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In an interview with "7.30," "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker expressed what was challenging about making fun of Donald Trump: "It's tricky now because satire has become reality," he said. "We were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn't keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with." This would certainly be an issue since fans of satire come to expect certain conventions from the genre, which is meant to take reality as its basis but also expand upon reality to make it more humorous than it actually is. "So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we'll do ours," Parker added.

"South Park" featured Trump/Mr. Garrison quite a bit during the real Trump's actual presidential campaign; however, things changed after he actually became president. In an interview with Collider, Parker and Matt Stone noted, "Now we were just full-on scared that he's President. Now we're just scared for our lives, so we wanted this idea of likenot only had we had it that everyone was starting to get more and more terrified of the president, but the president himself was feeling more and more stuck and put in a hole, so we figured maybe it's time to bring Garrison back and let him come back to town."

Apparently, the president's actual election marked a difference in how Parker and Stone viewed him: from comic inspiration into a type of comedy in itself that is also scary.

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The Real Reason South Park Laid Off The Donald Trump Jokes - Looper

Every day, Canadians lose their lives because of the toxic drug crisis its destroying communities and families. This week, the British Columbia Coroner released a report showing that the toxic drug crisis is escalating 10,000 people have lost their lives in B.C. alone since 2016.

We need to take immediate action to stop the devastation and grief that this public health crisis is causing. It is not about numbers; this is about preventing more loss and protecting the lives of our loved ones.

Instead of acting, the Liberals sat by and watched for seven years while people died it's appalling. Now, the Liberals have decided to take a patchwork approach to a national crisis by decriminalizing personal possession in B.C. It is unacceptable that the Liberals, after taking so long to act, have delivered a lackluster plan that does not address the severity of the crisis or help anyone outside of the Rockies.

There are solutions available that must be rapidly scaled up and developed not just provincially but nationally so that no more preventable deaths happen. New Democrats have called on the Liberals to introduce a national health strategy for fighting the toxic drug emergency. We need education and prevention, safer supply, harm reduction and treatment and recovery services.

Despite mounting losses and evidence, the Liberal government has doubled down on an incremental approach that is costing lives. New Democrats know that this is wrong thats why we proposed real solutions. But instead of listening, the Liberals teamed up with the Conservatives to follow the status quo. We know that the time for pilot projects has well passed.

The NDP will keep fighting so that parents stop prematurely burying their children. We will push the Liberals to adopt a comprehensive emergency response to turn the tide on this crisis."

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10000 lives lost in a single province but the Liberals still refuse to fight the drug crisis - New Democratic Party

Joe Biden could end the investigations right now

Why doesnt Joe Biden put a stop to the Donald Trump investigations even though he doesnt like him?

Biden only has to issue Trump a presidential pardon and put a stop to all the Democratic harassment of the man, and stop wasting taxpayer dollars and investigators time. He was our president and even if you feel he was robbed of his second term, hes still a private citizen and deserves to be treated as such.

I doubt the Democrats have proof the issue being investigated even took place. President Biden should pardon Trump and end the witch hunts.

Gary Colborn

Carlsbad

Pardon Trump? Instead of misusing and abusing that presidential privilege like his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden and all Americans who support our Constitution, believe that no one is above the law, and expect our elected officials to put country first over personal gain and ego, should be calling for Trump to step forward and take responsibility for his self-serving actions and lies that have exacerbated our already divided nation.

Highly improbable? Yes. Better than turning a blind eye to all the damage Trump has brought upon our democracy by pardoning him? Absolutely!

John Schroeder

Chula Vista

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Opinion: Should Joe Biden just pardon Donald Trump to heal growing political division? - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Donald Trump's one-time White House counsel said in an interview that among the many legal threats the former president faces, the Justice Department's sprawling Capitol riot probe is the most dangerous.

"No matter what, the most serious case he faces is the January 6 investigation," Ty Cobb, who served as White House special counsel in 2017 and 2018, told Insider. "Not necessarily because of January 6 alone but coupled with the fake electors scheme and the interference alleged in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere."

"That's the case that has him at the most risk and is more at the heart of what the Justice Department would take seriously," he added.

The DOJ's investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has several threads. In addition to prosecuting those who carried out the riot, investigators are also digging into the events that led up to the failed insurrection; any attempts to obstruct the inquiry; and efforts by Trump's allies to use false slates of electors to undo Joe Biden's 2020 victory in seven battleground states.

Cobb, who helped coordinate the Trump White House's response to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference, told Insider that when he worked with Trump, the former president, "for the most part," listened to his advice.

But "as time has gone by, he's gotten farther and farther ahead of his lawyers, to the point where it's hard to tell if they're following his advice or if he's following theirs," Cobb said.

Trump has repeatedly downplayed the January 6 attack, calling it a "simple protest that got out of hand." He also accused the Justice Department of going on a politically motivated fishing expedition against his supporters.

But the former president's attention has shifted in recent days to the department's ongoing investigation into his handling of official government records. The FBI took the extraordinary step of executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month where agents recovered more than a dozen boxes, some of which contained classified and top-secret material, that Trump moved from the White House upon leaving office.

The unprecedented raid came after the Justice Department and the National Archives had tried for months to get Trump to turn over the records. According to the FBI's search warrant, the feds are investigating whether Trump broke at least three US laws, including the Espionage Act, when he took the records to his private residence in Florida.

Peter Zeidenberg, a longtime former federal prosecutor, told Insider on Monday that he believes the department's investigation into Trump's handling of the documents is "the most direct and immediate threat by far" to the former president.

He added that Attorney General Merrick Garland and other top DOJ and FBI officials are "politically savvy" and likely anticipated the blowback from Trump and his allies following the raid.

"The only reason they would open themselves up to it is if they thought" that the public would view the raid as "being completely defensible once the facts came out," Zeidenberg said.

"I think that it's going to be a pretty clean case," he said, adding that by contrast, the department's Capitol riot probe is much more complex.

"I'm not saying it couldn't be done or it shouldn't be done," but "it would take two years to prepare that case" and months to then present it, Zeidenberg told Insider. "There would be tons of legal issues, and it would be a really heavy lift."

In addition to the DOJ's criminal investigations into the Capitol riot and Trump's handling of government records, the former president also faces legal threats on a state level.

In Georgia, the Fulton County district attorney's office isinvestigating if Trump and his allies broke laws in their quest to nullify Biden's 2020 victory in the state. And in New York, the Manhattan district attorney's office recentlysecured a plea deal with Trump's chief bookkeeper, Allen Weisselberg, who last week pleaded guilty to more than a dozen felonies and agreed to implicate the Trump Organization.

"He should be worried about all these investigations," one lawyer familiar with the Trump team's thought process told Insider last week. "I think he's a target of all of them and I think he'll get indicted."

The former president has criticized the FBI's search as a corrupt exercise of power, and his legal team filed a motion Mondayrequesting that a special master be appointed to review evidence that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.

Cobb told CBS News on Friday that he thinks the Justice Department might also be in favor of appointing a special master to "err on the side of caution."

"This is an unprecedented prosecution, investigation of a former president," Cobb said. "This has never happened before, so I think I would want to play it by the letter of the law."

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Ty Cobb: DOJ January 6 probe is the biggest legal threat to Trump - Business Insider

Ottawa, ON Dan Albas, Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance, and Grard Deltell, Conservative Shadow Minister for Innovation, Science and Industry, released the following statement after Julys inflation reached 7.6 per cent:

Todays Consumer Price Index report confirms what Canadians are already feeling that the dollars in their pockets arent going as far as they used to.

With inflation remaining at levels not seen since the 1980s Canadians are struggling to afford basic essentials. Yet, rather than controlling spending and lowering inflationary pressures, the Liberals remain committed to their tax and spend agenda and continue to reject any attempt to provide cost-of-living relief.

Facing stubbornly high inflation, rising interest rates, and a worsening labour market, Canadian families are increasingly worried about a Liberal-made recession on the horizon.

The runway for a soft-landing to steer Canadas economy clear of a recession is getting shorter and shorter. Unfortunately, the Liberals and their NDP allies have rejected Conservative proposals to reduce inflationary pressure by getting their reckless government spending under control.

Instead, the Liberals and their NDP partners seem to be out-of-touch with the cost-of-living crisis Canadians are facing. As a result of their failure to control spending and provide cost-of-living relief, Canada appears poised to face a significant economic downturn.

Canadians deserve a government that will fight the cost-of-living crisis and make life more affordable. That is why Conservatives will continue to propose common-sense ideas, like suspending the GST on gasoline and diesel.

Conservatives will continue to fight to leave more money in the pockets of hard-working Canadians, protect the value of the money that they earn, and end the governments inflation-fueling reckless spending.

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With looming economic woes, Liberals' lack of leadership on inflation only hurts Canadians - Conservative Party of Canada