"At best, he's mistaken, but at worst he's just outright lying," Emily Baden told CNN's Erin Burnett on OutFront.

Baden said the verbal exchange with Alito's wife, Martha-Ann Alito, that the justice claimed was the reason for his wife flying the upside-down flag—associated with supporters of former president Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him—occurred in the middle of February 2021.

Trump’s view would effectively hand the president a dictatorship

The first countries to set national mandates amid the coronavirus crisis were Vietnam and the Czech Republic, in mid-March

For the first time he gave serious indications that he was considering a career in politics. Not as mayor or governor or senator.

Trump was thinking about running for president.

Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was widely explained as a working class revolt against despair, deindustrialization, or neoliberalism. But broadly-shared prosperity under Biden hasn’tt reduced Trump’s support at all, showing his appeal was always social.

Trump’s rhetoric does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters

It was equally shocking to learn several days after Trump’s private conflab with the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. that he had “shared secrets about Israel” with the two Russian officials.
Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

the biggest damage he's done is to faith in democracy

Trump supporters exposed to Trump’s norm-violating tweets were less likely to disagree with statement such as “Everyone should be allowed to vote” and “The more people participate in politics and elections, the better.” Trump’s general norm violations also decreased support for political equality among Trump supporters (e.g., “The government should never treat members of one religion differently than members of any other religion”).

However, some noted that it may be the historic nature of the resort, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1969, that makes it monetarily less valuable to a potential buyer.

"While $27 million is obviously an undervaluation, Mar-A-Lago can't be developed or turned into a single-family estate," James Surowiecki, a financial journalist, commented. "Its deed requires it to remain a club, which radically reduces its re-sale value."

Property listings company Zillow currently gives the estate an estimated value of $24.2 million. It fell into hot water in August after erroneously suggesting Mar-a-Lago had been sold for $422 million, prompting speculation.

Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago club, for example, was overvalued on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%, the judge found.

Much of what we knew about Giuliani, Hunter Biden, Burisma, and the FBI is wrong, according to a new interview with FBI whistleblower Johnathan Buma.

"Imagine, just imagine, if Barack Obama in any of his 8 years in office had proudly and publicly referred to himself as ‘the apple of [Putin’s] eye,'" he wrote Friday. "The right would have had an immediate and nonstop meltdown. Fox would have demanded impeachment and indictment 24/7."

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss took a more historical approach:

"Never heard Truman boast of being the 'apple' of Stalin’s eye," he said.

"turned over quickly, without any intent to conceal" versus "protracted battle"

sounds like quid pro quo to me, if "selling access" to a "family brand" is a thing

"The newspaper ads promise that buyers who order apartments in the development by Thursday will get “a conversation and dinner” with Trump Jr. a day later.

President Trump has pledged to avoid any new foreign business deals during his term in office to avoid potential ethical conflicts. While the projects that Trump Jr. is promoting in India were inked before his father was elected, ethics experts have long seen the use of the Trump name to promote even existing business ventures as tricky territory."

In the Clinton case, FBI Director James Comey decided after an investigation that she had been careless in using a private server but it was not intentional.

Mr Trump is also accused of obstructing the investigation. But he says Mrs Clinton destroyed evidence and points to the deleted emails. At one press conference, he even urged Russia to find them.

In Mr Comey's view there was no cover-up, even though an FBI investigation found many of the deleted emails were work-related.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.

He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”

The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”