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WATCH: Former DA Who Declined to Charge Trump Raises Critical Question About Alvin Bragg’s Case: ‘Never Been Done’

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Former Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. provided insight into the criminal case against Donald Trump on Sunday, declining to say it is “airtight.” . . .

Last Thursday, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg confirmed that a grand jury indicted Trump. . .

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Vance admitted he is unsure whether the case is “airtight,” and he explained why declined to pursue the case several years ago.

At first, Vance reiterated that federal attorneys in the Southern District of New York had asked his office to “stand down.” Then he implied that his office did not pursue a felony case against Trump because such a case is unprecedented — not just against a former president, but against anyone.

“I don’t want to get into our deliberations. But we have historically filed cases of false documentation, elevating them to felonies, when federal statutes were involved,” Vance began. (Read more from “Former DA Who Declined to Charge Trump Raises Critical Question About Alvin Bragg’s Case: ‘Never Been Done’”” HERE)

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Trump Campaign Raised ‘Record’ $7M in Three Days Since Indictment: Adviser

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Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign raised a “record” $7 million in the three days following his indictment, according to a campaign adviser.

Jason Miller, who serves as a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, announced the apparent record shortly after Trump left for New York City. He will be arraigned in the city on Tuesday.

(Read more from “Trump Campaign Raised ‘Record’ $7M in Three Days Since Indictment: Adviser” HERE)

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WATCH: Trump Lawyer Claims There Would Be No Indictment if Former President Wasn’t Running in 2024

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Donald Trump’s attorney claimed that there would be no indictment against his client in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case if the former president wasn’t seeking a return to the White House in 2024.

Joe Tacopina, who is representing Trump, 76, in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said Americans should be concerned about the indictment filed against the former president.

“If you’re an American and you’re concerned about rule of law, there should be no scenario where you want this to happen,” Tacopina said Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.”

“If you’re intellectually honest, we all know that had Donald Trump not been Donald Trump, and it was John Smith, this case would have never been brought.” he suggested.

“If he was not running for reelection, there is no way this case would have been brought.” (Read more from “Trump Lawyer Claims There Would Be No Indictment if Former President Wasn’t Running in 2024” HERE)

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Report: Judge to Put ‘Gag Order’ on Trump; ’Unprecedented Step’ to Silence ’Presidential Frontrunner’

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The legal team representing former President Donald Trump reportedly expects that the Manhattan judge will put a gag order on him as the case awaits trial.

A source close to the legal team told the Daily Mail the judge will take an “unprecedented step” to silence the 2024 presidential candidate. The gag order could potentially undercut his ability to campaign on the issue of legal corruption during the primary.

“The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,” the source said. “The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.”

Trump breaking the gag order could potentially see him slapped with a $1,000 fine and as many as 30 days in jail, per New York law. Despite the pending order, the former president still plans to make a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening after peacefully submitting himself to the prosecution in New York. Per the Associated Press:

Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to voluntarily turn himself in. He is expected to be joined in Florida by supporters as he tries to project an image of strength and defiance and turn the charges into a political asset to boost his 2024 presidential campaign.

(Read more from “Report: Judge to Put ‘Gag Order’ on Trump; ’Unprecedented Step’ to Silence ’Presidential Frontrunner’” HERE)

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Trump to Deliver Mar-a-Lago Speech After Arraignment

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After he is arraigned in Manhattan on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump plans to deliver a public address that same day.

The remarks are scheduled for 8:15 p.m. EDT at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, his re-election campaign announced on Sunday.

No further details about the substance of Trump’s comments were immediately released.

(Read more from “Trump to Deliver Mar-A-Lago Speech After Arraignment” HERE)

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Manhattan Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump

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A Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict Former President Donald Trump, according to The New York Post.

It is unclear when Trump will turn himself in for fingerprints and photographs, according to The New York Times. (Read more from “Manhattan Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump” HERE)

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Bragg’s Case Against Trump Has a U.S. Constitution Problem

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According to press reports, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is close to indicting Donald Trump, or at least wrestling with the decision. While Trump has predicted “death and destruction” if he is arrested, his defenders should focus instead on the prosecution’s legal flaws. In fact, at the heart of the case rests a critical — but so far unexplored — defect that should bring down Bragg’s house of cards.

According to leaks from the DA’s office, Bragg intends to seek a grand-jury indictment of Trump for a $130,000 hush-money alleged payoff to porn star Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels). Nondisclosure deals do not by themselves violate criminal law. The DA’s star witness is Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, who was convicted of a federal felony for carrying out the scheme. (Cohen has proven such an unreliable witness that federal prosecutors decided to drop any further investigation into the payoff years ago.) The apparent claim here is that Trump violated the law by trying to account for the hush money as a payment to bagman Cohen for “legal services.”

But fiddling with the corporate books can only support a misdemeanor charge, one that has to be brought within two years of the act. As the payoff occurred in 2016, the Manhattan DA ran out of time years ago. So to elevate this minor infraction into a felony incurring significant jail time and subject to a longer statute of limitations, Bragg apparently plans to claim that Trump falsified his business records to conceal another crime. What crime? According to press reports, Bragg claims that Trump violated federal campaign-finance laws by concealing what was effectively a contribution to his own presidential efforts.

In other words, if he proceeds (which is not yet completely clear), Bragg would charge Trump because he did not pay Clifford out of campaign funds. It is not even clear that Bragg could prove that the payment had anything to do with the campaign, as Trump could claim that he would have paid the hush money anyway to spare his wife and family from humiliation. (Read more from “Bragg’s Case Against Trump Has a U.S. Constitution Problem” HERE)

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Trump: I Will End Ukraine War in 24 Hours but I Won’t Tell You How

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Former President Donald Trump on Monday wildly claimed that he could resolve the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours” of leading peace negotiations, but he refused to reveal how.

Trump, 76, made the eyebrow-raising comment in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that aired Monday night. The ex-president said that if the war is not over by the end of the 2024 presidential election, and he were to be reelected to the White House, he would “within one day” have a peace deal in place.

Trump argued that negotiations between himself, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin would be “easy.”

“If it’s not solved, I will have it solved in 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin, and there’s a very easy negotiation to take place, but I don’t want to tell you what it is because then I can’t use that negotiation,” Trump vowed, not so much as hinting at what his negotiation strategy would be.

“But there’s a very easy negotiation to take place. I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them,” he reiterated. (Read more from “Trump: I Will End Ukraine War in 24 Hours but I Won’t Tell You How” HERE)

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Now Trump Says DA Alvin Bragg Has Dropped the Case Against Him

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After years of this schtick, I’d hope you all know that President Donald Trump was never in real legal danger. If there were a chance he could get arrested last week, which was the talk of the town, we would have known. There would have been documents leaked. The indictment would have been plastered all over CNN and MSNBC for days, along with the expected jubilation. The former president ignited a firestorm when he posted on his social media site, Truth Social, that he would be arrested by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, stemming from the hush money arrangement he allegedly made with porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump’s staff were unaware of such an indictment, and they would have known. The grand jury opted not to convene this week due to the intense media attention. Trump called for protests should he be cuffed, but the man did what he does best: generate media buzz for himself. He got hours of coverage, debate, analysis, and liberal froth from this post, though the reach would have been many times greater if he got back to using Twitter, which I still feel is essential if he wants to increase the odds for 2024 success. At a rally this weekend, Trump said that the case was fake and that Bragg had already dropped it. We’ll see about that; the man clamored for days about how his arrest was coming. Now, he wants to milk it another few days and act like no one knew that no arrest was coming (via NY Post):

Former President Donald Trump claims that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has “dropped” an investigation into him over the “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump, 76, made the assertion while speaking to reporters on his jet Saturday night after a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, Axios reported.

“I think they’ve already dropped the case,” Trump said. “It’s a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing.”

(Read more from “Now Trump Says DA Alvin Bragg Has Dropped the Case Against Him” HERE)

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‘Trump Won’ Songwriter Sounds Alarm to Americans

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Christian singer-songwriter Natasha Owens exploded the expected routine on a lot of song charts recently with her “Trump Won and You Know It” anthem, which has been collecting millions of hits.

And the reason it’s so popular is because it reveals that Americans are losing their freedom, she explains.

Her song has made her popular on some charts than superstar Taylor Swift.

The Examiner noted that other songs about Donald Trump winning in 2020 “have been banned from platforms like YouTube and TikTok, labeled misinformation. Owens’s song is on YouTube, where it’s accrued more than 820,000 views in three weeks.”

The video features real news clips highlighting anomalies during the election, including accusations of ballot harvesting, problems with voting machines, and dead people voting. (Read more from “‘Trump Won’ Songwriter Sounds Alarm to Americans” HERE)

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