A man hurled racial slurs at a woman and her family in California before ramming her with his car and fleeing the scene, cops said. Riverside Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a fight between two men in a parking lot in Norco, California, the Sierra Sun Times reported . When they arrived, one of the men said his family had been yelled at.
When the woman confronted the suspect, he continued to use racial slurs and threatened to assault her, then struck her with his vehicle. The woman’s husband hit the man in return before the suspect took off. The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries to her lower legs and was treated at the scene.
Deputies are trying to identify the suspect. Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump , called for protests on behalf of her client while she praised gun rights. The day before Trump’s planned arraignment, Habba sported a necklace with a pistol during an appearance on The Benny Show .
“Is that a firearm necklace?” host Benny Johnson asked. “Oh, I’m a gun lover,” Habba acknowledged. “Are you surprised? I do own guns.
I do shoot. Look, God and guns. ” “I’m full MAGA today,” she continued.
“I don’t care anymore. I literally don’t care anymore. Don’t care.
They’re pushing too far. ” Later in the interview, Habba mentioned guns again while calling for protests against Trump’s indictment. “You know, people keep asking me the same question,” she said.
“CNN and whatever I go on, they think they’re going to get me in a corner with, you know, your client said protest. Absolutely. That’s another right.
” “That’s another right in this country,” she added. “Just like guns. ” Watch the video below from The Benny Show.
CONTINUE READING Show less Donald Trump’s lawyer said the recent indictment handed down by Manhattan D. A. Alvin Bragg will only increase Trump’s profile, much like how criminal cases boosted the fandom of rappers like Tupac and Biggie Smalls, TMZ reported .
“Donald Trump is Tupac,” attorney Alina Habba said on The Benny Show podcast. “Donald Trump is Biggie Smalls — he’s better than Tupac. .
. . Donald Trump is his own brand.
I mean, he is everything. ” “This is just gonna boost him,” she continued. “We’ve seen it in the polls — it’s not a question, it’s a fact.
We’ve seen his polls go up. He’s up, what, 30 points?” According to reports, Trump has widened his lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in regards to a potential 2024 matchup, even though DeSantis has not thrown his hat in the ring as of yet.
CONTINUE READING Show less Last week, the New York Post ran a cover story , in the wake of Donald Trump’s indictment, with this headline: “Teflon’s Gone. ” The reference was to the criminal former president’s seemingly superhuman ability to avoid political consequences for things no one else could avoid. It was also in reference to a previous New York Post edition.
The cover lines on March 2, 2016: “Teflon Don! Trump wins seven states: Mud fails to stick. ” Now that he’s been indicted, things appear to be sticking. But things had always been sticking.
Politically, since it was discovered that Russia interfered on Trump’s behalf in the 2016 presidential election. Trump was impeached twice. He lost the 2020 election.
(An incumbent hadn’t lost in the last four decades. ) Adversity never made him stronger. It made him weaker.
It’s been showing for a while. But as we witness, for the first time in American history, today’s arraignment of a former president, let’s remember something else. Things had been sticking not only politically.
They had been sticking legally, too. I think we’ll look back to see how wrong we’ve been. Trump was never made of Teflon.
Things stuck. They always stuck. First, gradually.
Then suddenly. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had given up investigating whether Trump paid, with campaign money, Stormy Daniels to keep quiet. But then, in December, a Manhattan jury “found two Trump Organization companies guilty on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records connected to a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities by failing to report and pay taxes on compensation for top executives,” per CNN.
That gave Bragg a firm foundation to stand on. We can expect that pattern to repeat itself. The Post reported over the weekend that federal prosecutors “have amassed fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction” by Trump in the investigation of government secrets found at his private Florida club.
The evidence suggests that, after a subpoena had been delivered, “Trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession. ” The AP ran a report this morning rounding up other investigations, including one in Washington, related to the J6 insurrection, and in Atlanta, related to attempts to interfere with vote counting in Georgia. These investigations, the AP reported, stand “in contrast to the last special counsel investigation involving Trump, when he was president and when Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors sought to determine whether Trump’s 2016 campaign had colluded with Russia to tip the election.
” We can be sure that the heads of each of these investigations are going to watch today’s arraignment carefully. None wants to be singled out as attacking a former president. Together, though, it’s different.
Together, their investigations look less like politics and more like the rule of law. The rule of law is a facade. Any normal person under criminal investigation for, say, stealing government secrets would have been sentenced ages ago.
But a former president isn’t a normal person. Everything he touches is political. So what the heads of each of these investigations is going to look for today isn’t about the law.
It’s about answering a simple question: How dangerous is it to prosecute Trump? Which brings us back to things sticking, always sticking. To gauge how dangerous it is to prosecute a former president who has announced his intention to run for president again, each investigation must gauge how strong he is politically. Or, more precisely, how weak he is.
When he was president, the Republican Party protected him. He withstood Robert Mueller’s investigation. He withstood two attempts to remove him.
Now? If he’s still strong, investigators will continue to be cautious. We’ll likely never see a criminal former president held accountable for his crimes. But if he’s weak, expect Trump to stumble under the weight of everything that’s been sticking to him, politically and legally, for years and years.
Expect everything everywhere all at once. Trump was never made of Teflon. He only looked that way.
(He was made to look that way. ) But he’s still a human being living within human limitations. Choices, therefore, have consequences.
They always do. They might not accumulate as quickly as we’d like them to, but still they accumulate. First, gradually.
Then, suddenly. CONTINUE READING Show less.
From: rawstory
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