Republican presidential candidate and convicted felon returns to campaign trail with Arizona town hall, Silicon Valley fundraiser, and TV interviews
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Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail following his conviction in New York last week.
The former president is doing a sweep of western states, beginning in Arizona, where at a town hall rally he mocked Joe Biden during a segment on the border calling the president’s immigration order “bulls***”.
Mr Trump also sat down for an interview with Dr Phil. He was asked about his “hardest, darkest moment” but the TV psychologist was lambasted on social media for the softball approach and fawning repetition of Trump lies about the criminal cases against him.
In a separate interview with Fox News, Mr Trump downplayed the threat of climate change, insisting that international unrest is of greater concern and declaring: “The only global warming that matters to me is nuclear global warming.”
The Republican presidential candidate and convicted felon maintained that, while he remained a “very legitimate” candidate for the White House, the US had become a “banana republic”.
Meanwhile, the judge in the classified documents case in Florida will allow several parties not involved in the case to argue in favor of the former president’s attempt to dismiss the charges brought against him by special counsel Jack Smith.
Top Republicans fear Trump jail time when he accepts GOP nomination
Now that Trump is a convicted felon, there is a possibility he could go to prison – and top Republicans have privately said they’re preparing for the chance that he is in jail during the Republican National Committee convention.
Ariana Baio has more:
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 07:00
Trump complains that no jurors smiled at him during his trial
The convicted felon’s post-verdict conservative media grievance tour brought him to Newsmax this week, where he added this complaint about the jury to the wrap sheet: they weren’t even polite enough to smile at him.
You know, like people on a jury often do… 🤔
Here’s more from Kelly Rissman.
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 05:00
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 04:30
Trump aide Steve Bannon rages as he’s ordered to prison on July 1
Donald Trump’s former adviser and far-right podcaster Steve Bannon must surrender to prison to begin a four-month sentence on July 1 after he defied a subpoena to testify to a congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Bannon raged against his sentence after his brief federal court appearance on Thursday while a protester shouted out that he is “going to jail” and labeled him a “coup plotter” outside the courthouse in Washington DC.
“This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump,” Bannon told reporters. “Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail … There is nothing that can shut me up, and nothing that will shut me up.”
Last month, federal prosecutors asked the judge overseeing his case to reverse a stay of his sentence, arguing that “there is no legal basis” to block him from prison after an appeals court upheld his conviction.
On Thursday, Trump-appointed US District Judge Carl Nichols granted that request.
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 04:00
Watch: Jan 6 committee member responds to Trump threat of indictment
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 03:30
ICYMI: Trump lawyers ask New York judge to lift hush money trial gag order
The former president’s attorneys are asking the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to lift a gag order imposed on him that prevents him from commenting about witnesses, jurors and others tied to the criminal case.
In a letter made public this week, Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche asked Justice Juan Merchan to end the gag order “now that the trial has concluded” after a jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30.
“The concerns articulated by the government and the Court do not justify continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump – who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election – and the American people,” Blanche wrote.
Here’s more from Alex Woodward and Martha McHardy.
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 03:00
Biden campaign trolls Trump over Dr Phil interview
The Biden campaign was quick off the mark in responding to Trump’s interview with Dr Phil.
You may recall that boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were found stacked on a ballroom stage… the eagle-eyed staffers at Biden-Harris HQ noticed something familiar…
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 02:39
Dr Phil blasted on social media over Trump softball interview that repeated MAGA lies
Trump sat down at Mar-a-Lago for an hour-long interview with the TV therapist in which he faced a series of softball questions and was allowed to lie repeatedly about his record and Joe Biden.
Dr Phil told the recently convicted president that he believed he had been “muzzled” by a judge in his New York hush money trial.
Graeme Massie has the full story:
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 02:30
Kellyanne Conway makes curious claim about Biden D-Day trip
If you tuned in this morning in the US to any news network you would have seen President Joe Biden standing with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the D-Day 80th anniversary commemoration before meeting other world leaders and chatting quite extensively with veterans of that historic day.
Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway clearly watched something else…
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 02:23
David Sacks formally endorses Trump
Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks has released a statement on why he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
Sacks is hosting the former president at his home tonight for a fundraiser. He wrote on X:
Why I’m Backing President Trump
As many press accounts have reported, I’m hosting a fundraising event for President Donald J. Trump at my home in San Francisco this evening.
Over the last couple of years, I have hosted events for presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as several Congressional figures in both major parties. I give to many, but endorse few.
But today I am giving my endorsement to our 45th President, Donald J. Trump, to be our 47th President. My reasons rest on four main issues that I think are vital to American prosperity, security, and stability – issues where the Biden administration has veered badly off course and where I believe President Trump can lead us back.
He explains his reasoning based on four key points: the economy, foreign policy/Ukraine War, the border, and lawfare.
Read the full statement here:
Oliver O’Connell7 June 2024 02:14
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