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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
NY Gears Up to Seize Trump Westchester Assets If Fraud Fine Is Unpaid — State registered $454 million judgment in Westchester County — Area is home to a Trump golf course and Seven Springs estate — New York state's $454 million judgment against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
New York Attorney General takes initial step to prepare to seize Trump assets — The New York attorney general's office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump's golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs.
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Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
Trump's Lawyer Won't Deny If He's Asked Russia, Saudi Arabia For Bond Money — Asked bluntly about it on Fox News, Alina Habba quickly changed the subject. — LOADING — Has Donald Trump asked Russia, Saudi Arabia or any other country for help paying his upcoming $464 million bond?
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is in Line for a $3.5 Billion Windfall From Stake in Truth Social — Supporters who have driven up share price are expected to vote Friday to take company public — Donald Trump's supporters are pushing to hand him a nearly $3.5 billion windfall by driving up the value …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Attorney General Prepares to Seize Trump's Massive New York Estate
Attorney General Prepares to Seize Trump's Massive New York Estate
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Washington Examiner
Harry Litman / Los Angeles Times:
Aileen Cannon's handling of Trump's classified records case just went from bad to horrible
Aileen Cannon's handling of Trump's classified records case just went from bad to horrible
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Raw Story
NBC News:
The ex-Democrat catching Trump's and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s eyes — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has gone from running for president as a Democrat in 2020 to interest in the open VP slots for Trump and Kennedy in 2024. — Tulsi Gabbard wanted to be president. Now she wants to be vice president.
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New York Times:
Trump Told Pence Certifying Election Would Be ‘Career Killer,’ Valet Testified — President Donald J. Trump warned his vice president against failing to overturn the 2020 election results, according to an account by the White House valet by his side on Jan. 6.
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The Guardian, The Hill and Journal Sentinel
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump is broke. That's bad news for the GOP. — This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren't one, please click the button below to support our independent journalism. — 💵 Subscribe to Public Notice 💵 — Presumptive GOP presidential …
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump's invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC — Donald Trump's new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president's legal bills …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers' head-scratching legal filings just keep coming — Former president Donald Trump's legal team, in a Supreme Court filing this week, decided it would be a good idea to cite the past words of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. — In doing so, though, they reinforced just how drastic …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Federal judge sentencing a Jan. 6 rioter worries Trump could spur another attack
Federal judge sentencing a Jan. 6 rioter worries Trump could spur another attack
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Politico:
Trump has an early lead on Biden. But problems are piling up around him.
Trump has an early lead on Biden. But problems are piling up around him.
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David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
Cannon Fodder: Law Clerks Quit On Judge Aileen Cannon — Please note the many UPDATES at the end of this post. … On Tuesday, the New York Times published an article titled, “Judge in Trump Documents Case Draws Attention for Slow Pace.” Reporter Alan Feuer wrote that Judge Aileen M. Cannon …
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Simon Rosenberg / Hopium Chronicles:
Biden Leads in 6 New Polls, The Booming American Economy, The Republican Party Is Broke and Broken — Big Day Today - With Dems at 1pm ET, Ruben Gallego at 8pm - Join Us! — Happy Thursday all. Got a few things for you today: — 2 Events Today - Register, Join Us!
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Rob Wile / NBC News:
Apple sued by Biden administration over alleged iPhone ‘monopoly power’ — The Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general launched a major lawsuit against the technology giant accusing it of harming consumers by limiting competition. — The U.S. Department …
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Reuters:
Apple accused of monopolizing smartphone markets in US antitrust lawsuit
Apple accused of monopolizing smartphone markets in US antitrust lawsuit
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: I'm not sure we ever had votes for impeachment — Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday evening that he was not sure the House GOP ever had enough votes for an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. — Burchett is a member of the House Oversight Committee …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Impeachment inquiry appears on ice as House GOP tries to wrangle support
Impeachment inquiry appears on ice as House GOP tries to wrangle support
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
CNN Ambushes GOP Nominee Who Called for Biden's Execution — The GOP pick to run North Carolina's public schools has called for the deaths of Biden and Obama. CNN couldn't get her to comment, so they found her in person. — CNN couldn't get the GOP nominee to run North Carolina's public schools …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam — For much of the last week, Elon Musk's mighty Twitter feed—sorry, his X feed—featured as its pinned tweet a video that purports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to “flood” the country with “illegals” to lock in a “permanent voting majority.”
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Chris Christie not ruling out No Labels bid — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is not ruling out running on a potential No Labels ticket in the 2024 presidential election. — The former GOP presidential candidate, who dropped his White House bid in January …
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Axios
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
US judge cites Dr. Seuss in dismissing Blagojevich suit: 'Just Go. Go. GO! — A federal judge shut down former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D) latest attempt to regain ballot eligibility by quoting Dr. Seuss, underlining the former governor's fall from political star to laughingstock.
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Prosecutor tells jury former Milwaukee official who requested fake ballots was no whistleblower — A jury found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty Wednesday of misconduct in office and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was trying …
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Blaze Media, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump Media, launched after an insurrection, faces rebellion of its own — Four lawsuits involving the founding boosters of Truth Social threaten to erode former president Donald Trump's grasp on a massive financial haul — When former president Donald Trump's Trump Media & Technology Group …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tester scores win on resolution to block beef exports from Paraguay — Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.), a Democrat facing a tough reelection race, scored a win Thursday when the Senate approved a challenge he led to override the Biden administration's decision to allow beef imports from Paraguay.
HotAir:
The Bobulinski Meltdowns Were Glorious — On this full episode of LARRY, we discuss the MANY temper tantrums thrown by Democrats in the Hunter Biden corruption hearing yesterday in the House Oversight Committee, a SERIOUS TAKEDOWN of a Biden nominee by Senator John Kennedy …
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Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Leonard Leo, Koch networks pour millions into groups prepping for potential second Trump administration — A review by the progressive advocacy group Accountable.US shows $55 million flowing from Leo- and Koch-backed groups. — WASHINGTON — Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks …
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