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Trump impeachment defense team will include Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr and Jeffrey Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz (CNBC)
President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team will include Ken Starr, whose investigation led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whose clients have included notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and O.J. Simpson.
Also on the team is ex-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, CNBC has learned. In addition, Robert Ray, who succeeded Starr as independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation of Clinton, is expected to be on the team. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow are heading the defense effort. [Read More]
Sgt. Derrick Miller’s case looked open and shut among the various war crime allegations that have come out of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq over nearly two decades.
A Maryland Army National Guard infantryman at the end of his third combat deployment shot an unarmed Afghan man during an interrogation at gunpoint on Sept. 26, 2010, in Laghman province, prosecutors said. They successfully charged Miller with premeditated murder and put him away for a life sentence in military prison at Fort Leavenworth. [Read More]
USMCA thumbs-up from Senate hands Trump second trade victory (FOX News)
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement sailed through the U.S. Senate on Thursday, giving President Trump his second major trade win in as many days.
The biggest trade deal of all time, the pact encompasses more than $1.3 trillion of commerce. While winning enough votes to pass in the Republican-led Senate was anticlimactic after months of modifications by the Democratically-controlled House, it delivers on Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to overhaul the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement that he called a “disaster.” [Read More]
Trump welcomes LSU to the White House: ‘Go Tigers’ (The Hill)
President Trump welcomed the Louisiana State University (LSU) football team to the White House on Friday to celebrate the Tigers’ victory in the College Football Playoff national championship earlier this week.
Trump spent several minutes of his remarks in the East Room narrating key moments of Monday night’s championship game, which he attended in New Orleans along with first lady Melania Trump. [Read More]
Alan Dershowitz Distances Himself From Trump Legal Team: ‘I’m Not a Full-Fledged Member’ (Mediaite)
Alan Dershowitz clarified his role on President Donald Trump’s legal defense team in an interview with Mediate founder Dan Abrams Friday, stating he is NOT a “full fledged” member of the impeachment defense.
Dershowitz said on The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel, that he will just provide an hourlong constitutional defense of the president before the Senate as Trump goes on trial next week. [Read More]
