Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Almost a year to the day after Donald Trump left office, the Supreme Court just dealt the former Celebrity Apprentice host a potentially crippling blow.With only Justice Clarence Thomas in opposition, the High Court denied on Wednesday Trump’s request for an injunction stop the release of hundreds of pages of White House records to the Congressional committee investigating the violent siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.“The application for stay of mandate and injunction pending review presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is denied,” said the conservative dominated SCOTUS said in its ruling today of the quasi-constitutional question posed by Trump’s lawyers after striking out previously in two lower courts. “Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” Chief Justice John Roberts, three Trump appointees and four other Justices added (READ IT HERE)This move by SCOTUS comes on an already busy day in D.C.
with President Joe Biden giving a sprawling and sometimes meandering long overdue press conference and the Senate is battling over certain to fail Voting Rights legislation.
Looking to overshadow Biden and the Senate, the decision by the Supreme Court now gives the green light to more than 700 pages of relevant documents heading to the January 6 probe ASAP.Having called a number of Trump aides and sidekicks as witnesses in recent weeks, the Democrat dominated committee has been seeking the documents in question for months.
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