Trump to hold first NY rally since 2016, weeks after massive Jersey Shore gathering
By Social Links for Victor Nava
Published May 17, 2024
Updated May 17, 2024, 10:47 p.m. ET


Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in the South Bronx next week, and his first major gathering of supporters in his native state since his first White House bid comes on the heels of a record-breaking event at the Jersey Shore.

The May 23 rally will take place at 6 p.m. in Crotona Park, and the Trump campaign has a permit for up to 3,500 people to attend, his campaign announced Friday.

Trump, 77, is expected to speak on the Empire State’s economy, crime rate and migrant crisis. It’s his first rally in his birth state since Buffalo in 2016.

“New Yorkers have suffered greatly thanks to Biden’s failed policies,” Team Trump said in the announcement.

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https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/us-news/trump-to-hold-first-nyc-rally-of-2024-campaign/

Special council urges judge to move forward with Hunter Biden trial despite delay attempts
May 18, 2024 | Kevin Haggerty

While Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys sought a nearly three-month trial delay, the federal prosecution responded with a reality check on how President Joe Biden’s son is “like any other defendant.”

Trials for the first son’s federal gun charges in Delaware and his tax evasion charges in California have both been slated to begin in June. Though previously accepted by the defense, Biden’s attorneys have filed for delays with the respective courts, and special counsel David Weiss was having none of it.

“No defendant would be afforded a continuance because he wrongly chose to lodge a jurisdictionless appeal, and this defendant should be treated no differently,” wrote Weiss in a Friday filing opposing any delay to the June 20 trial start. “Defense counsel offers a handful of other reasons why he wants a trial delay of 77 days, but none of them warrant a continuance. The motion should be denied.”

Key to the prosecution’s multi-pronged argument was the fact that at multiple times, Biden’s defense had agreed to the trial dates despite a now-claimed potential conflict with the Delaware case slated to begin little more than two weeks earlier.

“In his latest effort to delay trial (an application for continuance), defendant’s lead counsel’s primary reason is the weeklong June 3, 2024, trial in Delaware at which he is one of the lawyers representing the defendant with respect to firearms charges,” wrote the special counsel. “But on March 13, 2024, and again on April 11, 2024, lead counsel told the Delaware court he was able to try the gun case in Delaware on June 3, 2024, with full knowledge that this trial would begin on June 20, 2024, per this Court’s order several months earlier.”

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/18/special-council-urges-judge-to-move-forward-with-hunter-biden-trial-despite-delay-attempts-1460198/

Trump predicts 'jacked up' Biden at upcoming debates, blasts Bidenomics in battleground speech
Trump said he was going to 'demand a drug test' for Biden ahead of any debates
By Paul Steinhauser , Brandon Gillespie Fox News
Published May 17, 2024 8:10pm EDT | Updated May 17, 2024 10:43pm EDT

It's been more than 50 years since a Republican won Minnesota in a presidential election, but former President Trump says he's got "a really good shot" of breaking the losing streak this November in his 2024 rematch with President Biden.

The former president is in the historically reliable blue state Friday evening to headline the Minnesota GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. He began his speech with the usual jabs at Biden's cognitive ability, but also referenced the recently agreed to debates between the two.

"He's going to be so jacked up for those, you watch," Trump joked, later saying he was going to "demand a drug test" for Biden before the debate.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-speaks-battleground-state-he-vowed-avoid-after-losing-twice

Flaw and order: Jack Smith election case hangs on by a thread
By
Ashley Oliver
May 18, 2024 7:00 am

The Department of Justice’s election interference case against Donald Trump is in limbo, but even if it returns to normal proceedings, Jack Smith has an uphill climb to securing a conviction of the former president.

The special counsel, who is leading the prosecution, is at the mercy of the Supreme Court as it weighs two decisions relevant to his indictment. One of the decisions threatens to imperil the case, while the other could result in a small setback for Smith. The high court could hand down these decisions by the end of June.

But the Supreme Court aside, Smith also relies heavily on Trump’s speech as a means to incriminate him, and legal experts say that if the case resumes, Smith faces the difficult challenge of proving to jurors that the speech was not protected by the Constitution.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3008829/jack-smith-election-case-hangs-by-thread/

What this pro fossil fuel group does not tell you is Scotland planted 500 million trees since 2000.

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