Extent of Trump's Usefulness to GOP Questioned by WSJ Editorial Board After CPAC
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Wall Street Journal editorial board questioned the extent of former President Donald Trump's usefulness to the Republican party in an op-ed published Monday evening following his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
"For Republicans and Mr. Trump, the future isn't as clear as the press and the former President would like," the board wrote. "The CPAC crowd cheered his speech, which was largely a collection of greatest political hits. But if CPAC represented America, Mr. Trump would still reside in the White House, not Mar-a-Lago."
Biden Says Trump Shouldn’t Continue to Receive Intelligence Briefings
Former presidents traditionally have the opportunity to receive routine intelligence briefings as a courtesy.
“I think not,” Biden said in the interview on “CBS Evening News,” which aired in its entirety on Feb. 7; the network broadcast portions of it on Feb. 5. “Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”
Biden didn’t elaborate on the reasons or concerns he had about Trump continuing to receive the classified briefings. But he indicated he thought such access was unnecessary for the former president.
“I’d rather not speculate out loud,” he said. “I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
By WMMN
Jan 27, 2021
Eben Brown, Fox News Radio, joined West Michigan's Morning News to talk about Trump's Office of the Former President, and what we can expect from it.
Donald Trump's Legal Reckoning Fails to Materialize in First Week After Leaving Office
On 1/27/21 at 11:40 AM EST
A post-presidency legal reckoning for Donald Trump has yet to materialize a week after he left the White House. The office protected Trump from most litigation—and it was widely expected that lawsuits would fly soon after his departure.
However, Trump left for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Wednesday and so far no swathe of new charges has emerged.
Cases linked to Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen have been widely predicted. Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of crimes and admitted paying hush money to women over affairs with Trump. When Cohen was sentenced in 2018, Trump would have been immune from prosecution over alleged complicity in the payments.
Whatever else happens next, Donald Trump has now followed in the footsteps of his predecessors and officially launched a post-White House project.
On Monday the former president announced he had opened an "office" in Florida that will manage announcements about and support his work going forward. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Further details were not released, beyond Trump offering an endorsement of ex-spokeswoman Sarah Sanders' gubernatorial campaign in Arkansas.
The office will manage Trump's "correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities" in order to advance his former administration's agenda and it will alert the media to any "advocacy, organizing, and public activism" involving the former president, according to Monday’s email blast to reporters.
Raw Story: On Monday evening, Donald Trump announced he was creating the “Office of the Former President” in Palm Beach, Florida.
Obama, Bush, and Clinton should start an “Office of the 2 Term Former Presidents “ just to one up Trumps Office of the Former President ������ pic.twitter.com/8mMlzD8H7n— MzMimi (@mz_mimi1114) January 26, 2021
Office of the former president. That’s like if the Miss Universe runner up went home, made her own crown and called a press conference to put it on. pic.twitter.com/N142zeiB14— Incognegro (@sorayasname) January 26, 2021
Complete with it's very own Trump Tower… pic.twitter.com/khS9K1OKkZ— Wallis, The RinnaHater (@Ny24Shon) January 26, 2021