Donald Trump’s federal trial for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is likely to remain on hold for several more months while the Supreme Court takes up his argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president.
In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen.
h/t DS
Elvis has left the building.
So has Trump, and he left victorious.
The “primary show” will have a few encores, mainly on March 5 (Super Tuesday), when multiple states vote, but the outcome is certain. With his decisive win in South Carolina, Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination. He easily defeated his last opponent, Nikki Haley, in her home state.
During the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala in South Carolina, at which he received the “Champion of Black America” award, former US President Donald Trump declared US President Joe Biden “a very nasty and vicious racist,” and claimed that Biden discriminates between Black and white people.
“Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He’s been a racist,” Trump said. “Whether you like it or don’t like it. I happen not to like it. Biden spent years palling around with notorious segregationist you know that.”
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president.
The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m.
“This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory.
“I have never seen the Republican Party as United as it is right now,” he said.
A poll of registered N.Y. voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intends to vote for former U.S. president Donald Trump in the presidential election in November.
N.Y. Jews now favor Trump to U.S. President Joe Biden 53% to 44%, according to the Siena College poll, released on Tuesday. Jews in the state said that they intend to continue to back Democrats over Republicans 54% to 39% in congressional elections.
BERLIN — It might not be strategic, but at least it’s autonomy.
In one fell swoop over the weekend, Donald Trump freed Europe from the confines of the American security bubble.
“I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want,” Trump claimed to have told a European leader about how he would respond if their country were attacked by Russia. “You gotta pay!”
Why should the freeloaders not pay their share?
There Are Only Two Things That Can Stop the Re-election of Donald Trump
The Biden news cycle is disastrous—and unending: a perfect storm of his failures abroad, disaster at the border, and reasons why sky-high prices nullify the Bidenomics hype.
The bad news is interspersed…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Trudeau is promising a “Team Canada” approach to this impending danger. Editorial comments are being made in the usual places that we should brace ourselves for what amounts to the American renunciation of the Western alliance to be replaced by U.S. non-aggression pacts with Russia and China, which would enable those countries and the United States to carve any spheres of influence for themselves that they wished and demarcate the world at their pleasure. If Canadians had not learned by now that they cannot rely upon their journalists for anything, and especially not a sophisticated analysis of international affairs, the country would be in a mood of acute anxiety over possible impending developments in the United States.
“Many European leaders concede that he basically has a point”, The Times of London said in a rare concession to Donald Trump over his NATO comments that prompted pearl-clutching outrage by some.
European leaders reacted to Donald Trump’s comments on NATO over the weekend — in which he laid out his frustration at member states refusing to pay their way and yet still expecting full protection from America’s military might and hence the U.S. taxpayer — in two ways, a report in The Times reflected.
This is insane https://t.co/tKgaz0pSBZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024
The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers.
In 1931, the slogan of the German Communist Party became: ‘After Hitler, our turn.’ This kind of wishful thinking is making a comeback in contemporary America. Prominent Democrats and the ‘progressive’ apparat of the Biden administration see the nomination of Donald Trump – their version of Hitler – as the best way to mobilise their shaky coalition and to keep hold of power.
In the Goat Bar and Grill in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, the local Republicans were having a blast.
It was only a Monday night, but with a first-in-the-nation primary vote the following day, spirits were high. America’s eyes had turned on the Granite State in search of hints of what this election season would bring.
On stage, Scott Brown, the 64-year-old former Republican senator, sang the hits of Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf and Skid Row. As he warmed up the room for his next cover, he looked for a crowd-pleasing line.
The former president’s formidable inner circle of advisers is a far cry from the chaos of 2016 and provides a counterweight to their erratic boss
The front cabin of Trump Force One, Donald Trump’s gleaming Boeing 757, has space for eight or nine advisers on its sofa and white leather chairs, with 24-carat gold-plated belt buckles, grouped around a highly polished wooden table.
Just the right amount of room for the former president and his inner circle to plan the latest moves of an election campaign that is far removed from the chaos of his 2016 run and could carry him back to the White House.
The vengeful establishment has driven Republicans even further into his corner.
If you listen to the American national media, Donald Trump is beyond the pale, and no respectable person would even think about voting for him. But, based on last night’s Iowa caucus results, it seems that many Republican voters don’t care what the media think of them.
Is a sense of unfairness in the Biden administration’s use of criminal prosecutions against the leading Republican candidate powering the 45th president’s astonishing surge on the hustings?
President Trump’s victory in Iowa — where he won an absolute majority in a four-person race — will certainly put a spring in his step. It might not be, history suggests, a reliable predictor of who will emerge as the party nominee. The landslide by which he trounced two strong Republicans, though, is remarkable. It goes a long way in putting paid to the notion that, as Conrad Black puts it, the 45th president is a spent political force.
The Church of Trump is broad and you don’t have to be a true believer to join
Donald Trump has dominated Republican politics for so long that it can be hard to remember the time when he did not. It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of 2016 he started the Republican primary process by losing the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz, his more conservative rival.
“He stole it,” Trump tweeted afterwards, graceful as ever in defeat. “The State of Iowa should disqualify Ted Cruz from the most recent election on the basis that he cheated — a total fraud!” Trump went on to stun the world, of course, by winning the Republican nomination, then the White House. American politics would never be the same again.
