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Asian shares subdued, yen and yuan hover near 8-mth troughs
Asian shares subdued, yen and yuan hover near 8-mth troughs
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY Asian shares were sudued on Thursday after global central banks reaffirmed their inflation-fighting resolve,
2023-06-29 10:22
God of War Ragnarok is getting Photo Mode at a later date
God of War Ragnarok is getting Photo Mode at a later date
'God of War Ragnarok' is getting this popular feature after its release.
1970-01-01 08:00
West Virginia's Bob Huggins arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Pittsburgh
West Virginia's Bob Huggins arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Pittsburgh
West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving
2023-06-17 23:35
Amazon Gains on Optimistic Outlook Fueled by E-Commerce Business
Amazon Gains on Optimistic Outlook Fueled by E-Commerce Business
Amazon.com Inc. gave a sales outlook that topped estimates on a strong performance from its main e-commerce business.
2023-08-04 04:33
A Guide to Argentina’s Many Exchange Rates
A Guide to Argentina’s Many Exchange Rates
Argentina’s government has created a tangle of rules about who can access dollars and for what, spawning a
2023-08-11 22:49
Raheem Sterling explains why Mauricio Pochettino is right manager for Chelsea
Raheem Sterling explains why Mauricio Pochettino is right manager for Chelsea
Raheem Sterling has backed new manager Mauricio Pochettino to succeed at Chelsea.
2023-05-30 20:05
Jonathan Turley tells Fox News the Trump indictment is ‘extremely damning’ and a ‘hit below the waterline’
Jonathan Turley tells Fox News the Trump indictment is ‘extremely damning’ and a ‘hit below the waterline’
Fox News legal commentator Jonathan Turley didn’t hold back after the indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 37 counts was unsealed. The indictment, unsealed on Friday afternoon, stems from Mr Trump’s allegedly unlawful retention of hundreds of documents at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago. Trump aide Walt Nauta has also been charged after he was apparently spotted on surveillance footage moving boxes at the property. The ex-president stands accused of having moved classified documents from the White House at the end of his presidency despite not having the right to do so. Mr Trump showed classified documents to others twice in 2021, the legal filing states. Mr Turley, the Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, said on Fox News on Friday afternoon that “it is an extremely damning indictment”. “There are indictments that are sometimes called narrative or speaking indictments. These are indictments that are really meant to make a point as to the depth of the evidence, there are some indictments that are just bare bones,” he added. This is not one of those indictments, Mr Turley said. “The Special Counsel knew that there would be a lot of people who were going to allege that the Department of Justice was acting in a biased or politically motivated way. This is clearly an indictment that was drafted to answer those questions. It's overwhelming in detail,” he continued. “The Trump team should not fool itself. These are hits below the waterline. These are witnesses who apparently testified under oath [and] gave statements to federal investigators, both of which can be criminally charged, if they're false.” “Those witnesses are directly quoting the president in encouraging others not to look for documents or allegedly to conceal them. It's damaging,” Mr Turley said. “This is not an indictment that you can dismiss. There are a lot of people who are testifying under oath, and they're saying highly incriminating things,” the attorney added. Speaking about the images from Mar-a-Lago of the boxes of documents found in a ballroom and a bathroom, in addition to other less-than-ideal places, Mr Turley said, “It's really breathtaking. Obviously, this is mishandling. Putting the classified documents into ballrooms and bathrooms borders on the bizarre. And these are the types of pictures that hit you below the waterline in a trial. “It's hard to show a picture of these boxes surrounding a toilet and saying ‘we really acted responsibly,’” he added, going on to note that “the government is bringing dozens of counts – they only have to land one of those punches”. “Keep in mind that every one of these counts is coming with a substantial potential sentence,” Mr Turley said. The lawyer said that the Trump legal team has “to run the table, they have to take out every single count, or you've got a 76-year-old man looking at a potentially terminal sentence”. “The visual and the audio tape evidence is really daunting. The audio tape that they transcribe makes it sound like the President was using some of these documents as trophies. And that's likely to be the narrative that comes out of the trial, that he's boasting. That's going to undermine it even further in the eyes of these jurors,” Mr Turley concluded. According to the indictment, “In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey (‘The Bedminster Club’), during an audio-recorded meeting with a writer, a publisher, and two members of his staff, none of whom possessed a security clearance, TRUMP showed and described a ‘plan of attack’ that TRUMP said was prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official”. “TRUMP told the individuals that the plan was ‘highly confidential’ and ‘secret.’ TRUMP also said, ‘as president I could have declassified it,’ and, ‘Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret’,” the filing says. A transcript of the 2021 tape was revealed by CNN on Friday morning, hours after news emerged that Mr Trump had been indicted. On the tape, first reported last week, he specifically referenced a classified Department of Defense document regarding an attack on Iran, according to the transcript. It was reported last week that prosecutors had procured the audio recording, which was made in 2021 at Mr Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, resort with two individuals working on the autobiography of Mr Trump’s final White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in addition to aides to the former president, such as Marco Martin, a communications staffer. The transcript implies that Mr Trump is showing the document he’s speaking about during the conversation.CNN reported that several sources have said that the sound from the recording includes the rustling of papers, indicating that Mr Trump may have been moving the document around. But it’s not clear if it was the document regarding Iran. “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Mr Trump said. “This was done by the military and given to me.” At the time, Mr Trump was complaining about the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. The meeting took place not long after a story published by The New Yorker outlined how Gen Milley told the Joint Chiefs during the last days of Mr Trump’s time in office to make sure that the then-president not give any illegal orders and that Gen Milley should be made aware if there were any concerns. “Well, with Milley – uh, let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him,” Mr Trump said, the transcript shows. “They presented me this – this is off the record, but – they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at some. This was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him.” “All sorts of stuff – pages long, look. Wait a minute, let’s see here. I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Mr Trump added. “Secret” and “confidential” are both degrees of classified information. Read More Hiding documents from the FBI and foreign nuclear plans: Key allegations in Trump’s unsealed indictment Mystery over female Trump family member allegedly involved in decisions over secret papers Trump news — latest: Trump ‘plotted to hide documents from FBI after showing military docs to visitors’
2023-06-10 23:07
Climate activists disrupt British Open
Climate activists disrupt British Open
Climate activists disrupted the British Open on Friday, setting off a smoke flare and throwing orange powder onto...
2023-07-21 20:27
Rugby World Cup to pay tribute to victims of disasters in Morocco and Libya
Rugby World Cup to pay tribute to victims of disasters in Morocco and Libya
Rugby fans and players will pay tribute to the victims of the natural disasters that have hit Libya and Morocco ahead of a World Cup match between France and Uruguay on Thursday
2023-09-14 21:03
Was Adept a 'crazy girlfriend'? Asmongold 'completely supports' xQc amid relationship drama: 'Sad, weird and awful'
Was Adept a 'crazy girlfriend'? Asmongold 'completely supports' xQc amid relationship drama: 'Sad, weird and awful'
Asmongold states, 'I mean, if you're talking about the stuff with Adept, I just think that... I think it's sad. It's just weird'
2023-06-16 18:36
How to Unlock the Valois Revolver in Warzone and Vanguard
How to Unlock the Valois Revolver in Warzone and Vanguard
Here's how to unlock the Valois Revolver in Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard.
1970-01-01 08:00
Trump ally Kari Lake to launch US Senate bid in Arizona
Trump ally Kari Lake to launch US Senate bid in Arizona
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a far-right ally of Donald Trump, on Tuesday is expected
2023-10-10 18:06