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Which is to say that Trump is such a skinflint that hed rather risk McGahn telling Congress that, yes, the president personally directed him to commit obstruction of justiceto fire Robert Mueller and then to create a fake paper trail to suggest that Trump never asked him to do thatthan have to shell out his own money to try to stop it!

So thats one legal wall Trump has run into. And yes, it matters. If the facts stated in the Mueller Report are correct, and McGahn fesses up to them, it may not make any difference to the January 6 crowd, but we will have a presidents legal counsel on the record saying that the president obstructed justice. Thats a big deal.

The second and more prominent wall, of course, was the Supreme Court, which needed about three seconds to decide that Trumps accountants did indeed have to turn over his tax returns to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.

The courts original ruling was delivered last July, at which time even Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined a seven-justice majority concurring with Chief Justice John Robertss ruling that no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding (Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented). In February, the court denied Trumps emergency request to block a subpoena for the returns, ending the matter. This time, no dissents were publicly noted.

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Don McGahn's Testimony Could Finally Break Donald Trump's Ability to Evade the Law - The New Republic

In truth, Trump lost because (among other reasons) he failed to encourage his base to vote by mail. Only about one-third of Trump voters voted by mail, as compared to nearly 60 percent of Biden voters, according to the Pew Research Center. This makes no sense: If anything, more Trump voters should have voted by mail, because Trump voters were older, and older people were the likeliest age demographic to vote by mail. Trump voters were also whiter, and white people were much more likely to vote by mail than Black people. And Trump voters were richer, and rich people were much more likely to vote by mail than people who werent rich.

This outcome was not exactly unforeseen. As far back as July, many Republicans were warning that Trumps war on mail-in balloting would cost him Republican votes. Trump failed to listen and lost; yet now that Trumps been proven wrong, Republicans are falling in line to limit mail-in balloting. Do anything else, and youll anger Trump loyalists, and maybe even the Chief himself.

How do we know Trump was an idiot to oppose mail-in ballots? (I mean, apart from the fact that Trump himself voted by mail in both the Florida primary and the general?) Because in April the Census released some data that demonstrated precisely how costly that opposition proved to be.

Before I dig into these numbers, let me remind you that America is a gerontocracy. The president, Joe Biden, is, at 78, the oldest weve ever had. The average ages in Congress are 64.3 (Senate) and 58.4 (House). These averages exceed those in the last three Congresses, and according to The Washington Post, our current Senate is the oldest in history. There are a variety of reasons why our countrys leaders are old, but a key reason, as Ive explained elsewhere, is that the electorate is disproportionately elderly (voters age 65 and older accounted for 22 percent of the electorate in 2020). The Baby Boom is entering old age, and older people are the likeliest age group to vote.

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Donald Trump's Obsessions Are Hurting the GOP's Voter Suppression Efforts - The New Republic

Yet another long, gray stretch of concrete is going to have Donald Trump's name plastered on it, except this time rather than rising high above New York City, it will stretch across the Oklahoma panhandle.

Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma slipped a proposal to name a stretch of highway after the former president in the state legislature's annual omnibus bridge and highway-naming bill.

On Friday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the legislation into law, officially renaming a 20-mile stretch of US 287 between Boise City and the Oklahoma-Texas border after Mr Trump.

According to The Oklahoman, the legislation was almost derailed in the state legislature when the state Senate Minority Leader Kay Floyd, a Democrat, pointed out that state law requires that a person be dead for at least three years before a highway or bridge can be named in their honor.

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That rule is excepted in the case of Medal of Honor recipients.

However, in a not at all unprecedented move, Republicans simply opted to change the rules in order to appease Mr Trump.

In an amendment to SB 624, they nixed the three-year requirement.

The new signage for the stretch of highway named after the former president will be paid for by the Republican legislators who pushed for the bill.

It's not the first time the state has tried to name a stretch of highway after Mr Trump; in 2019, a pair of Republican lawmakers pushed for the former president to have his name added to a portion of Route 66.

However, the proposal was met with immediate push-back from people on both sides of the political aisle, who argued that the historic highway should not be politicised.

The bill will go into effect on 1 November, changing the highway to President Donald J Trump Highway.

It's no secret that Mr Trump likes having his name on things.

Mr Trump has lent his name to his chain of hotels, steaks, a litigation-marred "university," and now a highway.

However, Mr Trump's loftiest hope is not to get his name on a major national monument, but rather his face.

During discussions with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Mr Trump reportedly told her it had always been his dream to have his face carved into Mount Rushmore alongside the visages of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

She said she initially thought it was a joke, but said the former president appeared to be serious.

Following the discussion, Ms Noem gave Mr Trump a $1,100 bust depicting Mount Rushmore, but with one notable change; his face had been carved into the monument.

She said she gave it to him because she was sure it was something he wanted to receive.

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Donald Trump gets a highway named after him in Oklahoma thanks to Republicans - The Independent

Donald Trump posted a statement ahead of Memorial Day, lamenting higher gas prices and lauding his performance as president.

But despite what you might have seen on Instagram, the statement wasnt made on Twitter, where Trump once had nearly 89 million followers.

The widely shared Instagram post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

On May 27, Trump posted a statement on DonaldJTrump.com noting the approach of Memorial Day, the recent rise in gasoline prices and "how great of a job Donald Trump did as President."

The full text of the statement appeared in the Instagram post, but it was formatted to make it appear as though it came from @realDonaldTrump, Trumps former Twitter account. The Instagram poster wrote in his caption: "Hes back!!!"

Hes not.

Twitter announced Jan. 8 it had permanently suspended Trumps account in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol two days earlier, saying: "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

Citing two Trump tweets on Jan. 8, Twitter said: "We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy, which aims to prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021."

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed May 28 that Trump's account remains permanently suspended. It appears the message used by the Instagram account came from an account called @realDonaldTrump onGab.com, an alternative social networking site,that says it is an "uncensored Twitter archive and shares email statements sent by The Office of Donald J. Trump."

When we searched @realDonaldTrump on Twitter on May 28, a message appeared saying the account has been suspended.

We rate the Instagram post False.

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Donald Trump is posting statements online, but he's not back on Twitter - PolitiFact

Former President Donald Trump is frustrated over mounting legal bills amid two ongoing New York investigations into his business, according to a report by the Daily Beast.

Earlier this month, The New York attorney general's office announced that it was conducting a criminal probe into the Trump Organization's finances and whether they violated state laws. Another civil case launched by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has been ongoing.

The former president is reportedly frustrated with the investigations because of the possible legal peril they bring and the financial costs attached to them.

One source told the Daily Beast that Trump has complained that the legal bills are becoming "such a pain in the ass." The former president is reportedly also worried that investigators could drag the case out for years.

Read more: Inside Trump's hot vax New Jersey summer, where he's playing golf and plotting rallies while legal storms form

Close advisors and Trump's legal team have reassured the ex-president that they don't believe he will actually be indicted, two people familiar with the situation told the Daily Beast.

"I told him that he has nothing to worry about," one advisor said.

Trump has been very vocal about his feelings toward the New York probes.

After Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced this week that he had convened a grand juryto consider evidence on the case, Trump claimed the probe was a "continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History."

"It began the day I came down the escalator in Trump Tower, and it's never stopped," Trump said in a press release.

On top of this, Trump is still at loggerheads with former attorney Rudy Giuliani, whose legal team continues to call on the former president to pay for his efforts around the election.

According to New York Times, Trump has still not paid Giuliani for his work and instructed his aides not to pay the legal feesbecause he was upset that Giuliani had not done more to push back against his second impeachment that month.

Michael Cohen, Trump's former onetime personal attorney, told Insider that the ex-president should expect yet more bad news.

"As more documents are reviewed by the NYAG and NYDA, it appears that the troubles for Donald Trump just keep on coming," he said. "Soon enough, Donald and associates will be held responsible for their actions."

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Trump is frustrated about his mounting legal fees as probes into Trump Organization heat up, report says - Business Insider