The Donald Trump Trial Trial in New York: Tax Fairness and the Importance for the 2016 Biden Election in Sporadic Scranton
During his last rally before the start of his trial, Donald Trump claimed that the New York prosecutors brought the case against him because they didn’t like him.
“I will be forced to sit fully gagged. I can’t talk. They want to take away my right to talk, but not the judge or prosecutors.
Israel was fighting off a reprisal missile Attack from Iran that was threatening to plunge the Middle East into war. After a short mention of the attack, which he claimed wouldn’t have happened if he were president, Trump turned to an extended tirade against his own legal troubles.
He went after both Judge Juan M. Merchan and the District Attorney, declaring himself a victim of the Democrats who were trying to block his return to the White House.
Trump is racing against time to avenge his loss to Biden as he navigates four criminal prosecutions, creating unprecedented legal and political chaos.
Jury selection is about to start in New York for the trial where he is charged with trying to cover up an extramarital affair during his 2016 campaign.
Three hours before he was going to speak, a long line formed outside the fire hall in Schnecksville. It was Trump’s third visit this year to the vital swing state, one that could decide who wins this year’s presidential race. He also plans to attend a fundraiser in nearby Bucks County before the event.
The state is crucial to the outcome of the election as both Biden and Trump are expected to visit it frequently through November. Trump flipped the state to the Republican column in 2016 but lost it four years after to Biden, who was born in the northeast city of Scranton and has long talked about his roots in the city. In Tuesday’s address Biden will talk about tax fairness.
The Iran War: The Case Against a Damascus-Scale-Corrupting U.S. President Joe Biden
Bob Dippel, 69, retired after working as a chief financial officer for several small businesses. He said he didn’t think the upcoming trial “would matter too much” to independent voters because “people are starting to see the mockery being made” of the legal system.
Biden has argued Trump’s lies about losing the 2020 election are dangerous for the country. He has said Trump poses a fundamental threat to democracy and U.S. alliances abroad — rhetoric that Trump has argued applies to Biden.
“We are going to win the election in a big way, because we are the people who are fighting to save our democracy, and Joe Biden is a horrible person,” Trump said.
Iran’s attack on Israel and the subsequent strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus will once again push foreign policy into the center of the presidential campaign.
A few months ago, Trump told Israel that it was losing the public’s trust in it, as deaths mount and images of mass destruction spread. Israel is going after Hamas after they killed 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages in an October 7 attack.
Trump recently said that any Democratic-leaning voters who support Israel should back him instead, as Biden has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions in his war against Hamas. The Republican said that if you are a Jew who votes for a Democrat or Biden, you have to have your head examined.
During his presidency, he moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and facilitated the normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab states through a series of agreements known as the Abraham Accords. He pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, a move that Israel welcomed.
The sanctions on Iran were lifted in exchange for the agreement to limit its nuclear program. Trump said it was too generous to Iran, while supporters of a deal said it was the best option to forestall a nuclear-armed Iran.
What to Know about Iran’s strike on Israel; Jury selection begins for Trump trial? — An up-first newsletter from the Washington Post on Puerto Rico
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Iran sent more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel on Saturday. Nearly all of them were intercepted by Israel and its allies, including the U.S., the U.K. and France. Iran says the strikes were to retaliate for the alleged Israeli airstrike that killed Iranian officers in Syria. No deaths have been reported. Iran’s unprecedented attack is what we’re aware of.
It’s rare to have a news story about people who are crying or have to compose themselves because you don’t see that often. This happened back in 2018 when we took a team to Puerto Rico a year after that devastating hurricane to report on how the territory was recovering —or not.
It happened again a few weeks ago while we were in Pennsylvania reporting on how gun violence is effecting peoples lives and also our political conversations in this election year.
We went to a bunch of places: Philadelphia, Lancaster, Harrisburg. We spoke to a lot of people. Once again, you’d be talking to someone –a political leader, a teacher, a filmmaker, a mom, a dad, a coach—and they’d say, oh, yeah, my oldest daughter, my best friend, my son, my nephew, my neighbor, my cousin—was shot, was murdered, was hit in a drive by, took his own life – with a gun.
Guns are woven into the fabric of American life. And they are woven into the fabric of American death. We have a snapshot of how people think about it in a state that is very consequential to our nation’s politics and may do so again. Through pain.
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The Great Salt Lake: where the ecological crisis exploded in 1980s and what the next century could tell us about the state of the art – scientists, biologists and scientists
The Great Salt Lake reached its highest water levels in the 1980s. After that, it has dried up to an alarming level due to the effects of climate change. The lake is also home to a lively ecosystem for migratory birds. A team of biologists has been tracking these contradictions as state leaders start paying attention and taking action.