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Roger Stone appears to tell Trump Gov. DeSantis is ‘a piece of s***’
Former US president Donald Trump’s new social media platform Truth Social was down for hours, hit with a series of outages on Monday.
Outages were reported from just after 7:00am EST to around 3:30pm, according to DownDetector.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump also doubled down his attack against the tax probe and referred to New York’s attorney general as “racist” in a lengthy statement urging her to focus on other crimes and desist in her office’s investigation into his company for fraud charges.
The ex-president bizarrely claimed in his statement that his real estate company had “probably done more for New York than virtually any other person or group”.
Mr Trump also released a statement on the Ukraine war on Monday, saying “it doesn’t make sense” why Moscow and Kyiv haven’t yet come to an “agreement.”
“It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement,” Mr Trump said in the Monday statement. “If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage.”
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Show latest update 1650344425 US border arrests rise to highest point in 20 years
Arrests and expulsions by US officials at the Mexican border have risen to their highest level in at least two decades, with more than one million migrants detained in the past six months, writes Io Dodds.
Statistics released by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) showed that its agents made 209,906 arrests along the country’s southern border in March, on top of 803,6 since October, making for a six month total of 1,013,513.
During the pandemic, both US president Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump used Title 42 to expel migrants en masse.
Read more from The Independent:
The US has arrested more than 1 million migrants at the Mexican border in six months Many of the people detained by border agents were trying to re-enter the US after being expelled under the pandemic-era public health rule known as Title 42
Stuti Mishra 19 April 2022 06:00
1650341725 Trump says Ukraine and Russia should ‘figure out’ a solution ‘now'
Former president Donald Trump released a statement on the Ukraine war on Monday, saying “it doesn’t make sense” why Moscow and Kyiv haven’t yet come to an “agreement.”
“It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement,” Mr Trump said in the Monday statement. “If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage.”
“This is a war that never should have happened, but it did,” the former president continued. “The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now — not later — when everyone will be DEAD!”
Mr Trump had earlier praised Vladimir Putin’s move to invade Ukraine, calling it “genius”.
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Stuti Mishra 19 April 2022 05:15
1650339201 Trump’s Truth Social goes down for hours
Former US president Donald Trump’s new social media platform, Truth Social, was down for hours, hit with a series of outages on Monday.
Outages were reported from just after 7:00am EST to around 3:30pm, according to DownDetector.
My colleague Vishwam Sankaran has more on this here:
Troubled Trump app Truth Social goes down It was the ‘worst I’ve ever seen it,’ one user wrote.
Stuti Mishra 19 April 2022 04:33
1650334531 ICYMI:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki had harsh words for Fox News’s White House correspondent Peter Doocy last week.
Suggesting on Pod Save America that Fox News “provides” the journalist with the questions he peppers Ms Psaki with at her daily briefings, Ms Psaki explained: “He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a b****.”
Read more from The Independent’s Gustaf Kilander:
John Bowden 19 April 2022 03:15
1650330931 Trump lashes out at investigation into his taxes, saying NYC authorities should focus on subway shooting and other crimes instead
Donald Trump on Monday doubled down and referred to New York’s attorney general as “racist” in a lengthy statement urging her to focus on other crimes and desist in her office’s investigation into his company for fraud charges.
The ex-president bizarrely claimed in his statement that his real estate company had “probably done more for New York than virtually any other person or group”.
Read more from The Independent:
Trump lashes out at tax probe, says NY AG should focus on street crime instead The twice-impeached ex-president regards all investigations into him as illegitimate
John Bowden 19 April 2022 02:15
1650327331 ICYMI: JD Vance scores Trump endorsement in Ohio Senate contest
Author JD Vance is Donald Trump’s pick to win the Ohio Senate primary, a surprise move that could reinvigorate the campaign of Mr Vance who is currently trailing some rivals in the Republican field including Josh Mandel, the presumed frontrunner.
Mr Vance was called the “best chance for victory” against Democrats in the fall for control of the Senate seat, held by retiring Republican Rob Portman.
Read more from The Independent’s Eric Garcia:
Trump endorses longshot Republican JD Vance – despite concerns from GOP allies Hillbilly Elegy author is currently trailing other candidates
John Bowden 19 April 2022 01:15
1650323791 Why is the GOP so obsessed with Hunter Biden?
Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims and vicious rumours about Joe Biden’s son Hunter during the 2020 election, including attacking him for his past struggles with drug addiction.
Those attacks have not even slowed down since Joe Biden won the election, as Republicans turn away from kitchen-table issues in favour of ginning up excitement with their base with the prospect of punishing one of the GOP’s political boogeymen.
Read more from The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg:
The truth about Hunter Biden and the charges he faces President Joe Biden’s youngest son has no role in the Biden Administration. But as Andrew Feinberg explains, that hasn’t stopped Republicans from using him to hurt his father
John Bowden 19 April 2022 00:16
1650320131 Former GOP governor deals blow to party’s efforts to win in Wisconsin
A former Republican governor of Wisconsin announced that he would not run for office again on Monday, ending speculation that he could challenge Tony Evers, the state’s Democratic incumbent governor.
Tommy Thompson’s entrance into the race would have come more than two decades since his last run for office. A crowded field of GOP candidates remain, several of whom have echoed Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
Read more from the Associated Press:
Tommy Thompson decides against run for Wisconsin governor Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson announced Monday that he won't run again in a bid to take on the Democratic incumbent in the battleground state
John Bowden 18 April 2022 23:15
1650318281 MAGA wing of the GOP posts dismal fundraising numbers. Are their seats still safe in 2022?
Trump loyalists in the House are seeing their fundraising drop as the question of how much enthusiasm Donald Trump can generate for his allies continues to be debated.
The Independent’s Eric Garcia takes a look at several members of Congress and how they are leveraging the Trump brand into cold, hard campaign cash:
MAGA wing of the GOP posts dismal fundraising numbers. Are they still safe in 2022? Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert all posted less-than-stellar fundraising numbers last quarter
John Bowden 18 April 2022 22:44
1650316651 ICYMI: Trump’s scandal-plagued EPA head is running for Senate
Scott Pruitt, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is running for Senate. He announced his bid for the seat currently held by retiring Sen James Inhofe of Oklahoma last week, joining a crowded GOP field for the seat which is likely to remain in Republican hands.
Mr Pruitt resigned as head of the EPA amid scandals surrounding his use of employees to perform personal tasks and lavish spending habits.
Read more from The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg:
Scott Pruitt, scandal-plagued Trump-era EPA head, is running for Senate in Oklahoma Mr Pruitt is known for having abused his security detail while serving as EPA administrator
John Bowden 18 April 2022 22:17
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