Donald Trump’s former commerce adviser Peter Navarro has surrendered to the authorities at a jail facility in Florida to begin a four-month jail sentence, almost 4 years after he tried to assist the previous president unlawfully stay in workplace after shedding the 2020 election.
Mr Trump has in the meantime tried to show the tables on Joe Biden amid the furore surrounding his use of the phrase “bloodbath” by releasing a brand new marketing campaign video compiling lurid information stories about “migrant crime” to argue that the unlawful immigration disaster at America’s southern border is the actual “bloodbath”.
The distraction tactic follows a day of gorgeous setbacks for the Republican presidential candidate within the courtroom.
The former president’s attorneys advised an appeals courtroom in New York on Monday that he has did not discover a backer to cowl his $464m bond following the civil fraud judgement towards him, branding the duty a “practical impossibility”, which raises the likelihood that New York lawyer basic Letitia James can begin seizing his belongings.
Michael Cohen, grownup movie star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal have in the meantime been cleared to testify towards him in a separate hush money trial subsequent month.
Trump ‘may recruit Paul Manafort to 2024 campaign’ – regardless of jail time and alleged ties to Russian spies
Donald Trump is making ready to welcome his disgraced former marketing campaign supervisor Paul Manafort again into the fold regardless of fears of Russian affect, in keeping with stories.
Manafort, a veteran Republican fixer who helped run Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign, was convicted in 2018 of concealing tens of millions of {dollars} he had made lobbying for pro-Russian politicians.
A bipartisan US Senate committee branded him a “grave counterintelligence threat” and a possible channel for covert Russian affect, however he was pardoned by Trump within the dying days of 2020.
Now The Washington Post stories that Trump is in talks to re-hire Manafort for his 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 17:15
Brazil’s ex-president indicted for faking his Covid-19 vaccine knowledge
The distinctly Trumpy former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is going through an indictment over allegedly fraudulent Covid-19 vaccine information and prison affiliation.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 16:45
Trump sparks outrage for saying that Jewish individuals who vote Democrat ‘hate Israel’
In case you missed this one earlier, Trump has come below hearth for feedback about Jewish Democrats after he mentioned throughout an interview with former White House aide Seb Gorka’s America First radio present yesterday: “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats… [hates] everything about Israel.”
Katie Hawkinson has extra.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 16:15
Watch: Former Trump press secretary identifies properties he most fears shedding
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 16:00
Breaking: Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro turns himself in to serve jail sentence for contempt of Congress
“I’ll see you on the other side,” says Navarro as he heads towards the jail, questioning how on earth it got here to this.
To add insult to harm, certainly one of his final moments of freedom was spent getting fact-checked by Fox.
Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s report.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 15:45
Watch reside: Former Trump adviser Navarro arrives at Miami jail to begin jail sentence
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 15:10
Trump supporters wrestle with US citizenship take a look at questions
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 15:00
All the ex-Trump officers who refuse to endorse him in 2024
Mike Pence, Trump’s estranged former vp, has definitively vowed that he won’t be endorsing his old boss for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” he advised Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday.
“But that being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, and not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6.”
Pence’s announcement sees him be part of an ever-growing record of ex-Trump administration officers who at the moment are refusing to again his latest White House bid – a lot of them going as far as to say they now not imagine him to be match for workplace.
Here’s a take a look at who else is refusing to endorse him in 2024.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 14:45
Trump hints he would kick Prince Harry out of US if he lied on visa software
In an extra teaser for that upcoming interview, Trump has hinted that he may kick Prince Harry out of the US if it emerges that he lied on his visa software, because the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation has alleged.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 14:15
Watch: First take a look at Trump’s interview with Nigel Farage
This is airing on GB News tonight, for all you masochists on the market.
Joe Sommerlad19 March 2024 13:45