Trump news today: Trump’s veepstakes heat up with one candidate emerging as top surrogate on campaign trail
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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”.
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
Veepstakes: Burgum claims US is under Biden dictatorship as his Trump surrogate blitz continues
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, one of the many Republicans vying to be Donald Trump’s running mate, has become one of his busiest surrogates.
Axios notes that Burgum has been sent to at least 10 different states by the Trump campaign to appear on behalf of the former president.
This week, he will be in Michigan and Wisconsin, and has already appeared at events in Florida, Nevada, Virginia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota, Vermont, and North Carolina, and accompanied Trump to fundraisers across California.
Some of these states are big targets for the Trump campaign as blue states with the potential to flip red, or purple states that may need shoring up.
Other than crisscrossing the country on behalf of Trump, in an appearance today on Fox News, he even went as far as claiming that the US is currently a dictatorship under President Joe Biden.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 22:17
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 22:05
Trump left red-faced in Virginia after MAGA candidate fails to grab decisive win
Donald Trump’s revenge tour hit a snag in Virginia on Tuesday night during the state’s primaries.
As of Wednesday morning, things weren’t looking great for the MAGA candidate.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 21:55
Trump’s last conversation with Fauci revealed in new memoir
Dr Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to Covid, has been on a media blitz in recent days to promote his new book, revealing some decidedly worrying details about Trump’s failure to understand the science behind the international crisis.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 21:45
Watch: Fox News called out over ‘cheap fake’ clip of Biden
“…because they are being presented with the truth.”
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 21:30
‘Bunch of BS’: Trump reacts angrily to claims he was ‘meandering’ at meeting with CEOs
Joe Sommerlad reports on what was said:
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 21:15
Roger Stone responds to secret recording
Needless to say, he’s not happy with Windsor or Rolling Stone in which her story was published.
Here’s what Stone had to say on X:
I don’t fear you in fact, I’m going to sue you. Both the recording of your video is illegal as is publishing it so you can get sued with your pals at the Rolling Stone and daily beast. See you in court.!
Good. Since publishing, the fruits of an illegal recording is also a crime they [Rolling Stone] can get sued too. No you do not have reasonable expectation of privacy.
And in another flourish in response to a reply about the legality of such recordings, he posted:
I will sue Lauren and appeal as many times as may be necessary. Get out your checkbook bitch.
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 20:56
Louisiana governor ‘can’t wait to be sued’ over posting Ten Commandments in classrooms
Prepare for this to start appearing in Trump speeches…
“I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms,” he said during a recent GOP fundraiser in Tennessee. “I can’t wait to be sued.”
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 20:30
Roger Stone’s plan to help Trump challenge 2024 election results revealed in secret recording
Gustaf Kilander has the full story:
Oliver O’Connell19 June 2024 20:15
