DeSantis says ‘in fact’ Trump misplaced in 2020 as ex-president launches Reality Social meltdown

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Watch Trump’s response after leaving DC court docket after arrest

Donald Trump has requested the decide in his election subversion case to let him use the federal government’s proof throughout his 2024 run for the White Home.

Mr Trump’s defence staff claimed that the usual protecting order requested by prosecutors would imply Decide Tanya Chutkan can be a “censor” who would impose “content-based restrictions” on the ex-president’s “political speech”.

In the meantime, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis admitted in an interview with NBC Information that former president Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 presidential election, as he seeks to recalibrate his marketing campaign.

Mr DeSantis initially advised NBC Information’s Dasha Burns in an interview that can air on NBC Nightly Information on Monday night that whoever is inaugurated on 20 January is taken into account the winner, in a dodge reply.

“Whoever places their hand on the Bible on Jan 20 each 4 years is the winner,” he stated. When pressed, Mr DeSantis stated that President Biden defeated Mr Trump.

“No, in fact he misplaced,” he stated of Mr Trump. “Joe Biden’s the president.”

In the meantime, Mr Trump had a meltdown on Sunday night time the place he attacked President Joe Biden, striker Megan Rapinoe and “wokeness” for the US’s surprising early defeat within the Girls’s World Cup.

The previous president took to Reality Social to bizarrely declare the loss was an indication of the affect “Crooked Joe Biden” has had on the nation. He additionally someway blamed the “WOKE”-ness and cruelly trolled Rapinoe for lacking a penalty.

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Invoice Barr says ‘in fact’ he’ll testify towards Trump in Jan 6 case if requested

Invoice Barr is open to testifying in Donald Trump’s upcoming legal trial ought to he be requested, the previous legal professional normal revealed on Sunday.

Mr Barr was talking with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation when he was requested the identical query that Mike Pence was requested on NBC — would he testify in Mr Trump’s January 6 trial when it goes to court docket?

And whereas the previous vp hemmed and hawed earlier than indicating that he wouldn’t attempt to dodge a subpoena for his testimony, Mr Barr bought straight to the purpose.

“In fact,” he responded.

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John Bowden7 August 2023 23:30

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DeSantis received’t rule out nationwide abortion ban however suggests there’s no ‘mileage’ left in Congress

Ron DeSantis has not dominated out enacting a nationwide abortion “ban” if elected president, after the Florida governor applied state restrictions on abortion entry at 15 weeks and 6 weeks of being pregnant inside the final two years.

However he recommended that there isn’t a “consensus” within the US for members of Congress to implement a nationwide ban, as abortion restrictions and the US Supreme Courtroom’s determination to overturn Roe v Wade stay overwhelmingly unpopular.

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Alex Woodward7 August 2023 23:00

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Trump lawyer says Jack Smith is ‘afraid’ and enjoying ‘sufferer’ over protecting order

An legal professional and spokesperson for former president Donald Trump on Monday claimed the Division of Justice is looking for a protecting order to forestall the ex-president from publicising discovery supplies as a result of he’s “afraid” and accused the prosecutor overseeing the case of enjoying “sufferer” over the dispute.

Alina Habba, a civil legal professional who presently serves as a spokesperson for Mr Trump by means of his political motion committee, stated throughout an look on Fox and Buddies that the dispute between Mr Trump’s defence staff and Particular Counsel Jack Smith over a proposed protecting order is totally different from different instances and stated the ex-president’s staff hasn’t objected to different protecting orders within the totally different court docket instances towards him.

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Andrew Feinberg7 August 2023 22:30

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Trump asks court docket to let him use election case proof whereas campaigning

The ex-president’s authorized staff additionally requested Decide Tanya Chutkan to permit ‘volunteers’ to entry discovery supplies.

Andrew Feinberg has the story.

Graeme Massie7 August 2023 22:24

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VOICES: Republicans and Democrats agree: They need to kill migrants on the US-Mexico border

Mexican officers knowledgeable the state of Texas that two our bodies have been discovered within the Rio Grande: one ensnared in Governor Greg Abbott’s controversial floating border wall, and one other in a close-by space. Their official reason for dying hasn’t been decided but, however eventually, the razor-wire-tipped buoys are going to get individuals killed. And that, all however explicitly, is the purpose.

The buoys are a part of a three-decade push from state and nationwide leaders of each events to make crossing the border as lethal as doable, below the speculation, confirmed improper by information, that it will scale back migration general. Till we modify course, the our bodies will preserve piling up.

Mr Abbott insisted final month in a letter to the White Home that nobody “needs to see one other dying within the Rio Grande River,” and spun his efforts on the border as a method to save lives and drive individuals in the direction of authorized immigration at US ports of entry.

The truth on the bottom would recommend in any other case.

In July, a Texas state border medic named Nicholas Wingate went public with allegations that the border obstacles have been already inflicting extreme accidents, and that he and his fellow troopers have been ordered, as a part of the governor’s Operation Lone Star, to push exhausted migrants again into the river and refuse to supply them water. (The state denies this order existed.)

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Josh Marcus7 August 2023 22:00

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Trump ally meets with Jack Smith staff investigating Jan 6 case

Trump ally Bernie Kerik met with investigators from the workplace of particular prosecutor Jack Smith on Monday as a part of the probe into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Mr Kerik’s lawyer advised CNN that the interview principally was about what former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani did in his try and show that Mr Trump received the election.

Mr Kerik is a former New York Metropolis police commissioner and has lengthy been related to Mr Giuliani. They have been involved through the interval following the 2020 election.

The ex-commissioner handed over various paperwork final month, principally concerning Mr Giuliani’s try and overturn the election.

Gustaf Kilander7 August 2023 21:45

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VOICES: Trump’s rabid assault on the World Cup staff is as clear as it’s absurd

The US Girls’s World Cup Soccer staff misplaced in an surprising early spherical defeat to Sweden this weekend – and Donald Trump, as he’s wont to do, determined to make all of it about him and his relentlessly bleak imaginative and prescient of an America in decline. Most presidents attempt to supply a message of optimism and uplift. They search for US victories to cheer on, in sports activities and most different realms. Trump, in distinction, revels in proof of failure, loss, and despair. He’s a politician who thrives in distress, like an orange dung beetle wallowing in filth.

Trump shared his pleasure on the athlete’s defeat by posting a rabid assault on the ladies’s staff, claiming that their loss was “emblematic of what’s occurring to the our [sic] as soon as nice Nation below Crooked Joe Biden” and attacking the gamers for being supposedly “overtly hostile to America.” He concluded, “WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Good shot Megan, the USA goes to Hell!!! MAGA”.

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Noah Berlatsky7 August 2023 21:30

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DeSantis lastly acknowledges the reality about Trump’s 2020 election lies: ‘In fact he misplaced’

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis stated definitively that rival Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 election, an acknowledgement the Florida governor made after years of equivocating solutions.

“In fact he misplaced,” DeSantis stated an interview with NBC Information posted Monday. “Joe Biden‘s the president.”

DeSantis has typically sidestepped questions on whether or not he believes the 2020 election outcomes have been authentic. However in current days he has began publicly questioning the lies that Trump and his allies have made in regards to the election’s legitimacy.

Federal and state election officers and Trump’s personal legal professional normal stated there was no credible proof the election’s consequence was affected by fraud. The previous president’s allegations have been additionally roundly rejected by courts on the time, together with judges he appointed.

Final week, Trump was charged by Justice Division particular counsel Jack Smith with 4 felonies associated to his efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election within the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Trump rages towards protecting order sought by particular prosecutor

Mr Trump wrote on Reality Social on Monday morning that he “shouldn’t have a protecting order positioned on me as a result of it might impinge upon my proper to FREE SPEECH”.

“Deranged Jack Smith and the Division of Injustice ought to, nevertheless, as a result of they’re illegally “leaking” in all places!” he added.

The twice-impeached, thrice-indicted former president was referring to a sequence of court docket filings during which Mr Smith is looking for an ordinary protecting order to forestall Mr Trump from disclosing data that the federal government is about to show over to him and his defence staff as a part of the pre-trial discovery course of.

Prosecutors, citing Mr Trump’s penchant for “public statements on social media concerning witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others related to authorized issues pending towards him,” requested Decide Tanya Chutkan to impose an order barring the previous president from disclosing discovery supplies “instantly or not directly to any particular person or entity apart from individuals employed to help within the protection, individuals who’re interviewed as potential witnesses, counsel for potential witnesses, and different individuals to whom the Courtroom might authorize disclosure”.

Gustaf Kilander and Andrew Feinberg7 August 2023 20:30

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Trump says Pence ‘has gone to the Darkish Facet’

Mr Trump went after Mr Pence once more on Monday morning, including in a second put up: “WOW, it’s lastly occurred! Liddle’ Mike Pence, a person who was about to be ousted as Governor Indiana till I got here alongside and made him V.P., has gone to the Darkish Facet.”

“I by no means advised a newly emboldened (not primarily based on his 2% ballot numbers!) Pence to place me above the Structure, or that Mike was ‘too trustworthy.’ He’s delusional, and now he needs to point out he’s a troublesome man. I as soon as learn a significant journal article on Mike. It stated he was not an excellent particular person. I used to be shocked, however the article was proper. Unhappy!” he added.

Gustaf Kilander7 August 2023 20:00

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