With the November presidential election just months away, a large swath of Donald Trump allies already have in place plans to contest results in multiple states which will lead to chaos before Congress attempts to certify the election results. Noting that the former president's supporters approached contesting his loss in a haphazard way following the 2020 election that culminated in an assault on U.S.
Capitol, the Times is reporting they have a detailed roadmap for pushing back this time should Trump lose again. As the Times' Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti report, "The campaign involves a powerful network of Republican lawyers and activist groups, working loosely in concert with the Republican National Committee," adding, "unlike the chaotic and improvised challenge four years ago, the new drive includes a systematic search for any vulnerability in the nation’s patchwork election system." RELATED: Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested The Heritage Foundation's Mike Howell made it clear this week that conservatives feel they'll have to push back at the election results, bluntly stating, "As things stand right now, there’s zero chance of a free and fair election.
I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” The Times report notes, "Democrats, civil rights lawyers and even some Republicans say that the threat is clear: Even if the cases fail, Mr. Trump’s allies are building excuses to dispute the results, while trying to empower thousands of local election officials to disrupt the process.
Already, election board members in several states have moved to block certification of primary election tallies, including in a major swing county in Nevada last week." Republican election expert Ben Ginsberg warned, "The fundamental principle of the system — the rule of law, the finality of the results, the ability to challenge an election but then accept the results if the challenges fail — is being stood on its head” You can read more here . When former President Donald Trump comes to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for next week's Republican National Convention (RNC), he may come in contact with several criminal defendants tied to alleged crimes he has yet to stand trial for.
Legal experts are now saying the ex-president could run afoul of the law if he has encounters with them at the RNC. Even though the 45th president of the United States has already been convicted of 34 felonies in New York, he's still facing dozens more felony charges in both state and federal jurisdictions. And because some RNC delegates are fake electors currently facing criminal charges, Trump may be in violation of his bail agreement if he has any contact with them.
Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney reported that Trump has "sworn not to communicate with" any number of the "dozens of witnesses and alleged co-conspirators in his criminal cases" who will likely be among the RNC's estimated 50,000 attendees. "If I were a Trump attorney, my biggest fear might be that Trump finds himself in close quarters with a defendant and starts running his mouth off," Georgia State University law professor Anthony Kreis told Cheney. "I imagine the tight scripted nature of the convention will help isolate Trump from that danger, but you also never know.
" According to Cheney, some of the indicted fake electors from Arizona, Georgia and Nevada could get the former president in trouble if prosecutors have reason to believe he had private meetings with them during the convention. Should Trump find himself in their company next week, former U.S.
Attorney Barbara McQuade told Politico that Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith and/or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could petition the court to punish Trump — which could include pre-trial incarceration. "If he were to meet with them in a conference room or hotel room, then concerns arise that they are violating not only the letter of the order but also the spirit of it,” McQuade said. “With regard to a public speech, I think general comments about politically motivated prosecution probably would not cause any concern, but if Trump starts detailing his version of a cover story, then that could prompt prosecutors to argue that he has breached his terms of release.
” Trump is currently still under indictment in two ongoing election interference cases. The former president is accused of colluding to disrupt the certification of electoral votes in Congress, and of conspiring to meddle in the 2020 election in Georgia's largest county. Both indictments allege cooperation with Republican officials who will be at Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee next week, who Cheney reports "remain active in the party.
" "They include Nevada state party Chair Michael McDonald; Michigan GOP Committee member Kathy Berden; and Arizona GOP activist Nancy Cottle, who obtained court permission this week to attend," he wrote. RNC organizers are planning to stick to the script next week, according to Republican National Committee co-chair Michael Whatley. He told the Washington Post that the GOP aims to make efforts to craft the former president's image to be more palatable to voters not fully in the MAGA camp.
This suggests his handlers will make moves to keep him away from any of the alleged criminals attending the convention. The former president is likely to give his nomination acceptance speech on the last day of the convention. Notably, former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro will have just been released from federal prison, and is scheduled to speak on the same day as Trump.
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District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan that she might be willing to postpone her European vacation so that she can proceed with what is being called a 'mini-trial" of Donald Trump to satisfy a ruling from the Supreme Court is bad news for the ex-president who already has multiple felony convictions hovering over him like a dark cloud. That is the opinion of State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg who appeared on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Saturday morning. With the Supreme Court punting their presidential immunity ruling back to the lower courts which must define what constitutes official presidential duties and what does not, Chutkan has an opening to give the evidence about his conduct before and during the Jan.
6 insurrection a public airing. ALSO READ: Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested Calling it a "silver lining," Aronberg told the hosts, "In Washington, D.C.
, I think Judge Chutkan is going to hold a mini-trial and is going to able to just present evidence and to show the world Donald Trump's activities before, during and after January 6th." "Trump does not want that to happen," he asserted. "That mini-trial will expose his conduct, even though there will not be a trial before the election.
" He later added, "I don't know the exact date, but she said she would be willing to cancel her European vacation to get this thing going, so I think it will happen before the election. She doesn't want to be played for a fool, she doesn't want to be used as a tool for delay. I think she wants something to be out there .
" Watch below or at the link . MSNBC 07 13 2024 09 29 04 youtu.be CONTINUE READING Show less On MSNBC on Saturday morning, a political analyst laughed at Donald Trump and called him a "slumlord" over recent comments he made when attacking President Joe Biden .
Speaking with the co-hosts of "The Weekend," MSNBC's Richard Stengel compared Biden meeting with NATO leaders while the former president hosted Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán at his Mar-a-Lago luxury resort in Florida. As he noted, there are rumblings that NATO nations will refuse to share important intel with the Trump administration should the convicted felon return to power over fears of what he will do with it. That, in a roundabout way, led New Yorker Stengel to remind viewers about Trump's history as a real estate developer and his history, as reported by CNN, when he cut off heat and water to tenants in one of his properties that led to lawsuits and a settlement.
With regard to Trump's strained relationship with NATO, Stengel stated, "The Europeans are appalled. They see Donald Trump as the greatest security risk on the planet. They are not going to be sharing their information with the U.
S." "This idea of weakening NATO, you guys mentioned it, it makes me laugh too when I hear Donald Trump say, those NATO nations are delinquent, like they are paying rent," he added before joking, "Once a slumlord, always a slumlord. He does not understand it is about contributing 2% of their GDP for their military budget.
" Stengel was citing Trump saying this week, "NATO members 'were delinquent, having paid very little.'” You can watch here or at the link. MSNBC 07 13 2024 08 51 04 youtu.
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