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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyNYPDAnybody who imagines that Donald Trump is attending the wake of fallen NYPD Police Officer Jonathan Diller with genuine respect for those who routinely risk their lives should think back to a campaign rally in Ohio earlier this month.
At the start of that March 16 event in Vandalia, Trump solemnly saluted as the sound system played a recording of the J6 Prison Choir singing the national anthem inside the District of Columbia jail.
The producers who had spliced in a recording of Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and marketed the song as "Justice for All" have never identified the particular singers. But an analysis by Just Security found that 17 of the 20 Jan. 6 prisoners in the facility around the time of the recording had been arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers.
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The star-studded event in New York City is aimed at building on the already significant financial advantage President Biden has over former President Donald J. Trump.
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Kevin Lamarque/ReutersHunter Biden's legal defense team on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the federal tax case against him, arguing that the president's son has been subjected to a politically motivated prosecution.
At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi pressed Biden's attorneys to show evidence to support their claims. He said he would likely rule on the motions to dismiss by April 17.
Biden was not in attendance at the hearing where his legal team—led by Abbe Lowell—argued that GOP lawmakers and former president Donald Trump had an improper influence on the case, leading to the unraveling of a plea deal last summer, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Facebook/Matt MaddockMarch Madness took a hard right turn into out-and-out irrationality Wednesday evening, when a Republican member of the Michigan statehouse baselessly claimed three buses filled with college athletes were in fact "illegal invaders" descending on Detroit from the southern border.
"Happening right now," state Rep. Matt Maddock posted on X, tagging Michigan GOP chair Pete Hoekstra. "Three busses [sic] just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they're headed with their police escort?"
Maddock, an "ultra MAGA" Trump supporter whose wife was criminally charged as a so-called fake elector in the former president's scheme to steal the 2020 election, attached two photographs as "proof," showing a trio of charter buses on the tarmac at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, next to a chartered Allegiant Air A320-214.
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