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Two members of Donald Trump’s legal team, Evan Corcoran and Lindsey Halligan, were seen entering the Justice Department headquarters in Washington DC on Monday morning as the agency continues its investigations into their employer and his handling of classified documents after the presidency. During the meeting, lawyers argued that Mr. Trump should not face charges in the investigation.
Meanwhile, federal investigators involved in the probe are focusing on an employee at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla., who, in the process of draining a pool on the property last year, flooded a room. where computer servers containing video surveillance records were stored.
Investigators are said to have questioned at least one witness about the episode, but it remains unclear whether the server room flooding is being treated as suspicious or an accident.
Responding in an all-caps meltdown on Truth Social, Mr Trump raged: “HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS BEEN CHARGED?”
Also on Monday, his estranged former deputy Mike Pence filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to launch a presidential bid of his own, which is likely to be officially announced on Wednesday.
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Pence files to enter 2024 GOP primary race
Mike Pence, the former Indiana governor who spent four years as then-President Donald Trump’s loyal vice president until he became persona non grata in MAGA circles to certify his defeat in the 2020 election, has declared officially a candidate for the GOP nomination in next year’s Republican presidential primary.
Mr Pence on Monday filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to register his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, capping months of speculation over whether Trump’s former right-hand man would challenge his former running mate, who is seeking to regain the his former post at the head of the executive branch amid multiple criminal investigations into his conduct.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 5:45 p.m
Judge blocks Florida’s ban on gender-based care for trans youth
A federal judge has partially thrown out Florida’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors in a ruling that condemns anti-trans bigotry and refutes false claims by state officials.
The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle on June 6 grants a preliminary injunction blocking a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and rules that prevent trans youth from accessing care widely accepted, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, as a legal challenge occurs.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 5:15 p.m
Barr: ‘This is not a case of the DOJ doing a witch hunt’
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 5:11 p.m
The worker who flooded Mar-a-Lago’s record room becomes the focus of investigators
Federal investigators have reportedly focused their attention on an employee at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, who last year, in the process of draining a pool at the property, flooded a room where computer servers containing video surveillance records were stored.
According to CNN, investigators have subpoenaed at least one witness in the investigation into Mr. Trump from classified documents on server room flooding. It is still unclear whether the room was flooded intentionally or by accident.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 4:45 p.m
RFK Jr speaks out against gun control
Democratic presidential candidate and vaccine advocate Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a Twitter Spaces event on Monday that he would not take away people’s guns as a solution to reducing mass shootings, instead pointing out that the said pharmaceutical drugs.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 4:15 p.m
California is investigating whether DeSantis was involved in the flight of asylum seekers from Texas to Sacramento
Officials were investigating Tuesday whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum seekers at the Texas border and flew them — apparently unknowingly — to the California capital , even as religious groups struggled to find housing and food for themselves. they.
About 20 people between the ages of 21 and 30 were flown Monday by private plane to Sacramento, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. It was the second such flight in four days.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and religious groups that have been helping the migrants scheduled a press conference Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted DeSantis as a “pathetic little man” and suggested the state might press kidnapping charges.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 4:03 p.m
Trump suggests he is about to be indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
Writing on his Truth Social website, Mr Trump asked how the Justice Department could “charge” him for hoarding classified documents at his home and office when similarly classified documents have been found at sites linked to other prominent figures. , including President Joe Biden. .
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 3:45 p.m
DNC statement on Pence’s 2024 run
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison released the following statement in response to Mike Pence’s entry into the 2024 Republican primary:
In Mike Pence’s own words, he was a member of the extreme Tea Party before it was cool,’ and he hasn’t slowed down since. Pence pushed an extreme agenda in Congress and in the state of Indiana before becoming Donald Trump’s MAGA wingman for four years and then campaigning for election negatives last year. Now, he’s promising to take the Trump-Pence agenda even further, leading the charge for a national abortion ban, slashing Medicare and ending Social Security as we know it.
Pence’s entry will no doubt drag an increasingly MAGA 2024 GOP field even further to the extremes.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 3:18 p.m
Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges over DeSantis’ migrant flights
The sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, is recommending criminal charges against those involved in flights that sent 49 mostly Venezuelan migrants from El Paso to Martha’s Vineyard last year, which was widely derided as a political stunt orchestrated by the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
A statement from the sheriff’s office says it has completed an investigation that began last September and recommended multiple unlawful restraint charges, both misdemeanors and felonies, to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 3:15 p.m
Trump says case against him is ‘all about election interference’
In his latest speech on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump claims the investigations against him are designed to interfere with the 2024 election.
The Marxists and fascists at the DOJ and FBI are after me at a level and speed never seen in our country, and I did nothing wrong. Joe Biden kept (keeps) thousands of documents, in many places, some illegally taken from skiffs while he was a senator, much of which was classified. He didn’t want them back, and still doesn’t. Nothing wrong with him, with the same reasonable prosecutor who properly exonerated Mike Pence. I have a very different prosecutor, a Trump hater!
It’s all about ELECTION INTERFERENCE. They don’t want to run against me. I ran twice, I did much better the second time, getting millions and millions more votes than the first time, a record for a sitting president, and I’m leading Biden by a lot in the polls. They are the Disinformation Party! They are using the DOJ and FBI against me to rig the 2024 election. They will hit Hunter with something small to make their hit on me look “fair”. Nothing about these fascists is fair or honest. FIGHT!
They are also persecuting me as RETURN to the Republicans in Congress persecuting them. The difference is that they have created major crimes, I have not created any!
ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE!!! Don’t let it happen.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 6, 2023 2:45 p.m
