January 13, 2024

Trump update

Trump-Appointed Judge Upholds Georgia Runoff System That Curbs Voting Access

In case you hadn't heard, God made Trump

According to a new poll, a solid majority of 56 percent support the various criminal charges levied against the former president in state and federal courts while only 39 percent oppose them. If Trump were to be convicted, he would predictably not lose much support from his most fervent backers. A mere 10 percent who view him favorably said a guilty verdict would lower their opinion of the former president while 12 percent said it would raise it. However, a conviction will hurt Trump among independents. Nearly a quarter of them responded that such an outcome in any of the trials would lower their opinion of the former president.

Nation - Chris Christie quit his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this week. And despite all his failings and foibles over the years, it’s a blow to the party, as he “was the last high-profile GOP contender who was fighting for whatever remains of the soul of a Republican Party,” national affairs correspondent John Nichols writes.

A New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay The New York Times $392,638 in legal fees on Friday, over a lawsuit that was dismissed last year. In 2021, Trump filed a lawsuit against the paper and three of its reporters over a report they published detailing Trump’s years of alleged tax evasion and financial loss. In the filing, Trump accused the reporters of engaging in an “insidious plot” to obtain his tax records, with his niece Mary L. Trump. In May 2023, Trump’s lawsuit was dismissed, and a judge deemed that the report was protected by the First Amendment.

On the final day of a civil fraud trial that could strip Donald Trump of his ability to do business in the state he called home for most of his life, New York City officials were taking their own steps to sever ties with the former president by erasing his name from a Bronx golf course. The hulking hillside “Trump Links” sign, visible for nearly a decade to motorists passing over the Whitestone Bridge, was removed this week ahead of a ribbon-cutting Thursday to unveil the new name of the Ferry Point golf course, Bally Links.

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