TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie has emerged as one of the top two choices to be Donald Trump's running mate, according to a report in the Washington Post. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the leading candidate, the report said, but Christie, who serves as Trump's transition chief, is right behind him. Trump has said that…
Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) lashed out at a fellow Republican who responded to Donald Trump's latest indictment with what appears to be a call for another insurrection.
After the announcement that the former president will be formally indicted by the Department of Justice in Florida next week, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) fired off a tweet stating: "President Trump said he has been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.”
Agreeing with militia expert Jeff Sharlet, who wrote, "This isn’t a metaphor. This isn’t slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing. I think this is scary as hell," Riggleman piled on.
Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, he stated, "I know Clay, I've served with him back in 2019 to 2021. This is so irresponsible."
"But it's also almost a cosplay ridiculousness that actually could spark violence with people that maybe are too ignorant to understand, or absolutely understand what a Clay Higgins is putting out there," he suggested.
"I think at this point, he probably needs to retract that or delete it, and to apologize for such ridiculous language," he continued. " Because it makes real military individuals almost cringe. It's so cringeworthy that I do believe that we have to have a point in this country where their saying rise up against this hyperbolic bulls--t."
"I think, for me as a former military person, it's embarrassing to see somebody, especially an elected representative, It's just embarrassing to see somebody tweet something like that, " he added.
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Former President Donald Trump's associates were initially hopeful that his being indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case would be a good thing for him, by giving him a boost to his fundraising and polling — but they were horrified when they actually got a look at the indictment and realized he was on the hook for 37 charges including Espionage Act offenses and obstruction, reported Kristen Holmes on CNN Friday.
"What are you learning about the mood in Trump World tonight, now that they know he's been indicted, now that they've had a very riveting read and a very damning read in this indictment?" asked anchor Erin Burnett.
"We spent the day talking about Trump's orbit," said Holmes, adding that "there was a shift in the mood in Trump World."
"As we reported last night, some of these Trump advisers were feeling really bullish," said Holmes. "They were talking about how good this was going to be politically. I had one person tell me that they were happy that the indictment came before the fourth quarter was over because they were looking for a fundraising boost like they saw after that Manhattan indictment. Today it seemed to shift a little bit. Even this morning Trump played golf with a representative. Allies were calling Trump World trying to shore up support for the president. Once the charges were revealed, it took a shift once people started weighing what was in the document. It went from being political to legal. The legal implications of these charges. What is this going to mean? What is a trial actually going to look like? As you noted, how is this going to affect the election?
"I had talked to a number of advisers who said, yes, this might help him win the GOP nomination," continued Holmes. "There is no doubt this will rile up the base. However, what is this going to do for a general election? It seems as though it wasn't a small handful of advisers I had spoken to, that a larger group that this perspective was starting to sink in. As we talk about the shifting view, looking at the legal aspect. As you noted, this is a day when Trump is rebuilding his entire legal team. He has two top lawyers who have resigned and he is looking at Miami-based lawyers right now. We know he is scouting that out.
"I have been talking to a couple of sources down in Florida who have heard about calls being made," Holmes added. "Something to keep an eye on. They are taking this seriously, and it really does seem as though the gravity has sunk in of the charges."
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For 40 days after their plane crashed, four Indigenous children were lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
A major search operation, with rescuers finding a steady string of clues about their whereabouts, came to an end on Friday with the discovery of the children alive.
They were flown to the capital Bogota early Saturday, where ambulances awaited. AFP looks at the timeline of events.
On the morning of May 1, a Cessna 206 plane run by Avianline Charters left a jungle area known as Araracuara to head for San Jose del Guaviare, one of the main towns in the Colombian Amazon.
On board were the pilot, an Indigenous leader of the Huitoto community, as well as Magdalena Mucutui Valencia and her four children -- aged 13, nine, four and 11 months.
Minutes after starting the 350-kilometer (217-mile) flight over the jungle, the pilot reported engine problems and the plane disappeared from radar.
According to officials, the four Huitoto siblings boarded the plane with their mother to flee threats from members of an armed group.
Between May 15 and 16, soldiers found the bodies of the pilot and the two adults in the Caqueta area. The plane was stuck vertically in thick vegetation, with its nose destroyed.
They did not locate the children.
A sniffer dog found the baby's bottle in a secluded spot near the crash site.
More than 100 military personnel were deployed to the area, suspecting there was at least one survivor.
The search was joined by dozens of Indigenous people from nearby villages who are accustomed to traveling through the Amazon -- home to jaguars, snakes and other predators, as well as armed drug smuggling groups.
Military aircraft dumped 10,000 flyers into the forest with survival tips and instructions in Spanish and the children's own Indigenous language.
An air force helicopter also broadcasted an audio recording of the children's grandmother, urging them to stay put.
Shoes, clothes and half-eaten fruit were found among the trees.
About 2.5 kilometers from the crash site, soldiers also found a camp abandoned by guerrillas.
Heavy rainfall and giant trees that can grow up to 40 meters (130 feet) tall made the "Operation Hope" search difficult.
Three weeks after the crash, soldiers found diapers and shoes, and claimed that they had passed within 100 meters of the children. The search was reduced to a 20-square-kilometer section of jungle.
On May 17, soldiers came across a makeshift shelter, constructed out of sticks and branches. A dog also found scissors and hair ties.
On the same day, President Gustavo Petro announced that the children had been found alive. But he retracted the statement a day later, saying he had been given false information.
On May 26, the military organized a symbolic celebration for the baby, who turned one year old that day, having spent almost a month lost in the jungle.
On June 9, Petro announced that the children were found alive and released a photo showing them surrounded by soldiers and Indigenous people who participated in the search. The children appear thin and have no shoes.
"They were alone, they made it on their own. An example of absolute survival that will go down in history," the president said.
According to the military, rescuers found the children about 5 kilometers west of the crash site.
Army rescuers "immediately took charge of and stabilized" the four siblings, who were transferred to San Jose del Guaviare, according to the defense minister.
They arrived at a military airport in Bogota early on June 10, with ambulances waiting to take them to hospital.
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