Trump news today: Whistleblower says Trump desired Chrissy Teigen tweet got rid of as DeSantis reacts to assault

GOP congressman Matt Gaetz was faced at the State of the Union by an activist he formerly body-shamed.

Twenty-year-old Olivia Julianna, director of politics and federal government affairs for the not-for-profit Gen-Z for Change, required to Twitter to share her exchange with the Florida Representative at President Joe Biden’s 2nd State of the Union.

Last summertime, Ms Julianna criticised Mr Gaetz’s fatphobic remarks throughout a rally in which he said that “disgusting” females who “look like a thumb” have the “least likelihood of getting pregnant” and have no factor to support abortion rights. The Republican political leader reacted by sharing a Newsmax article that explained his remarks as “sure to raise [the] dander of his political opponents” and consisted of an image of Ms Julianna, then tweeting “Dander raised…”

Ms Julianna, whose video decrying Mr Gaetz’s horrible remarks amassed more than a million views on TikTok, then introduced a campaign for abortion funds that raised more than $2m — an amount she supposedly raised when she encountered Mr Gaetz on Tuesday.

“Just want everyone to know I just shook @mattgaetz hand and thanked him for helping me raise two million dollars,” Ms Julianna composed on Twitter. “His response was to say ‘heard you had trouble spending it.’ And to quickly walk away in the opposite direction. What a loser lol.”

Perhaps no series of remarks outraged Republicans throughout President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night than when he referenced how some Republicans wish to let Social Security and Medicare end.

Mr Biden and Democrats have actually hammered Republicans for apparently wishing to cut the 2 privilege programs which provide money and medical insurance to seniors and are hugely popular.

“Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans — some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset,” he said.

A whistleblower has actually exposed that Donald Trump asked Twitter to remove a tweet from Chrissy Teigen since he felt it was “derogatory” towards him.

In 2019, Mr Trump had actually tweeted about the design and television character, calling her the “filthy-mouthed wife” of her spouse John Legend.

Teigen notoriously reacted calling the then-president a “pussy a** b****.”

During testament at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday, previous Twitter staff member Anika Navaroli said that the Trump White House had actually called the social networks platform asking for Teigen’s post be eliminated.

“In that particular instance, I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House to make sure that we evaluated this tweet and that they wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement directed toward the president,” she said.

The discovery came as the House committee started its hearings into Twitter’s function in limiting access to a New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer – something Mr Trump and other Republicans have actually knocked as censorship.

The testament showed that the Trump White House in fact taken part in efforts at censorship.

Democratic United States Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticised Twitter for its rejection to completely suspend a prominent account connected to anti-LGBT+ smears and hazards of violence, consisting of bomb hazards at kids’s health centers.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on 8 February, the New York congresswoman questioned previous executives at the social networks platform why “Libs of TikTok” was permitted to incorrectly recommend that Boston Children’s Hospital was carrying out hysterectomies on transgender kids, declares that presumably sustained hazards and harassment towards the medical facility and its staff.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez asked Twitter’s previous head of safety Yoel Roth why the account was not suspended “despite inspiring a bomb threat due to the right-wing incitement of violence against trans Americans.” Mr Roth said that “regrettably” the account stayed active.

The previous president (and present 2024 prospect) tried to catch headings and spotlight with a long thread of live commentary indicated to accompany his political opponent’s address. Few saw it, nevertheless, as the previous president stays non-active on Twitter after being unbanned by Elon Musk.

“Having a hard time getting the words out, even though the Fake News will credit him with one of the Great Speeches of all time. I really want to see him improve. Come one Joe, you can do it!” he composed in one Truth Social post.

But that was far from the degree of the ex-president’s efforts to hug the spotlight on Tuesday. While Mr Biden spoke, his 2024 campaign launched a flurry of news release — 8 in overall — promoting different achievements and goings-on of the Trump presidency.

Mr Trump likewise assaulted Mr Biden and his campaign for apparently collaborating with social networks business to censor conservatives — though there’s no proof that’s true, beyond some circumstances where the Biden campaign looked for to have specific pictures of the president’s kid got rid of from Twitter.

Donald Trump has actually enhanced a social networks post recommending Florida guv Ron DeSantis “groomed” teen ladies and consumed with his trainees while the Republican state leader was a high school instructor.

In a series of declarations on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Mr Trump reacted to a post from a user revealing a low-grade picture of a male with a similarity to Mr DeSantis standing with a group of girls with blurred out faces, among whom seems holding a beer bottle.

“Here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher,” a caption on the user’s post checks out.

Mr Trump, resharing the image several times, reacted, “No way?” and, “That’s not Ron, is it?”

Mr Trump published an amazing 48 Truth Social posts throughout Mr Biden’s State of the Union address.

The speech lasted about one hour and 13 minutes, significance Mr Trump shared a post every 90 seconds typically.

The previous president boasted about his commentary efficiency on Wednesday early morning, declaring “millions and millions” of individuals tuned in to hear what he needed to state.

“Big night for ‘TRUTH’ last night. Tremendous numbers of people signed on to hear my ‘Play by Play’ of the SOTU Speech…Like I mean Millions and Millions of people, and TRUTH handled the Traffic well,” he composed.

“Congrats to Devin Nunes and all of those great technicians and others who make TRUTH Social work. Despite all of the obstacles put in our path by the SEC, others in Government, and the Fake News Media, it is a giant success that reaches massive numbers of people, both Friend & Foe! Thank you!” he included.

In one part of his State of the Union on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden’s rhetoric handled a populist tone that would have been similarly suitable originating from the mouth of his predecessor, previous president Donald Trump.

Mr Biden regreted how the American middle class has actually been “hollowed out” over a duration of years, while “good-paying manufacturing jobs moved overseas” and “factories at home closed down”.

Referring back to the style of his 2020 campaign, Mr Biden said his “vision for country” has actually constantly been to “restore the soul of America” to “rebuild the backbone … of the middle class,” and to “unite the country”.

In what seemed a sneak peek of his 2024 reelection style, Mr Biden exhorted both sides of the aisle to use up the incomplete parts of his program.

Donald Trump‘s former lawyer Michael Cohen said he was meeting yet again Wednesday with New York City prosecutors who have spent years examining the former president’s monetary transactions.

Cohen paused to talk with press reporters as he went into the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace. He said it was the 15th time he had actually met district attorneys.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg just recently assembled a brand-new grand jury to hear proof associated to payments Cohen assisted set up in 2016 to 2 females who declared to have actually had sexual encounters with Trump.

“I don’t know why I’m here yet. We’ll find out as soon as I get upstairs,” Cohen said.

Cohen was formerly among Trump’s leading lieutenants, serving as an intermediary with the media and dealing with a few of his legal and business affairs. But after federal district attorneys charged Cohen with tax evasion and criminal campaign financing infractions, the 2 have actually ended up being opponents.

Sen Steve Daines of Montana had his Twitter account suspended for a number of hours on Tuesday for breaking the business’s delicate media policy.

It is thought that the affronting photo was Mr Daines’ profile image, which reveals him and his partner in hunting equipment posturing with a dead animal. Mr Daines’ campaign account, which reveals him shooting a weapon, was not suspended.

“We don’t allow images of dead animals or blood in profile photos because we are unable to label them as NSFW and keep them from being seen by users who specifically don’t want to see graphic images,” Twitter’s Vice President for Trust and Safety Ella Irwin composed to Mr Daines’ Senate workplace, in a message discussing the suspension that was reported by CNN.

The profile image appears to reveal flecks of blood on the animal’s leg that ended up being more obvious upon focusing on the photo. Mr Daines seems holding the animal’s direct.