RNC live updates: JD Vance set to speak amid backlash over past ‘Never Trump’ comments

Donald Trump has said he supports TikTok amid a looming ban for the Chinese-owned app.

TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, faces a nationwide ban if its parent company fails to sell it before January. US lawmakers, with the support of the Biden administration, claim the app poses a national security risk due to alleged ties to the Chinese government.

US presidential candidate Trump joined the viral video-sharing app last month – four years after attempting to ban TikTok through an executive order while he was in office after claiming it posed a national security risk.

His change in stance appears to come in response to his dislike of Meta-owned platforms Instagram and Facebook, which suspended him for two years following the deadly January 6 riots in 2021.

Anthony Cuthbertson reports.

During an interview with NBC News NOW anchor Tom Llamas at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was asked about a confrontation with Matt Gaetz on the convention floor.

When asked about Gaetz’s motivations, McCarthy responded: “He had an ethics complaint four years ago that he paid an underage girl and she had come to ethics. And he came to me to try to leverage me to stop the ethics investigation. That’s illegal. I’m not doing that.”

Asked if the Republican Party is more Kevin McCarthy or Matt Gaetz, McCarthy told NBC: “I would hope there wouldn’t be another Matt Gaetz in the Republican Party… Everybody has different people in their party. Unfortunately, Matt happens to be here. I think at the end of the day, he probably shouldn’t be on the streets.”

Here’s The Independent’s John Bowden with more on the bad blood between the two Republicans:

If there’s one thing Donald Trump truly loves, it’s ratings.

Here’s Amelia Neath on the late-night host’s reaction to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was released from a Miami federal prison this morning, a federal prison spokesperson tells CNN.

He spent four months in jail for defying a subpoena from the January 6 congressional committee.

Navarro is expected to appear at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

It’s fair to say “America’s Mayor” has had better days.

Katie Hawkinson has more on his latest ignominious fall.

Two days after Trump came within inches of being gravely wounded or killed in what authorities called an assassination attempt, another scary scene was abruptly averted by members of US Capitol Police at the Republican National Convention.

On Monday evening, thousands of RNC delegates, staff,and other Republicans poured into the Fiserv Center in Milwaukee for day one of the the GOP nominating contest.

While Trump himself as well as his newly-named running mate JD Vance were inside, police officers encountered a man with a ski mask and a gun outside, according to Milwaukee Police.

Here’s more from John Bowden.