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'Blatantly violate department policy': White House was enraged over special counsel report

'Blatantly violate department policy': White House was enraged over special counsel report

White House attorneys were furious at special counsel Robert Hur's personal attacks on President Joe Biden in his report recommending against charges over the stray classified documents discovered in his possession, reported The New York Times on Thursday — and fought with the Justice Department over their inclusion.

"The lawyers said Mr. Hur’s comments 'openly, obviously and blatantly violate department policy and practice,' the letters, obtained by The New York Times, show," reported Charlie Savage. However, one day after the letters were sent and just as the DOJ was planning to release the report, "Bradley Weinsheimer — an associate deputy attorney general and the department’s senior career official, or nonpolitical appointee — wrote back rejecting their criticism."

According to Weinsheimer, the report's statements on the president "fall well within the department’s standards for public release."...

'Treading right up to a legal line': Trump flagged for potential trademark violation

'Treading right up to a legal line': Trump flagged for potential trademark violation

Donald Trump reportedly posted something that creeps up to – and potentially crosses – a legal line for trademark violations.

Trump, who is known for regularly testing the legal limits of his actions as well as gag orders against him, made the post in the course of his defense of his social media site Truth Social. The former president has stuck beside his flailing network since he launched it after being banned from Twitter and other sites.

"We are heading to World War III because of grossly incompetent leadership, headed by a President that doesn't have a clue, although he did have the sense to just join TRUTH, the real VOICE OF AMERICA," the ex-president wrote. "Congratulations Joe, at least, on that!"...