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House Dem Wants Gov. Hochul to Pardon Trump ‘For the Good of the Country’

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A Democratic congressman has publicly called on Gov. Hochul to pardon former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty this week of falsifying business records — for the sake of the nation.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said a Trump conviction only helps his campaign.

“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim. @GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country,” Phillips declared in a X post Friday.

“You think pardoning is stupid? Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost,” Phillips warned.

Phillips, a three term gadfly, earned national attention this year after launching a primary challenge against President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.

A businessman before entering government, Phillips dropped at least $5 million of his own cash on the long-shot effort, which he abandoned in March. (Read more from “House Dem Wants Gov. Hochul to Pardon Trump ‘For the Good of the Country’” HERE)

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Trump’s ‘Revenge’ Strategy That’ll Make Dems Sorry They Ever Politically Persecuted Him

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Former President Donald Trump is laying out a revenge plan to get back at the Democratic Party after they have politically punished him since his first day of office in 2016.

And he needs all of you to attend the polls in November to achieve it.

Trump said that his revenge would be “success” on November 5 and taking back the White House.

“These are bad people. These people are sick, and they do things that are so destructive… if it weren’t me, they’d be going after somebody else, and I know a lot of the competition. They wouldn’t do so well,” Trump told Fox & Friends Weekends.

He called the “rigged” trial a “sham” and a “weaponization” of justice after 12 Manhattan jurors found Trump guilty of falsifying business records during the 2016 election. (Read more from “Trump’s ‘Revenge’ Strategy That’ll Make Dems Sorry They Ever Politically Persecuted Him” HERE)

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World Leaders Rush to Trump’s Defense After Guilty Verdict

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News of former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records has reverberated across the world — and now global leaders are weighing in.

Some, like pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage called the verdict a “disgrace,” which was in marked contrast to leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party Keir Starmer, who said his party “respects” the court’s decision.

The Kremlin said on Friday that the verdict demonstrated the Biden administration’s efforts to eliminate political opponents for personal gain.

“If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “That is evident to everyone, to the whole world, with the naked eye.” . . .

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has publicly endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, also rushed to his side, describing him as a “man of honour’ on social media.

“As President, he always put America first, he commanded respect around the world and used this respect to build peace,” he said. (Read more from “World Leaders Rush to Trump’s Defense After Guilty Verdict” HERE)

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CNN: Trump’s Conviction Will Be Overturned Due to ‘Number of Significant Issues’

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CNN legal analyst Mark O’Mara predicted that former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict will be appealed due to a “number of significant issues.”

O’Mara said that the odds are in Trump’s favor after 12 jurors found the former president guilty in a sham case regarding 34 charges brought against him in the New York hush money trial.

He suggested that the trial was handled unprofessionally and therefore will grant Trump a successful appeal. O’Mara put aside the fact that the case involved Trump and claimed that Judge Juan Merchan did not deliver a fair and honest trial.

“We don’t talk about Donald Trump anymore. We talk about the defensibility case and whether or not the judge did everything the judge was supposed to do to ensure a fair trial, unaffected by the outside world,” O’Mara said. “And I’ve complained… that the idea that this jury wasn’t sequestered, not even during their deliberations, not to mention for that week before between trial and closings, I think that’s a massive mistake.” . . .

“The defense is going to follow the trail of every one of these jurors when they find out who they are and how they are, where they drove, what they did, every billboard that they saw, all of that, and that’s going to be the fodder for appeals that this jury was infected by negativity that this judge didn’t protect their client from,” he continued. (Read more from “CNN: Trump’s Conviction Will Be Overturned Due to ‘Number of Significant Issues’” HERE)

Elon Musk to Host Town Hall on X for Trump After Slamming Guilty Verdict

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Elon Musk is set to host a town hall on X for former President Donald Trump, following Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. A similar event is planned for independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On Thursday, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty in relation to payments made to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election. Musk reacted strongly to the verdict, stating, “great damage was done.”

“If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter — motivated by politics, rather than justice — then anyone is at risk of a similar fate,” Musk wrote in a post on X.

Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just days before the Republican Party’s national convention on July 15. Following the jury’s decision, Trump blamed President Joe Biden, calling the verdict a “rigged decision.”

“This was done by the Biden administration in order to hurt an opponent, a political opponent, and I think it’s just a disgrace,” Trump said.

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Legendary Actor Endorses Trump; Says Justice System Has Been Weaponized (VIDEO)

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Donald Trump may have lost his trial, but he hasn’t lost the hearts of the people.

Not even Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid, who endorsed Trump on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” this past Tuesday.

“What do you think of Trump?” Morgan asked Quaid, who answered without hesitation.

“I think I’m gonna vote for him,” Quaid said.

“I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is, more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution that, us as Americans, I don’t think we’re going to have,” he continued.

(Read more from “Legendary Actor Endorses Trump; Says Justice System Has Been Weaponized (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Trump’s ‘Banana Republic’ Conviction Won’t Be Democrats’ Last — Unless There Is ‘Retaliation in Kind’: UC Berkeley Law Prof

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UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo made clear this week that President Donald Trump’s conviction before a Democratic judge in a Democratic enclave on charges brought by a Democratic prosecutor effectively obliterates any remaining pretense that the justice system is a means for resolution and restitution. The courtroom is now instead apparently a vehicle for seeking retribution and political advantage.

With this transformation, Yoo says its high time for “retaliation in kind” by Republican district attorneys.

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s conviction, Yoo noted in National Review that it was abundantly clear the hush-money case was built around “farcical charges” and aimed not at delivering justice but at protecting a decrepit Democratic president from facing his top competitor in November.

“The superficiality of the facts and the vagueness of the crimes magnify the harm that Democrats have inflicted on our political norms,” wrote the former deputy assistant attorney general. “Make no mistake, Democrats have crossed a constitutional Rubicon.”

Yoo issued a note of caution: The “weakness of the case against Trump lowers the bar for prosecuting future presidents below that for prosecuting garden-variety criminals in New York City.” (Read more from “Trump’s ‘Banana Republic’ Conviction Won’t Be Democrats’ Last — Unless There Is ‘Retaliation in Kind’: UC Berkeley Law Prof” HERE3)

Donald Trump Found Guilty of Running for President

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Donald Trump, as you have certainly heard by now, has been convicted.

The verdict is in. Guilty — guilty on all 34 felony counts of running for re-election.

That, after all, is the actual crime that Trump committed. It’s the one and only reason that this case was ever brought. They prosecuted him for trying to be president again. That’s the actual reality. That’s the real crime — which isn’t a crime. But, you might still be wondering, on paper, what crime was Trump just convicted of? Somehow, a day after the guilty verdict was read, the actual crime he was guilty of is still very hard to say.

One possible theory is that the government of New York really doesn’t like it when people overpay their taxes. They’re the first government in the history of the universe that actively punishes its citizens for handing over too much cash. It drives Alvin Bragg absolutely crazy whenever this happens. If New Yorkers pay the government too much cash in April, then the full weight of New York’s criminal justice system will come crashing down on them. A jury will convict them in a day, and they’ll face several years in prison. This is how desperately New York doesn’t want money from its citizens.

That’s what you have to believe if, for some reason, you’re still pretending that there was any legitimacy to the show trial of Donald Trump that concluded yesterday in Manhattan. I’ve been thinking of the best way to illustrate just how unprecedented and disgraceful the trial was. (Read more from “Donald Trump Found Guilty of Running for President” HERE)

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Alvin Bragg’s Own Former Colleague, Casts Doubt on the ‘Contorted’ Case Against Trump

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Elie Honig, once a colleague of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, called Bragg’s “contorted” case against former President Donald Trump an “ill-conceived, unjustified mess” in a Friday op-ed for New York Magazine.

Honig served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2004 to 2012 and worked alongside Bragg. Honig, who now works as a legal analyst for CNN, criticized the legitimacy of the case. He noted its “unprecedented” and “obscure” nature and called the charges “inventive” and “inflated.”

“Here, prosecutors got their man, for now at least — but they also contorted the law in an unprecedented manner in their quest to snare their prey,” Honig wrote.

He laid out a list of “undeniable facts” that cast doubts on the legitimacy of the conviction.

He cited the case’s Judge, Juan Manuel Merchan, and his donation to an anti-Trump operation.

(Read more from “Alvin Bragg’s Own Former Colleague, Casts Doubt on the ‘Contorted’ Case Against Trump” HERE)

Trump Campaign Announces Nearly $53 Million Raised in 24 Hours After Conviction

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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in the 24 hours after Trump’s conviction by a New York jury.

Jurors in Trump’s business records trial found the former president guilty on all 34 counts related to payments made to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

“In the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the online digital fundraising platform,” the Trump campaign wrote. “THAT’S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!”

The Trump campaign added that over “one third” of these donations were from new donors.

After the Manhattan jury found Trump guilty, WinRed, the Republican Party’s official online donation website crashed due to the high volume of internet traffic. (Read more from “Trump Campaign Announces Nearly $53 Million Raised in 24 Hours After Conviction” HERE)

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