Donald Trump

NY Magazine - Donald Trump is facing an extreme sliding-doors scenario on Election Day. If he wins, he would have the power to single-handedly scuttle the federal criminal cases against him, be immune from prosecution while in office, and, thanks to the Supreme Court, have broad immunity from prosecution once — if — he leaves. If he loses, though, he will face criminal penalties that could leave him in command of a 70-square-foot prison cell for most of the rest of his life.

“He will be facing serious legal jeopardy if he loses. He knows that,” says Bennett Gershman, a professor of constitutional law at Pace Law School who served for a decade as a New York prosecutor. “It’s probably on his mind every day. He faces four very, very serious cases, in one of which he has already been convicted as a felon. The others are easily convictable.”

The minute it becomes clear that Trump has lost the election, his legal team will be preparing for the fight of a lifetime to keep him out of prison. “This defendant will use every means at his disposal to delay the outcome and complicate the adjudication,” says Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at John Jay College and the executive director of the New York State Sentencing Commission. “Who knows what legal maneuvers are available to him?” 

NY Times -As president, Mr. Trump fought bitterly with ... Puerto Rican leaders, and resisted sending billions of dollars in aid after the territory was ravaged by back-to-back hurricanes in 2017. He made angry comments on social media and tossed paper towels at Puerto Ricans during a visit that few, if any, have forgotten. He even wondered privately if the United States could sell the island.

In 2019, Mr. Trump decried local leaders as “grossly incompetent.” A year later, while running for re-election, he tried to portray himself as the “best thing that ever happened” to the island. The Republican Party platform no longer mentions statehood for Puerto Rico, a position the party had held before Mr. Trump’s relationship with the island soured.

“You have to understand the context of how hurtful this is by understanding the botched and deadly response to Hurricane Maria,” said Representative Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat of Puerto Rican descent. “This is also clearly discrimination.”...

Over the years, Mr. Trump has viewed Puerto Rico through little more than a political lens, seemingly frustrated by a territory that has required significant federal help to recover from bankruptcy, hurricanes and earthquakes. 

CNN - Trump made 16 false claims at the Madison Square Garden rally, including that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has not responded to North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. That's simply not true. Read the fact checks.

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Vanity Fair - Donald Trump on Thursday gave voters a preview of what America would look like should he win a second term when he declared that Jack Smith, the prosecutor running two federal cases against him, should be be “throw[n]” out of the country.

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PoliticusUSA - Donald Trump’s Georgia crowd didn’t make it through a half an hour before they started walking out on him. Usually Trump’s crowds bail on him........A more savvy candidate would notice his crowd getting bored and leaving and tighten up their speech to get it over with faster, or start giving shorter remarks to keep the crowd from heading to the parking lot, but Donald Trump is not smart. These speeches aren’t for the crowd. Trump isn’t giving anything to the audience. He is taking from the crowd to fill his endless need for love and affection.