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A video calling for former President Donald Trump to be “locked up” has been viewed more than 1 million times.

The video was posted to the Meidas Touch Twitter feed on Wednesday. According to the page, Meidas Touch was created with the intent of “protecting American democracy, defeating Trumpism and holding Republicans accountable.”

The video highlighted words from some of Trump’s previous speeches regarding classified documents.

The video comes after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida was raided by the FBI in search of classified documents.

Following the raid, Trump criticized the FBI and said that Americans are angry about what he has called a “witch hunt.”

The video began with a clip that has gone viral on social media in recent days. In August 2016, during Trump’s presidential campaign, he spoke about how he would protect classified information.

“On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government,” Trump said. “In my administration, I am going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”

The Meidas Touch video then cut to a news report discussing the FBI’s findings regarding the Mar-a-Lago raid.

The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was intended to recover Donald Trump ‘s personal “stash” of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials previously told Newsweek.

To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump’s private hoard, agents went into Trump’s residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation.

But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.

“They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration,” says the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.

Meidas Touch also showed clips of Trump criticizing former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton from July 2016.

“This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying, this is calculated, deliberate premeditated misconduct,” Trump said during the campaign speech.

The video then cut to more news stories about the raid on Trump’s home and the significance of the documents that were discovered there.

The video then cut back to Trump during his speech regarding Clinton and said people had been lying as part of a cover-up.

It then showed pundits who have spoken on news channels since the raid, defending Trump’s actions and condemning the FBI.

The video closed with a clip of Trump at a rally where the crowd appears to be chanting “lock him up”. That clip appears to be taken from a rally in Arizona in 2020 as Trump spoke about his-then political opponent Joe Biden during his election campaign.

Newsweek has reached out to Meidas Touch and Donald Trump’s office for comment.

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)—an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump and one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him—is “thinking” about running for president in 2024, she told NBC’s “TODAY” show Wednesday morning, a day after she lost in a landslide in the GOP primary for Wyoming’s lone House seat.

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Crucial Quote

“I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic. And I think that defeating him is going to require a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and that’s what I intend to be a part of,” Cheney said on the “TODAY” show.

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Cheney plans to launch an anti-Trump group in the coming weeks, her spokesperson told Politico Wednesday. The organization will aim to “educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic” and “mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” spokesperson Jeremy Adler told Politico Playbook.

Key Background

Cheney was expected to lose badly Tuesday night after facing backlash in Republican circles for becoming a vocal critic of Trump. Cheney has been at the forefront of a House investigation into the January 6 insurrection as the vice chairwoman of the January 6 committee. She was removed from her role as head of the House Republican conference in May 2021 over her vote to impeach Trump after the riots. During a passionate concession speech Tuesday night, Cheney said the primary election was over, but now the “real work begins.” She argued she could have easily won the Republican primary again as she did two years ago, but instead chose against a “path” that would have required her to enable Trump’s efforts “to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic.” Cheney also referenced President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses Grant and “all who fought in our nation’s tragic Civil War” during the speech, saying their “courage saved freedom,” in remarks some viewed as a hint at a presidential run.

Further Reading

Liz Cheney ‘thinking about’ White House run after primary loss, vows to do ‘whatever it takes’ to defeat Trump (NBC News)

Rep. Liz Cheney Loses In Landslide To Trump-Backed Hageman (Forbes)

Liz Cheney Invokes Lincoln and Grant in Impassioned Concession Speech (New York Times)

The second presidential debate is scheduled to take place in Miami on October 15, but President Donald Trump ‘s positive test for coronavirus has raised questions about whether it should go ahead.

While the president has insisted he wants to debate former Vice President Joe Biden in person, both Biden and the mayor of Miami have said Trump should not attend if he is still testing positive for the virus.

On Tuesday, the Democratic nominee said that he wanted to debate Trump but not if there was a risk that other people could be exposed to COVID. The Trump campaign said the president will be “healthy.”

“I think if he still has COVID, we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden told reporters. “We’re going to have to follow very strict guidelines. Too many people have been infected. It’s a very serious problem.”

“I’m not sure what President Trump is all about now. I don’t know what his status is. I’m looking forward to being able to debate him, but I just hope all the protocols are followed.

“I just hope all the protocols are followed,” he said.

“President Trump will be healthy and will be there,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement on Tuesday. “There’s no getting out of this one for Biden and his protectors in the media can’t cover for him.”

The Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, a Republican, has said that Trump should not attend the debate if he is still testing positive for the disease. Suarez told Politico it could be dangerous for the people Trump meets.

“I don’t think it’s safe, not for him and anybody else, anywhere or anyone he interacts with,” Suarez said on Tuesday.

“Remember, this thing is highly contagious,” he said. “How many people are infected in his inner circle, in the White House, senators, et cetera?”

On Tuesday, the president’s senior advisor, Stephen Miller, became the latest person in Trump’s orbit to reveal that they had contracted the virus.More than a dozen White House officials have now tested positive.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is responsible for organizing the debates and works with the candidates’ teams to agree conditions. Any decision to cancel could fall on the commission. Alternatively, either Biden or Trump could simply refuse to attend.

Trump has been upbeat about the debate and his health since his discharge from Walter Reed medical center. In recent days, the president has used his Twitter account to criticize his opponents and make the case for his re-election.

“Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!” he wrote Monday.

“I am looking forward to the debate on the evening of Thursday, October 15th in Miami. It will be great!” he tweeted the following day.

The Trump and Biden campaigns have been contacted for comment.

Former Trump Organization chief financial officer (CFO) Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty Thursday to 15 counts of fraud and tax evasion, in a plea deal requiring him to testify against the company but not against former President Donald Trump.

Events in a federal courtroom in New York played out much as anticipated. As Breitbart News reported earlier this week:

Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s business empire, is expected to reach a plea deal with prosecutors in a tax fraud case that does not require him to testify against the former president.

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The relatively minor allegations were anticlimactic, given the public determination of elected Democratic prosecutors to pursue Trump for whatever crime they could find. Trump himself was not accused of breaking the law, but prosecutors hoped to turn Weisselberg against Trump by pressuring him to testify against his former boss in other investigations.

That effort appears to have failed, with Weisselberg refusing to cooperate, and prosecutors reportedly considering a plea deal that could see the septuagenarian executive sentenced to as little as five months in jail, and eligible for early release after about 100 days.

CBS News added Thursday:

Weisselberg’s deal with prosecutors calls for a sentence of five months in New York’s Rikers Island jail, followed by five years’ probation. He must also pay $1.9 million in back taxes and fines, and must appear as a witness during the company’s trial to testify under oath. He has not agreed to provide any new or supplemental information about Trump or the company that bears his name, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Weisselberg was accused of receiving fringe benefits such as free rent, private school tuitions, and a car without reporting them to the IRS. The value of the benefits was estimated at a total $1.7 million over a period of 15 years. The company is also accused of failing to report the benefits, though Trump himself is not implicated.

Democrats celebrated the conviction, though it failed to reach the former president.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election . His recent book, RED NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .

Former President Donald Trump maintains a commanding lead in a hypothetical Republican primary, according to Amber Integrated polling released on Wednesday.

The poll asked, “If Donald Trump did decide to run for President in 2024 and the Republican Primary for President was held today, which of the following candidates, listed in random order, would you be most likely to vote for?”

Fifty percent supported Trump in a potential matchup, while the runner-up was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 22 percent. Former Vice President Mike Pence placed third at 6 percent.

The honorable mentions were Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) at 4 percent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at 2 percent, Nikki Hailey at 2 percent, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at 1 percent.

The polling comes after the FBI raided Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago. Since then, Republicans have become highly energized.

According to an Economist/YouGov poll on Wednesday, the Republican enthusiasm lead increased by a net of five points over Democrats’ enthusiasm levels after the FBI raid.

Additional polling confirms the YouGov polls. According to Trafalgar Group, 70.4 percent of respondents said the FBI’s raid increased their overall motivation to vote in the 2022 election. Eighty-three percent of Republicans said it did.

“Republicans could win many additional seats, both in the House & Senate, because of the strong backlash over the raid at Mat-a-Lago,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Polls are showing that some lost Republican territory over the last number of weeks has been more than made up with the unannounced Break In by the FBI, which should never have happened!”

The Amber Integrated polling measures the political opinions of Republicans likely to vote in the August 23 run-off primary elections in Oklahoma. The poll sampled 684 likely Republican voters from August 11-15 with a margin of error of 3.8 percent.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality .