Trump News for Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Taylor Greene knocks GOP for losing Santos seat - and wants more pro-Trump candidates
Raw Story
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Raw Story that the biggest mistake the Republican Party made was not choosing a candidate firmly behind former President Donald Trump to run in the New York Third District special election. Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) was exp...
Feb 14, 2024, 11:55 PM
Special counsel urges Supreme Court to deny Trump's bid to halt decision rejecting immunity claim in 2020 election case
CBS News
Special counsel Jack Smith urged the justices to deny former President Donald Trump's request to halt a lower court decision rejecting his claim he is immune from federal prosecution.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:50 PM
Jack Smith fires back at Trump with Supreme Court brief warning against further delay
Raw Story
Special counsel Jack Smith has responded to the Supreme Court with a filing that urges them to allow the federal election interference trial against former President Donald Trump to move forward — and warns against any additional delays."Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrat...
Feb 14, 2024, 11:46 PM
Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s bid to delay Jan. 6 trial
wcia.com
Special counsel Jack Smith quickly voiced opposition to former President Trump’s request for the Supreme Court to delay his federal election subversion trial by freezing a ruling that rejected Trump’s immunity claims.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:24 PM
Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump's 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay
BradfordToday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:18 PM
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
NBC News
Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application filed by Donald Trump that sought to further delay the former president's criminal trial arising from efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:16 PM
DOJ Asks SCOTUS To End Trump Election Interference Trial Delays
The Huffington Post
The former president, should he win the White House in November, would be able to order federal prosecutors to drop any unresolved charges against him.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:15 PM
Special counsel urges Supreme Court to deny Trump’s request for delay in immunity case
Cable News Network
Special counsel Jack Smith pressed the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let stand a lower court ruling that denied former President Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, urging the justices to allow the trial in his election subversion case to begin quickly.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:12 PM
Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump because he is 'more experienced and predictable'
Toronto Star
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden re-elected, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:08 PM
Vladimir Putin says Russia prefers Joe Biden to Donald Trump because he's 'more experienced and predictable'
Toronto Star
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:08 PM
'The music will stop': Legal expert says Trump's game of criminal 'musical chairs' is over
Raw Story
The game of Trump's legal musical chairs may head to trial and determine his innocence or guilt. Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner's latest YouTube episode of "Justice Matters" anticipates that the former President Donald Trump will try to deploy more delay tactics. But he believes they won't work i...
Feb 14, 2024, 11:02 PM
Dorchester Co. taxpayers on the hook for September Trump campaign stop costs
Live 5 News WCSC
Former President Donald Trump returned to campaign in the Lowcountry Wednesday with an outstanding bill to Dorchester County for more than $26,000, which has been footed by taxpayers instead.
Feb 14, 2024, 11:00 PM
Senior Republicans fear Trump will tap RNC to cover legal bills again
POLITICO
The president is going to put his people in place on the committee. Major changes are in store.
Feb 14, 2024, 10:54 PM
Trump tells Melania 'I love you' in Valentine's Day appeal for money
The Mercury News
The former president's supporters received an email blast, sharing a love letter to his wife that doubles as a fundraiser.
Feb 14, 2024, 10:46 PM
McConnell defends push for Ukraine aid amid attacks from Trump wing of GOP: ‘Every argument against this is wrong’
Cable News Network
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell strongly defended his handling of a foreign aid package and bipartisan border security deal that have come under heavy criticism from his right flank, saying bluntly that “every argument” against Ukraine aid is “wrong” and that the opposition amounts to a “political reaction” driven by former President Donald Trump.
Feb 14, 2024, 10:46 PM
'Not even close': Expert says Trump's immunity wish isn't the legal 'linchpin' he thinks
Raw Story
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that Donald Trump's excuse that he has absolute immunity as a president isn't quite the legal defense he seems to think it is. Trump has spent the better part of the past month claiming that if immunity is eliminated for him, then no president will be able to...
Feb 14, 2024, 10:45 PM
Kellyanne Conway: Mazi Pilip became ‘political roadkill’ in New York race
The Hill
Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway belabored Mazi Pilip’s loss in a New York House special election Tuesday, saying the GOP candidate was made to be “political roadkill” by a poorly-run campaign. Pilip lost the Long Island race to fill former Rep. George Santos’s (R) seat to former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) by a 7-point margin,…
Feb 14, 2024, 9:55 PM