‘What the hell is a Blizzard?’: Trump exposes he’s never ever been to a Dairy Queen
Donald Trump headlined the very first of a two-day conference hosted by conservative political activist group Turning Point U.S.A. together with reactionary legislators, prospects and experts, consisting of Tucker Carlson and Matt Gaetz.
The previous president’s rambling Saturday night address condemned examinations and criminal indictments versus him while informing Ron DeSantis to “get home to Florida,” implicating his competitor for the Republican election for president of overlooking the guv’s workplace.
The campaign for Mr DeSantis, on the other hand, reported raising more than $20m in the very first 6 weeks of his campaign, however approximately a lots staffers were just recently fired in a shakeup as his ballot numbers route the previous president’s.
Trump’s remarks came as his legal group presses courts in Georgia to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from examining him for election disturbance and to quash the last report of an unique function grand jury that suggests indictments versus those in Trump’s circle.
Attorneys submitted comparable petitions in both the Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court after a different grand jury was sworn in to hear proof surrounding efforts to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 election.
Tucker Carlson and Pence clash over Ukraine
Tucker Carlson on Friday appeared to lose his persistence with Mike Pence after the 2024 governmental prospect declined to pull back from his assistance for equipping Ukraine’s defence forces.
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They invested approximately half of their conversation sparring over Mr Pence’s view of the almost 18-month-old war, which the ex-vice president explained in plain terms based upon his 2 sees to the area.
When he attended to the Turning Point conference on Saturday night, Carlson continued his attacks on the previous president and enhanced a story of Ukraine that has actually formed a component of the Republican Party and its base while making distinctions from Russian state media.
“If you’re a Christian leader and Christians are going to jail for their views, you are required to say something,” said Carlson, restoring a deceptive story that implicates Ukraine’s Jewish leader Volodymyr Zelensky of maltreating Christian priests. “And if you don’t, you’re not much of a Christian leader.”
“How thankful are we for Tucker Carlson revealing true snakes … who do not have our best interests in mind,” said conservative analyst Benny Johnson, in between cackling over viral clips of President Biden and “boos” directed at Mr Pence.
Alex Woodward17 July 2023 04:45
Tim Scott concurs with Tucker Carlson’s termination of Russia danger
Republican Senator Tim Scott or South Carolina appeared to concur with previous Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s assertion that Mexico postures a larger danger to the United States than Russia in a cozy 2024 campaign path online forum.
Oliver O’Connell17 July 2023 02:45
Ex-Secret Service representative ‘not surprised’ by White House drug discover
A day after the Secret Service reached an end to its examination into the existence of drug in the White House, previous Secret Service representative Evy Poumpouras said she wasn’t shocked that the drug had the ability to get in.
Oliver O’Connell17 July 2023 00:45
Far-ideal experts and legislators evangelise and crown Trump and Tucker at Turning Point’s Florida conference
On the phase of a prominent activist group’s two-day conference, reactionary conspiracy theorists, Republican governmental prospects and members of Congress diverted into Christian nationalist evangelising, QAnon-adjacent conspiracy mongering and a bleak image of an America in fast decrease under Democratic management.
The visitor speakers at Turning Point U.S.A.’s inaugural Turning Point Action Conference in Florida consistently rejected the presence of transgender individuals, declared that assistance for Ukraine is constructed on a lie, and characterised President Joe Biden as both a frail and incapable stooge and the most corrupt political leader of perpetuity.
And they proclaimed their commitment to both Donald Trump, who provided rambling remarks in primetime on 15 July, and to Tucker Carlson, the previous Fox News expert commemorated by Turning Point visitors as the crucial figure who can articulate their long list of complaints.
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Alex Woodward17 July 2023 00:00
Trump applauds the federal judge he designated who is now managing the Mar-a-Lago case
Donald Trump designated United States District Judge Aileen Cannon to the southern district in Florida in 2020.
Now, she is managing the federal case versus him on charges of unlawfully maintaining categorized files at his Mar-a-Lago property after leaving the White House.
His legal group has actually likewise pushed the judge to release a continuation in the trial as he looks for to forever postpone the case. The filing is waiting for a choice from Judge Cannon.
Asked on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News whether he thinks the judge will give the movement, the previous president said he didn’t understand.
“I know it’s a very highly respected judge. A very smart judge, and a very strong judge,” he said.
“I’m very proud to have appointed her,” he included. “But she’s very smart and very strong, and loves our country. We need judges that love our country so they do the right thing.”
Alex Woodward16 July 2023 23:45
Turning Point straw survey puts Ramaswamy, not DeSantis, as leading No. 2 choice if there’s no Trump
Turning Point Action’s guests significantly did not select Ron DeSantis as a No 2 choice for the Republican election in a weekend straw survey.
Even though they were asked to select a various prospect than the preliminary, which extremely chose Trump, guests likewise chose Trump as a No 2.
But Vivek Ramaswamy – a Trump booster who informed the crowd that he wasn’t running “against” any prospect – received 51. 2 percent of the second-choice vote.
Alex Woodward16 July 2023 23:14
Unsurprisingly, Trump controls Turning Point Action’s straw survey
With the exception of the prospects running versus him (other than for Vivek Ramaswamy, a Trump booster who said he is not running “against” anybody), speaker after speaker at the Turning Point Action conference promised their commitment to Donald Trump.
The outcomes of a straw survey are not a surprise, then, with the previous presdent getting 85.7 percent of guests’ votes.
Ron DeSantis, considered his primary competitor for the 2024 election, received 4.3 percent.
The leading choices for Mr Trump’s running mate consist of stopped working prospect for Arizona guv Kari Lake (30.8 percent), United States Rep Byron Donalds (24 percent), and Mr Ramaswamy (22 percent).
Alex Woodward16 July 2023 23:10
Trump asks leading Georgia court to toss election probe grand jury report and disqualify district attorney
Lawyers for previous President Donald Trump are asking Georgia‘s highest court to prevent the district attorney who has been investigating his actions in the wake of the 2020 election from prosecuting him and to throw out a special grand jury report that is part of the inquiry.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating since early 2021 whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his narrow election loss in Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden. She has suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case from a grand jury next month.
Oliver O’Connell16 July 2023 22:45
Tommy Tuberville’s military blockade over abortion jeopardises nationwide security, United States Army veteran senator says
Democratic United States Senator Tammy Duckworth has actually alerted that Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville’s continuous and “distressing” blockade versus the promos of numerous military authorities dangers jeopardising nationwide security.
Ms Duckworth, a US Army veteran of the Iraq War, has actually signed up with Democratic criticism versus the Alabama senator and member of the Armed Services Committee who is holding up promos in demonstration of United States Department of Defense policy to compensate travel expenses for service members looking for abortion care.
House Republicans have actually likewise advanced a draft of a crucial nationwide defence spending expense that would restrict spending on travel costs for abortion care, no matter whether service members are stationed – even in states where care is efficiently unlawful.
Alex Woodward16 July 2023 21:05
Report: Special counsel concerns criminal alerting to Trump Organization worker over declared blockage
The unique counsel examining previous president Donald Trump threatened possible criminal charges versus a Trump Organization worker believed of lying to detectives, according to sources of ABC News.
Jack Smith sent a letter to a staffer that suggested that they may have perjured themselves in a look prior to the federal grand jury that eventually arraigned Mr Trump for supposedly mishandling categorized files.
Eric Garcia has the story.
Oliver O’Connell16 July 2023 20:45
