The logic, he says, is that while he intensely dislikes many of Biden's policies, he believes that Biden will willingly leave office in 2028 -- and that he does not have the same confidence in Trump.
"The question isn’t 'Biden or Trump?' so much as it’s 'Should we continue with the constitutional order as we’ve known it or try something radically different?'" he contends. "I’ll guarantee here and now that if Trump becomes president again and remains in good health he’ll try to extend his term in office past 2029. I won’t guarantee that he’ll succeed, but the attempt will be made as surely as you’re reading this."
Whatever his misgivings with Biden, Catoggio argues that he will not deploy the military against his fellow Americans who protest against him and he won't stock the Department of Justice with fanatics who are hellbent on prosecuting as many members of the opposing party as they can.
"All of that is on the table if Trump is reelected, along with even darker insanity that you and I can’t imagine but Stephen Miller assuredly can," he writes.
Catoggio also draws a contrast between the types of support garnered by each candidate: While most of the MAGA base is devoted to Trump personally, most Biden voters simply want to preserve the system of government that they have lived with their entire lives.
"No one is 'investing' in Joe Biden by supporting him," he writes. "They’re investing in keeping a fascist out of power."
Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to rail about "horrible open wounds" and his "sham" trial.
Trump unleashed his attack on "Crooked" President Joe Biden, whom he claimed was slashing subsidized health care coverage for seniors suffering with a painful symptom of the chronic condition called diabetic neuropathy.
"Crooked Joe Biden is saying Medicare will not cover more than 50,000 Americans living with horrible open wounds caused by diabetes," Trump claimed. "Their message to these Americans: 'Tough it out.'”
Raw Story was unable to find reporting to support Trump's claim that the Biden administration was "playing Russian Roulette with people’s lives" by "abandoning" those suffering with diabetic neuropathy.
The former president provided no specific details to back his assertion.
But just Tuesday, the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA War Room shared a Fox News clip challenging Biden's messaging that he created the $35 insulin price cap.
The evidence appears to be a press release and a news conference from Trump's White House.
The video spurred claims that Democrats had "screwed" diabetics — a CNN report details how Biden froze a Trump executive order on the matter in 2021 so his "radical" policies could face review.
"The regulation would effectively ban drug makers from providing rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and insurers – a radical change in the way many drugs are priced and paid for in Medicare and Medicaid," CNN reported at the time.
"The Trump administration had backed down from issuing this rule in 2019 after it was found to raise costs for seniors and the federal government, but issued the final rule in November."
The Biden campaign in November — when Trump slammed the Affordable Care Act as "out of control" — was quick to alert followers about Trump's position on universal health care.
"If you or someone you know has had: diabetes —cancer —heart disease —asthma —AIDS/HIV —(or currently pregnant)," the message reads, "you should know Donald Trump is calling to 'terminate' the Affordable Care Act, which would allow you to be denied coverage for having a preexisting condition."
Trump has since walked away from vows to terminate the Obama administration program.
Donald Trump once again is threatening to jail his political opponents, including President Joe Biden. And unlike his 2016 presidential debate remark to Hillary Clinton, this time there's an actual plan in place to do just that.
In addition to saying, "lock her up," Trump has a history of repeatedly threatening or calling for Clinton to be thrown in prison. One month before the 2016 election Trump told a Florida crowd, "she has to go to jail." That was just days after the second presidential debate, when Trump told Clinton she would "be in jail" if he were president.
Trump has been strongly focusing on prosecuting and putting President Joe Biden in prison.
"Since the start of last year, Trump has issued direct or implied threats on Truth Social to use the powers of the federal government to target Joe Biden during a second Trump administration 25 times. Specifically, Trump has threatened him with FBI raids, investigations, indictments and even jail time," government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wrote last month.
Tuesday night on the right wing media outlet Newsmax, Trump again threatened to jail his political opponents.
"So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to," he said, NBC News reported, blaming Democrats for his criminal conviction, "and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them."
Trump, according to Newsmax, also called his New York criminal conviction last week on 34 felony counts, "a terrible precedent for our country. Does that mean the next president does it to them? That's really the question."
"It's very possible it'll have to happen to them" -- Trump threats to imprison his political opponents pic.twitter.com/7X1JjBJyUA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 5, 2024
"One of Trump’s most consistent talking points on the trail centers on his intention to prosecute Biden if he regains executive power," NBC News reported in February.
“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of America, Joe Biden, and go after the Biden crime family,” Trump said last year in June. That was "just hours after being arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on charges alleging willful retention of classified documents."
When Trump first entered the Oval Office, he had institutional guardrails, as many experts have noted. He appointed former government officials, including his "generals," to top posts and they worked to steer him away from his most extreme desires.
Over time, those institutionalists resigned or were fired.
Now, thanks to a massive multi-million dollar enterprise funded in part by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, there's a plan in place to jail Trump's political opponents, should he win back the White House.
Project 2025 is the far-right's plan to entirely remake the Executive Branch to hand Trump massive, unchecked power, via a 920-page policy "mandate."
"Trump and his aides are reportedly assembling a list of people to be investigated, prosecuted, and possibly jailed," The Atlantic's Tom Nichols wrote last year. Nichols is a former U.S. Naval War College professor and expert on Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs.
"Trump also wants to go after President Joe Biden for 'corruption,' which (like so many of Trump’s accusations) is pure projection," Nichols continued. "If Trump follows through on all of this lunacy, half the government will spend its days investigating the other half, while the military is put on alert in case too many Americans object to Trump’s destruction of their constitutional rights."
"If you’re wondering how Trump plans to accomplish all of this, he likely has no idea. But his cronies at the Heritage Foundation (including former administration officials) do, and they are busily making plans. They’ve even written them down in something called Project 2025, a detailed blueprint for a right-wing takeover of the United States government. Trump, who seems to be losing his grip on reality more each day, might be devolving into a flaming piñata of offensive nonsense, but his enablers and the authors of Project 2025 know exactly what they’re doing."
Take Steve Bannon.
Last year Media Matters called Bannon's “War Room” podcast "the media home of Project 2025 and Trump’s retribution plans."
Last week, Bannon made the right's plans clear.
"The DOJ is completely corrupt from top to bottom," he said on his podcast in video reposted by The Recount. "It's going to have to be purged, it's going to have to be restructured," he said, insisting "they're going to have to get rid of lots of personnel on the afternoon of January 20, 2025."
"The FBI is the American Gestapo," Bannon added, also insisting it be "totally restructured."
Steve Bannon calls for the Justice Department and the FBI to be “purged” starting “on the afternoon of January 20, 2025.” pic.twitter.com/oU9AOAngaT
— The Recount (@therecount) May 28, 2024
Axios on Wednesday reported on "MAGA's jail plan."
"If former President Trump wins in November, top supporters will push him to investigate, prosecute — and even try to imprison — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who won Trump's conviction in the hush-money case," the news outlet reported.
"'Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,' Steve Bannon, one of the top voices of the MAGA movement, told us — saying for the record what many Trump supporters are privately plotting."
New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged Justice Juan Merchan not to approve Donald Trump's request to lift a limited gag order in his hush-money case.
After being convicted of 34 felony counts last week, Trump's attorneys argued that the gag order was no longer necessary. It prevents Trump from discussing witnesses, jurors, court staff, and their families.
"Now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the Court do not justify continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump — who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election — and the American people," Trump's attorney Todd Blanche wrote.
However, in a response on Wednesday, Bragg's team explained why the limited gag order should remain in place.
"Defendant's letter asserts that the stated bases for the Court's Orders no longer exist 'because the trial has concluded,'" prosecutors for the district attorney's office wrote. "The Court's Orders, however, were based not only on the need to avoid threats to the fairness of the trial itself... but also on the Court's broader 'obligation to prevent actual harm to the integrity of the proceedings'; to protect 'the orderly administration of this Court'; and to avoid 'risk[s] to the administration of justice.'"
"[T]hese interests have not abated, and the Court has an obligation to protect the integrity of these proceedings and the fair administration of justice at least through the sentencing hearing and the resolution of any post-trial," the letter to Merchan added.
With former President Donald Trump now convicted on 34 felony counts of falsification of business records and facing sentencing by Judge Juan Merchan on July 11, his task becomes convincing the court to let him off with probation and fines rather than a prison term.
To do that, Politico reported, there is a new person Trump will have to convince — his probation officer.
"In a typical case, a convict will be interviewed by a probation officer in the days after the verdict and be given the opportunity to accept responsibility and present mitigating factors that could reduce any sentence," Politico reported.
"That is going to be difficult for a man who has constantly railed against the case against him — not to mention the very judge who will decide the sentence."
In a typical case, a convicted defendant will have to meet with a probation officer within 10 days — and former New York City Department of Probation commissioner Kevin Horn walked Politico through how the process will work.
When Trump has the interview, it will take the form of, "Sitting in an office across a desk from a probation officer, a city civil servant, who does these things day in and day out ... There’s a social history of the defendant: birth, family, family background, marriage, then a recitation of what the defendant has been convicted of, a recitation and a review with the individual of any prior criminal history."
The idea is to give the court as much information as possible on the defendant in an attempt to figure out if they are "amenable to supervision."
This is, of course, no ordinary case, as Trump is a presidential candidate as well as a former president, with Secret Service protection and monitoring all the time.
Ultimately, when that report goes to Merchan, concluded Horn, "The judge has to weigh the interests of justice. One of the purposes of the sentence is to deter others from committing the same offense. It has to satisfy the community that justice has been done. There are a lot of considerations."
Donald Trump Jr. is now "at the top of the list" to be his father's next attorney general, according to former White House adviser and convicted criminal Steve Bannon.
Bannon, out of prison on appeal, made the remarks while interviewing Sergio Gor, Trump Jr.'s business partner in a book publishing venture.
Gor explained that the publishing company intended to fly former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to the Republican National Convention when he was released from prison in July.
"Right now, if everything goes to plan, Peter gets released on the morning of the 17th, that is the day before the convention ends, and our plan is for him to fly to Milwaukee and join everybody, including President Trump, at the convention," Gor said.
Bannon noted that the younger Trump's name had been floated for attorney general.
"One last thing, Sergio, make sure you tell your partner, on Morning Joe this morning, they mentioned Don Jr. as Attorney General, hey, I gotta say, I think it may go to the top of my list, it may go to the top of my list, you don't need a law degree, you need common sense," Bannon opined. "Don Jr.'s got common sense, I wanna put him at the top of the list now for AG, which I would love to be there for the confirmation hearing, sir."
"I love that idea, and I'll share that with him, I'm actually flying out with him in about an hour, so that'll be our topic of conversation," Gor replied.
"Yeah, tell him we're gonna push it hard," Bannon concluded.
The attorney for former president and convicted felon Donald Trump says he dropped 8 pounds dodging what he described as a "plethora" of unhealthy food daily toted into court by his client.
Todd Blanche described Trump's fast food feasts during his criminal hush money trial to For the Defense podcaster David Oscar Markus.
“Was it McDonald’s for lunch every single day?” Markus asked.
"There would just be this plethora of, like, just food everywhere," Blanche said of the legal team's war room. "There’s pizza and there’s other non-healthy alternatives to McDonald’s.
"Everybody gets food — there's a lot of food."
Blanche's description of the daily meals — which he skipped — is visually confirmed by a TikTok post from Donald Trump Jr. last week, in which he beams with unbridled delight after his father says, "My son's doing well on social media and I'm proud of him."
The video shows Trump and his son seated before a table topped with chips, soda, boxes of movie theater candy and what an eagle-eyed Daily Beast reporter describes as "what appeared to be four Hostess SnoBalls."
Jose Pagliery quipped that while Blanche suffered a defeat in Justice Juan Merchan's Manhattan criminal courtroom and says he sprouted a few grey hairs, "at least he dodged Trump’s junk food."
Trump's McDonald's order typically includes two Big Macs, two fish filet sandwiches and a chocolate malt, according to a Washington Post report on former campaign manager Corey Lewendowski's book published in 2017.
"On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke,” the authors wrote. “The orchestrating and timing of Mr. Trump’s meals was as important as any other aspect of his march to the presidency."
According to the Post, "The plane’s cupboards were stacked with Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels and many packages of Oreos."
One of the lawmakers being considered for Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate suggested to a crowd of Black conservatives that things were better under Jim Crow.
U.S. Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX) spoke to a crowd in Philadelphia this week, where they made the case to a group of supporters that living under Jim Crow was better for them, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“To win a fight, you have to go where the fish are,” explained Hunt, comparing the election to fishing. “We’re going bravely where no Republicans have gone in decades, and we’re going directly to the community.”
Later that day, the campaign held an event they called “Congress, Cognac, and Cigars." Though attendees were mainly Black, the Inquirer said a sign-in sheet showed about half of attendees lived outside of Philadelphia.
“Black issues are American issues,” Hunt said. “We hate what’s happening at the border. We don’t like being unsafe … and the person who’s going to save the country from being on the brink is Donald John Trump.”
”The reason why the Democrats have a hold on the Black community is because our parents’ parents’ parents keep telling us, ‘You gotta vote Democrat,’” Hunt said. “It is up to us in this generation to say, ‘Well, why?’”
Sports journalist Michelle Tafoya moderated a discussion with the men and at one point asked Donalds about the ways in which Black men and Black women view politics. The polls shows around 18 percent of Black voters said they would support Trump, Pew Research found. That number is different for Black men, who support Trump to the tune of 20 percent compared to women at just 16 percent, the survey showed.
But when comparing the two genders, Donalds explained that Black men are "hunters," and Biden has taken their "spear."
”First of all, there’s a difference between men and women anyway,” Donalds said. “Men have been created by God to be conquerors, to be hunters. That’s who they are. And so a Black man in today’s America is looking around and saying, ‘How can I go hunt for my people and hunt for my family?’ … They’re looking at what Joe Biden has done and saying, ‘I can’t hunt! You took my spear. You took my bow.’”
By contrast, he claimed women are infuriated by transgender people and immigrants.
“Black women,” he said, “are looking at their sons and saying, ‘Now, wait a minute. You’re telling me that my young son can become a girl? Nope. You’re telling me that my son and my daughter who need an education now have to go and be less than because of illegal immigrants in the city of Philadelphia? Nope.’”
During a different point, Donalds explained that young Black people are prioritizing the nuclear family “helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.”
Democrats destroyed Black families, he argued.
“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,” he said. “And then H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson — you go down that road, and now we are where we are,” he added, referring to the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded Wednesday.
"It has come to my attention that a so-called leader has made the factually inaccurate statement that black folks were better off during Jim Crow," he said.
"How dare you make such an an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself."
San Francisco is readying a less-than-warm welcome for former President and convicted felon Donald Trump on Thursday when he attends a fundraiser tech billionaires are throwing him; a 3-story-tall inflatable chicken bearing his golden bouffant and prison stripes, according to the local Fox affiliate KTVU.
The Trump prison chicken will bob in the bay that is also home to Alcatraz Island, home to the now-shuttered notorious prison, organizer Danelle Morton reported said.
"I think the point of sailing the chicken has to be made, right?" Morton said. "I feel like just getting it done is a victory."
A GoFundMe from organizers explains the thought-process behind making a 33-foot-tall Trump prison chicken in 2017.
"We all want to see Trump in jail," the group wrote at the time. "How can we let out our frustration about everything that seems so ruined and wrong? We at Trump Chicken are civic minded."
The answer, apparently, seemed obvious.
"We want to give you a chance to speak your piece to the Chicken President when we sail our 33-foot bird in his Prisoner45 shirt slowly down the Embarcadero and further south this Sunday 7/22 in a prison transport boat," organizers wrote. "As he sails past, you can say anything you want to President Chicken. You can mock and squawk and swear like you’ve never sworn before in a proud expression of your First Amendment right. Bring your friends."
As the Trump prison chicken bobs in the bay, the former president himself will attend a fundraiser hosted by David Sacks, Jacqueline Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, according to the report. Attendees have been asked to pay as much $300,000 to attend.
Republicans are out for blood over former President Donald Trump's criminal conviction for falsification of business records in New York — and are plotting revenge fantasies.
According to The New York Times, "Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into demands for action. Since then, prominent G.O.P. leaders in and out of government have demanded that elected Republicans use every available instrument of power against Democrats, including targeted investigations and prosecutions. The intensity of anger and open desire for using the criminal justice system against Democrats after the verdict surpasses anything seen before in Mr. Trump’s tumultuous years in national politics."
One of the most prominent recent examples is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) demanding that all federal funding cease for the state of New York — but that is only the beginning.
Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller laid out his vision clearly: “Is every House committee controlled by Republicans using its subpoena power in every way it needs to right now?. Is every Republican D.A. starting every investigation they need to right now? Every facet of Republican Party politics and power has to be used right now to go toe-to-toe with Marxism and beat these Communists.”
Steve Bannon, another Trump associate, had a similar attitude: “There are dozens of ambitious backbencher state attorneys general and district attorneys who need to ‘seize the day’ and own this moment in history.”
The GOP, said the report, is pursuing an "apocalyptic" message — and "there is no longer any room, they argue, for weaklings who fetishize decency and restraint."
Among their ideas are to prosecute Trump's enemies on fabricated charges, an idea pushed by Bannon, or have Republican lawyers sue the prosecutors going after Trump for perceived constitutional violations, and seek monetary damages from them, an idea pushed by former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who is currently under indictment for the 2020 election plot in Georgia.
Should Trump be re-elected, he may have unprecedented power to pursue the GOP's revenge schemes if he moves forward with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 plan, which calls for replacing the entire civil service system with an army of Republican loyalists and implementing extreme Christian nationalism in federal law.
Donald Trump faced Republican voters for the first time as a convicted felon on Tuesday during the final state primaries for the 2024 presidential nomination, where he continued to sweep up votes.
The ex-president has already locked up the Republican nomination to run against President Joe Biden, making the votes in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota formalities.
However, some political observers had wondered if Republican voters might sour on Trump's divisive candidacy after he was found guilty last week of falsifying business records in a conspiracy to unlawfully influence the 2016 election.
Though Trump steamrolled over other Republican presidential hopefuls, he faced a hiccup at a guaranteed-win primary earlier this year.
In May, two months after the last Republican rival standing, Nikki Haley, abandoned her campaign, she still won nearly 22 percent of the votes in the Indiana primary.
Trump on Tuesday picked up 85 percent of the vote in New Mexico, with Haley picking up nine percent after more than 95 percent of ballots were in.
In Montana, where Haley was not on the ballot, Trump picked up nearly 91 percent, while nine percent selected no preference, with 83 percent of the votes in.
The ex-president was uncontested in New Jersey and South Dakota.
It's unclear if support for Haley among a minority of Republicans could translate into trouble for Trump in November's general election, or if those voters -- faced with the choice between Trump and Biden -- will come home to the ex-president's camp when the money is truly on the line.
Haley also picked up a fifth of Maryland's Republican primary voters, as well as 18.2 percent of the vote in Nebraska and 9.4 percent in West Virginia, all after she ended her campaign.
Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, has said she would vote for Trump.
- Tight race -
Trump claims that the historic verdict has only made him stronger, and his campaign has seen eye-watering levels of donations fueled by the trial.
A jury returned guilty verdicts against Trump on Thursday for all 34 charges of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal and cheat voters in the final stages of his winning 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.
Prosecutors said Trump had sex with porn actress Stormy Daniels soon after his wife Melania had given birth in 2006, and then paid hush money a decade later to avoid the fallout, before creating false paperwork to conceal the payment.
He is due for sentencing on July 11 -- just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he will be officially anointed as the nominee.
Trump faces three other criminal cases, including charges related to his unprecedented attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden.
Republican donors appear to have rallied behind their standard-bearer.
The Florida billionaire's campaign said Friday it had raised a staggering $53 million in online small-dollar donations in the hours after the verdict was announced -- more than a third from new donors.
But a tenth of registered Republican voters said Trump's conviction for falsifying business records would make them less likely to support him for president, in an Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.
In a tight race against Biden, even a small loss of support in his base could hurt Trump significantly.
Greene posted to X Tuesday evening a 300-word X post fawning over Trump and the qualities she said she truly loves.
"What’s your favorite thing about President Trump?" Greene asks her followers. "I have several."
As the poets would have us do, Greene proceeds to count the ways.
"One is how nice he is. Genuinely kind hearted and caring about everyone," Greene writes. "Every time I call him or see him, he always ask me how I’m doing in the most sincere way. And I love that he treats everyone that way."
Greene wrote this missive hours before Trump would phone into Newsmax to rail against Hillary Clinton, President Joe Biden, the jurors in his criminal hush money trial, immigrants and writer E. Jean Carroll.
"I also love to talk with him about construction and renovation projects," Greene admits. "I have a unique eye for capturing those special people who truly have mastered the craft of running a good business from top to bottom and bottom to top. President Trump is one of the best I’ve observed."
The CEO of Trump's eponymous media company was reported Tuesday to flag "severe" anomalies he believes warrant an official probe.
Failed business ventures of the former president include Trump University, Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Magazine and Trump Steaks.
"President Trump is so smart and has so many exciting ideas for American greatness that benefit EVERY American," wrote Greene. "I hope with all my heart we get the opportunity to bring the ideas we have discussed to fruition for America. I also truly appreciate how much he loves his family. Every single one of them, and they love him."
Melania Trump was notably absent from her husband's criminal hush money trial in which he was found guilty of falsifying business records to silence an adult film star who said she had an affair with the then-mogul while his wife was taking care of their newborn son.
Trump denies the affair and plans to appeal the conviction.
"But perhaps one of the most admirable traits is how dedicated he is to putting America first. He is literally giving up living a self centered life enjoying his success and hard earned wealth to fight the corrupt and evil people in our government in order to Make America Great Again, not for himself, but for everyday ordinary American citizens," Greene concluded.
"It deeply saddens me that he has been vilified all for the disgusting business of politics. He is the most attacked and lied about man living on planet Earth. And he takes all of the unfair cruel attacks with strength and grace and unwavering hope that through it all people will wake up and see what is happening and join in the fight to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN."
Greene's followers then shared what they loved about Trump.
StrictlyChristo replied, "I think my favorite thing about Trump is that he’s a felon and he’s about to be sentenced to spending many, many months in jail for his crimes."
"I love that he looks like Tupperware after you put spaghetti in it," wrote Brown eyed Susan. "I love the way he aced every single one of those charge against him!"
Five days after a Manhattan jury convicted former President Donald Trump on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents, House Republicans are determined to defend their 2024 GOP nominee.
CNN reported Tuesday that during a private meeting with House Republican members, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told his colleagues that he'll "do everything he can to go after the Department of Justice," adding that "the verdict has ignited support for the former president," according to two sources close to the matter.
Now, according to a new Axios report, GOP hardliners "are pressuring" the speaker "for a vote on legislation aimed at showing their allegiance to" the former president.
Per Axios, the right-wing lawmakers "want a floor vote on a bill that would allow current or former presidents to move any state case brought against them — such as the one in New York that resulted in Trump's conviction — to federal court, according to multiple House Republican sources."
However, one GOPer told the news outlet that the legislation is "unlikely" for now, considering the fact that "a floor vote on the measure could put moderate Republicans in a jam," the report notes.
Republicans would have to determine whether they want to defy Trumpworld or make a decision that could hinder their success in their respective districts.
Axios also notes that, additionally, some GOP senators "signed onto a pledge to seek to block floor action in response to the conviction."
The news outlet reports: "Theoretically, if the bill House conservatives are pushing were signed into law, Trump would be allowed to move the Georgia case from state to federal court. If he was convicted and got elected president again, he could try to pardon himself. Presidents can't pardon state convictions."
