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Walsh, a conservative lawmaker elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010, soured on the president in the wake of his continuous lying, personal attacks, and lack of concern for national security surrounding the Russia scandal. He has become an increasingly vocal critic of the administration.
Recently, he offered an apology to the nation for whatever role he may have played in putting "an unfit con man in the White House."
Poland is open to hosting nuclear weapons from NATO allies, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday. Duda made the comments in an interview published Monday in the Polish tabloid Fakt.
"If there were a decision by our allies to deploy nuclear weapons within the nuclear sharing also on our territory in order to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we are ready," Duda said.
However, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for further details from Duda. "This idea is absolutely massive, I would say, and very serious."
Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon Monday urged the former president to simply blow off his Manhattan criminal court trial and dare law enforcement to put him in jail for it.
He made the comments on his "War Room" show on Monday — and specifically suggested Trump should instead go to the Supreme Court hearing reviewing whether he has immunity from prosecution from a separate criminal trial being charged in Washington, D.C. by special counsel Jack Smith.
"Thursday is also on another topic, the immunity situation," said Bannon. "One of the most important arguments in the history of the Supreme Court. Of course, President Trump won't be there."
"If I was President Trump, I'd go to the immunity thing and let him put me in, in, in a jail cell and I'd go, I'd go to Barron's graduation," said Bannon. "I do both of them say, 'Come on, dude.' Stand up to him. Just do it. See what, see how the chips fall."
Placing the former president in jail for violating court orders is something Judge Juan Merchan has the power to do in theory, but has not given any indication is currently on the table.
Barron Trump's graduation is another point of contention the former president has raged against, claiming that Merchan is preventing him from attending the ceremony. Merchan has not ruled out letting Trump go, not guaranteeing it but saying he would allow it if the calendar makes it possible. Furthermore, former President Donald Trump's one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who will be testifying in the Manhattan trial, has said he hasn't actually seen any indication Trump went to any of his other four children's graduations in the first place.
Former President Donald Trump should be outside swinging a wedge instead of stuck in a bunker of a Manhattan criminal courtroom, according to Fox News' Jesse Watters.
"The guy needs exercise," Watters proclaimed. "He’s usually golfing, and so you’re going to put a man who’s almost 80 sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time?"
Watters made this comment the first day of Trump's second week in the criminal hush money trial in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to silence alleged sexual affairs in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
"It’s not healthy," Watters said. "He needs sunlight. He needs activity. He needs to be walking around. He needs action."
Watters then condemned Judge Juan Merchan's decision to hold Trump to the New York legal mandate that requires criminal defendants attend their trials.
"It’s really cruel and unusual punishment to make a man do that," said Watters. "And any time he moves they threaten to throw him in prison."
The outrage over the treatment of the 45th president like any other accused defendant attracted widespread lampooning on social media.
"Trump’s too old to sit in a courtroom," @ArtCandeeNow wrote. "Then he’s too old to be POTUS."
X user @dvillella expressed confusing whether it was golf or MAGA rallies that kept Trump's heart rate up. “He’s usually golfing? What happened to 'he’d be doing 2-3 rallies a day [sic]?'"
Some directly took shots at Watters for suggesting Trump deserves special treatment.
"He’s not above the law so deal with it Jesse," reads a post by @MadeInCanada_eh.
As for golf itself, it appears the many out there aren't so sure the exercise on the lynx all that impressive — especially if the players drive golf carts instead of walk from hole to hole.
"He swings a club and hops in his golf cart," wrote Stacy@In2why. "Not much exercise at all."