Trump aide claims he wrote ‘to-do lists’ on classified documents: Live
Donald Trump addresses election rigging in Meet the Press interview
Donald Trump would often write to-do lists for staff on the back of classified government documents, according to a bombshell claim from a former aide.
Former White House and Mar-a-Lago aide Molly Michael told federal investigators that the former president gave her lists of tasks on documents she later realised had markings as classified material, according to ABC News.
A Trump spokesperson told the network that the claims were “illegal leaks” that lacked “proper context and relevant information” and insisted that he “did nothing wrong”.
The former president was hit with federal charges in June for mishandling government documents after leaving office.
Despite growing evidence against him in a variety of cases, Mr Trump insists he isn’t worried, though he recently told NBC News he may have to pardon himself if re-elected.
“I think it’s very unlikely,” Mr Trump said. “What, what did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong. You mean because I challenge an election, they want to put me in jail?”
Meanwhile, on Truth Social on Monday night, the former president congratulated himself, taking the credit for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton being acquitted in his impeachment trial.
Matt Gaetz said to be considering a run for Florida governor
But some believe Mr Gaetz could be seeking to further his political career by running for Florida governor after Mr DeSantis leaves in either 2026 when his term is up or 2024 if he is elected to the White House.
Several people who attended an event in Tallahassee this weekend told NBC News that Mr Gaetz implied he would be running for governor and seemingly commanded the room.
However, in a statement provided to The Independent, Mr Gaetz said those remarks were “overblown” and running for Florida governor is not a priority.
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Ariana Baio19 September 2023 13:30
VIDEO: Political fallout after Paxton acquittal
Political fallout after Paxton acquittal
Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 13:00
Netanyahu visits Elon Musk in California with plans to talk about artificial intelligence
The Israeli leader posted Monday on Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that he plans to talk with the Tesla CEO “about how we can harness the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI for the good of civilization.”
Netanyahu’s high-profile visit to the San Francisco Bay Area comes at a time when Musk is facing accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his social media platform, while Netanyahu is confronting political opposition at home and abroad. Protesters gathered early Monday outside the Fremont, California factory where Tesla makes its cars.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken part in nine months of demonstrations against Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul Israel’s judicial system. Those protests have spread overseas, with groups of Israeli expats staging demonstrations during visits by Netanyahu and other members of his Cabinet.
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AP19 September 2023 12:00
Bar owned by Lauren Boebert’s ‘Beetlejuice’ date inundated with bad reviews
The bar co-owned by the man who went to a Beetlejuice stage performance in Denver with Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has been inundated with bad reviews after the bar owner was caught on surveillance footage getting intimate with the far-right Republican during the show.
Quinn Gallagher, 46, has co-owned the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar since 2022, according to the New York Post.
The bar has been the venue for a number of gay-friendly events, with the co-owner now being labelled a hypocrite for dating Ms Boebert, a member known for her social conservatism and anti-drag stances.
One of the events hosted at the cocktail bar was the “Winter Wonderland Burlesque and Drag Show”.
“Apparently whatever core values co-owner Quinn Gallagher claims to possess were thrown out the window when he met Trailer Trash Queen Lauren Boebert,” one Facebook user wrote.
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Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 11:00
VIDEO: Trump calls DeSantis’s six week abortion ban ‘terrible,’ stokes backlash from the right
Trump calls DeSantis’s six week abortion ban ‘terrible,’ stokes backlash from the right
Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 10:00
Speaker McCarthy running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at new plan
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is running out of options as he races Monday to come up with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down as even a plan to include hardline border security provisions wasn’t enough to appease the far-right flank in his Republican House majority.
The speaker told his Republican conference that they should be prepared to stay through this weekend to pass a stopgap measure, called a continuing resolution, that would keep government offices open past the Sept. 30 deadline. But many are already bracing for the heavy political fallout of a federal shutdown.
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Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, AP19 September 2023 09:00
VIDEO: Trump: U.S. Jews voted to destroy America & Israel
Trump: U.S. Jews voted to destroy America & Israel
Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 08:00
‘Very rich, very famous, and very powerful’: How Bernard Tapie became France’s first tycoon – and wound up in prison
If you’ve grown up in France, Bernard Tapie is one of those people you’ve always been aware of, without being able to remember when you first heard about them, or what they’re currently famous for. In Tapie’s case, the answer varied throughout the years: at times, he was famous for his career as a businessman; at others, for his career in the world of sports. There was also politics, show business, and legal scandals, depending on when you asked. Only one constant remained: from his rise to fame in the 1980s to his death in 2021, Tapie was notorious.
A new Netflix series dramatizes 30 years of his life, charting his humble beginnings, his not-so-humble early successes, and the biggest legal controversy of his life—for fixing a soccer game in favour of Olympique de Marseille, Marseille’s soccer team, which he then owned. In France, the show is simply called Tapie—a name known to virtually anyone. In the US, it’s titled Class Act, an apparent wordplay to nod both to Tapie’s exceptional destiny and to his status as what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called a “transfuge de classe”—someone who moves from one social milieu to another.
The show, comprising seven episodes, is a fascinating examination not just of the man himself, but of the country that allowed his ascent. It casts an eye back on the lionized men of the 1980s and asks: at what cost did we create them? And what are we meant to do with them now?
“In the same way that there was Trump in the US, Berlusconi in Italy, there was Tapie in France,” Tristan Séguéla, who directed and co-wrote the series, tells The Independent in a video call. “The 1980s had a strong mythology around these characters who could embody everything, and who were very rich, very famous, and very powerful all at once.”
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Clémence Michallon19 September 2023 07:00
Trump says he doesn’t worry about possibility of jail as he refuses to rule out pardoning himself
Donald Trump claimed in a combative interview on Sunday that he doesn’t lie awake at night worrying about going to jail for one of his many active criminal cases, though he didn’t decisively rule out pardoning himself if he was re-elected.
The former president, who has been indicted four times this year alone, told NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday he doesn’t think it’s likely he’ll need to pardon himself if he’s re-elected, and added that he decided against such an unprecedented use of power once in the days after the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
“I think it’s very unlikely,” Mr Trump said. “What, what did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong. You mean because I challenge an election, they want to put me in jail?”
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Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 06:00
VIDEO: Kristen Welker fact-checks Trump comments on indictments
Kristen Welker fact-checks Trump comments on indictments
Gustaf Kilander19 September 2023 05:00