Jun 05, 2021 ¡ WASHINGTON (AP) â House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Friday that a nearly eight-hour interview with former President Donald Trumpâs top White House lawyer âshed new light on several troubling eventsâ during his presidency, though it was unclear how Democrats would use the information long after investigations into Trumpâs ties to Russia âŚ
Mar 30, 2021 ¡ Advertisement. âHe certainly is looking at criminal exposure,â former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal told Melber. â Donald Trump is the only president to have more open grand juries than election wins.â. Katyal called the grand juries âa very serious prosecutorial step.â. And the next step may be even more significant.
Nov 27, 2021 ¡ If Donald Trump eventually decides to run for president again in 2024, ABC Newsâ Jonathan Karl warned it may be âthe greatest challenge ever facing campaign reporters.â. Karl posed multiple questions on the problems of reporting on a possible third Trump presidential campaign in a lengthy interview with Deadline published Friday.
Nov 09, 2016 ¡ The Huffington Post has ended its long-running editorâs note on all Donald Trump-related stories warning that he is a âracistâ and âxenophobe.â Politico cited a source in the HuffPost newsroom as...
In this weekâs episode, we have the anti-Trump world in full froth over the Justice Departmentâs intervention on the presidentâs behalf in a lawsuit brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. A longtime advice columnist at Elle magazine, the 76-year-old Ms. Carroll alleges that, 24 or 25 years ago â she says she canât be sure of the year . . . or the time of year â Donald Trump, then a flamboyant New York real-estate magnate, raped her in a fitting room at Bergdorf Goodman, a tony department store in midtown Manhattan.
As youâd expect, there are gusts of indignation over this. Attorney General Bill Barr chalks them up to âthe bizarre political environment in which we live.â DOJâs intervention here is âroutine,â and the AG explained that similar motions were made on behalf of Presidents Obama and Bush 43, as well as Vice President Cheney. But these days, as the Wall Street Journal âs Bill McGurn dryly observes, âthe Trump justifies the meansâ â unlike past presidents, this one is portrayed as if he were not entitled to the rights, prerogatives, privileges, and immunities of the office.
The gravamen of Carrollâs defamation claim is Trumpâs assertion that she is not telling the truth about the rape allegation. THE MORNING JOLT. Get Jim Geraghtyâs tour of the political news of the day. All Our Opinion in Your Inbox.
This time, though, he holds the trump card, as it were. Under federal law, government officials may not be hauled into state court anytime they are accused of committing civil wrongs in the course of their official duties. A statute, known as the Westfall Act, generally permits them to move the case into federal court and, more importantly, to substitute the United States as the defendant. The theory is that when public officials act in their official capacity, their actions are the governmentâs actions.
Therefore, the Justice Departmentâs action this week, which transfers Carrollâs lawsuit to federal district court in Manhattan, almost certainly means the case will be thrown out.
That is to say, this is not much of a defamation case. As a tort claim, defamation is a pretext here. Carrollâs real objective is to press a sexual-assault claim that is otherwise time-barred â both civilly and criminally.
The two-year investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller also detailed multiple instances of obstruction of justice that Mueller testified Trump could be prosecuted for once he was out of office, although there is no indication that the Justice Department under President Joe Biden is pursuing that.
Trump political adviser Jason Miller did not respond to a HuffPost query about whether Trump would waive his right to Secret Service protection if he wound up in the custody of state or federal law enforcement. Download.
Robinson, though, said it defied common sense for an incarcerated person, even an ex-president, to get special protection. âYouâre not going to put Secret Service agents in prison to protect a guy whoâs already being protected by the prison,â he said.
The 45th president is facing a probe of his family businessâs taxes and bank loans by the New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, meanwhile, are investigating his demand that Georgia elections officials âfindâ him 12,000 votes and his threat of criminal prosecution if they didnât.
Secret Service officials declined to discuss the matter. âIn order to maintain operational security, the U.S. Secret Service does not comment on the means and methods used to conduct the agencyâs protective operations ,â a spokesperson wrote in a statement.
But either situation, pretrial incarceration or post-conviction imprisonment, would present an entirely new challenge to the Secret Service. Although the agency frequently works closely with federal and state law enforcement, it has never had to deal with one of its own âprotecteesâ potentially being in their custody.
I hate the Huffington Post because it is disrespectful of language.
Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington...
A lot of journalists have reservations mostly because it doesnât pay its writers. Essentially its model puts us out of a job.
Conservatives are tired of being smeared. Liberals are tired of being whitewashed. And frankly, the part of society that actually cares about world news is tired of reading about celebrity rehab gaffes.
That is why fascism is usually being considered part of the extreme right. It is because eventually, only the Right will remain prepared to tolerate it on its right. They form a pragmatic, not an ideological affiliation.
With the poor sense of ânewsâ we get from tabloids, HuffPo stands far above the toilet paper that many but there purport as important.
If you browse, say, yahoo, youâll find tons of HuffPo articles, and they will always be liberal and biased - which you expect because itâs a liberal rag. But youâll also find they post really ugly âgarbageâ articles - like the current one that explains how all white people live in an insular world and again are racists, even if they donât realize it. You know, youâre white, therefore youâre racist. Itâs that kind of stuff, over & over and relentless, that people hate.