longer apply.”
Colorado Supreme Court to Take Up 14th Amendment Case
“The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up an appeal of a state judge’s ruling allowing former President Donald Trump to remain on the state’s primary ballot, in a nationwide battle over his eligibility to run for president again,” the New York Times reports.
“Plaintiffs, citing Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, argued that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies anyone who ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the Constitution after having taken an oath to support it.”
Trump’s Own Witness Links Him Directly to Fraud
“Donald Trump had his worst day yet in his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York on Tuesday, and at the hands of his own key witness, a former Trump Organization executive who linked the former president directly to the fuzzy math at the center of the case,” Business Insider reports.
“The witness was Jeffrey McConney, Trump Org’s ex-comptroller and spreadsheet czar. McConney had been called to the witness stand by the defense, but on cross-examination by lawyers for the state attorney general’s office Tuesday, he linked Trump firmly to the conspiracy and fraud counts that have yet to be decided in the non-jury trial.”
Michael Cohen Seeks to Quash Trump’s Subpoena
Michael Cohen asked a judge on Tuesday to quash a “wildly overbroad” subpoena in Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money case in New York City, The Messenger reports.
From the motion: “The subpoena issued to Mr. Cohen is an obvious and blatant act of witness intimidation, and merely the latest incident in a years-long pattern of harassment and retaliation by defendant Trump.”
Judge Won’t Send Trump Co-Defendant to Jail
“A Georgia judge on Tuesday rejected Fulton County prosecutors’ bid to send a Donald Trump co-defendant to jail for witness intimidation before his trial and instead requested his bond conditions be modified to restrict his social media activity,” The Messenger reports.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“What’s going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he’s said the things he’s said and done the things he’s done? It’s beyond my comprehension he has the support he has.”
— Former White House chief of staff John Kelly, quoted by the Washington Post, on Donald Trump’s popularity.
How the American Political Environment Got Trumpier
Semafor: “One reason Democrats were slow to take Trump’s rise seriously in the 2016 cycle is that some of the issues he talked about most — ‘law and order,’ ‘open borders’ — were not seen as especially dire. Crime had risen modestly, but was still near its modern lows. The undocumented immigrant population was actually declining.”
“Since then, things have changed. Border crossings have spiked to record highs and asylum claims are overwhelming the system, prompting the White House and many Democrats to pivot to more hawkish positions. Crime is on a downward trend, but only after a much larger surge in murders in 2020 during the pandemic and intense nationwide debates over police practices.”
Trump Co-Defendant Claims Prosecutors Are Retaliating
“Harrison Floyd, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the election subversion case in Georgia, claimed in a court filing Monday that prosecutors are seeking to revoke his bond as retaliation after he rejected a plea deal,” CNN reports.
New Fears About Trump’s Authoritarian Bent
“Donald Trump rose to power with political campaigns that largely attacked external targets, including immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and from south of the United States-Mexico border,” the New York Times reports.
“But now, in his third presidential bid, some of his most vicious and debasing attacks have been leveled at domestic opponents…”
“This turn inward has sounded new alarms among experts on autocracy who have long worried about Mr. Trump’s praise for foreign dictators and disdain for democratic ideals. They said the former president’s increasingly intensive focus on perceived internal enemies is a hallmark of dangerous totalitarian leaders.”
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