Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has threatened to build a prison next to Disney World after a disagreement over the state's "Don't Say Gay" law.
At a press conference on Monday, DeSantis announced that Republicans in the legislature would introduce a bill to circumvent a last-minute effort for Disney to maintain control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District where it is located. The governor has fought to remove Disney's self-governance after the company came out against a "Don't Say Gay" bill that critics said could marginalize LGBTQ+ people.
Responding to a question, DeSantis mused about what he would do with his new power over the Magic Kingdom.
"So if you look at this whole special district, well, Disney Corporation obviously owns a lot of it, but the district owns other land," the governor told reporters. "And you know, quite frankly, I wasn't even thinking about that land."
"Oh, but come to think of it, now people are like, well, what should we do with this land?" he continued. "And so, you know, it's like, okay, kids, I mean, people have said, you know, maybe, maybe have another, maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks."
"Someone even said, like, maybe you need another state prison," DeSantis added. "Who knows? I mean, I just think that the possibilities are endless."
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Tuesday did not rule out a motion to vacate the chair in an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker over a deal that would raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
During an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Boebert accused McCarthy of a "violation" of his promises because amendments were not being allowed in the House Rules Committee.
"So, the whole point of the speaker's race and having a motion to vacate a check and balance was because we know at any given time those rules can be suspended," she explained. "And so, this, at the Speaker's request, is what I've heard; this was to be a closed rule with no amendments allowed."
Boebert argued that there was insufficient support to remove McCarthy as Speaker. But she predicted the demise of McCarthy's speakership if many Democrats supported the debt ceiling bill.
"If this bill passes with a majority of Democrats voting in favor of it, then I'm sorry, that's the end of Kevin McCarthy's speakership," she warned. "That is a bad, bad look to pass a bill of this magnitude without the support of the majority and if it's Democrats."
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Bombshell reporting by the Guardian that revealed Donald Trump's former attorney, Evan Corcoran, was repeatedly "steered away" from classified documents by Trump's aides were at the center of discussion on MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace show Tuesday.
Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell revealed Corcoran was tasked with helping the former president find classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to comply with a Justice Department subpoena, but the aides diverted him away from Trump's office, saying the papers were in a storage room.
In the end, many classified documents were found in the office.
"[Corcoran] recounted that several Trump aides had told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the White House at the end of Trump’s presidency ended up being deposited," reported Lowell.
"Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. He then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. Corcoran never searched Trump’s office and told prosecutors that the 38 papers were the extent of the material at Mar-a-Lago."
The mystery that Wallace's guests tried to get to the bottom of was, who was it who steered Corcoran away from them?
"It's like the game of Clue," she said, "where we are out of other characters. Who would have lied to Evan Corcoran?"
Wallace spoke with Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, who had previously been on the show to discuss Trump's "long history of mishandling classified documents."
"When you separate the things in the boxes, it's at the heart of the classified materials case, and the movement and relocation and obfuscation about the location of the boxes and their contents is at the heart of the obstruction case," Wallace said.
She read the Justice Department filing that specifically cited Corcoran being told the documents were in "one location, a storage room at the premises."
Wallace compared it to a game of Clue, with characters aiming to mislead Corcoran from finding the truth.
"There are a lot of lawyers in town who say they know how they would have done it if they had to search for classified records to comply with an FBI subpoena, and the way to do that was to ask their client where are all the possible places the materials could be?" said Leonnig.
"It's not clear if Corcoran had that direct conversation with Donald Trump, although it's possible. I think I'd like to flip this on its head a little bit and say it's been clear for many, many months that Jack Smith is working towards making some charging decisions and is likely going to bring charges."
She cited two things that Smith must establish: Firstly, if Trump worked indirectly or directly to keep the government from getting the records, and secondly that he knew what he was doing and knew classified materials were in the collection.
"The two things are critical to bringing the kind of charges that are being considered now and mentioned in government pleadings," Leonnig continued. "And Evan Corcoran — what is it Evan Corcoran was told? Sources have told to us over and over again he was consistently advised by all staff to Donald Trump that the only place records were kept that had been shipped from the White House, and the only place where records that might have classification markings could be, was the same place. That storage closet, inside a larger storage room, where other items like vodka and pastry dough were kept.
"But in that closet was where those documents could be. So, who told Evan Corcoran that? Most lawyers say I would have asked my client, 'where else do I look?' We don't know that Donald Trump directly told Evan Corcoran this, but Jack Smith is piecing together who told Evan Corcoran and who told those people. Many, many staff advised Corcoran that's the only place you need to look."
The Post also reported that Trump and his aides had a dress rehearsal for moving the boxes of documents in May 2022.
Wallace played clips of Trump telling Sean Hannity and Kaitlan Collins that he had the right to take documents from the White House so he could look through them and show them to whoever he wanted.
"There's no denial," Wallace said. "His defense is he had the right to do it."
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman stepped into Wallace's debate and questioned, "Who could possibly issue the ultimate orders that would make (Trump's personal aide) Walt Nauta or Corcoran look in the storage room, I think there's only one person here when a subpoena has been received in response to who would take it on their shoulders."
Litman said that it's clear Corcoran was likely asked in the grand jury who told him that the documents were only in one place. He added he thinks the grand jury would still be sitting if that question hadn''t been answered.
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A Virginia man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of Eunice Dwumfour, a New Jersey councilwoman, ABC News reports.
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone told reporters Tuesday.
Dwumfour, 30, was the mother of a 12-year-old girl and a leader at her church who worked as a business analyst and part-time as an emergency medical technician.
Dwumfour, a Republican, in 2021 defeated an incumbent Democrat to win a Sayreville Borough Council seat.
Bynum knew Dwumfour from a church, according to the report.
Dwumfour on Feb. 1 suffered multiple gunshot wounds while she in her SUV outside her home.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin addressed Dwumfour's family, which attended the news conference.
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"There are no words that can be said to you to make you whole," Platkin said.
"I did not know Eunice. I wish I had. But I know that she was a public servant."
"I hope that today is the beginning of a healing process, and also the beginning of a sense of justice."
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