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 NBC NewsAs the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposes Trump's view of absolute immunity.
McConnell spoke with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker Thursday for a pre-recorded interview set to air Sunday.
During their talk, Welker inquired whether McConnell stood by his February 2021 comment—made just after he voted to acquit "shameful" Trump during his Jan. 6-related impeachment trial—that former presidents are not immune from criminal prosecution.
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 Yuki Iwamura/GettyDonald Trump on Wednesday described a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as a "peanut" compared with the current wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations unfolding on college campuses across America.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican noted that his successor, Joe Biden, had cited the Unite the Right rally in Virginia as among his motives for running for president. One woman was killed and almost 40 other people were hurt when a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the rally—an event that Trump claimed at the time had been attended by "very fine people on both sides."
"Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville," Trump wrote in his post Wednesday. "Well, if that's the case, he's done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut' compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our Country, RIGHT NOW."
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Several justices signaled interest in some protections for official acts, which could impede a swift trial in the federal election subversion case.
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 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump's claim that the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 was less hateful than pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses lately was "repugnant and divisive," the White House shot back Thursday night.
After proceedings in his criminal trial in New York concluded for the day, Trump said the torch-lit rally on the campus of the University of Virginia—in which participants chanted "Jews will not replace us" and a Neo-Nazi murdered a counter-protester with his car and injured thirty others—was "a little peanut" compared to the largely peaceful encampments springing up on college campuses in recent weeks.
"It was nothing compared, and the hate wasn't the kind of hate you have here. This is tremendous hate," Trump claimed.
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 Mike StobeFormer president Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his ongoing hush money trial constitutes "election interference," by preventing him from connecting with voters, and so, the Republican presidential nominee spent his one day off from court diligently campaigning.
Just kidding, Trump actually went golfing.
A not-so aggrieved Trump spent his Wednesday puttering around at the Bedminster Golf Club, sources told CNN. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden's presidential campaign released a succinct statement about Trump's campaign events that day: "He had none."
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