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Former President Donald Trump's comments about Nikki Haley on his personal social media platform Wednesday were dripping with sarcasm as he recalled their previous meeting where she asked for his blessing to run for president.
"She called me and said she'd like to consider it, and I said, 'You should do it,'" Trump recounted on Saturday. "I talked to her for a little while. I said, 'Look, you know, go by your heart if you want to run.'"
But on Wednesday afternoon, he posted a video of her previous remarks saying that she would support him if he ran in 2024.
"Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honor. She should definitely run!" he wrote.
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So why the seemingly contradictory message about Haley's 2024 bid?
According to NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen, Trump is "clearly annoyed she said she wouldn’t and is going to anyway, but it benefits him to have more candidates splitting the non-Trump vote."
Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee defeated an effort from Democrats to enact a ban on having guns in the committee room, Politico reports.
“We can have our political disagreements, and they will be spirited. But no one should have to worry about members of the other side of the aisle — let alone members who have incited political violence — bringing weapons, in violation of House rules, into our committee room," Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) said.
During debate over the issue, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) asked "if we're in this point of just having to all take our safety into our own hands, does the chair believe that members of Congress should also be pursuing legal avenues in order to protect ourselves as well?"
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) replied that "the chair believes that's an issue to take up with the House Admin, and the chair also believes we should be focusing on the issues that this committee is chartered to focus on."
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That's when Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) chimed in, pointing out that members of the committee said that they plan to bring guns into the committee room, adding that "to simply say it's up to every member to interpret the rules when you have reason to believe that committee members right here intend to bring weapons into this committee room -- Mr. Chairman, we're entitled to your interpretation of the House rules -- you need to tell them whether that's okay or not for the safety and security of this committee."
Ocasio Cortez then suggested that members be allowed to ask whether or not another member is carrying a firearm, but she was interrupted by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), who asked if either Huffman or Ocasio Cortez "has reason to believe that there's a homicidal maniac" within the committee.
"If they do, they probably would have brought a gun into this room whether or not there is a law, and I would challenge them right now to present their evidence. Name the names and present the evidence before such a catastrophe confronts us."
Ocasio Cortez replied that she wasn't making any specific accusations, but was interrupted again by McClintock, who challenged her to name anyone she doesn't trust to carry a firearm.
"I believe that from what I've witnessed, the competence of some members may be something that I'd be willing to question," Ocasio Cortez fired back.
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Former President Donald Trump has replaced yet another attorney as his legal challenges grow in the battery and defamation lawsuit brought by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, reported Newsweek on Wednesday.
Alina Habba, an attorney who has represented Trump in this case and made frequent appearances on right-wing television defending the former president, joins a long list of attorneys Trump has replaced.
"According to court documents filed on Tuesday, veteran New York lawyer Joe Tacopina has been brought in to work with the former president to fight the suit filed against him by the former Elle columnist," reported Ewan Palmer. "Carroll is suing Trump for sexual battery over allegations he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York in the 1990s. She is also suing the former president for defamation for comments he made while denying the assault, including stating 'she's not my type.'"
Notably, Trump appeared to contradict this defense in a recent deposition, when he mistook an image of a young Carroll for his second wife, Marla Maples — forcing Habba to step in and correct him.
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Habba, who previously rose to right-wing legal stardom by representing a college student trying to overturn COVID-19 emergency measures, and then got involved in cases seeking to overturn the 2020 election, developed a reputation for her confrontational approach, that led even many officials in Trump's circle to grow tired of her. A Florida judge recently slapped her with sanctions for advancing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and several Justice Department and FBI officials in the 2016 election.
That lawsuit had sought $250 million in damages for what Trump described as a scheme to invent fake Russia allegations against him and damage his reputation. The Mueller report in fact documented that Russian interference on behalf of Trump did happen, repeatedly.
Habba is one of a long line of lawyers who once defended Trump to be replaced. Some, like Michael Cohen, even went to prison over their activities on Trump's behalf. Cohen has since begun cooperating with Manhattan prosecutors in a hush payment case against his former boss.
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