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A new USA Today exposÃĐ finds hundreds of former employees and contractors have accused Republican presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Victims have included a dishwasher in Florida, a glass company in New Jersey, a carpet company, a plumber, 48 waiters, dozens of bartenders at his resorts and clubs, and even several law firms that once represented him in these labor lawsuits. We speak to Steve Reilly, an investigative reporter and data specialist for the USA Today Network. His new exclusive is called "Hundreds Allege Donald Trump Doesn’t Pay His Bills."

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Donald Trump has been openly racist for as long as he's been in the public eye. His reaction to the "Central Park Five" case in 1989 is now notorious, and was a preview of his presidential campaign, which was based on a racist vision for America. Now he's the president, and former White House advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman says there's a tape of Trump saying the "n-word." Observers are clamoring for the tape to become public, but would it tell us anything new about Trump's views?

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@cain posted:

I suspect trump is a mole, he is there to bring America down. What I find alarming is the amount of people he has rooting for him, all against everything Americà stands for.

He is a chicken. He is scared to debate Kamala.

Adam Kinzinger argued, "Against all advice, against all sanity, he is attacking the Republican governor of Georgia.... Donald Trump is losing his marbles."

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With only a matter of weeks until the pivotal US Presidential Election in November, and the Democratic National Convention having begun today, we decided to revisit the magnificent Eddy Grant's controversial and catchy anthem about international politics in the time of Apartheid in South Africa - "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna". The original song was written and recorded in 1988 by the British-Guyanese artist as an anti-apartheid British musical intervention (it didn't chart in the US) and it was banned by the SA government for daring to critique and offer hope for change in Johannesburg (Jo'Anna) and beyond.

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Trump faces new indictment in election interference case after Supreme Court immunity ruling

Story by Alex Woodward

Anewly assembled grand jury has indicted Donald Trump, again, for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, after the Supreme Court ruled that the former president has some “immunity” from prosecution.

The superseding indictment — which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in the case — retains the same four core charges against the former president, but special counsel Jack Smith notes that the indictment “reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions” from the high court’s landmark decision on presidential immunity last month.

Monday’s 36-page indictment — nine pages shorter than the initial document — is Smith’s attempt to navigate a Supreme Court decision that affirmed that a president is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution for actions that stem from official duties in office, and granted “presumptive” immunity for actions in the “outer perimeter” of those duties.

Prosecutors now appear to be downplaying any connection between Trump’s “official” duties and his alleged crusade to unlawfully reverse his election loss.

“The Defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate in being named the winner of the election,” according to the new indictment.

The new indictment notes that Mike Pence, for example, was not only vice president but also Trump’s “running mate” when the former president launched a pressure campaign to block the certification of election results on January 6, 2021, when a Trump-fueled mob stormed the Capitol and derailed a joint session of Congress assembled to certify Joe Biden’s victory.

It also stresses that Trump’s rally in Washington DC that day was “privately-funded” and “privately-organized,” and that Trump used his Twitter account for “personal purposes.”

A section in the original indictment that accused Trump of trying to “leverage” the Department of Justice to pressure state officials to reject election results also has been removed, along with references to government officials who repeatedly told Trump that there was no merit whatsoever to his bogus narrative of widespread election fraud that he used to justify his spurious efforts to throw out results.

A list of unnamed co-conspirators also no longer includes a person believed to be former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, and the phrase “private attorney” now describes the unindicted lawyers who allegedly helped Trump pressure officials to overturn results.

But the new indictment largely aligns with the narrative outlined in the original charging document — tracing how Trump, allegedly, knowingly relied on false claims surrounding the election to pressure state officials to promote false slates of electors to obstruct the outcome, then failed to stop his supporters from breaking into the Capitol to do it by force.

He is charged with four crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

Trump’s campaign directed The Independent’s request for comment to four posts on his Truth Social, where Trump called the new indictment “election interference” and an “act of desperation” that “has all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY.”

His campaign’s primary fundraising committee also sent out an email blast calling the indictment “another Jack Smith HOAX” while telling supporters to send him “just $10” to “STAND WITH TRUMP.”

The case was frozen for eight months after Trump’s attempt to toss out the charges on “immunity” grounds made its way to the Supreme Court.

It is now back in the hands of District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington DC, who initially dismissed Trump’s “immunity” argument as his failed attempt to invoke the “divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.”



Trump is also relying on the Supreme Court’s ruling in his attempt to throw out a verdict in his hush money trial in New York, where a jury convicted him on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to a scheme to unlawfully influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

The judge overseeing that case is expected to issue a decision on Trump’s arguments in September.

Soirce: Trump faces new indictment in election interference case after Supreme Court immunity ruling (msn.com)
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'Trump got destroyed': See Maddow and MSNBC panel instantly react to historic debate.
Rachel Maddow and a panel of her MSNBC colleagues share their immediate reactions after the historic debate between vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, sharing highlights of a showdown in which Harris kept Trump defensive and enraged.
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'Cognitive decline': Clinical psychiatrist recommends 'rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation' for Trump



Much of the debate analysis has focused on Trump and Harris' command of the issues. But Richard A. Friedman, a clinical psychiatry professor, has been analyzing Trump's debate performance from a mental wellbeing standpoint. And Friedman has said that he would recommend a "rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation" based on Trump's performance during that debate.

Source: MSN

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