Former President Donald Trump's onetime
White House adviser Peter Navarro could remain in a federal lockup during the
Republican National Convention,
prison records show. The Federal Bureau of Prison official listing on Monday showed Navarro is set to be released on July 17, according to its online inmate tracker . The date, first reported by CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane, is an initial record of when he's set for release and it could change. The Republican Convention begins in Milwaukee on July 15. The Bureau of Prisons record shows Navarro's inmate number at a low-security federal correctional facility in Miami is 04370-510. ALSO READ: 11 ways Trump doesn’t become president Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Jan. 6 Committee. The former trade adviser claimed then-President
Donald Trump invoked executive privilege to prevent him from testifying. If Navarro is freed on the set date, he would miss most of the Republican convention, which begins on July 15. But he could attend the convention's final day on July 18. An attorney charged in former President Donald Trump's Georgia
election racketeering case faces another court battle this week to keep his law license, according to a new report. Jeffrey Clark is the subject of a complaint filed by the watchdog group The 65 Project, which has filed numerous election-related complaints against lawyers across the country, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Monday. In a statement, the group's managing director Michael Teter said their effort "is really to hold accountable those who fought to overturn the election." “But, more importantly, it will deter future abuse of the
American legal system to undermine
elections," Teter told the outlet. Also read: Trump slammed after claiming
FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was illegal The disciplinary trial will start this Tuesday in D.C., according to the report. John Malcolm, a former federal prosecutor now at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that he thinks the accusations are politically motivated. “Everybody is entitled to zealous representation,” said Malcolm. “Anything that puts a chill on that is bad for lawyers and bad for anyone wrapped up in the legal system.” As the Georgia news outlet points out, Clark was a senior
Justice Department official during the final weeks of the former president's administration, and stands accused of trying to get the agency to intervene in the 2020 election on Trump's behalf. "The Office of Disciplinary Counsel for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in
Washington has accused him of dishonesty and conduct that would interfere in the administration of justice to keep Trump in power," AJC's report stated. "A trial is expected to take about nine days. If the panel removes his law license, it would bar him from practicing law in Washington D.C." CONTINUE READING Show less Former President Donald Trump got a lucky break on Monday, when a
New York appeals court reduced the bond he owes in the $464 million civil fraud case to just $175 million — and gave him an extra 10 days to come up with the money before state Attorney General Letitia James can begin seizing his assets to pay what he owes. The decision in the case, in which Trump was found liable for inflating property values to manipulate the Trump Organization's tax burden and loan interest terms, came just hours before James would have been able to seize his properties, which by some accounts, she was gearing up to do with his Westchester assets. Trump is by no means in the clear, but many political and legal experts argued on X that he received treatment more favorable than any normal civil defendant could expect. "Yet again, @realDonaldTrump gets special treatment with his own private system of justice," wrote Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee. "The NY Appeals Court has decided to give Trump more time to pay less money by reducing his bond from $454M to $175 and giving him 10 days to get the money. This makes absolutely no sense." "Kalief Browder allegedly stole a backpack, was unable to post a $3000 bond, spent 800 days in solitary confinement," wrote artist IrishRyGirl. "Donald Trump, ripped off the NY tax payers of millions of dollars, gets bond reduced and gets to walk free.. sounds about white wealthy privilege." "Boy, that appeals court really bailed out fake billionaire trump from having to face accountability today, giving him 10 more days and a 50% 'discount' on the bond," posted
Democratic PAC adviser Majid Madellan, more commonly known by the name Brooklyn Dad Defiant. "What a f---ing bull---- ruling." "The NY appellate court’s unexplained reduction from $454M to $175M in the bond Trump must post in 10 days to secure the judgment pending appeal is a travesty of justice," wrote retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe. "Let’s hope public disgust with this preferential treatment will come back to bite Trump politically." "BREAKING: NY’s justice system," wrote Tristan Snell, a former New York prosecutor who handled the Trump University case. "Appellate judges hand Trump a gift, cut bond down to $175 million, give him 10 extra days; Imagine a
basketball team down by 40 points, and with 1:00 left in the game, refs give the losing team 5 more minutes — and lower the hoop from 10ft to 6ft." CONTINUE READING Show less Former President Donald Trump on Monday was slammed Monday after claiming the government search for top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort was illegal under the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights. While talking with reporters shortly after appearing in court, Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that the multiple indictments he's facing across four jurisdictions were all orchestrated by President
Joe Biden. Trump argued the 2022 FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort to retrieve documents, which included
nuclear weapons program secrets, was a violation of the U.S. Constitution. ALSO READ: Convicted January 6 felon wants to storm the Capitol again — as an elected congressman "They raided my house in violation of a thing called the Fourth Amendment!" Trump complained. "Not allowed to do that! They raided my house in
Florida, Mar-a-Lago. No notice, no nothing, they raided it! I can't believe it! Nobody can believe it!" This is not the first time Trump has suggested the search was illegal. A Poynter Institute fact check from 2022 notes Trump tried to compare the search to the infamous Watergate burglary during President Richard Nixon's administration, an argument that multiple experts said did not hold up. The warrant would have gone through a lengthy vetting process before being approved by a federal judge who found evidence of probable cause, as is dictated by the Fourth Amendment, former prosecutor Barbara McQuade told the fact checker. "To conduct a search like this, agents would have been required to obtain a search warrant from a federal judge, and for the judge to make a finding of probable cause," McQuade told Poynter's fact checkers. "The judge would have reviewed a detailed affidavit setting forth the facts to establish probable cause. Probable cause means a reasonable likelihood that a crime has been committed and that evidence will be found at the location to be searched." Thus it was not surprising that when Trump argued the search was illegal because he was not given "notice," he was met with scorn on
Social Media. "Oh yes," quipped Howell Ellerman, "let’s give the subjects of warrants notice of the search." "Wow so he knows there's other amendments?" added Joe Mama. "Thought they just cared about the Second." " It’s not a legal search or seizure if there’s a warrant!" said Sheila Seymour. "I’m going to side with the fbi they covered their bases before going down to the dump in Palm Beach." Watch the video below or at this link . — (@) CONTINUE READING Show less