New Hampshire
In N.H., Trump calls charges against him ‘bull****’
In an insult-laden speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump attacked and lied about his political enemies while lambasting his criminal indictments in an appeal to the Republican primary voters he hopes will set him on a path to return to the White House.
Once there, the thrice-indicted Trump could insulate himself from the two federal prosecutions he faces with the Department of Justice back under his control.
“Joe Biden has weaponized law enforcement. He’s done something that nobody thought — they talked about it — but nobody ever did it never to this extent, and ordered his top political opponent, me, arrested,” Trump said, falsely accusing Biden of playing a role in his arrests for allegedly illegally retaining classified documents and his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“You know, he says ‘I’m down in the polls to Trump. Let’s arrest him. Let’s arrest. Let’s indict him and arrest him. Please indict him and arrest him,’” he continued, mimicking Biden.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith, a longtime federal and international war crimes prosecutor, as an independent special counsel to take over Department of Justice investigations into Trump last year.
While Biden and Garland could legally overrule Smith, the attorney general and the special prosecutor have emphasized the independence of the investigation and there is no evidence the indictments, handed down by a grand jury, were the result of Biden or Garland’s directives.
“There was never a second of any day that I didn’t believe that that election was rigged,” Trump said.
Central to Smith’s case against Trump is the allegation Trump knew he was lying about his false election claims, something then-Attorney General Bill Barr has also said. “It was a rigged election. It was a rigged election and it was a stolen, disgusting election. And this country should be ashamed.”
In Trump’s vengeful speech, Biden was “crooked”; Hillary Clinton was “beautiful”; Smith was “deranged” and a “thug”; Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a primary rival, was a “fat pig”; Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020, was a “racist” who the former president baselessly accused of having an affair with someone she was apparently investigating.
Trump largely focused on Biden and Smith, avoiding criticisms of the federal judge in the 2020 election case, who he has repeatedly attacked on social media and did so again in the hours after the speech. In a social media post on Tuesday afternoon, he accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of bias for overlapping with Biden’s son Hunter at a law firm a decade ago.
The clash with Smith’s team and the judge continued this week in the courtroom, with Trump’s lawyers pleading with Chutkan to narrow potential restrictions on his ability to publicly disclose evidence in the case. Prosecutors are concerned he will use the evidence to instill a “harmful chilling effect on witnesses.”
“I will talk about it. I will. They’re not taking away my first amendment right,” Trump said on Tuesday, after calling the indictments “bull****” and inspiring the crowd to chant the obscenity.
The criminal cases will force him “to spend time and money away from the campaign trail in order to fight bogus, made up accusations and charges,” Trump said. “‘I’m sorry I won’t be able to go to Iowa today. I won’t be able to go to New Hampshire today because I’m sitting in a courtroom on bull****.’”
Trump also asked the audience whether he should participate in the Aug. 23 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, the first of the campaign. The crowd had mixed reactions.
“Maybe we’ll do something else,” Trump responded. “Some people say yes, but they hate to say it. It doesn’t make sense to do it if you’re leading by so much. But they like it for the entertainment value because they’re selfish.”
The GOP frontrunner spoke for about an hour and 20 minutes at a high school in Windham, New Hampshire. The early primary state is key to presidential hopefuls looking to gain momentum, but Trump already holds a massive lead in both state and national polls. One poll published Monday had him leading the pack by over 30 percentage points in New Hampshire. No other candidate broke double digits.
In the NHJournal/co-efficient poll, 62% of GOP primary voters in the state said they would vote for Trump even if he was convicted of a felony and 57% said they would still do so even if he were in prison on Election Day in 2024.
“Every time you get indicted I like to check the polls,” Trump said. Despite being arrested three times, Trump’s poll numbers have broadly remained steady or even increased in the immediate aftermath. “One more indictment and I think this election is over.”
In Windham, he spent much of the time airing his personal and political grievances while proposing policies for his potential second term including using the military for the “largest domestic deportation operation” in U.S. history, persecuting his political enemies and restricting health care for transgender youth.
“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children,” Trump said. “Our beautiful children are being destroyed by these maniacs.”
At least 19 states have restricted or even criminalized gender-affirming health care access for transgender minors despite the medical community’s widespread insistence such care is safe and bans are harmful to children. Trump also said he’d ban transgender service members from the military.
Visibly dripping in sweat for much of his speech — “I’m sweating like a dog up here,” he said at one point — the 77-year-old complained about the temperature in the room about halfway through his remarks.
“I want to say officially for the press, it’s about 110 degrees in this room. Nice job with the air conditioning, whoever,” the former president said. “But you know what the press will say? They’ll say ‘Trump didn’t look well. He was extremely wet.’ It’s 104 or five degrees in this room.”
Concluding his speech, Trump made clear what his goals for his next term would be: purging his enemies.
“With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists,” Trump said. “We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media. We will defeat crooked Joe Biden and we will drain the swamp once and for all.”
New Hampshire
‘Unforgiving environment’: Dozens of hikers rescued each year in the White Mountains – The Boston Globe
The pair were unprepared for hiking in winter conditions: no sleeping bags, matches, phones, or any way of calling for help. They spent a brutal night on the mountain, both men succumbing to hypothermia before rescuers using a helicopter found them the next day. Osborne lost part of his right leg; Frederickson lost his life.
Osborne’s is but one of the many unforgiving lessons the White Mountains deliver on a regular basis to any hiker who underestimates its harsh and unpredictable conditions: In an eerie echo of the tragedy 16 years ago, on Thursday, another winter hiker suffered severe hypothermia and had to be rescued by helicopter from the very same mountain after becoming trapped overnight by deep snow and freezing conditions.
“People underestimate just how unforgiving the White Mountains can be,” said Ty Gagne, an avid hiker and author of three books about trouble in the White Mountains, including Osborne’s case. “I think there’s a certain amount of complacency that can happen because they’re four to six thousand feet.”
There have been more than 60 search-and-rescue efforts in the Whites just since June, including one in November in which two siblings had become hypothermic while hiking on the Lincoln Brook Trail. And, in the last five years alone, at least 20 more people have died in the White Mountains.
New Hampshire usually averages more than 100 hiker rescues a year, roughly half of them in the Whites, according to a New England-based hiking podcast group that tallied search-and -escue information from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
With its easy access and proximity to large urban centers, the Whites have long been a destination for millions of hikers annually. The range boasts panoramic vistas, pristine lakes, and lush forests, plus the highest peak in the Northeast: Mount Washington, which stands at nearly 6,300 feet.
But the allure can also bring danger.
Climbers can easily get injured in the steep, uneven terrain. Since 2019, more than 250 hikers in New Hampshire have been rescued with lower leg injuries. About 40 succumbed to fatigue. Nearly 150 panicked or got lost.
“The mountains don’t care. They don’t discriminate,” said Gagne. “It doesn’t matter if you’re coming there with a young family, or if you’ve climbed 14,000 footers out west … the mountains aren’t going to relent. It can be a really unpredictable, unforgiving environment.”
As the winter weather descends on New England, the danger can compound.
“The clock is on, the second you’re immobile. Hypothermia sets in very quickly” said Mike McLaughlin, an experienced hiker and host of the Sounds Like a Search and Rescue podcast. “If you feel like you’re in a situation where you can’t get out, call for a rescue immediately.”
Franconia Ridge consistently requires the most rescues, with 68 in the past five years, data show. Mount Washington and Mount Chocorua were not far behind, with 60 and 42 rescues, respectively. All three are in the White Mountains.
Most rescue operations aren’t swift or easy, officials caution.
People “think you’re going to swoop in with a helicopter and pick them up. That’s not the way it works. It’s going to take three to four hours,” said Kevin Jordan, chief of law enforcement for New Hampshire Fish and Game.
Jordan leads a team of more than 40 search-and-rescue officers across six districts in New Hampshire. The group completed nearly 2,000 missions between 2009 and 2019, according to a report from the department.
In some cases, Jordan said, rescues had to be called off because weather conditions were too hazardous. Two of his officers are out with injuries for December.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, which carries out most hiker rescues, recommends packing the following essential items for winter hiking: a map, compass, headlamp, fire starter, first aid kit, whistle, knife, warm clothing, extra food and water, and rain jackets and pants.
They also run the Hike Safe program, where hikers can buy a card that covers the cost of search-and-rescue operations in emergencies. The website also has additional safety tips.
Osborne and other rescued hikers say the work that Fish and Game does is crucial.
“They just have an incredibly important role for the protection of people,” said Osborne. Without rescuers, “plenty of people wouldn’t be here.”
Neena Hagen can be reached at neena.hagen@globe.com.
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Day: 3-6-9
Evening: 5-5-9
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Day: 2-6-0-7
Evening: 4-8-4-2
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When are the New Hampshire Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Pick 3, 4: 1:10 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. daily.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
- Megabucks Plus: 7:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily.
- Gimme 5: 6:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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But now, just days away, it looks like it will be white.
After the coldest weekend of the year — there were 20 below-zero wind chill temperatures on Sunday morning in the North Country, there will be a bit of a warm-up into the 20s on Monday with sunny skies and a light breeze.
Overnight, snow is expected sometime after 8 or 9 p.m. in Concord and the capital region, 10 p.m. on the Seacoast, and after 2 a.m. Tuesday in Nashua and Hillsborough, and Rockingham county communities, with temperatures in the teens. About an inch of snow is expected Monday evening.
Snow is expected to continue Tuesday through the early afternoon.
Forecasters warned of possible driving issues on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
“A light snowfall is likely on Monday night into early Tuesday, bringing slick travel conditions,” the NWS hazardous weather outlook alert stated.
Accumulations will be light — no more than 2 inches in the central and southern parts of the state.
The sun returns on Tuesday afternoon, but the evening temperatures will still be chilly in the teens.
Christmas Day will be sunny, with highs in the lower 30s during the day and in the teens overnight.
Expect similar weather on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
The most up-to-date weather is available on every Patch.com site in the United States. This includes the 14 New Hampshire Patch news and community websites for Amherst, Bedford, Concord, Exeter, Hampton, Londonderry, Manchester, Merrimack, Milford, Nashua, North Hampton, Portsmouth, Salem, Windham, and Across NH. Patch posts local weather reports for New Hampshire every Sunday and Wednesday and publishes alerts as needed.
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