Former President Donald Trump's onetime White House adviser Peter Navarro could remain in a federal lockup during the Republican National Convention, prison records show.
The Federal Bureau of Prison official listing on Monday showed Navarro is set to be released on July 17, according to its
online inmate tracker. The date, first reported by CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane, is an initial record of when he's set for release and it could change.
The Republican Convention begins in Milwaukee on July 15.
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Jan. 6 Committee. The former trade adviser claimed then-President Donald Trump invoked executive privilege to prevent him from testifying.
If Navarro is freed on the set date, he would miss most of the Republican convention, which begins on July 15. But he could attend the convention's final day on July 18.
A Georgia judge has set a Thursday hearing to consider dismissing a conspiracy case against Donald Trump on First Amendment grounds.
On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered the hearing for March 28. McAfee is expected to consider motions from Donald Trump and other defendants in an election interference case.
Trump's motion asked the court to dismiss the case based on his First Amendment right to free speech.
McAfee has dismissed two similar motions by co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell. Both co-defendants later pleaded guilty.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Trump would have to admit that his claims about the 2020 election being rigged were false to pursue a First Amendment defense.
"Here, the indictment's recitation of supposedly 'false' statements and facts, undisputed solely for purposes of a First Amendment-based general demurrer/motion to dismiss, show that the prosecution of President Trump is premised on content-based core political speech and expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment," Trump attorney Steven Sadow argued in a court filing.
Sadow asserted that the remedy for false speech "is speech that is true … not a state (racketeering) prosecution against the former president of the United States."
The Fulton County case focuses on efforts to overturn the election results in which Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden.
Specifically, officials in Georgia, including Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, have scrutinized a series of actions and communications by Trump and his allies aimed at influencing the state's election outcome. A pivotal moment in the investigation was a January 2021 phone call made by Trump to Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. During this call, Trump suggested that Raffensperger "find" enough votes to reverse Biden's narrow victory in the state.
Former President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter Monday after he was asked if he would use his own money to fund his campaign.
Trump's remarks came at a press conference after an appeals court reduced the bond he will have to pay in his New York fraud case from $464 million to $175 million.
"You mentioned the cash you have, you said on Friday it's something like $500 million," the reporter noted at a press conference. "You intend to put some of that into the campaign. Now that the bond's been reduced, are you going to start putting money into your campaign? You haven't done that since 2016."
WASHINGTON — Some of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest allies in Congress may be multi-millionaires, but that doesn’t mean they’re opening up their wallets for the reality TV star turned contestant for America's most indicted.
“There’s only so much money,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Raw Story.
With creditors demanding a $454 million bond as his appeals slowly wind through the courts, Trump’s personal deficits have been the talk of the Capitol in recent days.
“Hopefully, I never get into that problem myself,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story while riding an elevator in the Capitol.
“You’re not planning to cut him a check?” Raw Story asked.
“No. I don't have enough. Mine would be just a blip,” Tuberville — who’s been estimated to have a net worth of around $20 million — said. “But if I could help, I’d help, maybe.”
Most Republicans on Capitol Hill now parrot the former president’s rhetoric, dismissing Trump’s legal problems as “lawfare” — think lawsuits instead of bullets — by the left and presenting him as a modern day martyr.
“Listen, I’m sympathetic with the lawfare that is being waged against him. Actually quite sympathetic. This is the price he's paying for being involved in politics and running for the office again,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Raw Story. “You could argue it's grossly unfair for him to have to pick up the full tab, so I personally don't have a problem with him explicitly asking for support.”
“Are you gonna donate?” Raw Story asked the former CEO worth an estimated $78 million.
“I've paid my price,” Johnson — who the Select Jan. 6 Committee implicated in helping carry out Wisconsin Republicans’ fake elector scheme in 2021 — said through a smile and chuckle.
While Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is estimated to be worth more than $300 million — making him the wealthiest sitting U.S. senator — Trump shouldn’t come shaking his tin cup around the former chief executive of the Sunshine State.
“I’m optimistic he’ll figure it out. He's a pretty resourceful guy,” Scott (R-FL) told reporters just off the Senate floor Thursday.
“Would you donate?” Raw Story asked.
“He's a resourceful guy,” Scott answered with a laugh before heading into the chamber to vote.
Personal and political money troubles collide
Trump hasn’t directly asked his Senate allies to chip in to help him pay his civil penalties, fines and lawyers, which now top half a billion dollars — including interest, which Forbes reports is ticking up at $111,984 a day.
But the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee finds himself in a potentially cataclysmic financial mess that mixes both his personal fortune and the finances of his presidential campaign.
During the past two years, Trump’s political operation has spent upward of $80 million on legal fees — an astounding sum for anyone, let alone a presidential candidate. Every dollar Trump’s political machine spends on his four separate criminal cases and various civil court matters is a dollar not spent on attacking Democrats or boosting Republicans.
Conversations in conservative circles have often focused on fundraising for Trump’s legal defense instead of beating President Joe Biden, which has some Republicans fearing the GOP will suffer up and down the ballot come November.
And while it’s still early in this general election and Trump’s poll numbers have looked decent, his fundraising has been anemic. Similarly, Biden’s poll numbers are lagging, even as his campaign coffers are overflowing.
Biden’s warchest is currently triple that of Trump's. The latest Federal Election Commission filings show Biden’s campaign and joint fundraising committee are sitting on $155 million compared to the $41.9 million cash on hand at Trump’s disposal. Such figures don't include money raised by committees the candidates don't directly control, such as supportive super PACs.
Trump may have had a good fundraising month in February, netting upward of $20 million in tandem with his joint fundraising committee, but he still found himself outraised by $3 million by former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) before she dropped out of the GOP presidential primary — withholding both her endorsement and her dollars.
“I think we just have to look at the hard math. Democrats are hitting on all cylinders in terms of fundraising, so we've already got a structural challenge where we're not raising as much as them,” Sen. Tillis of North Carolina said as he entered an elevator in the Capitol. “These races are big races. They cost a lot of money. You gotta mobilize voters, so I'm sure it's a concern for them, too.”
Besides begging for longshot loans, selling off assets and engaging in other creative monetary maneuvers, the former president is now leaning on the sale of $399 gold sneakers and a GoFundMe with an eye-popping $355 million goal.
It’s still unclear if Trump can wiggle out of the straight jacket ensnaring him through the newly announced merger between his fledgling social media company, Truth Social, and Digital World Acquisition Corporation. While the deal could eventually net Trump some $3 billion, his hands are currently tied by an agreement constraining him from selling his shares for the next six months — when the earliest of 2024 early votes are slated to be cast.
Instead of focusing on his reelection, Fox News hosts, such as Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, have been pushing their massive audiences to donate to Trump’s legal fund.
They’re not the only ones thinking about Donald’s debt these days.
'Trump’s a movement'
Per his usual, Trump has his fierce defenders who say everything’s fine.
“Trump’s a movement. It’s not just the candidate. He’s a movement,” Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) — who served as Trump’s first Interior secretary until scandals ended his tenure in the executive branch — told Raw Story. “I'm not worried.”
“You gonna cut a check for his legal fund?” Raw Story inquired.
“I’ll support my president,” Zinke — who’s estimated to own assets topping $30 million — said.
Other rich Republicans also aren’t entirely slamming the door shut on providing future legal aid to Trump.
“I am confident the [former] president will be able to figure out how to manage his campaign and finances to be successful,” Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) told Raw Story while walking through the Capitol.
While he may not be as wealthy as his Senate counterparts, Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) has made millions through his gun store and firing range, which means he can’t give Trump in-kind donations because it’s illegal for the former president to even “receive” a firearm or ammunition while under felony indictments.
Budd’s not looking to arm Trump for warfare though.
“Oh my goodness, it's complete lawfare,” Budd (R-NC) told Raw Story on his way to a Senate vote.
The freshman senator dismisses fears from some in the GOP that Trump’s legal fundraising is handicapping the party ahead of November.
“No. Completely separate,” Budd said.
Many in the GOP are banking on Biden foiling his own reelection bid. They expect the grassroots to be there for Trump — no matter the mind-numbing sums he’s scrambling to raise — just as they’ve been there for him in past fundraising appeals.
“I think that his support that he has at the grassroots will give him the money he needs,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Raw Story. “And I think that there's a big anti-Biden movement. A downturn in money's not going to make a big difference.”
Other Republicans are indifferent or awkwardly distancing themselves from the troubled Trump — and the entire GOP through him, the party’s defendant-in-chief — brand.
“I haven’t thought about it at all,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told Raw Story.
“I didn't know about that either,” Collins said in reference to the “bloodbath” earlier this month when Trump ousted Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as Republican National Committee — or RNC — co-chairwoman.
“Oh, yeah?” Raw Story asked. “Are you still a Republican?”
“It’s not uncommon when there's a new chair for there to be a major staff turnover,” Collins replied without answering our question.
RNC shakeup sends shivers through old Republican guard
Campaigns are more than dollars and cents though, and Trump’s ongoing personal shakeup of the RNC has unsettled many veteran Republicans.
Among country club Republicans and critics alike, this is just par for Trump’s political course.
“I don't think there's any norm or barrier that former President Trump won't be ready and willing to cross if it's in his personal, financial or egotistical interest,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told Raw Story while walking to a vote on the Senate floor.
Romney is dismissed as a disloyal “Never Trump”-er by many in his own party. Besides McDaniel being his niece, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee is retiring at the end of this term.
Romney may be a critic, but he says he’s not given up on his party yet, even as the Republican Party has morphed into something unrecognizable from his time as the GOP standard-bearer.
Romney says he loves his party and fears Trump’s self-serving moves will be felt by conservatives for decades.
“The party has to exist beyond and after Donald Trump and I are gone, and so weakening the party, making it a personal appendage, is not a good thing,” Romney — who’s estimated to be worth more than $170 million, making him one of the top 10 wealthiest senators — said.
Even though he lost to then-President Barack Obama in 2012, Romney credits the RNC with helping turn out his supporters.
“It was a very helpful organization in turning out the vote, so it helped raise money for me and it turned out the vote. To win elections, it’s all about organization. Ground game still makes a difference,” Romney said. “Once I became the presumptive nominee, we worked hand in glove.”
Romney did that without placing any of his children at the helm of the RNC.
“Having family members serve in the administration looked like nepotism. Didn't seem to bother him. Didn't seem to bother the voters who put him there,” Romney said.
Not all Democrats are dancing
On the other side of the proverbial aisle, many liberal talking heads are giddy watching Trump scramble for millions and millions of pennies. But Democrats in tight races this fall know they can’t count on Trump’s legal woes to win.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is fighting for his political life in Montana. He’s raised upwards of $5 million four quarters in a row now, and he’s not letting up just because of Trump’s mounting legal bills.
“I don’t know that it makes a lot of difference, actually,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) told Raw Story.
Democrats also have other fears.
“Depends on whether he’s busy raising money for his legal fees instead of for his campaign, but it does concern me that it will be added financial pressure compromising him,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told Raw Story on his way to meetings on the Senate side of the Capitol Thursday.
Schiff, who recently clinched a spot on the ballot in California’s U.S. Senate general election in November, is a Harvard educated lawyer who was the impeachment manager for Trump’s first impeachment.
“He’s always been all about the money,” Schiff said. “But now there will be even greater risk that he trades American interests for money.”
Donald Trump intentionally called for violence on Jan. 6 and he's poised to do it again, according to a former Republican lawmaker.
Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Sunday. He was asked if it's possible that Trump is preparing his supporters for a scenario in which he loses the upcoming election and seeks their help overturning it as he did in 2021.
"Now he has a much longer lead way to prepare his base of his for a hostile takeover," the host suggested.
"Let's say the truth, no matter how ugly it is," Walsh replied. "Donald Trump wanted January 6th to happen. Let's be clear about it. He wasn't indifferent toward it when it happened. He was gleeful. Trump purposely wanted there to be violence."
Walsh added that the American people "need to wrap their arms around that."
"When Donald Trump would say months before the 2020 election that the only way I can lose is if it will be stolen that is a direct call to his supporters that if he loses, you need to get violent," he said. "You rightly pointed out he's doing the same thing now. Months before the election, he's telling his voters it will be stolen, that is the only way I can lose. He wants there to be violence, period."
Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert became the subject of mockery this weekend as social media users made jokes about the lawmaker's apparently sparse crowd at a speaking event in her state.
Boebert, who earlier in the month was ridiculed on social media as she sought to highlight an endorsement from Donald Trump, once again took to her X account to share some pictures.
"Great to be with you today, Adams County GOP!" she wrote along with the photos.
In the comments of her post, people were quick to point out the empty seats visible in pictures.
Referencing Boebert's earlier scandal, user @4HumanUnity said, "It looks like only 10 people showed up. That's significantly lower than the attendance at the Beetlejuice musical."
@BellAirMB added, "Ouch, that is a really small and sad turn out."
"Adams County is Blue and you are so screwed," another user wrote Saturday.
"Geez they could have met in her living room," @mgstupelo wrote in response.
An account by the name of @Marmel posted one of the photos independently and wrote, "Where was this? It's like Boebert is at a funeral for her own 'career.'"
Allison Gill, a veteran and comedian better known as Mueller, She Wrote, chimed in on that post.
"That's really sad that Boebert can't sell out a 20 seat venue," she wrote. "Speaking of selling out venues, get your tickets to The Daily Beans LIVE before they're gone: allisongill.com."
Emily Brandwin, a former disguise officer in the CIA, said, "Be nice, it's the Boebert fan club for her tens of fans....I'm sorry I meant 10 fans."
Former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other fringe members of the GOP caucus for causing "chaos" for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's
This Week program, Priebus reacted to Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-WI) decision to retire early.
"Here's the deal, though, and it's happening all over the country," Priebus said of gerrymandering. "435 House seats, only 20 are in play. I mean, what that means is that they're almost all really, really Democrat, or all really, really Republican."
"Now, second problem, division is pure profit," he continued. "The two top-grossing probably members of the House or the Senate is AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene because the division is pure profit."
Priebus insisted Republicans did not hold a "real majority" in the House.
"I mean, you have 8 or 10 people that run around the Capitol and cause chaos for the speaker," he said. "And last thing, the speaker rules just create a very weak speaker, the by rule."
"All of that together creates this chaos," he explained.
Fox News host Eric Shawn pointed out that Donald Trump's claim that his New York fraud bond is unprecedented was simply "not true."
During an interview with former federal prosecutor Alex Little, Shawn noted that Trump had repeatedly made the claim about the $454 million bond.
"We've also heard there's a lot of talk about this is unprecedented amount of money," Shawn explained on Sunday. "This has never happened before. But that's actually not true."
"This is from Letitia James, the attorney general's own court papers on the show to right now," he continued. "There have been bigger bonds in the history book from one billion dollars to one and a half billion dollars. That was a Carnegie Mellon patent case."
"What is the argument that this has never been this big for a private company while there have been billion-dollar bonds secured before?" Shawn wondered.
"Yeah, I think that, you know, it's certainly true there've been large bonds," Little agreed. "The purpose of the bond is to secure those funds for the plaintiff here, the state of New York, at the end of the appeal to make sure they can collect."
"And so it says, hey, if you're if you're a defendant, you want to appeal, you can do that," he added. "But we have to make sure to save the money in case the plaintiff gets to collect it. And so the bond is huge."
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of breaking U.S. laws in an effort to quash a House ethics investigation.
During an interview on Face the Nation Sunday, McCarthy praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she filed a motion to have Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) removed.
"Look, the one thing I've always found, when you sit down with a member and talk to them, find out what their concerns are, especially when it's based upon policy, you can solve that problem," he said. "And I watched that with Marjorie, from the vote to Speaker to the vote for the Fiscal Responsibility Act. There's times she [had] a difference of opinion, and you sit down and find common ground."
McCarthy then turned to Gaetz, who orchestrated the bid to oust him.
"Matt's case was much different," McCarthy said. "It was about a personal thing that he had done, and that's what he was trying to get something illegally stopped."
"This is not the case here," he added. "So I would not be afraid of a motion to vacate. This is about policy."
CBS host Margaret Brennan asked McCarthy if he had "evidence to back up your allegation" about Gaetz.
"Well, I think the Ethics Committee, it was purely Matt coming to me, trying me to do something illegal to stop the Ethics Committee from moving forward an investigation that was started long before I became Speaker," McCarthy recalled.
"Something illegal?" Brennan pressed.
"I don't know what the facts are there," McCarthy said of Gaetz's ethics case. "It's a personal issue of what he'd done as a member of Congress."
"I simply would say the Ethics Committee has the right to look at whatever they're going forward, and I'm not going to get in the middle of it one way or another."
Eric Trump said top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond money for his father.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump to clarify how much his father owes in bond payments to appeal his New York fraud case.
"I'm trying to understand how this number came about, $454 million or $464 million, and what the real number is," Bartiromo said.
"You know what?" Trump ranted. "It was a crooked number. There are no victims. There is no number. The number should be zero."
"This is extraordinary," he continued. "No one's ever seen a bond this size. Every single person, when I came to them saying, hey, can I get a half-billion-dollar bond?"
"Maria, they were laughing. They were laughing. Top executives of the largest surety companies had never seen anything of this size. And what, they're going to start seizing assets if he can't put up something that's not available in the United States?"
With Donald Trump all but assured of being the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, one longtime Republican senator hinted at bolting the party during an interview with CNN.
Speaking with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) bluntly admitted, "I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind. I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”
Murkowski, one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial has long been at odds with the former president and, while speaking with CNN did not rule out leaving the GOP due to the former president's influence on the party.
Asked if she would leave the GOP behind to become an independent, she replied, "Oh, I think I’m very independent-minded. I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”
Pressed on the issue, she stated, "I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let’s just leave it at that.”
"Murkowski skated to reelection in her next two elections, even after voting to convict Trump in 2021, voting against Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018 and supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022. She had been targeted by Trump and his allies in 2022 but was backed by Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and his high-spending outside group," the CNN report added.
Former President Donald Trump may be the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, but his third bid for the White House is already at a significant financial disadvantage compared to President Joe Biden's reelection operation.
According to a recent Politico report, the ex-president is blocking off entire days on his calendar to call donors and ask them for help shoring up his campaign's infrastructure with less than eight months to go before Election Day. Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Georgia), a top Trump fundraiser, admitted that trying to build up the ex-president's war chest is an arduous task.
"There’s donor fatigue," Loeffler told Politico, adding that "it's not going to be easy" to catch up with Democrats' fundraising.
"What we have to focus on is not just fundraising, but making sure that people understand the contrast between the two candidates," she said.
The Associated Press (AP) reported this week that Trump's campaign and his Save America political action committee raised a combined $15.9 million in February, and had a total of $37 million in cash on hand heading into the spring. That's considerably less than the $53 million Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised in February, with over $155 million in cash on hand between them.
"If Donald Trump put up these kinds of numbers on The Apprentice, he’d fire himself," Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler told the AP. "But here’s why he ain’t got it: his extreme, toxic agenda of banning abortion, slashing Social Security, and promoting political violence is repelling donors and doing exactly nothing to earn support from the voters who will decide this election."
The former president's considerable legal bills likely aren't helping to win over donors, given that he owes in the neighborhood of $600 million in various civil judgments. His penalties and interest from his civil fraud judgment hover close to $464 million, and Attorney General Letitia James has signaled she'll begin the process of seizing his cash and assets as soon as Monday in the event Trump fails to find someone to guarantee the bond for his appeal. He's already had to post a $91 million bond in appealing writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation settlement, and he continues to appeal his $5 million sexual abuse judgment. Trump also has four pending criminal trials this year, each of which will require a significant financial cost as the ex-president has to defend himself from 91 felony counts in three separate jurisdictions.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has already begun efforts to use donor cash to pay down Trump's legal bills. After his daughter-in-law, Lara, was elected co-chair of the RNC and the party organization purged dozens of employees for not being sufficiently loyal to the former president, Trump and the RNC entered into an agreement where the national party apparatus would help Trump and his PACs pay his legal costs. The New York Times reported on the agreement, which was struck ahead of a Palm Beach, Florida fundraising event that asked top donors to contribute more than $800,000 per person attending.
"The invitation shows that the first $6,600 donated will go to Mr. Trump’s campaign. The next $5,000 will go to his Save America PAC, which paid more than $50 million in legal and investigation-related bills for Mr. Trump in 2023," the Times reported. "After that, the RNC gets the next $413,000, followed by dozens of state parties."
The RNC has the unenviable task of not only fundraising to run a competitive 50-state campaign, but to help Republican US Senate candidates in their efforts to unseat popular red state Democratic incumbents like Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon Tester (D-Montana). Republican House candidates will also depend on the RNC for funds as House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) frail majority will depend on winning close contests in swing districts across the country.
Former President Donald Trump appears to have an insurmountable grip on the Republican Party, emphasized by his easy victory for a third presidential nomination earlier this month.
But look closer, argued Trump-skeptic conservative analyst Charlie Sykes for MSNBC on Friday: the former president's grip on power is shakier than it appears.
"Trump’s outsize control in the party is formidable — but it’s far from complete. That means figures who could pry those fissures open — such as former congresswoman Liz Cheney and former Vice President Mike Pence — could have an outsize influence on the 2024 election," wrote Sykes. "An NBC exit poll in Ohio this week found that almost 1 out of 5 Republican primary voters — including nearly half of Nikki Haley’s supporters — say they will not vote for Trump in November."
"While 18% is not a majority, it’s not chopped liver either. And it’s consistent with what happened at ballot boxes across the country," he continued. "Even though Trump is running unopposed, large numbers of Republicans continue to refuse to vote for the ex-president. In Kansas, nearly a quarter (24.5%) of Republican voters came out to cast ballots for somebody else. In Florida, opponents who had dropped out of the race received 18.8% of the vote; in Ohio, it was 20.8%; in Illinois, 19.2%. And, in the crucial swing state of Arizona, 22.1% of Republicans voted for a non-Trump alternative, a result that led Haley’s zombie campaign to put out a congratulatory tweet."
All of this is occurring against the backdrop of Trump installing his own loyalists in the Republican National Committee leadership, and the party's new joint fundraising committee with Trump allows him to siphon off donor money for his legal expenses — an arrangement a large number of GOP officials had reportedly wanted for some time.
But a large number of Republican voters don't want it, Sykes said — enough that they could deny Trump victory in November. Particularly if disaffected GOP leaders like Liz Cheney step up and encourage it.
"Cheney and Pence are hardly alone. Just run through the extraordinary list of former Trump Cabinet members, chiefs of staff, defense secretaries and national security advisers who are refusing to endorse him," wrote Sykes. "Their warnings about the dangers of a second Trump presidency aren’t coming from Democrats or the hosts on MSNBC — they are coming from inside the house. And in a close election, that could make all the difference."
