Trump Aide Issues Dire Warning About 'Banana Republic' Hush Money Trial
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Ahead of the start of Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial in New York on Monday, his 2024 presidential campaign national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, claimed that the fact that the trial was permitted to go ahead is proof that the U.S. has descended into acting like a "banana republic."Talking as a guest on Fox News this weekend, Leavitt—a longstanding pro-Trump Republican who already worked as part of the former president's White House press team—repeated his claims that the criminal...

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