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“Republicans are waking up to the reality that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sink their standard-bearer just as easily as he could hurt President Joe Biden, after a pair of new polls showed the presence of third-party candidates on the ballot might not necessarily benefit former President Donald Trump,” Politico reports.
“Even Trump is acknowledging his potential problem.”
Said Trump: “They say he hurts Biden.
Donald Trump violated his gag order by calling the jurors in his “hush money” criminal trial “Democrats” in a new interview, Los Angeles Magazine reports.
Said Trump: “That jury was picked so fast. 95% are Democrats. The area is mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a purely Democrat area.
Trump became even more of a laughing stock last week when it was reported that he was falling asleep in court and was emitting noxious fumes, to the point that his attorneys were having difficulties. So naturally, it struck my funny bone when I saw a friend share a short clip of a farting Trump doll.
As testimony opened in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in New York, one of the big questions is whether Trump will take the stand in his own defense.
Trump doesn’t have to testify, but he insists he wants to.
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