Trump takes to Truth Social on Easter Sunday to attack ‘crooked’ prosecutors and judges: Live

In a lengthy and all-capitalised post on Easter Sunday afternoon, Mr Trump railed against some of his usual suspects, including DOJ special counsel Jack Smith and Georgia attorney Fani Willis.

“HAPPY EASTER TO ALL… INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION,” he wrote.

Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are sounding off on Joe Biden after he issued a statement recognising Trans Visibility Day becasue it happened to coincide with Easter Sunday this year.

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Senator Susan Collins of Maine shocked most likely completely nobody by saying on Thursday that she won’t be voting for Donald Trump in November, The Portland Press Herald reported.

The five-term Republican senator, who beforehand endorsed Nikki Haley within the major, says she “cannot support” the previous president as makes a 3rd run for the White House.

“I don’t think it should surprise anyone that I will not support him,” she mentioned.

Ms Collins was one of many seven Republican senators who voted to convict Mr Trump at his second impeachment trial in January 2021 on costs that he incited the mob that stormed the US Capitol.

During a tour of a medical centre in Portland, Maine, she advised media that she wouldn’t depart the Republican Party, in contrast to her colleague Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has mulled working an impartial who caucuses with Republicans.

When requested in regards to the different candidates in November’s election she mentioned she is “not happy with President Biden’s administration” and laughed when requested about Robert F Kennedy Jr.

“Like many Mainers, I don’t like the choice that appears to be coming our way since I do not think either President Trump or President Biden should be president.

“I don’t know what I shall do. It’s a long ways between now and November.”

Republican Senator Todd Young of Indiana has additionally mentioned he won’t endorse Mr Trump.

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and a few massive names from the leisure world teamed up Thursday night time to ship a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for his reelection marketing campaign.

The temper at Radio City Music Hall was electrical as Obama praised Biden’s willingness to search for frequent floor and mentioned, “That’s the kind of president I want.” Clinton mentioned merely of the alternatives dealing with voters in 2024: “Stay with what works.”

Biden himself went straight at Donald Trump, saying his anticipated GOP rival’s concepts have been “a little old and out of shape.”

Moderator Stephen Colbert, in an armchair dialog with the trio, referred to as them “champion talkers” and joked that the three presidents had come to city “and not one of them is here to appear in court,” a dig at Trump’s many authorized troubles.

The eye-popping fundraising haul was a serious present of Democratic assist for Biden at a time of persistently low ballot numbers. The president will take a look at the facility of his marketing campaign money as he faces off with Trump, who proved along with his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton that he didn’t want to boost essentially the most money to grab the presidency.

During the practically hourlong dialog, Obama and Clinton defined simply how laborious Biden’s job is. They spoke of loneliness and frustration over insurance policies that work however aren’t instantly felt by the general public. They gave an insider’s view of the workplace as they sought to clarify why Biden was greatest for the job.

“It is a lonely seat,” mentioned Obama, who had hitched a experience to New York on Air Force One with Biden.

The discuss was by turns humorous and severe, ending with all three donning sun shades within the principally darkish music corridor, a nod to the trademark Ray-Ban sun shades that Biden typically wears.

The sold-out Radio City Music Hall occasion was a gilded exclamation mark on a recent burst of marketing campaign journey by Biden, who has visited a number of political battlegrounds within the three weeks since his State of the Union deal with served as a rallying cry for his reelection bid. Thursday’s occasion additionally introduced collectively greater than three a long time of Democratic management.

The music corridor’s marquee marketed the big-dollar night time as “An Evening with Joe Biden Barack Obama Bill Clinton.” NYPD officers lined surrounding streets as a part of a heavy safety presence.

In a press release to The Independent on Thursday, retired Capitol Policer officer Aquilino Gonell mentioned of Mr Trump: “As the opportunistic grifter that he is, he claims to support the police, law and order, the rule of law yet, he has not met with any officers from Capitol Police who were injured and assaulted or the ones that lost their lives because of his actions and inaction in his attempt to cling to power and the mob that he incited and wanted to lead.”

Gustaf Kilander has the story: