Trump news now live: Ex-president hails ‘fearless election denier’ for taking control of Michigan GOP

On Sunday, Donald Trump praised among his fans, Kristina Karamo, following her takeover of the Michigan Republican Party. He called her a “fearless election denier” in a Truth Social post.

“If Republicans (and others!) would speak the truth about the Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, like FoxNews should, but doesn’t, they would be far better off,” the ex-president grumbled.

He then took a success lap: “The New York Times stated that “This cements the Party’s takeover by Trump loyalists.” I don’t call them patriots, I call them fantastic AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!”

Members of the January 6 committee were not able to secure all the proof and testament they had actually wished to get however saw factor to think that other leading assistants to Donald Trump ought to deal with criminal charges not advised by the committee in its last sessions, a detective for the now-defunct panel says.

In an interview with The New York Timespublished Sunday, the panel’s lead detective Timothy Heaphy said that other leading assistants to Mr Trump who were not targeted in recommendations to the Justice Department for prosecution might deal with criminal charges coming from the January 6 attack.

Mr Heaphy says he thinks that, had the committee had more time to collect proof or succeeded in engaging testament from Mark Meadows, Mr Trump’s previous chief of staff, there might have been more recommendations.

Tucker Carlson apparently called previous president Donald Trump a “demonic force” who might “destroy” him if he mistakes, in his texts to his manufacturer.

“He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” Carlson texted his Fox News manufacturers, according to court filings in the Dominion disparagement case. He called Mr Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer,” including, “But he’s not going to destroy us.”

The $1.6bn disparagement suit versus Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s protection of the 2020 governmental election has actually been called as an attack on the First Amendment by the lawyers for the channel.

Fox News consistently transmitted lies about Mr Trump’s vote-rigging declares that it understood were “total bs”, Dominion Voting Systems said in a filing revealed on Thursday.

Dominion composed: “From the top down, Fox knew ‘the dominion stuff’ was ‘total bs’. Yet despite knowing the truth – or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth – Fox spread and endorsed these ‘outlandish voter fraud claims’ about Dominion even as it internally recognised the lies as ‘crazy’, ‘absurd’, and ‘shockingly reckless’”.

On 19 November, a memo to executives said that “the lack of any meaningful editorial guidance” at Newsmax “may be a positive for them at least in the short term,” including that that sort of “conspiratorial reporting might be exactly what the disgruntled [Fox News] viewer is looking for.”

“Do not ever give viewers a reason to turn us off,” Fox executive Ron Mitchell composed. “Every topic and guest must perform … ‘No unforced errors’ in content – example: Abruptly turning away from a Trump campaign press conference.”

The next day, while the network played the whole of Mr Giuliani’s post-election interview, then-White House reporter Kristin Fisher truth inspected claims from Ms Powell and Mr Giuliani.

She said that her employer Bryan Boughton instantly called her to inform her that “higher-ups at Fox News were also unhappy” which she “needed to do a better job of – this is a quote – ‘respecting our audience.’”

“Punished for doing my job,” she texted after the call.

The Trump competing informed the crowd at a city center in New Hampshire that discussions about gender ought to be prohibited in primary schools entirely.

Her remarks followed around the world outrage was stimulated by the murder of a transgender lady in Britain — though authorities have actually warned that they are not sure of an intention yet for her death.

Donald Trump is preparing to check out East Palestine, Ohio, as it continues to face the effects of a train derailment previously this month.

The previous president’s kid, Donald Trump Jr, revealed the strategies by means of Twitter on Friday night.

“Breaking News: Trump will visit East Palestine, Ohio next week,” he composed. “If our “leaders” are too scared to really lead genuine leaders will step up and fill deep space.”

Mr Trump appeared to validate the report on Truth Social, composing: “Great people who need help, NOW!”

Fox News reported that Mr Trump will meet East Palestine citizens on Wednesday, almost 3 weeks after the 3 February derailment.

Ms Haley, who revealed her candidateship for the Republican election for president previously today, reacted to Mr Lemon’s remarks on Friday on Fox News.

“This is something that I have faced all of my life. It was Don Lemon yesterday, it was Whoopi Goldberg the day before,” she said. “There will be somebody else tomorrow. I have always made the liberals’ heads explode. They can’t stand the fact that a minority conservative female would not be on the Democratic side, because they know I pull independents, they know I pull suburban women, they know I pull minorities over to what we are trying to do.”

Ms Haley revealed her candidateship previously today, making her the very first prospect to challenge previous president Donald Trump for the election in 2024. Prior to that she won 2 term as guv South Carolina prior to Mr Trump chose her to work as the United States ambassador to the United Nations.

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that Lemon has actually been cut from CNN’s early morning program lineup — and his future with the network remains in doubt.

Bernie Sanders has actually knocked Republican governmental confident Nikki Haley’s idea that political leaders over the age of 75 ought to get a psychological proficiency test – calling it “absurd”.

Haley, 51, made the need as she released her campaign to win the GOP election and criticised 76-year-old Donald Trump and 80-year-old Joe Biden.

But Mr Sanders, who himself is 81, refuted the concept as he appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday early morning.

Fox News is dealing with a $1.6bn disparagement suit from Dominion Voting Systems, a Denver-based producer of voting makers, over its protection of the 2020 governmental election and then-president Donald Trump’s phony claims that the contest was “rigged” to make sure triumph for Joe Biden.

In a 192-page court filing released on Thursday including personal messages from a lot of Fox’s greatest stars, Dominion argues: “From the top down, Fox knew ‘the Dominion stuff’ was ‘total bs’.”

“Yet despite knowing the truth – or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth – Fox spread and endorsed these ‘outlandish voter fraud claims’ about Dominion even as it internally recognised the lies as ‘crazy’, ‘absurd’ and ‘shockingly reckless’,” the filing said.

Attorneys for Fox, nevertheless, have actually argued that Dominion has actually advanced just “novel defamation theories” and is looking for a “staggering” figure in damages targeted at winning headings, silencing secured speech and enhancing its owner, Staple Street Capital Partners, and its financiers.

A Fox representative said in a declaration in action to Thursday’s filing: “There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v Sullivan.”

A five-week trial is scheduled to begin on 17 April.

Here, The Independent’s Joe Sommerlad offers a short summary of a few of the most amazing claims in the brand-new filing, which gathers personal text from popular anchors like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and owner Rupert Murdoch talking about protection of the 2020 election’s consequences: