Trump gets RNC to pay legal bills as New York prosecutors continue criminal probe

A Chevron gas station in Rowland Heights, California has triggered outrage over an ostensibly anti-shoplifting sign that banned women of Romani descent from the premises.

"The sign contained two ethnic slurs commonly used to portray Romanis as traveling thieves," reported Nicole Comstock for CBS News. "'It's been used against them as a weapon frequently,' said Hemet resident Anya Regewell. 'Much like the N-word is to Black people, Gypsy that's what that is to Romani people from Europe.' Regewell said a Romani community member sent her a picture of the sign. Since then, she has tried to call the gas station and took the issue to social media, hoping that it will get the hateful sign removed."

Legal experts are raising red flags about a motion by Donald Trump's legal team, calling it part of a "nefarious" plot to manipulate United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan into allowing their client to continue to incite his followers.

In a column for MSNBC, former prosecutor E. Danya Perry, attorney Josh Stanton, and Joshua Kolb, who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, cited the move to get Churtkan to recuse herself at the same time that she is expected to rule on a limited gag order designed to keep the four-time indicted former president from intimidating prosecutors, witnesses and jurors.

Donald Trump snarled about seeing a severely wounded veteran sing at an event held during his presidency at a military base.

The former president attended the welcome ceremony for Gen. Mark Milley as he assumed the role of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in late 2019, and Milley had chosen U.S. Army Capt. Luis Avila to sing “God Bless America," according to a lengthy profile of published in The Atlantic.