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former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial. charges predate the trump campaign but could have ramifications for the campaign if he is convicted and could face up to 10 years. let s take a look at some evidence presented by the special counsel against paul manafort. case stands on two basic legs. one that manafort made tens of millions working for ukrainian politicians and russian oligarchs that he never paid taxes on and two that he took out fraudulent loans from u.s. banks. manafort spent upward of there is 14 million to buy several properties in alexandria, virginia, landscaping, housekeeping and home improvements done to boost the value of the homes. then allegedly inflated his worth on loan applications like this one, taking out even more money.
as the specialty counsel put it, he created cash out of thin air. he spent more than $1.4 million at clothing stores in new york and and beverly hi
you know, i do think it s a mirror into the republican party today. which is a large number of republicans are really looking to get past donald trump. and so, with haley, they think they may have found that candidate, right? it certainly is not ron desantis, the culture warrior, vivek ramaswamy, the carnival barker. but with nikki haley, they think maybe it s a return to a more traditional form of republicanism. i think the problem with that, though, is that when people tried to like her, and tried to think she s perhaps more moderate, more sensible, she does something to remind them that she s really just a raw republican politician who s happy with the maga base when she needs a, and she s happy to try to suggest she s not macgowan she s trying to win new hampshire. and i think that duplicity from nikki haley ultimately will eat into that number of republicans who say, hey, i ll stick around if it s nikki haley. those are the biden coalition softer republican voters that have been
Much for having me, first and foremost, i greatly appreciate it. we are immensely thankful, humble, that the president would consider mother emmanuel to come and to make a speech based on freedom and democracy. whether emmanuel is, of course, a historic african american church that has a history of resilience. we have gone through the church being dismantled in 1820, and also then rebuilding after the earthquake of 1863 here in charleston, and then a number of problems that have a reason, of course, through race, with the most recent, of course, being that of june 17th 2015. so we are hopeful that he would come and have an impactful speech that would galvanize the base, that would encourage people. because we know what we are up
That s a massive amount of structures for a town like that. will: let s give you little context and history, this is near and dear to my heart i been reading and living this place for most of my heart. lahaina that is the town that is destroyed on the island of maui on the west side it was one time the capital of the kingdom of hawaii 1820 - 1845. it was settled by polynesians and maui, the westside is the first place humans came, they came from polynesia in canoes, guided navigation through the stars and they came in the canoes through the pass and this is the first settlement in this part of the world. rick: the settlement was able to happen because of whaling. will: eventually what happened, the whaling industry before we had oil we pulled it out of the ground to heat our homes we used whale blubber, the whaling industry was centered in
A new federal disaster pop ration setting up disaster funding for the fires in hawaii. 53 people have died, leaving one of the deadliest u.s. wildfires in decades. in lahaina, one of the highest parts of maui, historically and culturally significant sites have effectively been reduced to ash and rubble, and then includes the famous 150 year old by union tree that was planted in 1873 to commemorate the first protestant mission to lahaina, 50 years earlier. it is now severely burned, but thankfully it is still standing. the historical baldwin home museum, and 1830s era house once home to a medical missionary who vaccinate to the island against smallpox and is believed to be the oldest home in maui, that has burned down. the walls of why low at church, an 1820s house of worship or