As expected, special counsel Robert Mueller filed a criminal charge against Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on Friday.
Manafort has responded to the allegations that he tampered with witness evidence.
In court filings, Manafort called the charges "dubious."
Manafort's lawyers also claimed that he cannot tamper with witnesses evidence because he doesn't know who Special Counsel Robert Mueller will call as a witness.
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A high school basketball game in North Dakota was overshadowed with racist chants and taunts hurled at the two minority players on the opposing team, forcing the school district management to apologize for their actions.
The Bismarck High School boys basketball team was on the receiving end of the racists taunts throughout a game, as Jamestown School District's high school and middle school students berated the Bismarck team. The Jamestown School District has disciplined all students involved, but have not shared their actions with the general public.
The number of students involved also hasn't been released, but the investigation was completed as part of the Jamestown School District's nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policy.
"Beyond the more immediate consequences for misconduct, Jamestown Public Schools is responsible for facilitating healing with Bismarck High School, players, coaches, fans and community," said Jamestown School District Superintendent Robert Lech. "We are partnering with Bismarck Public Schools to consider restorative practices that will help all grow from this very unfortunate experience."
A man opened fire on a study room of a Russian Jewish cultural center in San Francisco, using a gun loaded with blanks, reported The Jewish News of Northern California on Thursday.
"The man entered the Schneerson Center around 7:20 p.m. in the middle of a session on the life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, according to Rabbi Bentzion Pil, who leads the community," reported Gabe Stutman. "The man said in accented Russian that he was from Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and that he was going to start shooting."
"Located in a Richmond District neighborhood near what’s often called 'Little Russia,' the Schneerson Center is a node of Jewish life for immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the Bay Area, where FSU households number between 15,000 and 20,000, according to Rabbi Shimon Margolin, who leads a local nonprofit serving Russian-speaking Jews," said the report.
Security camera footage shows the man entering the room, dressed in a baseball cap, jacket, and sneakers. "After about 15 seconds, he reaches into his jacket pocket and reveals a handgun," said the report. "He appears to struggle to cock the weapon, while an elderly man makes a phone call and starts walking toward him. As the elderly man approaches, the suspect starts firing his weapon, and the elderly man crouches down. He fires in a direction away from those seated around the table, then proceeds to fire around the room while some people clutch their ears and duck. In total the suspect fires between six and eight shots. Then he leaves."
According to the report, the people gathered there debated over whether to call the police after he left, with one person telling The Jewish News he simply seemed like a "crazy guy" and "didn’t scream any antisemitic words or expressions." They ultimately decided not to call the police "because they were unhurt and they doubted the man would be kept in detention for long if he was caught," but the police were eventually notified when younger members of the community learned what had happened.
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While the man's motives were unclear, anti-Semitic hate crimes in California have attracted national attention, including one 2021 attack on diners at a sushi restuarant.
Former President Donald Trump has made clear he is willing to throw the GOP under the bus in 2024 if they don't choose him as their nominee — effectively a threat to hand the election to Democrats and burn it all down for Republicans — reported Ed Kilgore for New York Magazine's "Intelligencer" on Thursday.
"Trump refused to commit to supporting the 2024 Republican presidential nominee in a conversation with conservative radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt. 'It would depend,' Trump told Hewitt. 'I would give you the same answer I gave in 2016 during the debates,'" said the report. "Despite signing a 'loyalty pledge' going into the 2016 campaign, Trump periodically threatened to take his supporters right out of the Republican Party by launching a third-party or independent bid. As late as March 2016, he was repeating that threat, as Politico reported at the time."
The troubling thing for Republicans, wrote Kilgore, is that Trump wouldn't even necessarily have to mount a full third-party campaign for president in order to make good on his threat.
"If Republican leaders turn on Trump — say, to back Ron DeSantis — he will almost certainly complain that he’s being treated unfairly and look to retaliate," said the report. "And he won’t necessarily have to go as far as formally launching a third-party bid (though a recent poll from the Bulwark found 28 percent of Republican primary voters would vote for him if he ran as an independent)."
Rather, Kilgore noted, "A defeated Trump could upend the GOP’s 2024 nominee simply by forcing the candidate to choose between publicly dissing him and alienating MAGA voters or sucking up to him in a way that would undermine any talk of a fresh start for the party. Anyone who thinks Trump wouldn’t put his own pride ahead of the good of the Republican Party hasn’t been paying attention."
Currently, polling still shows Trump leading the field of potential primary challengers, although no major candidates have yet stepped forward to challenge him. DeSantis has led Trump in some earlier polls, but is a relatively distant second in most. Still, he has managed to generate buzz from Washington GOP consultants and big-dollar party donors.
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