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Trump Could Lose Secret Service Protection And Other Perks Under New Laws

Convicted felon Donald Trump could wind up without any protection from the U.S. Secret Service, along with other perks normally given to former presidents under a new law that would strip those benefits away from any ex-head of state who is convicted of a felony.

Two House Democrats have proposed legislation that would have a major impact on Trump, according to HuffPost.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduced one of the bills and said he did so after heading up the House committee that looked at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol.

“I was disappointed in how the president conducted himself as president. He put a lot of people’s lives in danger. So I saw that,” Thompson told HuffPost.

“But more importantly, why would you want to protect a felon?”

Like other ex-presidents, Trump currently receives a security detail provided by American taxpayers, along with a yearly pension of $246,400, and a budget for travel, office space, and staff.

But Thompson’s legislation would disallow Trump from any of those perks because he was found guilty on 34 criminal charges in Manhattan.

Rep. Laura Sanchez (D-CA) is also proposing a bill, named the “No Glory for Hate Act” that would do many of the same things as Thompson’s proposal.

“I first introduced this bill after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Since then, Trump continues to be a threat to our democracy. His behavior and the hatred he spews has become increasingly hostile. This is not someone who belongs back in the White House and certainly not someone who deserves monuments built in his honor,” Sanchez explained.

As you’d expect, Republicans are outraged that Trump might lose his security detail because he’s a criminal, with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) whining, “You have a member of Congress that actually introduced legislation to take away his Secret Service and his personal security, basically saying that they would like to expose him to physical harm, danger, maybe even assassination.”

Oh well, Andy. As the old saying goes, Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

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Dr. Phil Whines About Trump Being Put On Trial – And Gets Brutally Fact-Checked By CNN Host

Dr. Phil McGraw is upset because he says convicted felon Donald Trump was unfairly prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the fact that he paid hush money to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.

McGraw interviewed the disgraced former president and later appeared on CNN to discuss his conversation with Trump.

“I’m sympathetic to what Trump has gone through in this particular trial because I think it was not proper due process for him,” McGraw said. “I would say the same thing a bit was [President Joe] Biden or anyone else in that process.”

Asked for specifics of why he felt Trump’s prosecution was improper, McGraw cited the fact that the former president’s one-time attorney, Michael Cohen, was allowed to testify.

The jury “heard some things that were very prejudicial, that had nothing to do with solving the problem of the case at hand.”

He added: “I think you don’t have someone that is considered to be an accomplice in a crime that has pled out or made a non-prosecution agreement and allow that information into the jury’s awareness because it’s very prejudicial and is not really probative of anything that they’re asked to be problem-solving.”

CNN host Abby Phillip pointed out to McGraw that Cohen wasn’t charged with the same crimes as Trump, noting that it’s not “uncommon at all for people who are accomplices to crimes, people who have taken plea deals, non-prosecution — that is not uncommon at all for those people to then testify in subsequent trials for their alleged co-conspirators.”

“That’s kind of how a lot of these prosecutions work.”

McGraw tried to counter.

“Well, really give me examples of where that has been considered appropriate.”

So Philip did exactly that, reminding McGraw that the same thing happens all the time in organized crime prosecutions.

“It happens in mob cases all the time.”

Why is McGraw rushing to Trump’s defense? Well, it probably has something to do with the fact that the “doctor” has a net worth of $460 million and wants another tax cut from the failed former head of state.

Whine all you want, Doc, but it won’t change the fact that Trump broke the law, got caught, and was found guilty by a jury of his peers. If that bothers you and the other MAGA faithful, planes are departing the United States every hour. Maybe Russia would be more to your liking.

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Kamala Harris Claps Back Hard After Trump Again Whines His NY Trial Was ‘Rigged’

Vice President Kamala Harris has had more than enough of convicted felon Donald Trump’s whining about how unfair his New York hush money trial was, and she’s giving him a dose of reality that’s certain to enrage the thin-skinned disgraced ex-president.

Speaking with Jimmy Kimmel on his show Tuesday evening, Harris lit into the failed former head of state.

“Let’s think about this: A jury of 12 people ― peers ― over the course of six weeks deliberated on the evidence and facts and unanimously determined guilt [for] 34 felony counts,” she told Kimmel. “There was a defense attorney who actively participated in selecting that jury, who actively made decisions about witnesses to call, witnesses to cross-examine, and the jury made their decision.”

Trump’s complaints, Harris added, are really about something else.

“I think that the reality is cheaters don’t like getting caught and being held accountable.”

The VP also urged voters to keep their eyes on the upcoming election.

“I think the American people want to know that there is a president who believes they are accountable to the people.”

That led Kimmel to add, “And who’s allowed to travel overseas.”

Trump knows his criminal conviction is a major political albatross around his neck. And for a man who is already one of the most deeply disliked human beings on the globe, it could well be the tipping point that destroys his chances of attracting any voters other than his most ardent supporters.

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Republicans Prepping ‘Contingency Plan’ For Trump To Accept 2024 Nomination From Prison

Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said today that the party has a “contingency plan” for how convicted felon Donald Trump will formally accept the 2024 GOP presidential nomination if he happens to be incarcerated when the party chooses him in July at their Milwaukee convention.

Appearing on Newsmax, Whatley was asked if the GOP had discussed the possibility that Trump might be forced to give his acceptance speech from a facility where he’s serving time.

“We’re working on that now. I’m actually going up to Milwaukee this week and we’re going to have a series of conversations,” he replied.

“We expect that Donald Trump is going to be in Milwaukee and he’s going to be able to accept that nomination.”

“If not, we will make whatever contingency plan we need to make for it,” he added.

Trump will appear before New York judge Juan Merchan for sentencing on July 11 after being convicted of 34 felonies last week in Manhattan. The disgraced ex-president was found guilty of falsifying business records to hide an extramarital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Prosecutors with the office of Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg also allege that Trump’s actions to hide his affair constitute election fraud.

The 2024 Republican convention begins on July 15, just four days after Trump will be sentenced.

 

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Stormy Daniels Has Some Advice For Melania Trump That Will Enrage The MAGA Faithful

Now that former president Donald Trump is officially a convicted felon, Stormy Daniels has some advice for his wife, Melania, and if you listen closely you can already hear the MAGA faithful screaming with outrage.

Speaking with the British tabloid Daily Mirror, Daniels was asked this question about the ex-first lady and her so-called “marriage” to Donald: “Should she leave him?”

Daniels: “Yeah.”

“On the grounds of?” The interviewer inquired.

“That he’s a convicted felon,” Daniels responded, adding, “That he’s proven to be abusive. He was found liable for assault.”

Trump was indeed found guilty of sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused the ex-president of raping her in a New York department store dressing room in the 1990s.

That’s not all Daniels had to say about Trump, HuffPost notes, and she sounded defiant after helping Manhattan prosecutors secure 34 guilty verdicts against the Donald.

Trump is “an orange stain that is going to be on me for a very long time,” Daniels lamented elsewhere in the lengthy sit-down.

“It’s like a scarlet letter but worse,” she said.

Trump had been “unchecked until now, but checkmate motherfucker,” she added.

Trump will be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee.

Polls taken since Trump’s conviction show him losing support nationally, with 10 percent of independent voters saying they cannot vote for a convicted felon.

Here’s more from the interview with Stormy Daniels: