Pras Michel, a former member of the Fugees convicted earlier this year related to laundering millions of dollars to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama&#8217;s</a> campaign, called for a new trial on Monday by claiming his legal team used artificial intelligence to craft their closing argument for the jury.
Michel, 50, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fugees-rapper-pras-found-guilty-on-charges-involving-international-conspiracy-between-china-and-u-s-gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> in April in a federal court on ten criminal counts related to an international conspiracy to help China influence the U.S. government, including concealment of material facts, making false entries in records, witness tampering, and serving as an unregistered agent of a foreign power.
In his <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24036102-michelnewtrialmotion101623" target="_blank" rel="noopener">113-page motion</a> filed with a federal judge in Washington, the hip-hop artist&#8217;s new legal team argued that Michel&#8217;s Los Angeles-based lawyer, David Kenner, used litigation assistance technology in the trial, contributing to &#8220;prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel.&#8221;
Kenner &#8220;used an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) program to draft the closing argument, ignoring the best arguments and conflating the charged schemes, and he then publicly boasted that the AI program &#8216;turned hours or days of legal work into seconds,'&#8221; the legal team from D.C.-based ArentFox Schiff wrote. &#8220;It is now apparent that Kenner and his co-counsel appear to have had an undisclosed financial stake in the AI program, and they experimented with it during Michel&#8217;s trial so they could issue a press release afterward promoting the program — a clear conflict of interest.&#8221;
Former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg reportedly wrote in a declaration accompanying the motion that Michel&#8217;s ex-publicist notified some legal team members that Kenner had boasted at the end of the trial that &#8220;AI wrote our closing.&#8221;
&#8220;Michel&#8217;s counsel was deficient throughout, likely more focused on promoting his AI program and saving himself from the contempt proceeding than zealously defending Michel,&#8221; Zeidenberg wrote.
Zeidenberg referred to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230511154841/https:/www.eyelevel.ai/post/first-use-of-ai-in-federal-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> by a firm called EyeLevel issued in May that included a quote from Kenner calling the AI tool &#8220;an absolute game changer for complex litigation&#8221; while omitting that the grand jury convicted Michel on all ten felony charges after three days of jury deliberation.
The trial included testimony from high-profile witnesses, from Leonardo DiCaprio to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Michel, who rose to fame in the early 1990s upon forming the East Coast hip-hop trio with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, played a central role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to improperly influence top government officials, including the Obama and Trump administrations, according to federal prosecutors.
Authorities accused Michel of taking about $88 million from Malaysian financier Jho Low, who also faces charges separately for allegedly embezzling billions from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, between 2009 and 2014. Court documents and trial evidence detail that Low and Michel conspired to lobby President Trump and the Justice Department to drop the 1MDB embezzlement investigation and extradite a Chinese national on behalf of Beijing.
During the Obama administration, authorities said Michel and Low funneled millions of dollars into roughly 20 straw donors for President Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign in 2012. According to NBC, Michel told trial jurors that he accepted approximately $20 million from Low, who hoped to get a picture with Obama. However, he claimed he did not intend to use the money as foreign campaign contributions or his services.
Michel also admitted to giving approximately $800,000 in donation money to friends intended for exclusive access to Obama fundraisers in Miami and Washington, D.C., roughly priced at $40,000 per seat. Still, he considered the funds &#8220;free money&#8221; and his to spend.
Michel has reportedly remained out of jail on bond since the first charges were filed in 2019. He faces up to 20 years in prison, but authorities have not yet set a sentencing date.
The artist is set to join the Fugees on a North American reunion tour on Tuesday connected to the 25th anniversary of Lauryn Hill&#8217;s solo album, &#8220;The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,&#8221; where the trio plans to perform more than 20 concerts.
It&#8217;s unclear if Michel will attend the full tour.

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The Biden administration has said that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Venezuelan</a> immigrants who illegally entered the United States will be directly deported back to the South American country after a record number crossed the southern border last month.
The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-venezuela-deportations-reduce-record-border-arrivals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shift in policy</a> comes after years of bypassing regular deportations to Venezuela due to nearly two decades of tense relations with its socialist government. The U.S. has <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imposed sanctions</a> against the Venezuelan government and national individuals for the last 17 years related to its lack of cooperation on anti-drug and counterterrorism efforts.
But now, the Department of Homeland Security has said the federal government plans to resume direct deportations after preliminary data showed approximately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50000-venezuelans-illegally-crossed-u-s-border-last-month-shattering-previous-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50,000 Venezuelans illegally entered the U.S. last month</a>, shattering the monthly record of 34,000 set in September 2022.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement makes clear that we are committed to strictly enforcing immigration laws and quickly removing individuals who do not avail themselves of these orderly processes and choose to cross our border unlawfully,&#8221; the DHS said in a statement.
The spike in illegal crossings made by Venezuelan nationals came the same month that the Biden administration permitted hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Venezuela to stay and work in the U.S. as federal officials insist it would be unsafe for them to return home.
“Temporary protected status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement on September 21. “That is the situation that Venezuelans who arrived here on or before July 31 of this year find themselves in.”
More than seven million Venezuelans have fled the socialist regime in recent years, according to the United Nations, as the country faces economic collapse. The Venezuelan crisis has caused the largest migrant exodus in the world, surpassing the migrant exodus in Syria and Ukraine.
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The all-time high of illegal crossings into the U.S. comes after President Joe Biden removed Trump-era immigration policies.
Former President Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration Wednesday after Mayorkas said there is an “acute and immediate need” to waive dozens of federal laws and build a border wall in Texas, echoing one of Trump’s signature policies.
“Biden sees our country is being invaded,” the former president said. “What is he going to do about the 15 million people from prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, and terrorists that have already come into our country?”
Trump added that the U.S. needs to return to his policies to mitigate the border crisis.
“He has to reinstate Remain in Mexico and Title 42,” Trump said. “He has to do all of the other things that we were doing.”
&#8220;As I have stated often, over thousands of years, there are only two things that have consistently worked, wheels, and walls!&#8221; Trump wrote on social media. &#8220;Will Joe Biden apologize to me and America for taking so long to get moving&#8230;&#8221;
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Hunter Biden’s legal team on Wednesday filed a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.898532/gov.uscourts.cacd.898532.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> against a former Trump White House staffer, accusing him of violating California and federal computer privacy laws by publishing thousands of photos and emails from the infamous laptop belonging to the president’s son.
The 14-page suit, filed in a California federal court, accuses defendant Garret Ziegler, the founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, of “accessing, tampering with, manipulation, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they do not own and that they claim to have obtained from hacking into Plaintiff’s iPhone data and from scouring a copy of the hard drive of what they claim to be Plaintiff’s ‘laptop’ computer.”
Ziegler worked for former President Donald Trump during the last two years of his term as a policy analyst. His nonprofit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/website-revealing-over-10000-photos-from-hunter-bidens-laptop-crashes-shortly-after-initial-launch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> a new website in June, unveiling controversial content from the laptop to bring “truth and transparency” to America’s first family.
He told Fox News earlier this year that it took engineers on the site — BidenLaptopMedia.com — “a couple of months” to redact obscene content from thousands of photos spanning from 2008 to 2019, including images exposing Hunter’s genitals and multiple nude photos of his deceased brother Beau Biden’s wife, Hallie Biden.
“The number one thing we’re about … is truth and transparency,” Ziegler said. “If the American people want to know what their first family is like, they’re going to get it. And we’re not going to be taking out photos that paint the Bidens in a good light.”
After initially claiming the laptop that he was accused of abandoning at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019 was either hacked, stolen, or some form of Russian disinformation campaign to hinder his father&#8217;s 2020 presidential candidacy, Hunter Biden finally admitted in a sitdown interview with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-joe-family-intervention-laptop-reports-memoir/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> that it &#8220;certainly&#8221; could have belonged to him.
Then, amid working out a plea deal for a criminal probe, Biden finally admitted that the laptop packed with scandalous content was, in fact, his, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/01/hunter-biden-admits-infamous-laptop-is-his-in-plea-for-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.
Biden’s lawsuit against Trump’s former aide says that since leaving the White House in 2021, Ziegler “has devoted most of his waking time and energy to accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and otherwise using” the material in question.
It also said that Ziegler made inflammatory statements weeks before attorneys for the president’s son filed the lawsuit.
“Within the last two weeks, Defendant Ziegler went so far as to declare on social media that efforts by Plaintiff to serve him with legal process in the future would met with violence: ‘If the US president’s son sends a proxy [i.e., a process server] to illegally trespass on my property I will blow their f***ing brains out,’” the suit notes.
Ziegler <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/hunter-biden-lawsuit-trump-laptop-00115683" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> POLITICO on Wednesday that Biden’s legal team had not yet served him the legal documents.
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“I nor the nonprofit, Marco Polo, have been served with any lawsuit — but the one I read this morning out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston &amp; Strawn LLP,” he wrote in an email. “It’s not worth the paper it’s written on. Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it’s not lost on us that Joe’s son filed this SLAPP one day after an Impeachment inquiry into his father was announced.”
Attorneys for Biden requested a jury trial based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California&#8217;s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit comes after Hunter Biden called on the Justice Department to launch a criminal probe into Ziegler and others who disseminated contents from the laptop, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/politics/hunter-biden-laptop-contents-letter/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>.
The BidenLaptopEmails.com website publicized more than 120,000 emails from the abandoned laptop.
The continued laptop exposure comes after Hunter Biden faces ongoing investigations from federal prosecutors and lawmakers into foreign business dealings and allegations of lying about tax fraud and gun purchases.

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According to first-hand accounts, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> treated U.S. Gold Star families, whose loved ones passed away during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, with a remarkable lack of compassion — even for Biden. Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, honored those same families with the utmost respect and dignity on a recent night to remember.
Don&#8217;t take this author&#8217;s words for it, listen to the mothers and fathers of the brave American soldiers who died in 2021 after a bomb detonated at the Kabul airport, killing 13 of America&#8217;s bravest. Trump hosted relatives of those heroes at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 31.
For example, per a <a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/gold-star-families-trump-bedminster-jake-tapper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Spectator&#8217;s Matthew Foldi, Paula Knauss Selph — the mother of Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss — was moved to tears as Trump wrote on her son&#8217;s photo, &#8220;You are My Hero.&#8221; Knauss Selph told Foldi that those are the exact same words she uses to describe her son.
Now, contrast that moment with Biden&#8217;s treatment of the anguished parent.
Knauss Selph, who now serves as the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met with Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day 2022, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghanistan-gold-star-mom-i-wept-wanted-comfort-from-biden-he-suggested-a-photo-with-him-instead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>.
At first, Biden said to her, “I can understand if you’re angry,&#8221; when they were face to face.
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,&#8221; she said, saying that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she said of Biden. “Nothing out of his mouth except — well would you like to get a photo with me?&#8221;
Knauss Selph told Biden she would only agree to a photo if it was of her and the president at her son’s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
He declined, claiming that the Secret Service would not let him do so.
After that experience, Knauss Selph blasted the current president, saying, &#8220;It’s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace.&#8221;
She wasn&#8217;t alone in her sentiments toward the two presidents.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, told Foldi, &#8220;Trump was way more than I expected.&#8221;
&#8220;The contrast is stark with the president we met at [Dover Air Force Base],&#8221; she added.
Recently, Shamblin testified before Congress, &#8220;The administration didn&#8217;t seem to know our story,&#8221; while adding that &#8220;when it came to the people in suits, it felt disingenuous and hollow.&#8221; 
Biden, readers will also remember, checked his watch repeatedly at Dover Air Force Base while there to welcome home to the 13 caskets of the deceased Americans.
That national embarrassment enraged the nation, but the families of those brave men and women were — understandably — particularly stung by the commander-in-chief&#8217;s lack of empathy.
“In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn’t happen just once,” Darin Hoover, who lost his son, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021. &#8220;That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one – all 13 – he looked down at his watch.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;As a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of his master sergeants said exactly what you just said, that this was avoidable, that they left them over there. They let them down, we can’t have that. It can’t happen ever again.&#8221;
Hoover also testified before Congress the same week after meeting Trump in late August.
&#8220;Between Congress and Trump, it turned into a really good week,” he told Foldi. “Lots of emotion and good times.”
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NEW from me <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSpectator?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheSpectator</a>:
Donald Trump spent an evening privately hosting some of the Gold Star families whose kids were killed in Biden&#39;s failed Afghanistan withdrawal
&quot;He knew our names, he knew our kids&#8230;He took the time to honor our 13.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8">https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8</a>
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Marlon Bateman, an executive advisor to the Utah attorney general, was also in attendance and provided more details as to what the night was like — again drawing a sharp distinction from Biden&#8217;s treatment of the families.
&#8220;We did not expect President Trump to join us, but to my surprise, he came up and joined us for dinner,&#8221; Bateman said. &#8220;Everyone erupted in cheers as he walked in. Lee Greenwood&#8217;s &#8216;God Bless The U.S.A&#8217; was blaring on the speakers. He proceeded to spend another couple of hours with us and even busted out an iPad to play songs for couples to slow dance to. He even went into his all-time favorite wrestling intros! At that moment I could see the anxiety, stress, and anger that these parents had carried for so long disappear from their faces. It was a moment of peace. They were there to celebrate the heroes they raised. Their babies grew up to be the best our country had to offer, and they were getting some of the recognition they deserved.&#8221;
Bateman added, &#8220;[Trump] did something for these families that the current administration has refused to do, and was incapable of doing — giving an overdue moment of recognition and solidarity for their children. Not a bullshit statement from the White House, not John Kirby sending his deepest condolences on CNN, not Joe Biden continually glancing at his watch while the bodies of their children were carried off the tarmac. He gave them hope that accountability and justice will be coming.&#8221;
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Last week, I had the honor to accompany several Gold Star parents to meet with President Trump in Bedminster. These parents lost their children when Abbey Gate was bombed in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was orchestrated by Joe Biden.  
While Biden continues… <a href="https://t.co/wOJEKVG4r2">pic.twitter.com/wOJEKVG4r2</a>
&mdash; MarlonBateman (@MarlonBateman) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarlonBateman/status/1699138530117837308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration recently released a report calling the withdrawal a &#8220;success&#8221; and Biden has said the withdrawal <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027696241/biden-said-the-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-would-be-safe-then-chaos-ensued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> &#8220;responsible, deliberate and safe.&#8221;
Of course, readers know the lapdog media will never cover this story — it paints too much of a black-and-white difference between Biden and Trump. Thank goodness for conservative press and social media to get the story out there.
The names of the 13 Americans killed during the withdrawal can be read here:
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<li>Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25 </li>
<li>Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31 </li>
<li>Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22 </li>
<li>Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23 </li>
<li>Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20 </li>
<li>Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23</li>
</ul>
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and five other co-defendants named in the sweeping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-staffer-mark-meadows-asks-judge-to-block-arrest-in-georgia-election-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia racketeering indictment</a> reportedly pleaded not guilty Tuesday and waived their in-person arraignment set for tomorrow.
&#8220;I fully understand the nature of the offenses charged and my right to appear at arraignment,&#8221; Meadows <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4187466-mark-meadows-pleads-not-guilty-in-georgia-election-interference-case-waives-arraignment/">wrote</a> in the court filing reported by The Hill. &#8220;Understanding my rights, I do hereby freely and voluntarily waive my right to be present at my arraignment on the Indictment and my right to have it read to me in open court.&#8221;
Meadows and 18 other co-defendants are named in former President Donald Trump&#8217;s fourth indictment following a criminal investigation into the former president&#8217;s alleged efforts to overturn the state&#8217;s 2020 presidential election results.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pursued charging the individuals under Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed by multiple defendants and argue that they were working together toward a criminal goal — and were, therefore, part of a &#8220;criminal enterprise.&#8221;
Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing and has claimed politically motivated forces are targeting him in a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; propagated by the Biden administration and Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia.
Attorney John Eastman, ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, David Shafer, the former Georgia GOP chair, and Cathy Latham, a member of the Georgia Republican Party&#8217;s executive committee, also pleaded not guilty, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/mark-meadows-5-defendants-georgia-election-case-plead/story?id=102928940">according</a> to ABC News.
Clark&#8217;s attorney reportedly said in a filing that the charges against his client were an &#8220;unconstitutional attempt, as to Mr. Clark, to penetrate into the sanctums of the superior federal government&#8217;s Justice Department, as well as of the Office of the President of the United States at the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;The Indictment is also an unconstitutional affront to the powers of the President, who is the sole head of the unitary executive branch,&#8221; Clark&#8217;s filing states.
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Clark and Meadows are two of five defendants requesting to move their cases from state court into federal court.
All but one of the 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, named in the indictment have now pleaded not guilty in the case and waived their in-person arraignment.
According to reports, former Coffee County elections director Misty Hampton still has not entered a plea.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set the date of September 6 for all 19 defendants to be arraigned on charges and enter their pleas in the case.

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Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Meadows asked a federal judge to block prosecutors from arresting him this week in Fulton County on charges listed in ex-President Donald Trump’s sweeping Georgia racketeering indictment.
“Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest that federal law affords former federal officials,” Meadows’ attorneys <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.319225/gov.uscourts.gand.319225.17.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to U.S. District Court Judge Steven Jones.
Meadows is one of 18 co-defendants named in Trump’s fourth indictment following a criminal investigation into the former president’s alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pursued charging individuals under Georgia’s RICO Act, which allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed by multiple defendants and argue that they were working together toward a criminal goal — and were therefore part of a “criminal enterprise.”
“Unfortunately, the state is set on subjecting Mr. Meadows to criminal process in Georgia as quickly as it can and without regard to his pending efforts to remove the case to federal court,” Meadows’s lawyer said in the filing. “In addition to threatening arrest on Friday — in advance of this court’s Monday hearing — the state has also sought a scheduling order that would proceed exceptionally fast for a 19-defendant, 41-count prosecution.”
In the indictment brought against Trump and his allies, Meadows faces charges under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute and for soliciting an official to violate their oath of office.
The indictment alleges that Meadows, Trump, and others “unlawfully solicited, requested, and importuned” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, citing a phone call where the former president reportedly tried to pressure the state official to find 11,780 votes.
Meadows denied any wrongdoing in assisting Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results.
Meadows asked Willis for &#8220;a modest extension of that [Friday at Noon] deadline,&#8221; adding he had hoped to &#8220;be prepared to meet and confer … immediately following the federal court hearing—which is scheduled for less than one business day after the current deadline&#8221; to &#8220;discuss the best path forward based on the outcome of the hearing, including a prompt voluntary surrender in Fulton County, if appropriate.&#8221;
But Willis denied the request on Tuesday morning and “made clear that she would arrest Mr. Meadows before this Court’s hearing if he does not agree to bond terms and voluntarily surrender.”
“I am not granting any extensions. I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court. Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction,” Willis said in the letter, according to court filings.
Willis ordered Trump and the co-defendants to surrender at the Fulton County Jail for processing by noon on August 25 and has proposed arraignments for the defendants in the first week of September, with a trial scheduled in March 2024.
Trump, who has broadly denied any wrongdoing and has claimed politically motivated forces are targeting him in a “witch hunt” propagated by the Biden administration and Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia, has said he’ll appear in Atlanta on August 24 for booking.
Meadows has explored different legal avenues to avoid surrendering before an Aug. 28 hearing in federal court, including a Supremacy Clause request, which protects federal officials from being arrested and brought to trial in a state court.

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Former Trump Staffer Mark Meadows Asks Judge To Block Arrest In Georgia Election Case

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Former Trump White House Chief of Staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-meadows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Meadows</a> filed in the Northern District of Georgia to move his charges listed in the ex-president&#8217;s fourth indictment to a federal court, where he reportedly plans to ask a judge to dismiss his case under federal law.
&#8220;Mr. Meadows is entitled to remove this action to federal court because the charges against him plausibly give rise to a federal defense based on his role at all relevant times as the White House Chief of Staff to the President of the United States,&#8221; attorneys for Meadows wrote in the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.319225/gov.uscourts.gand.319225.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14-page filing</a> on Tuesday.
Meadows is one of 18 co-defendants named in former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Fulton County, Georgia, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-on-fulton-county-charges-i-have-irrefutable-election-fraud-evidence-complete-exoneration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> following a criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts to overturn the state&#8217;s 2020 presidential election results.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pursued charging individuals under Georgia&#8217;s RICO Act, which allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed by multiple defendants and argue that they were working together toward a criminal goal — and were part of a &#8220;criminal enterprise.&#8221;
In the 41-count indictment brought against Trump and his allies, Meadows faces charges under the state&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute and for soliciting an official to violate their oath of office.
The indictment alleges that Meadows, Trump, and others &#8220;unlawfully solicited, requested, and importuned&#8221; Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, citing a phone call where the former president reportedly tried to pressure the state official to find 11,780 votes.
Meadows denied any wrongdoing in assisting Trump&#8217;s efforts to challenge the election results.
&#8220;Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President&#8217;s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President,&#8221; the filing states. &#8220;One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things.&#8221;
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The filing argues the indictment &#8220;is precisely the kind of state interference in a federal official&#8217;s duties that the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supremacy Clause</a> of the U.S. Constitution prohibits,&#8221; which the core of the section states the Constitution and federal laws take priority over any conflicting rules of state law.
Attorneys for Meadows also reportedly stated in the filing that while the former chief of staff intends to file a separate motion to dismiss the indictment, the request to move into federal court would delay state court proceedings.
&#8220;Even if the Court is not prepared to dismiss outright at this early stage, however, justice requires granting removal and halting any further state-court proceedings against Mr. Meadows,&#8221; the filing said. &#8220;That will allow for the timely consideration of Mr. Meadows&#8217;s defenses, including his federal defense under the Supremacy Clause, without requiring him to defend himself in state court simultaneously.&#8221;
When the indictment was first revealed Monday, the Trump campaign released a statement slamming Fulton County DA Fani Willis as a “rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments.” Willis, the campaign said, “strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign.”
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

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An Air Force general said artificial intelligence utilized by the U.S. military in modern warfare holds higher ethical standards than foreign adversaries because of the nation&#8217;s foundational &#8220;Judeo-Christian society.&#8221;
&#8220;Regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society, and we have a moral compass,&#8221; Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. said. &#8220;Not everybody does, and there are those that are willing to go for the ends — regardless of what means have to be employed, and we&#8217;ll have to be ready for that.&#8221;
Moore, a three-star general serving as the USAF&#8217;s deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, made those comments on Thursday during a discussion at the <a href="https://www.hudson.org/events/sharpening-air-forces-cyber-spectrum-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hudson Institute</a> that centered around improving cyberspace and spectrum superiority in the military branch.
Moore said the military&#8217;s approach holds more ethical standards than its adversaries when asked about the Pentagon&#8217;s position on autonomous warfare, raising concerns about using AI in future international conflicts.
&#8220;What will the adversary do?&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;It depends who plays by the rules of warfare and who doesn&#8217;t. There are societies that have a very different foundation than ours.&#8221;
The U.S. military has dominated modern combat in the cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum for years, allowing forces to &#8220;blind its enemies and gain a potentially decisive advantage,&#8221; the Hudson Institute writes in the event&#8217;s description. But technological threats are rising in the East from nations including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea that &#8220;employ state-sponsored cyberattacks as a tool for gray-zone aggression.&#8221;
Technology experts warned lawmakers last week to act quickly in the race for AI dominance. China reportedly is leading the world in funding innovative defense measures as the U.S. focuses on consumer services such as ChatGPT.
&#8220;We need to consider what the overall investment into military implementations looks like. And that&#8217;s where there&#8217;s a large disparity,&#8221; Scale AI founder Alexander Wang told a <a href="https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/citi-hearing-man-and-machine-artificial-intelligence-battlefield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Armed Services subcommittee</a>. &#8220;If you compare as a percentage of their overall military investment, the PLA is spending somewhere between one to two percent of their overall budget into artificial intelligence whereas the DoD is spending somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 of our budget on AI.&#8221;
Defense Department officials began working on responsible guidelines for the military to use AI and autonomy on future battlefields during the Trump administration, according to its <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2091996/dod-adopts-ethical-principles-for-artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. After months of consultation with leading AI experts in commercial industry, government, academia, and the American public, the DOD AI strategy objective directed the U.S. military to lead in AI ethics and the lawful use of AI systems.
President Joe Biden&#8217;s State Department issued a <a href="https://www.state.gov/political-declaration-on-responsible-military-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a> on &#8220;responsible military use of artificial intelligence and autonomy&#8221; in February, stating that the use of AI in armed conflict must comply with applicable international humanitarian law, including its fundamental principles.
The declaration states military use of AI capabilities should remain within a responsible human chain of command and control during operations to consider risks and benefits and minimize unintended bias and accidents.
According to the Pentagon&#8217;s latest budget request reported by <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/07/pentagon-ai-more-ethical-adversaries-because-judeo-christian-society-usaf-general-says/388711/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense One</a>, officials have added &#8220;several forms&#8221; of ethical AI exploration.
&#8220;The first one is what do we think we&#8217;re allowed to let AI do, the second one is how do we know how the algorithm made decisions and do we trust it, and the third one is at what point are we ready to let the algorithm start doing some things on its own that maybe we are or aren&#8217;t comfortable with.&#8221;
Alex John London, a professor of ethics and computational technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/air-force-general-ai-judeochristian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> that Moore&#8217;s ethical concerns surrounding AI use in war &#8220;are broader than any single tradition.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of work in the ethics space that&#8217;s not tied to any religious perspective, that focuses on the importance of valuing human welfare, human autonomy, having social systems that are just and fair,&#8221; he said.
Moore addressed his remarks in an email to The Post that the foundation of his comments &#8220;was to explain that the Air Force is not going to allow AI to take actions, nor are we going to take actions on information provided by AI unless we can ensure that the information is in accordance with our values.&#8221;
&#8220;While this may not be unique to our society, it is not anticipated to be the position of any potential adversary,&#8221; Moore wrote.

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&#8220;QAnon Shaman&#8221; Jacob Chansley, dressed in the iconic costume he wore on January 6, sat down with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles for a mind-bending chat, his first extended interview since serving 27 months in prison for his involvement in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol riot</a>.
The 35-year-old Chansley, who on January 6 roamed the Capitol in a two-horned helmet and face paint while carrying a spear with an American flag attached, opened up to Knowles on politics, spirituality, and dove head-first into the ideology behind &#8220;Q,&#8221; which he insisted was a creation of the highest levels of U.S. military intelligence.
&#8220;Q is a psychological operation, okay?&#8221; Chansley claimed, adding that such operations spring from the dark web by forces out to establish a new world order.
Prosecutors charged Chansley with multiple crimes, including civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and entering and remaining in a restricted building. Chansley pleaded guilty to one felony of obstructing an official proceeding, and was sentenced in November 2021 to 41 months in prison.
But the self-proclaimed &#8220;evolutionary&#8221; had his sentence cut short after previously withheld security footage showed Capitol Police officers appearing to escort him throughout the building. An attorney representing Chansley recently filed a motion to vacate his conviction, and he said he was limited in discussing January 6 while the matter is pending.
&#8220;My attorney has advised me not to say too much at all regarding that because litigation sucks and it&#8217;s a long process, and the government will and can use anything you say and twist it to make you look a certain way that is going to give more credence to their case,&#8221; Chansley said. &#8220;But I assure you, there&#8217;s a very good reason why [the Capitol police] were escorting me.&#8221;
Chansley did discuss his prison experiences, crediting God with keeping him strong during his darkest moments, especially during the 10 months of solitary confinement he served in an Alexandria, Virginia, prison cell.
&#8220;I&#8217;m in a cell. I&#8217;m freaking out. I&#8217;m like, what the hell?&#8221; Chansley said. &#8220;You know, &#8216;God, show me you&#8217;re with me.'&#8221;
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&#8220;And then that night I would get letters, like a stack of letters . . . there would be biblical verses in those letters that correspond with my prayers. Or there would be people that are being like, &#8216;We don&#8217;t believe anything in the media . . . we know that what they&#8217;re saying is a lie . . . we&#8217;re supporting you, we&#8217;re praying for you.&#8217; All of that stuff.&#8221;
Chansley initially issued an apology after he pleaded guilty to his involvement at the Capitol over two years ago. But after being released from prison early, he recently told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66169914?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_link_id=A7849524-23CA-11EE-A773-55CBD89D5CC3&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_format=link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> he regrets the plea.
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Grammy-winning artist Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, former member of the 1990s hip-hop trio the Fugees, was found guilty Wednesday in a federal court on 10 criminal counts related to an international conspiracy to help China influence the U.S. government.
Michel, 50, was convicted of conspiracy, concealment of material facts, making false entries in records, witness tampering, and serving as an unregistered agent of a foreign power in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the Department of Justice. He pleaded not guilty to all changes.
“As proven at trial, the defendant engaged in an extensive conspiracy to use millions of dollars in foreign funds to engage in illegal back-channel lobbying and make unlawful campaign contributions,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-entertainer-convicted-engaging-foreign-influence-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Michel, who rose to fame in the early 1990s upon forming the East Coast hip-hop trio with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, played a central role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to improperly influence top government officials, including the Obama and Trump administrations, authorities said.
Prosecutor Sean Mulryne told the jury in closing arguments that the rapper was “at the center of the conspiracy.”
&#8220;He’s the core; he’s the linchpin,” Mulryne said, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pras-michel-convicted-of-involvement-in-foreign-influence-scheme-linked-to-1mdb-d27f49eb">Wall Street Journal</a>.
Authorities said Michel received more than $100 million from Malaysian financier Jho Low, who also faces charges separately for allegedly embezzling billions from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, between 2009 and 2014.
Court documents and trial evidence detail that Low and Michel conspired to lobby President Trump and the Justice Department to drop the 1MDB embezzlement investigation and extradite a Chinese national on behalf of Beijing. CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/politics/pras-michel-trial-verdict/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the rapper denied Low gave him the money, claiming it was an investment for a media business. Authorities also accused Michel and Low of lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Beijing to extradite a Chinese dissident living in America.
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During the Obama administration, authorities said Michel and Low funneled millions of dollars into roughly 20 straw donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012. According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-fugees-member-pras-michel-convicted-10-felony-counts-rcna81670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC</a>, Michel told trial jurors last week that he accepted approximately $20 million from Low, who hoped to get a picture with Obama, though he claimed he did not intend for the money to be used as foreign campaign contributions or his services.
Michel also admitted to giving approximately $800,000 in donation money to friends intended for exclusive access to Obama fundraisers in Miami and Washington D.C., roughly priced at $40,000 per seat. Still, he considered the funds “free money” and his to spend.
Michel also claimed he was never told to register as a foreign agent.
Attorney David Kenner, who represented Michel, told reporters the rapper plans to appeal his conviction after sentencing.
“We are extremely disappointed in the results and are very, very confident in the ultimate outcome of this case,” Kenner told reporters.“This is not over. I remain very, very confident that we will ultimately prevail in this matter.”
Michel faces up to 20 years in prison.
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President Biden terminated the national emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, three years after federal and state governments initially enacted a two-week order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Biden signed the resolution ending the orders after U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers passed the bill despite almost 200 House Democrats voting against ending the national emergency declaration, which led to draconian social distancing rules, closures of small businesses and schools, and mask and vaccine mandates.
&#8220;The President signed into law: H.J.Res. 7, which terminates the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; the White House said in a short <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2023/04/10/bill-signed-h-j-res-7/">news release</a>.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration quietly admitted its plan to end the COVID-19 emergency declarations, which initially intended to file one last extension of the national and public health emergency declarations on April 11 until officially ending both on May 11.
The policy was intended to criticize two bills in the House of Representatives that would end the emergency declarations by force, claiming the legislation would &#8220;create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors&#8217; offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3943119-biden-signs-bill-ending-national-covid-19-emergency/">The Hill</a>, the new law ends federal health program waivers, including Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, although health officials have eased back on many of the regulations surrounding COVID-19.
The declaration also allowed the Trump administration to pause student loan repayments and enact Title 42, to block illegal immigrants from crossing the southern border out of caution for public health.
Biden administration officials are still trying to end the policy that allows border agents to turn migrants away on an expedited basis, but the Supreme Court stopped it.
Former President Donald Trump first declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020, which allowed federal officials to authorize funding for testing and vaccination centers in cities and states.

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Fox News Network settled a defamation lawsuit filed against the legacy media outlet and former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs by a Venezuelan businessman over a broadcast and related social media activity involving him and voting software companies during the 2020 presidential election.
Majed Khalil sued the Fox Corporation, Fox News Network LLC, Lou Dobbs, and attorney Sidney Powell in a complaint filed in New York federal court in 2021.
Law and Crime <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/fox-settles-defamation-lawsuit-from-venezuelan-businessman-tying-him-dominion-election-claim/">observed</a> the complaint, which alleged the defendants accused Khalil and three others of working with Dominion and Smartmatic to &#8220;rig or fix the results&#8221; of the election in favor of President Joe Biden during a December 10, 2020, broadcast and related Twitter posts.
“Here, Defendants repeatedly maintained their claims about Khalil long after Powell’s election fraud theories were challenged,” his 26-page opinion and order states. “Numerous reports that declared the falsity of the claims against Dominion and Smartmatic and rejected Powell as an accurate source of information gave Defendants reasons to doubt Powell’s veracity and the accuracy of her reports. While the complaint does not allege that the Khalil himself informed Defendants of the falsity of the claims against him, both Smartmatic and Dominion did so. Falsity of the claims against both companies would necessitate falsity of the claims against Plaintiff. Several government agencies stated that there was no evidence of fraud in the election, and even then-President Trump supporters rejected Powell’s accusations.”
Fox attorney K. Winn Allen wrote in a Saturday letter to Stanton co-signed by Khalil attorney Sigmund S. Wissner-Gross reported by Law and Crime that the parties anticipate filing a joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice early next week.
&#8220;The parties are pleased to jointly inform the Court that they have reached a confidential agreement to resolve this matter,&#8221; Allen said.
The claims against Powell were dismissed, while a judge last fall denied the news outlet and Dobbs&#8217; attempts on First Amendment grounds, claiming that they engaged in fair and neutral reporting.
&#8220;The 2020 Election is a cyber Pearl Harbor: The leftwing establishment have aligned their forces to overthrow the United States government,&#8221; Dobbs wrote in a December 10 post on Twitter.
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The leftwing establishment have aligned their forces to overthrow the United States government <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaFirst?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaFirst</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dobbs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dobbs</a> <a href="https://t.co/v1hOAPMqGY">pic.twitter.com/v1hOAPMqGY</a>
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Fox canceled Dobbs&#8217; show in February 2021.
Fox also faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over similar claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied granting summary judgment to Fox News in its attempt to get the voting software company&#8217;s lawsuit tossed on Friday, which now goes to trial in April.
&#8220;The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true,&#8221; Davis wrote in his ruling reported by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-refuses-dismiss-dominion-lawsuit-fox-news-rcna76422">NBC</a>.
Network officials argued that the opinions were protected under the Constitution, but Davis disagreed, saying such statements were either fact or mixed opinion.
Fox News argued that the challenged comments were opinions and protected. Still, Davis disagreed, saying the statements &#8220;were capable of being proven true and, in fact, the evidence that would prove the statements was discussed many times but never presented.&#8221;
&#8220;We are gratified by the Court&#8217;s thorough ruling soundly rejecting all of Fox&#8217;s arguments and defenses, and finding as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false,&#8221; a spokesperson for Dominion said in a statement to NBC. &#8220;We look forward to going to trial.&#8221;
A Fox News spokesperson told NBC in a satement that the case involves the First Amendment protections of the media&#8217;s absolute right to cover the news.
&#8220;FOX will continue to fiercely advocate for the rights of free speech and a free press as we move into the next phase of these proceedings,&#8221; the spokesperson said.

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