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Chris Rock warns Donald Trump arrest will ‘make him more popular’ with voters

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Chris Rock warned authorities they could make Donald Trump “more popular” if they arrest him. New York police is tipped to be preparing for the former US president’s indictment over alleged hush payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. But the comedian believes this would backfire and increase Trump’s popularity ahead of next year’s election.

Speaking at the Mark Twain Prize, Rock focused his skit on Trump instead of colleague and friend Adam Sandler, who was being honoured at the ceremony.

“Are you guys really going to arrest Trump?” he asked attendees, which included several Biden administration officials as well as former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Rock continued: “Do you know this is only going to make him more popular? It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?”

He also mockingly defended Trump, saying it would have been “romantic” of him to pay Daniels to keep Melania Trump from discovering their affair.

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Rock joked an arrest would make Trump as popular as Tupac (Image: GETTY)

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Trump faces criminal charges for payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Image: GETTY)

The comedian said: “We’ve all been cheated on. Don’t you wish that the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn’t find out?”

Trump has been under investigation for allegedly having his former lawyer Michael Cohen pay Daniels £106,000 ($130,000) towards the end of his presidential campaign in 2016.

However, Trump has maintained he had never had an affair and said he is ready to be arrested on Tuesday, urging supporters to “protest, protest, protest.”

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Trump has maintained he had no affair with Trump (Image: GETTY)

But the response from Trump supporters has been muted overall, with former demonstrations pointing to the risk of arrest if protests do take place.

Ali Alexander, who helped organise the “Stop the Steal” following the 2020 elections, warned Trump’s supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City.

Alexander tweeted: “You have no liberty or rights there.”

Alexander added he had spoken to Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show, and confirmed that neither of them would be protesting this time around.

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Trump urged supporters to protest if he is arrested (Image: GETTY)

“We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.”

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences”.

“It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said.

Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come.

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Dangerous Joliet Rock Pile Gets City’s Attention

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Hotel owner Mike Patel’s $18.6 million renovation of the vacant Barrett’s Hardware store into a Marriott’s have not materialized as hoped.

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JOLIET, IL — Joliet hotel operator Mike Patel’s plans to convert downtown Joliet’s vacant Barrett’s Hardware into a high-end Marriott’s Springhill Suites haven’t panned out. Not only has construction failed to start, but the Barrett’s property has become a symbol of danger, Joliet’s City Council was told at Tuesday’s meeting.

Joliet attorney Dan Kallan, owner of the adjacent building at 71 N. Ottawa St., urged the city to take action on Patel’s property. There is a huge hole in the foundation on the backside of the Barrett’s building. In addition to the large hole, there is a huge rock pile that anybody walking downtown can access.

Patel had erected a chain-link fence around the back perimeter of his property, but the fence was taken down.

“And there’s a huge pile of rocks, and there’s bricks, and I don’t know if they’re going to be removed or what’s going to happen to that building,” Kallan said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I tried to call the owner and was unsuccessful.

“There’s a big hole in the foundation of the building, and it’s boarded up right now, but it’s flimsily boarded up, and I’m concerned there’s going to be homeless people camping out there in winter time and lighting fires and stuff like that.”

The downtown Joliet lawyer also fears his building on North Ottawa Street as well as other downtown properties would be easy targets for vandals and rioters.

Joliet was the site of a citywide looting on the night of May 31. However, most of the street violence occurred on West Jefferson Street and Larkin Avenue’s North Ridge Plaza.

“It’s a very hazardous situation especially with the big pile of rocks there,” Kallan told Joliet’s City Council. “You get a bunch of looters … my windows are gone. They got a lot of ammo to fling at windows, so I’m concerned about that, and I don’t know what the city can or will do about that.”

Joliet’s interim city manager Jim Hock told everyone that the fence was taken down recently so Patel can “remove that pile, and I expect in the next day or two all that rubble will be hauled away and then the fence will be much closer to the building.”

Mayor Bob O’Dekirk spoke up, asking if Hock can provide the council with an in-depth update on the status of the Marriott Springhill Suites project at the next meeting in two weeks.

“I know the last report we got was that construction is continuing but I’m downtown also and I’m not sure that’s accurate,” O’Dekirk remarked Tuesday night.

In February, the council approved the Marriott’s redevelopment project. Joliet Patch previously reported that the project’s estimated cost is more than $18.6 million. About $17.5 million was considered Tax Increment Finance eligible.

Kallan, the neighboring building owner, told the council that Patel told him about a month ago that the Barrett’s hotel redevelopment project is still proceeding.

“I have about a C minus confidence in that statement,” Kallan told the council.

The fact that downtown Joliet’s $18.6 million hotel redevelopment has stalled might not be a surprise. March marked the new coronavirus worldwide pandemic, and America’s hotel industry has slumped substantially over the past several months as millions of people are not traveling out of state or scheduling out of town business trips.

Joliet Patch reported on Feb. 2 that the Barrett’s redevelopment would consist of:

  • 2 additional floors to the building to make it a six-story hotel.
  • 82 hotel suites
  • valet parking
  • fitness center
  • outdoor patio
  • 1,500-square-foot conference room meeting space
  • Starbucks Coffee kiosk
  • guest laundry
  • A first-floor dining outlet in honor of the Barrett’s Hardware Store

Here are some additional Joliet Patch photos of Patel’s property from Thursday, Sept. 3.

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Prince Harry and Meghan warned Lilibet and Archie ‘too young’ for big Coronation moment

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Harry and Meghan’s children may not make it into Westminster Abbey on May 6 (Image: Getty)

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The Sussexes have been warned that their children could be too young to make it into Westminster Abbey for . It comes after reportedly said she only wants four of her grandchildren to have key roles on May 6, although there has been no official comment on this from Buckingham Palace.

But so far, no official roles have been given to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ’s two children, with reports even suggesting they are yet to be formally invited either.

According to The Sun’s Royal correspondent Emily Andrews, the Sussexes might feel “a little bit aggrieved” by all this.

She said on Sunrise TV: “I don’t know whether we should read too much into it. Archie is going to be four on the day and Lilibet almost two. I think they are going to be too young to be in the Abbey.

“But obviously, this is Camilla saying ‘Harry, I am Queen now. I get to do what I want’.”

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King Charles’ Coronation is on May 6 (Image: Getty )

Meanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales’s three children are all expected to have key roles at the Coronation on May 6.

According to rehearsal documents seen by The Times , Prince George Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will join their parents in a carriage right behind King Charles and Camilla, who will be in the Golden State Coach on their return to the palace.

George is now nine and Charlotte is seven. They took part in the Queen’s funeral procession last September.

But Louis, who was four at the time, was deemed ‘too young’ to participate.

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Camilla has reportedly said only four of her grandchildren can have key roles on the day (Image: Getty )

Other working royals expected to take part in proceedings on May 6 include the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tom Laurence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra.

But the non-working royals including Prince Andrew, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are not expected to take part.

The Sussexes have not yet confirmed whether they will attend the event as the feud between Harry and the rest of the Royal Family continues to boil following a series of explosive revelations in his book Spare and their Netflix documentary.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales’ three children are all expected to be have key roles (Image: Getty )

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Draft documents handed out to those involved in the planning of the event have also revealed a potential schedule for the day, although nothing has been finalised yet.

King Charles has reportedly requested for his Coronation to be more modest than his mother’s monumental three-hour service back in 1953.

A source told the Mailonline : “Two versions of the plans [for the day] are being drawn up. One includes Harry and Meghan and one doesn’t. Timings are all approximate at this stage, but they are working towards a timetable now.”

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Donald Trump Says People Say ‘Merry Christmas’ Again Because of Him

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Former President Donald Trump has asserted that Americans “quickly” started to say “Merry Christmas” again during his presidency.

Trump told former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee that the common holiday greeting experienced a resurgence when he took office during an interview that aired on the conservative network Newsmax on Thursday. Huckabee, who was one of Trump’s Republican presidential primary opponents in 2016, claimed that “America had gone into a long period where people quit saying ‘Merry Christmas.'”

“You deliberately changed that,” Huckabee said while emotional piano and strings music played in the background. “And openly said ‘Merry Christmas,’ we’re going to say it again.”

“That was part of my campaign,” Trump responded. “The country had started with this ‘woke,’ I guess, a little bit before that. And it was embarrassing for stores to say ‘Merry Christmas.’ You’d see these big chains, they want your money but they don’t want to say ‘Merry Christmas.’ And they’d use reds and they’d use whites and snow but they wouldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas.'”

“When I started campaigning I said, ‘you’re going to say Merry Christmas again.’ And now people are saying it,” he continued. “That was a big part of what I was doing, I would say it all the time during that period… I tell you, we brought it back very quickly.”

Huckabee agreed that Trump “really did” bring the phrase back. He said that the greeting was “a part of the American culture” and not meant “to exclude anybody.” He went on to say that the phrase was “just simply a celebration of what America does at Christmas” while stock video panned over images of a Christmas tree decorated with the American flag and “Be Best” ornaments.

“America loves Christmas,” Trump agreed. “Whether you’re Muslim, whether you’re Christian, whether you’re Jewish, everyone loves Christmas. And they’d say ‘Merry Christmas’ until these crazy people came along and they wanted to stop it along with everything else.”

Trump concluded by insisting that he was “very proud of” his supposed accomplishment of bringing the greeting back into widespread use.

There is little evidence to quantify how often people greet each other using any particular phrase during the holiday season. Regardless, perceptions that the phrase “Merry Christmas” unfairly fell out of favor have been frequently cited by largely conservative commentators touting a so-called “War on Christmas” in recent years, a notion that former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly popularized on air in 2004.

Those who have argued that “Merry Christmas” was unjustly taken out of circulation have often complained that Christians are being sidelined as other greetings like “Happy Holidays” have grown in popularity in order to include people who may celebrate seasonal holidays other than Christmas.

Newsweek reached out to Trump’s office for comment.

Jade Goody’s son Bobby Brazier opens up about his late mother following her tragic death

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EastEnders’ Bobby Brazier was only five when his mum Jade Goody died and says he sadly can’t remember much about her.

The Big Brother star lost her battle with cervical cancer in 2009 when she was just 27.

Jade was a household name in Britain at the time, having shot to fame on the reality show in 2002 before making a return five years later- which hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

However, Bobby says he was too young to have any lasting memories of his mum as he opened up about the late star.

Recalling what he remembered of Jade, he said: “Not a whole lot. Maybe memories of memories. I’m always being told about her and what she meant to people. I guess I know my mum through other people’s memories of my mum.”

Jade had a testy relationship with fame after being accused of racism when she took part in Celebrity Big Brother alongside Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.

EastEnders’ Bobby Brazier was only five when his mum Jade Goody died (

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Jade Goody died in 2009 aged 27 (

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Jade, Dannielle Lloyd and S Club’s Jo O’Meara were all accused of bullying the Bollywood star in news which went global.

Speaking about his mum’s life in the limelight, Bobby said: “I’ve never really thought about her experience of fame. I think to assume that anybody’s experience of fame is glamorous, or that it will make you whole or happy, is silly.

“It might make some things better, but because of that it’ll make other things worse,” he told The Times.

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Despite having lived longer without Jade than with her, the actor also said he believed his mum was still around, musing: “Maybe as a guide, maybe as an angel, maybe as a teacher, maybe as a protector”.

Bobby, who lives with his father Jeff Brazier , 43 and younger brother Freddie, 18, previously told The Sun how he believes Jade ‘would love’ him ‘trying my best to make something of my life’ after carving out a career as a model.

He said: “Like every boy, you want to think your mum would be proud of you.”

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Having graced the catwalks for fashion houses including Dolce and Gabbana, Bobby has now rocked up in Albert Square, where he plays Freddie Slater.

Ahead of his debut on the soap, proud dad Jeff said on Instagram : “So proud. A wonderful moment for the whole family and anyone that has had this kid’s back through it all. Thank you for supporting my children.”

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