Donald Trump news today: Meadows pleads not guilty as ex-president hits back at push to ban him from 2024 race
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Donald Trump has been accused by special counsel Jack Smith of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the former president’s 20202 election trial.
Mr Smith’s claims against the Republican 2024 frontrunner about his impact on the Washington DC jury pool came in a new filing in the federal criminal case.
It is part of a court fight between the special counsel’s office and Mr Trump’s legal team over a filing that the Justice Department wants to make under seal.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump is hitting back at attempts to ban him from the 2024 presidential race under the 14th Amendment.
Several Democrats and top legal scholars have argued that Mr Trump should be disqualified from running for president again as the amendment bans insurrectionists from holding public office.
Mr Trump took to Truth Social on Labor Day ranting that it is “just another ‘trick’ being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in US history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Meanwhile, now all of Mr Trump’s 18 co-defendants in his Georgia election interference case have joined him in pleading not guilty and in waiving their right to appear at their arraignment which was scheduled for Wednesday in Fulton County.
Special counsel Jack Smith accuses Trump of ‘daily’ statements that could prejudice jury pool in election case
Former president has repeatedly and publicly attacked special counsel and judge in federal case.
Graeme Massie6 September 2023 02:05
Proud Boys leader boasts that ‘Trump will pardon him’
A convicted, prominent member of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang believes that Donald Trump will pardon him if he becomes president in 2024.
Joe Biggs, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year for his role in the Jan 6 riot at the US Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in prison this week. Prosecutors had sought a 33-year sentence for Biggs.
Following his sentencing, he made a jailhouse phone call on Saturday to Infowars, the conspiracy theory show hosted by firebrand Alex Jones.
Graig Graziosi6 September 2023 01:30
DeSantis goes to extreme lengths to dodge questions from 15-year-old
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his campaign have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid questions from a 15-year-old New Hampshire schoolboy after the governor’s dodging of a question from him went viral.
Gustaf Kilander6 September 2023 00:30
Trump plans to attend the Iowa-Iowa State football game
Former President Donald Trump plans to attend Saturday’s football game between Iowa State University and the University of Iowa, his campaign said.
The game, hosted this year by the Iowa State Cyclones in Ames, is the marquee sporting event in the state, which is scheduled to host the leadoff Republican presidential nominating caucuses in January. The visit will mark Trump’s sixth trip to the state this year.
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is among a dozen challengers to Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, also plans to attend the Iowa State-Iowa game, his campaign said.
Did John Eastman confess on live TV?
John Eastman, one of the 19 defendants in the sprawling 41-count indictment brought in Fulton County, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday night where he denied all wrongdoing and insisted he and the former president are innocent of all charges.
But, in his interview defending himself in the case, the attorney actually made a shock admission which legal experts say amounted to him confessing to a crime.
Oliver O’Connell5 September 2023 23:45
Poll: Trump top choice for president for nearly 60% of GOP primary voters
At least 59 per cent of Republican voters said the former president would be their first choice if the GOP primary was held today, a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal has found.
Oliver O’Connell5 September 2023 23:15
Breaking: Proud Boys ringleader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison for Jan 6 attack
Enrique Tarrio, the now-former leader of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang convicted on treason-related charges after fuelling a mob on January 6, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Tarrio was among four members of the group convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes earlier this year following a four-month trial. Tarrio, as the group’s leader, organized and directed a mob towards the US Capitol, where Proud Boys dismantled barricades and broke windows to breach the halls of Congress, then bragged about their actions on social media and in group chat messages that were later shared with jurors.
Alex Woodward5 September 2023 22:52
NY AG: Trump should be fined thousands for repeatedly using ‘frivolous’ legal arguments
Graig Graziosi5 September 2023 22:50
GOP candidates search for a path against Trump in pivotal South Carolina primary
In all but one primary since 1980, the Republican winner in South Carolina has gone on to be the party’s nominee.
As their rivals rack up the stops, Biden and Trump are keeping relatively light campaign schedules
Their rivals are busy answering voters’ questions at town halls across South Carolina, glad-handing with business owners in New Hampshire and grinding to hit every one of Iowa‘s 99 counties.
But the front-runners for their party’s nomination, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early-voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush.
