Rep. Rashida Tlaib urges Michigan Democrats to vote against Biden in the primary (www.nbcnews.com)
Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’ (thehill.com)
Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities....
Trump will likely run out of legal defense funds by summer, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Former President Donald Trump will likely run out of legal defense funds this summer, Bloomberg reported....
Swalwell on Biden age: ‘I’ll take the guy who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts’ (thehill.com)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) went after former President Trump for his legal woes in an interview on MSNBC Saturday....
Judge fines Donald Trump more than $360 million, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for three years (www.nbcnews.com)
Romney rules out voting for Trump, citing court’s sexual abuse finding in Carroll case (thehill.com)
How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees (www.businessinsider.com)
Witness Told Feds She Was Paid for Sex Parties With Matt Gaetz (www.thedailybeast.com)
The GOP's Key Hunter Biden Witness Was Just Charged With Making It All Up (www.rollingstone.com)
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy company (apnews.com)
Republicans Are Acting Like 2024 Is Their Last Campaign (nymag.com)
Finally, a Judge Steps Up and Denies a Trump Trial Delay Bid (newrepublic.com)
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is officially on the books—and it starts before the election....
White House rebuffs Johnson request for meeting with Biden: ‘What is there to negotiate?’ (thehill.com)
The White House threw cold water on the prospect of a sit-down between President Biden and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), arguing Wednesday that there’s nothing to negotiate and the Speaker should bring a bipartisan national security funding bill up for a vote....
Trump Is Losing It: It is unclear whether Donald Trump has forgotten the precise nature of NATO or whether he ever fully grasped it in the first place. (www.nytimes.com)
What is clear, however, is that Trump — who ostensibly spent four years as president of the United States — has little clue about what NATO is or what NATO does. And when he spoke on the subject at a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, what he said was less a cogent discussion of foreign policy than it was gibberish...
California Dem Barbara Lee defends call for $50 federal minimum wage: 'Just barely enough' (wgme.com)
Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Is Embraced by Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, Poll Finds (www.nytimes.com)
Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term (abcnews.go.com)
e; I wrote a better headline than the ABC editors decided to and excerpted a bit more...
Mark Hamill Unearths Trump-Bashing Tweet From Taylor Swift That’s ‘Aged Remarkably Well’ (www.huffpost.com)
My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP (www.motherjones.com)
Biden Denounces Trump’s Support for Russian Attack on Allies as ‘Un-American’ (www.nytimes.com)
Lawmaker introduces anti-cannibalism bill after seeing prank show (lawandcrime.com)
Biden's legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory....
Speaker Johnson rejects Israel, Ukraine aid package ahead of Senate vote | The La. Republican said the bill needs border security measures -- after he and other Republicans rejected them (wapo.st)
Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it (www.mprnews.org)
In 2020, the United States experienced one of its most dangerous years in decades....
‘Just Like We Drew It Up’: What’s behind Joe Biden’s Super Bowl post? [12 Feb 2024 | Sarah Shamim | Al Jazeera] (www.aljazeera.com)
Yet, it was no meme page or troll account posting that image: It was posted on Biden’s own X page early on Monday. Coming against the backdrop of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza that has killed more than 28,000 people and that the US has backed, the image prompted particular criticism of Biden by some social media users....
