NEW: Trumpworld insiders say @realDonaldTrump’s announcement that he’d tested positive for COVID-19 could also signal the end of his re-election hopes, or as one staffer put it: “He’s fucked, we’re fucked.” independent.co.uk/voices/trump-c…
“No matter what we do, the next two weeks or more will be about him not being able to protect himself or us from Covid,” said the staffer.
Dem strategist @Theonlyhonest said Trump’s efforts to change the subject to the economy or “law and order” are now doomed: “Getting infected... after...mocking @JoeBiden for wearing a mask...I think that that's just gonna be the end of it for voters.” independent.co.uk/voices/trump-c…
Former White House comms director @Scaramucci said he hopes Trump’s diagnosis will be “symbolism for people” when they vote because he has been “almost criminally negligent” in having “set up a culture of unscientific dishonesty inside the White House”. independent.co.uk/voices/trump-c…
And MD/ex-VT gov/DNC chair @GovHowardDean said Trump could get a sympathy boost from COVID, but the only sure bet is that he can’t downplay it anymore: “We just can’t possibly predict what’s going to happen here,” he said. “But the happy talk is over.” independent.co.uk/voices/trump-c…
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Loudest cheers of the night so far for convicted criminal Peter Navarro, who was released from federal custody earlier today.
Navarro opens with a joke: "I think you folks just want to know if you can see my MAGA tattoo I got there."
Navarro says GOP needs to have control of the entire government to prevent Republicans from being charged with crimes: "If we don't control all three branches of our government...their government will put some of us like me and Steve Bannon in prison and control the rest of us."
NEW: Federal prosecutors are prepared to seek indictments against multiple figures in former president Donald Trump’s orbit and may yet bring additional charges against the ex-president in the coming weeks, The @Independent has learned independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Per sources familiar, the Justice Department has made preparations to bring a superseding indictment against Mr Trump and could do so in several different venues, depending on how prosecutors feel the case against him in Florida is going. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Prosecutors are now prepared to “stack” an “additional 30 to 45 charges” on top of the indictment brought against Mr Trump on 8 June, using evidence that has not been publicly acknowledged, including other recordings prosecutors have obtained of Mr Trump. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
The agent, Gary Shapley, cancelled a meeting with SFC staff and has cut off communication with the panel ahead of planned House testimony on Friday. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Shapley says DOJ officials have slow-walked the Hunter probe and retaliated against him by removing his team. But law enforcement veterans say the removal is standard when an investigation reaches the stage where prosecutors decide whether to indict. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Trump’s lawyers are probably not enjoying these remarks, as he’s going on and on about how declassifying things is “automatic” when he took things from the White House.
Now he’s ranting about @NewYorkStateAG’s lawsuit and how he’s “under leveraged”
It is accurate for him to describe his youngest son as “tall”.
"The story of America is a story of progress and resilience…We are the only country that has emerged from every crisis stronger than when we entered it. That is what we are doing again. Two years ago our economy...
... was reeling. As I stand here tonight, we have created a record 12 million new jobs – more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years. Two years ago, COVID had shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and robbed us of so much...
....Today, COVID no longer controls our lives. And two years ago, our democracy faced its greatest threat since the Civil War. Today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken."
"My economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten...
…to see if there were *more* documents that would’ve been a crime for him to look at.
Instead, he called someone who is permitted to look at such things without risk prison time.
That person finished the job and found five more pages, allowing the search to be finished… 2/
…without anyone committing a felony.
Generally, lawyers prefer to get through their day without doing crimes, which is why (per @jdawsey1 / @JaxAlemany) even a Trump lawyer, Alex Cannon, told Trump aides not to go through the boxes stashed at Mar-a-Lago because they… 3/