Trump wildly claims he peacefully handed power to Biden in 2020: Live

Former president Donald Trump has spent much of 2023 dealing with a mountain of legal battles across the country. Let’s unwrap the details of those legal challenges.

Joe Rogan has been left red-faced after he incorrectly blamed one of Donald Trump’s gaffes on President Joe Biden.

The controversial podcast host went on a rant on his show this week, mocking the Democratic president for making “no sense at all” and questioning his mental competence – a favorite pastime of conservative figures.

In the segment, during an interview with MMA fighter Bo Nickal, Rogan claimed that Mr Biden had recently incorrectly claimed that the US lost the Revolutionary War because “they didn’t have enough airports”.

As the two men cracked up laughing, Rogan even went as far as to say that Mr Biden should be “done” in his role as leader of the country for making the comments.

Former attorney general Bill Barr raised concerns that another Donald Trump presidency would be chaotic and not accomplish much.

While speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News on Sunday, Mr Barr said that Mr Trump’s style of governing should be of concern.

“You know his style of governance, his continuing to pander to anger and frustration versus a constructive approach to solving our problems is going to be chaotic and not going to accomplish very much,” Mr Barr said.

He predicted Mr Trump would be a “lame duck president.”

The former president has vocally said if he were to be elected again he would use his power to open investigations or go after the people who are currently investigating him. He said this would include his political opponents like President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden is confident that former president Donald Trump supported an insurrection.

Shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Mr Trump is ineligible for the presidency, Mr Biden told reporters in Milwaukee that there was “no question” Mr Trump supported the January 6 insurrection.

“It’s self-evident,” Mr Biden said.

“You saw it all. Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection. There’s no question about it. None. Zero.”

The US Supreme Court could determine whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for crimes connected to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, and whether his name can be removed from ballots because of them.

Those two major constitutional questions before the nation’s highest court – where three of the nine justices were appointed by the former president – arrive in the middle of the 2024 race for the presidency, and could have resounding impacts beyond Mr Trump’s campaign.

Those questions underscore the massive role that courtrooms have played in Mr Trump’s brutal campaign for the White House in 2024, a campaign that frames the 91 criminal charges, fraud lawsuits and sexual abuse and defamation claims against him as evidence of a conspiracy to keep him away from the presidency. Mr Trump has promised vengeance against his political enemies if he wins another White House term.

The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has tightened the gap between her and the prominent frontrunner in New Hampshire, according to a 21 December poll from American Research Group.

The poll indicated that 33 per cent of likely New Hampshire GOP primary voters support the former president while 29 per cent support Ms Haley, meaning she has closed in on him within four percentage points.

In response to the recent poll, Mr Trump took to Truth Social, blasting it as a “scam.”

He wrote, “FAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL WAS RELEASED ON BIRDBRAIN. JUST ANOTHER SCAM! RATINGS CHALLENGED FOXNEWS WILL PLAY IT TO THE HILT. SUNUNU NOW ONE OF THE LEAST POPULAR GOVERNORS IN U.S. REAL POLL TO FOLLOW.”

The poll also indicated that Chris Christie has pulled ahead of Ron DeSantis in the state, boasting 13 per cent compared to the Florida Republican’s mere 6 per cent.

After spending months lashing out at his closest Republican rival in the 2024 race, Donald Trump is now said to be considering her as his second in command if he retakes the White House.

Multiple insiders told Politico and CBS News that the former president has been asking allies what they think about him picking Nikki Haley as vice president if he secures the GOP nomination.

“What do you think of Nikki?” Mr Trump has reportedly asked.

The suggestion, however, has been widely panned by his inner circle, with the sources saying that Mr Trump’s allies and advisors are trying to warn him off the idea – arguing that Ms Haley does not fit with his Maga base.

Mr Trump’s eldest son Don Jr recently said in a Newsmax interview that he will “go to great lengths to make sure” a Trump-Haley ticket doesn’t emerge.

Meanwhile, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said this week on his podcast that he plans to “advocate against” the union “as strongly as I could”.

As he has before, Donald Trump is once again suggesting the case brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith is politically motivated and would not have happened if he was not running for president.

“This sick puppies team of Lowlife and Radical Left Thugs could have brought this “case” 3 years ago, and it would be long over by now,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.

“No, they waited until right in the middle of my very successful campaign for President.  If I were polling poorly, like everyone else against me is (including Crooked Joe Biden!), or, for some reason, I decided not to run, they never would have even brought this ridiculous and disgraceful lawsuit,” he added.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to rule on Mr Trump’s “presidential immunity” claim in Mr Smiths’ case.

Mr Smith had asked the court to decide as to bypass the much longer process of going through lower courts.

After Donald Trump made a series of shocking comments which drew comparisons to Adolf Hitler, he has now claimed that he knows “nothing about” the Nazi leader.

Over the past few weeks, the 2024 GOP frontrunner has been accused of pulling phrases from Hitler’s playbook.

In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Friday, the former president addressed the scandal, claiming that his remarks did not stem from the former German dictator and asserting that he “is not a student of” the Nazi leader.

“First of all, I know nothing about Hitler. I’m not a student of Hitler. I never read his works,” Mr Trump said.

“They say that he said something about blood. He didn’t say it the way I said it, either, by the way. It’s a very different kind of a statement. What I’m saying when I talk about people coming into our country is they are destroying our country,” he continued.

If I was back in my old Washington newsroom, I would obviously be pitching to the bureau chief that I should be deployed immediately to Aspen or Vail – or maybe Beaver Creek – to test the mood of locals on the fabulous ski slopes of the Rocky Mountains. After all, the Colorado ruling to strike Donald Trump’s name off the ballot is momentous. But I suspect my former boss would have seen straight through my ruse and said: “Forget it, pal. The story is here in Washington.”

What the ruling this week has done is put the Supreme Court of the United States on the ballot in 2024 – and slap, bang in the middle of the most high-stakes political controversy imaginable. This will make their 2000 adjudication on Gore versus Bush in Florida look like the settlement of a minor playground squabble. It is exactly what the justices were hoping to avoid.