Payton Gendron, 18, was heckled on Thursday after he was indicted for a racist mass shooting that occurred at a Buffalo supermarket.
The suspect appeared in New York court briefly after a grand jury indicted him for murder.
“Payton, you’re a coward!” someone could be heard shouting as Gendron was led out of the courtroom.
Ten people died and three others were injured during the Buffalo shooting that authorities are investigating as a hate crime.
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A legal affairs expert who previously served as an aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday suggested that Donald Trump could be behind reports surfacing this week that an indictment against the former president is imminent.
Anthony Coley, who headed Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs under Garland, in a “public service announcement,” suggested that the former president in the past has found that spreading misinformation has served his interests. Coley cited previous reports that turned out to be erroneous in his call for calm.
“Here’s my public service announcement, a reminder, for the day: Trump creates and thrives off of chaos. It’s his playbook. And sometime uninformed people are cited, wrongly, as credible sources,” Coley tweeted.
Coley’s comments followed Wednesday’s blockbuster report from The Independent that the DOJ is readying to ask a grand jury hearing evidence against the former president on obstruction and Espionage Act charges, which could happen as soon as Thursday.
The “Espionage Act” was trending on Twitter Wednesday afternoon after the Independent report was published.
“Remember when a 'senior Justice Department source' told a nat'l outlet that Garland didn’t know the date or time of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug 8th or was asked to approve it? False. Garland rebutted that on-the-record on Aug. 11th,” Coley said.
“A similar effort to create chaos (and panic, among his faithful) is at play now….the fact of the matter is that only a small group of DOJ officials really know the state-of-play with Smith’s investigations. Everything else – charges, timing, venue – is pure speculation."
At the minimum, Coley suggests taking the latest reports with a grain of salt.
“Let’s all take a breath, and let Smith and team complete their work,” he said.
“We’ll all know when we know. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk <smile> (End)”
\u201cHere\u2019s my public service announcement, a reminder, for the day: Trump creates and thrives off of chaos. It\u2019s his playbook. And sometime uninformed people are cited, wrongly, as credible sources. (THREAD)\u201d— Anthony Coley (@Anthony Coley) 1686174247
NBC News reported Wednesday afternoon that Steve Bannon had been subpoenaed to speak before the grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.
The news comes after it was reported that former President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has potentially reached an agreement with the Justice Department. At the same time, The Independent reported Wednesday that the DOJ is ready to ask the grand jury to indict Trump on both obstruction and Espionage Act charges. The Guardian reported that Trump's lawyers informed him he was a target in the Mar-a-Lago documents probe.
"The subpoena, for documents and testimony, was sent out in late May," NBC reported, citing multiple sources. "The grand jury investigating Trump's actions surrounding Jan. 6 and in connection with efforts to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power is separate from the grand jury in Miami that heard testimony on Wednesday about Trump's handling of classified documents."
The special counsel declined to comment as did Bannon.
The subpoena was for Washington, D.C., and likely looks at his role from inside the so-called "War Room" at The Willard Hotel on Jan. 6, and in his mobilizing of followers ahead of the day.
After years of legal problems, including an indictment, an FBI investigation, and allegations of retaliation against subordinates and improper use of government funds to support a donor, impeached longtime Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is set to face a trial in the state Senate — the first such trial for a statewide Texas official in decades.
And the evidence is "ten times worse" than what has been revealed to the public, attorneys who will be arguing the case told The Daily Beast.
"Famed criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin — who has represented clients ranging from former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to convicted murderer and New York City real estate heir Robert Durst to cult leader David Koresh—is now determined to 'save and protect the people of Texas from a crooked attorney general,'" wrote Justin Rohrlich. "'It’s a matter of corruption, a matter of abuse of the public trust, a matter of misuse of public resources, flat-out bribery, perjury,' said DeGuerin, a one-time prosecutor who will help make the case on the House floor for Paxton’s conviction. 'It’s just conduct that convinces anyone that looks at it fairly that the office of attorney general has been abused and used for personal gain.'"
Russell “Rusty” Hardin Jr., another former prosecutor and attorney who will be litigating the case in the Senate, has previously made similar claims to DeGuerin, saying at a May 30 press conference that “I promise you, it's ten times worse than has been public.”
Paxton was impeached by the Republican-controlled Texas House on charges of bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction, stemming from allegations he improperly used his office to give legal support to Nate Paul, an Austin-based real estate developer who contributed to his campaign, and that he fired several state law enforcement officials who tried to file whistleblower complaints. The allegations also say he and his donors have interfered with prosecutors to delay pending charges against him for securities fraud.
"After Paxton was charged with securities fraud, he allegedly accepted a $100,000 donation to his legal defense fund from the president of a medical imaging firm his office was simultaneously investigating for Medicaid fraud, the Associated Press reported," noted the report. "He also took $50,000 from the family of Tom Gleason, a former ice cream company executive he later hired for an adviser role paying $95,000 a year, according to the AP. Gleason was reportedly fired within two months for sharing child pornography during a meeting."
Despite all of this, former President Donald Trump and his allies, who relied on Paxton to launch a frivolous lawsuit to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, are standing behind him, with Trump even threatening to go after any Republican who tries to remove him from office.
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