Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies for allegedly violating the racketeering statute as part of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to exchanges in private emails. read more
Washington " A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated key aspects of a gag order limiting what former President Donald Trump can say in the case involving his alleged attempts to thwart the transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election
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A former California police chief who called for the execution of Donald Trump's political enemies, joined the U.S. Capitol attack and then spread conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison on Thursday. read more
Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of bowing to Republican pressure'
Abbe Lowell says if client's last name was anything other than Biden, the charges would not have been been brought'
In his statement, Biden's attorney said Weiss, who was nominated to his job in Delaware by Donald Trump and made special counsel by the current attorney general, Merrick Garland, had "bowed to Republican pressure to file unprecedented and unconstitutional gun charges to renege on a non-prosecution resolution".
"Now, after five years of investigating with no new evidence " and two years after Hunter paid his taxes in full " the US attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors."
The charges come after two IRS whistleblowers told Republican lawmakers that the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden's affairs had been slow-rolled and mismanaged."
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