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“Donald Trump is refusing to put his own money into his political campaign, instead relying on funds from supporters around the country. But his businesses are continuing to collect money for various services. The effect: Money from small-dollar donors turns into revenue for Trump. New filings raise the question of whether Trump is also using his campaign to convert Secret Service funds into business revenue,” Forbes reports.
“The agency has paid Trump’s campaign $817,000 for airfare this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission documents released Monday.
Elie Mystal: “As the public becomes more aware of the bias Alito has always shown in his written opinions, it strikes me that the deepest irony of Alito’s Supreme Court career is that it almost never happened. It was made possible only because people rejected the first choice for his job: Texas litigator Harriet Miers.”
“Miers was a George W.
“The political party of Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, said it wants to dissolve the parliament in a bid to force early elections and oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Bloomberg reports.
“The National Unity party said in a statement it is proposing a vote in the Knesset.”
“It’s unclear if Gantz’s party will garner enough support for it to be passed if a vote does go ahead.
An interesting note from the New York Times:
“Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche hasn’t asked Justice Merchan to lift the gag order involving witnesses in the case, even though the portion of the trial involving them has ended. Yet Trump still complains about the gag order constantly.”
“Michael Fanone, a former police officer who was nearly killed by a mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the U. S. Capitol, spoke outside the courthouse during closing arguments in Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday, calling Trump ‘an authoritarian’ with ‘a violence fetish,'” NBC News reports.
“Hours later, Fanone’s mother was ‘swatted’ at her home in Virginia.”
Derek Thompson: “In a perfect world, the brokenness of America’s immigration system would inspire Congress to swiftly pass new legislation convincing voters that the U. S. controls whom we let in and keep out of the country. The basic contours of this grand bargain have been fairly clear for decades.