Trump news today: Trump’s veepstakes heat up with one candidate emerging as top surrogate on campaign trail
Donald Trump’s veepstakes are heating up for those Republican lawmakers seen as hot contenders to be his running mate.
Attracting attention on Wednesday was North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum who has been faithfully crisscrossing the US on behalf of the former president and called Joe Biden a dictator in an interview.
Meanwhile, on Juneteenth, Trump was attacked over his record of insulting Black America by Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, as the nation commemorated the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War.
Trump staged his latest campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on Tuesday and was forced to row back his comments on Milwaukee after reportedly describing the city as “horrible” last week.
“I love Milwaukee,” he insisted, later also denying he planned to stay 95 miles away in Chicago during the Republican convention next month.
This came after Trump lost his latest bid to have the gag order overturned in his New York hush-money case, at which he was found guilty on 34 felony counts last month, and after he declared that business leaders who do not support him in November should be “FIRED for incompetence”.
Country star Rosanne Cash says she’s ‘terrified’ about US election
“It’s just gotten worse and worse,” Cash says of Trumpism in modern America.
“It frightens me – I have little granddaughters. I’m terrified. My country doesn’t make any sense to me right now, I’m only hoping we can pull ourselves out.”
Here’s Roisin O’Connor’s interview with a legend.
Oliver O’Connell20 June 2024 04:15
Jon Stewart takes aim at Republicans’ gun crime narrative
Jon Stewart used his Monday night slot on The Daily Show to take aim at conservative claims that gun crime is on the rise in American cities – when FBI statistics prove the exact opposite.
Oliver O’Connell20 June 2024 02:15
Juneteenth: Trump has history of insulting Black history and communities, says senior Democrat
“Trump is a lot of things but he certainly isn’t subtle – all of the cities he denigrates have one important thing in common: they all have significant Black populations,” he said in a statement to The Daily Beast.
Joe Sommerlad has the story:
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Oliver O’Connell20 June 2024 00:45
Trump still believed he had foreign policy powers after leaving White House
The author of a new book about Donald Trump’s background in reality television has recounted a disturbing anecdote alleging that the former president still believed he had foreign policy powers long after he had left the White House.
Interviewed by Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s The Source on Tuesday evening, Ramin Setoodeh, the co-editor-in-chief of Variety, was asked to sum up the six interviews he conducted with the Republican at Trump Tower in New York while researching his book Apprentice in Wonderland in the aftermath of Trump’s acrimonious departure from Washington DC.
Joe Sommerlad has the full story:
Oliver O’Connell20 June 2024 00:15
Republicans want to see Trump’s face on the $500 bill
Gustaf Kilander has the story:
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 23:45
A quarter of voters admit their Biden-Trump choice could change
More than a quarter of American voters may still change their minds on who to back in November, a new poll shows.
Nine percent said in an NPR/Marist poll that they have yet to make up their minds and an additional 25 per cent said that while they have a “good idea” of who they will back, they could still change their mind.
Gustaf Kilander takes a closer look at the data.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 23:20
Trump ready to accept GOP nomination even if he’s in prison says Lara Trump
Donald Trump could be sentenced to prison just days before the Republican National Convention — but the RNC co-chair says that won’t stop him from accepting the party’s nomination.
Lara Trump, who is also Trump’s daughter-in-law, discussed the possibility that hush money trial judge Juan Merchan could jail the former president days before the GOP convention during an interview with Real America’s Voice host Terrance Bates.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 23:00
ICYMI: Trump’s gag order appeal is shot down by New York’s top court
New York’s highest court has rejected Trump’s demand for a swift appeal of a court ruling that shot down his claims that a gag order in his hush money trial violates his First Amendment rights.
A decision from the New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday said that “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved” in his challenge to the gag order.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 22:45
Trump said Joan Rivers voted for him in 2016. She died in 2014
The former US president and recently convicted felon was interviewed by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh last November for a new book about his time hosting The Apprentice, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which is set to be published on June 18.
In the book, Trump discusses Rivers, who won the second season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009.
Kevin E G Perry has the story:
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 22:30
