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Show of force: Former President Trump
plans to use his first post-presidential
appearance at the Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC) on Sunday,
Feb. 28, to give a speech designed to show
that he still “controls the [Republican
Party],” sources told Axios.com this
week. One top Trump supporter sum-
marized the message Trump wants to
send as “I may not have Twitter or the
Oval Office, but I’m still in charge.” The
speech will be a “show of force” intended
to position Trump as the “presumptive
2024 nominee,” sources told the outlet.
Trump, who has assembled a $75 mil-
lion war chest, also reportedly plans to
use the annual gathering of conservatives
to lay the groundwork for a “payback”
campaign to mount primary challenges to
Republican lawmakers who did not sup-
port his efforts to overturn the 2020 presi-
dential election results. “Much like 2016,
we’re taking on Washington again,” said
a source close to Trump.Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Deported: A 95-year-old man who
served as an armed guard at a Nazi
concentration camp was deported to
Germany last week for his “assistance
in Nazi-sponsored persecution,” the
Justice Department said. At his two-day
immigration trial last year, Friedrich
Karl Berger was found to have guarded
prisoners at the Neuengamme sub-camp
near Meppen, Germany, in 1945 as they
worked to exhaustion and death. The
camp housed civilian prisoners from
around Europe, including Jews and
Nazi “political opponents.” After the
war, Bergen emigrated to Canada and
later to the U.S., living in Oak Ridge for
decades. During last year’s proceedings, a
U.S. immigration judge ruled that Berger
was a willing participant in Nazi crimes.
After his trial, Berger said that he’d been
ordered to work at the camp. He called
his deportation “ridiculous,” and said,
“You’re forcing me out of my home.”Rancho
Palos
Verdes,
Calif.
Tiger Woods
hospitalized:
Golfing great
Tiger Woods’
career was
in doubt this
week after a one-vehicle crash in which
he fractured his right leg and shattered
an ankle. Woods, 45, was traveling at a
“high rate of speed” just after 7 a.m. on
a dangerous stretch of roadway about
20 miles from downtown Los Angeles
when he hit a median, swerved across
two oncoming lanes, hit a tree, and rolled
several times, law enforcement sources
said. His airbags saved his life, cops said.
Surgeons later inserted a rod into his
fractured leg and screws and pins into
his foot and ankle. Police said Woods did
not appear to be intoxicated and
was alert after the accident. He
underwent his fifth back surgery
in December and was hoping
to play in the Masters in April.
“It was very fortunate that
Mr. Woods was able to come
out of this alive,” said Deputy
Carlos Gonzalez.New York City
Grand jury gets records:
Former President Trump’s
long battle to shield his
financial records from
prosecutors and a grand
jury came to an end this
week as the Supreme
Court declined to block
a New York subpoena
for his personal and corporate tax returns,
as well as other financial documents.
“The work continues,” said Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who
previously told a court that his office is
probing Trump’s business transactions
for possible insurance and tax fraud, as
well as falsifying business records. New
York prosecutors also reportedly ques-
tioned witnesses about Donald Trump Jr.’s
actions as an executive vice president in
his father’s business. Trump’s accounting
firm said it would comply with the order.
Trump’s lawyers had derided the
subpoena as “near limitless” in
scope, while Trump himself
called Vance’s investigation a
“fishing expedition” orches-
trated by Democrats. None of the
three justices Trump appointed
to the Supreme Court objected to
upholding the subpoena.Broomfield, Colo.
Engine failure: A Boeing 777 airliner
was forced to make an emergency land-
ing last week after one of its engines
exploded minutes after takeoff, shower-
ing a mile-long trail of debris across the
Denver suburb of Broomfield. National
Transportation Safety Board investigators
said an initial analysis had determined
that the blades inside the United Airlines
Boeing 777-200’s Pratt & Whitney
PW4000 engine may have experienced
metal fatigue.
The fan blades
in that engine
model have
been blamed
for at least
two other mid-
air incidents
in the past
three years.
Afterwards, all older model 777-200’s that
use the PW4000 engine were grounded.
None of the more than 230 passengers
and 10 crew on the flight from Denver to
Honolulu was hurt. Broomfield resident
Kieran Cain said he was playing ball with
his kids when he saw “a giant black cloud
of smoke” and “a shower of things that
were falling out of the sky.”Washington, D.C.
Warnings ignored: Former Capitol Police
Chief Steven Sund and acting Washington
Police Chief Robert Contee testified this
week that the FBI warned their agencies
a day before the Jan. 6 riot that extrem-
ists were coming to the Capitol to wage
“war”—but claimed the email was never
relayed up the chain of command. The
FBI had collected online messages that
urged extremists to “Be ready to fight”
and said, “Congress needs to hear glass
breaking,” and “doors being kicked in.”
Even without missed messages from the
FBI, the Capitol Police’s own intelligence
unit also created a 12-page memo three
days before the attack warning clearly
that “Congress itself is the target on
Jan. 6.” That memo, which was circulated
among Capitol Police command staff,
said the riot’s organizers were pushing
Trump supporters to come
to the Capitol with bullet-
proof vests, gas masks, and
guns. Sen. Amy Klobuchar
(D-Minn.) said that “there
were clearly intel-
ligence issues”
with getting infor-
mation to “the
AP right people.”
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