Austin, the secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, and Space Command chief Army Gen. James Dickinson all supported the president’s decision, Ryder said. Dickinson had argued against shifting the headquarters to Alabama on grounds it could put military readiness at risk. A decision on the headquarters had been pending for months, and coincided with… Continue reading Biden opts to keep Space Command in Colorado, reversing Trump’s decision to move it to Alabama
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Georgia Judge Rejects Trump’s Request To Halt Election Probe
Donald Trump’s latest attempt to thwart an investigation into alleged election interference has been rejected by a Georgia state judge. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney denied Trump’s plea to preemptively block the investigation and any future indictments in a nine-page ruling on Monday in which he dismissed the former president’s claims that politics… Continue reading Georgia Judge Rejects Trump’s Request To Halt Election Probe
Ron DeSantis Says It’s Up To Voters To Decide If Trump’s Indictments Are Disqualifying
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday ducked questions on the latest criminal charges against Donald Trump, saying voters should decide whether the former president’s mounting legal troubles disqualify him from the 2024 race. “At the end of the day, voters make that decision,” DeSantis told CBS News, refraining from offering his personal take on… Continue reading Ron DeSantis Says It’s Up To Voters To Decide If Trump’s Indictments Are Disqualifying
Dozens served in Trump’s Cabinet. Four say he should be re-elected.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump may have put them in the most powerful and prestigious jobs many will ever hold, but few who worked in his Cabinet are rushing to endorse him in his bid to return to the White House. NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who served in Trump’s… Continue reading Dozens served in Trump’s Cabinet. Four say he should be re-elected.
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in… Continue reading Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
Trump’s Repeated Threats Of Violence Likely Not Enough To Bring Pretrial Detention
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has been repeatedly threatening that his prosecutions will lead to violence and unrest, but the former president is nevertheless unlikely to be locked up in pretrial detention, legal experts said. “Unfortunately, the courts are going to give him very broad deference,” said Norm Eisen, a lawyer in the Barack Obama White… Continue reading Trump’s Repeated Threats Of Violence Likely Not Enough To Bring Pretrial Detention