Trump news latest today: Trump spreads White House drug conspiracy as DeSantis promises interviews on policy

The campaign is because of launch main fundraising numbers by the end of the month, per an approaching Federal Election Commission (FEC) due date. But a campaign authorities knowledgeable about the matter offered the eye-popping amount to Politico: $34m, a haul that puts him securely on top of the GOP main field, dollars-wise, and illustrates a campaign getting steam as Mr Trump obviously strengthens his assistance base within the GOP main citizen population.

When CBS News’ Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox whether among the lots of Republican guvs running in the 2024 race might beat Mr Trump in a main election, Mr Cox said he hoped his celebration might carry on from the previous president.

His words revealed something: While GOP citizens might have yet to sour on the previous president, increasingly more chosen authorities are doing so.

Former President Donald Trump has actually unintentionally revealed that he’s not a regular visitor of the ice cream chain Dairy Queen.

During a stop at a Dairy Queen in Iowa, Trump appeared perplexed by ask for a Blizzard — the most popular product on the ice cream store’s menu.

“Everybody wants a Blizzard. What the hell is a Blizzard?” Trump asked while tossing his hands in the air, triggering laughter from the crowd.

Donald Trump wished to “tap the phones” of White House assistants who he presumed of dripping details, according to bombshell claims made by a previous Trump administration authorities.

Miles Taylor, who acted as the Department of Homeland Security’s chief of staff under Mr Trump, has actually declared in his brand-new book Blowback that the then-president drifted the concept “to pursue leakers by tapping phones” at some time in 2018.

The concept was rapidly closed down already-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly who alerted Mr Trump he would be breaking the law.

While the scuffles might be spoken as leading Republicans scramble to end up being the celebration’s 2024 governmental candidate, down at the state level things have in fact turned physical — a minimum of in Michigan, and not for the very first time.

Tensions boiled over within the Michigan Republican Party on Saturday leading to a run-in at a hotel to which the authorities were called.

It all happened as the GOP’s state committee came together for a conference at the Doherty Hotel in Clare as members have actually been feuding over the celebration’s instructions and the management method of the brand-new chairwoman, Kristina Karamo.

Donald Trump required to Truth Social on Monday to talk about the row over a little bag of drug found at the White House, in a lobby on the West Wing throughout a time period when Joe Biden and his family were missing from the residence.

The previous president declared (without proof) that the president and his child, Hunter Biden, were in some way included, and even more firmly insisted that the Secret Service was covering it up as the firm has actually obviously been not able to centre in on a suspect in the examination into who carried the drugs into the building.

“The White House has Security Cameras (far more than Mar-a-Lago!) all over the place, especially the location in question. THEY 100% KNOW WHO IT IS. If they don’t release information, it means they destroyed the tapes & the Cocaine was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy!” composed Mr Trump.

Former Vice President Mike Pence remained in Sioux City this previous week when he was asked by a citizen about why he didn’t take part in Donald Trump’s efforts to stop the accreditation of Joe Biden’s triumph on 6 January, 2021.

Read what Mr Pence said in action:

Former president Donald Trump supposedly more strained his relationship with Republican celebration management in Iowa after stopping working to appear for senator Joni Ernst’s yearly “Roast and Ride” charity.

Except for Mr Trump, 8 of the GOP 2024 governmental election hopefuls existed at the senator’s charity drive last month – a mix of barbecue-rally and motorbike flights that start a hectic summertime campaign season heading into the first-in-the-nation caucuses.

Things are not working out for the previous president as he tries to preserve his supremacy in the state:

In a movement to postpone a pretrial conference on Classified Information Procedures Act matters scheduled for Friday 14 July, Mr Nauta’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, composes that the hearing needs to be held off since he is not available due to a trial dedication in Washington, DC.

The Independent has more:

Just days after stopped working Arizona gubernatorial prospect Kari Lake said she was thinking about a Senate run, Donald Trump’s consultants revealed that the previous president has actually ended up being disenchanted with her in recent months.

According to The Daily Beast, the previous president particularly discovered Ms Lake’s efforts to get attention horrible. “She’s a shameless, ruthless demagogue who wants power and will do whatever she has to do to get it,” a Trump consultant informed the publication.

Ms Lake has actually attempted to place herself as a possible competitor to end up being Mr Trump’s choice for vice president—a method the previous president likewise obviously did dislike.