Less than a week after Jared Kouchner’s husband voluntarily testified before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising, Ivanka Trump appeared before the same panel on Tuesday, according to NBC News. theme. Elsewhere, Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk, who recently bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, is receiving petitions from Trump supporters to somehow restore the former president’s account. Among those asking him to intervene was Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Green, who asked if, as a “majority shareholder” (which he is not), Musk “would return to free speech on Twitter.” Meanwhile, six weeks after its release, Donald Trump’s Truth Social app lost two executives. The app has been hit by technology issues and about 1.5 million people remain on the waiting list to sign up without being able to use it. Trump has also filed a new lawsuit seeking the dismissal of a judge in a lawsuit filed against his former rival Hillary Clinton, in which he claims he conspired with about 50 other people to make false allegations about his dealings with Russian contacts. during the 2016 elections.
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Upton on Retirement: “This is for me”
GOP MP Fred Upton spoke earlier in Parliament to explain his departure. See a sample of his statements … Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 17:14 1649173950
The far-right Trump pro has been dropped by a major cable provider
One America News, one of the strangest of all far-right media outlets competing for the attention of Trump’s hardliners, has finally been phased out by DirecTV, which provides satellite cable to millions of Americans. The move comes even after the network sued parent company AT&T for $ 1 billion in damages. He claimed that the move away from DirecTV was a politically motivated move that could ruin it financially. Read more from AdWeek here. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 16:52 1649172652
Trump admits “I did not win the election”
“I did not win the election” are words you probably never expected to hear from the mouth of former US President Donald Trump, which were shared exclusively during a session with a group of thoughtful Ivy League historians. But that’s exactly what happened when The Atlantic published an interview Monday with Mr. Trump and a group of historians, led by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and publisher of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. While discussing with historians how excited the South Korean president should have been when US President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, especially after he tried to force the Asian nation to pay more for US military aid during Jae-In must have been the happiest in the world. “By not winning the election,” Trump said, “he was the happiest man – I would say, in turn, China was – no, Iran was the happiest.” “[Moon] was going to pay $ 5 billion, $ 5 billion a year. “But when I did not win the election, he had to be the happiest – I would probably rate South Korea third or fourth happiest.” Although he delivered the line of admission of “non-victory in the elections”, the interview was not without Trump drawing more well-known lines. He added that “the elections were rigged and lost.” Read the full story for The Atlantic here. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 16:30 1649171152
A Trump supporter claims that the Space Force will overturn the election result
At a political rally in Michigan on Saturday, supporters of Donald Trump – the main speaker of the event – brought out both tried and tested conspiracy theories and some brand new, even more unverified and unsubstantiated claims made by the former. One particular theory, however, has caught the attention of the internet. Julie, as the woman interviewed by the Right Side Broadcasting Network asked to be identified, backed a theory that the Space Force, the US military branch set up by the Trump administration, would help bring the former president back to power. “The Space Force has it all. Trump has all the information. “It will be overthrown,” said the woman. Read the full story from the Independent below: Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 16:05 1649169507
The GOP MP who voted for Trump’s resignation is retiring
Michigan lawmaker Fred Upton, one of the few Republicans who voted to oust Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 15:38 1649168146
The stock associated with Truth Social is falling after stories of turmoil
Benighted Trump’s social networking platform Truth Social not only lost two of its top executives and saw its downloads plummet by 93 percent. has now been hit by a power of attorney as a company planning to buy it saw its stock plummet. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 15:15 1649166576
Report: Ivanka will appear before the committee on January 6 today
Ivanka Trump is said to be expected to appear before the Jan. 6 commission investigating the violent uprising in the Capitol today, according to NBC News, which was told by three sources familiar with the matter. The testimony of the former US president’s daughter will come less than a week after her husband, Jared Kouchner, provided a voluntary testimony that lawmakers on the panel described as “useful” and “really valuable”. NBC also said it was unclear at this time whether Ms. Trump’s testimony would follow the same pattern as that of her husband, who testified voluntarily through a face-to-face meeting, or whether she would attend in person. Johanna Chisholm5 April 2022 14:49 1649165703
Report: Assistant Trump voted twice in 2016, possibly illegally
Although the GOP is focusing more than ever on the myth of uncontrollable pro-Republican voters, a Republican congressional candidate who served as Donald Trump’s aide is in a heated state over reports that he voted in two 2016 presidential elections in two different states. . According to ballot records, Matt Mowers, who is running against a Democrat in New Hampshire, appears to have voted in both that state and in New Jersey, where he re-registered to run for his parents. Read more from the Associated Press: Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 14:35 1649164203
Read Trump’s request to annul Clinton’s lawsuit
As he tries to sue Hillary Clinton and 50 other people over an alleged conspiracy to falsify allegations that he has ties to Russia, Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of the judge – who was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997. Surprisingly, Trump’s lawyers openly admit that they have no evidence that the judge is in fact violated. Plaintiff does not know the exact extent of the relationship between Judge Middlebrooks and Defendant HILLARY CLINTON, who acted as First Lady of the United States during her appointment as a federal judge. The Plaintiff also does not know if the Judge has a current relationship with either the Defendant, HILLARY CLINTON, or her husband, and how far back the relationship has been. You can read the deposit here. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 14:10 1649163560
Elon Musk joins Twitter’s board
Once he bought a 9 percent stake in Twitter, Elon Musk reportedly joined the company’s board – news that will boost some Republicans’ (and other people’s fears) hopes that Donald Trump could return to the platform. However, Mr Musk’s sometimes volatile attitude towards the former president has not been consistently clear. Andrew Naughtie5 April 2022 13:59
