Donald Trump appeared on conservative radio’s Hugh Hewitt Show on Wednesday and stated he would testify if the federal case towards him over the unlawful retention of categorized paperwork post-presidency reaches trial.
Asked by the host what we’d say if he have been requested underneath oath whether or not he ever requested a member of his employees transfer packing containers of secret authorities paperwork, he answered: “I don’t talk about anything. You know why? Because I’m allowed to do whatever I want. I come under the Presidential Records Act.”
Bizarrely, he additionally challenged Meghan Markle to a debate, accusing her of disrespecting the late Queen Elizabeth II, regardless of his reluctance to have interaction in coverage arguments along with his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
Preferring as an alternative to lambast his rivals on Truth Social, Mr Trump additionally frolicked calling his former deputy Mike Pence by saying he had gone over to “the Dark Side” and had begun “making up stories” about him, additionally trashing “washed up” right-wing pundit Ann Coulter for good measure.
All of which solely served as a brief distraction from the ex-president’s ever-mounting authorized issues in Georgia, Florida, Washington, DC, and New York, which proceed to progress in tandem.
John Fetterman dares Republicans to comply with via with Biden impeachment threats: ‘Trump has a mugshot’
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has a problem for Republicans: impeach Joe Biden, and see what occurs.
The freshman Democrat was chatting with a bunch of reporters in his workplace on Wednesday when he threw down the gauntlet for his political rivals, who nonetheless fume overtly about his defeat of TV’s Dr Mehmet Oz final fall.
“Go ahead. Do it, I dare you,” the senator urged Republicans.
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Trump hits again after Jack Smith accuses him of tainting jury pool
Donald Trump is displaying no indicators of holding again his continued allegations of bias and unfairness towards the choose overseeing his January 6 case in Washington, DC, even after being accused of attempting to taint the jury pool by prosecutors.
On Truth Social, the ex-president continued to launch statements all through Tuesday and into Wednesday attacking Department of Justice particular counsel Jack Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkan, the jurist who has now develop into a goal of baseless criticism from conservatives on Capitol Hill — a few of whom voted to substantiate her to the bench.
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John Bowden7 September 2023 18:01
Voices: Trump v Meghan debating the Queen? Pointless, silly… and the best present on Earth
It’s not, sadly, going to occur, however you need to admit it’s an attractive prospect. There aren’t any two figures on the worldwide stage in fashion, substance and symbolic energy than the forty fifth president and the previous Suits star, and the conflict of concepts that may erupt on the stage could be a spectacle to enthral the world.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 17:15
Fulton County prosecutors predict four-month trial and 150 witnesses
Georgia prosecutors are estimating a four-month trial involving greater than 150 witnesses will probably be required within the case of Mr Trump and his 18 co-defendants following the handing down of a racketeering indictment accusing them of participating in a legal enterprise to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election within the swing state.
Prosecutors supplied an early glimpse of the courtroom arguments towards the previous president and is allies throughout the first-ever televised listening to linked to the case on 6 September.
Judge Scott McAfee additionally shot down efforts by former attorneys to Mr Trump to have their instances severed from one another.
Alex Woodward studies on yesterday’s motion in court docket in Fulton County.
John Bowden7 September 2023 17:15
Fulton County DA asks choose to limit media, Trump and others from revealing jurors’ identities
Fulton County district legal professional Fani Willis filed a movement within the case towards former President Donald Trump in Georgia final evening urging a choose to limit Mr Trump and members of the media from making public the identities of jurors within the case.
It comes as Ms Willis says {that a} web site hosted by a Russian firm has already doxxed her — to not point out relations and folks wholly unconnected to the trial.
“The personal information was intertwined with derogatory and racist remarks,” her movement famous.
John Bowden7 September 2023 16:35
There are 30 ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in Georgia’s large legal case towards Trump — however who’re they?
What do we all know concerning the 30 people who weren’t named within the Fulton County indictment towards Mr Trump however should have had a component to play?
Alex Woodward has the reply.
Joe Sommerlad7 September 2023 16:15
Trump was warned FBI may search Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer warned him towards preventing the National Archives and Department of Justice over paperwork he had retained from the White House, however the ex-president selected as an alternative to withstand all makes an attempt by authorities for him to show them over.
That revelation was made by none aside from Mr Trump’s former legal professional, Evan Corcoran, in voice memos describing his conversations along with his consumer which have since develop into proof within the former president’s upcoming trial over allegedly mishandling categorized data. Mr Trump has pleaded not responsible.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 16:00
Fani Willis in profile: The Georgia prosecutor who may take down Trump
Her first day because the chief prosecutor for Fulton County got here with information that then-president Donald Trump had tried to strain Georgia’s high election officers to reverse his loss within the state throughout the 2020 election.
A telephone name between Mr Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger was printed by The Washington Post late at evening on 3 January 2021.
Hours later, Fani Willis would walk into her first day on the job as Fulton County’s district legal professional, an workplace that’s now spearheading a legal investigation into Mr Trump, with the telephone name serving as a central damning piece of proof towards him.
Alex Woodward presents this profile of her life and profession.
Joe Sommerlad7 September 2023 15:45
Michael Cohen urges Trump’s Georgia co-defendants to ‘speak now’
Mr Cohen appeared on CNN, the place he was requested whether or not he believed that Mr Trump’s co-conspirators would ultimately break and cooperate with the Fulton County district legal professional’s case.
Graig Graziosi has the story.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 15:30
OAN reaches settlement with Dominion Voting Systems government
Right-wing cable community One America News (OAN) has settled a defamation lawsuit introduced by a former Dominion Voting Machines government over false claims the corporate had rigged the 2020 presidential election, in keeping with court docket filings.
Eric Coomer, Dominion’s former high safety official, sued OAN and star correspondent Chanel Rion for spreading lies that he and the corporate had engaged in a large voter fraud effort to flip votes from Mr Trump to Joe Biden.
Bevan Hurley studies on the latest within the case.
Joe Sommerlad7 September 2023 15:15
