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 CNNSen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shrugged off the "catch-and-kill" scheme at the heart of Donald Trump's hush-money trial on Sunday, claiming that it wasn't a big deal because "a lot of celebrities" had done the same thing with the National Enquirer.
CNN anchor Dana Bash, meanwhile, helpfully reminded the Trump sycophant that those celebrities weren't running for president at the time.
During an appearance on CNN's State of the Union, Graham said that he believes the Supreme Court will likely send Trump's immunity claims back to a lower court to decide which actions fall under the scope of presidential immunity. He also added that it doesn't worry him at all that this could mean the ex-president's criminal cases won't be decided before November's election.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesWhen Republican Gov. Kristi Noem proudly bragged about shooting her puppy in her new memoir, what she may have actually done was kill her chance at being Donald Trump's VP. At least this time, it was an accident.
Ever since The Guardian first reported that the MAGA politician, and potential Trump running mate had written a gruesome account about executing her puppy into her new memoir, Noem has been lambasted online, including by several members of her own party.
Alyssa Farrah Griffith, the Trump administration's former director of strategic communications, wrote that she was "horrified" by the story, in a post on X. "A 14-month old dog is still a puppy & can be trained. A large part of bad behavior in dogs is not having proper training from the humans responsible for them."
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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's presidency has served as a wake-up call that our Constitution and our laws were not designed to handle an authoritarian like him. And Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on presidential immunity was yet another reminder of that fact.
It's dangerous to try and divine the court's opinion based on oral arguments; however, the consensus seems to be heading in a direction that says that a president should be immune from prosecution over "official," but not private, acts. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable precedent. After all, we don't want a banana republic where former presidents are unfairly targeted for prosecution after they leave office.
Still, this foreboding thought remains: It is virtually impossible to untwine "official" acts from personal crimes. Someone like Trump can always lie about his motives.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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