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Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson.

Trump’s campaign told media that the fundraiser yielded more than $50.5 million for Trump’s campaign, his political action committee, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state parties — although that total has not been independently verified. If Trump’s numbers are accurate (reminder: a court found that Trump committed fraud by lying about his net worth), they would set a record and nearly double the $26 million Biden brought in during a New York City fundraiser with former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

It's Not Just the WSJ. Plenty of News Outlets "Reported" This.

Plastic People, Oh Baby, Now You're Such a Drag

The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth's ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week.

Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)—an Australian government agency—and the University of Toronto in Canada found that up to 11 million tons of plastic are polluting the planet's ocean floors, including microplastics and larger objects like fishing nets, cups, and bags.

"We know that millions of tons of plastic waste enter our oceans every year but what we didn't know is how much of this pollution ends up on our ocean floor," CSIRO senior research scientist and study co-author Denise Hardesty said in a statement. "We discovered that the ocean floor has become a resting place, or reservoir, for most plastic pollution, with between 3 to 11 million tons of plastic estimated to be sinking to the ocean floor."

Study leader Alice Zhu, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, said that "the ocean surface is a temporary resting place of plastic so it is expected that if we can stop plastic entering our oceans, the amount would be reduced."

"However, our research found that plastic will continue to end up in the deep ocean," Zhu stated. "These findings help to fill a longstanding knowledge gap on the behavior of plastic in the marine environment."

If It's Boeing, I'm Not Going

Airline regulators in the US have begun an investigation after an engine cowling on a Boeing 737-800 fell off during take-off and struck a wing flap.

The Southwest Airlines flight returned safely to Denver International airport at about 08:15 local time (15:15 GMT) after originally departing to Houston.

The aircraft had 135 passengers and six crew members on board and rose to about 10,300 feet (3,140m) before landing.

The incident comes amid manufacturing and safety concerns at Boeing.

How Boeing Lost Its Way

They Moved Their Headquarter From Seattle Where Their Planes Are Made to Chicago Where Sausage is Made to DC Where Nothing is Made.

He Wants to Be Able to Practice Law to Raise Money to Defend Himself From Charges of Legal Malpractice.

The sorry saga of John Eastman Esq., one of Donald Trump’s many former attorneys, is swiftly transitioning from “cautionary tale” into a decidedly more absurd phase. Eastman is currently navigating through life under a suspended law license—a fact that, at least theoretically, makes him ineligible to dazzle clients and judges with his esteemed legal acumen.

His professional infirmity owes itself to a judge’s decision last week to recommend that Eastman be disbarred from the practice of law in the state of California. Eastman is appealing that ruling to the California Supreme Court, but in the meantime, his license to practice law is forfeit, per the judge’s order. The reasons for that recommendation were meticulously detailed in a 128-page ruling by Judge Yvette Roland, who is responsible for overseeing the state bar’s disciplinary proceedings relating to Eastman’s alleged professional misconduct.

Those charges of misconduct stem from Eastman’s purported attempts to obstruct the 2020 electoral vote count and assist Trump in his failed effort to remain in power after losing that year’s election. These alleged actions led to Eastman’s indictment last August in Fulton County, Georgia, on multiple criminal charges relating to the attempted theft of that election. Eastman is also widely assumed to be an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Trump relating to the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, currently pending in the Washington D.C. federal district court.

As a result of these criminal charges, Eastman has purportedly incurred substantial legal fees amounting, thus far, to approximately a million dollars. But deprived of his license to practice law, Eastman now claims he is unable to raise the money to pay those bills.

So this week, as Katelyn Polantz reports for CNN, he petitioned the California court to lift his suspension pending appellate review of the judge’s decision. This is supposedly to allow him to make money both to defend against the current charges leveled against him, and to continue his representations of current clients, including Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, in matters relating to the cancellation by municipalities of 2021 political rallies that the Republican representatives had planned to hold in the Golden State.

Eastman is essentially arguing that he should be permitted to practice law to pay the cost of defending himself against the alleged crimes and professional malfeasance which prompted the court’s recommendation for his disbarment in the first place. It’s not clear that Eastman perceives the staggering irony in this request, but it’s highly unlikely that the California court charged with ruling on Eastman’s motion will miss it .

Never Trust a Carney

In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly.

It wasn’t just because of what Laube did or didn’t do – the defendant had already confessed to beating a journalist at a 2017 Southern California rally and pleaded guilty to violating riot laws as part of a white-supremacist gang.

Laube deserved a light sentence, Carney said, because prosecutors should have focused on leftist groups.

In a 22-page memo, Carney repeatedly said prosecutors have “ignored” violence committed by Antifa and instead focused on targeting people like Laube — Trump supporters and members of the far-right.

“Sentencing Mr. Laube to additional incarceration would only increase the disparity between his punishment and the lack of punishment (and prosecution) members of far-left groups who have committed the same violent conduct received,” Carney wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.

The same day Laube received his light sentence at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, the largest-ever prosecution of members of Antifa in American history was going to trial just 89 miles away.

Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating

The federal judge’s strong words — and clear political bent — are as unusual as they are uninformed, legal experts told USA TODAY.

“He’s really gone off the deep end,” John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School, said of Carney.