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1 As Charges Mount, Talk Turns To Possible Pardons For Former President Trump
Quite a few candidates for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 are weighing in on if they would pardon former President Donald Trump if elected. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday that if she were elected president, she would take the Department of Justice and “clean it up from the top.” When pressed by Margaret Brennan on if she would still pardon Trump if she won the presidency, Haley compared it to President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, saying that “We can’t keep living with indictments and court cases and vengeance of the past.” Later in the program, Brennan asked former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson for his opinion on a Trump pardon, and Hutchinson said that “Anybody who promises pardons during a presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well.” Biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy has already vowed to pardon Trump as soon as he’s sworn in as president.
2 Political Action Committee Has Already Spent $40 Million To Defend Former President Trump In 2023
According to information given to "The Washington Post," the Save America leadership PAC has spent over $40 million already this year to defend former President Donald Trump and others. The PAC is Trump's main fundraising arm. To date, Trump is facing a total of over 70 indictments, including a 37-count federal indictment and a 34-county New York state indictment. The list of charges could grow this week as another federal indictment is expected. While the official numbers of the Save America PAC are expected to be released to the public late today, there are also reports that the PAC requested a $60 million refund from the super PAC supporting Trump. It's not know which super PAC got the money or if the refund actually happened. Meanwhile, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago that was named in the superseding federal indictment last week on charges that he attempted to delete surveillance video, is set to enter his plea in Miami today. Carlos De Oliveira hadn’t found legal representation based in Florida as of this weekend, so his arraignment could be delayed.
3 American Nurse And Her Child Kidnapped In Haiti, State Department Orders Nonemergency Personel To Leave Country
Alix Dorsainvil, a community health nurse married to the founder and director of the nonprofit El Roi Haiti, and her child were kidnapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday morning. The organization said the two were taken while “serving in our community ministry.” The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that it’s aware of the kidnapping and is in contact with Haitian authorities. Gangs have taken over a large part of the capital, prompting more than 165,000 Haitians to abandon their country. The kidnappings happened on the same day that the State Department ordered all nonemergency U.S. government employees to leave Haiti “due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Haiti over the weekend that U.S. financial aid is dependent on the country being ruled by democracy.