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Nikki Haley ducks questions about stalling on Confederate flag removal when she was governor
May 27, 2023
One of the key highlights of Republican 2024 presidential nomination contender Nikki Haley's tenure as the governor of South Carolina is being questioned in a report by the Washington Post and the former South Carolina ducked answering questions about it.
As the Post's Michael Kranish reports, Haley stalled off ordering the removal of the Confederate flag on the State House grounds for years until she flipped following a race-inspired shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 that claimed nine lives.
According to the report, when Haley was campaigning to become governor she met with pro-Confederacy groups and calmed their fears by stating "she shared their worldview," Kranish wrote.
"She said the Civil War was a fight between 'tradition' and 'change,' without mentioning the word slavery. She said she supported Confederate History Month as a parallel to Black History Month," the report states before adding, "...she suggested that her identity as a minority woman could help her take on the NAACP, which was leading a boycott of the state until the Confederate flag was taken off the State House grounds."
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According to the report, her flipping on ordering the flag's removal after the 2015 shooting became one of her calling cards as a moderate.
"As Haley rose from governor to U.N. ambassador under President Donald Trump, she often portrayed the decision as the culmination of her work to move South Carolina beyond its history of secession, enslavement and segregation," the Post is reporting before pointing out in her 2019 memoir that "members of both parties had 'pushed back' against the idea, adding that 'even many African American Democrats were privately opposed to the idea of reopening the flag debate.'"
Pointing out that it appears Haley has been "tailoring" her opinions on race depending on the crowd, the Post reported a "... review of Haley’s actions in the five years before the massacre found that she repeatedly dismissed efforts to remove the flag, mollified Confederate heritage groups whose influence remained a powerful force, and did not hold substantive discussions with Black leaders who wanted to remove the flag. Months before the mass killing that changed her position, her reelection campaign had called a proposal by her Democratic opponent to remove the flag 'desperate and irresponsible.'"
Asked for comment on the Post's report, Haley declined to comment and dismissed a "detailed list of questions from The Post, including a request that she provide the names of Black legislators who opposed reopening the debate over the Confederate flag."
A spokesperson for Haley did state there "'was little appetite in either political party' to take action on the flag, but that 'Haley did her best to hold the state together' after a White man killed nine Black parishioners at a Charleston church," Kranish wrote.
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According to a report from NBC, scam operations with names like Patriots Dynasty and US Patriots have been selling so-called "Trump Bucks" to fans of the recently indicted Donald Trump with a promise of growing rich -- except they are worth nothing.
NBC's Brandy Zadrozny and Corky Siemaszko are reporting that the Federal Trade Commission has confirmed receiving complaints about the scam and that the Better Business Bureau has given the three Colorado companies involved, Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots, an "F" rating with terible reviews pouring in.
According to the report, the companies are "peddling 'Trump Bucks,' which are emblazoned with photos of the former president, and advertising them online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trump’s 2024 bid and make the 'real patriots' who support him rich when cashed in."
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However, as one buyer pointed out, he feels ripped off after taking them to the bank and finding they are worthless.
"John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank. So he’s gone on Twitter to warn other Trump supporters not to fall for this scam," the report states before adding, "Additionally, NBC News has found at least a dozen people like Amann who say they invested thousands of dollars after watching the pitches on Telegram and other websites that strongly suggested that Trump himself was endorsing these products."
Noting that there is no evidence that the former president is involved or even aware of the scam, NBC reports, "Repeated attempts to reach representatives for the companies by phone and email were unsuccessful. But Bank of America spokesman Bill Halldin said he’s heard reports from bank employees of customers coming in to exchange their Trump Bucks for actual cash, but the bank routinely turns them down."
According to Halldin, "It’s hard to put a number on how many people have come in."
As for the 77-year-old Amann, "There’s no way to cash out what I have."
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Key Trump defense in Mar-a-Lago doc case 'off the table' after new revelations: former prosecutor
May 27, 2023
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade explained how a report from the Washington Post that DOJ investigators now have evidence that Mar-a-Lago employees working for Donald Trump knowingly hid documents from the FBI will ultimately cripple his attorney's defense options if the former president is indicted as expected.
With reports that the former president's legal team is preparing him for another day in court on possible obstruction and espionage charges, McQuade said that -- if the Post report is accurate -- things just took a turn for the worse for Trump.
"Well, that reporting would really catch the eye of a prosecutor because it suggests potential for obstruction of justice," McQuade told "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart.
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"When prosecutors are considering pressing charges for the mishandling of classified documents, they're typically looking for some aggravating factor beyond an innocent mistake," she elaborated. "And so here, if they really were moving boxes the day before they knew the Justice Department was coming to visit to look at them, that could suggest that they were trying to conceal or interfere with the case."
"That could be significant for a couple of reasons," she continued. "One is the charging decision, but the other is that it would really take off the table any suggestion that this was just an honest mistake, it would take off the table any question about whether it mattered about whether they were classified or not classified documents or whether Donald Trump believed that he could declassify them simply in his mind because the obstruction of justice is simply a different crime."
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