May 15, 2024

Trump

Independent UK - Barrett Blade, the adult film star’s husband, told CNN on Tuesday that there’s a “good chance” that they could up sticks and get out of the country if Mr Trump is acquitted.

Roll Call - Speaker Mike Johnson joined a cavalcade of top Republicans defending former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amid his New York criminal trial focused on hush money payments over an alleged affair in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Johnson’s appearance outside the Manhattan courthouse, where he criticized the criminal case as a partisan attack on Trump, comes as the former president has closely tied his criticisms of the prosecutions to his run for reelection this year. The courthouse-steps media appearances from Johnson and others this week are the latest effort from Trump’s congressional Republican allies to defend him during the criminal case in New York.

CNN -  Cohen's testimony is like something from Shakespeare or "Goodfellas." A former aide who was famously loyal to Trump turns against him. What sets Cohen apart is that he's the Trump loyalist who turned and also went to prison. There's a long list of other Trump loyalists who went to prison (or came close), stayed loyal and got pardons or clemency.  We're talking about people like:

  • Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who could be back in a second Trump administration.
  • Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist who got a pardon but faces prison for contempt of Congress.
  • Roger Stone, his longtime friend who got clemency before reporting for prison.
  • And Paul Manafort, his former top campaign official in 2016 who spent a few years in jail. Manafort recently stepped back from an informal advisory role on Trump's campaign.
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