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Donald Trump’s New York Trial Is Already Starting To Destroy His 2024 Campaign

As failed former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial continues to hang over him like a wet blanket, court proceedings are also “crippling” his bid for a second term in the White House, according to a report from the Daily Beast, which notes the trial has become a “giant time-suck” for the disgraced ex-head of state.

For example, on Tuesday Trump was scheduled to appear at a major fundraising event in Texas that was supposed to raise millions for 2024 GOP House candidates, but he had to cancel because he was in court all day.

Alex Conant, a GOP strategist and a top aide on Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign, says Trump’s absence on the campaign trail could prove devasting for both him and Republicans who will be on the ticket in November.

“He could be raising six, seven figures pretty regularly at major-dollar events around the country at this point,” Conant said. “That’s literally what Biden is doing. So Trump’s fundraisers are probably frustrated that because he’s in New York, they can’t schedule that stuff.”

“The most valuable commodity in any campaign is the candidate’s time,” Conant added. “It’s the only thing you can’t get more of. And the fact that he’s going to have to spend weeks in the courtroom is time his campaign isn’t going to get back.”

For their part, members of Trump’s campaign insist that the New York trial will eventually backfire on Democrats and President Joe Biden, though their reasoning sounds like little more than wishful thinking, with one Trump campaign consultant remarking, “We’re only at day three now, and I think this is gonna have a backfiring effect on Democrats, I really do. They are interfering with Trump’s ability to get on his plane and go to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia.”

And yet that so-called “interfering” is indeed keeping Trump off the campaign trail and unable to effectively raise desperately needed donations, where Biden already holds a commanding lead.

At the end of the day, Conant reiterates, time is the most precious thing any candidate has, and every day Trump spends in court puts him further behind the incumbent Biden.

Time is running out for Trump everywhere he looks as he’s finally having to confront the fact that he may be found guilty and sentenced to prison. Meanwhile, his 2024 campaign is stuck in neutral and starting to fade in both the polls and relevance.

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Former Prosecutor: FBI May Raid Trump Tower After Latest Revelations From Witness

FBI agents could well be on the verge of raiding Trump Tower in New York after the latest revelations from a witness that former president Donald Trump moved classified documents to his Manhattan skyscraper.

Newsweek reports that Neama Rahmani noted a Tuesday court filing suggesting that Trump kept presidential records at Trump Tower and his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, may leave federal authorities with no other option other than a thorough search of the facilities.

“Prosecutors won’t know if classified documents still remain at Trump’s other homes unless they execute search warrants there,” Rahami explained.

Rahami added that she doesn’t think special prosecutor Jack Smith will take such an action this close to the election, but “that possibility exists, especially because Trump has failed to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas in the past.”

The court filing seems to confirm information provided to federal investigators by Trump’s former valet, Brian Butler, who says he helped the ex-president load boxes of documents onto the former president’s private plane in Florida which were then taken to New Jersey and New York.

“Butler told CNN last month that the plane was loaded on June 3, 2022, which was the same day Trump and his lawyer met with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the missing classified documents.

“Butler said he later realized that the white boxes of documents were at the center of the federal indictment against Trump.”

The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach in August of 2022 to retrieve classified information that was stored there in direct violation of U.S. law. Trump is now facing charges for allegedly possessing classified documents and obstructing investigators who attempted to locate them.

If convicted for illegally taking the documents, Trump faces 10 years in prison on each of the counts he’s charged with.

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Legal Expert: Tish James Is About To ‘Put A Padlock’ On Trump Tower

New York Attorney General Letitia James may “put a padlock” on Trump Tower and other properties owned by failed former president Donald Trump, according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, and the ex-head of state could also find his assets frozen and seized by the Empire State.

On Monday, attorneys for Trump told a judge they have been unable to secure a financial bond from any of the 30 companies they contacted about floating the $464 million needed for an appeal of the massive civil judgment handed down last month for crimes ranging from bank fraud to falsifying business records.

And that, Kirschner explained during an appearance on MSNBC, is the worst possible news for Trump.

“It would look like Tish James, figuratively speaking, putting a big New York state padlock on Trump Tower, for example,” he said.

“How does she extract the value from it, does she put it on the market? Does the state actually take possession of it and convert it to a state-owned property? I think the devil’s in the details with respect to how she will actually go about extracting the value to satisfy the half-billion-dollar judgment.”

Kirschner also noted that while Trump has bragged about being worth billions of dollars, he clearly doesn’t have the assets he claims.

“He is now being asked to put up a bond to secure basically a half-a-billion-dollar judgment, which would represent about one-twenty-eighth of his entire assets as Donald Trump [and his lawyer Alina Habba] say.”

If the disgraced ex-president was actually worth billions, Kirschner continued, “I would think insurance companies and sureties would be beating down his door to do business with him.”

“So it feels like this is perhaps the next-to-last step on the road to Donald Trump’s financial demise,” Kirschner said. “Because as we’ve been discussing, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will absolutely begin seizing his properties to satisfy this money judgment that has been entered against him.”

The video, courtesy of RealClear Politics, can be viewed at this link.

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Former Trump Chief Of Staff Says Donald Envies Adolf Hitler And Admires Other Despots

Retired Gen. John Kelly served as White House chief of staff for failed one-term president Donald Trump for two years (2017-2019) and recalls that his former boss had great admiration for despots and dictators he saw across the globe, including an outright envy of perhaps the most evil man who ever lived, the late German chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Speaking with CNN, Kelly recalled when Trump praised Hitler.

“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” Kelly recounted. “I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.”

“It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater,” Kelly told me. “But I think it’s more, again, the tough guy thing.”

Trump also praised modern-day tyrants, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, and Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, according to Kelly.

“He thought Putin was an OK guy and Kim was an OK guy — that we had pushed North Korea into a corner. To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’”

“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s the boss and he’s a great leader, fantastic leader. In Europe and around the world, they respect him.”

Trump’s obsession with Orbán is so complete that he invited him to spend the past weekend at Mar-a-Lago, where the Hungarian prime minister was treated like some sort of demigod and showered with endless praise.

The disgraced ex-president sees himself as the American Hitler and will attempt to turn the United States into a modern-day Nazi Germany if he manages to win reelection in November. That’s why he has to be defeated and, if convicted of his many alleged crimes, sent to prison for what remains of his pathetic life.

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WATCH A Democrat Shred Jim Jordan For Defending Jan. 6 Rioters: ‘They’re Criminals!’

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) verbally excoriated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his Republican colleagues at a House hearing today as they attempted to downplay the horrific January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

During a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Plaskett responded to opening remarks from Jordan.

“At the end of the day, the purpose of this hearing is to minimize what happened on January 6th and the lawful prosecution of individuals who were engaged in that practice,” she said. “The chairman wants us to believe that people are being persecuted for their political conduct rather than their criminal behavior.”

“So basically, he’s trying to tell us that everyone who’s been indicted and prosecuted for January 6th did not engage in criminal conduct,” she continued. “That’s the logic of what he’s saying, and we’ve just come so low in this House.”

However, Plaskett was just getting warmed up, noting that many in the GOP don’t view Jan. 6 defendants as criminals, although they have been charged and sentenced as such.

“When it’s people who fit your political agenda, they’re not criminals anymore They’re patriots. They’re victims.”

“They’re not! They’re criminals! And a jury of their peers found that when so many of them have been prosecuted in our court of law, not by brown shirts, not by Nancy Pelosi, not by Biden’s Justice Department, by a jury of their peers.”

Plaskett concluded her remarks by suggesting that the hearing was little more than a sop to failed one-term former president Donald Trump, who has also been charged for his role in Jan. 6.

“Unfortunately, many of my colleagues on the other side know the truth, but they’re still seeking shelter from Donald Trump’s hordes. They’re still seeking shelter from the truth.”

“They want to protect not just themselves, but their political careers, their jobs. They’re hiding behind lies for that.”

January 6 will be an issue in the November election, and it damn well should be. The man who urged his supporters to march on the Capitol because he lost in 2020 will once again be on the ballot. Here’s hoping he’s rejected the same way he was four years ago and eventually put behind bars for what remains of his pathetic life.