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The Washington Post - Opinion: The legal walls are closing in around Trump
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Defeated former president Donald Trump just had a really bad week.
He faces, perhaps for the first time in his political career, a real prospect of being held accountable for his conduct in multiple legal challenges.
- Start with New York, where state Attorney General Letitia James showed her hand in the pending civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances. ...
- Meanwhile, Trump’s risk of criminal liability escalated in the case in Georgia concerning his attempt to bully secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find” just enough votes to reverse Georgia’s election outcome. ...
- As if that were not enough, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection won a round at the Supreme Court, which summarily dismissed Trump’s efforts to invoke executive privilege to prevent the National Archives from turning over documents relating to the actions of his administration that day. ...
As Elizabeth McElvein and Benjamin Wittes explain at Lawfare:
Put simply, the former president, whether he knows it or not, is now in a dramatically weaker position with respect to the committee.
The new legal landscape, for example, almost certainly means that two top Trump officials - former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadow and former top adviser Stephen K. Bannon - can no longer argue that the privilege prevents them from cooperating with the committee.
The same applies to other potential witnesses, and to the former president himself, should the committee seek his testimony.
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The Guardian - Melania Trump’s auction of NFT, hat and painting fall short of $250,000 opening bid
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What do Melania Trump’s wide-brimmed white hat, a painting of her wearing the hat and an NFT of an animated version of the hat have in common?
They were all put up for auction by the former first lady – and as of early Wednesday, failed to rake in the target price of a $250,000 opening bid.
Trump announced earlier this month that she would auction off the autographed hat, which she wore to meet the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife during an official state visit in 2018. The auction also included a watercolor painting of herself wearing the hat and a non-fungible token, or NFT, of the painting.
She insisted that all bids be made in Solana tokens, a cryptocurrency.
When the auction concluded on Wednesday there were only five bids on the items, each around the minimum requirement of 1,800 Solana tokens.
Although the minimum number of tokens was met, a steep dive in the crypto market over the last two weeks resulted in the final bid being approximately $170,000 – about $80,000 short of the opening bid threshold.
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