Neil Young SUES Trump over this

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A federal grand jury in Washington refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday. She’s the former Trump White House aide whose Jan. 6 testimony he has spent four years attacking.

The Justice Department wanted to charge her with lying to Congress. At a brief hearing, a department lawyer told a magistrate judge that the grand jury “had not concurred” in the proposed indictment.

The case started with referrals from Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Barry Loudermilk. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division brought it to the grand jury, which the Washington Post called unusual for a false-statements case.

In 2022, Hutchinson testified that Trump tried to let armed supporters skip security screenings, and that he declined to intervene as the crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” Trump has called her a “total phony.”

Grand juries almost never say no. Prosecutors only have to show probable cause.

“As a former prosecutor, I agree with the saying that any prosecutor ‘can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich,’” Rep. Ted Lieu wrote on X. “So when the grand jury refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, that means there was no real evidence.”

“Another huge embarrassment for the corrupt @AGToddBlanche,” he added.

In February, another D.C. grand jury refused to charge six Democratic lawmakers over remarks to service members. The first case against James Comey was thrown out.

This Justice Department can’t indict a ham sandwich.

Trump flew to Texas on Tuesday for two rallies to prop up Ken Paxton, who has trailed Democrat James Talarico in most public polls this fall.

The first, in Corpus Christi, was in a venue critics online compared to a high school gym. Aaron Rupar called it a “comparable crowd to my kid’s preschool graduation.”

That night in Lubbock, Trump spoke for more than an hour at the Memorial Civic Center. “You cannot have a guy like Talafreako, because he’s not even Christian,” he said.

Then loud noises came from somewhere in the building. “Could that be Iran dropping some kind of ... Do you hear that?” Trump asked the crowd. “It’s either excavation, demolition or bombs. It’s one of the three.”

A few miles away at the Fiesta Center, Talarico took the stage around 8:30 p.m. His campaign said more than 4,000 people signed up, so many that it had to change venues.

“I know we are not the only show in town tonight and I appreciate all 4000 of you that showed up this evening,” Talarico said. “That is a lot of tala-freako’s in one room.”

“They are scared, they are terrified,” he said. “They see what we see — that we’re about to win this election.”

Early voting in Texas ends Friday.

With one week to go, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor of Alaska on Tuesday. That means skipping Bernadette Wilson, the Republican Trump endorsed earlier this month.

Murkowski called the former state lawmaker “a commonsense guy who has a known ability to be working together.”

“We need a governor who’s going to work with the Legislature,” she said.

Wilson said Murkowski “abandoned Alaska values a long time ago” and gave her opponent a nickname, “Just Keep Taxing” JKT.

The NBC News Decision Desk rates the race as leaning Democratic, in a state Trump carried in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

Meanwhile, the federal judge hearing Trump’s lawsuit to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race sounded skeptical. Judge Sharon Gleason noted the DOJ filed it “after Alaskans had already begun casting their ballots.”

Trump has called Murkowski “Republicans’ Worst Senator, by far.” She isn’t on the ballot this year. His candidate is.

Two days after losing Brazil’s presidential election to Lula, Flávio Bolsonaro left for the United States, Reuters reported, citing two sources.

Brazil’s Supreme Court had canceled his passport over an active money laundering case. He missed Tuesday’s 11 a.m. deadline to hand it over. O Globo reported that he “was convinced he could be arrested.”

Then a senior U.S. official told the AP that Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas.

On Monday, Trump said the vote “looked like another rigged election, frankly,” and that he “didn’t take sides.”

Bolsonaro still hasn’t conceded. He asked Brazil’s electoral court to nullify Lula’s candidacy, and released a video Monday saying he had no plans to leave Brazil.

His father, Jair Bolsonaro, also went to the U.S. after losing to Lula, and spent time at Mar-a-Lago. He’s now serving 27 years for plotting to overturn that election.

Losing to Lula and heading for Florida is becoming a family tradition.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to restore immigration judges’ power to temporarily shelve deportation cases, a practice called administrative closure.

Judges have used it in hundreds of thousands of deportation cases over the years.

In June, the Trump administration agreed in a Texas federal court to end it. Texas had sued that same day, and a judge approved the deal that same day too.

Baltimore, New Haven, Columbus and the nonprofit Centro Legal de la Raza asked the justices to step in, pointing to “the collusion that infected this suit from its inception.”

The court’s answer was one sentence, with no explanation and no public dissent.

“Eliminating these protections puts vulnerable people at greater risk of deportation and undermines public safety,” the challengers said.

Last Friday, an appeals court said immigrants aren’t entitled to bond hearings. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said judges can’t pause their cases either.

Neil Young, 80, filed a $10 million lawsuit against Trump 47 Committee Inc. for playing “Rockin’ in the Free World” as Trump’s entrance music at midterm rallies, including October 12 in Youngstown, Ohio.

He’s been here before. Young sued Trump’s 2020 campaign over the same song. That campaign “asserted no defense and immediately settled shortly after it was served,” the new suit says, and promised not to use it again without a license.

The suit describes the 1989 song as “a blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric.”

Young has been telling Trump to stop since 2015. In January, he said, “Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes.”

He wants an injunction and $10 million in damages.

Thirty-seven years later, the song still applies.