IlluMyFi

The 2024 hopeful was asked during a debate with Ron DeSantis by CNN host Jake Tapper if she agreed with Mr Trump that a president should have complete immunity, after he appeared at a federal appeals court earlier this week. Lawyers for Mr Trump told a panel of judges that a president should have that immunity even if they ordered the assassination of a political rival unless they were impeached and convicted in the US Senate. "No, that's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous," said Ms Haley. "You can't go and kill a political rival and then claim, you know, immunity from a president. I think we have to start doing things that are right." Mr Trump's former UN Ambassador then went on to describe the characteristics of a good leader. "What a leader does is they bring out the best in people and get them to see the way forward. That's what we need in our country," Ms Haley said. "We don't need this chaos anymore." Mr Trump has asked the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court's rejection of immunity in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election subversion case. Mr Trump, who is the first and only former or sitting president to be criminally charged, faces a total of 91 felony counts across his four criminal indictments by state and federal prosecutors. Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged him with four criminal counts over his efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election. These include a conspiracy to violate civil rights, a conspiracy to defraud the government, the corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding and a conspiracy to carry out such obstruction. Mr Trump also faces 40 federal felony charges with Mr Smith accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving the White House. That case is expected to go to trial in May 2024. In Fulton County, Georgia, Mr Trump and 18 associates have been charged with trying to subvert the 2020 election results in the state in a sprawling Rico case. Mr Trump faces 13 felony charges. Three defendants, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, have entered guilty pleas in return for helping prosecutors. No trial date has yet been set for the remaining 16 defendants. Mr Trump has also been accused in New York City of falsifying business records in connection with a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. Mr Trump was indicted in March and is expected to go to trial on 25 March 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to every charge in each case and has accused prosecutors of "election interference" and an attempt to derail his 2024 run for a second term in the Oval Office.

Sentiment

Bearish/Bullish

13.01.24 11:34

by independent.co.uk

Ed Davey facing general election challenge from former Post Office worker

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will be challenged in his constituency at the general election by a former Post Office worker who is demanding justice for all those affected by the Horizon scandal. Yvonne Tracey, who spent three decades at the Post Office, said Sir Ed, who served as postal affairs minister from 2010 to 2012, can't be allowed to stand again "unchallenged" in his southwest London seat of Kingston and Surbiton, where she lives. Sir Davey, who has faced calls to resign over the hundreds of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses who were wrongly held responsible for accounting errors created by faulty software, earlier this week said he "deeply regretted" not getting to the bottom of the scandal but refused to apologise. Conservative ministers have accused Mr Davey, who said he had been lied to repeatedly on an "industrial scale" by the Post Office, of not asking the right questions. Ms Tracey, a 68-year-old grandmother, told Sky News those affected by the scandal are "still not hearing the truth", adding that the recent ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which brought the affairs back into the public spotlight, made her "very sad" and "very angry". Sir Ed initially refused to meet sub-postmaster Alan Bates, whom the ITV drama is named after, saying in a short letter that it "wouldn't serve any purpose". He met Mr Bates later and he was the first minister on public record to do so. A sub-postmaster who ran a post office in Sir Ed's constituency lost his home, his business and attempted to take his own life on more than one occasion after being caught up in the scandal, Ms Tracey, who waselected to Kingston Council in 2022 and represents the local residents' group, said. "He tried three times to get in touch with Sir Ed and every time he was turned away, refused or ignored," she added. The Liberal Democrats said the sub-postmaster lived outside Sir Ed's constituency and parliamentary convention meant he was therefore unable to get involved in the case. On Wednesday prime minister Rishi Sunak announced new legislation to exonerate wrongly convicted Post Office branch managers after one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history. The prime minister also said there would be a new upfront payment of £75,000 for some of those affected. Mr Sunak said a new law would be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are "swiftly exonerated and compensated''. He told the Commons: "This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation's history. "People who worked hard to serve their communities had their lives and their reputations destroyed through absolutely no fault of their own. The victims must get justice and compensation."