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Gov. Ron DeSantis Calls Daniel Penny A ‘Good Samaritan’ After Jordan Neely Killing

Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old military veteran facing criminal charges for putting a New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold earlier this month, was acting as a “Good Samaritan” in the eyes of hard-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

He shared a link to where Penny is collecting funds for his legal defense on Twitter Friday evening.

In the same post, the governor — rumored to be launching his bid for the Republican presidential nomination any day now — ranted against “the Soros-Funded DAs” in reference to popular right-wing boogeyman George Soros, an elderly Jewish billionaire who supports progressive causes.

Penny surrendered on a manslaughter charge this week. The former U. S. Marine claims he acted in self-defense against Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man who openly addressed other passengers in the car.

The 30-year-old’s death set off protests in New York, which struggles to provide adequate services to people without housing, disproportionately represented by people of color, many of whom experience mental health problems.
“We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine... America’s got his back,” DeSantis wrote on Twitter.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-rape-trial-defense-accuser-110000042.html
Trump's rape trial defense? His accuser and her friends have Trump Derangement Syndrome

This week, lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who says Donald Trump raped her in the spring of 1996, rested their case in the battery and defamation trial that has gripped a lower Manhattan federal courtroom for seven days.

Over the course of the trial, jurors heard searing testimony from Carroll herself, as well as the accounts of two friends whom she confided in shortly after the alleged rape and two other sexual assault accusers who say their experiences with Trump resembled Carroll's. The only appearance Trump made came in the form of a deposition video where the former president disparages Carroll.

Just moments later, Trump's lawyers rested their case as well, without presenting any evidence.

Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina said from the start that the former president's legal team wouldn't bring any witnesses in front of the jury. The entire case, he told jurors in his opening statement, would come out in the cross-examination of Carroll and the witnesses her lawyers put on the stand.

With the testimony concluding on Thursday, and closing arguments to begin on Monday — unless Trump makes a surprise personal appearance — we now know what that defense looks like.

Carroll and her friends, Trump's lawyers suggest, all have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Trump denies raping Carroll. And while her allegations have provoked his fury, he hasn't deigned to show up to the trial happening now in Manhattan federal court.