Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 12:55 p.m. No.20800739   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0769 >>0772 >>0786 >>0941 >>0961 >>1010 >>1063 >>1124 >>1130 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

Judge Gives Trump ‘Permission’ to Attend Son Barron’s High School Graduation

by Cristina Laila Apr. 30, 2024 2:00 pm

 

Radical far-left New York Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday fined President Trump $9,000 for speaking out in his own defense and violating his gag order in the ongoing lawfare trial in New York City. Merchan also threatened President Trump with jail if he continued to publicly defend himself in the case.

 

The judge gave Trump ‘permission’ to attend his sonBarron’s high school graduation ceremony on May 17in Palm Beach, Florida.

 

“The judge presiding over the NY v. Trump trial in Manhattan granted former President Trump permission on Tuesday to attend his son’s high school graduation in Florida next month.”

 

Fox News reported.“I don’t think the May 17 date is a problem,”Judge Juan Merchan told the court Tuesday morning of Barron Trump’s graduation date. (He didn't say that he can definitely go, so he might jerk it away.)

 

After refusing to recuse himself, Judge Juan Merchan earlier this month threatened to put President Trump in jail if he didn’t show up for trial.

 

Earlier this month President Trump asked the judge if he could skip the trial to attend his son Barron’s graduation. Judge Merchan said that the decision “really depends on if we are on time and where we are in the trial.”

 

After major backlash the judge gave Trump ‘permission’ to attend his own son’s high school graduation.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/judge-gives-trump-permission-attend-son-barrons-high/

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 1:23 p.m. No.20800818   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Rep. Eli Crane On Political Leaders Turning A Blind Eye To Sharia Supremacy At Home. It’s a whole different ballgame, radical Islam

 

8:51

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4q0485/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 1:33 p.m. No.20800857   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“This Is The Rule Of Petty Tyrants Like Juan Merchan”: Jack Posobiec On Communism Infecting U.S.

 

11:10

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4q035e/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 1:54 p.m. No.20800920   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Mike Davis Responds To Democrat Judge Merchan Threatening President Trump With Jail Over Gag Order. Elise Stefanik filed a complaint violating policy of the DOJ, cannot make decisions on based on elections. Smith was rushing to prosecute asap. Obvious election interference!. Davis says: I dare you to put Trump in jail.Go ahead and do it, if you do it, it's guaranteed Trump would win the election, and then the Judge can be investigated for corruption.== Clear violation of the Constitutional Rights of President Trump, cannot put Gag orders on defendants.

 

 

16:01

 

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4q04k8/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 2:04 p.m. No.20800948   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1010 >>1130 >>1278 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

Joe Biden’s DOJ Accused of Brutal Treatment of Jailed Pro-Life Grandmother: Prolonged Solitary, Paraded in Court in Shackles(Video)

by Margaret Flavin Apr. 30, 2024 12:00 pm Heather Idoni

Joe Biden’s DOJ/FBI is hunting down pro-life, conservative grandmas while ignoring Antifa and BLM militants and the radical Hamas supporters shutting down and terrorizing college campuses.

Under Biden, the DOJ weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with anyone obtaining or providing “reproductive health services,” as a punishment for the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

After the Supreme Court ruling, Biden formed the DOJ-led Reproductive Rights Task Force to enforce the act.

According to The Epoch Times, The FACE Act has now been used 130 times against pro-life individuals but only used three times against pro-abortion protesters.

In 2020, a group of pro-life activists entered an abortion clinic in Washington DC and ‘blocked’ women from seeking abortions.

The DOJ said the group entered the facility and blocked access using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes and live-streamed their activity on social media, which, according to the DOJ, is a felony conspiracy.

In September 2023, Lauren Handy, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia; John Hinshaw, 67, of Levittown, New York; Heather Idoni, 61, of Linden, Michigan; William Goodman, 52, of Bronx, New York; and Herb Geraghty, 25, of Pittsburgh were found guilty of conspiring to blockade access to the clinic.

Idoni, a mother of 15, including 10 boys she and her husband adopted from Ukraine, is facing a sentence of up to 50 years in federal prison and over $1 million in fines for her participation in pro-life protests in Washington, D.C., Michigan, and Tennessee.

Sentencing for Idoni and the other pro-lifers in the Washington D.C. case will take place in mid-May. Idoni was also convicted for praying and singing hymns in the hallway of a clinic in Tennessee, and she currently awaits trial for two additional FACE violations in Michigan.

Idoni recently spoke with LifeSiteNews and shared the abuses she alleges she has faced while incarcerated.

Heather Idoni, a defendant in the Washington, D.C., FACE (Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances) Act trials, told LifeSiteNews that she has been subjected to 22 days of solitary confinement. In an exclusive interview, she said that she received this punishment for sharing food with fellow prisoners. Idoni alleged that she was allowed to walk outside her cell only for two hours in the middle of the night each day and that the lights of her cell were continually kept on. Idoni has been in prison since she was convicted last autumn.

Cal Zastro, a fellow pro-life advocate who has also been convicted of violating the FACE Act, told LifeSiteNews that “when Idoni was brought into the courtroom for a trial in Nashville, the U.S. marshal had the middle-aged woman shackled at the wrists, waist, and feet as if she were a dangerous criminal.”

Zastro said that, upon entering the courtroom, the shocked judge ordered the shackles removed. Initially the marshal agreed to remove the shackles from only one wrist to allow Idoni freedom to write, a concession necessary for her to take notes, as she was then representing herself in court. Only at the insistence of the indignant judge were the shackles of both wrists finally removed, although the marshal left the bars around her waist and feet.

 

Watch:

BREAKING | @JoeBiden #DOJ Accused of Brutal Treatment of Jailed #ProLifer — Prolonged Solitary, Shackles#Jailed pro-lifer Heather Idoni says she has been kept in #solitaryconfinement for 22 days, with the lights of her cell kept on 24 hours a day. Idoni has been jailed since… pic.twitter.com/0CQuR1lzzv

— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) April 29, 2024

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/joe-bidens-doj-accused-brutal-treatment-jailed-pro/

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 2:29 p.m. No.20801034   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Caroline Glick On Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Briefing

 

 

16:45

 

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4q03q2/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 2:46 p.m. No.20801071   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1130 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

Royally Rejected: Prince Harry to Shack Up in Hotel After Stay at Windsor Castle Denied for Duke's Impending TripThe Duke of Sussex was denied a request to stay at Windsor Castle in May 2024.

By:Charles Switzer Apr. 30 2024, Published 2:36 p.m. ET

 

Prince Harry is once again fighting embarrassment as his request to lodge in Windsor Castle was denied. The Duke of Sussex was also rejected when he asked to stay in the ancient, grand castle in September 2023. The royal rebel will be in London on May 8 to attend a service of commemoration at St Paul's Cathedral for the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games.

 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lost 'the less grand' Frogmore Cottage in June 2023.

 

Both rejected requests came after the 39-year-old prince and his wife, Meghan Markle, were thrown out of Frogmore Cottage last spring only weeks before King Charles III's coronation.

 

Harry and Meghan were gifted the cottage by the late Queen Elizabeth II, who maintained her decades-long tradition of giving all newly married senior royals a country residence of their own. The Sussex pair were officially based at Kensington Palace, where they had a lavish apartment, which is also the main base of William and Catherine. The renovations needed for the cottage ended up costing British taxpayers over $4 million dollars, which became a controversy once the duo only lived there for one year.

 

Once "Megxit" happened in early 2020, Princess Eugenie and her spouse, Jack Brooksbank, briefly lived in the cottage for six months before vacating in the spring of 2021, where it has remained abandoned ever since. When Charles III acceded to the throne in September 2022, there was talk he planned on forcing the scandal-ridden Prince Andrew to move to the "less costly" nineteenth-century home.

 

"Frogmore House is no longer occupied by the royal family but is often used for entertaining," the Royal Collection Trust website now reads.

 

The Duke of Sussex 'is only on speaking terms with King Charles.'

 

"The story of Harry’s change of residence may have come out only in the past few days, but in fact, Harry quietly changed his primary residence as long ago as June 29, 2023, on the very day he and Meghan were evicted from Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate," royal author Tom Quinn dished when discussing the recent revelation of the Duke's change of address.

 

"That’s the date given in new business documents filed in the U.S. this week. At the time, few people realized what a slap in the face the eviction from Frogmore felt like for Harry — it was the last straw," he added. "Harry was absolutely furious and in tears about being evicted from Frogmore — he felt his father had no right to do it and that it was purely vindictive."

 

Charles III's decision, which insiders claim was "purely protocol," came weeks after Harry's "salacious" memoir, Spare, became a bestseller thanks to its author's "explosive details" about his family members.

 

https://okmagazine.com/p/prince-harry-shack-up-hotel-after-windsor-castle-denied/

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:07 p.m. No.20801121   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1130 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

election interference in reverse

 

Ali Bradley @AliBradleyTV

 

President Biden spoke with Mexico’s president yesterday per the White House—Saying the two ordered their national security teams to work together to “significantly reduce irregular border crossings…”

 

https://x.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1784980404027445507

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:12 p.m. No.20801131   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

 

President Trump leaves the courtroom with Ken Paxton. Very nice show of support from the Texas AG. These are bullshit charges.

 

From Karli Bonne’

 

2:47 PM · Apr 30, 2024

 

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1785380460287103139

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:18 p.m. No.20801150   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Julie Kelly

@julie_kelly2

 

Doing some research and came upon this unhinged thread by Luttig.It is amazing to me the extent to which these "experts" easily lie to their braindead followers.

 

The question before SCOTUS is NOT specific to the events of Jan 6 or 2020 election.

 

Here is the actual question before the court–andit will apply to every president in the future.

 

What Luttig and his legal expert echo chamber want the public to believe is that this is a one-off. It's far from it–like Judge Gorsuch said, "a law for the ages." They don't care how this drastically changes the future of the country, as long as it helps get Trump behind bars, consequences be damned.

 

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@judgeluttig

@judgeluttig

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Apr 25

Replying to @judgeluttig

That question is simply whether a former President of the United States may be prosecuted for attempting to remain in power notwithstanding the election of his successor by the American People.

9:26 AM · Apr 30, 2024

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https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1785299724561535135

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:26 p.m. No.20801181   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

@TM1Politics

 

JUST IN: Texas AG Ken Paxton has arrived in Manhattan to support President Donald Trump in his trial. Paxton understands what it’s like to be under attack, as he fended off his own impeachment from RINOs in his state. It’s nice to see some republicans have courage!

 

https://x.com/TM1Politics/status/1785311496093798407

 

10:13 AM · Apr 30, 2024

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:35 p.m. No.20801227   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

Kaboom! Average Jackson Home Price Hits New Record At $7 Million

The outdoor recreation boom continues to influence the Jackson and Teton County housing market with the average single-family home price hitting an astonishing $7.02 million.

Renée Jean April 29, 2024

 

Real estate prices are still riding the up escalator in Jackson and Teton County, Wyoming, and there’s no sign they’ve reached the top floor despite exceeding $7 million for the average single-family home.

Last year’s lull to close out 2023 had some buyers hoping they could wait out the Jackson market and score cheaper home prices in 2024. But that’s not what the numbers for the first-quarter of 2024 show.

Sales in Jackson were up 10% year over year, according to the latest Jackson Hole quarterly report put out by the Viehman Group. Dollar volumes were up 62%. Average sales prices were up 47% overall, hitting new records in several categories, driven in part by a 55% increase in the number of luxury sales, those above $5 million.

Sales in the $1 million to $3 million range are still the majority of transactions — but just barely at 52%. Most of the sales activity was in the Westbank area at 31%, while the town of Jackson was a close second at 27%.

Overall inventory is up 14% year over year at 150 listings, according to the report. But that is still the third lowest inventory recorded in the market, suggesting that demand for a spot in Jackson Hole continues to dramatically outpace supply.

David Viehman, in his podcast about the report, recalled moving to the area in 1992, and how different things were then. “At that time, there were approximately 1,300 active listings, or about 11% of the overall number of properties in the valley,” he said. That’s what more “normal” markets typically see, Viehman said.

“But today (in Jackson), we have 1.2% of our properties on the market,” he said. “We have almost 13,000 deeds, but we only have 150 listings.”

More Market Constriction Ahead

Normally, high interest rates have a dampening effect on real estate markets. But that hasn’t been the case in Jackson Hole. Part of the reason could be the changing model for economic boom towns and counties right now.

Eight of the 10 largest wealth-attracting counties in the nation are being driven by outdoor amenities, and, on that trend, Teton County is leading the pack.

Viehman said he believes that Jackson Hole is going to remain a seller’s market for the foreseeable future, in spite of high interest rates, which were averaging 7.70% nationwide for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage on Monday, according to Forbes.

• The data in Viehman Group’s report indicates further market constriction is ahead.

• Overall properties under contract and their dollar volume — sales waiting in the wings — were down 22% and 21% respectively in Jackson Hole for the first quarter.

• That is a direct reflection of the lack of inventory, Viehman told Cowboy State Daily in an email.

• “In 2023, there were 45 properties under contract at the end of Q1 versus 35 this year,” he said.

• It’s an early indicator that constriction in the market is getting worse, not better.

• List prices for properties under contract reflect that continued market constriction, Viehman added. They rose 1% to $4.62 million, a new record for the category.

• Single-family homes, condos and townhouses are 82% of the properties under contract, while 11% are vacant residential lots.

• Single-family vacant lots remain in short supply as well, and getting shorter. Vacant single-family lots are also at their third lowest in history.

Lack Of Single-Family Homes

The number of single-family home sales dropped 21% year over year for the first quarter of 2024. That drop reflects lack of inventory rather than demand, the Viehman Group reported.

In fact, the average and median sale prices hit new records, at $7.02 million and $3.5 million respectively for the quarter, reflecting the dwindling supply.

The least expensive home listed on the Jackson market as of April 1 is a 1977 home with two bedrooms and one bath on 0.96 acres in Buffalo Valley. Its list price is $1.365 million. There were only three homes listed for less than $2 million as of April 1.

 

By contrast, the most expensive single-family home listing was $31.5 million for a 4.53-acre private estate north of Wilson on Lake Creek. That home is 9,600 square feet with four bedrooms and seven baths….

 

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/29/average-home-price-for-jackson-wyoming-hits-record-7-million/

 

 

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/29/average-home-price-for-jackson-wyoming-hits-record-7-million/

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:51 p.m. No.20801296   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1306 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

How Far Trump Would Go

By ERIC CORTELLESSA / PALM BEACH, FLA.1/3

The former President, at Mar-a-Lago on April 12, is rallying the right at home and seeking common cause with autocratic leaders abroad. ==Photograph by

 

Philip Montgomery for TIME== (EXCELLENT PHOTOS)

April 30, 2024 7:00 AM EDT (really long and worthwhile interview with pictures)

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.

 

We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges me to wrap up the interview, I bring up the many former Cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time. Some have publicly warned that he poses a danger to the Republic. Why should voters trust you, I ask, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not?

 

As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former top advisers. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there is a larger lesson he has taken away. “I let them quit because I have a heart. I don’t want to embarrass anybody,” Trump says. “I don’t think I’ll do that again. From now on, I’ll fire.”

 

Six months from the 2024 presidential election, Trump is better positioned to win the White House than at any point in either of his previous campaigns. He leads Joe Biden by slim margins in most polls, including in several of the seven swing states likely to determine the outcome. But I had not come to ask about the election, the disgrace that followed the last one, or how he has become the first former—and perhaps future—American President to face a criminal trial. I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words.

 

What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.

 

Trump remains the same guy, with the same goals and grievances. But in person, if anything, he appears more assertive and confident. “When I first got to Washington, I knew very few people,” he says. “I had to rely on people.” Now he is in charge. The arranged marriage with the timorous Republican Party stalwarts is over; the old guard is vanquished, and the people who remain are his people. Trump would enter a second term backed by a slew of policy shops staffed by loyalists who have drawn up detailed plans in service of his agenda, which would concentrate the powers of the state in the hands of a man whose appetite for power appears all but insatiable. “I don’t think it’s a big mystery what his agenda would be,” says his close adviser Kellyanne Conway. “But I think people will be surprised at the alacrity with which he will take action.”

 

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:54 p.m. No.20801306   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1326 >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

>>20801296

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Read More: Read the Full Transcripts of Donald Trump's Interviews With TIME

 

The courts, the Constitution, and a Congress of unknown composition would all have a say in whether Trump’s objectives come to pass. The machinery of Washington has a range of defenses: leaks to a free press, whistle-blower protections, the oversight of inspectors general. The same deficiencies of temperament and judgment that hindered him in the past remain present. If he wins, Trump would be a lame duck—contrary to the suggestions of some supporters, he tells TIME he would not seek to overturn or ignore the Constitution’s prohibition on a third term. Public opinion would also be a powerful check. Amid a popular outcry, Trump was forced to scale back some of his most draconian first-term initiatives, including the policy of separating migrant families. As George Orwell wrote in 1945, the ability of governments to carry out their designs “depends on the general temper in the country.”

 

Every election is billed as a national turning point. This time that rings true. To supporters, the prospect of Trump 2.0, unconstrained and backed by a disciplined movement of true believers, offers revolutionary promise. To much of the rest of the nation and the world, it represents an alarming risk. A second Trump term could bring “the end of our democracy,” says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, “and the birth of a new kind of authoritarian presidential order.”

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Trump steps onto the patio at Mar-a-Lago near dusk. The well-heeled crowd eating Wagyu steaks and grilled branzino pauses to applaud as he takes his seat. On this gorgeous evening, the club is a MAGA mecca. Billionaire donor Steve Wynn is here. So is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is dining with the former President after a joint press conference proposing legislation to prevent noncitizens from voting. Their voting in federal elections is already illegal, and extremely rare, but remains a Trumpian fixation that the embattled Speaker appeared happy to co-sign in exchange for the political cover that standing with Trump provides.

 

At the moment, though, Trump’s attention is elsewhere. With an index finger, he swipes through an iPad on the table to curate the restaurant’s soundtrack. The playlist veers from Sinead O’Connor to James Brown to The Phantom of the Opera. And there’s a uniquely Trump choice: a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” sung by a choir of defendants imprisoned for attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, interspersed with a recording of Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. This has become a staple of his rallies, converting the ultimate symbol of national unity into a weapon of factional devotion.

 

The spectacle picks up where his first term left off. The events of Jan. 6, during which a pro-Trump mob attacked the center of American democracy in an effort to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, was a profound stain on his legacy. Trump has sought to recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. “I call them the J-6 patriots,” he says. When I ask whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says, “Yes, absolutely.” As Trump faces dozens of felony charges, including for election interference, conspiracy to defraud the United States, willful retention of national-security secrets, and falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments, he has tried to turn legal peril into a badge of honor.

 

In a second term, Trump’s influence on American democracy would extend far beyond pardoning powers. Allies are laying the groundwork to restructure the presidency in line with a doctrine called the unitary executive theory, which holds that many of the constraints imposed on the White House by legislators and the courts should be swept away in favor of a more powerful Commander in Chief.

 

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

 

Read More: Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said In His Interviews With TIME

Anonymous ID: 5539bf April 30, 2024, 3:57 p.m. No.20801326   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1337 >>1411 >>1458

>>20801306

 

3/3(more to read in article see link below)

Nowhere would that power be more momentous than at the Department of Justice. Since the nation’s earliest days, Presidents have generally kept a respectful distance from Senate-confirmed law-enforcement officials to avoid exploiting for personal ends their enormous ability to curtail Americans’ freedoms. But Trump, burned in his first term by multiple investigations directed by his own appointees, is ever more vocal about imposing his will directly on the department and its far-flung investigators and prosecutors.

 

In our Mar-a-Lago interview, Trump says he might fire U.S. Attorneys who refuse his orders to prosecute someone: “It would depend on the situation.” He’s told supporters he would seek retribution against his enemies in a second term.

 

Would that include Fani Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney who charged him with election interference, or Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA in the Stormy Daniels case, who Trump has previously said should be prosecuted? Trump demurs but offers no promises. “No, I don’t want to do that,” he says, before adding, “We’re gonna look at a lot of things. What they’ve done is a terrible thing.”

 

Trump has also vowed to appoint a “real special prosecutor” to go after Biden. “I wouldn’t want to hurt Biden,” he tells me. “I have too much respect for the office.” Seconds later, though, he suggests Biden’s fate may be tied to an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on whether Presidents can face criminal prosecution for acts committed in office. “If they said that a President doesn’t get immunity,” says Trump, “then Biden, I am sure, will be prosecuted for all of his crimes.” (Biden has not been charged with any, and a House Republican effort to impeach him has failed to unearth evidence of any crimes or misdemeanors, high or low.)

 

Read More: Trump Says ‘Anti-White Feeling’ Is a Problem in the U.S.

 

Such moves would be potentially catastrophic for the credibility of American law enforcement, scholars and former Justice Department leaders from both parties say. “If he ordered an improper prosecution, I would expect any respectable U.S. Attorney to say no,” says Michael McConnell, a former U.S. appellate judge appointed by President George W. Bush. “If the President fired the U.S.

Attorney, it would be an enormous firestorm.” McConnell, now a Stanford law professor, says the dismissal could have a cascading effect similar to the Saturday Night Massacre, when President Richard Nixon ordered top DOJ officials to remove the special counsel investigating Watergate. Presidents have the constitutional right to fire U.S. Attorneys, and typically replace their predecessors’ appointees upon taking office. But discharging one specifically for refusing a President’s order would be all but unprecedented.

 

Trump’s radical designs for presidential power would be felt throughout the country. A main focus is the southern border. Trump says he plans to sign orders to reinstall many of the same policies from his first term, such as the Remain in Mexico program, which requires that non-Mexican asylum seekers be sent south of the border until their court dates, and Title 42, which allows border officials to expel migrants without letting them apply for asylum. Advisers say he plans to cite record border crossings and fentanyl- and child-trafficking as justification for reimposing the emergency measures. He would direct federal funding to resume construction of the border wall, likely by allocating money from the military budget without congressional approval. The capstone of this program, advisers say, would be a massive deportation operation that would target millions of people. Trump made similar pledges in his first term, but says he plans to be more aggressive in a second. “People need to be deported,” says Tom Homan, a top Trump adviser and former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “No one should be off the table.”

 

Read More: The Story Behind TIME's 'If He Wins' Trump Cover

 

For an operation of that scale, Trump says he would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. “If they weren’t able to, then I’d use [other parts of] the military,” he says. When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act—an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians—Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute. “Well, these aren’t civilians,” he says. “These are people that aren’t legally in our country.” He would also seek help from local police and says he would deny funding for jurisdictions that decline to adopt his policies. “There’s a possibility that some won’t want to participate,” Trump says, “and they won’t partake in the riches.” …. more at link

 

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/