Donald Trump has tried to rewrite the story after he was booed by a crowd of football fans during an appearance at Clemson University for the Palmetto Bowl in South Carolina.
While there was a sizeable contingent of Trump fans in the crowd, several videos captured the overwhelming jeers aimed at the former president upon his arrival at the alma mater of his GOP primary rival Nikki Haley on Saturday.
Mr Trump sought to downplay the disappointing reception, taking to Truth Social on Sunday night to fire off a series of links to highly-positive articles about his appearance. “A Hero’s Welcome,” read one piece.
This comes amid a report that the former president’s move to pardon loan shark Jonathan Braun on his last day in office in 2021 “destroyed” a Department of Justice investigation.
Braun was convicted of running an illegal marijuana cartel and at the time of his pardon had served a quarter of his ten-year sentence.
The commutation of his sentence reportedly dealt a “substantial blow” to the Justice Department’s criminal investigation that was aimed at members of the predatory lending industry who harmed small businesses, The New York Times reported.
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NY fraud trial: Week nine gets underway
16:10 , Oliver O’Connell
Week nine of Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial is underway at the state’s Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan.
This is the third week of the defence case and on the witness stand today is Mark Hawthorn, the COO of Trump’s hotels division.
Mr Hawthorn, a CPA who formerly worked at Ernst & Young, previously testified in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s case for the state, saying he was never directly involved in the…
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