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Political
DeSantis Raises Another
This Weekend Will Feature Juneteenth Events Across U. S.
$10.2M In May, Bringing
Total To $124M
The holiday, established by President Joe Biden in 2021, will be observed on June 20 since June 19 falls on a Sun- day. Federal offices, as well as many state and local ones, will be closed. Banks and U. S. Post Offices, and other businesses will also be closed.
“Today is a day to reflect what the Psalm tells us,” Biden said when he signed the bill. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and a promise of an early morning to come. This is a day of profound
Gov. Ron DeSantis'
fundraising continued at a tor- rid pace in May, allowing the governor to put more distance between himself and his Dem- ocratic rivals.
DeSantis raised another $10.2 million, bringing the total raised for his reelection bid to $124 million.
Democrats Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried are the lead- ing candidates battling in the primary for the right to take on DeSantis in the general elec- tion. They are raising far less money than DeSantis, with Crist hauling in another $1 million in May and Fried col- lecting $302,528.
Notable donors:Ron De- Santis has at least 42 billion- aire donors.
Julie Jenkins Fancelli: Fancelli is one of seven chil- dren of Publix founder George Jenkins. Forbes says the Jenkins family was worth $8.8 billion in 2020.
Community participates in the Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day in the historic Germantown section of Northwest Philadelphia, PA.
GOV. RON DESANTIS
Fancelli, who has homes in Italy, Lakeland and Longboat Key, was a major donor to the rally organized on Jan. 6, 2021 to pressure Congress not to certify the 2020 election.
Crist is now up to $10.2 mil- lion total raised for his cam- paign, while Fried has collected $6.9 million.
weight and profound power, a day in which we remember the
moral stain and the terrible toll slavery took on the country.”
January 6 Hearing: Trump Was 'Detached From Reality', Says Bill Barr
The former U. S. attorney general says he thought Don- ald Trump was "detached from reality" after the 2020 election, a congressional panel has heard.
Testimony from Bill Barr played at the 6 January Capitol riot inquiry revealed deep divi- sions at the Trump campaign over his election fraud claims. Two camps emerged - a "Team Normal" that accepted Trump's loss, and loyalists who did not.
The panel has accused Trump of an attempted coup to remain in power.
The second of a series of public hearings, Monday's ses- sion was preceded by the an- nouncement that a star witness - Trump's former campaign manager Bill Stepien - would not be appearing because his wife had gone into labour.
Instead, his lawyer gave a statement on his behalf and Stepien's previous private tes- timony was publicly played by the Democratic-led U. S. House of Representatives se- lect committee.
BILL BARR AND DONALD TRUMP
In it, Stepien revealed that members of Trump's inner cir- cle had advised him to not de- clare victory in the November 2020 election.
A faction of the campaign he dubbed "Team Normal" told the former president that he had lost the election, Stepien said, but another group re- fused to accept the outcome.
It became known as "Rudy's team", after former New York Mayor Rudy Giu- liani, who was among the most vocal of Trump's sup- porters to claim the election was stolen.
Both Stepien and another witness, former Trump ad- viser Jason Miller, testified that Giuliani appeared to be inebriated on the night of the election.
Miller said that even with results still coming in, Giu- liani suggested that Trump "go and declare victory and say that we'd won it outright".
Through a spokesman on Monday, Giuliani denied that he was intoxicated on election night, saying he did not know why Mr. Miller would "make such a false claim".
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