Apparently his defense requested a bench trial to avoid the new DA coming in who likely would have made it a death penalty case. Also felt that their defense was on having some evidence suppressed (which wasn't), but that they will argue against that on appeal so better to get on to the appeal phase.
Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread
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ChapelHillSooner
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This will certainly impact my coworkers.What can UNC expect given RFK's antipathy toward NIH ?
Currently UNC receives 522 million/yr in NIH funding...
UNC School of Medicine Ranks 6th in NIH Funding for Public Universities | Newsroom
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2023, including the Department of Genetics, which is ranked 1st among public schools. Eleven clinical departments rank in the top 30.news.unchealthcare.org
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said about the NIH
Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary aims to disrupt the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top funder of academic research. Doctors and public health officials have condemned the choice.www.insidehighered.com
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lawtig02
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Two sources close to President-elect Donald Trump said they were optimistic after being briefed on today’s meetings with Vice President-elect JD Vance, Matt Gaetz and key republican senators.
“Matt is a polarizing person, but he’s very good one-on-one,” one source said, adding that there was a belief among those in support of Gaetz that getting him to sit down with senators and make his case would showcase how he has the right person for the job.
LeoBloom
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This is a chance for Democrats.
Hegseth Wants a Christian Nationalist 'Insurgency'
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, said on a podcast this week that he supported a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide the recruits for "an underground army" that will eventuallypoliticalwire.com
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, said on a podcast this week that he supported a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide the recruits for “an underground army” that will eventually launch an “educational insurgency” to take over the United States.
"..."I think we need to be thinking in terms of these classical Christian schools are boot camps for winning back America," said Sumpter.
"That's what the crop of these classical Christian schools are gonna do in a generation," Hegseth agreed. "Policy answers like school choice, while they're great, that's phase two stuff later on once the foothold has been taken, once the recruits have graduated boot camp."
"We call it a tactical retreat," Hegseth continued. "We draw out in the last part of the book what an educational insurgency would look like, because I was a counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan and kind of the phases that Mao [Zedong] wrote about. We're in middle phase one right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat where you regroup, consolidate, and reorganize. And as you do so, you build your army underground with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations in an overt way."
"Obviously, all of this is metaphorical and all that good stuff," Hesgeth claimed, which promoted both hosts and himself to burst out laughing. ..."
This guy wants to brainwash your kids. He wants to tell your kids what kind of Christian they can be. He wants teachers to tell you what kind of Christian they can be. They are trying to dictate how you raise your kids. Etc.
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LOL. Does anyone care how good he is one-on-one? He could be as fucking charismatic as George Clooney in a small room setting. Doesn't change the fact that Clooney knows more about law than him.
The idea that a person with two years of experience as an attorney, straight out of law school, a dozen years ago, could be the right person to be AG, is even more comical than a Mike Johnson attempted erection.
And not even a good law school either. smh.
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Is this the same bill that will force the state to increase the amount given to school vouchers by a whopping $2 billion over the next few years? They're literally financially starving our public schools to death, and the great bulk of the public doesn't seem to either know or care. And the vouchers will go to anybody - including even wealthy parents - and there is little to no oversight or regulation as to how the money will be spent. These are dark, dark days for American public education, including here in NC.
Mulberry Heel
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I agree, but the question is will Democrats have the guts to actually call this out and run with it. Too many DC Democrats seem to think that if they just play nice with Trumpers then somehow, someway they'll play nice and things will be OK.
Callatoroy
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need to shift some from NIH to NIL
LeoBloom
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Exactly.
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Trump’s approval now sitting at 54%! Plus, a majority of Americans support his transition. Guess the “kooks” are winning.
CFordUNC
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Alternatively,
Donald Trump : Favorability Polls
The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.
Just one poll. CFord linked the aggregate polling numbers.
He will get a post-inaugural bump (although less of a bump than most truly new presidents). That said, I'd be willing to bet a fair amount that he will be sub 35% approval by December 2025.
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Agreed
And in todays climate maybe Jesus Christ would not have over 50%
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538……funny. They were spot on for the electionAlternatively,
Donald Trump : Favorability Polls
The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.projects.fivethirtyeight.com
We’ll be entering a Golden Era with DOGE; a closed border; drill baby drill; the end of DEI; low inflation and a peace in the world. Plus , the end of lawfare and the Penny trial. MAGA.
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Splain the policies supporting low inflation. Tarriffs?
CFordUNC
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Both UNC and Mercer are going to lose their accreditations if you keep posting nonsense like that!
By the way, 538 is a polling aggregator. Do you know what "aggregator" means? Not being snarky, I'm serious.
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Smaller Federal Government through massive DOGE cuts;
This includes substantially reduced federal workforce due to imposition of mandatory 5 day in person workforce attendance;
Reduced spending;
Lower energy costs due to greater energy production;
TARGETED tariffs to booster American manufacturing; leads to
Lower interest rates.
That’s a start. Sit back a watch it happen.
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List some great Federal Govt spending cuts you are salivating about