Trump begins fundraising off classified documents case dismissal
Trump began fundraising off of the classified documents case’s dismissal, just hours after the federal judge canned the case against him and days after his assassination attempt.
“THE DOJ’S DOCUMENTS CASE AGAINST ME WAS JUST DISMISSED!” a fundraising email sent out today reads. “Now it’s time for us to unite the country! We will reinvigorate our economy for ALL AMERICANS.
“We will secure our border. We will show PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH on the world stage. WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the ad continues, before soliciting donations.
Trump says he was ‘supposed to be dead’ after attempted assassination at Pennsylvania rally
Trump said in an interview yesterday he believes he narrowly avoided his own death.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post.
Trump spoke to the Post while en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week; the former president reportedly had a large white bandage on his right ear from the injury he sustained from the shooting.
Trump recalled turning his head slightly to the right to read a chart about undocumented immigrants during the rally — a split-second move he believes allowed him to dodge a shot that would have killed him.
Senate Homeland Security to open bipartisan investigation into Trump shooting
The Senate Homeland Security Committee is launching a bipartisan investigation into Trump’s attempted assassination, Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., said.
The committee will look into “whether or not there were security breaches that we need to close,” Peters said, modeling the investigation after its bipartisan look at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. As with its Jan. 6 probe, the committee is expected to release recommendations on security changes.
Peters said he spoke “at length” with Homeland Secretary Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday and has a briefing with the FBI today. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., were briefed by the FBI by phone this morning.
Trump says RFK Jr. should receive Secret Service protection
Less than two days after the assassination attempt on Trump, the former president called on the Secret Service to give independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. protection.
Kennedy has repeatedly requested protection and been denied, a decision he’s been deeply critical of (it’s a decision made by the Department of Homeland Security in concert with congressional leaders). Since the attempt on Trump’s life, there’s been a growing push among some lawmakers to expand protection to include Kennedy, including new legislation offered by two New York representatives, Republican Mike Lawler and Democrat Ritchie Torres.
Sen. Peters says he will encourage Senate candidates to be ‘very careful of the language’ they use
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he will encourage Senate candidates to exercise more caution with their language after the attempted assassination of Trump.
“It’s unfortunate that people are starting to point fingers and that’s the underlying problem that we have in our country right now is that people point fingers at each other with vitriol that can lead to violence,” he said. “Everybody needs to stand down, stand back, take a deep breath and urge the American people to come together as one people.”
He added that as the head of the Senate’s campaign arm, he would “make sure that we’re bringing down the vitriol and to be very careful of the language that you use, words do matter.”
At RNC protest, a feeling that opposing Trump is even more important after the attack
Reporting from MILWAUKEE, Wis.
Yossi Aharoni traveled to today’s Coalition to March on the RNC from Minneapolis. He says he came to draw attention to the fact that Trump is not the anti-war, isolationist candidate he sometimes paints himself to be.
He said he felt it was “certainly more than possible” that the assassination attempt on the former president could end up boosting his electoral prospects this fall because it could cast him sympathetically in the eyes of some voters.
Aharoni said he felt that possibility makes it even more important to protest against his policies.
“I don’t think it changes who he is fundamentally or what he wants to do,” Aharoni said of the attack on Trump.
Anne Smith, of Milwaukee, said she felt similarly.
“I mean, you can see it in so many examples of politicians who were targeted or an assassination attempt almost killed them, and they were able to use that public momentum from that act to win elections or stay in power,” Smith said.
Immigration rights activists show up to march outside of RNC
Reporting from MILWAUKEE, Wis.
Brad Sigal boarded a bus early this morning with some 100 other activists from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. They carried signs that read “Legalization for all!” and said a second Donald Trump presidential term would be devastating for immigrants.
“The first years were a catastrophe,” Sigal said. “And he’s promising to do worse this time.”
When asked about President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, Sigal shook his head and said he also plans to protest at the DNC.
“This is something that has continued in every administration,” he said. “We don’t care what party is it. We’re going to continue protesting.”
Trump Media stock soars more than 30%
Shares of Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. soared more than 30% on the first trading day following the attempted assassination of the former president.
Trump is the company’s biggest shareholder, owning more than 114 million shares. The gain added hundreds of millions of dollars to the former president’s net worth. Trump cannot sell shares of the stock — whose ticker symbol “DJT” stands for Trump’s initials — before the end of September.
Trump Media is the parent company of the former president’s social media outlet, Truth Social.
Trump set to reveal his VP pick today
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump is expected to reveal his choice for a running mate later today as the Republican National Convention opens here.
Bret Baier of Fox News reported that Trump confirmed those plans to him in a telephone interview.
“Yes, we’re going to get the VP today,” Baier said. “And he said there’s other things to come. I don’t know what that means.”
Trump lawyer says dismissal of ‘sham’ classified documents case marks the first step in restoring the rule of law
Trump lawyer Alina Habba said the dismissal of the Trump classified documents case marks the first step in restoring the rule of law, arguing the “unlawful appointment and funding” of special counsel Jack Smith “has been a critical factor of the sham” case.
“This dismissal marks the first step in ending the weaponization of our justice system, restoring the rule of law, and Making America Great Again,” she said in a statement.
Former Trump official Kash Patel similarly praised the dismissal of the classified documents case as a constitutional “victory” and accused the Justice Department of unlawfully bringing the case against the former president.
“This case exemplifies the degradation of our constitution by decades of DOJ malfeasance, layered incessantly atop another, to create judicial scripture rather than law,” Patel said in a statement.
“Only through President Trump’s continued quest to restore the rule of law, did the Constitution achieve this victory today,” he added. “May there be many more, for our rule of law, in the time to come.”
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