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She is a local prosecutor who, while a Democrat, had little to do with the former president until he allegedly committed crimes in her jurisdiction. And her 2015 prosecution of a cheating scandal involving Atlanta teachers, a traditionally Democratic group, burnishes her nonpartisan prosecutorial credentials. Unlike federal prosecutors, she is unencumbered by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinions on the powers of the presidency that can complicate charging current or former presidents.

None of this is to say that she will not encounter extreme scrutiny. Her every act will now be examined, as suggested by recent critical comments from a Georgia judge hearing a motion for her recusal from the Trump investigation. It was filed by a false elector, and several others later joined the motion, because of what we see as ethically permissible campaign activity by Ms. Willis. (The judge granted the motion as to the original petitioner, citing conflict of interest, but denied it to the others.) Still, she must proceed with extra care.

Her prosecutorial task will not be easy. When you charge a president, you need more than the standard proof beyond a reasonable doubt; you need proof way beyond a reasonable doubt. That is what the committee has helped deliver, producing a mountain of additional evidence that might have taken her years to gather if she could have gotten it at all.

Take the testimony by the former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and other witnesses about Mr. Trumps attempt to hijack the Justice Department which included an effort by Jeffrey Clark to send a letter to state officials in states, including Georgia, that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that would affect the states election results.

Then there is the phony electors scheme. Here again, the committee came to Ms. Williss aid, obtaining testimony from Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and others describing Mr. Trumps personal involvement in helping recruit false electors in states like Georgia. That testimony directly linked Mr. Trump to the conspiracy Ms. Willis may charge.

Any prosecution must consider intent, and the committee has secured proof of Mr. Trumps state of mind that might not have been otherwise available. Testimony from an array of witnesses especially those closest to Mr. Trump, like his former attorney general Bill Barr and his former White House counsel Pat Cipollone demonstrated that Mr. Trump was told that he had lost the election and, after Dec. 14, when the Electoral College cast its votes, that there was no legitimate legal basis to continue his attack.

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Jared Kushner, a former senior aide to then-president Donald Trump who is married to Trumps daughter, Ivanka, wrote in a memoir to be published next month that he had a bout with thyroid cancer in 2019 that was previously undisclosed.

According to excerpts of the book seen by Reuters, Kushner wrote that White House physician Sean Conley pulled him aside on Air Force One as Trump flew to Texas to tell him his test results from Walter Reed Medical Center showed he had cancer and we need to schedule a surgery right away.

Kushner had the surgery right before Thanksgiving that year and managed to keep his cancer diagnosis secret despite working in a White House where news leaks were rampant. The book excerpts were first reported by the New York Times.

Unbeknownst to Kushner, Trump was aware of the cancer diagnosis. Kushner wrote: The day before the surgery, Trump called me into the Oval Office and motioned for his team to close the door. Are you nervous about the surgery? he asked.

Kushner asked how Trump knew, to which he replied: Im the president. I know everything. I understand that you want to keep these things quiet. I like to keep things like this to myself as well. Youll be just fine. Dont worry about anything with work. We have everything covered here.

Kushner reveals the cancer diagnosis in his memoir Breaking History: A White House Memoir, to be published on 23 August.

Kushner said a substantial part of his thyroid was removed during the surgery, which came during tense negotiations with China about a trade deal.

Kushner was a lead negotiator in a US-brokered normalisation deal between Israel and several Arab countries in 2020. He now runs global investment firm Affinity Partners, and has stepped away from politics for the time being.

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It was great TV.

This is what then-President Donald Trump was apparently thinking as rioters sacked our nations Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While so many of us were dumbstruck and left reeling by what was unfolding at the seat of our nations government, Trump was watching with rapt attention, tuned into the riot that had been his brainchild as though he were witnessing the greatest reality TV show of all time.

Thursday nights hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot brought the depths of Trumps malfeasance more clearly into focus than ever.

The long and the short of it: our nations 45th president instigated the riot and then did exactly nothing to call off the insurrectionists once they were running rampant across and throughout the Capitol. Nothing. Despite repeated pleas for a statement.

The question one needs to ask after six weeks of hearings staged by the Jan. 6 panel: Does any of this matter, or are Trumps hardcore backers so solidly on board with their man that theres nothing that could shake their faith? The good news on that front: Theres increasing evidence that the cumulative effect of the hearings has been taking a toll on the former reality TV stars standing. We can only hope.

For about three hours while the Capitol was under attack from roughly 1 through 4 p.m. Trump was secluded in the White House private dining room. During this period, while our democracy was under siege, the commander-in-chief of our nations armed forces didnt contact the secretary of defense, the attorney general or the secretary of homeland security. Instead, the TV-obsessed Trump apparently just watched and watched.

Its surely worth asking whether Trump should be criminally charged in connection with the events of Jan. 6. There are, of course, reasonable arguments pro and con.

But separate from possible criminal charges coming from the Department of Justice, theres the very real fact that Trump is being tried in the court of public opinion. And hes increasingly looking guiltier than sin.

Suppose it is clear one day soon that Trump has effectively become yesterdays news, with far too many Republicans and independents having moved on for him to ever again have a shot at the presidency. Would that be sufficient? Not for many. But it surely wouldnt be bad at all.

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The past year has been quite a whirlwind for the daytime chat show The View and its lineup of co-hosts, with Megan McCain making her exit after a calamitous and rumor-mongering four-year stretch, and stalwart moderator Whoopi Goldberg taking sporadic absences regarding a network suspension in one case and filming for a new TV show in another. Now, it looks like The View may finally be set to semi-permanently fill the conservative-leaning void that remained after McCain bowed out, and with a member of former President Donald Trumps staff.

It would appear as if ABC execs are in the last leg of contract negotiations to add Alyssa Farah Griffin to The View for Season 26 this fall, according to Variety. The 33-year-old clearly has the resume to back up being the shows more conservative voice, seeing as how she was the press secretary for Mike Pence from 2017-2019 ahead of taking on the same role for the Department of Defense from 2019-2020. She then became the White Houses director of strategic communications under Donald Trump in April 2020, where she stayed until leaving the White House altogether at the end of that year, post-election.

Farah Griffin has been at the center of recent rumors regarding a possible hosting announcement coming soon, and shes reportedly the reason why comedian and this years Oscar co-host Wanda Sykes chose not to be on the show despite having previously scheduled an appearance.

While no one from The View or ABC has confirmed Alyssa Farah Griffins involvement as a permanent co-host in Season 26 a show spokesperson merely said to stay tuned in lieu of any current announcements fans can likely expect to hear something big in the next month or two ahead of the seasons official start.

The View airs weekday mornings on ABC. Head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to see what new and returning shows will be popping up ahead of any new hosts joining the show.

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On Friday, the Rupert Murdoch-ownedWall Street Journal and New York Postpublished editorials saying that Donald Trumps inaction on January 6, 2021, constituted a dereliction of duty and disqualified him from the presidency.

My question is this: Why now?

The easy answer is that the newspapers editors watched the January 6 Committee hearing on the night of Thursday, July 21, and were dismayed to see that Trump had done nothing for three hours while a mob ransacked the Capitol Building. The editors promptly published editorials condemning Trumps inaction on Friday, July 22.

Thats the easy answer but not the true one.

Like every other American, I watched the events of January 6 unfold in real time. I saw the Capitol being attacked. I knew that Trump was in the White House doing nothing. I knew that, if Trump had been concerned, he could have immediately tweeted: No! This is not what I meant at all! Leave the Capitol Building! Stop the violence! Go home!

Trump could have gone on television and urged the rioters to go home.

Trump now says that the whole assault on the Capitol was either 1) peaceful or 2) a false flag operation, with anti-Trump people actually leading the charge. Thats plainly not true, but assume that it was true. Trump could nonetheless have tweeted: I dont know who you people in the Capitol Building are. But, if youre my supporters, then go home! This is not what I meant at all! Leave the Capitol Building!

Trump didnt do that. So we all know that Trump ignored his duty on January 6, and weve all known that since the moment it happened.

Im not alone in having seen what was obvious to any sentient being on the day of January 6, 2021.

Mitch McConnell knew that Trump had done nothing on the day of the violence, and he blamed Trump for it. McConnell no longer blames Trump, but thats due to political cowardice not his understanding of what happened.

Kevin McCarthy knew that Trump had done nothing on the day of the violence, and he blamed Trump for it. McCarthy no longer blames Trump, but thats due to political cowardice not his understanding of what happened.

So I knew that Trump did nothing to stop the violence during his three hours of silence on January 6. And Mitch McConnell knew it. And Kevin McCarthy knew it. And any sentient human being knew it.

But the editors at the Journal and the Post somehow didnt know it?

Why did it take the Journal and the Post 18 months to be shocked shocked! to learn that the Capitol Building was ransacked on January 6, and that the president did nothing for three hours to stop it?

Could it be that the Journal and Post were concerned that they would lose readers if they took an editorial position that was unpopular with many Republicans on January 7, 2021, and the papers decided to wait for the political tide to begin to turn before acknowledging the truth? Is there some other reason for the newspapers to have come to their senses only last week?

I dont know why the newspapers have just now decided to change their tune, but Im 100% confident that this had nothing to do with the newspapers having suddenly realized the Trump sat silently during the violence on January 6.

MarkHerrmannspent 17 years as a partner at a leading international law firm and is now deputy general counsel at a large international company. He is the author of The Curmudgeons Guide to Practicing LawandDrug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy(affiliate links). You can reach him by email atinhouse@abovethelaw.com.

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