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Plus: No-Bid Contracts Inflate Cost to Massachusetts Taxpayers of Feeding Illegal Aliens     May 31 2024     NEWS Trump Campaign Gets Immediate Avalanche of Cash After Guilty Verdict By Katelynn Richardson Donald Trump's campaign donation page crashes within minutes of the jury's guilty verdict. Through midday today, Trump's campaign said it had raised an additional $34.8 million. More COMMENTARY No-Bid Contracts Inflate Cost to Massachusetts Taxpayers of Feeding Illegal Aliens By Adam Andrzejewski Massachusetts taxpayers spend up to $31 a meal to feed homeless migrants. For that price, th...

He became the first US president to be convicted of a crime. Sign up for Reuters newsletters One Essential Read Recommended by Edson Caldas, Newsletter Editor Prison for Trump?   Donald Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime. Now, the judge overseeing the case will soon face a monumental choice: whether or not to sentence him to time behind bars.   As my Reuters colleague Luc Cohen reports, prison time is rare for people convicted in New York state of felony falsification of business records, but not unprecedented. Read the full article Donald Trump in Manhattan Criminal Court. Seth Wenig/Pool via REUTERS   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com   Reuters One Essential Rea...

On the menu today: Whether you love Donald Trump or hate him, whether you agree with yesterday's ...   TODAY'S JOLT IS SPONSORED BY WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 31 2024   Make No Mistake: The Trump Case Was an Unprecedented Application of the Law On the menu today: Whether you love Donald Trump or hate him, whether you agree with yesterday's verdict or vehemently oppose it, there are several key facts to recognize. The prosecution of this case required a unique and unprecedented application of the law and a belief that the money sent to Stormy Daniels through Michael Cohen represented a campaign expense. This was not "treating Donald Trump like any other defendant," this was an expensive and time-consuming effort to seek a conviction on a matter that almost everyone had forgotten, led by a district attorney who had run for his office touting himself in the De...