Judge Partially Lifts Gag Order, Permits
Trump to Criticize Witnesses, Jurors after
Hush-Money Conviction
Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/25/2024 3:18:01 PM
Former president Donald Trump will be allowed to criticize witnesses and jurors from his hush-money conviction in New York on 34 criminal charges last month. Judge Juan Merchan lifted parts of Trump’s restrictive gag order on Tuesday preventing Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses and jurors. The ruling comes days before Trump’s first presidential debate against President Joe Biden, where Trump’s criminal conviction is likely going to be a point of contention. Before the debate was finalized, Biden taunted Trump about the hush-money criminal trial and his availability on Wednesdays. Since Trump’s conviction, the Biden campaign has released an advertisement slamming Trump over being a convicted felon. CNN will be airing
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The poll, conducted by The Washington Post/Schar School, surveyed voters across six swing states and identified a subgroup of respondents labeled as “deciders.” It found that 38 percent of “deciders” said Trump would do a better job of handling threats of democracy to the U.S., while 29 percent said Biden and 23 percent said neither.
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U.S. intelligence agencies are guilty of multiple failures to address threats posed by China over the past 40 years, resulting in current existential dangers to American security, a former Navy intelligence director told Congress on Wednesday.
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Pollster Nate Silver projected that former President Donald Trump has a 65.7% chance of winning the presidency in November. He gives President Joe Biden a 33.7% chance with a narrow 0.5% chance of either candidate failing to reach 270 electoral votes.
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The Post reports that:
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Target Young Children with Climate Change Propaganda 19 replies
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The grand jury indicted Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuela national, who had entered the country illegally in September 2022 in El Paso, Texas. He faces charges of malice murder and felony murder in connection with Riley’s death.
Riley was found deceased on Augusta University’s campus
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In a brief statement, the court acknowledged that a document had been “inadvertently” posted on its website, reiterating that an opinion on the Idaho case has not officially been made public. “The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website,” Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe acknowledged, adding that the opinion “has not been released” and would be “in due course.”
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American military contractors to deploy
to Ukraine 14 replies
American military contractors to deploy
to Ukraine 14 replies
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The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, as the US looks for ways to give Ukraine’s military an upper hand against Russia.
The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not received final sign-off yet from President Joe Biden, officials said. “We have not made any decisions and any discussion of this is premature,” said one administration official. “The president is absolutely firm
US Rep. John Curtis wins Utah GOP primary
for Romney’s open seat, while Gov. Spencer
Cox also wins 14 replies
for Romney’s open seat, while Gov. Spencer
Cox also wins 14 replies
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Curtis and Cox both defeated candidates who beat them at the state party convention earlier this year among delegates who lean far right.
Washington— Some of the 51 “Spies Who Lie” were active CIA contractors when they claimed files from first son Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election — a fact that was uneasily noted inside the agency, records acquired by The Post show.
Former CIA acting director Michael Morell, who previously told Congress he organized the Oct. 19, 2020, letter to give Joe Biden a “talking point” ahead of a debate against then-President Donald Trump, was under contract with the CIA at the time, the agency told Congress.
Ex-agency inspector general David Buckley also was a contractor at the time of the letter,