Trump update

The five elements of fascism

Mar-a-Lago looked to hire nearly 400 foreign workers while Trump stashed top-secret docs there.

A Bloomberg Law database listing 224 criminal cases that were assigned to Cannon reviewed by The Times found that just four went to trial, all of which were largely routine cases, meaning the judge presiding over arguably one of the most important criminal cases in U.S. history is going into the trial with a total of 14 days experience trying criminal cases, the report said.

Christopher Kise, one of former President Trump's lawyers, proposed last fall to try to arrange a settlement with the Justice Department that would include the return of all documents, The Washington Post reports.Trump wasn't interested "after listening to other lawyers who urged a more pugilistic approach, so Kise never approached prosecutors."

In 2019 The Washington Post revealed that, throughout his presidency, Donald Trump was having secret phone conversations with Russia’s President Putin (over 20 have been identified so far, including one just days before the 2020 election). The Moscow Project from the American Progress Action Fund documents more than 270 known contacts between Russia-linked operatives and members of the Trump campaign and transition team, as well as at least 38 known meetings just leading up to the 2016 election.