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Trump Strikes Controversial Deal With Doug Emhoff's Law Firm

Former President Donald Trump has announced a deal with Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm where Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is a partner. The firm has pledged at least $100 million in pro bono legal work for causes aligned with conservative ideals. The move has sparked backlash, with activists calling for Emhoff to resign due to the perceived conflict of interest. The deal reportedly helped the firm avoid a potential executive order from Trump. The situation has raised ethical and political concerns given the firm's ties to both the Biden administration and Trump-aligned causes.

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 @76PMGPTRight-Wing Populismfrom Maine  commented…1wk1W

So let me get this straight — the husband of the sitting VP is tied to a firm now backing conservative causes, and suddenly the left is up in arms? Funny how they scream about “conflicts of interest” only when it doesn’t benefit them. Trump is playing 4D chess again, forcing these elites to pick between their wallets and their woke image. Emhoff’s firm wouldn’t be throwing $100 million at our side unless Trump had serious leverage. Just goes to show how deep the swamp runs — and how Trump knows exactly how to drain it.

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Willkie Reaches Deal with Trump To Avoid Executive Order

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Willkie, where former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff practices, had been bracing for a potential executive order issued by the White House, sources say, and had “started to make preparations” and take necessary steps.

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Live updates: Election results roll in for Florida and Wisconsin races; Cory Booker sets Senate speech record

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Live updates and the latest news as Florida holds House special election, Wisconsin votes in the state Supreme Court race and Trump signs executive orders.

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Trump Announces Deal With Doug Emhoff’s Law Firm

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The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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US Jewish Groups Oppose Resettling Gaza

JTA — A number of major centrist and liberal American Jewish groups say they oppose the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in Gaza.The statements by some of the largest Jewish organizations in the country, made in response to press inquiries, come amid accusations that Israel has cleared out portions of northern Gaza, which Jerusalem has denied, and as far-right government ministers have called for resettling the Palestinian enclave. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir have also repeatedly called for Israel to encourage Palestinians to leave Gaza, drawing condemnation from the Biden administration.For several American Jewish groups — including some that have vocally defended Israel’s prosecution of its war in Gaza against Hamas — the idea of Israeli settlements in Gaza is a non-starter. Groups opposed to the idea include the Jewish Federations of North America, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. Also opposed are bodies representing the Reform and Conservative movements, which together can claim to represent the majority of American Jews.“The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, indigenous to both Jews and Arabs, cannot be the exclusive domain of one people, but must be shared,” Jason Isaacson, AJC’s chief policy and political affairs officer, said. “Like the vast majority of Israelis, AJC believes that the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in Gaza, or a program of displacing Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, would be contrary to Israel’s interests.”Israel evacuated its Gaza settlements in 2005, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly ruled out the idea of re-establishing them after the war. But while most Israelis oppose the idea, more than a third — including 42% of Israeli Jews — support it, according to a recent poll by the Israel Democracy Institute. That includes nearly 60% of Israeli Jewish right-wingers, the current government’s voter base.“Ideas like settlement in Gaza are welcome, we need to remember that, in the end, that’s the biggest punishment for what they did to us on October 7,” Ben-Gvir said in an interview on Israeli radio this month, referencing the Hamas terror onslaught in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were slaughtered and 251 were seized as hostages, sparking the war in the enclave.

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