All posts tagged "Mob Boss"

Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out against Special Counsel Jack Smith, saying the prosecutor's recent moves in the criminal Espionage Act case in Florida will "backfire."

Smith recently moved to amend Trump's pre-trial terms in the case over stashed classified documents, saying Trump should be limited from statements that could endanger the lives of law enforcement. The request came after Trump and his allies spread a false rumor that President Joe Biden's justice department sought to use "deadly force" against Trump during its search for documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort.

Experts have suggested the move by Smith will put pressure on Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, or reveal bias in favor of the man who appointed her to her spot on the bench....

Donald Trump on Wednesday evening repeated some of the most common barbs he has previously used against Nikki Haley, but then he did something new: he said any Haley donors will be barred from Team Trump forever.

Trump, who recently beat Haley in the New Hampshire and Iowa primary contests, said on Wednesday, "Anybody that makes a 'Contribution' to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp."

That didn't go over well with former prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, who said, "Trump issues a Mob Boss Fatwa tonight."...

Former President Donald Trump treated his assistant Molly Michael the way a "mob boss" would a subordinate, when he demanded she not say a word about the boxes of highly classified national defense information stacked up at his Mar-a-Lago country club.

That's the view of former White House attorney Ty Cobb, who previously served in the Trump administration.

"Again, the quote here, Molly Michael, former assistant to Donald Trump tells investigators, quote, 'you don't know anything about the boxes,'" said CNN anchor Erin Burnett. "What do you hear when you hear those words?"...

Donald Trump is acting like a "mob boss" around the concealment of his stash of highly classified national defense information, argued Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig on MSNBC Friday.

This comes after special counsel Jack Smith dropped a superseding indictment against the former president and two of his aides, alleging a plot to destroy surveillance footage that caught them in an obstruction of justice scheme.

"That goes to his state of mind," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "If you know how much trouble you are in and if you want servers deleted, you know that you've done something wrong and if you know that you've done something wrong, you don't have the they were — I mean, I-can-declassify-them-by-thinking-them defense. You don't even have that in your delusional imagination. The conduct is so plainly incriminating. It really is, as many of the legal experts have been saying since last August, such a clean case."...

Watch below as officials from the United States Attorney's Office and the Bulger Fugitive Task Force in Boston address reporters about the capture of former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and Catherine Greig, courtesy of MSNBC.