The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling on Hamas to accept a cease-fire proposal. The proposal was put forward by the U.S. as an attempt to increase pressure on Hamas to take the deal. Fourteen member states voted in favor, while Russia abstained.
Centrist Israeli politician Benny Gantz announced he will quit the country’s three-man war Cabinet on Sunday. He excoriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allegedly putting his own “political survival” over the country’s welfare and mismanaging the war effort. The move doesn’t threaten Netanyahu’s position directly, but underscores the prime minister’s increasing isolation and reliance on far-right domestic political allies.
Fox News aired a misleading clip of a Trump interview in which he was asked if he would declassify government files related to the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Semafor reported. “Yeah, I would,” Trump said in the edited clip. But in his full response, Trump said he would likely release government records related to Epstein’s death, but was more hesitant to declassify other documents related to Epstein or his associates. “I think that less so because, you don’t know, you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world,” the ex-president said. Okay great! Really reassuring stuff!
Trump met with the Manhattan probation office on Monday via video conferencing for a pre-sentencing interview, the Associated Press reported. The interview lasted less than 30 minutes and reportedly consisted of routine, uneventful questions and answers. The probation office is writing a report containing biographical details and other information for the sentencing judge that might not have come up during the trial.
New Jersey is reviewing whether to yank Trump’s liquor licenses at the three golf courses he owns there following his criminal conviction, the state’s Attorney General said Monday. State law prohibits giving liquor licenses to anyone who committed crimes involving “moral turpitude.” And let’s face it: few people have ever been more morally turpitudinous.
Disgraced former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani referred to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — the prosecutor targeting him in a sweeping racketeering case in Georgia — as “Fani the ho” in a deranged appearance over the weekend. Somehow using a misogynistic pejorative against a sitting District Attorney doesn’t even come close to the most insane things he’s said this month.
Jury deliberations began Monday in Hunter Biden’s Delaware gun charges trial. Law professor Jeff Schwartz told CNN he thought prosecutors presented a strong evidence-based case, but that the defense made a powerful emotional appeal to the jury about Hunter’s battles with drug addiction and the presence of his family in the courtroom. A verdict could come this week.
