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The most aggressive 2024 candidate might surprise you
CNN
It's more than 1,000 days until the calendar officially turns to 2024. (Actually 1,007 -- but who's counting!)
But that hasn't stopped Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state during Donald Trump's presidency, from quickly establishing himself as the single most aggressive candidate in the still-forming 2024 field. Pompeo spent Thursday and Friday of last week in Iowa -- doing the sorts of things that people who want to make clear they are thinking about running for president do: fundraising for a Republican member of Congress, huddling with Republicans in the GOP-friendly western part of the state and the like.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250215004209.jpg)
The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department’s public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting.
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Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump’s former lawyer in scathing letter
A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges.