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Donald Trump addresses election rigging in Meet the Press interview
Donald Trump would often write to-do lists for staff on the back of classified government documents, according to a bombshell claim from a former aide.
Former White House and Mar-a-Lago aide Molly Michael told federal investigators that the former president gave her lists of tasks on documents she later realised had markings as classified material, according to ABC News.
A Trump spokesperson told the network that the claims were “illegal leaks” that lacked “proper context and relevant information” and insisted that he “did nothing wrong”.
The former president was hit with federal charges in June for mishandling government documents after leaving office.
Despite growing evidence against him in a variety of cases, Mr Trump insists he isn’t worried, though he recently told NBC News he may have to pardon himself if re-elected.
“I think it’s very unlikely,” Mr Trump said. “What, what did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong. You mean because I challenge an election, they want to put me in jail?”
Meanwhile, on Truth Social on Monday night, the former president congratulated himself, taking the credit for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton being acquitted in his impeachment trial.
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Show latest update 1 hour ago Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation case against Newsmax will go to trial weeks before Election Day
A voting machine company that reached an historic settlement with Fox News to avert a blockbuster defamation trial is scheduled to return to a Delaware courtroom next year against another right-wing network.
Dominion Voting Systems sued Newsmax in the aftermath of 2020 elections after the network repeatedly aired false claims that the company rigged the presidential election against Donald Trump in an alleged effort to boost ratings.
Barring a potential settlement, the trial is scheduled to begin in September 2024, putting the former president’s bogus statements at the centre of a month-long trial weeks before Election Day.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis – who presided over court proceedings in the case against Fox – also is presiding over the Newsmax case.
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Dominion’s defamation case against Newsmax will go to trial weeks before Election Day The network is accused of promoting a range of outright falsehoods about the voting machine company
Alex Woodward 19 September 2023 21:00
1 hour ago VIDEO: Democrats Put Pressure On Joe Biden To Stand With Striking UAW: 'It Would Send A Very Strong Message'
Democrats Put Pressure On Joe Biden To Stand With Striking UAW: 'It Would Send A Very Strong Message'
The Independent 19 September 2023 20:30
2 hours ago Gavin Newsom mocks Republicans as ‘student government’ over Biden impeachment inquiry
Gavin Newsom mocked House Republicans for launching an impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden without any evidence of wrongdoing in a new interview.
The California governor said Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to open the investigation despite the GOP failing to uncover a direct link showing the president benefited from son Hunter Biden’s business dealings was a “joke”.
“This is student government,” Mr Newsom said in an hour-long interview with CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash broadcast on Monday night.
“I mean, this is a perversity with what the founding fathers ever conceived of and imagined. So, if that’s the best they could do, give me a break.”
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Gavin Newsom mocks Republicans as ‘student government’ over Biden impeachment inquiry ‘I mean, this is a perversity with what the founding fathers ever conceived of and imagined,’ California governor tells CNN
Bevan Hurley 19 September 2023 20:00
2 hours ago Trump takes credit for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton beating impeachment
Former president Donald Trump said he “saved” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from getting impeached.
On Monday, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to claim credit for Mr Paxton’s acquittal last week: “Yes, it is true that my intervention through TRUTH SOCIAL saved Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from going down at the hands of Democrats and some Republicans, headed by PAUL RINO (Ryan), Karl Rove, and others, almost all of whom came back to reason when confronted with the facts.”
He continued, “Ken has been a great A.G., and now he can go back to work for the wonderful people of Texas. It was my honor to have helped correct this injustice!”
It’s unclear how Donald Trump, former House Speaker Paul Ryan or former George W Bush White House adviser Karl Rove were involved in the impeachment process.
However, Mr Rove wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last month predicting that the Texas attorney general would not come out of the impeachment hearings unscathed.
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Trump takes credit for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton beating impeachment ‘t was my honor to have helped correct this injustice!’ the former president wrote on Truth Social
Kelly Rissman 19 September 2023 19:30
3 hours ago Trump interview was ‘crazy way to set the tone of what ‘Meet the Press’ would be under’ Welker, executive says
A television executive has told CNN that NBC’s decision to host Donald Trump for an interview on Meet The Press was a “crazy way to set the tone of what Meet the Press would be under” new moderator Kristen Welker.
“Welker failed spectacularly to meet the moment during her interview with Trump,” CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote in an analysis of the interview.
“Welker allowed Trump to make a number of statements wholly untethered to reality on a range of critical issues without tenacious, resolute, or meaningful pushback,” he added. “Trump, a rapid-fire lie machine, did his usual song and dance. He lied about the election. He lied about the insurrection that his lies had spawned. And he lied about pretty much every topic that Welker broached.”
Mr Darcy wrote that Ms Welker appeared to be “ill-equipped to handle Trump’s trademark bravado” and that she was “lacking any noticeable fire in her belly”.
Gustaf.Kilander 19 September 2023 19:00
3 hours ago Judge refuses to throw out convictions against one of the first Oath Keepers to be charged for Jan 6
Gustaf Kilander 19 September 2023 18:33
3 hours ago Elon Musk says Twitter to move behind paywall as all users forced to pay ‘small’ monthly fee
Elon Musk said X is looking to charge users a “small monthly payment” to tackle bots on the social network.
X, previously known as Twitter, underwent a number of changes soon after Mr Musk, the multibillionaire owner of X Corp, bought it.
The platform is now “moving to having a small, monthly payment for use of the X system” to combat “vast armies of bots”, Mr Musk said during a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
However, the Tesla and SpaceX boss did not reveal how much the new plan would cost X users or what additional features subscribers would get.
During the interaction with Mr Netanyahu, the Tesla titan said X currently has 550 million “monthly users” who generate 100-200 million posts per day, adding that the new change to include a “small amount of money” would be necessary to deal with the problem posed by bots.
Under the Tesla titan, the platform restored the account of former US president Donald Trump who was banned following the 2021 Capitol riots, as well as the profiles of Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and neo-Nazi website founder Andrew Anglin.
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Elon Musk wants all Twitter users to pay a monthly fee ‘It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots’
Vishwam Sankaran 19 September 2023 18:30
4 hours ago Hunter Biden has gone on the offensive against Republicans. That could be tricky for the president.
Hunter Biden has gone on the offensive against his Republican critics, arguing in a new lawsuit that although he is the son of the president of the United States, he shouldn’t be treated differently than any other American.
The lawsuit against the IRS is only the latest in a series of counterpunches by the president’s son. But while Hunter Biden’s lawyers might think that an aggressive approach is the best legal strategy for Biden the son, that might not be what’s best for Biden the father as he seeks reelection and tries to keep the public focused on his policy achievements.
The president has had little to say about his son’s legal woes — which now include a felony indictment — beyond that Hunter did nothing wrong and he loves his son. The White House strategy has been to keep the elder Biden head-down and focused on governing, reasoning that that’s what voters will prioritize, while working to keep Hunter’s troubles at arm’s distance.
There’s one hopeful school of thought among the president’s allies that even if all the headlines about Hunter Biden aren’t a plus for the president’s reelection campaign, the legal process could ultimately clear the air in a positive way.
“Obviously, the White House and Hunter’s teams are looking at it from different perspectives,” said Democratic political strategist David Brock. “It’s important for the facts to reach the public, and when that happens, I think ultimately that’s beneficial to the president.”
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Hunter Biden has gone on the offensive against Republicans. That could be tricky for the president. Hunter Biden has gone on the offensive against his Republican critics
Colleen Long, Alanna Durkin Richer, AP 19 September 2023 18:00
4 hours ago VIDEO: Donald Trump addresses election rigging in Meet the Press interview
Donald Trump addresses election rigging in Meet the Press interview
Gustaf Kilander 19 September 2023 17:30
5 hours ago Florida jury pool could give Trump an advantage in classified documents case
The classified documents indictment of Donald Trump would seem, on paper at least, to be the most straightforward of the four criminal cases the former president is facing.
Reams of classified files were stashed in Trump’s office and storage room and he boastfully showed off to guests one such document he acknowledged was “secret,” federal prosecutors have alleged. His own lawyer is quoted in the indictment as saying Trump encouraged him to mislead investigators who demanded the documents back, and prosecutors have since secured the cooperation of a Mar-a-Lago staffer who says the ex-president asked about deleting surveillance footage at the Palm Beach property.
But that doesn’t make the path to conviction easy, particularly with the case set for trial in a Florida courthouse expected to draw its jury pool from a conservative-leaning region of the state that supported Trump in the 2020 election. Those built-in demographics may be a challenge for prosecutors despite the evidence at their disposal, underscoring the impossibility of untangling the law from politics in an election-year trial involving a former president who is seeking to return to the White House.
“The more conservative the counties, the highest chance he has to find jurors that would be sympathetic with him,” said Richard Kibbey, a criminal defense attorney in Stuart, Florida, part of the Fort Pierce district where the jury pool is expected to be taken from.
When it comes to finding truly impartial jurors, he added, “It’s going to be very difficult given the political climate across the country. Jurors will bring their own biases into the court room.”
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Florida jury pool could give Trump an advantage in classified documents case The classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump would seem, on paper at least, to be the most straightforward of the four criminal cases the former president is facing
Eric Tucker, Adriana Gomez Licon, AP 19 September 2023 17:00
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