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At least three people are dead in the wake of a school shooting that took place in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, officers received word Monday morning of a shooting at Nashville's Covenant School, a private Christian school.
Upon arriving at the scene, police engaged the shooter and killed him.
However, BNO News reports that the shooter killed at least three other people before being killed by police, and the Nashville Fire Department says it is treating multiple people who were shot during the incident.
The identities of the neither the shooter nor the victims have yet been released and it is not known if those killed during the attack were students of faculty.
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Trump's lawyers caught up in 'infighting' as his legal situation grows more precarious: WSJ
March 27, 2023
With Donald Trump facing no less than four criminal investigations, as well as civil suits headed to court, his ever-changing team of lawyers has no leader and no coherent legal strategy, according to the Wall Street Journal.
As the Journal's Rebecca Ballhaus, Alex Leary and Corinne Ramey are reporting, "the former president is employing his familiar scattershot tactics to meet the start of a potentially more precarious legal chapter," and that has former aides and legal advisers concerned.
Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb summed up the president's current legal team travails, explaining, "He plays his own captain, and legally that is suicidal. His strategy, to the extent there is one, appears totally reactive.”
According to the report, the former president has encouraged "infighting" among his lawyers, many of whom don't know what the others are doing because of a lack of coordination of efforts when they aren't questioning each other's tactics.
"To counter those probes, Mr. Trump is relying on a scattered team of lawyers and advisers with little sign of a coordinated strategy beyond attacking investigators, seeking to delay proceedings and casting himself as the victim of a witch hunt," the report states before adding, "Mr. Trump has long encouraged infighting among his attorneys by playing them against each other, at times calling advisers to ask what they think of his legal team’s performance and calling other lawyers to ask them to join or replace members of his team."
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According to Cobb, part of the problem is turnover and another part is Trump's attorneys becoming enmeshed in his legal problems, putting their careers at stake.
“Nobody considering assisting the former president at this stage of the game can be unmindful of the extraordinary speed with which Trump turns lawyers into witnesses,” he admitted.
The report notes that Trump's tactics of attack and delay have come back to haunt him, with the FBI having to show up with a warrant at Mar-a-Lago after Trump foot dragging warranting its own investigation by special counsel Jack Smith.
"The actions of Mr. Trump’s attorneys have also been a central part of the Justice Department’s documents probe. One of them, Christina Bobb, told federal investigators that another lawyer, Mr. Corcoran, assured her that he conducted a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago before he asked her in June to certify that all records requested by a subpoena had been returned. The certification by Ms. Bobb was undermined two months later when the FBI searched the Florida compound and retrieved hundreds of sensitive and classified documents."
"Prosecutors have asked about the role of Mr. [Boris] Epshteyn in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, with questions suggesting an interest in whether he sought to influence witness testimony, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Epshteyn and his lawyer have declined to comment on prosecutors’ interest," the report added.
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Trump's 'scary' embrace of Jan. 6 rioters called out by The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin
March 27, 2023
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was alarmed by Donald Trump's enthusiastic public embrace of the jailed Jan. 6 rioters.
The former president stood at attention, hand on heart, as his rally opened with a song called “Justice for All” performed by a choir of jailed insurrectionists and footage from the U.S. Capitol riot played on large screens at the event in Waco, Texas, as the group sang the national anthem and Trump recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
"I think it's remarkable that for the last two years Trump has said, 'Why can't Liz Cheney stop talking about Jan. 6 and move on?'" said Griffin, who worked in the White House under him. "That's been a lot of my party's line, and here he is, kind of front and center, at his Waco rally talking about Jan. 6 again, but what I was also struck by last week was some of the dangerous and scary rhetoric coming from him. My interpretation knowing him, having worked for him, is he was trying to do it again. He wanted to incite a violent protest and mob to show up because he's afraid of getting indicted, and what was interesting to me, though, is why it's different from Jan. 6."
"So Jan. 6, when he lied to the public and said the election was stolen people turned out because they believed him, and they were like, 'My right to vote was taken, my vote didn't count,'" Griffin added. "That does not justify the actions -- they were wrong, they deserve to be punished -- but people turned out because they thought their freedom and democracy was being taken away. This is just grievance, no one showed up for him. We're not seeing massive protests because this is about Donald Trump being held accountable for his own wrongdoing. I don't want to get ahead of the ball here, like, there could still be protests and, God forbid, I hope there aren't, but it just shows the weakness of this petty, petty little man that it's just grievance politics, and at the end of the day it's about him. It's not about any of the people he's talking to."'
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