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NEW: A hidden camera investigation sheds light on the Wild West of pardons, where wealthy felons are paying hundreds of thousands - sometimes millions - for a shot at a Trump pardon
The Justice Department, where clemency has traditionally been run, is an afterthought. One well-connected MAGA attorney, Brett Tolman, revealed that he never sends pardon applications to the DOJ at all - but still expects to be successful on dozens of his clemency cases
Read more in @CBSNews
w/ @dklaidman @mkaplantv
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The Midterm elections created some extraordinary spikes on social media.
- Abdul El-Sayed gained 3.51M Instagram followers in the 72 hours after his Michigan Senate win. He more than doubled his audience, to 6.44M.
- That 72-hour gain alone is more than #2 James Talarico has in total (3.50M).
- El-Sayed's Nov 4 by itself (+1.61M) tops the entire following of 22 of the other 23 winners.
- Across all 24 called battleground winners, Democrats hold 94.8% of the combined following: 13.9M to the GOP's 764K.
“Many people know Stephen for his fierce loyalty to the President, but more than that, he is the administration's most organized and competent operator. He has built and managed one of the most effective policy teams in American history. He was born to be Donald Trump's Chief of Staff,” Taylor @Budowich - Trump’s former deputy COS, tells me
Reaction from the guys at @RuthlessPodcast at our report in @CBSNews on former Trump lawyer Alina Habba Mildon’s response to whether she will donate to Trump’s library, as he told aides she should:
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Scoop: The White House delivered a warning to conservative groups on Thursday: We’re watching you wsj.com/politics/elections/w…
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Also, read @gekaminsky:
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Back in Jan. @CBSNews I scooped: “Democrats are talking about a midterm blue wave. A Montana smokejumper could help make it a reality.” Quickly got pushback from both D and R folks over that framing. Now looks like that smokejumper is heading to DC. cbsnews.com/news/democrats-b…
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Angry, Divided, and Dejected: The GOP Blame Game Has Begun, @TheFP
“Voters care about cost of living and inflation, and they blame us for it now. We were never able to recover, and the war created that problem.”
“I have zero idea what our closing message was...The failure to find creative ways to tout our accomplishments should be studied.”
“You can say tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts until you’re blue in the face,”but when voters are paying $80 to fill up their gas tanks, the tax-cut message mantra simply “isn’t going to resonate.”
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Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba - asked by @CBSNews if she will donate her fees from a contract tied to the family of a businessman Mr. Trump pardoned - responded to the text with a “haha” reaction then removed it
Comes after @tylerpager reporting in NYT on Trump telling aides/allies she should donate
Story here on the Trump library
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Trump's $950 million presidential library (set to be built in Miami) is on collision course with Democratic Congress, @CBS reports
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Scoop: Trump's library is fundraising via a company whose board includes Don Jr., who has received $42K/month in consulting fees
Now, Dem lawmakers are eyeing library oversight next Congress. (A Jr. spox said he had no involvement in the fundraising.)
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“The library is one of the last few places [Trump] can squeeze people for money," a former Trump adviser said. "That's what a businessman does. He just creates opportunities."
More in @CBSNews
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The one national TV reporter in Petersburg, Alaska searching for Dan J. Sullivan -- CBS’s @JonahPKaplan
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"In Trump's pardon economy, crime victims lost out on at least $119 million in restitution," this CBS News investigation finds. The lead example: One of Carlos Watson's investors cbsnews.com/projects/2026/tr…
