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Onetime President Donald Trump sent out special Easter messages to "radical Left maniacs" and New York Chaser General Letitia James, whom he described as a "failed gubernatorial candidate and racist".

Standing the holiday theme, Mr Trump was lampooned in the common cold open of Saturday Night Live along with other notable figures.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Firm minority leader Kevin McCarthy denied that Republicans are existence over-confident most November's midterms and the prospects of retaking the lower chamber of Congress.

"Americans want, need and deserve [a] clear, common sense alternative," he said on Flim-flam News Sun.

GOP congressman Fred Upton said on NBC he believes the popularity of the more extreme members of the party puts it in "troubled waters" — a sentiment echoed by Mitch McConnell and other more than moderate figures in the political party who want to take broader appeal.

Mr Trump recently endorsed controversial Hillbilly Elegy author and venture backer JD Vance in the Ohio GOP Senate Primary on Friday evening. "We cannot play games," he said. "It is all about winning!"

Central Points

  • Trump sends out special Easter message to 'Radical Left Maniacs' and New York AG

  • SNL skewers Trump with Easter cold open up sketch

  • Trump endorses JD Vance in Ohio GOP Senate primary

  • Recap: Stephen Miller questioned past Jan 6 committee

  • Trump'southward Truth Social panned every bit 'hilariously bad' as Melania'south account goes silent

Tucker Carlson's new doc on testosterone levels mocked for 'homoeroticism' and 'testicle tanning' segment

xviii:41 , John Bowden

Pull a fast one on News host Tucker Carlson is raising eyebrows with a segment on his new documentary which examines testosterone levels in men that describes a procedure known as "testicle tanning".

In the segement, Mr Carlson interviews a fitness professional who advocates for "testicle tanning", in which the total body is treated with "ruby low-cal therapy" to allegedly raise testosterone levels.

Read more from The Independent'southward Johanna Chisholm:

Tucker Carlson film promo mocked for 'homoeroticism', segment on 'testicular tanning'

Trump nodded after Roger Rock called Ron DeSantis a 'slice of due south***'

17:35 , John Bowden

Longer video has only been surfaced of Roger Rock's reunion with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.

Mr Stone originally posted a clip of the coming together on Saturday. In it, he is seen telling the former president that Florida's Trump-endorsed governor, Ron DeSantis, is a "slice of south***".

Watch the clip higher up, and read more in The Independent:

Roger Rock tells Trump that DeSantis is 'a piece of s***' at Mar-a-Lago reunion

Trump doubles downward, attacks 'racist' Letitia James

17:19 , John Bowden

Donald Trump doubled downwards on Monday after using his Easter greetings to set on the New York attorney full general for a fraud investigation her office launched into his businesses.

In a statement released through a spokeswoman, Mr Trump accused Ms James of being a "racist", apparently inferring that her role was investigating him because he is white.

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Trump lashes out at revenue enhancement probe, says NY AG should focus on street criminal offense instead

Biden releases tax returns after Trump went 4 years without doing so

15:45 , John Bowden

Joe Biden released his revenue enhancement returns on Friday, mark both the traditional federal income tax filing deadline and a significant change of pace for the White House afterwards four years of Donald Trump's refusal to practice and then.

Mr Trump, a millionaire and longtime existent estate developer, came nether force per unit area first in 2015 to release his revenue enhancement returns and at the fourth dimension claimed he would do and then when a supposed federal inspect concluded. He never did; in tardily 2020, just over a calendar month before voters decided non to reelect him, The New York Times finally obtained a re-create mailed anonymously.

Read more from The Independent's Andrew Feinberg:

Biden tax returns reveal how much money the president and first lady made last year

ICYMI: Trump jokes well-nigh his weight loss at upshot

fifteen:09 , John Bowden

Donald Trump joked to his supporters last week that he doesn't "have time to lose weight" after Dr Mehmet Oz, his favoured candidate in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, suggested he do and so years agone on his show.

'Can you believe I weigh 208?' the former president told his laughing supporters. "Now perhaps a little more than."

"Dr Oz has said you should lose weight. I told him, 'I don't have time to lose weight," he said.

Dr Oz has leaned into the endorsement from the quondam president, who remains banned from Twitter and Facebook due to his conspiracies about the 2020 election and the violence that resulted from those claims on January 6.

Trump complains nearly weight gain: 'I don't have fourth dimension to lose it'

Trump'southward attempted insurrection to be in focus in US Business firm hearings, says Raskin

14:30 , Stuti Mishra

Donald Trump's attempted coup on half dozen January 2021 will be the centrepiece of commission hearings in Congress adjacent month, said Democrat Jamie Raskin, a committee member who led the prosecution of Mr Trump's second impeachment.

"This was a coup organised by the president against the vice president and against the Congress in gild to overturn the 2020 presidential election," Mr Raskin said in an interview with Reuters, National Public Radio and The Guardian paper when asked what he has learned so far from the committee's probe.

"We're going to tell the whole story of everything that happened. There was a vehement insurrection and an attempted coup and we were saved by Mike Pence'southward refusal to go on with that plan," said Mr Raskin, a member of the Firm special committee.

It was unclear whether Mr Raskin, during the interview, was expressing only his thoughts or the thinking too of fellow lawmakers serving on the special commission fabricated up of seven Democrats and 2 Republicans.

Democrat and 6 January committee member Jamie Raskin (C-Span)

Democrat and half dozen January committee fellow member Jamie Raskin (C-Span)

Historian says just a successful criminal prosecution tin debunk Trump's 'personality cult'

13:45 , Stuti Mishra

Election defeats alone cannot finish Donald Trump; a successful criminal prosecution is the sure way to deflate the power of his "personality cult", a historian has said.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who is an expert on authoritarian leaders and has written Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present told Pol in a lengthy interview over the weekend that Mr Trump checks all the boxes for history'southward authoritarians.

"It takes prosecution and confidence to debunk their personality cults," Ms Ben-Ghiat said. "That's what information technology takes."

"I just predicted that he [Trump] wouldn't get out in a serenity manner" later on he lost the election, said Ms Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and Italian studies at New York Academy. "He's an disciplinarian, and they can't leave part. They don't accept good endings and they don't get out properly."

She said Mr Trump's lies over election results "maintains him every bit their [his supporters'] hero, as their winner, as the invincible Trump — but also as the wronged Trump, the victim. Victimhood is extremely important for all autocrats," she noted. "They always accept to exist the biggest victim."

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Trump endorses longshot Republican JD Vance

13:00 , Stuti Mishra

Former president Donald Trump endorsed author JD Vance for the Republican nomination in Ohio'south Senate race, which the best-selling author and venture capitalist hopes could revive his lagging Senate campaign.

Mr Vance seeks to replace the retiring Senator Rob Portman, who won re-election and outran Mr Trump in the Buckeye State in 2016. Previously a swing state, Ohio has moved hard right in recent years and the winner of the primary will exist the favourite to win the full general election come up Nov.

Eric Garcia has more details below:

Trump endorses longshot Republican JD Vance – despite concerns from GOP allies

Marjorie Taylor Greene sees first fundraising loss

12:15 , Stuti Mishra

The campaign committee for Marjorie Taylor Greene has reported its commencement net loss since she was elected, according to its most recent filing with the Federal Election Committee (FEC).

Oliver O'Connell has more details:

Marjorie Taylor Greene sees first fundraising loss

Wisconsin Democrats aim to crush Ron Johnson, just how?

11:30 , Stuti Mishra

A crowded field of Democrats is trying to effigy out a winning strategy to unseat Republican Senator Ron Johnson, one of Donald Trump'southward most vocal — and to his opponents, nearly loathsome — supporters, in Wisconsin in Nov.

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Wisconsin Democrats aim to beat Sen. Ron Johnson, but how?

The truth near Hunter Biden and the charges he faces

10:45 , Stuti Mishra

Here'due south a brief explainer from Andrew Feinberg on who is Hunter Biden, what Republicans have accused him of, and what accusations may be real.

The truth about Hunter Biden and the charges he faces

SNL skewers Trump with Easter common cold open sketch

10:00 , Stuti Mishra

The Easter special episode of "Sabbatum Nighttime Live" opened with the Easter Bunny and some special guests, including Donald Trump, to laissez passer on special holiday messages.

Mr Trump, played by thespian James Austin Johnson, began the deed past complaining about his omission, claiming that information technology was "some other instance of how whites are being treated horribly in this country".

He went on to give a rambling, discursive monologue about Cap'northward Crunch, Seabiscuit and Little Caesar.

"Easter is fourth dimension for handbasket, it's fourth dimension for bunny and bluntly, bonnet," the grapheme of the one-time president said. "And let's not forget egg."

The sketch showed Mr Trump admitting that he did say Covid would be over past Easter. "I just didn't say which one, okay?" he said. "So say it with me, everyone! Happy Easter!"

Trump wishes Easter to 'radical left maniacs'

09:fifteen , Stuti Mishra

Former President Donald Trump sent out special Easter letters on Sunday to "radical Left maniacs" and New York attorney general Letitia James, whom he described as a "failed gubernatorial candidate and racist".

"Happy Easter to all including the Radical Left Maniacs who are doing everything possible to destroy our Country. May they not succeed, but allow them, notwithstanding, be happy, salubrious, wealthy, and well!" he wrote in 1 bulletin.

"Happy Easter to failed gubernatorial candidate and racist Attorney General Letitia James. May she remain healthy despite the fact that she will continue to bulldoze business out of New York while at the same fourth dimension keeping crime, death, and devastation in New York!" he wrote in another.

Mr Trump'southward baroque greetings left many on the internet stunned as people compared his messages targeting his opponents on the vacation with that of President Biden, who called to "reverberate today on Christ'due south Resurrection".

Bidens throw showtime White Business firm party since Covid

08:30 , Stuti Mishra

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will welcome families back to the White Firm for the Easter Egg Roll on Monday in what will be the starting time big party at the residence since the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Bidens announced the event earlier this calendar month aslope the Easter Bunny, and the first lady tweeted on Fri: "Equally a teacher, my heart is always in the classroom. Joe and I await forward to welcoming thousands of families to join the states for this twelvemonth'due south White Business firm Easter 'EGGucation' Roll!"

My colleague John Bowden has more details on the celebrations:

Bidens host starting time party since Covid at White Business firm for Easter Egg gyre

Roger Stone describes Governor DeSantis every bit 'a piece of s***'

07:45 , Stuti Mishra

Donald Trump reunited with his longtime confidante and Republican operative Roger Stone at Mar-a-Lago this weekend - who wasted no fourth dimension in getting into grievances.

Mr Stone posted a video on Rumble, a conservative social media site, and other platforms on Saturday showing him embracing the one-time president at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the video, Mr Trump is seen recognising Mr Rock and embracing him earlier Mr Stone describes Ron DeSantis every bit "a piece of southward***"

My colleague John Bowden has the full story here:

Roger Stone tells Trump that DeSantis is 'a slice of s***' at Mar-a-Lago reunion

Voices: Dianne Feinstein'southward decline is heartbreaking and hard to discuss — just we tin can't avoid it

06:30 , Stuti Mishra

The Senator is an institution in California, and she risks having an impressive legacy overshadowed past her refusal to walk abroad, writes Eric Garcia.

Dianne Feinstein'southward decline is heartbreaking — but nosotros need to talk almost it

Happy Revenue enhancement Day

05:45 , Stuti Mishra

President Joe Biden and Beginning Lady Jill Biden on Fri marked the traditional 15 Apr deadline for Americans to file their federal income tax returns past releasing a re-create of their own — though this year Tax Day falls on Monday 18 April.

"With this release, the President has shared a total of 24 years of revenue enhancement returns with the American public, one time once again demonstrating his delivery to being transparent with the American people most the finances of the commander in chief," the White Firm said in a statement.

The release of the Bidens' tax returns marked the 2d year in a row that the president and First Lady have put their taxation documents in the public record since moving into the White Firm, returning to a exercise dating back to the mail service-Watergate era which lapsed under Mr Biden'due south predecessor, Donald Trump, who never released a single year of tax returns during his iv years in part while falsely claiming he could not because they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.

Mr Biden, whose presidential salary is $400,000 per year, and Ms Biden, who works as an English professor at Northern Virginia Customs Higher, reported a total of $610,702 in gross income on their articulation tax render, $150,439 of which was returned to Mr Biden's employer in the form of tax payments.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Biden taxation returns reveal how much coin the president and outset lady made last year

Eric Garcia: Nosotros accept to talk near Diane Feinstein

Thursday 14 April 2022 xx:45 , John Bowden

A report detailing concerns of colleagues that Sen Diane Feinstein is mentally unfit to serve in the Senate needs to be discussed seriously by the U.s.a. national media, The Independent's Eric Garcia.

"[Southward]hying away from doing so would be an unforgiveable error," he writes.

Read more than from Eric nearly the senior California senator:

Dianne Feinstein's pass up is heartbreaking — just we need to talk nearly it

Trump-backed candidate in Nebraska defendant of groping women

Thursday 14 April 2022 xx:13 , John Bowden

A Republican candidate for governor in Nebraska endorsed by Donald Trump was accused past multiple women of unwanted groping in an article published on Th in a local paper.

Charles Herbster, a frontrunner in the Republican primary for governor, has denied the allegations from eight women in the Nebraska Examiner.

Women said the incidents occurred while Mr Herbster was a beauty padgeant judge likewise as during his entrada for governor.

Read more than:

Charles Herbster accused of groping several women, including Nebraska senator: Report

Scrutiny on Autonomous senator after home country newspaper questions if she'southward 'mentally unfit to serve'

Th 14 April 2022 nineteen:55 , John Bowden

1 of the Senate's oldest members, Diane Feinstein, was the subject of fence on Twitter on Th as users discussed a San Francisco Chronicle article that cited the senior state senator's own Democratic colleagues questioning whether her mental faculties were slipping.

A Demcoratic member of the Firm from her home state even described having to reintroduce himself to the senator multiple times in one conversation.

"She was an intellectual and political force not that long ago, and that's why my encounter with her was so jarring. Considering at that place was just no trace of that," they said.

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Trump is planning to endorse JD Vance in Ohio'southward tight Senate race: NBC News

Thursday 14 April 2022 19:xvi , John Bowden

NBC News reported on Thursday citing multiple Republican sources close to Donald Trump that the former president plans to endorse writer JD Vance in Ohio's tight Senate race.

Polls have shown Mr Vance trailing others in the race including Josh Mandel, another right-wing conservative who has vied for Mr Trump's blessing. And Mr Mandel's campaign reportedly did non have the news well, according to NBC.

"The Mandel people hitting the roof," one Republican source told the network.

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ICYMI: GOP pollster says political party mocks Trump in private

Thursday xiv April 2022 18:15 , John Bowden

Veteran pollster Frank Luntz said in an interview with The Daily Beast that New Hampshire Gov Chris Sununu'south roast of Donald Trump at the DC-based Gridiron Dinner was a symptom of a larger phenomenon within the GOP: the tendency of its members to privately mock the flatulent Trump behind the scenes.

"They won't say it [in public], but backside his back they recall he's a kid. They're laughing at him. That's what made [Sununu's comments] significant," he said.

Read more than from The Contained'southward Graeme Massie:

GOP pollster says party mocks 'child' Trump in private

Tennessee Republican cites Hitler in statement that homeless should aspire to a 'productive life'

Thursday fourteen April 2022 17:56 , John Bowden

A Tennessee state legislator justified his support for a bill targeting homeless camps on public property by citing the instance of the genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.

In a shocking set of remarks to his fellow lawmakers on the state Senate flooring, he justified his support for a bill meant to bulldoze homeless encampments away from highways and other land belongings by decribing the suppsedly inspiring tale of the German Nazi dictator who was responsible for the murder of millions.

"For 2 years, Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses, and then went on to pb a life that got him in the history books," Senator Frank Nicely exclaimed.

Read more in The Contained from Andrew Feinberg:

GOP senator cites Hitler in statement homeless should aspire to 'productive life'

ICYMI: Texas Governor Abbott buses migrants from edge and leaves them at Play a trick on's DC HQ

Thursday fourteen Apr 2022 17:10 , John Bowden

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is going forward with his plan to bus undocumented migrants to Washington DC despite concerns from most legal experts regarding his total lack of authorization to do so.

The Texas Republican'south administration oversaw the commencement arrival of a busload of undocumented migrants to the nation's capital on Wednesday; the autobus arrived at the headquarters of correct-leaning network Fox News.

Read more from The Independent:

Texas Governor Abbott buses migrants from border and leaves them at Fox's DC HQ

Trump aide Stephen Miller reverses and agrees to cooperate with Capitol anarchism committee

Thursday 14 April 2022 sixteen:04 , John Bowden

Stephen Miller, a old superlative aide in the Trump White House, will prove before the January vi committee today. It's a huge reversal for Mr Miller, who has sought to keep lawmakers on the committee from obtaining his phone records, and shows how even some of Donald Trump'southward fiercest allies fear the wrath of the Justice Section.

Read more from The Independent:

Trump aide Stephen Miller agrees to cooperate with Capitol riot commission

Trump told Barr: Become impeached

Thursday 14 April 2022 15:37 , John Bowden

Onetime President Donald Trump turned to Fox News to excoriate his former attorney general over a broad range of issues, and shared some advice he gave the erstwhile head of the US Justice Department.

"I said: 'Look, get impeached. I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached. Y'all accept to get impeached, mayhap.' But he was so afraid of being impeached that he refused to practice his job," Trump said on Fox News.

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Elon Musk shocks Twitter, offers to buy platform

Th 14 April 2022 15:09 , John Bowden

Tesla CEO Elon Musk fabricated an offering to buy Twitter on Th.

His potential buy of the site is seen by some every bit an endeavor to button for weaker content moderation beyond social media. Doing so could allow or encourage former President Donald Trump to return to the site.

Read more from The Contained'due south Andrew Feindberg

Trump marry's latest stab at congressional districts would disenfranchise Black Democratic lawmaker

Thursday 14 April 2022 fourteen:eighteen , John Bowden

A top marry of Donald Trump in the GOP is leading upward his state's redistricting proccess. The partisan battle is likely to have at to the lowest degree one casualty: Autonomous Rep Al Lawson, who could see his seat separate.

Mr Lawson'due south seat is one of many oddly-shaped districts thanks to past gerrymandering in the US, and currently he represents a 200-mile-long stretch of the state.

""We are non going to have a 200-mile gerrymander that divvies upwardly people based on the colour of their pare. That is wrong," claimed Florida'southward governor, Ron DeSantis.

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DeSantis congressional map tears upwardly Black rep's commune

UPenn professor tells Tucker Carlson 'Blacks' resent 'Western peoples' and Bharat is a 'southward***hole'

Thursday fourteen April 2022 13:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar

A Pennsylvania professor is facing a fierce backlash after she made a series of comments attacking non-white Americans in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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UPenn professor tells Tucker Carlson 'Blacks' resent 'Western peoples'

ICYMI: Trump flexes massive fundraising haul in bid to oust Georgia's Republican governor

Thursday xiv April 2022 12:xv , Maroosha Muzaffar

Sometime president's fundraising eclipses both major parties.

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Trump flexes massive fundraising haul to oust Georgia's GOP governor

Trump PAC gives $500,000 to attack Georgia's Brian Kemp

Thursday 14 April 2022 11:55 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Quondam President Donald Trump's political action committee has given $500,000 to a group that is running attack ads in Georgia against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

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Trump PAC gives $500,000 to attack Georgia's Brian Kemp

ICYMI: Trump returning to Ohio for GOP rally ahead of May 3 primary

Thursday xiv Apr 2022 09:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Onetime President Donald Trump is returning to Ohio to try to boost Republican candidates and turnout ahead of the 3 May primary.

Mr Trump will headline an evening rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, north of Columbus, on 23 April — certainly to stump for US House candidate Max Miller, his pick for the 7th Congressional Commune, and perhaps for U.s.a. Senate or governor choices he is yet to make, the Associated Printing reported.

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Trump returning to Ohio for GOP rally ahead of May 3 principal

ICYMI: Trump says he 'probably wouldn't have any interest' in returning to Twitter

Thursday 14 April 2022 07:45 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Donald Trump has said that he wouldn't become back to Twitter if his ban was lifted during an interview in which he also boasted nearly Hispanic support for the Republican Party.

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Trump says he 'probably wouldn't have whatever interest' in returning to Twitter

Trump White House chief of staff stripped from North Carolina voter rolls, nether investigation for voter fraud

Thursday 14 Apr 2022 07:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar

A acme White House adjutant who was office of the effort to overturn the 2020 ballot is now himself under investigation for voter fraud and was stripped from the voter rolls in his dwelling house state of North Carolina this calendar week.

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Trump master of staff purged from NC voter rolls, under investigation for voter fraud

Trump flexes massive fundraising booty in bid to oust Georgia'due south Republican governor

Thursday 14 April 2022 06:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Onetime President Donald Trump appears to be making skilful on his promise to strength disloyal GOP politicians to face the might of his fundraising juggernaught, writes John Bowden.

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Trump flexes massive fundraising haul to oust Georgia's GOP governor

Trump's former primary of staff says The Rock could win GOP 2024 nomination

Th 14 April 2022 05:40 , Johanna Chisholm

What do Dwayne "The Stone" Johnson, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Southward Carolina Senator Tim Scott all have in common?

If you find yourself cartoon a bare, don't beat yourself upwardly. Mick Mulvaney, perhaps the only person who could manage to sandwich these figures into the aforementioned idea, will accept surprised some Politico readers on Midweek when the onetime Trump main of staff listed those 3 equally the simply nominees capable of upsetting the former president's run at re-ballot in 2024.

"DeSantis could give him a run for his money. Tim Scott can requite him a run for his money. Dwayne 'The Stone' Johnson could give him a run for his money," Mr Mulvaney, now a pundit for CBS, told Politico's Playbook.

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Trump's one-time chief of staff says The Rock could win GOP 2024 nomination

GOP pollster says party mocks 'child' Trump in individual

Thursday fourteen April 2022 05:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar

A Republican pollster says that the party mocks Donald Trump as a "child" in individual and is "laughing" at the one-term president.

Frank Luntz made the comment in the wake of New Hampshire's Republican governor, Chris Sununu, telling the annual Gridiron Club dinner that Mr Trump is "f***ing crazy."

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GOP pollster says party mocks 'child' Trump in individual

Trump says he 'probably wouldn't accept any involvement' in returning to Twitter

Thursday xiv Apr 2022 04:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump has said that he wouldn't go dorsum to Twitter if his ban was lifted during an interview in which he also boasted about Hispanic support for the Republican Party.

Mr Trump besides told SiriusXM'due south Americano Media people would be "very happy" virtually his plans for the 2024 election, which he said would be fabricated public after the midterms in the fall.

"I'll tell you this: I think a lot of people are going to exist happy. I'll announce information technology subsequently the midterms, but a lot of people are going to exist very happy," Mr Trump told La Política.

He as well claimed credit for Hispanic support for the GOP in the interview obtained by Fox News Digital.

"I think nosotros really have a relationship … I recall I started information technology and did very well in 2016. Nosotros did much better in almost every style – as you know I got 12 million more votes in the 2d ballot in 2020. But we did actually well with the Hispanics," he said.

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Trump says he 'probably wouldn't have any involvement' in returning to Twitter

Texas Governor Abbott buses migrants from border and leaves them at Pull a fast one on's DC HQ

Thursday 14 April 2022 03:15 , John Bowden

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is going forward with his plan to bus undocumented migrants to Washington DC despite concerns from most legal experts regarding his total lack of authority to do and then.

The Texas Republican's administration oversaw the showtime inflow of a busload of undocumented migrants to the nation'southward upper-case letter on Midweek; the bus arrived at the headquarters of correct-leaning network Pull a fast one on News, which was the first to study on the scene and had a story published within minutes of their arrival.

The building also houses C-SPAN and NBC News'southward offices, only Fox's coverage touted news of the event as an "exclusive" while NBC did not publish an article on the subject until after noon on Wednesday.

The White House has blasted Mr Abbott'due south efforts as a publicity stunt. State officials do not have legal authority outside of their own jurisdiction, and it's not articulate if the grouping of migrants that arrived on Wednesday did then with the cooperation, consent or knowledge of Washington DC metropolis officials.

The Biden assistants recently announced that the CDC would rescind the Title 42 authority granted under the Trump administration to turn away aviary-seekers at the border, a move which Republicans fence is going to further drive illegal migration and asylum claims, which are legal simply require a person to be physically present at the US border or within the country for claims to exist candy.

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Texas Governor Abbott buses migrants from border and leaves them at Pull a fast one on's DC HQ

'Idea that' Trump is 'invincible amid Republicans is far from proven,' political science professor says

Thursday fourteen April 2022 02:02 , Gustaf Kilander

Political science professor Jonathan Bernstein wrote in an stance piece for Bloomberg that the thought that Donald Trump is "invincible among Republicans is far from proven".

Dr Bernstein went on to annotation that Mr Trump's 2016 nomination was "narrow" and that it was "aided by all sorts of odd events" and "a off-white amount of luck".

"He also has an electoral record now, and it's not exactly an impressive one; after all, he lost re-election, and Republicans lost the House (in 2018) and the Senate (in 2020) while he was in part," the professor wrote.

"His tantrum over losing the presidency and his simulated claims well-nigh fraud have widely been credited for the loss of two Senate seats in Georgia. Republicans may trust Trump more on policy than they once did, but they should take even less confidence that he'll be a team player at present," he added.

This could all hateful "more opposition from party actors" in 2024 compared to previous races.

"None of this is to say that Trump won't be the nominee," Dr Bernstein concluded. "Information technology'south just a case for uncertainty."

Trump supporters trick aerodrome workers to page false passengers at airports

Thursday 14 April 2022 00:45 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump supporters are tricking drome workers to page fake passengers at airports, according to The Daily Beast.

The new trend comes later on years of conservatives fighting mask mandates on planes and involves tricking airport staff into paging fake passengers with names that audio like right-wing memes, such as "Let's go Brandon", which is code for "f**k Joe Biden".

Daily Beast political reporter Will Sommer said the trend is a sign of "the prankishness of the American correct right now".

He added that one of the more well-known pranksters "does it and has his little snicker at the Cinnabon".

"These videos rack up tens of thousands of views," he said.

Ingraham says Trump and Hannity endorsing Dr Oz was a 'mistake'

Wed thirteen April 2022 23:thirty , Gustaf Kilander

Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said that she thinks that young man Fob Anchor Sean Hannity and Donald Trump endorsing Mehmet Oz for senate in Pennsylvania was a mistake.

On Tuesday night, Ms Ingraham said she couldn't back up Dr Oz considering of his previous statements on guns and abortion.

She ran a short clip on her programme showing the glory doc questioning that a fetus has a heartbeat at the historic period of six weeks.

Alongside quondam Trump adjutant Kellyanne Conway, they said that Dr Oz has never rejected his previous comments. He has said that he'due south pro-life.

"A Trump endorsement, and waving the Trump flag, doesn't make you Donald Trump," Ms Conway said.

Mr Trump "did something I don't see Oz doing" on the issue of abortion – "he's had a conversion", she added.

"Hannity, I believe, endorsed Oz … I retrieve it was a mistake. I'1000 not agape to say it. It was a error to endorse Oz," Ms Ingraham said.

Trump to host Ohio rally as race to supersede retiring senator heats upwards

Midweek thirteen April 2022 22:12 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump will hold a rally in Ohio as the race to supplant retiring GOP Senator Rob Portman is intensifying.

The rally will be held on 23 Apr in Delaware, a boondocks north of the state uppercase of Columbus.

The GOP candidates are competing for Mr Trump'due south endorsement in the race. Fighting for his support are the author and venture capitalist JD Vance, man of affairs Mike Gibbons, the previous state Treasurer Josh Mandel as well as the erstwhile Ohio Republican Chair Jane Timken.

Most polls have shown a tight race so far.

Democrats have largely stepped in line behind Representative Tim Ryan, one of many Democrats who ran for president in 2020.

Trump PAC throws money on Georgia governor'south race

Wednesday xiii April 2022 21:02 , Gustaf Kilander

The political action group of Donald Trump, Save America PAC, has transferred half a 1000000 dollars to a PAC aiming to unseat Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp.

It's Mr Trump's offset large financial stake in a midterm race, according to Politico.

People close to Mr Trump say it'south an initial greenbacks boost as the entrada nears the 24 May primary betwixt Mr Kemp and former Senator David Perdue, who has been endorsed past Mr Trump.

Mr Trump's PAC has more than $110m on hand, meaning it'southward ane of the wealthiest political organisations.

Book reveals Trump put McConnell in tight spot as GOP leader scrambled to win Georgia senate runoffs

Wednesday 13 Apr 2022 20:35 , Gustaf Kilander

Subsequently the 2020 ballot, Donald Trump was certain he could overturn the results, telling then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he had been speaking to officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan, states that Joe Biden won, who told him that they would be able to proceed Mr Trump in the White House.

"I've been calling folks in those states and they're with us," Mr Trump said, co-ordinate to a new volume by New York Times political reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.

A CNN extract details how Mr Trump's false claims put Mr McConnell in a tight spot while he was trying to focus on the two Senate runoffs in Georgia, both of which were afterward won by Democrats.

Mr McConnell stayed quiet about Mr Trump'due south lies to effort to finish him from ruining the GOP's chances in Georgia, the book – This Will Non Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future – states.

"We've got to stay focused on Georgia," Mr McConnell told colleagues subsequently getting off the phone with Mr Trump.

"What it looks to me like he'due south doing is setting this up so he can blame the governor and the secretary of state if we lose," Mr McConnell told the reporters. "He's e'er setting up somebody to blame it on."

Bourgeois activist Charlie Kirk claims college buildings leads to more liberal voters

Wednesday xiii April 2022 xx:01 , Gustaf Kilander

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has claimed that living in higher buildings leads to people becoming more liberal voters.

"We have a huge housing crunch in our land, the likes of which we have not seen in a long period of time," Mr Kirk said during an event hosted by Turning Point Usa – Mr Kirk's organization pushing conservative ideas on high school and university campuses.

"I believe that we demand to build horizontally, not vertically. It'due south one of my speeches – developers don't like information technology when I say this, simply it'south truthful," he added. "The higher the building, the more than liberal the voter. Information technology merely is. The closer to the footing you are, the more than conservative you are."

"We should encourage people to spread horizontally and not vertically. Look at Denver. The higher the high rises – has Denver become less free, or more free? It'southward get a dystopian nightmare," he claimed.

"Now, y'all might say, 'Charlie, it's a correlation with causation'. Think well-nigh it. If you're on the 32nd flooring, renting non owning, if yous're not in the weeds and in the yard and understanding what it takes to abound food and to maintain the land – are you gonna be more or less likely to actually exist a bourgeois?" he asked.

"The higher the edifice, every single study shows, they become more liberal over time," he said. "Information technology's happening in Phoenix, it's happened in Denver, happened in Atlanta, happened in Dallas, happened in Chicago – everywhere, and notwithstanding few people actually say that out loud."

While it'southward unclear what studies Mr Kirk was referring to, The Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson wrote in September 2019 that it's "conceivable that living in a city might naturally promote ideologies that correspond with the modern Democratic Party".

"The modernistic urban center brings its residents into constant interaction with the fact of, and necessity for, state intervention. Urban residents trade cars for public transit, live in neighborhoods with local trash codes, and deal with planning commissions about shadows, body of water views, and parking rights," he added.

Mr Thompson noted that those who live in cities "are exquisitely sensitive to the consequences of private beliefs in a dense identify where ane man's action is another man's nuisance. As a result, residents of dense cities tend to reject libertarianism equally unacceptable chaos and instead agitate for wiser governance related to health care, housing policy, and climatic change".

Obama appears to accept shot at Trump over birther conspiracy

Wednesday 13 Apr 2022 nineteen:29 , Gustaf Kilander

Former President Barack Obama appeared to take a shot at Donald Trump over his by fake claims that his predecessor in the White House wasn't built-in in the US.

Mr Obama appeared on NBC'south Today programme to promote his Netflix bear witness Our Great National Parks. Together with host Al Roker, Mr Obama led a group of kids on a scavenger chase in the Great Falls National Park in Virginia.

Mr Obama at i signal remembered seeing whales migrating in Hawaii and 1 of the kids noted that he was built-in in the island state.

"I was built-in in Hawaii, yeah … Honolulu. See, you know more than some people know about where I was born," he said.

After providing his long-class nascence certificate, Mr Obama joked at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner that "no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald".

"That's because he can finally go back to focusing on the issues that matter, like: Did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?" he added.

Trump says he wouldn't go back to Twitter if he was allowed

Wednesday 13 April 2022 19:02 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump has told SiriusXM'southward Americano Media that he wouldn't go back to Twitter if his ban was lifted during an interview in which he as well boasted about Hispanic back up for the Republican Political party.

Mr Trump also said people would be "very happy" most his plans for the 2024 election, which he said would be fabricated public after the midterms in the fall.

"I'll tell yous this: I think a lot of people are going to be happy. I'll denote information technology after the midterms, merely a lot of people are going to be very happy," Mr Trump told La Política.

He as well claimed credit for Hispanic back up for the GOP in the interview obtained past Play tricks News Digital.

"I remember we actually have a relationship … I think I started it and did very well in 2016. We did much better in almost every mode – every bit y'all know I got 12 million more votes in the second election in 2020. But we did really well with the Hispanics," he said.

"I did cracking with the Hispanics. And yous know why? Because they're very incredible people with peachy energy, and they're very entrepreneurial. And they also understood the edge. You know, they sympathise the border better than anybody else. And they want security at the border," he added.

In the summer of 2015 when Mr Trump announced his 2016 bid for the White House, he said: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're not sending you, they're sending people that take lots of problems and they're bringing those problems."

"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are skilful people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what nosotros're getting," he added at the time.

Apropos Twitter, Mr Trump said in the interview set to air on Midweek night that he "probably wouldn't accept whatsoever interest" in going back.

"You know, Twitter has get very ho-hum. They've gotten rid of a lot of their good voices … a lot of their conservative voices," he added.

Ex-Trump chief of staff says The Stone could 'could requite him a run for his money' in 2024

Wed xiii April 2022 xviii:29 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has said that thespian Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could give the former president a "run for his money" in the 2024 presidential election.

Mr Mulvaney told Politico on Tuesday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis "could give him a run for his money", South Carolina Senator "Tim Scott tin give him a run for his money" and The Rock "could give him a run for his money".

"It's a short list," he added.

"Past the way, there'due south 1 other person who could beat him, which is himself," he added.

Mr Mulvaney resigned from his position as special envoy to Northern Ireland after the half-dozen Jan insurrection.

"Donald Trump is sometimes his ain worst enemy when it comes to candidature," Mr Mulvaney said.

Kid at Trump rally says on TV that he'southward excited to come across Joe Biden

Wednesday 13 April 2022 17:58 , Gustaf Kilander

A video of a kid at a Trump rally in N Carolina has gone viral after he said he was excited to "see Joe Biden" and quickly beingness corrected by his parents.

Lawyer Ron Filipkowski shared the prune from the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), all-time known for its live streams of Trump events on its YouTube aqueduct afterward its founding in 2015.

The video, filmed ahead of the rally on Saturday, had received around two.7 1000000 views equally of Wednesday morning.

In the footage, the RSBN reporter asks the parents how excited they were when they constitute out there was going to be a rally in Selma, southeast of Raleigh, N Carolina.

"Just as excited as he was," the mother said, nodding towards the male parent. "He's the one who told me about information technology."

Kid at Trump rally says on TV that he's excited to encounter Joe Biden

Ex-White Business firm chief removed from NC voter roll as he's investigated for 2020 voter fraud

Wed 13 Apr 2022 17:23 , Gustaf Kilander

One-time Trump White Firm Primary of Staff Mark Meadows has been removed from the North Carolina voter roll as he'due south investigated for perchance committing voter fraud in the 2020 election.

North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon said in a statement that on eleven Apr, officials in Macon County "administratively removed the voter registration of Mark Meadows … after documentation indicated he lived in Virginia and last voted in the 2021 election there".

John Bowden has the story:

Trump chief of staff purged from NC voter rolls, under investigation for voter fraud

GOP pollster Frank Luntz says Republicans are mocking Trump behind his back, remember 'he's a kid'

Wednesday 13 April 2022 16:55 , Gustaf Kilander

Republican pollster Frank Luntz has alleged that GOP lawmakers are laughing at Donald Trump behind his back and are mocking him because they "recollect he's a child".

After New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu said during the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, DC that Mr Trump is "f***ing crazy", Mr Luntz told The Daily Creature that "I don't know a single Republican who was surprised past what Sununu said".

"The press often will enquire me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I'll say it this way: I don't think he'southward and then crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he own't getting out!" Mr Sununu said.

Mr Luntz said Mr Sununu said what Republicans are already thinking.

"They won't say it [in public], just behind his back, they think he's a kid. They're laughing at him. That'due south what made [Sununu'south comments] significant," Mr Luntz told The Daily Brute.

"Trump isn't the aforementioned man he was a twelvemonth ago," the pollster added. "Even many Republicans are tired of going back and rehashing the 2020 election. Everybody else has moved on, and in Washington, everyone believes he lost the election."

Questions from Trump's first impeachment remain unanswered

Wednesday xiii Apr 2022 16:xx , Gustaf Kilander

Questions from Donald Trump's first impeachment remain unanswered as the war in Ukraine enters a new phase.

In 2019, Mr Trump secretly withheld military aid to Ukraine before asking President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into and then-candidate Joe Biden and his family unit.

Lawmakers and witnesses from the following impeachment say the scandal is directly connected to the electric current conflict, Political leader reports.

The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Virginia Democrat Marking Warner, told the outlet that Mr Trump's actions "absolutely" negatively afflicted Ukraine's preparedness to fight Russian federation and made them unsure of the commitment of the US to their security.

"Remember, this was the guy who tried to extort political favours from President Zelenskyy for his own personal political gain," Mr Warner said. "But the fact is nosotros need to continue to get all the assist nosotros can, equally quickly as possible."

Democrats continue to insist that Trump bears some of the responsibleness for the current crisis in Ukraine. The one-time president'southward willingness to condition support on political investigations, Democrats say, signaled to Putin that the westward wouldn't be united backside Ukraine.

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Former Roger Stone aide urged Trump supporters to 'descend on the Capitol' week before insurrection

Wednesday thirteen April 2022 fifteen:55 , Gustaf Kilander

A sometime adjutant to Republican political operative Roger Stone urged Trump supporters to "descend on the Capitol" a week before the insurrection on 6 Jan 2021.

Co-ordinate to The New York Times , Correct-fly communications advisor Jason Sullivan, a promoter of QAnon conspiracy theories, said during a conference call on 30 December 2020 that the election had been stolen and told Trump supporters to get to Washington, DC and make congressional representatives "sweat" before they certified President Joe Biden'due south election victory.

"If we make the people inside that edifice sweat, and they sympathise that they may not be able to walk in the streets whatever longer if they do the incorrect matter, so maybe they'll practise the right thing," The Times quoted Mr Sullivan as saying.

A lawyer for Mr Sullivan told the newspaper that he wasn't palliating whatsoever violence.

Trump struggling to get evangelicals to support bid to oust Georgia governor

Wed thirteen April 2022 fifteen:twenty , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump is struggling to become evangelical Christians to support his bid to oust Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp.

Mr Trump accounted Mr Kemp to be insufficiently supportive of his attempt to overturn the 2020 ballot results in the state.

While evangelicals support Mr Trump and like his preferred candidate for the governorship, onetime Usa Senator David Perdue, they also back up Mr Kemp.

Mr Perdue and Mr Kemp volition face off in the Republican primary on 24 May.

Evangelical voters make upwards a third of Republican voters in the state and one-half of GOP primary voters.

Mr Trump is backing candidates across the country who support his fake 2020 election claims, simply voters are concerned about other issues, Bloomberg noted.

Evangelicals in the state say they similar Mr Kemp for pushing a pecker that bans abortion when a heartbeat is plant, for non closing churches during the pandemic, and for his opposition to mask mandates.

The executive manager of the conservative Christian group Faith and Freedom Coalition, Tim Head, told Bloomberg that "most evangelicals do feel strongly that Brian Kemp has delivered very well".

Pence claims he "stood toe to toe" with Putin

Wednesday 13 Apr 2022 xiv:45 , Andrew Naughtie

As Donald Trump makes a haphazard try to walk dorsum his long history of remarks praising Vladimir Putin's strength and supposed strategic brilliance, former vice president Mike Pence claimed yesterday that he had told Mr Putin some hard truths when encountering him during his own time in function.

Lauren Boebert gets a primary challenger

Wednesday thirteen April 2022 xiv:ten , Andrew Naughtie

Far-correct Colorado representative and gun-themed restaurant owner Lauren Boebert, who infamously tweeted the words "This is 1776" on the day of the Capitol riot, has attracted a Republican primary challenger.

Longtime state legislator Don Coram says on his campaign website that "When the fringe leaders of both political spectrums have taken all the oxygen in the room and act more like out-of-touch celebrities than members of Congress, nosotros take a problem" – a judgment shared by many less outré Republicans than Ms Boebert, but not by Donald Trump, who has endorsed her for re-ballot.

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