Credit: Bo Rader, The Wichita Eagle via AP file, via NBC News.
Trump’s Presidential viability comes under assault – not including possible indictments
Follow the money – Big donors continue to withdraw financial support.
+ NBC News: Koch group to back GOP presidential candidate who will ‘write new chapter for the country’ – “The American people have shown that they’re ready to move on, and so AFP will help them do that,” Americans for Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel said in a memo.
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+ CNN: Pence subpoenaed by special counsel investigating Trump
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+ HuffPost: GOP Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) Makes 2024 Guarantee About Donald Trump – “Look, Donald Trump is not gonna be the nominee.”
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+ Politico: Proud Boys sedition trial shows group keying off Trump comments – In private messages, members of the group discussed Trump’s exhortation to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” ahead of the November election.
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+ 1945: Donald Trump Wants to Lose in 2024 – Picks Fight With Super Bowl LVII Singer Rihanna
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+ Truthout: Trump Shares Post Urging Followers to Physically Fight for Him to Win Nomination – The move suggests that Trump won’t tone down his incendiary rhetoric when he returns to Twitter or Facebook.
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+ Business Insider: Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign hired a research firm to probe the results for election fraud but found no evidence, with the findings kept away from the public: WaPo
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+ CNN: Trump team turns over additional classified records and laptop to federal prosecutors
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+ Daily Kos: After protecting Khashoggi’s murderer, Donald Trump and Jared Kushner are now cashing in
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+ The Washington Post: After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds – An investment fund overseen by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is backing ventures that profit the former president and his senior adviser, raising questions of conflict
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+ Business Insider: Jared Kushner’s private equity firm concealed the origins of Saudi-backed funds and used the SEC’s own rules to help them do it, report says – In 2018, MBS reportedly bragged that Kushner was “in his pocket.”
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+ Newsweek: Trump’s First 2024 Challenger Targets His Greatest Asset – his status as a businessman is being challenged
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+ NBC News: Only four more years? GOP primary rivals may take aim at Trump’s term limit – Trump’s ineligibility to run for re-election should he win in 2024 has already been brought up by one of his potential rivals.
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+ NBC News: Trump used folder bearing ‘classified’ wording to block light keeping him awake at night, lawyer says – “He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night,” Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore told CNN. He added, “So now the president has to find a different way to keep the blue light out of his eyes.”
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