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Former President Donald Trump has learned time and again that the best way to kill legal action is to first delay it. And while Trump’s “special master” gambit initially showed promise in that regard, the tactic may have actually backfired and put him on a fast-track collision course with the federal government he once led. Two separate court decisions last week have empowered the FBI to move swiftly in its investigation against Trump for mishandling classified information . “Who knows what’s still at Mar-a-Lago? Who knows where the rest of it is? It’s obvious that Trump can’t be trusted—and neither can his lawyers. But at least the bluff has been called on using the courts to delay this,” said Carl W. Tobias, a University of Richmond law school professor. Trump’s preemptive strike last month—a lawsuit against the feds—tried to block the FBI from reviewing the documents seized at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago mansion . That legal fight has now been split in two. On one … [Read more...] about Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 siege has a book deal. Steven A. Sund's “Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6” will come out Jan. 3, just shy of the two-year anniversary of the riot by supporters of President Donald Trump. "It’s time to break my silence and reveal everything that I know happened,” Sund said in a statement released Monday by Blackstone Publishing. Sund resigned under pressure soon after Jan. 6 and testified the following month that he hadn't seen an FBI field report warning of potential violence. He said the overrunning of the U.S. Capitol was the result of widespread failures. “No single civilian law enforcement agency — and certainly not the USCP — is trained and equipped to repel, without significant military or other law enforcement assistance, an insurrection of thousands of armed, violent, and coordinated individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs,” he testified. … [Read more...] about Former U.S. Capitol Police chief has deal for Jan. 6 book

Multiple 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have accepted money from individual donors working at hedge funds with a stake in Puerto Rico’s crippling debt. Former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have collected a total of $26,550 in donations while criticizing President Donald Trump about Puerto Rico. An open letter from progressive activists urged the candidates to give back the money, but so far only two have. Some 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have attacked President Donald Trump over issues in Puerto Rico, but haven’t returned campaign donations from employees of hedge funds that have invested in its debt, an analysis of FEC records by the Daily Caller News Foundation shows. Former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have spoken out against Trump and his reluctance to help Puerto Rico with aid packages, but have benefitted from its crippling debt . Together, the two have accepted $36,550 from … [Read more...] about 2020 Dem Candidates Attack Trump Over Puerto Rico While Benefiting From The Island’s Crippling Debt

Puerto Rican college Republicans are facing backlash over their effort to raise money for a statue of President Donald Trump after locals got word of their plans on the island. The College Republican Federation of Puerto Rico is raising money for a bronze statue of Trump which would be placed in front of the capitol building in San Juan, along the “Walkway of the Presidents.” The walkway currently features the statues of nine American presidents who have made official visits to the U.S. Caribbean territory. (RELATED: Puerto Rico College Republicans Are Raising Money For A Trump Statue.) Melvin Soto Vazquez, the vice president of the federation, spoke with the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill to discuss the effort. Vazquez said that due to fiscal constraints curtailing spending on non-essential public works and the hesitancy of Puerto Rico’s legislative leaders to appropriate any funds to commission the statue, the College Republicans decided to get it done themselves. … [Read more...] about Puerto Rican College Republicans Receive Backlash Over Effort To Build Trump Statue

Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has fallen for fake news once again. On Sunday, she took aim at the Trump administration by posting photos of immigrant children being held, away from their parents, in holding facilities that appear to be less than comfortable. Así está manteniendo la Adm Trump a menores cuyos padres son inmigrantes sin documentos. Esto es una violación vil a sus derechos.. pic.twitter.com/Q9xsbb3hgu — Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) May 27, 2018 Twitter translates her tweet to read as an indictment of President Trump’s immigration policy, saying, “So is keeping the Adm Trump to minors whose parents are immigrants without documents. This is a vile violation of your rights.” (RELATED: San Juan Mayor Wears ‘Nasty’ T-Shirt In TV Interview) But the photos are actually from an article that was published by AZCentral in 2014, a fact that was revealed after they circulated social media on Saturday and Sunday among a number of … [Read more...] about San Juan Mayor Falls For Fake News Again, Attacks Trump For Obama Immigration Policy

Photo-Illustration: by Intelligencer; Photo by Cathrine White Chris Cuomo is attempting a comeback — or at least, he’s “moving forward,” as he tells Kara Swisher in this episode of our new podcast , On With Kara Swisher . Just a couple years ago, the former CNN anchor was hosting chummy (and extremely popular) segments interviewing his brother, then New York governor Andrew Cuomo , on a network run by his friend, then CNN chief Jeff Zucker . These days, he’s taping his own podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project , from his dining room while gearing up for a new cable show on a far smaller network, NewsNation — and seeking $125 million in damages from his former employer. Cuomo was unceremoniously dismissed from CNN late last year after a multi-month saga that centered around the relationship between the anchor and his brother. First there was the governor’s downplaying of nursing-home deaths , which by June 2020 led CNN to reinstate a ban on the brotherly … [Read more...] about Chris Cuomo Wants to Move Forward. Can He?

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who attacked President Donald Trump for his response to the hurricane devastion in Puerto Rico, has previously praised FALN terrorist leader Oscar Lopez Rivera. Yulin Cruz is a member of Puerto Rico’s Popular Democratic Party that wants the island to remain a U.S. territory. But she sounded more like a member of the island’s Independence Party in a video that surfaced back in January when President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Rivera Lopez. The mayor is shown praising the convicted Puerto Rican terrorist in the video below. “Hello, San Juan. Freedom for Oscar Lopez Rivera.. soon he will be with us. We have to thank every Puerto Rican man and woman, who for a long time, many of us didn’t know Oscar Lopez Rivera. He was fighting the fight,” she said. “We’re going to give you more details when we welcome this great Puerto Rican patriot in a cause that unites us and to know that, in spite of our differences, we can do big things in … [Read more...] about San Juan Mayor Praised Convicted FALN Terrorist

Snowden attending a TED conference in Vancouver in 2014. Photo: Bret Hartman/TED Edward Snowden lay on his back in the rear of a Ford Escape, hidden from view and momentarily unconscious, as I drove him to the Whitney museum one recent morning to meet some friends from the art world. Along West Street, clotted with traffic near the memorial pools of the World Trade Center, a computerized voice from my iPhone issued directions via the GPS satellites above. Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union, was sitting shotgun, chattily recapping his client’s recent activities. For a fugitive wanted by the FBI for revealing classified spying programs who lives in an undisclosed location in Russia, Snowden was managing to maintain a rather busy schedule around Manhattan. A couple nights earlier, at the New York Times building, Wizner had watched Snowden trounce Fareed Zakaria in a public debate over computer encryption. “He did Tribeca,” the lawyer added, … [Read more...] about I, Snowbot

If New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is elected the first female president of the United States, her first act will be to clean the Oval Office with bleach, she said at Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate. Gillibrand was not seeking to reinforce gender stereotypes. Instead, like most Democrats on stage in Detroit, she was taking a shot at President Donald Trump. Gillibrand worked in her joke after being asked about her support for the Green New Deal, the multi-trillion-dollar plan by many estimates that progressives have proposed to address climate change and income inequality. “You’re a cosponsor of the Green New Deal, which includes the guarantee of a job with medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security for everyone in America. Explain how that’s realistic?” CNN moderator Dana Bash asked Gillibrand. “So, the first thing that I’m going to do when I’m president is I’m going to Clorox the Oval Office,” Gillibrand replied. WATCH: The Federalist’s Emily … [Read more...] about Kirsten Gillibrand: As First Female President, Initial Act Will Be To Bleach Oval Office

Puerto Rico’s continued financial mismanagement led to a deficit of over $600 million in 2015, adding to the island territory’s ongoing debt crisis, according to the government’s long delayed and only recently released 2015 financial statements. The financial statements , released three years after the close of the 2015 fiscal year, show that Puerto Rico continued its decades-long practice of underestimating its expected tax revenue and exceeding its budgeted expenditures, followed by the issuance of bonds to stay afloat when the coffers run dry. As a result of Puerto Rico’s financial mismanagement, the island territory is currently drowning in roughly $73 billion in debt in the form of outstanding bonds — a debt of nearly $17,000 per capita. The underlying issues to the debt crisis are decades in the making, long before Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September. “It’s a long and historical trend of overspending, under-collecting of taxes and not raising taxes when … [Read more...] about Debt-Ridden Puerto Rico Releases Its Long-Awaited Financial Statements – Here’s What They Say