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Trump slams his former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany​

Former President Trump slammed his onetime press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday, accusing her of providing the “wrong” poll numbers during an appearance on Fox News.

“Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, using his nickname for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

“While 25 is great, it’s not 34,” he added. “She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll. The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!”

McEnany, who is now a co-host of Fox News’ “Outnumbered,” told host Jesse Waters on Tuesday night that polling in Iowa showed DeSantis “closing the gap” on the former president, after the Florida governor formally announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination last week.

It was not immediately clear which poll Trump and McEnany were referencing. A recent survey from Emerson College Polling showed the former president leading DeSantis by 42 points among Iowa voters.

DeSantis rallied supporters outside of Des Moines on Tuesday, as he kicked off a four-day campaign swing through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Trump is set to arrive in the Hawkeye State later this week.

The Hill has reached out to Fox News for comment.

 
Trump once promised he would surround himself “with only the best and most serious people” but has since turned on many of those people, as they have on him.

Last month, for example, he slammed Mick Mulvaney, who served as his acting chief of staff for more than a year, as “the dumbest person” and a “born loser.” He’s also attacked former national security adviser John Bolton, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former Chief of Staff John Kelly, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and hand-picked FBI Director Christopher Wray, to name a few.
 

Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy Trolls Kayleigh McEnany Over Trump Post​

The tentative deal raising the debt ceiling that President Joe Biden and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to over the weekend hasn’t won over far-right Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who complained Tuesday that it’s “milquetoast”–an apparent nod to former President Donald Trump’s criticism earlier that night of Fox News guest host Kayleigh McEnany.

McEnany, filling in on The Ingraham Angle, asked Roy what he considers a “realistic alternative” to the deal, which would raise the current $31.4 trillion debt ceiling until January 2025. It would also, among other things, cut about $20 billion in IRS funding and put in place new work requirements for some individuals on food stamps and those in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

“Everything that we’re seeing out of… this deal hatched this weekend is pretty milquetoast, if that word might mean something to you,” Roy said, just a few hours after Trump wrote a misspelled Truth Social post directed at McEnany, whom he called “Milktoast.”

 
Eating their own

Trumpworld out to ruin ex-attorney over 'crazy' revelation of possible obstruction​

Donald Trump's advisers are threatening to ruin one of his former attorney's reputations after he revealed infighting among his legal team on the way out the door.


Defense attorney Tim Parlatore appeared earlier this month on CNN, where he discussed the disagreements that led to his departure, and Trump's advisers are furious that he disclosed longtime adviser Boris Epshteyn's role in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents coverup -- which they feel could implicate them, reported The Daily Beast.

“He basically called into question the legal team’s ethical guidelines,” said one source briefed on the situation. “So everyone who stayed…he put everyone in a very bad position.”

Parlatore told CNN that Epshteyn “served as kind of a filter" between the legal team and Trump, and believes he lied to both the attorneys and the former president, and three sources familiar with internal discussions told The Daily Beast this was received back at Mar-a-Lago as a betrayal.
 

Donald Trump Vows To Abolish A Part Of The Constitution On ‘Day One’ If He Wins​


“As part of my plan to secure the border on Day One, my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump said in the video.

“It’s things like this that bring millions of people to our country,” he added.

Trump also floated the idea when he was president, calling birthright citizenship “frankly ridiculous.”


Section 1 of the 14th Amendment states: of the United States Constitution reads as

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
 
Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.

The recording indicates Trump understood he retained classified material after leaving the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. On the recording, Trump’s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he’s aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records, two of the sources said.

CNN has not listened to the recording, but multiple sources described it. One source said the relevant portion on the Iran document is about two minutes long, and another source said the discussion is a small part of a much longer meeting.


Special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the Justice Department investigation into Trump, has focused on the meeting as part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s handling of national security secrets. Sources describe the recording as an “important” piece of evidence in a possible case against Trump, who has repeatedly asserted he could retain presidential records and “automatically” declassify documents.

Prosecutors have asked witnesses about the recording and the document before a federal grand jury. The episode has generated enough interest for investigators to have questioned Gen. Mark Milley, one of the highest-ranking Trump-era national security officials, about the incident.

The July 2021 meeting was held at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as aides employed by the former president, including communications specialist Margo Martin. The attendees, sources said, did not have security clearances that would allow them access to classified information. Meadows didn’t attend the meeting, sources said.

Meadows’ autobiography includes an account of what appears to be the same meeting, during which Trump “recalls a four-page report typed up by (Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) Mark Milley himself. It contained the general’s own plan to attack Iran, deploying massive numbers of troops, something he urged President Trump to do more than once during his presidency.”

The document Trump references was not produced by Milley, CNN was told.

Investigators have questioned Milley about the episode in recent months, making him one of the highest-ranking national security officials from Trump’s administration to meet with the special counsel’s team. Milley’s spokesman Dave Butler declined to comment to CNN.

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The revelation that the former president and commander-in-chief has been captured on tape discussing a classified document could raise his legal exposure as he continues his third bid for the White House. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

A Trump campaign spokesman said “leaks” are meant to “inflame tensions” around Trump.

“The DOJ’s continued interference in the presidential election is shameful and this meritless investigation should cease wasting the American taxpayer’s money on Democrat political objectives,” the spokesman added.

When asked at a CNN town hall this month if he showed classified documents he kept after the presidency to anyone, Trump answered: “Not really. I would have the right to. By the way, they were declassified after.”

A lawyer for Meadows declined to comment. A lawyer for Martin declined to comment.

Smith’s investigation has shown signs of nearing its end, though it hasn’t yet resulted in any criminal charges. A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment for this story.

 
Former GOP Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Wednesday jumped feet-first into the debate over which GOP 2024 presidential candidate is more dangerous for America: former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Jolly said DeSantis, his home state governor, poses a much “greater threat.”

“Donald Trump is a brutish, transactionalist politician who will walk into a room, try to crush the Constitution, likely fail and be stopped by the courts,” Jolly said on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.” “It leads to violence. He is a unique danger himself.”

“But in Ron DeSantis, you have somebody who bears the same fragile vanities of Donald Trump, the paranoia and the executive abuse of Richard Nixon, a view of religion and church and state like Pat Robertson, and the discreet methodologies of Attorney General Bill Barr,” the former congressman told anchor Nicolle Wallace.

Trump could “try to topple the nation in a single day,” Jolly continued.

DeSantis “will do it by a thousand cuts.”

“And those thousand cuts include bringing and ripping our culture backwards 100 years to a pre-civil rights era, normalizing a view of race and gender and progressive ideologies and the LGBT issues that we continue to try to mainstream in the United States,” Jolly warned.

“Ron DeSantis stands in the way of a culture moving forwards,” he added, although he acknowledged both men present a “real danger to the future of our country.”

Jolly left the GOP in 2018 in protest of Trump.

Last month, he said he was considering leaving Florida with his family because of the extremist policies that DeSantis has signed into law.

“Why would I want to raise my kids in an environment in which they’re shamed for embracing diversity of thought and diverse cultures?” Jolly asked on MSNBC at the time.

“I want my children to be exposed to as much diversity as possible, and at home my wife and I can orient our family around the value set that’s right for us and prepare our kids to make decisions that are ultimately right for them as adults,” he said. “That’s not permissible in the state of Florida. You’re shamed for it, you’re unwelcome.”
 

Trump Says He Doesn’t Like The Term ‘Woke’—The Republican Buzzword He’s Repeatedly Use​


Speaking at a campaign event outside Des Moines, Iowa, Trump said he doesn’t like the term because “half the people can’t even define it” and “don’t know what it is.”

His comments mark a departure from what has been one of his go-to terms to slam Democrats and major corporations, and come just two days after he attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)—his chief GOP presidential rival—for failing to stop Disney from going “woke,” amid an ongoing saga between the entertainment behemoth and the state over the company’s stance against a so-called Don’t Say Gay law DeSantis promoted.

Railing against “woke” has been a cornerstone of the campaigns of Trump’s Republican rivals, particularly DeSantis, who has regularly claimed Democrats have created a “woke” culture run amok and has gone on a so-called anti-woke crusade against companies and colleges promoting diversity and equity programs.

CONTRA​

Trump in the past said America should “replace wokesters with Patriots” after slamming the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team as “Leftist Maniacs,” and launched his own social media platform—Truth Social—last year as a “non-woke” Twitter alternative, after being booted from Twitter following the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

CRUCIAL QUOTE​

Trump spent the event slamming the participation of trans children in youth sports as well as gender-affirming care for trans children amid a rise in state bans on the healthcare procedure in GOP-led states, saying: “The country’s gone sick.”

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TANGENT​

In 2021, DeSantis signed into law Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” which banned state college professors from instructing on critical race theory, a loosely defined academic framework focused on areas including systemic racism (A federal judge temporarily blocked part of that law in November, saying it amounted to a “dystopian” obstruction of academic freedom). Florida’s legislature also rejected an AP African-American Studies course in January, and has enacted restrictions on school library materials.

KEY BACKGROUND​

The term “woke” has circulated among Republican circles in recent years as a massively popular term to criticize a wide range of Democratic initiatives, though it rose to the national spotlight when Black Lives Matter protesters encouraged each other to “stay woke” following the killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri. The term had previously been used for decades primarily in Black communities and was featured in the chorus of Childish Gambino’s 2016 hit “Redbone.”

 

Trump Reveals What Makes DeSantis 'Very Upset' In Strange New Attack​



Donald Trump fired off a slew of new insults at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, on Wednesday.
The former president uploaded a video montage of DeSantis praising him, posted a series of mocking memes, taunted him as a “knockoff,” attacked his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and shared a poll of him leading DeSantis.
But the center of it all was a jab at DeSantis’ name.
“He is demanding that people call him DeeeSantis, rather than DaSantis,” he posted on his Truth Social platform. “Actually, I like ‘Da’ better, a nicer flow, so I am happy he is changing it. He gets very upset when people, including reporters, don’t pronounce it correctly.”
Naturally, the post included Trump’s own take on DeSantis’ name:
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Trump often pokes at the names of his rivals and bestows insulting nicknames. For DeSantis, he’s gone with “Rob,” “DeSanctimonious” and “DeSanctus,” and has reportedly toyed with calling him “Meatball Ron.”
DeSantis fired back during a news conference on Wednesday, in particular taking aim at Trump’s criticism of his coronavirus response.
“He used to say how great Florida was,” he said during the news conference. “Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship, are you kidding me?”

 
Again with the De Sanctimonious… He’s like a dull grade schooler that inadvertently makes a humorous comment in class then repeats it ad nauseam to make sure everyone has heard it. Wanna make an immature joke about someone’s name? Go ahead, I’m lowbrow enough to chuckle once, but freaking let it go man! In a world where your every word and action is recorded and disseminated we’ll get to hear the joke several times during the day’s news cycle if it’s even remotely funny Donny!


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‘He Can’t Be Trusted’: GOP Lawmaker Yanks Trump Endorsement In Scathing Statement​

A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire has pulled his endorsement of Donald Trump over the former president’s latest attack on a longtime ally.

“I am officially withdrawing my endorsement, as his most recent attack on Kayleigh McEnany is beyond comprehension and explanation,” James Spillane, who serves in the state House of Representatives, told NH Journal.

Spillane instead is endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Trump slammed McEnany, who was his White House press secretary, as “milktoast” for saying on Fox News that he was 25 points ahead of DeSantis in a poll.

“I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL stars!!”

The attack was very much in line with Trump’s long and extensive history of bitterly turning against his own allies for even the mildest perceived slights.

But for Spillane, it was a step too far.

“I thought that he would be able to continue with a positive message, learn from his past mistakes and give us a way forward to continue the policies that he started before,” Spillane told the National Review. “But it’s become evident, especially with the latest attack on Kayleigh McEnany that there’s no loyalty in him.”

He added: “He can’t be trusted to stay loyal to the people who supported him in the past.”

Spillane is the fourth New Hampshire House member to switch an endorsement from Trump to DeSantis in recent weeks, NH Journal reported.

 

Trump Loses It as Lawyers Push DOJ Not to Charge Him​


Nikki McCann Ramirez
Mon, June 5, 2023 at 3:48 PM CDT



Donald Trump’s attorneys were spotted at the offices of the Department of Justice on Monday, where they reportedly begged prosecutors investigating the former president’s hoarding of classified documents not to charge him. The New York Times reported later in the day that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the investigation, was in attendance.
The last-minute scramble to mollify investigators is unsurprising. Trump is expected to be charged in the probe, with Rolling Stone reporting in May that his attorneys have been preparing him to face yet another criminal indictment.

Trump gave credence to the speculation hours after the meeting concluded through an unrestrained, all-caps rant on Truth Social. “HOW CAN DOJ POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT’S WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING,” Trump railed. “ONLY TRUMP – THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”

Trump also incorrectly claimed that President Biden had kept “1850 BOXES [of documents]. MUCH OF IT CLASSIFIED.” While a relatively small number of documents were found at several of Biden’s residences and offices, the current president has not gotten off scot-free. In January, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Robert Hur, a Trump-appointed former federal prosecutor, as special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of documents.
The current president proactively moved to hand over any documents in his possession, but Trump’s dealings with authorities has been much more adversarial. After months of pleading from the National Archives, a subpoena, and an FBI search, federal authorities recovered more than 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago since Trump’s departure from office. Trump claimed he had unilateral authority to telepathically declassify documents at-will, and his legal team went so far as to petition the Supreme Court to prevent investigators from reviewing the material.
Trump claimed he declassified everything he took from the White House, but news broke last week that the DOJ had recovered a 2021 recording of Trump admitting to having kept a “SECRET” level classified document allegedly containing a proposed attack plan against Iran, which he knew he couldn’t simply declassify. Trump’s attorneys have since claimed no such document is in Trump’s possession.
During a Fox News town hall event last Thursday, Trump responded to a question about the recording by claiming that he didn’t know anything about it. “All I know is this: everything I did was right,” he said.
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previously unknown federal grand jury in Florida has recently started hearing testimony in the classified documents case.

The latest twist in the inquiry into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is the surprise revelation that a previously unknown federal grand jury in Florida has recently started hearing testimony in the case.

The grand jury in Florida is separate from the one that has been sitting for months in Washington and has been the center of activity for prosecutors as they investigate whether Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office or obstructed efforts to retrieve them. Among those who have appeared before the Washington grand jury in the past few months or have been subpoenaed by it, people familiar with the investigation said, are more than 20 members of Trump’s Secret Service security detail.


But there are indications that the Washington grand jury — located in the city’s federal courthouse — may have stopped hearing witness testimony in recent weeks, according to three people familiar with its workings.

As for the Florida grand jury, which began hearing evidence last month, only a handful of witnesses have testified to it or are scheduled to appear before it, according to the people familiar with its workings. At least one witness has testified there, and another is set to testify on Wednesday.

It is an open question why prosecutors impaneled the Florida grand jury — which is sitting in U.S. District Court in Miami — and whether it is now the only one hearing testimony. This uncertainty, which is largely due to the secret nature of grand juries, serves to underscore how much about the management of the documents case by special counsel Jack Smith remains out of public view.

“We know a tiny fraction of what agents and prosecutors know, and so it is hazardous, if not impossible, to figure out the government’s strategy from afar,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a former U.S. attorney and FBI official. “It is like the guy berating an umpire for missed calls from the cheap seats.”

But even though much is shrouded in mystery, legal experts and people familiar with the inquiry suggested that there could be a number of reasons Smith may have chosen to use a grand jury in Florida for at least some elements of the case. His decision could have significant effects on how the inquiry plays out.

In simple terms, the people familiar with the matter said, if both grand juries are in operation, it suggests that prosecutors are considering bringing charges in both Washington and Florida. It is possible that Trump could be charged in one jurisdiction while other people involved in the case are charged in the other.

But if only the Florida grand jury is currently hearing testimony, it suggests two possibilities.

One is that the investigation in Washington is largely complete and that prosecutors are now poised to make a decision about bringing charges there while still weighing other potential indictments in Florida.

The other is that Smith has decided that Florida is the proper venue for any charges he might bring in the case and has moved the entire grand jury proceeding there, they said.

It would not be so unusual if Smith’s team opened the documents investigation in Washington and then chose to move it to Florida because of legal issues related to venue, said Brandon L. Van Grack, a former federal prosecutor who worked on cases involving national security and classified material.

“It’s common in situations involving classified information when prosecutors are uncertain of venue to ground an investigation in Washington, Virginia or Maryland,” Van Grack said. “The point is just because it starts there, doesn’t mean it has to end there. You don’t know what your potential venue hooks are until you’ve completed a thorough investigation.”

Van Grack said it would be relatively easy to move a grand jury inquiry from Washington to Miami if needed. Prosecutors would simply have to read the early grand jury transcripts to the new grand jurors or have federal agents offer them a summary of the most important point

 

Donald Trump told he could face charges over classified documents​

Donald Trump has been told he is a target of a criminal investigation over the potential mishandling of classified files after he left the White House.

A move by federal prosecutors to notify the ex-president of a criminal probe suggests he could soon faces charges.

If that happened, it would be the second indictment of Mr Trump, who is campaigning once again to be president.

Prosecutors have been looking into the transfer of files to Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago Florida estate since last year.

The beachside property was searched last August and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified. Some of these were labelled top secret.

On Wednesday, three sources familiar with the matter told the BBC's US partner CBS News that Mr Trump had been informed he was being investigated.

Mr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated.

When asked by the New York Times if he had been told he is a target of a federal investigation on Wednesday, he said "you have to understand" that he was not in direct touch with prosecutors.

CNN, ABC News, and Politico all reported on Wednesday night that Mr Trump had been notified by letter that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.

All the outlets said the move signalled charges could happen soon, but that it was possible a person would not go on to be charged.

The New York Times cited two people familiar with the matter as saying the notification came from the office of Jack Smith, a former war crimes attorney turned special prosecutor who is considering evidence.

It comes after prosecutors obtained an audio recording of Mr Trump in which he acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House.
 
Donald Trump indicted over classified documents case BBC

It is the second indictment of Mr Trump and the first ever federal indictment of a former president.
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Legal experts said the indictment would not limit Mr Trump's ability to run for the presidency again.
"He can be indicted any number of times and it won't stop his ability to stand for office," says David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Centre.
Mr Super noted that Mr Trump could continue to run for office even if convicted in the documents case, but it remains to be seen whether the Republican Party would stand by him.

what a $h!t show...or is it a witches hunt?!...can someone just make him go away, or go to prison...but then would that make DeSantis the front runner for Reps?! Good lord, conservatives are in a bad way...find any 'average Joe/Jill' guy/girl and you beat ole man Biden (somewhat) easily...
 
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