Trump is guilty on all charges
Donald Trump Convicted of all 34 felonies in the criminal case The case stems from hush money paid to a porn star in the run-up to the 2016 election. He is the first US president to be convicted of a felony, a stain he will carry as he tries to regain the presidency.
The 12 New Yorkers who made up the jury heard weeks of sleazy testimony about tabloid trading, sexual encounters between Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels and a $130,000 bribe to keep her silent.
Prosecutors claim Trump committed a fraud on the American people, saying he falsified records related to reimbursements for expenses to his one-time fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid her out of his own pocket.
My colleague Jonah Bromwich, who was in court, reported that Trump had no visible reaction after hearing the verdict. But once outside, he repeated a now-familiar string of complaints: that the judge was biased, that prosecutors had brought the case to keep him out of the White House, and that he should be allowed to change the venue of the trial because Manhattan tends to be liberal. “The real verdict will be made by the people on November 5th,” Trump said.
The jury’s verdict is an indelible moment in American history, the only one of four criminal cases against Trump that is likely to go to trial before Election Day. The verdict is set for July 11, four days before the start of the Republican National Convention.
detail: The felony conviction carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison, but Trump may never go to prison. He will likely receive probation and will certainly appeal the verdict. It could be years before the case is resolved.
But whatever the verdict, There’s nothing stopping a felon from running for president Or serve in the White House. Trump is already using the verdict to boost his campaign, painting himself as a victim of a Democratic cabal. Soon after Trump was found guilty, his campaign sent out an emailed fundraising appeal calling him a “political prisoner.”
If a former president is sentenced to prison, the Secret Service, which is legally responsible for protecting former presidents, will also follow him. Here’s what it might look like.
Biden will allow Ukraine to use US weapons in Russia
The Biden administration has decided to allow Ukraine Attacks in Russia using US-made weapons Senior US officials said yesterday the move was aimed at undermining Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region.
The decision follows weeks of discussions between the United States and Ukraine after Russia began a large-scale offensive on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. The U.S. approval was only for strikes on military bases in Russia used to attack the Kharkiv region.
A U.S. official said Russian forces have been attacking areas around the city with artillery and missiles fired from inside Russia, and Ukrainians have asked the United States to give them greater latitude.
The leaders of NATO, France and Germany recently urged the United States to make such a decision. In internal government discussions, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also supported the move.
In eastern Germany, the German Democratic Republic’s Pirna Museum held a May Day event where people could celebrate the cars of the communist era. Smaller and less powerful than their Western counterparts – the Trabant has a reinforced cardboard chassis – But they are both a source of local pride and political discontent..
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What constitutes a museum?
The new Banksy Museum in New York City does not house or display any real Banksy works, only reproductions. Admission to the museum is the same as at the Met, at $30, but even in broad terms, This isn’t actually a museum..
But it’s an interesting thought experiment: Can street art still work off the street? Can artists be anti-establishment and still sell for millions of dollars at auction?
Ultimately, the Banksy Museum may have been built by Banksy himself to mock the market’s fetishization of street art. In many ways, the effort proves his point: that art has become inextricable from commerce.
