Kanye West releases 2024 campaign video after meeting with Trump
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A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that he has “presidential immunity” from a lawsuit about his actions around the 2020 election – in the latest blow to the former president as the fallout over a meeting with Kanye West and a white supremacist continues.
Civil rights groups including the NAACP are suing Mr Trump and the Republican National Committee for trying to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.
While Mr Trump’s lawyers claimed that he has “absolute immunity, on Monday, DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan disagreed.
The ruling comes as criticism continues to pour in after the former president hosted a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Mr West, who has gone on an antisemitic rampage of late, and his associate Nick Fuentes, one of the US’s most notorious white supremacist activists.
Marco Rubio branded Mr Fuentes a “nasty, disgusting person” and “an a** clown” and said he hopes Mr Trump will come out to condemn him in the aftermath of the controversial meeting – which is said to have unfolded despite pleas from Mr Trump’s advisers.
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Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 10:30
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Trump reportedly ignored pleas from advisers to condemn Nick Fuentes after Kanye meeting
Donald Trump’s political bruising in response to his meeting with one of America’s most prominent racists only grew worse due to his unwillingness to take advice from his own advisers and condemn the man’s views, according to a new report.
John Bowden reports on the attempts to get the president to distance himself from Nick Fuentes.
Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 09:00
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Who is running for president in 2024?
With less than two years remaining until US voters will decide who will serve as president of the United States from January 2025 to January 2029, former Republican government officials are starting to jockey for position in the coming fight for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, while at least one prominent Democrat (California governor Gavin Newsom) has reportedly pledged not to challenge President Joe Biden in a Democratic primary.
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With less than two years remaining until US voters will decide who will serve as president of the United States from January 2025 to January 2029, former Republican government officials are starting to jockey for position in the coming fight for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, while at least one prominent Democrat (California governor Gavin Newsom) has reportedly pledged not to challenge President Joe Biden in a Democratic primary.
Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 07:30
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ICYMI: Kellyanne Conway faces questioning from January 6 committee
Former White House aide Kellyanne Conway is facing questioning from the House select committee investigating the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, NBC News reports.
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Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 05:30
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Premium: Another controversy for Donald Trump that voters will struggle to shrug off
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Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 04:00
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What Trump’s family really think of a second term
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Oliver O’Connell29 November 2022 03:00
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HBO to air Nancy Pelosi doc shot by daughter Alexandra
A documentary on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s life and groundbreaking political career, shot and edited by her daughter, will debut on HBO next month.
Alexandra Pelosi’s “Pelosi in the House” will premiere Dec. 13 and will include footage shot during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Some of that footage, including moments when Nancy Pelos i was helping direct the government’s response as the U.S. Capitol was under attack, has been seen as part of a House investigation.
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White nationalist Nick Fuentes tells far right to ‘dream bigger’ than Maga movement after Trump dinner
Days after meeting Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago alongside Kanye West, virulently antisemitic white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has underscored his far-right agenda to push the Republican Party even further right, believing that the former president’s so-called Make America Great Again movement no longer can be used as a vehicle for his far-right agenda.
Mr Fuentes, a relentless bigot whose authoritarian vision is to turn the GOP into a “truly reactionary party” grounded in white Christian nationalism, believes that Mr Trump’s campaign and his predicted GOP rival Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential nomination “are both inferior to the campaign that Trump ran in 2016.”
The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg has more:
John Bowden29 November 2022 01:45
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Impeachment comes up during Trump Organization trial
There was talk of impeachment Monday at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial — not former President Donald Trump‘s, which happened twice — but whether lawyers for his company were angling to impeach their own witness, longtime Trump accountant Donald Bender.
Defense lawyer Susan Necheles said Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years overseeing tax returns for Trump’s hundreds of entities, “surprised” her when he testified that he didn’t actually do much work on the company’s tax returns.
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