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Liberal talking heads urge a wait and see approach after Michael Avenatti is arrested on a domestic violence charge; reaction from former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and Washington Times columnist Monica Crowley. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

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The Story: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Sessions v. Dimaya, a dispute over a provision in the Immigration and Naturalization Act that provides that non-citizen...

The Story: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Sessions v. Dimaya, a dispute over a provision in the Immigration and Naturalization Act that provides that non-citizen...

How President Trump feels about due process appears to depend on whether he or his associates are the ones being investigated. As a candidate in 2016, Trump declared that “an attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans." Much of the president’s rhetoric assumes that the arms of the state are infallible, and that its targets are assumed guilty. He called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States; he has called for killing the families of suspected terrorists; he insisted that Muslims accused of terrorism should be tortured. The president is happy to characterize entire groups of people, such as black Americans, Latinos, and Muslims, as potential criminals. When it comes to racial or religious discrimination, no amount of empirical evidence seems sufficient, but no proof is necessary for the president to be absolutely certain of the innocence of his supporters. When it comes to Trump's associates, the president becomes a self-styled expert in due process, and a devotee of the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty—or in some cases, even after. Trump has called Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation into Russian interference, which has already led to multiple guilty pleas of former Trump associates, a "witch hunt;" described the prosecution of his former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn "very unfair;" described his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, charged with financial crimes by the special counsel as "a good man;" and he pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the sheriff was held in contempt of court in a case involving racial profiling of Latinos. After a number of women went public with accusations that the Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore sought sexual relationships with them when he was an adult and they were teenagers, Trump supported Moore, saying, “Look, he denies it. For Trump and those he considers his allies, no scrupulous adherence to due process is sufficient, and no crime can justify prosecution.

A top official with the National Rifle Association's lobbying arm, the NRA-ILA, said Thursday following an Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President Pence that the pair "don't want gun control." In a tweet, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox also defended Trump as supporting "strong due process" a day after the president raised eyebrows among gun rights advocates with his call to "take the guns first, go through due process second." "I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP. We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP. We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. #NRA #MAGA — Chris Cox (@ChrisCoxNRA) March 1, 2018 Trump also acknowledged the meeting on Twitter, calling it a "good (great)" meeting but offering few details. Trump also accused Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) of being "afraid" of the NRA while attempting to tout his own independence from the organization. The NRA and its lobbying arm have faced massive criticism for their opposition to gun control in the days following last month's shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. The confessed gunman, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, legally obtained the AR-15 rifle allegedly used in the attack that left 17 students and faculty dead and more than a dozen others wounded.

The Story: Rob Porter, White House Staff Secretary for the first year and two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, resigned that post recently when The...

The Story: Rob Porter, White House Staff Secretary for the first year and two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, resigned that post recently when The...