Kremlin Cruz: Whose Side Are You On?

 

Days after Ted Cruz votes against aid to Ukraine, Vladamir Putin has his longtime opponent, Alexei Navalny, assassinated in prison. Putin is the enemy of freedom. And so are those who enable him. Whose side are you on?

GOP Leaders Make FOOLS OF THEMSELVES on TV after Trump Speech

 

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POLITICO Nightly: A ‘tremendous lapse in judgment’ by a Trump prosecutor

BY ANKUSH KHARDORI Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears during a hearing that’s part of the Georgia election indictments on Nov. 21, 2023 in Atlanta. | Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer via AP SORRY FOR THE DELAY — A prosecutor’s credibility is among their most valuable assets, but it can be damaged in an instant. It’s a lesson many prosecutors know instinctively — and one that Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who charged Donald Trump with a racketeering conspiracy in Georgia following the 2020 election, learned today after a scathing ruling from the judge overseeing the case. The decision concerned whether Willis and her office could remain on the case after the world learned that she and the lead prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade, had been engaged in a romantic relationship. Judge Scott McAfee concluded that Willis and her office could stay on the case if Wade left the team — a step that the judge said was necessary in order to prevent “a significant appearance of impropriety” that resulted from the relationship. Within hours, Wade had stepped aside . On its face the decision is a victory for Willis because it provides a path forward for the case to proceed, but the judge made a series of sharply worded observations about Willis’s conduct. He concluded that Willis had engaged in a “tremendous lapse in judgment” and that she had testified in an “unprofessional manner” when she took the stand last month during an evidentiary hearing about the allegations. He questioned the veracity of testimony provided by Willis and Wade, writing that there were “reasonable questions” about whether they had “testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship.” Judge McAfee also took issue with Willis’s speech at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta back in January, shortly after one of the defendant’s first raised the allegations in a court filing. Willis very unwisely questioned whether the attacks on her had been racially motivated. The judge described the speech as “legally improper.” “Providing this type of public comment,” he wrote, “creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.” He indicated that he is open to a gag order that would prevent the office from publicly commenting on the case outside the courtroom. So what does this all mean? Supporters of the case can take solace in the fact that the case is likely to remain on track for the time being. This does not, however, mean that there will be a trial this year. That has always been a longshot given the nature of the case, the number of defendants and complex legal questions at issue, and the inevitable prospect of unplanned developments — like a months-long detour and headline-generating national controversy concerning the personal relationship of two of the prosecutors. As a general matter, state court prosecutions with 19 defendants do not glide to trial in less than a year , notwithstanding what either the D.A. or her most ardent supporters in the media might have said. Just this week, the judge separately dismissed six of the counts in the indictment while explaining that prosecutors can try to refile them with more specificity, which they may very well try to do. This is to say nothing of the many pending and prospective pretrial issues that have yet to be resolved. Of course, if Trump wins his bid for a second nonconsecutive term, that will complicate matters considerably. Trump will likely argue that he should not be forced to stand trial while in office because doing so would improperly interfere with his constitutional duties as president. If successful, that would presumably leave the D.A.’s office free to put the rest of the defendants on trial during a second Trump term, with the hope that they might separately be able to continue the case against Trump after he leaves office. The real impact of the judge’s ruling has less to do with any perceived effect on a trial date — which has not yet been set even on a provisional basis — than on the prosecutors’ likelihood of success if or when this case goes to trial. Prosecutors need their credibility to bring successful cases. The fact that jurors presumptively trust prosecutors — whether that presumption is reasonable or not — is one of their biggest advantages in any given case. When their credibility takes a hit, their cases can be imperiled too. The audience for Willis’s behavior in recent months has not just been talking heads on cable news. It has also included her constituents — otherwise known as the jury pool — and there is reason to believe that many of them did not like what they saw from their D.A. in recent months. If some of them do not trust her at the moment, that is a problem for both her and the case. The challenge for Willis now is to rebuild as much of that lost trust as possible. There is time — maybe a lot of it. The question is whether she is capable of climbing out of a hole that she dug for herself. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s author at akhardori@politico.com .   SUBSCRIBE TO GLOBAL PLAYBOOK: Don’t miss out on POLITICO’s Global Playbook, the newsletter taking you inside pivotal discussions at the most influential gatherings in the world, including WEF in Davos, Milken Global in Beverly Hills, to UNGA in NYC and many more. Suzanne Lynch delivers the world's elite and influential moments directly to you. Stay in the global loop. SUBSCRIBE NOW .     WHAT'D I MISS? — Judge orders delay in Trump’s New York trial: Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan will be delayed by at least three weeks after the judge overseeing the matter agreed today that the former president and the district attorney’s office need additional time to review records from federal prosecutors that are related to the case. The postponement of the trial, which was scheduled to begin March 25, is a welcome development for Trump, who has pushed hard to delay all four of his criminal cases. BERNIE MORENO'S EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES  MAKE NO SENSE!  IT WOULD SEEM THAT HE'S LYING!  DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE VOTING!  — GOP Senate hopeful hits back at ‘sick’ report potentially linking him to adult website: GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is dismissing a damaging last-minute report about him that punctuated an increasingly nasty primary , as former President Donald Trump heads to the state to join his final campaign swing. After a pre-planned meet-and-greet event here, Moreno said an Associated Press story — which linked his email to a 2008 account “looking for young guys to have fun” made on Adult Friend Finder, a website typically used to arrange sexual encounters — amounted to “salacious lies that are intended to be a last-minute smear campaign.” — White House weighs a smaller Ramadan reception amid Biden protests: The White House is considering a scaled-down version of its traditional ceremony marking the end of Ramadan next month , after Muslim leaders warned aides that people would decline invitations in objection to the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Typically, the president hosts hundreds of Muslim leaders from around the country for an Eid al-Fitr celebration to mark the holiest month of the Muslim calendar. But according to three people familiar with the White House’s planning, the administration has discussed limiting invitations this year to a smaller group of administration officials and ambassadors from Muslim-majority nations. NIGHTLY ROAD TO 2024 DITCHING DONALD — Mike Pence said today that he would not endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, breaking with the man who tapped him as vice president only to make him the target of an angry mob for his refusal to help with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence told Fox News. Pence becomes the most prominent Republican to date to say he will not back Trump in the 2024 election. Other Trump skeptics, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have announced that they will back the presumptive nominee. DIRTY JOB — Mike Rowe thought he was walking into a meeting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to talk about his efforts to bolster the skilled trades. It became “pretty clear right away,” Rowe said, that the conversation about a month ago would be much broader than the longtime TV host’s interest in workforce development. The room was packed with not only Kennedy but also seven or eight additional advisers and staffers for his independent presidential campaign. And it turns out Rowe was being interviewed as part of Kennedy’s vice-presidential selection process. In an interview with NBC News , Rowe laid out the most detailed look yet at how Kennedy is vetting potential ticket-mates. Rowe said he and Kennedy ran through the candidate’s views on key issues and policy areas important to him, including on the national debt, foreign policy and public health as the independent contender made clear he doesn’t want a running mate who sees “eye-to-eye” with him on everything. Rowe, best known as the host of the Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs” and as an advocate for the blue-collar trades through his mikeroweWORKS foundation, is among a handful of contenders to serve as Kennedy’s running mate. AROUND THE WORLD A woman votes today in Russia's presidential election at a polling station in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. | AFP via Getty Images ELECTION SEASON — Russia’s presidential vote kicked off today with the expected pomp — and unexpected acts of protest, POLITICO EU reports. After more than two decades in power, Vladimir Putin will be seeking an overwhelming victory to buttress his claim that Russians massively back him and his war in Ukraine. Rather than an exercise in democracy, the three-day vote, which culminates on Sunday, is above all a test of loyalty for Russia’s state apparatus. Across the country, tens of thousands of officials face the daunting task of luring a largely apathetic electorate to polling stations. Then there’s the additional challenge of dealing with the unorthodox protest endorsed by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The campaign, “At noon against Putin,” is effectively an effort to troll Putin by asking Russians to show up to the polls at noon on Sunday. Read more about Russia’s elections here. STERN WARNING — The G7 issued a sharp warning to Iran , threatening “significant measures” if Tehran sends ballistic missiles to Russia. In a statement, the alliance, whose members include the United States, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, said that “we are extremely concerned about reports that Iran is considering transferring ballistic missiles and related technology to Russia after having supplied the Russian regime with UAVs, which are used in relentless attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine.” “Were Iran to proceed with providing ballistic missiles or related technology to Russia, we are prepared to respond swiftly and in a coordinated manner including with new and significant measures against Iran,” the statement continued. The statement did not detail any specific actions the countries would take. It could, however, be a reference to future sanctions on Iran. The statement follows a Reuters report in February that Iran had sent hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia after months of negotiations between Tehran and Moscow. Iran has denied that a transfer occurred.   Easily connect with the right N.Y. State influencers and foster the right relationships to champion your policy priorities. POLITICO Pro. Inside New York. Learn more .     NIGHTLY NUMBER $418 million The amount of money that the National Association of Realtors has agreed to pay in damages to settle a barrage of lawsuits related to their lucrative commission system . It comes as soaring housing costs and stagnating home sales have caught the eye of the White House. RADAR SWEEP STAY FOCUSED — Life with ADHD can get chaotic quickly; a day in which you’re planning to get a lot of stuff done can quickly slip away. Fortunately, there’s medication that works and helps a lot of people. But since 2022, there’s been an Adderall shortage that has made it increasingly hard to maintain a prescription . It seems to be due to a confluence of factors that break down to supply chain problems and the drug being overprescribed. For people who really need it, though, it’s led to a Kafkaesque, years-long process of trying to acquire and maintain a steady stream of the drug. For Esquire, Jason Diamond reports on the process and his own attempts, as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of five, to find Adderall. PARTING IMAGE On this date in 1965: A Vietnamese woman wearing a traditional straw hat watches a group of U.S. Marines marching along a dirt road toward defense positions on a strategic knoll near Da Nang Air Base, a major base for troops. | AP Did someone forward this email to you?  Sign up here .   Follow us on Twitter Charlie Mahtesian @PoliticoCharlie Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh   FOLLOW US

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WATCH: TRUMP IS BROKE | THE BREAKDOWN

 

CLIP: | Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $453.5 Million in his civil fraud case February 22, 2024 FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHfH5... The Breakdown with Tara Setmayer and Rick Wilson airs LIVE on Thursdays at 7PM ET exclusively on The Lincoln Project YouTube Channel.

TRUMP'S MONEY TROUBLES, CPAC, NAVALNY, NEW BOOK: "WHITE RURAL RAGE"

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POLITICO Nightly: Biden’s ‘Uncommitted’ issue

 

BY CALDER MCHUGH Samra'a Luqman (right) hands out fliers outside of the American Moslem Society Mosque in Dearborn Heights, Mich. to ask voters not to vote for President Joe Biden on Feb. 16, 2024. | Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images PROTEST AT THE POLLS — When President Joe Biden urged the Democratic National Committee in late 2022 to upend the primary calendar and elevate Michigan to early primary status, he was likely imagining the multi-racial coalition that had helped deliver him the presidency in 2020 coming together to launch him towards the general election. Now, some of those same voters are causing his campaign grief — and could, depending on the results of Tuesday’s primary, do even more damage. A group of progressives — many of whom are Arab American or have ties to Palestine — are vowing to vote “Uncommitted” on the Democratic primary line for president due to Biden’s continued support for Israel, a protest vote that would lay bare the depth of ill will towards the president on his left flank that’s been engendered by his response to the Israel/Hamas war. A protest vote might not normally make much of a dent in an incumbent president’s reelection campaign. But what makes this situation potentially problematic for Biden is that there are 200,000 registered voters who are Muslim and 300,000 who claim Middle East or North African descent in Michigan, largely concentrated around Detroit and in the suburb of Dearborn. These communities are numerous and politically active enough that the state even provides voter registration and absentee vote applications in Arabic . A dedicated number of these voters — the good majority of whom have previously voted for Democrats — are at the leading edge of a campaign to vote “Uncommitted.” Depending on how many of them vote that way, Biden — already riding low in the polls — could suffer a significant embarrassment, generating another round of hand-wringing about his prospects in November. Listen to Michigan, the group organizing the effort, is setting a modest goal of 11,000 extra voters to go Uncommitted — the margin of Donald Trump’s victory in the state in 2016. But around 20,000 Michiganders have voted on the “Uncommitted” line in recent Democratic presidential primaries without any organized effort at all. So any number above that would give a sense of how deep the unrest runs. The activists leading the “Uncommitted” effort are not the first group to attempt to send a message to Biden through the primary process this year. In New Hampshire, a late campaign to write in “ceasefire” on the ballot largely failed to get off the ground and only resulted in around 1,500 “ceasefire” votes among well over 100,000 total ballots cast. Biden ended up easing any doubts about his by piling up 64 percent of the vote as a write-in candidate. But the Michigan effort is more organized and has garnered the backing of elected officials and other prominent names in the state. The campaign has in part been spearheaded by Abraham Aiyash, the Michigan House majority leader, and it has the support of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who represents Dearborn in Congress. It also has the backing of filmmaker Michael Moore, a Michigan native who endorsed the “Uncommitted” ballot line on MSNBC Thursday evening , arguing that Biden’s “hugging [Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu]” and funding of the war has “turned young people against Biden.” Notably, Moore has been a staunch backer of Biden’s domestic policy and has advocated strongly against former President Donald Trump. He still thinks Democratic voters in Michigan need to send Biden a message. The problem for Biden is that signs of support for a protest vote are growing, not diminishing. The Uncommitted campaign has also grabbed the attention of other groups that are deeply frustrated with Biden policies. Dzovinar Hatsakordzian — a national board member of the Armenian National Committee of America — is urging Armenian Democrats in Michigan to vote “Uncommitted” because he “armed Azerbaijan’s genocide of Artsakh’s indigenous Armenians.” The ANCA has circulated graphics that read “Michigan’s Armenian voters will remember this November that Biden armed Azerbaijan and abandoned Armenians to genocidal killers.” There are just under 20,000 Armenians in Michigan, only a fraction of whom will vote in the Democratic primary. In competitive primaries in 2020 and 2016 respectively, over 1.4 million people and around 1.2 million people voted in the primary. In the most recent Democratic presidential contest featuring an incumbent president, a 2012 caucus, 174,000 people voted in Michigan. This year, over 800,000 people have voted early so far across both the Democratic and Republican primaries in the state. There’s little chance that “Uncommitted” bests the president. But the higher that number is, the higher the likelihood the result leaves a bruise. In part that’s because Biden himself sought to elevate Michigan’s stature on the primary calendar. But it’s also due to the state’s recent history of playing a high-profile role in the Democratic nomination process. In 2016, Michigan gave Bernie Sanders’ campaign some much needed life; four years later, the state all but wrapped up the nomination for Biden. This year, it’s set to prove that Biden either has enduring strength among both progressive and ethnic communities in Michigan or that he has a real problem on his hands. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s author at cmchugh@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @calder_mchugh .   SUBSCRIBE TO GLOBAL PLAYBOOK: Don’t miss out on POLITICO’s Global Playbook, the newsletter taking you inside pivotal discussions at the most influential gatherings in the world, including WEF in Davos, Milken Global in Beverly Hills, to UNGA in NYC and many more. Suzanne Lynch delivers the world's elite and influential moments directly to you. Stay in the global loop. SUBSCRIBE NOW .     WHAT'D I MISS? — Trump moves to dismiss classified documents case: Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to throw out his criminal case for hoarding classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate , offering a grab bag of arguments that the charges are legally faulty, that prosecutors have targeted him for political reasons and that the special counsel spearheading the case had no legal authority to bring it. Trump’s lawyers filed seven motions late Thursday aimed at derailing the case, in which he is charged with willfully retaining classified information after he left office and obstructing a federal investigation into his possession of those secrets. — Progressive groups preemptively rip Biden over immigration executive actions: A major coalition of progressive groups today warned President Joe Biden not to go forward with a slew of executive actions designed to stem migration along the southern border. Those groups, totaling more than 150 international, national, state, local and faith-based entities, said in a letter to the White House that the policies under consideration — including an asylum ban between U.S. ports of entry — “emulate” the approach of the Trump administration and “extremist legislators.” — Senate GOP urges its candidates to support IVF after Alabama ruling: The Senate GOP’s campaign arm today urged its candidates to publicly express their support for IVF treatment and condemn efforts to limit its accessibility. In a memo sent by National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Jason Thielman, the party’s campaign apparatus instructs candidates to “Clearly state your support for IVF and fertility-related services as blessings for those seeking to have children” and to “Publicly oppose any efforts to restrict access to IVF and other fertility treatments, framing such opposition as a defense of family values and individual freedom.” NIGHTLY ROAD TO 2024 TRUMP SPEAKS ON IVF — Former President Donald Trump declared his support for in vitro fertilization treatment and called on Alabama lawmakers to preserve access to it after a ruling by the state’s high court forced hospitals there to stop offering the procedure. Trump addressed the issue in a post on Truth Social today, days after the Alabama court’s ruling declaring embryos are children. Democrats have sought to tie that decision to broader GOP efforts to restrict access to abortion since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. And President Joe Biden’s campaign has laid blame for the ruling squarely at the feet of Trump, noting that he has taken pride in the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn abortion protections. TEAMSTERS GIVE TO RNC — The Teamsters’ political action committee broke decades of precedent last month when the union leadership voted to approve a $45,000 donation to the Republican National Committee ’s convention fund, NBC News reports. In recent years, Teamsters donations have been given primarily to Democrats. This year’s donation to the RNC convention fund marked the labor union’s pivot to large donations to both parties, though the vast majority of donations still flow to liberals. The January vote to approve the donation is igniting frustration among some members, who in interviews with NBC News were blunt in expressing their disapproval of the move: "Disgusting." "Disheartening." "Playing footsie." RETURN TO NORMALCY — Nikki Haley called for a return to normalcy in American politics as she portrayed Donald Trump as a major drag on the Republican Party while seeking to avoid a landslide drubbing in her home state’s presidential primary on Saturday, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Donald Trump cannot win a general election,” the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador told several hundred supporters here this afternoon, after saying the GOP needs to select someone with “moral clarity” who knows “the difference between right and wrong.” She also suggested that Trump has shattered norms in American democracy. AROUND THE WORLD President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are pictured during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland. | Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via Getty Images CRIME AND PUNISHMENT — President Joe Biden today announced more than 500 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine in the largest tranche of penalties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago, POLITICO reports. Biden followed through on a promise to further punish Russian President Vladimir Putin one week after opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian prison. The sanctions — as well as those added today by the European Union — come one day before the second anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “The American people and people around the world understand that the stakes of this fight extend far beyond Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement announcing the sanctions. “If Putin does not pay the price for his death and destruction, he will keep going. And the costs to the United States — along with our NATO Allies and partners in Europe and around the world — will rise.” The bulk of the sanctions were already in the works for the invasion anniversary, though a few were added this week to target those involved in Navalny’s death at an Arctic penal colony. Biden met Thursday with Navalny’s widow and daughter in San Francisco and praised her late husband’s bravery. “Russia’s financial sector, defense industrial base, procurement networks and sanctions evaders across multiple continents,” Biden said. “They will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at home.” The Treasury Department will impose additional price cap sanctions that will make it more costly for Russia to get around sanctions, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters in a Thursday night call previewing the sanctions. He touted the Biden administration’s price cap on Russian oil, saying that the Kremlin has invested money on trying to adapt to the sanctions and evade them. GERMANY GREENLIGHTS POT — The German parliament passed a marijuana decriminalization bill today, setting up the country to eventually authorize legal sales to adults, reports POLITICO EUROPE. The legislation, part of an agreement by the country’s three-party coalition government, would legalize cannabis possession and home cultivation for adults and allow non-profit cannabis clubs to supply consumers. "That’s the way that works. Away from punishment. Away from taboo. We have to face up to the problems," German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said before the law was adopted this afternoon. The vote has also been closely followed across the Atlantic. “It’s a historic moment,” said Omar Khan, a spokesperson for Canadian cannabis company High Tide. “Germany [will] become the first EU country and the second G7 country after Canada to legalize adult use.”   YOUR GUIDE TO EMPIRE STATE POLITICS : From the newsroom that doesn’t sleep, POLITICO's New York Playbook is the ultimate guide for power players navigating the intricate landscape of Empire State politics. Stay ahead of the curve with the latest and most important stories from Albany, New York City and around the state, with in-depth, original reporting to stay ahead of policy trends and political developments. Subscribe now to keep up with the daily hustle and bustle of NY politics.      NIGHTLY NUMBER WARREN BUFFETT CALLED CRYPTO RAT POISON SQUARED FOR GOOD REASON  It's unregulated, contributed to the collapse of at least one bank, was allowed to enter FDIC insured banks BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU BELIEVE! $80 million The amount of money that three crypto-affiliated Super PACs are planning to spend in the 2024 election cycle , campaign finance filings released this week confirm. That puts them among the top-spending outside groups this year. RADAR SWEEP LOOKING FRESH — In the midst of missile fire and worries about advancing Russian ground troops, daily life goes on in Ukraine. Nowhere is this more obvious than among Ukraine’s beauty salons , which continue to operate despite all kinds of difficult conditions. LuChe salon in Kyiv had its front windows destroyed by a bomb in January — it was open again the next day, operating temporarily from behind boarded up windows onto which the salon’s owner spray painted “we are open”. Author Sophia Panych asks for Allure whether beauty has a place in a society at war — and answers largely in the affirmative. PARTING IMAGE On this date in 1945: U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan. | Joe Rosenthal/AP Did someone forward this email to you?  Sign up here .   Follow us on Twitter Charlie Mahtesian @PoliticoCharlie Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh Mia McCarthy @Reporter_Mia   FOLLOW US

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