2024 Elections

A spreadsheet obtained by the Washington Post demonstrated how Gov. Ron DeSantis and his inner circle pressed lobbyists to sell access to the Florida Republican by setting up a bidding war among wealthy donors for access to "leisure activities" with the potential GOP candidate for president.

According to the report, the document was created with the assistance of top DeSantis aide Heather Barker and was aimed at "the state’s top 40 lobbyists and about 100 of their 'Suggested Clients to target'"

As the Post's Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf wrote, "The Florida governor’s fundraisers hoped that nine lobbyists would raise at least $1 million each for DeSantis’s political action committee," adding, "To help them haul in large sums of money, the document suggested that lobbyists be allowed to offer their clients certain perks, such as meals and rounds of golf with DeSantis, who loves the sport. DeSantis’s fundraisers envisioned that some golf outings with the governor would net contributions of $75,000 or more, according to other emails among DeSantis’s political advisers."

In emails obtained by the Post, Barker encouraged the lobbyists by writing, "I could sell golf for $50k this morning.”

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In addition to golf outings, the documents listed other offers that could be promised to rake in donations including, "lunch, meetings, dinner, tours, events, etc."

According to the report, "Each have a threshold (ex. Golf $25k per person, which is a deal), reads the document, whose authenticity was confirmed by multiple people with knowledge of it."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed on Sunday there was a "grand conspiracy" to imprison former President Donald Trump and stop him from running for office in 2024.

Following Trump's indictment for election interference in Georgia, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Greene if Arizona would be the next state to indict the former president.

NBC host Chuck Todd called out Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum after he appeared "uncomfortable" criticizing former President Donald Trump.

"You know, it's been interesting to me in a couple of interviews, plus in the one we've just had now, you've been quite comfortable bringing up Hunter Biden on Joe Biden," Todd opined. "But it's remarkable to me how uncomfortable you, and you're not alone here, you are bringing up the legal problems and the charges against Donald Trump."

Former Vice President Mike Pence backed former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after he claimed then-President Donald Trump did not declassify documents en masse before leaving office.

On Sunday, ABC News reported Meadows did not know of any attempt for the mass declassification of documents before Trump left office. Trump faces more than two dozen counts in a classified documents case in Miami.

A recently published New York Times/Siena College poll, according to The Bulwark's Tim Miller, "shows zero evidence of the Republican Party distancing itself from [ex-President Donald] Trump.

However, Spectrum News 13 reports the same poll "in Iowa shows candidates other than Trump have room to grow," as "Close to half of potential Republican caucus voters backing Trump say they're open to other candidates, while only about 3 in 10 of those who don't choose Trump say they would consider supporting him."

According to a renowned Harvard law professor and a distinguished retired conservative judge, regardless of how Donald Trump's Washington D.C. trial plays out over an alleged plot to overturn the voters' will in the 2020 presidential election, he is already ineligible to hold office again based upon provisions contained within the U.S. Constitution.

In a comprehensive column for The Atlantic, Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School, and retired conservative Judge Michael Luttig who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, maintained that the former president has already disqualified himself based upon his actions with regard to the Jan. 6 insurrection and a guilty verdict in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom isn't even needed to put congressional action in motion.

According to the two legal scholars, based upon their research of the Fourteenth Amendment ratified in 1868, Trump's Jan. 6 complicity and election interference plots should bar him from office -- but Congress and the country need the will to enforce it.

Writing that the "often-overlooked Section 3, automatically excludes from future office and position of power in the United States government ...any person who has taken an oath to support and defend our Constitution and thereafter rebels against that sacred charter, either through overt insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the Constitution’s enemies," the two legal experts made the case that former president went well beyond that.