Donald Trump repeats resentments in first speech since arrest
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has backed out of a plan to hire right-wing extremist Laura Loomer after the job offer set off a furious row in MAGA world.
Mr Trump reportedly told aides to give the “proud Islamophobe” a role in his election campaign, despite concerns over his history of inflammatory statements and embrace of fringe movements.
On Friday afternoon that backlash spilled on to Twitter where Ms Loomer and Georgia Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene traded insults.
The offer to join the Trump campaign was withdrawn late on Friday, a senior Trump aide told the New York Times.
The row comes the day after an interview between Stormy Daniels and Piers Morgan aired in which she expressed some sympathy for Mr Trump but also called his arrest over the hush money payments to her and others “progress for women”.
The former president henceforth raged at the Biden administration’s review of Afghanistanwhich blamed him for the chaos that unfolded as the US left the country in August 2021.
His Truth Social rant followed Mr Trump describing his arrest and arrangement as the “Best Day in History”.
Could a New York judge finally force Donald Trump to shut up?
But there was another first during the proceedings, lesser noticed, that could have profound implications for the next election and beyond. It raises the prospect that a New York judge may succeed where many others have tried and failed, and force Mr Trump to be quiet.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 12:00
Everything should be going right for the GOP; instead they’re getting bad headlines
On the surface, Republicans should have all the reasons to feel confident. President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are still fairly low, as a Fox News poll shows he has a 56 per cent disapproval rating. Inflation remains stubbornly high, even if it isn’t skyrocketing the way it once did. Friday’s latest jobs report shows that while the labor market is strong, the Federal Reserve’s increased interest rates caused it to slow down as it tries to tamp down prices.
Those numbers typically signal a bumpy road for a president seeking re-election. Instead, Republicans got hits with a bevy of negative headlines from both the national and state level.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 11:00
GOP cries foul over Trump hush money judge’s donation to Biden campaign… of $15
Conservative critics of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump are claiming the judge overseeing the proceedings is biased because he donated $15 to Joe Biden’s campaign.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 10:00
Eric Trump roasted for ‘hallucinating’ that ‘tens and tens of thousands’ showed up for father
Donald Trump’s son made the outlandish claim in an interview on Fox News on Tuesday night, just hours after his father became the first current or former US president to ever face criminal charges.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 09:00
Trump lashes out at ‘moron’ Biden after review blames him for Afghanistan chaos
Donald Trump responded quickly on Thursday after the White House issued a report eviscerating his handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 08:00
Watch: What did we learn from Stormy Daniels’ interview with Piers Morgan?
Five things we learned from Stormy Daniels’ interview with Piers Morgan
Stormy Daniels sat down with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan to discuss Donald Trump’s arrest in a bombshell interview that aired on Thursday evening (6 April). Mr Trump appeared in court this week as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigation into a $130,000 hush money payment he is accused of making to Daniels in 2016 via his then-lawyer Michael Cohen, in exchange for her silence. During the discussion, Ms Daniels made a number of explosive revelations, including her reaction to seeing Mr Trump’s arrest, where his political allegiance lies and the threats she has suffered as a result of their history. Here are five things we learned from the interview. Click here to sign up for our newsletters.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 07:00
New poll: Only a third of Americans think Biden deserves to be reelected in 2024
With less than a year until the 2024 primary election season kicks off, a large majority of Americans say they’d prefer Democrats to put up someone other than President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee next year.
Andrew Feinberg has the details.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 06:00
House panel subpoenas ex-Manhattan prosecutors who criticized the pace of Trump probe
The House Judiciary Committee is attempting to compel testimony from a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney who resigned last year after criticizing District Attorney Alvin Bragg for not pursuing a criminal case against former president Donald Trump.
Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday issued a subpoena for testimony from Mark Pomerantz, a veteran New York attorney who left a high-profile law firm to serve as a prosecutor under Mr Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr, but quit the district attorney’s office last March before leaking a highly critical resignation letter to news outlets.
John Bowden and Andrew Feinberg filed this report from Washington, DC.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 05:00
Could a New York judge finally force Donald Trump to shut up?
But there was another first during the proceedings, lesser noticed, that could have profound implications for the next election and beyond. It raises the prospect that a New York judge may succeed where many others have tried and failed, and force Mr Trump to be quiet.
Bevan HurleyApril 9, 2023 04:00
Crowd ‘erupts’ as Donald Trump sits in front row at UFC 287
Donald Trump was greeted by huge cheers as he sat in the front row at UFC 287 on Saturday night, next to Mike Tyson and Dana White in the Miami-Dade Arena.
The former president is known to have a friendship with UFC president White, and has attended numerous past events staged by the mixed martial arts promotion.
You can follow the fight live here…
Lucy GreyApril 9, 2023 03:48