Photographic evidence has surfaced of the President's second son in Ukraine as Congress and prosecutors continue their investigation into the White House and Trump Organization.
A photo was posted Friday by Democratic strategist Scott Dworkin.
Here’s a picture I found of Eric Trump in Ukraine. Eric Trump’s Ukrainian ties need to be investigated by Congress… https://t.co/XO93z4VSEt
The Kyiv Post also has an archived photo from the event captioned, "Eric Trump, son of American business magnate Donald Trump, looks on during the Miss Universe of Ukraine competition at the Freedom casino in Kiev, Ukraine, late Friday Feb. 20, 2009."
Eric Trump is an executive vice president at the Trump Organization.
Legal experts and political onlookers alike are sounding the alarm after Trump lawyer Alina Habba appeared to lean on the Supreme Court in terms of how it will rule for her boss.
Habba, who earlier in the day made news for saying she would rather be pretty than smart, appeared on Fox News where she said she felt confident the Supreme Court would hand the former president a victory. Specifically, her reasoning was that Trump had defended certain conservative justices.
"I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them," she said. "You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He'll step up."
The attorney then added:
"Not because they're pro-Trump, but because they're pro-law, because they're pro-fairness. And the law on this is very clear."
Legal analyst and MSNBC host Katie Phang had this to say:
"Alina Habba saying the quid pro quo part out loud here."
Keith Olbermann added, "Trump's surrogates are quietly THREATENING THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT."
A comedian picked up on it, as well.
"Alina Habba isn't helping Donald Trump or Brett Kavanaugh," the comedian wrote. "Pointing out Trump fought like hell for Justice Kavanaugh to get his Supreme Court seat and he owes Trump."
National security expert and lawyer Bradley P. Moss simply wrote, "That's not how this works."
In a separate post, he added, "Imagine for a second if a lawyer for Clinton, Obama or Biden said this. It’d be a massive scandal at Fox."
Legal analyst Allison Gill also chimed in, saying, "Yeah that's not a signal or anything."
A verified social media also user wrote, "Could this be considered intimidation or quid pro quo?"
"I think that this is a real sign of the lawyers not being able to say 'No!' to their client," Weissmann said.
The tactic to take it to the prosecutors comes as both his attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith feud over the extent activity in the federal election subversion case that can be completed while there's a freeze until the former president's appeal of a decision from U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan that the president isn't a king and is therefore not immune from prosecution.
While the case is in stayed, prosecutors have sought the Supreme Court to intervene, provided access to discovery materials and continued to get the judge to prevent Trump from bringing up specific arguments once trial is underway.
“The prosecutors repeatedly engaged in that exact conduct, disobeying the Stay Order at least three times in just two weeks,” reads Trump’s attorneys' filing. “The prosecutors have no justification for their misconduct.”
Weissmann reduced the motion as a document that was below the professional bar.
"As somebody in the legal profession, it's disappointing; this is so far from contempt motion," he said. "The idea is that there is a stay. The stay is really to protect Donald Trump, saying that Donald Trump doesn't need to do anything until something's resolved on appeal."
"The government had said, 'We're going to continue meeting the deadlines'; they can look at the material or not look at the material... So they continued filing things and gave discovery to the defense."
He found it absurd that the defense would be in such a tizzy.
"Usually that's not something that the defense complains about," he explained. "They want discovery. They don't have to look at it and they don't want to."
The main whole purpose of a contempt motion Weissmann suspects is that they can't keep "control" their client and "that they are writing this for an audience unrelated to the court, meaning the sort of MAGA base, and it's really not how you litigate...this is just not done."
If Gov. Ron DeSantis is voted into the White House, he has made it a cornerstone to carry himself above reproach.
That was on display when he fielded audience questions in an Iowa town hall.
When asked by moderator Kaitlan Collins about the limits of power as president and former President Donald Trump's contention that he deserves immunity from prosecution — the Florida governor made it clear he would govern with principle and a strict respect to the Constitution and nothing more.
"If you nominate me, I'll get elected, I'll serve, and we won't even be discussing these issues," he said. "We'll be discussing your issues."
"You're not going to have to worry about my conduct."
He continued: "I'll conduct myself in a way you can be proud of. I'll conduct myself in a way you can tell your kids, 'That's somebody you should emulate!' and we will have success as a result of that."
The crowd in attendance offered a round of applause.
For DeSantis, it's simple: if he keeps to the Constitution the entire question of blanket powers and insulation from criminality is moot.
"If you're abiding by the Constitution, none of that is going to matter at that point," he said. "So, follow the law, follow the Constitution," he said.
And what would DeSantis do when he's not running the free world?
"It's not going to be about me," he said. "Heck, when I'm not out there doing the job — I've got young kids, my wife and I will be back home."
For former Obama strategist David Axelrod, the effort was a political twist, and barebones on taking on Trump head-on, tweeting DeSantis "has clearly delineated the lines he will and will not cross re Trump."
He added: "He flays Trump for failing to deliver on his promises; his position on abortion; in COVID regs; and in declaring that he is not pro-life. But he carefully dances on anything related to the behavior that related to Trump's indictments and suggests that he might be convicted by '12 jurors in left wing Democratic Washington DC.'"
