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On Saturday, former president Donald Trump called for a heckler to be thrown out of his Manchester, New Hampshire rally ahead of the state’s primary election next week.
“You can get him out of here. Get out of here. Go ahead,” the former president can be heard saying in footage of the event. “You can throw him out,” the former president said from the podium.
The man is then escorted from the venue by four security guards as the former president says “he’s just a disturbed person”.
It’s not the first time Mr Trump has called for a protester to be kicked out of one of his events. In Las Vegas in 2016, he called for a heckler to be removed and said he’d like to “punch” him “in the face,” according to CNN.
The former president was seen campaigning in New Hampshire this week ahead of the state’s primary next week. He previously won the Iowa caucus last week with Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis coming in second.
Also this weekend, Mr Trump was mocked over his legal woes on Saturday Night Live. James Austin Johnson, who played Mr Trump on the program, referred to the former president’s legal team as “the bottom of the barrel”.
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Show latest update 1 hour ago SNL cold open mocks Trump’s trials and legal team after a week of defence setbacks
Mr Trump was mocked in an SNL cold open skit over his legal troubles and attorneys, specifically Alina Habba, who is representing the former president in his defamation trial against columnist E Jean Carroll.
In the skit, which premiered on TV on Saturday, Mr Trump’s character, played by James Austin Johnson, refers to his legal team as “the bottom of the barrel, folks. This is who said yes.” He added: “I’m in the lead for president and this is the best I can get. Feels like a red flag, no?”
This week, Ms Habba received criticism of her cross-examination of Ms Carroll, resulting in a sidebar and sustained objections.
Read more below:
SNL cold open mocks Trump’s trials and legal team after a week of setbacks The Trump character said he doesn’t intend to pay his legal team for their labour
Michelle Del Rey 21 January 2024 19:45
1 hour ago Trump struggles to say the word ‘climate’ and reveals he recently took a cognitive test
At a New Hampshire campaign rally, Donald Trump claimed to have “aced” a recent cognitive test and struggled to pronounce the word “climate,” footage from the event shows.
“I don’t know if you saw, but a few months ago, I took a cognitive test my doctor gave me,” Mr Trump told supporters at the Saturday event.
His comments came just after former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley questioned whether the former president was mentally capable of taking office again after he appeared to repeatedly confuse her with former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a campaign speech on Friday.
“I said, ‘give me a cognitive test, just so we can you know,’ because you know what the standards were, and I aced it,” Mr Trump continued.
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Trump struggles to say ‘climate’ and reveals he recently took a cognitive test At a New Hampshire campaign rally, former president claims he ‘aced’ a cognitive test just months ago
Katie Hawkinson 21 January 2024 19:07
4 hours ago Mr Trump calls for heckler to be removed from New Hampshire campaign rally
“You can get him out of here. Get out of here. Go ahead,” the former president can be heard saying in footage of the event. “You can throw him out,” the former president said from the podium.
The man was then escorted from the event by four security guards.
Read more here.
Michelle Del Rey 21 January 2024 16:44
6 hours ago Fani Willis says deputy’s estranged wife ‘interfering’ with Trump prosecution
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has pushed back on allegations that she has had an “improper” relationship with her deputy, instead accusing his estranged wife of attempting to interfere with their prosecution of Donald Trump.
Ms Willis has been issued a subpoena to sit for a pretrial deposition in the divorce case of special prosecutor Nathan Wade and his wife Joycelyn Wade on 23 January. On Thursday, Ms Willis’s lawyer said in a filing that the subpoena should be dismissed.
Attorney Cinque Axam, representing Ms Willis, argued that Ms Wade “has conspired with interested parties in the criminal election interference case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis”.
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Gustaf Kilander 21 January 2024 14:00
7 hours ago The week that GOP fantasies about Trump and the Democrats came crashing down
Eric Garcia writes:
“People don’t think like I do and that’s the situation” could encapsulate the predicament the entire Republican Party faces. For the last few months, we at Inside Washington have said Republicans — all the way down from the squirreliest congress critters to the wealthiest donors to candidates — are engaged in a collective kind of magical thinking. Such wishful thinking has allowed the GOP to behave like they’re living in a world they would prefer, rather than the world as it is.
This week finally shattered that.
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This week, Republican fantasies about Trump and the Democrats came crashing down The party has been stuck in magical thinking. Now, both right-wingers and centrists have been forced to accept some tough truths
Oliver O'Connell 21 January 2024 13:30
8 hours ago Merrick Garland calls for ‘speedy’ trial in Trump federal election interference case
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said he agrees with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a speedy trial in Donald Trump’s federal election interference case – citing an increased public interest ahead of the 2024 election.
In an interview with CNN this week, Mr Garland provided few, but firm, comments on the special counsel’s investigation and upcoming trial against Mr Trump related to the former president’s alleged involvement in conspiring and working to overturn the 2020 election results.
“The special prosecutor has said from the beginning that he thinks public interest requires a speedy trial, which I agree with,” Mr Garland said.
Ariana Baio reports on the attorney general’s remarks:
US attorney general calls for ‘speedy’ trial in Trump election interference case As of now, Trump is slated to face three criminal trials before election day in November
Oliver O'Connell 21 January 2024 12:45
10 hours ago Prosecutors ask for six-month prison term for ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro
The Department of Justice has asked for a six-month prison sentence for former Trump aide Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors argued in a 20-page filing that Mr Navarro put his loyalty to former President Donald Trump above the law when he declined to work with the House Select Committee looking into the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.
Mr Navarro, who was a trade and pandemic adviser in the Trump White House who later pushed baseless claims of voter fraud, acted without a lawyer as he defied a subpoena from the House, instead relying on a press statement issued by former President Donald Trump in November 2021 saying that he didn’t have to work with another committee that was looking into the handling of the pandemic, prosecutors argued.
The 74-year-old was found guilty of two charges of contempt in September last year after he refused to testify or hand over documents after receiving a House subpoena in February 2022.
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Gustaf Kilander 21 January 2024 10:45
12 hours ago Haley hits back at ‘insecure’ Trump ahead of New Hampshire face-off
Nikki Haley has hit back at Donald Trump after he ramped up his attacks on her ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
The former South Carolina governor said Mr Trump’s personal attacks mean he is feeling “threatened” and “insecure” as they head towards the state’s 2024 GOP presidential contest.
It comes after the former president shared an article from far-right conspiracy site The Gateway Pundit which claimed Ms Haley is not a “natural born citizen” and is therefore not eligible to serve as President of the United States because her parents, Indian immigrants, were not American citizens when she was born in 1972.
Ms Haley, who served as Mr Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was born in the United States and is therefore eligible to run for president, according to the 14th Amendment.
Martha McHardy has the story:
Nikki Haley hits back at ‘insecure’ Trump ahead of New Hampshire face-off The former South Carolina governor said Mr Trump’s personal attacks mean he is feeling ‘threatened’ and ‘insecure’
Oliver O'Connell 21 January 2024 08:45
14 hours ago Trump yet again gets confused between Biden and Obama
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, who served in the US House as a Florida Republican between 1995 and 2001, said on MSNBC on Friday morning that “Donald Trump is not well, we know this”.
“He really does think that Barack Obama is still president of the United States,” he added.
Gustaf Kilander has the story:
Trump confuses Biden and Obama... again ‘Donald Trump is not well, we know this – He really does think that Barack Obama is still president of the United States,’ Joe Scarborough says
Oliver O'Connell 21 January 2024 06:45
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Donald Trump attends funeral of Melania’s mother as trial continues in New York Donald Trump took time away from his ongoing legal issues to join his wife Melania at her mother’s funeral in Florida. The former president accompanied the former first lady to a church close to their Mar-a-Lago estate for the funeral of her mother Amalija Knavs. The couple’s 18-year-old son Baron attended, alongside other Trump family members. The 77-year-old GOP frontrunner is currently on trial over defamation allegations levelled by E. Jean Carroll. The president’s lawyer Alina Habba attempted to halt the Manhattan trial while he attended the funeral, but the judge refused since his presence is not required for the case to continue.
Oliver O'Connell 21 January 2024 04:45
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