Donald Trump arrested for fourth time
A Georgia prosecutor will lay out her election subversion case against Donald Trump and 18 associates in court for the first time on Monday.
Fulton County Fani Willis will be in court in Atlanta to deal with the request by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his case to federal court.
It will be the first time in any of Mr Trump’s four criminal cases that major arguments will be made in front of a judge. The hearing is set to get underway at 10am EST.
Mr Trump was booked and released from the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week after surrendering to authorities on 13 charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
His booking photo represents the first and only time a current or former president has been forced to undergo a mug shot.
Meanwhile, the former president has claimed he won yet another golf tournament, stating on Truth Social that he won Bedminster’s Senior Club Championship with a five-under-par score of 67 – eight shots better than Phil Mickelson took at the course earlier this month.
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1693173354What to expect from Fani Willis’s first hearing on Monday in Trump’s Georgia case
Hearing concerns trial of ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 22:55
1693170474Chris Christie defends himself against ‘normalising’ Trump claims
The Republican presidential hopeful was asked on Face the Nation on Sunday by host Nancy Cordes why he was now attacking the former president “after he was accused of rape, after he praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, after he was impeached.”
The former New Jersey governor said that it was because of Mr Trump being the “greatest threat” to democracy.
“The conduct I’m talking about, Nancy, is the one that is the greatest threat to our country and the greatest threat to our democracy,” he said.
“And that was standing in front of the cameras from the White House behind the seal of the president on election night and telling people the election was stolen and for now three years, nearly, continuing to say the same thing, with absolutely no proof and no eence. That’s the problem, Nancy.
CBS’s Nancy Cordes to Chris Christie: “You stood by [Trump] after he was accused of rape, after he praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, after he was impeached. Didn’t you normalize his conduct for a long tie as well? pic.twitter.com/3iJg9jqJwb
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“You can have policy disagreements with someone. And, believe me, I spoke out at the time about the things that I disagreed with Donald Trump on. That’s much different than taking classified documents from the White House and hiding them for 18 months from the government, claiming you don’t have them, when these are some of the biggest secrets in our — in our country’s arsenal.
“It’s different than undercutting democracy, in the way that he was doing so and leading to the right we had on Capitol Hill on January 6. You know, I’m going to get on that stage and I’m going to tell the truth. Regardless of what other people may think, that is the truth.”
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 22:07
1693166460What to expect after Donald Trump’s Georgia surrender
Here’s what we know about the case and what’s next for Mr Trump in Georgia.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 21:01
1693163154DeSantis is silent on whether he will visit Jacksonville after racially-motivated mass shooting
The Florida governor was on the campaign trail in Iowa this week.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 20:05
1693159434Green Day selling Trump mugshots for Maui fire
Rock band Green Day are selling Donald Trump mugshot t-shirts to raise cash for Maui fire charities.
The design of the limited-edition shirt mimics the band’s 1997 Nimrod album but with Mr Trump’s face on it. According to an Instagram post, the band will donate the proceeds to Greater Good Music, a charity proing food to those impacted by the devastating wildfires in Hawaii.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 19:03
1693155468Donald Trump wont have to prep for criminal trials, claims his lawyer
“If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent,” his attorney and legal spokesperson Alina Habba told Fox News Sunday.
“He also knows the facts because he lived them,” she continued. “What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth? You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”
Mr Trump faces 91 felony charges across the four legal cases in which he has been indicted. These include the January 6 case, the Mar-a-Lago documents, case, the Georgia election interference case and the Manhattan hush-money case.
Trump legal spokesperson Alina Habba
(Fox News)
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 17:57
1693152354Trump says he won club championship and claims score of 67
Donald Trump says he won the Senior Club Championship at his Bedminster, New Jersey, course with a claimed five-under-par score of 67.
“I am pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the Senior Club Championship (must be over 50 years old!) at Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club), shooting a round of 67,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
His score was an impressive 8 shots better than Phil Mickelson scored at the LIV Golf event at the same course a few weeks ago, and Mr Trump acknowledged that people may have some reservations about his claim.
“Some people will think that sounds low, but there is no hanky/lanky,” he wrote. “Many people watch, plus I am surrounded by Secret Service Agents. Not much you can do even if you wanted to, and I don’t. For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete – I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!”
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Graeme Massie27 August 2023 17:05
1693119519Trump’s mugshot has given MAGA its own scowling, vindictive iconic image
In the annals of American history, few mugshots are so iconic that they end up in history books. When they do, though, they become cultural touchstones, evocative of the times and tumult in which they were taken.
Certainly, the mugshot of the 45th President of the United States, indicted for his alleged role in conspiring to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, is one of those images. Future historians will look at it as one of the defining photos of our era, one marked by deep divisions and the irreconcilable realities the two Americas – that of the Trumpian movement, and that of the rest of us – find ourselves in.
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Graeme Massie27 August 2023 07:58
1693112679Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’
President Joe Biden chuckled when asked about his predecessor Donald Trump’s mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr Biden was asked by Bloomberg about the photo when coming out of a pilates and spin class in Lake Tahoe, California. The president said he saw the image on TV.
“Handsome guy. Wonderful guy,” Mr Biden said.
Mr Biden was booed by bystanders as he approached the press. He said he watched at least an hour and twenty minutes of the first Republican debate, which didn’t feature Mr Trump.
The president said he didn’t “learn much” from the Milwaukee showdown.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 06:04
1693105800Trump’s weight and height in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows
Consternation, confusion, incredulity, and amusement abound on the release of Donald Trump’s Fulton County Jail booking record.
Graeme Massie27 August 2023 04:10
